Pecola
Pecola (, ) is a 3D animated children's television series which stars cube-shaped anthropomorphic animals in a place called Cube Town. It is based on a series of children's picture books by Naomi Iwata. Premise. The show stars 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. Telecast and home media. "Pecola" first aired on Teletoon in Canada from September 3, 2001 with the final episode aired on September 18, 2002 with repeats until the mid-2000s. In Japan, the show aired on TV Tokyo at 9.00am to 9.30am on Sundays from October 6, 2002 to March 30, 2003. In the  year of 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 on April 5, 2020. It left Qubo on July 26, 2020. The show was also aired on Spacetoon in Indonesia from 2005 until 2013. 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 in the country. Video game. In Japan, an educational game based on the show 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!)"