¡Golpea Duro, Hara!

**¡Golpea duro, Hara!** (English: *Hit Hard, Hara!*) is a Chilean television series created by independent animation studio Marmota Studio director Matías Latorre, as an online pilot released on YouTube before getting picked for television on Cartoon Network Latin America as a syndicated miniseries.

## Premise

*¡Golpea Duro, Hara!* follows 15-year-old Hara, the only woman left in the world, who embarks on a journey with her brother Tesu to confront King Aquiles and prove she is the strongest individual alive. But in order to attain victory, Hara must learn to control the secret technique that sets her apart: the hard blows.

## Characters

### Main

* Hara Miyo
* Tesu Da
* Desert Flower
* Grandmother Mary Miyo
* Storyteller

### Recurring

* People in Crowd
* Mini Akiles
* Minion 1
	+ Minion 2
* Cactus Man 1
	+ Cactus Man 2
* Coquena
* Chullo
* Cactus King
* Presenter
* Inti Mo
* Subject

## Voice Cast

### Main

* Ximena Marchant as Hara Miyo
* Sebastian Dupont as Tesu Da, Desert Flower,
	+ Darío Benavides as young Tesu Da
* Juan Carlos Tinoco as Akiles Ga-Noh
* Barbara Bustamante as Grandmother Mary Miyo
* José Lavat as Storyteller

### Minor

* Benjamín Dupont, Ángel Miranda, Francisco Araya, Martín Díazas Public as People in Crowd
* Philip Waldhorn as Mini Akiles
* Bastian Cortés as Minion 1, Cactus Man 1
* Franco Cortés as Minion 2, Cactus Man 2
* Orlando Alfaro as Coquena
* Sandro Larenas as Chullo
* Philip Waldhorn as Cactus King, Presenter
* Sergio Aliaga as Inti Mo
* Jaime García as Subject

## Production

### Development

Founded by Bernardita Pastén and Matías Latorre, Marmota started producing original content for its Youtube channel in 2012. Their first series, Personas Cetáceas (Cetacean People), helped develop a community of fans that demanded more locally made animated stories. The show was eventually dubbed into English by Frederator and displayed in their online channel Cartoon Hangover, where it is known as Fin Punch.

Since then, Marmota has adopted a unique strategy of launching low-cost, self-financed pilots on Youtube to see which projects their online fans — currently numbering over 118,000 — respond to most strongly. The strategy has resulted in a variety of online series including Abuelo com, Nadki Mágico,, and Niño Surullo.

After signing with Hera Management company, Marmota Studios began pitching projects at international markets and festivals such as Annecy, MIP Junior, Rio Content Market, and Kidscreen. It was at the markets that they met Cartoon Network executives, who agreed to get on board as a distributor for *¡Golpea duro, Hara!,* a project for which they had released a YouTube pilot in 2014.

### Release

Backed with funding from Chile’s National Council of Culture and the Arts and Hera Management, Marmota has finished production on the show’s first season comprised of eight 8-minute episodes. Golpea duro, Hara! premiered in December 2018 on Cartoon Network Latin America’s broadcast channel, as well as its Youtube channel.

“After six years creating original content for Youtube, this is a huge triumph,” says ¡Golpea duro, Hara! executive producer María Graciela Severino. “Being on Cartoon Network fills us with pride, especially because despite having no resources and applying to public funds and losing each time, our audience loved us and that keeps us motivated.”

Marmota, as of April, 3, 2020, is seeking co-production partners to produce a second season of ¡Golpea duro, Hara!, as well as other projects.

On May 7, 2020, it was reported that Latin America will be HBO Max's first international market after its U.S. launch, stating "The next phase is Latin America. HBO is looking into this already, with no specific country where it will start, but that’s the next phase. And, realistically speaking, we are talking about next year." with the series implied to appear under WB Latin America's Cartoon Network digital platform label.

### Awards

In 2017, the series won in the Best Webseries category of the Culture Funds of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of the Government of Chile.

## Trivia

* This was Mexican voice and dubbing actor José Lavat's last work before his death.