History Animation / YamuchasKungFuAcademy

With many characters being food, the show focuses on the young martial arts students Miko and Nao and their training at a renowned but antiquated academy in Yincha Town, as well as their friends and the villains they face, including a group of idiotic squid thieves. The show premiered on New Years Day 2007 on China's Creator/{{CCTV}} network and was moderately successful and well-received with a total of 208 episodes. It is available on Chinese streaming sites including [=iQIYI=].

China Liaoning has episodes of both this and its sequel [[https://www.youtube.com/@chinaliaoningtvofficialcha1865 here]].

* ThreeAmigos: Miko, Nao, and Jubby.

* BigEater: Happu has a hobby of eating.

* EyelessFace: Obby has a mouth and a pair of eyebrows, but no eyes.

* ManOnFire: In one episode, the leader of the squid thieves is completely enveloped in a flame after one of the other squid thieves gets a RumpRoast from hiding in a fryer that Jubby turned on and the flame gets on him.

* RumpRoast: Happens to one of the squid thieves in one episode when he hides in a fryer. Jubby turns on the fryer, causing the squid to emerge with a flame on his behind.

* WingdingEyes: In one episode, as Bomi shows the squid thieves some of the food they make at the restaurant, one of the squids' eyes turn into hearts as he looks at the delicious food.

* FightingWithChucks: Nunchuks are Hado's weapons.

* SquashedFlat: In one of the original 2004 shorts, specifically the one spoofing ''Film/JurassicPark'', the gang and
a boar they meet are chased by a bunch of dinosaurs. Another dinosaur that had been chasing the gang is squashed flat by the group of dinosaurs running over it.

a boar they meet are chased by a bunch of dinosaurs. Another dinosaur that had been chasing them is squashed flat by the group of dinosaurs running over it.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The knight from episode 29 sports a head of green hair.

Has a [[https://yamuchas.fandom.com/wiki/Yamucha%27s_Wiki wiki (work in progress)]].

* BlueIsHeroic: Miko is blue and wishes to become a hero in martial arts.

''Yamucha's'' started as a group of fifteen web shorts released in 2004 which lack dialogue.[[note]]There was also a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20050203003109/http://www.yamuchas.com/ Japanese website]] dating from 2003, but little of the ''Yamucha's'' brand materialized in Japan, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcFm9lzZQZA this music video]].[[/note]] These shorts spoofed Chinese cinema (including [[{{Main/Wuxia}} wuxia]]), ''Film/JurassicPark'' and ''[[{{Film/Titanic1997}} Titanic]]''. The TV show reimagined most of the main characters as students or staff of a kung fu academy.

''Yamucha's-Kung Fu Academy'' (饮茶之功夫学园) is a Chinese-Taiwanese comedy animated series created and produced by [[Creator/HongYing Hong Ying Animation]]. While this studio is best known for animating outsourced cartoons, ''Yamucha's'' is one of the few works they maintain.

With many characters being food, the show focuses on the young martial arts students Miko and Nao and their training in a renowned but antiquated academy, as well as their friends and the villains they face, including a group of idiotic squid thieves. The show premiered on New Years Day 2007 on China's Creator/{{CCTV}} network and was moderately successful and well-received with a total of 208 episodes. It is available on Chinese streaming sites.

While the TV show may lack an English dub, it was given an [[http://qwineexpo.megamai.com/project/4133 English trailer]].

While the TV show may lack an Ebglish dub, it was given an [[http://qwineexpo.megamai.com/project/4133 English trailer]].

''Yamucha's-Kung Fu Academy'' (饮茶之功夫学园) is a Chinese-Taiwanese comedy animated series created and produced by [[Creator/HongYing Hong Ying Animation]]. While this studio is best known for animating off-sourced cartoons, ''Yamucha's'' is one of the few works they maintain.

''Yamucha's'' started as a group of fifteen web shorts released in 2004 which lack dialogue.[[note]]There was also a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20050203003109/http://www.yamuchas.com/ Japanese website]] dating from 2003, but little of the ''Yamucha's'' brand materialized there, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcFm9lzZQZA this music video]].[[/note]] These shorts spoofed Chinese cinema (including [[{{Main/Wuxia}} wuxia]]), ''Film/JurassicPark'' and ''[[{{Film/Titanic1997}} Titanic]]''. The TV show reimagined most of the main characters as students or staff of a kung fu academy.

* InterclassFriendship: The show's two main protagonists Miko and Nao. Miko comes from a poor family and had been chased by creditors. Nao comes from a rich family with a kung-fu background. The shorts, however, sometimes have romance between the two.

''Yamucha's'' started as a group of fifteen web shorts released in 2004 which lack dialogue. These shorts spoofed Chinese cinema (including [[{{Main/Wuxia}} wuxia]]), ''Film/JurassicPark'' and ''[[{{Film/Titanic1997}} Titanic]]''. The TV show reimagined most of the original characters as students or staff of a kung fu academy.

* AgeLift: Rudy, Masa, Obby, and Artee are grown teachers in the TV show, but in the shorts they are children like the rest of the cast. Possibly also applies to Bomi who is a merchant.

** Jubby is a dumpling, the design of her head resembling a baby bonnet.