Kung Fu Wa!
Official poster
Original title	''Kung Fu Sock"
Genre	Fantasy Comedy Action Magical girl
Written by	Bo Fan Xin Zheng
Directed by	Bo Fan (Chinese) Rómulo Bernal (English) Elías Martínez (Spanish)
Composers	Bo Fan Jordan Matthew Cox Rich J. Dickerson
Country of origin	China
Original language	Mandarin
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	52
Production
Executive producers	James Chen Gu Selina She
Producers	Thirty Sun Xiaoqiu Zhong Suman Wang
Running time	11 minutes[1]
Production companies	UYoung Tencent Penguin Pictures[1]
Original release
Network	CCTV-14 (China) Pop (United Kingdom)
Release	August 3, 2021 (2021-08-03) – present

Kung Fu Wa! (known as Kung Fu Sock in the United Kingdom and Ireland; Chinese: 天真与功夫袜; pinyin: Tiān Zhēn Yǔ Gōng Fū Wà) is a Chinese animated children's television series produced by UYoung Media and Tencent Penguin Pictures. Aimed at children ages six to nine, the Flash animated series follows a young girl who is bestowed with superpowers through the aid of a martial arts master turned into an anthropomorphic sock.^[1]

The first season premiered on August 3, 2021 on CCTV-14 in China, and on July 25, 2022 on Pop in the United Kingdom. The second season is set to be premiere in 2024 in China and the United Kingdom.

Plot

Eight-year-old Tee Zeng finds an unusual sock that is actually a Kung Fu master named Kung Fu Wa from another world. Wearing the sock transforms Tee Zeng into super heroine Kung Fu Girl. She and Kung Fu Wa must complete missions and protect their home, Starry Island.^[2][3]

Characters

• Tee Zeng (alternatively named Tea Zen or TZ (English dub) and Tee Yang (Spanish dub); voiced by Zhou Zhou (Chinese), Sofia Gomez (English) and Belén Marín (Spanish)) – an 8-year-old girl who lives above her family's laundrette, who turns into Kung Fu Girl through the aid of Master Kicko
• Master Kicko (alternatively named Kung Fu Wa (English dub); voiced by Fu Bowen (Chinese), Alex Teixeira (English) and Juan Pablo Muñoz (Spanish)) – a Kung Fu master who was transformed into a sock
• Hiro Hao/Sword Master (voiced by Jiasi Li (Chinese), Alex Machado (English) and Óscar Olivares (Spanish)) – Tee Zeng's friend from school
• Manipulens (also known as Evil Star Lord; voiced by Zhankun Zhang (Chinese), Travis Roig (English) and Cristóbal Areite (Spanish)) – Kicko's rival who was transformed into a pair of glasses
• Min (voiced by Mu Qiu (Chinese), Dariana Fustes (English) and Niksi Marín (Spanish)) – Tee Zeng's introverted, but adventurous best friend
• Tee Zeng's mom (voiced by Chenjie Xiong (Chinese), Ghia Burns (English) and Betsabé Gutiérrez (Spanish)) – the owner of a local laundromat in Starry Island

Episodes

Broadcast

In 2021, the series was first released on Tencent Video in China. In June of that year, Federation Kids & Family, the family entertainment subsidiary of Paris-based film distributor Federation Studios, acquired the program’s distribution rights for most international markets; UYoung Media, however, would maintain foreign distribution rights for the Latin America market.^[4]

In April 2022, UYoung reached a deal with Discovery Kids Latin America to distribute localized dubs of the program in Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (for other Latin American markets); the Spanish dub premiered linearly on Discovery Kids on April 11, 2022, while the Brazilian Portuguese dub debuted on the regional version of the Discovery+ streaming service eleven days later on April 22. That same month, Federation reached a deal with British/Irish children’s networks Pop and Pop Max for the rights to an English-language dub of the series, the tile would be different than the other dubs as it would be named Kung Fu Sock instead. The show debuted on Pop on July 25, 2022.^[1]

A Russian dub (Russian: Волшебная девочка кунг-фу, tr. Volshebnai͡a devochka kung-fu; English: Magical Kung Fu Girl) was released via streaming on Kinopoisk on December 1, 2022 and ivi on December 3, 2022; fledgling family entertainment channel FamilyJam acquired the linear television rights to the Russian dub in early 2023.

References

External links

• Official Weibo page
• Official BiliBili page