Netflix’s Best New Kids Show Has High Audience Scores, Is Adorable

Well, now that my kids are getting older, I am attempting to find them the occasional show to watch with our limited screen time rules that is not Paw Patrol. Sorry pups, I love you but…I’ve had enough.

One new offering on Netflix is the best new kids show that the streamer has offered in a while, and you may want to check it out. It’s the adorable My Melody and Kuromi, a Japanese stop-motion series.

The movie is based on Sanrio characters, the company creating hundreds of “kawaii” characters over the years including the global icon, Hello Kitty. Here, My Melody is a rabbit that was originally created in 1975 and has returned for this brand new series literally 50 years later. Man, 1975 does not feel like 50 years ago, does it? I’m getting old. Kuromi, the other rabbit, was originally conceived in 2005.

Here’s the synopsis of the series:

“My Melody opens a cake shop in Mariland. After encountering a magical heart in the forest, strange things start happening around her. Meanwhile, Kuromi’s Japanese sweets shop across the street is always empty. Kuromi searches for the secret to My Melody’s cakes. My Melody and Kuromi work hard to prepare for a sweets-making contest judged by the world-famous pastry chef Pistachio. However, no one knows that this will lead to an incident that threatens the fate of Mariland.”

The show has debuted at #4 on Netflix’s top 10 list in the US, which has been watching more and more Asian programming, usually Japanese and Korean, in recent years. While the show does not yet have any critic or audience scores in on Rotten Tomatoes, if you head over to IMDB, the show is currently clocking in at an 8.3/10, extremely high in the context of that site. For instance, my son’s beloved Paw Patrol is a 6.1/10. Spidey and His Amazing Friends a 5.8/10. Peppa Pig a 6.3/10. A show that bests it? That would be the legendary Bluey, with a 9.3/10. But I mean, you’re just not going to beat Bluey.

My Melody and Kuromi is an easy watch, with season 1 being 12 episodes that are 11-15 minutes each for breezy viewing and holding attention spans. This is a TV-PG series, not TV-G, though I’m genuinely not sure why. The first episode has Kuromi stealing ingredients from a rival so I mean, crime? I don’t know.

Check it out, it’s very cute and a good family series so far.

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