Voices: | Jetix/Canada era: Season 3 (Love Recipe):
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Theme Music Composer: | Plus-Tech Squeeze Box (season 1–2) Yoon Joo-Hyeon, Kim-wook (Love Recipe) |
Opentheme: | "Pucca Funny Love" (seasons 1–2) "Love Recipe" (season 3) |
Endtheme: | "Pucca Funny Love" (Extended) (seasons 1–2) "Pucca's Sweet Love" (season 3) |
Composer: | Hal Beckett |
Country: | Canada (2006–08) South Korea |
Language: | English Korean |
Company: | Studio B Productions (2006–08) Bazooka Studio (2018–19) |
Num Seasons: | 3 |
Num Episodes: | 65 (193 segments) |
List Episodes: | List of Pucca episodes |
Runtime: | 21 minutes (whole) 7 minutes (separate) 2 minutes (whole) 1 minutes (separate) |
Network: | Toon Disney/Jetix |
Network2: | MBC TV |
Pucca is an animated comedy television series based on a series of shorts created by the South Korean company VOOZ Character System. The series revolves around Pucca, a young girl who is in love and infatuated with a ninja named Garu. The series has aired on Champ TV and MBC TV in Korea. The series has also aired on Toon Disney's Jetix block in the U.S., and on the international Jetix channels throughout Europe and Latin America.[1] [2] [3] In Canada, the show had aired on Family Channel.
Pucca premiered in 2006, with a set of 26 episodes (78 segments). The second season of the show, consisting of 13 episodes (39 segments), began airing in 2008 after it was ordered to be created by Jetix Europe. In October 2018, a third season was announced by Planeta Junior, a company within Planeta Group.[4] The third season aired in South Korea on 10 December 2018 on MBC TV, and 19 December 2018 on Tooniverse.[5] It consists of 26 episodes (76 segments).[6]
In total, not including the past online aired episodes of the show, this brought the number of created segments to 191. The main theme song is also sung in Korean.
The series focuses on the adventures of an 11-year-old noodle delivery girl named Pucca, who typically does not speak. She works in a local restaurant called the Goh-Rong in her town called Sooga Village, owned by her three uncles where their main dish is Jajangmyeon
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See main article: List of Pucca episodes.
Pucca has aired on Champ TV and MBC TV in Korea. The series has also aired on Toon Disney's Jetix block in the U.S., and on the international Jetix channels throughout Europe and Latin America.[7] [8] [9] In Canada, the show had aired on Family Channel.
See main article: List of Pucca episodes#Home media.
+Region 1 — American releases by Shout! Factory | DVD title | Season(s) | Episode count | Release date | |
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Ninjas Love Noodles | 1 | 13 | 18 March 2008 | ||
Kung Fu Kisses | |||||
Spooky Sooga Village | 11 | 16 September 2008 | |||
Secret Samurai Santa | 10 | 28 October 2008 | |||
Sooga Super Squad | 1, 2 | 13 | 3 March 2009 |
At the 2006 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the Pucca episode "A Force of Won" was "nominated for two awards, including the Prix Jeunesse in the Animation category." During the same year, Pucca won the Leo Awards for best screenwriting, along with "best overall in an animation program".[10] [11] [12]
A musical show for the series was held in Lima on 8 October 2009. This location was chosen because of Pucca being "one of the most beloved programs on Jetix's Latin American channel". The show repeated itself eight times from 8 to 11 October 2009.[13]
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