Pinkfong Wonderstar (Korean: 핑크퐁 원더스타 ) is a South Korean-American animated series produced by The Pinkfong Company and Wonderstar Studios. The series started production in September 2017,[1][2] and the first episode aired in South Korea on June 27, 2019 on KBS2. It was made available to watch on the Pinkfong TV app the next day.[3] Prior to the series being produced, there was a film in development with the same premise.[4] The show features the alien fox Pinkfong and his friend Hogi as the main characters.[5]
The second season is entitled Detectives Pinkfong and Hogi (Korean: 명탐정 핑크퐁과 호기 ) and its sequel is titled Pinkfong & Hogi: New Friend Ninimo (Korean: 핑크퐁과 호기: 새 친구 니니모 ). Four movies have since followed the series, being Pinkfong & Baby Shark's Space Adventure, Pinkfong Wonderstar: Sing-Along Concert, Pinkfong Sing-Along Movie 3: Catch the Gingerbread Man, and Pinkfong & Hogi: The Tricky Three Cars.
Synopsis
An alien fox named Pinkfong crashes into the roof of a house in Wonderville. In doing so, he finds a best friend and problem-solving hedgehog partner named Hogi. Pinkfong has the power to make wishes a reality, and Hogi has gained a lot of knowledge through reading. This inspires them to form Wonderstar, a problem-solving team that serves the townspeople of Wonderville — and beyond. Pinkfong's adventures are completed by collecting badges nicknamed "friendship badges" and “cube-cubes" that are created whenever he helps his friends.[6]
Characters
Other characters
Myan · Coco · Chumli · Jordi · Billi · Jojo · Baker · Barri · Patt
Frido · Sasha · Tani · Turtle Finn · Nina · Quacki · Pokibot · Mango Bird
More characters
English dub
On March 31, 2020, an English dub of Pinkfong Wonderstar was announced by a Malaysian streaming company called Astro on Facebook.[7] An official announcement by YouTube and Pinkfong further supported this on November 18, 2020.[8] The first two episodes, Welcome to Wonderville and Runaway Cheese, were released on December 3, 2020 (and ten non-chronological episodes released after) and under the label of a YouTube Original.
Dubs in other languages have been purported to be in production, though this has not been confirmed. After January 14, 2021, uploads went on an indefinite hiatus, later resuming in November of the same year. In 2022, the remainder of the English episodes were released on the Hogi YouTube channel.
At the beginning of the episodes in the YouTube release, barring the first, there is a new intro sequence which shows Pinkfong and Hogi reflecting on the events that occurred in each episode. It intends to explain key lessons and morals to the viewer.[9]
The English and Korean versions are available on YouTube.
Detectives Pinkfong and Hogi
Announced in the clip-show special, The Exciting Story of Pinkfong and Hogi, a second season was in production. On August 20, 2020, further information about the second season, now called "Detectives Pinkfong and Hogi", (Korean: 명탐정 핑크퐁과 호기 ) was released. The season was scheduled to air on September 17th, but it got delayed to the 24th. The season first aired on KBS1[10]and features new characters and stories.
On October 21, 2021, it was announced that Detectives Pinkfong and Hogi (now labeled as Pinkfong Wonderstar: Season 2) would be getting an English release. The first episode (which is a random episode) was made available on November 9, 2021.[11]
Pinkfong & Hogi: New Friend Ninimo
It's sequel to the series, which is called Pinkfong & Hogi: New Friend Ninimo (Korean: 핑크퐁과 호기: 새 친구 니니모 ), features Ninimo as a new character joining the main cast.
It was first released in South Korea on September 21st 2024 and was released in English on a couple of streaming platforms in April 2025
Trivia
- The characters in the show, most of the time, did not use any pronouns when talking about someone else, only the names. This is quite confusing when it comes to Pinkfong and Hogi where, despite being confirmed as boys, look and sound like girls to a newcomer. However, only in rare instances do the characters ever use pronouns.
- The name change in season two, in South Korea, is the reason why "Wonderstar" is replaced with "Pinkfong and Hogi" in Wonderstar's motto, even in the English dub.
- Hogi's voice is very different in the English YouTube release trailer. This is theoretically done by Colleen O' Shaugnessey since his voice is similar to Pinkfong's.
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Videos
Main videos and promos
YouTube episodes
References
- ↑ One of the release dates in this article went back to September 2017, and introduced Wonderstar Studios.
- ↑ Pinkfong revealed the project in December 30, 2018 in this video.
- ↑ http://news.mk.co.kr/v2/economy/view.php?year=2018&no=585606
- ↑ https://www.smartstudygames.com/pinkfongmovie
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=298870051177094
- ↑ Partially derived from the description found in Amazon Prime Video.
- ↑ https://fb.watch/3JkUlr5VJ2/
- ↑ https://youtu.be/a8uu2WTnyiE
- ↑ Reference: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/pinkfong-wonderstar
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=298870051177094
- ↑ https://youtu.be/HRJZ-v5Pzpk
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