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Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart is an American animated television series created by Parker Simmons for Cartoon Network. A co-production between Cartoon Network Studios and Titmouse, it premiered on July 1, 2019.[1][2][3]

Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
Genre
Created byParker Simmons
Directed byMichael Moloney
Voices of
Theme music composerMint Potion Studios
Opening theme"I Love You Mao Mao" (performed by Kaho Kidoguchi)
ComposerMint Potion Studios
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes40
Production
Executive producers
ProducerLaura Allen
EditorTodd Raleigh
Running time11 minutes
Production companiesTitmouse, Inc.[nb 1]
Cartoon Network Studios
Original release
NetworkCartoon Network
ReleaseJuly 1, 2019 –
July 17, 2020

The show is based on the independent teaser short I Love You Mao Mao, which Simmons had initially produced for the annual Titmouse Inc. "5-Second Day" on February 21, 2014, and subsequently posted on Newgrounds.[4]

Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart centers on its coming-of-age story, with the title character, Mao Mao, a daring cat who has high intentions for action and adventure. During one of his adventures, he gets stuck in a cute and cuddly town called Pure Heart Valley with his co-hero Badgerclops, a cyborg-armed badger, and meets Adorabat, a cute little bat. Together, the three go on adventures to protect the citizens of Pure Heart Valley from the forces of evil while they find a way to fix the Ruby Pure Heart to its original state.

  • Mao Mao (full name Mao Mao Mao) (voiced by Parker Simmons), a righteous yet uptight cat who gets stuck in Pure Heart Valley, where he spends time helping the citizens while also finding a way to fix the Ruby Pure Heart which he inadvertently broke in the first place.
  • Badgerclops (voiced by Griffith Kimmins), a sassy cyborg badger with a robotic arm and an eyepatch, and Mao Mao's co-hero and partner.
  • Adorabat (voiced by Lika Leong), a cute, blue, five-year-old bat with a yellow heart symbol and peg leg in place of her right leg.
  • Orangusnake (voiced by Christopher McCulloch), an orangutan-snake hybrid pirate captain who wants to steal the Ruby Pure Heart to take over the world. He is actually a criminal duo named Coby (snake) and Tanner (orangutan) who after a fateful encounter with Mao Mao and Bao Bao decided to combine themselves to become the greatest villain in the world.
  • Ramaraffe (voiced by Debra Wilson), a female cybernetic giraffe pirate with the ability to stretch her neck. She is shown to be good at thinking of plans.
  • Boss Hosstrich (voiced by Christopher McCulloch), a cybernetic ostrich pirate with a southern accent and attire. He has the ability to shoot eggs from a cannon on his chest and is quite a gentleman. He got into a manners battle with King Snugglemagne.
  • Ratarang (voiced by Parker Simmons), a small rat pirate that can turn into a boomerang, who often talks about his mama.
  • Beef Master, a large water buffalo with a necklace made of bones. Fell off the ship.
  • Thunder Fist, a gorilla that can produce electricity from his hands. Fell off the ship.
  • Steel Wing (voiced by Tommy Blacha), a wyvern with literal metal wings. Fell off the ship due to his wings being too heavy for flight.
  • Tiny Toad (voiced by Mark Sheppard), the leader who is a cyborg frog with a monocle and a heavy English accent.
  • Bullmozer (voiced by Simmons), a mole with cybernetic arms and glasses.
  • Ratracer (voiced by Lisa O'Hare), a female rat with a wheel instead of legs.
  • Rufus (voiced by Julian Barratt), a sly and cunning fox who swindles the Sweetypies of Pure Heart Valley.
  • Reggie (voiced by Rich Fulcher), a raccoon and Rufus' sidekick.

