The 40 most popular italian animation TV shows, ranked. Click any show for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Cocco Bill
2000
country: Italy
A hot-tempered, sharpshooting cowboy and his loyal steed traverse the vast Far West, stumbling onto wildly absurd adventures.


Winx Club
2004
country: Italy
In a magical universe, witches, warriors begin fighting in the name of good .vs. evil! At a magic school, five teenage girls are selected to defend the universe with their magic.


Christopher Columbus
1992
country: Italy
The marvelous adventures and dramatic life of Christopher Columbus in the 15th century.


Puffins
2020
country: Italy
Puffins follows the adventures of a bunch of funny little birds, minions of the sly walrus Otto. Main characters of the series are five Puffins: Johnny Puff, two males, Tic and Tac, and two females, Didi and Pie.


Tommy & Oscar
2000
country: Italy
Tommy and Oscar is an Italian animated television series created by Max Alessandrini and Iginio Straffi, and produced by the Italian company Rainbow S.r.l. and by RAI Fiction. There was the movie in this series that was going to be released in 2004, but it is unreleased.


W.I.T.C.H.
2004
country: Italy
The Guardians must save Meridian from the evil sorcerer Phobos and Cedric who are searching for Phobos' sister, the long lost princess of Meridian and true heir to the throne. They later find her and the Guardians then set about saving her from Phobos. When Meridian is freed from evil and true heir takes the throne, a new mysterious sorceress named Nerissa frees Phobos' top henchmen and reforms them as the Knights of Vengeance. Once the Guardians learn more about the sorceress and her evil plan of reuniting former Guardians, they are able to defeat the Knights only to have more powerful Knights, in addition to the former Guardians attack them.


Calimero
2014
country: France
With his big heart, three eager companions and an old mill teeming with incredible inventions, Calimero sets off on wild adventures to put right all those things in life that are just not fair.


Winx Club: The Magic Is Back
2025
country: Italy
When Bloom discovers she has magic, her life takes a wild turn. At the Alfea school for fairies and witches, she meets five girls who become her best friends — and her greatest strength. Together, they’re the Winx. As dark secrets rise and powerful enemies close in, the Winx will need to unlock their true potential to protect their world — and themselves.


Lupo Alberto
1997
country: Italy
Lupo Alberto was born in 1973 from the pen of Silver, aka Guido Silvestri. The story of Lupo Alberto is very particular, since it involves a wolf and a hen: Alberto and Marta. Every night Alberto comes down from the hills to sneak into the McKenzie farm where Marta is waiting for him to propose to her. In these raids, Lupo must be very careful because Moses, the guard dog, is waiting for him. Their declaration of war is constant and turns into brawls and pranks that end up involving everyone on the farm.


Tip the Mouse
2014
country: Italy
In his tiny meadow village, curious little mouse Tip enjoys fun and adventure while learning about the world with his furry friends and family.


La Linea
1978
country: Italy
Features a man known as "Mr. Linea" drawn as a single outline of an infinite line, which encounters various obstacles during his walking, and often turns to the cartoonist, represented as a live-action hand holding a pencil, to draw him a solution. All episodes are short subjects, ranging from 2:30 to 6:40 in runtime.


Sonic the Hedgehog
1993
country: Italy
Sonic, Tails, Princess Sally, and a band of freedom fighters battle to overthrow Dr. Robotnik, a despotic dictator who conquered their home planet Mobius years ago, and rules it as a polluted industrial dystopia.


Calimero
1974
country: Italy
Calimero is an Italian/Japanese cartoon about a charming, but hapless anthropomorphized cartoon chicken; the only black one in a family of yellow chickens. He wears half of his egg shell still on his head. Calimero originally appeared on the Italian television show Carosello on July 14, 1963, and soon became a popular icon in Italy. The characters were later licensed in Japan as an anime series, twice. The first was made by Toei Animation and ran from October 15, 1974 to September 30, 1975, and the second, with new settings and characters, was made in 1992. Altogether, 99 Japanese episodes were made. The series mostly consists of the many adventures of Calimero and his friends as they solve mysteries and make documentaries. However, their adventures usually get them into quite a bit of trouble. The first series was also broadcast on European networks such as TROS, ZDF and RTL II or TVE.


