Wolfoo

Wolfoo is a Vietnamese preschool animated web series produced and created by SCONNECT. It has been criticised by Entertainment One due to claimed visual similarity to Peppa Pig. Wolfoo was released on August 23, 2018.

Wolfoo
Genre	Children's web series
Created by	SCONNECT
Country of origin	Vietnam
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1[a]
No. of episodes	1000+
Production
Running time	2–3 minutes
Original release
Network	YouTube
Release	August 23, 2018 (2018-08-23) – present
Related
Bearee

Overview

The show follows Wolfoo, an anthropomorphic 5-year-old wolf who lives in a small American-styled village^[1] with his parents and sisters, Lucy and Jenny, along with his three best friends, Pando, Kat & Zino.^{[citation needed]}

Characters

• Wolfoo is the protagonist of the show. He is five years old, and belongs to the Wolf family, however he seems nice and kind based on his personality.
• Lucy is Wolfoo's sister. She belongs to the Wolf family. She is three years old and sometimes likes to manipulate Wolfoo.
• Mr. Wolf is Wolfoo and Lucy's father. He is an architect and he is sometimes busy with his work yet he has time to be with his family.
• Mrs. Wolf is Wolfoo and Lucy's mother. She is a florist and housewife.
• Pando is Wolfoo's best friend. He has a huge obsession with apples and is clumsy.
• Mr. Pan is Pando's father. He is very playful, childlike, and likes presenting and cooking dishes in a 5 star restaurant.
• Kat is one of Wolfoo's friends. She is very smart and is the most intellectual of Wolfoo's friend group. She likes reading books and Kat has a brother named Kasper.
• Bufo is one of Wolfoo's friends. He is rich, due to the fact that he came from a wealthy family. He is a bully to Wolfoo and his friends but apologises and learns his lesson.
• Piggy is Bufo's best friend and sidekick at bullying, though like Bufo he sometimes learns his lesson. He comes from a cunning Pig family and treats Bufo like a "big brother".
• Moly is one of Wolfoo's friends. He is of the same age and has many knowledge of living underground as he lives there. He is also the final one to solve any problem his friends are in, However, Moly seems to be autistic and likes playing alone.
• Nancy is one of the Lucy's friends. She is a sister of Piggy. And she protects Lucy when she faces danger, However, she has the same personality as Lucy when she manipulates her brother sometimes.

The voice actors of the characters are not revealed.

Release and musical trailer

The first official episode of Wolfoo was published on August 23, 2018. Several Wolfoo channels were launched on YouTube, some examples are "Wolfoo America", "Wolfoo's Stories", "Wolfoo Shows", and "Wolfoo - Sing Along Songs". This is similar to a method used by other content farms. A series of feature-length online films, such as Wolfoo the Adventurer, were also released on YouTube. A spin-off, Bearee, was released on April 16, 2022.^{[citation needed]}

The show is available on 40 VOD (Video On-Demand) platforms in China, and was later released in Chinese children's TV networks due to Sconnect's deal with its Chinese market partner Leadjoy, with SCONNECT producing and releasing a 3D version of the cartoon.^[2]

In October 2023, the show released a movie named Wolfoo and the Mysterious Island (Vietnamese: Wolfoo và hòn đảo kỳ bí)^[b]which premiered on Vietnamese cinemas and entered box office revenue as the top 3 after one week,^[3][4][5][6] but the full film was not uploaded internationally.

Reception and controversy

Wolfoo has also been criticized for its usage of gross-out humor throughout its run, constantly featuring animated depictions of defecation and or urination by several characters, pregnancy and anthropomorphic organs. It has been accused of copyright infringement by the creators of Peppa Pig, and the show's distributor, Entertainment One, has sued SCONNECT for Wolfoo's visual and aesthetic similarity to the show.^{[7][8][9][10]}

On January 24, 2022, Entertainment One filled a case against Sconnect at the High Court of Justice as follows: rework of Peppa Pig characters, using the art style of Peppa Pig, using the exclamation sounds of Peppa Pig in 91 Wolfoo videos; causing unfair competition, causing the misunderstanding that Peppa Pig and Wolfoo share the same owner and violating the trademark of Peppa Pig.^[11]

In November 2022, the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information requested Google to look and resolve the issue of Wolfoo episodes being deleted on YouTube by Entertainment One's ongoing copyright strikes. After the intervention of Vietnamese authorities YouTube reopened the YouTube channels of the show, however 4,000 videos of the show have yet to be relaunched. ^[12]