Pecola is an animated children's television series that features cube-shaped anthropomorphic animals in a place named Cube Town. The series is based on a series of children's picture books by Naomi Iwata. It was first aired on Teletoon in Canada from September 3, 2001 with the final episode being aired on September 18, 2002. In Japan, the show aired on TV Tokyo, and in the United States, the show aired on Cartoon Network in 2003. Prior to that, a series of Pecola shorts aired on Fuji Television as part of Ponkickies during 1998.

Premise

The show that focuses on Pecola, a curious and hyperactive penguin who tries to help the people of Cube Town but often wreaks havoc instead. Pecola is an orphaned penguin who lives with Pecolius, his grandfather. Cube Town is a small, isolated coastal village which contains an art museum, a beach, a lighthouse and a canal. It is located adjacent to Crescent Bay surrounded by the Rookery Mountains coastal range and serviced by regular ships (including a weekly freighter) which deliver mail, food and other supplies, as well as occasional tourists from a nearby metropolis named Cubic City. The heights above it lead into Glacier Valley which is snowbound even during summer.

Voice cast

English-language cast

Japanese-language cast

Characters

Episodes

Season 1 (2001)

Season 2 (2002)

Telecast and home media

Pecola first aired on Teletoon in Canada from September 3, 2001 with the final episode airing on September 18, 2002 with repeats until the mid-2000s. In Japan, the show aired on TV Tokyo at 9 A.M. to 9:30 A.M. on Sundays from October 6, 2002 until March 30, 2003. In 2003, Pecola premiered on Cartoon Network in the U.S., and also aired on the now-defunct Qubo from 2007 to 2017, then started airing again from April 5, 2020 to July 26 of that year. The show also aired on Spacetoon in Indonesia from 2005 until 2013, and on RTÉ2 in Ireland from 2002 to 2003. The show was released to DVD in Japan, Australia, France, and Taiwan. A DVD release of the show in the U.S. has yet to be announced; however it is available on Amazon Video.

Video game

In Japan, an educational game based on the shorts was released for the Sega Pico entitled ''Pecola no Daibouken Maboroshi no Aisukurīmu wo Sagase! (ペコラのだいぼうけん まぼろしのアイスクリームをさがせ!)''.