Pucca

Something i used to watch growing up during the holiday or weekend morning on satelite tv channels. Very nostalgic for me. The animation style was very unique back in the day, very flash game animation design and drawings. The soundtracks are very asian (chinese, japanese and korean) as its heavily referencing these cultures (mostly chinese). Sometimes the soundtracks are very retro and arcade style. Explosion of colors and bright tone works well with the comedic and action approach. Very eye appealing for childrens regardless of their genders. Voice castings were okay. The runtime is roughly about 20 minutes every episodes. There isnt a solid main storyline setup, just episodial plotting focusing mainly on pucca and garu. Some episodial storylines are canon and related. The intro song was doped and the ending song was not bad (both very cute). Great for stress relief as it addictively entertaining. High revisit/rewatch value. Recommended.

This show is about Pucca and Garu, who are about twelve years old. The entire show, Pucca harasses Garu and tries to forcefully kiss him against his will. She continually tries to force him to fall in love with her, even creating a love potion on at least one occassion to force this affection. This is not "a crush" or "head over heels in love," this is Pucca being completely and unhealthily obsessed with Garu and harassing him. She is, effectively, Garu's stalker. What sort of moral is there to this story? Not only does Pucca stalk Garu, she is REWARDED with "Pucca power" for every kiss she steals from him. This show pushes the idea that if you like someone and they don't return the feeling, you should force them love you and kiss them without consent. Stalking is not something we want to encourage. It's especially concerning to me that the characters are children, meaning this show is likely aimed towards kids. What is this teaching kids? It's teaching that "no" means "try harder." That is unhealthy. I am very glad this show was discontinued.

I remember 10 years ago when this show first appeared on one of Disney's secondary channels and being enthralled with the animation and thinking Pucca was adorable. But now watching this through the eyes of an adult I'm horrified that this was ever allowed on tv. The entire premise of the show is a little girl forcing herself on an unwilling boy while the rest of the townspeople encourage her behavior. Also anytime Pucca does not get her way she reacts quickly with anger and violence. I absolutely do not recommend this show especially to the intended target audience that is young kids.

When I saw the Pucca's shorts in Jetix, I though like this (Oh, cute) because I though that this shorts are cute because a girl with a ninja boy go in love, that are decent shorts, but when Jetix decide to green-light to a new series, i was a bit worried, because the two minutes shorts is not the same as seven episodes, when his show premiered, I was really disappointed because the show for himself has too much mistakes and I'm going to say the hits and mistakes one for one:

The Animation: Make in Flash, OK but not Terrible.

Designs: Is the same shape, the protagonist, the enemies, the boy, the girls, the same and very easy to do.

Art: Its OK, could be great, but it's flash.

Characters: Pucca is a little girl like Mary Sue (she can do the impossible for love), but she is Stalker to his forced crush Garu, he is a ninja who wants the honor, but it's very sad to see him run of Pucca who wants to kiss him much times, forced kisses and hugs, and the enemies like Tobe, Ring Ring are very good but they can very bad like villains, a mixed bag but annoying protagonist.

Dialogue: That exist? well exit but very, very few dialogue.

In conclusion: this show is very boring, that will be fun for a few episodes, but can be annoying if you try to follow the show, a guilty pleasure.

3/10

Pucca is a fun comedy that shouldn't be taken seriously. Everything in it is an exaggeration, including the young girl with crush and young boy who "hates girls" stereotypes. Anyone who projects real world problems on this innocent and crazy cartoon, has eaten too much sauerkraut.