Pucca
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Pucca (뿌까, Ppukka) is a character created by VOOZ. She has starred in e-cards, web animations, games, a TV show made by Jetix, and a South Korean TV show titled Pucca: Love Recipe.

She is an 11-year-old South Korean superhuman girl who is constantly trying to hug and kiss a ninja-in-training named Garu.

Biography[]

Pucca is the niece of Uncle Dumpling, Ho, and Linguini (mentioned in the Jetix show episode Tomb It May Concern and the backs of some Jetix Pucca DVD cases). Pucca lives with her three uncles at the Goh-Rong Restaurant, where she works as a delivery girl. She drives around on her red scooter making deliveries to the people of the town. She usually delivers Jajang Noodles. Pucca also has a pink cat named Yani.

Pucca is also the best friend of Ching.

Pucca is a talented musician, as shown in And the Band Played Rong, Sooga Size Me and other episodes. Out of a desire to protect him, Pucca often intervenes in conflicts when Garu (unwillingly) gives up on such.

Pucca has an alter-ego named "Noodle Girl" that sometimes appears in the series.

Although Pucca is a good combatant, she can be oblivious at times, causing her to learn what is happening the hard way.

Appearance[]

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Pucca has waist-length black hair that is tied in two buns with two red hair ties, wearing an odango hairstyle. She has visible pink blush on her cheeks that doesn’t appear when she grins or is crying. Although she is usually depicted with her eyes closed (which is also the case with both Bruce and Ssoso), she will sometimes opens her eyes in some animations (like in the episodes Dance, Pucca, Dance and The Usual Ching, where it shows Pucca with red eyes) and in some official art.

She is usually seen wearing a red long-sleeved shirt and black pants.

Pucca is considered to be cute and has attracted several boys, who have commented on her looks:

Personality[]

Pucca is known to be very clingy to Garu and is constantly chasing him while she often covers him with kisses, much to his annoyance. But, she has saved him from dangerous situations. She isn't good with rejection and tends to get angry when Garu rejects her advances, though she'll never give up on trying to win his heart.

Despite her clinginess, she is a very sweet and helpful girl who is well-loved among the townspeople for her kindness and happiness, and she is even nice to Ring Ring (unless the latter does something to tick her off). Pucca can be very aggressive in her attitude, especially when she gets angry. She can be very impulsive with her emotions, but shows a strong attitude towards problems. In some official images, Pucca is described as a tomboy.

Pucca does not regularly speak in most animated media (most likely to imitate Garu who took a vow of silence or she could have selective mutism), in which this aspect of her character extends to Jetix's Pucca show and Pucca: Love Recipe. She often communicates with giggling, angry growling, gasping sounds and occasional short words like "hello", "tada" "yu-huh!" and "wow". Despite the lack of speaking, Ching has said that Pucca has a lovely singing voice in the episode And The Band Played Rong. In Tokyo a Go-Go, Pucca sings in soprano (the highest female pitch) in the karaoke. She and Garu both sing in Hooray for Bollywood, but their voices are completely different than the occasional noises that they make.

Abilities[]

Pucca is a superhuman girl who has shown ninja abilities that far surpasses theirs where she is stronger and faster than any of them. She once defeated Tobe with chopsticks (Oasis) and she has the ability to use noodles as deadly weapons, such as whips and lassos (Noodle Girl).

  • Enhanced Durability: Pucca is able to withstand about almost anything.
    • In Little Miss Sooga, she remains standing even after Yuni drops several sandbags onto to her head.
    • In Oh the Bells!, she remained standing when a boulder fell on top of her head.
    • In A Scary Woman, she wasn't knocked back when Mija threw a couch in her face and she still remained standing even when Mija began to throw various things at her.
  • Enhanced Strength: Pucca has immense strength and has been shown to be able to break just about anything and pick up heavy things etc.
  • Enhanced Speed: Pucca has a massive amount of speed.
    • In Noodle Around the World, she is able to arrive at every major landmark where Tobe and his minions wait in ambush for Garu (The peaks of The Himalayas, Pisa, Italy, Paris, France, Keystone, South Dakota, Kyoto, Japan and finally Sooga Village again), making it there on foot before either party can arrive, then also beating them to the next location.
    • During Dance, Pucca, Dance, she is very swift with her hands as she is able to stop a ninja star easily.
    • In Sooga Size Me, she was fast enough to pick up the garbage from the Sooga Lougie Style (a culturally-insensitive fast food restaurant run by Tex Lugie and Sloppy Sue).
    • In Garu Down Under, she is able to move so swiftly that she can run across the surface of The Pacific Ocean, going all the way from Sooga Village to Australia and making it there before a package she mailed (containing Abyo and Ching) arrived.

Weather & Geology[]

Pucca can use magical abilities when properly motivated, like being able to conjure whirlwinds and earthquakes. In He Loves Me Not, Pucca has been shown to conjure up hurricane-force winds and lightning storms.

Force Field and Weather Manipulation[]

In "He Loves Me Not", Pucca was surrounded by a protective force field that was strong enough to block Ring Ring's attacks as well as damage her hair. At this moment, Pucca was surrounded by aura swirling around her feet, likely indicating that this is her true power. (She did have a similar force field like ability in A Scary Woman where stuff will hit Pucca, but it has no effect on her.)

While Pucca is normally oblivious to the extent of her own strength, during Ring Ring's attempted marriage to Garu, she can be seen motioning her hands to rip open a vortex in the eye of the storm. Despite the vortex being strong enough to rip the house from it's foundation, Pucca was completely unaffected.

Character Variations[]

Season 1[]

  • Puccapatra: In Puccapatra, Pucca bears a stiking resemblance to the famous Cleopatra.
  • Puccahontas: In Puccahontas, she is based off of Pocahontas.
  • Kimono Pucca: During Tokyo a Go-Go, Pucca's friendship group go to Tokyo through a conveyor belt from Japan and Sooga Village. There, she and Ching go and buy kimonos that they both wear for a good duration of the episode. Her kimono is a traditional purple with a red bag, and traditional hairstyle and makeup with a three pink flowery hairclip on top.
  • Sailor Moon Pucca: The second outfit that Pucca switches to in Tokyo a Go-Go. This outfit is a direct reference to Sailor Moon as it's the exact same style with a difference of black hair and a yellow wand.
  • First Swimsuit Pucca: In Funny Love Eruption, Pucca wears a blue tankini.
  • Second Swimsuit Pucca: Pucca wears a red bikini.
  • Mermaid Pucca: Mermaid Pucca has a red tail and wears a red bikini top. She also has an orange starfish on top of her head with yellow shells as ties for her buns.
  • Toon Pucca: When Ring Ring transports herself to the Toon world, she meets a 30's Minnie Mouse styled Pucca that serves as the uncanny double to the Real life Pucca in their world. Toon Pucca is black and white like all of the toons in that universe.
  • Safari Pucca: Funny Love Eruption
  • Western Pucca: When Pucca and Ching enter another world through a well in Rootin Tootin Ninjas, they encounter a brown haired version of Pucca. Her hair is more curly and she wears a frilly red dress instead. In addition she also wears more makeup as she has lipstick on.
  • Dragon Girl Guide Pucca: In Enter the Dragon Girls, she wears Dragon Guide unform with a belt that has the most badges out of all of the total Dragon scouts.
  • Explorer Pucca: Garu of the Jungle
  • Wedding bride Pucca: Scenes From a Maul
  • Bride of Frankenstein Pucca: The Bride of Muji
  • Pucca Anti-Virus: Debuting in Itsy Bitsy Enemy Within, they're green in appearance and are shaped like Pucca's head, and formed after Pucca enters and invades Garu's immune system.
  • Bunny Pucca: When Ching uses a magic wand, it casts a spell towards her and her friends, inluding Pucca. She resembles a white bunny–except with her her face on it. This appearance was featured in the episode, Abra-Ca-Pucca.
  • Fitness Pucca: An outfit that she wears in Sooga Size Me. Its a pink tracksuit with a white headband and pink ties for her hair.
  • "Retro" Pucca: The Ring Ring Touch
  • Cowgirl Pucca: The Ring Ring Touch
  • Model dress Pucca: The Ring Ring Touch
  • Silkworm dress Pucca: In Little Miss Sooga, Pucca's strapless red dress with a bow, was transformed into a longer dress where silkworks extended her train.
  • Fan Dancer Pucca: Little Miss Sooga
  • Pucca in a Fox Costume: Chicken Spots
  • Ninja Pucca: Cat Scratch Fever
  • Beekeeper Pucca: In Enter the Dragon Girls, Pucca is seen wearing a hat veil, and a beekeeping suit.

Relationships[]

Garu[]

See: Pucca and Garu's relationship

Pucca has a huge (but seemingly) unrequited crush on Garu as she is always chasing him whenever she sees him and she refuses to leave him alone. She will do anything to be with him and will protect him when he's endangered. However, in the Pucca web shorts, they were considered to be in a relationship and he is only more shy to stuff like affection, so he sometimes does avoid her and run away from her even if in a relationship.

In Pucca: Love Recipe, Garu shows to be more reciprocative with Pucca's feelings and blushes during the final episode when he thinks about her.

Ching[]

Ching is Pucca's best friend who is often seen hanging out with her. She is supportive of Pucca's romantic affection towards Garu. Ching shares similar romantic feelings towards Garu's best friend, Abyo.

Uncle Dumpling, Ho and Linguini[]

The three chefs are Pucca's uncles and mentors who will help them when she can and she is very respectful towards them. They will also help her with her love life sometimes. They will make comments like "Isn't love funny?" Since her relationship is complicated for the most part and she never will take no for an answer type of mood when it comes to love. But, they support her no matter what.

Abyo[]

Although Pucca is sometimes annoyed by Abyo's behavior, they are still friends. Sometimes when Abyo shows off, Pucca may just throw Abyo to the side. They still both care for each other even if it isn't shown as openly in the series.

An example is when Abyo and Ching saw the fake Garu dating Ring Ring. At that moment, they didn't know that Garu was fake, so Abyo helped Ching covering them so Pucca wouldn't see them and she wouldn't feel bad.

Tobe[]

Pucca is enemies with Tobe since he wants to have vengeance on the person she loves and she will fight him with no problem, especially if he inflicts too much damage to Garu. She is way stronger than he is and that makes him scared of her for the most part.

Ring Ring[]

Ring Ring is mainly Pucca's enemy throughout the series and often has fights with her when she harms her friends and those around, especially when she tries to compete for Garu's attention (mostly in Pucca: Love Recipe).

Despite this, she harbors no ill will towards Ring Ring and tries to be nice, but sometimes Pucca has to stop the niceness and teach Ring Ring a lesson, even if she doesn't learn from it.

Etymology[]

"Pucca" comes from the last two syllables of a Gyeongsang-dialect sentence that goes like "Shall I kiss you?", which relates to Pucca's desire to kiss Garu whenever she can.

Trivia[]

  • In the Jetix series, Pucca is seemingly not a student at the Turtle Training Hall like Garu, Abyo, Ching and Ssoso. However, in Pucca: Love Recipe, she is a student of the dojo like the rest of her friends.
  • In Tobe's Nighttime Troubles, it is shown that Pucca's hair can emit sounds and lights that can communicate to aliens.
  • Uncle Dumpling, Ho and Linguini (Pucca's uncles) are the owners of the Goh-Rong restaurant.
  • Pucca makes different character parodies.
  • Pucca is the strongest character in the series.
  • As shown in Armour Plated Love, Pucca seems to get exhausted from travelling on foot, despite her unbelievable speed. This seems to be the reason she prefers to travel on her motor scooter.
  • Pucca can understand Zombies, which was proven in A Better Boyfriend.
  • The only times Pucca's hair is out of her usual style are:
  • There is a theory that Pucca was depressed before she met Garu due to a Web Animation and she was always trying to find her happiness.
    • This Web Animation was called [뿌까] 우울증 극복하기 (or "[Pucca] Overcoming Depression" in English). It is not certain if this depression was canon or not.
  • The only times Pucca showed another interest in somebody else were in the episodes Rootin' Tootin' Ninjas and Romancing the Clone. (Even if it was other versions of Garu but, it does still count as other love interests.)
  • Early translations on the concept of Pucca back from the e-cards, says she was the last daughter, instead of niece. It may be that she was originally supposed to be one of her uncle's daughter as a concept instead of their niece. JetixJetix is where the niece concept "seemed" to start. However, it seems Vooz went with the niece change for reasons that do seem unknown.
  • Pucca doesn't know much about makeup and how to use it properly, as shown in shorts and Pucca: Love Recipe.
  • Pucca has had the most boys being interested in her in the series:
    • Abyo finds her attractive.
    • In The Bride of Muji, Muji asks her (in her Frankenstein's Monster character) to marry her.
    • Dada was starstruck after she accidentally kissed him.
    • In Prince Not So Charming, an extremely vain celebrity named "Lazlo Gotalotovich" became obsessively infatuated with her (despite being desired by countless other women) to the point where he followed her around the village and even attempted to dispose of Garu in an attempt to win her heart.
    • In Pucca: Love Recipe, a handsome man named "Casano" is attracted to her (as seen in Attempt of Casano) and he commented on how "she's the most amazingly cute beautiful woman." (A Scary Woman).
    • Garu is canonically revealed to have a crush on her, but he constantly hides it from being shy and his other variations.
  • In Pucca: Love Recipe, it is revealed that Pucca is a terrible cook as shown in Pucca's Dumpling and Super Banana Donut. However, in Channel Goh-Rong, her cooking has improved.
  • It is possible that the voice of the intro song of Love Recipe is Pucca since it is constantly mentioned in the song that it is Pucca who sings it and that she loves Garu.

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Jetix show (Season 1)[]

Jetix show (Season 2)[]

Pucca: Love Recipe[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Pucca Is" (NOTE: To find info on Pucca on the page, wait for the flash plugin to load then click Pucca's face on the bottom right corner.) - puccaclub.com
  2. https://www.instagram.com/p/CuZ7FCWKcHJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==


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