Supporting characters

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Pure Heart Valley Residents

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  • King Snugglemagne the 25th (voiced by Parker Simmons), the foppish lion king of Pure Heart Valley. He is vain and effeminate, but can be very manipulative and is shown to have a scandalous side to him as well.
  • Scoops (voiced by Debra Wilson), a small donkey that runs the news in Pure Heart Valley.
  • Camille (voiced by Debra Wilson), a chameleon and royal magic-user to Pure Heart Valley.
  • Honey, a flying squirrel and Camille's silent apprentice.
  • Chef Rhett (voiced by Tommy Blacha), the royal chef of Pure Heart Valley.
  • Pinky (voiced by Griffith Kimmins), a small pink rhinoceros who is considered disturbing by the residents of Pure Heart Valley.
  • Ketchup (voiced by Debra Wilson), a pink fluffy gopher with strange interests.
  • Kevin (voiced by Griffith Kimmins), a small blue porcupine with no fingers. He is afraid of everything.
  • Chubbum (voiced by Tommy Blacha), a frog who is very friendly. His father sounds exactly like Mao Mao.
  • Lucky (voiced by Tommy Blacha), a green hamster with glasses.
  • Gary (voiced by Tommy Blacha), a crocodile who works as a cameraman.
  • Cluckins (voiced by Christopher McCulloch), a chicken. Despite his appearance, he is 30 years old.
  • Slim Pigguns (voiced by Parker Simmons), a yellow pig who works as a pizza delivery man. He drives a monster truck.
  • Chester Nutz (voiced by Griffith Kimmins), a tall brown porcupine. He is Kevin's older brother.
  • Mail Mole (voiced by Chris Prynoski), a mole who is eager to get the job done.
  • Ol' Blue (voiced by Tommy Blacha), a blue dog who is a citizen of Pure Heart Valley. He is also a therapist and not easily impressed.
  • Marion (voiced by Debra Wilson), a horse in Pure Heart Valley who is always working out.
  • Benny (voiced by Christopher McCulloch), a yellow dog who is a citizen of Pure Heart Valley and Penny's husband.
  • Penny (voiced by Lika Leong), a pink dog who is a citizen of Pure Heart Valley and Benny's wife.
  • Farmer Bun (voiced by Parker Simmons), a pink rabbit with a big orange hat in Pure Heart Valley. He works at a farm.
  • Muffins (voiced by Debra Wilson), a mouse in Pure Heart Valley who bakes muffins. Adorabat does not like her.
  • Silly Billy (voiced by Tommy Blacha), a violet elephant who is a news anchor in Pure Heart Valley.
  • Clark Lockjaw (voiced by Lika Leong) a tiny blue seal who is a news reporter in Pure Heart Valley.
  • Teacher (voiced by Andy Daly), the teacher at Adorabat's school in Pure Heart Valley.
  • Shin Mao (voiced by Clancy Brown), Mao Mao's father, has a strained relationship with him. He gifted Mao Mao his golden sword while giving his sisters more impressive weapons. It is revealed that he is small like Mao Mao and ultimately learns to be more appreciative of his son.
  • Brunhilde Mao, a large knight with a golden spear that can pierce anything.
  • Amala, a ninja with a golden scarf that grants the wearer supersonic flight.
  • Minori, a monk with a golden hat that can store infinite items.
  • A martial artist with golden bangles that grant impenetrable defense.
  • A sorcerer with golden eye contact that offers incredible sight.
  • Mao Mao's mother, who once informed her son that his father was visiting.
  • Uncle Jim Jim (voiced by Parker Simmons), Mao Mao's uncle who, despite being a spirit, is still technically alive and possibly a barbarian.
  • Aunt Gloria, Mao Mao's aunt and a secondary character who appears in "Lonely Kid".
  • Great-Great Paternal Grandfather Twig (voiced by Griffith Kimmins), Mao Mao's grandfather who was a sumo warrior.
  • Great-Great Aunt Blackbeard (voiced by Colleen Clinkenbeard), Mao Mao's aunt who was a pirate warrior.
  • Bao Bao (voiced by Chris Prynoski), Mao Mao's original partner, a common dog with a sword that does amazing tricks. Mao Mao is apparently unaware of the fact that he is capable of free-thinking as he "betrayed" (actually just got distracted by a butterfly) and left him. Mao Mao eventually accepts that he has a mind of his own.
  • Bobo Chan (voiced by Debra Wilson), a young female monster that Badgerclops adopts after seeing her hatch from an egg. She quickly grows to full size after Badgerclops had to leave her in the wild and later on comes to the rescue when the Sky Pirates threaten to murder the heroes by tossing them off a cliff.
  • Tanya Keys (voiced by Ming-Na Wen), a female tanuki and former lover of Mao Mao's who makes a living as a bounty hunter. She loves to mess with him, but wants him to be more carefree like her, despite Mao Mao's disgust of her being a vigilante rather than a hero. Just like in legends, she has the ability to transform herself and leaves into people and objects.
  • Meditatin' Melvin (voiced by Dana Snyder), a meditating monkey who achieved the ability to astral project simply to get out of going to the dentist.
  • Eugene (voiced by Randall Park), Adorabat's father who had a strained relationship with his daughter ever since his wife was murdered by a cave dragon before the events of the series.
  • Sonara, Adorabat's deceased mother. A cave dragon from Pure Heart Valley attacked and killed her before the events of the series.

Cartoon Network announced on May 20, 2019 that they greenlit Mao Mao up for a full series alongside Tig n' Seek (originally titled Tiggle Winks). Eight new episodes were released on June 28, on the Cartoon Network app, website, and VOD.[44][45]

A 2nd season was confirmed to be in production at the Cartoon Network Studios First Look Panel during the Comic-Con at Home event on July 23, 2020.[46] It was originally planned to premiere in 2021, and even though a second season was greenlit and was in production, no second season was realized, since the show's crew had been laid off Cartoon Network Studios halting and silently canceling production on the show due to budget cuts and corporate restructuring in pandemic of 2020.[47]

On August 18, 2022, Cartoon Network removed all mentions of a second season from their social media accounts and removed the show from streaming.[48]

In 2013, when Parker had spare time he did drawn a couple doodles of three main protagonists, which will be made for a independent teaser short I Love You Mao Mao, which Simmons had initially produced for the annual Titmouse Inc. "5-Second Day" on February 21, 2014,[49][50] and subsequently posted on Youtube day later and on 6th March at Newgrounds.[51][4]

Short sparked a lot of interest, so Parker and his friends began working on a seven-minute version of the short, which was later used as a pitch to Cartoon Network, that got released on February 19, 2016.[52][53] Simmons and his crew joined Cartoon Network Studios, help making develop a show OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.

