Pingu in the City

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Pingu in the City
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Genre	Comedy
Based on	Pingu by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann
Written by	Shigenori Tanabe Kimeno Ueno
Directed by	Naomi Iwata
Voices of	Ryota Iwasaki Fumiya Tanaka
Composer	Ken Arai
Country of origin	United States Japan
Original languages	English Japanese
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52
Production
Executive producers	Christopher Keenan Keisuke Tsuchibashi Yukiko Yaki Hideki Moriya
Producers	Sayako Uchida Animation producer: Ryo Nakaoka
Running time	7 minutes
Production companies	Mattel Creations NHK Enterprises Polygon Pictures
Original release
Network	NHK Educational TV
Release	October 7, 2017 (2017-10-07) – March 30, 2019 (2019-03-30)

Pingu in the City (Japanese: ピングー in ザ・シティ, Hepburn: Pingū in za Shiti) is an animated children's television series produced by Mattel Creations, NHK, NHK Enterprises, and Polygon Pictures. It is a reboot/continuation based on the stop-motion television series Pingu by HIT Entertainment. The series first aired on NHK Educational TV in Japan from October 7, 2017 to March 30, 2019.

The series was adapted from the famous stop-motion animated series Pingu, which was created in 1986 by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann for the SRF in Switzerland. In the new series, Pingu and his family move from their home in the Antarctic to a large city, where the inhabitants are all very different. The mischievous and curious Pingu makes a big effort to help the citizens with their jobs, but his attempts to do so often result in trouble.

The series is co-produced by American company Mattel Creations (who acquired HIT Entertainment in 2011) and Japanese companies NHK, NHK Enterprises and Polygon Pictures, with animation produced by DandeLion Animation Studios in the same style as the original stop-motion series through computer-animation.^[1] It was directed by Naomi Iwata and written by both Kimeno Ueno and Shigenori Tanabe, with music by Ken Arai.^[2] It features voices by Ryota Iwasaki and Fumiya Tanaka, in a similar style to Carlo Bonomi, David Sant, and Marcello Magni, who voiced characters in the original series.^{[citation needed]}

The series was first screened outside of Japan at the MIPJunior 2017 event at Cannes.^[3] In Australia, the show premiered on June 4, 2018 on ABC Kids. In the United States, the show was first screened at the Chicago International Television Festival^[4] and the 2018 Animation Block Party.^[5]

A second season premiered from October 6, 2018 (which was the day before the 1st anniversary of the show) to March 30, 2019.^[6]

In the United Kingdom, the show premiered on February 25, 2019 on ITVBe's preschool block LittleBe. In Brazil, the show premiered in April 2019 through the preschool channel Gloobinho.^[7] On Hop! Channel in Israel, the show premiered in summer 2019.

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• Official website ^{[dead link]}
• Pingu in the City at IMDb
• Pingu in the City (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia