Trivia / Kung Fu Wa

• Celebrity Voice Actor: The English dub is notable for being the voice acting debut of American TikToker Sofia Gomez (who voices TZ), an avid anime fan who gained popularity on the video platform primarily for cosplaying as various anime, comic book and manga characters.^note In addition to a few bikini “thirst traps” (most notably, a video that was part of a Summer 2020 trend set to the Amanda Seyfried-Dominic Cooper cover of ABBA's “Lay All Your Love on Me” from Mamma Mia!, which Gomez filmed after doing a photoshoot) that helped gain her a sizeable male following (along with the cosplays she soon became more known for), among the videos that earned Gomez (then 17/18) TikTok fame in 2020 was that of her spot-on impression of Perry the Platypus, which even earned recognition from Phineas & Ferb creator Dan Povenmire.
• Dawson Casting: Tee Yang/Zeng’s voice actors in the Chinese version (Zhou Zhou) and the Spanish and Portugese dubs (Belén Marín and Michelle Giudice, respectively) were adults well into their 20s when cast to voice the eight-year-old lead heroine (Giudice, for example, was 26 when she was hired for the Portugese dub). Though still (barely) an adult, at 19, Sofia Gomez was the closest in age to Tee Yang/Zeng out of the character’s VAs at the time she was cast in the English dub.
• Digital Destruction: The POP UK airings of the English dub have some frames reduced in scenes containing flashing lights to prevent triggering seizures in viewers prone to experiencing them.
• Late Export for You: Season 1 took a year to reach the UK.
• Market-Based Title: The series’ international title is officially Kung Fu Wa; however in the U.K., it is titled Kung Fu Sock, a direct translation of the original Chinese title emphasizing the eponymous Transformation Trinket that gives Tee Yang/Zeng her fighting ability.
• No Export for You:
  • Even with several American actors (including a relatively popular social media creator) in its voice cast, as of April 2024, the English dub has not been released in the United States; Federation Studios, which handles international distribution for the English dub, has also yet to release Kung Fu Sock in other English-speaking countries (such as Canada and Australia).
  • The educational spinoff series TZ and Kung Fu Sock Defending the Homeland hasn't been released anywhere outside of China, likely because the lessons it teaches are very specific to Chinese culture or nobody thought that two-minute episodes were worth dubbing.
• What Could Have Been: An early promo video and concept art for the series shows Tee Yang's outfit as Kung Fu Girl was stylized more like a traditional martial artist's uniform with her energy hair being white instead of pink. Her transformation was more simplistic compared to how it occurs in the show proper.