After pitching the project to Cartoon Network CCO Rob Sorcher in June of 2017, a production of the show had been officially greenlighted.[54]

When asked about the show's writing style, Simmons stated on his personal Tumblr blog that the show was "NOT a serial" but also stated that it was not "strictly episodic." [55]

Though the series was produced at Titmouse, Inc. animation were outsourced overseas to Inspidea studio in Malaysia, using Adobe Animate and After Effects (for compositing). Then Titmouse, Inc. took a Re-take and reanimated certain sences and shots for better expressions and more detailed animation.[54][56]

The show debuted on Cartoon Network in the United States on July 1, 2019. It premiered on the same day in India on Cartoon Network HD+. The series premiered on July 13, 2019, on Cartoon Network Canada, and on Teletoon in September 6, 2019. It premiered in France on January 4, 2020. The show debuted in Italy on Cartoon Network on January 6, 2020. Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart premiered on Cartoon Network UK on March 2, 2020.[57] The show debuted on Cartoon Network Poland in March 9, 2020. It premiered on Cartoon Network Japan on April 5, 2020.

After August 2020, Cartoon Network and Teletoon had completely stopped airing reruns of the series in the United States, and in other countries quickly after 40th Episode.

On September 1, 2020, the first 30 episodes of Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart was added to the HBO Max streaming service,[58][59] with the final 10 episodes added on January 1, 2021.[60]

On August 18, 2022, it was removed from the service as a result of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.[61][62] Cartoon Network subsequently removed all references to the show from their official websites, YouTube channels, and Twitter feeds.[63] On the next day, the show's webpage from the Cartoon Network website has been removed.

However, on October 14, 2022, Mao Mao's related videos became public on official Cartoon Network's YouTube channels (with exception of the second season's announcement video).[64]

The show is available for digital purchase on Vudu, Fandango, Apple TV,[65] Amazon Prime Video, Google TV[66] and YouTube TV.[67]

International broadcast

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The series made its premiere debut on Teletoon in Canada on July 13, 2019. In the United Kingdom on September 6.[68]

The show was planned to be released on DVD, which would include the show's pilot, but it was never released.[69][70]

The series was well received from critics. Emily Ashby of common sense media gave the show 4 out of 5 stars; wrote that "Action scenes are loud and flashy, involving swords and axes, laser blasts, light beams that resemble bullets, lots of impact and overall a lot of violence. Death is implied in some cases, but the heroes always emerge unscathed." and that "The intensity of this show's action makes it a better choice for tweens than for younger kids, but the sharp writing and appealing heroes give the show cross-generational appeal."[71]

Dave Trumbore of the Website Collider gave the show 3 out of 5 stars; (Good) saying that: "He'll be cautiously optimistic with this one. It's got a good start and great heart, it just remains to be seen how much original mythology will make its way into the narrative. Just like Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and OK K.O.! took some time to build up the behind-the-scenes drama, Mao Mao could benefit from a deeper storytelling well in the long run".[72]

Nick Valdez gave it 5 out of 5 stars; of ComicBook.com wrote: "Show has the potential to become a massive success for Cartoon Network".[73]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Nominee(s) Episode Result Ref.
2020 A Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Parker Simmons Nominated [74][75]

[76][77]

Outstanding Editing Doug Vito, Todd Raleigh, Jocelyn Barkenhagen, Haley Gansert Nominated
Annie Award Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Khang Le, Chris Fisher, Gael Bertrand, Deodato Pangandoyon, Howard Chen Ultraclops Nominated
2021 48th Annie Awards

Daytime Emmy Award

Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for role as: Mao Mao Parker Simmons Won [78][79]
Annie Award Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television/Media Production Michael Moloney Mao Mao's Nakey Nominated
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  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i This episode was first released online on April 12, 2020.
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  69. ^ "Is there anywhere we could see the original pilot of Mao Mao? As far as I've seen theres only a few screenshots online but I'm sure lots of PPL would love to see it!".
  70. ^ ""Bao Bao's Revenge" is particularly interesting, because it is based on the original short that sold the show. Only extended to 11min and with a more well-rounded story and more BC/AD. Original Short as a DVD extra one-day? Who can know!".
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  74. ^ "Y'all... I'm nominated for an Emmy for playing Mao Mao".
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  76. ^ "2 of our toons were nominated for @DaytimeEmmys! @PrimeVideoKids #NikoandtheSwordofLight for Outstanding Children's Animated Program & @cartoonnetwork's #maomaoheroesofpureheart for Outstanding Performer @parkerrsimmons & Outstanding Editing. Congrats all!".
  77. ^ "It's absolutely real and I can't believe it. I don't know what to say for once".
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