Germans Love David Hasselhoff / Asian Animation

• Animated series made by Chinese studio Alpha based on Auldey toys are wildly popular in Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Arab World and Southeast Asian nations.
• A South Korean animation series, The Haunted House: The Secret of the Ghost Ball, is surprisingly popular in Indonesia (most likely because of its Animesque art style and the fact that most Indonesians are fans of Korean culture as well).
• Likely as a result of it airing on Discovery Kids, the Chinese series Kung Fu Wa has gained a decently big fanbase in Latin America.
• Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (Mainland China):
  • It was once popular in Hong Kong, but its popularity then slowly faded off there due to a controversy surrounding an incident happening in China in 2013 involving kids burning another kid while mimicking the show.
  • It used to be popular in Malaysia and Singapore, since the first season once aired on the Saturday kids block on Singaporean Channel 8 — one episode every Saturday — and Joys of Seasons aired on the Southeast Asian feeds of Disney Channel, along with Dear Little Wishes being available on Miao Mi (a service which teaches Chinese) via Toggle, and even receiving a stage-play in Sentosa Genting Highlands in 2013! Nowadays, it's mostly obscure there, except if you attempt to ask Singaporean Chinese people if they grew up watching the show.
• North Korean animated series Squirrel and Hedgehog is surprisingly popular overseas, as well as being beloved in its homeland.
• The Malaysian animated series Upin & Ipin is wildly popular in Indonesia to the extent where SpongeBob SquarePants looks obscure, with (often bootleg) merchandise being sold all over the place. This is partly due to most of the Malaysian language sounding hilarious in Indonesian. Noteworthy because prior to its introduction, Indonesians hated the living shit out of Malaysia and everything in it for "stealing" their culture.

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