Gormiti: Nature Unleashed!
2012
country: Italy
Gormiti Nature Unleashed is an Italian animated series co-produced from Giochi Preziosi and Mondo TV. After the first Gormiti series success among Italy and Europe, production companies decided to revive it in a combination of 3D and CGI animation. The new 52x22′ series is titled Gormiti: Nature Unleashed. According to Michelle Azoury, head of sales and brand manager at Mondo TV, it “does not discount the earlier series but does not directly address it either.”


Mermaid Magic
2024
country: Italy
To save her kingdom, a determined young mermaid princess and her friends must join forces with the creatures that scare them the most — humans.


44 Cats
2018
country: Italy
The adventures of four kittens who make up the musical group called The Buffycats, with stories focusing on themes of friendship, altruism, tolerance and diversity.


Reporter Blues
1991
country: Japan
Reporter Blues is an Italian-Japanese cartoon/anime television series created by Marco Pagot and Gi Pagot and directed by Kenji Kodama. It consists of 52 half-hour episodes. The first season was aired in France in 1991. The second season was aired in 1996. The show was co-produced by RAI and TMS Entertainment.


Mofy
2013
country: Germany
Mofy is a stunning stop-motion animation in full HD produced by the Misseri Studio in Florence, Italy, and the first in the world to be produced entirely out of cotton! The sets are created out of light, airy puffs of cotton, creating a warm and soft atmosphere that will make all preschoolers feel safe and cozy. The Mofy series is an exploration of friendships and differing moods such as joy, fear, and courage, all designed to help preschoolers manage their own complex emotions


World of Winx
2016
country: Italy
The Winx travel all over the world searching for talent for WOW. and preventing the mysterious talent thief from kidnapping them.


Angel's Friends
2009
country: Italy
Four Angels and four Devils are sent to Earth, in an unused area of the Golden School, where they learn everything they need to become Guardian Angels and Guardian Devils.


Robin Hood's Big Adventure
1990
country: Italy
Robin Hood's Big Adventure is an anime adaptation of the classic Robin Hood story consisting of 52 episodes. In this version, Robin and his allies are mostly pre-teens.


Seven & Me
2016
country: Italy
A little girl discovers she’s the modern-day descendant of Snow White when seven dwarfs arrive at her suburban home to serve as her guardian angels.


Pocahontas
1997
country: Italy
In her journey, Pocahontas and her spiritual companion Hopi Ho, get the chance to become acquainted with the different ways of living of the different American Indian tribes that they visit.


Trulli Tales
2017
country: Canada
In the kingdom of Trulliland, four friends with extraordinary talents have been chosen to protect the town's most prized possession, a Magic Cookbook, from the hands of Copperpot.


La Pimpa
1983
country: Italy
Pimpa, a white female dog with red dots all over her body, who lives with her owner/father figure Armando, a plump moustached man who treats her like a daughter. Every day Pimpa goes through new adventures wheter it's in her house's surroundings or all over the world, or even in space, meeting old friends and making newers.


School for Vampires
2007
country: Germany
A vampire boy who can’t stand the sight of blood and who is, worst of all, in love with a human girl called Sunshine – the cards are stacked against Oskar, the vampire! His friends are shrill, charming, have names like Stoker, Gothetta, Klot, and Count Horrificus. All have one thing in common: They all are vampires and pupils.


The DaVincibles
2011
country: Australia
This zany cartoon comedy series is packed with funny and absurd characters in search of wild, slapstick action. 16-year-old Pablo DaVinci and his 15-year-old sister Zoe struggle to put aside their sibling rivalry as they travel the world with their crazy yet loveable Uncle Leo in search of rare and sometimes valuable artifacts to sell at Leo’s Kurious Kat antique shop. While on their adventures, the family frequently crosses paths with the most dementedly incompetent villains the world has ever known: The Society of Very Bad Villains (SVBV). Led by Quba, the Picasso-faced worst artist in the world, the SVBV, in order to attain world domination, must get this hilarious globetrotting trio out of the way.


Alice & Lewis
2020
country: France
Thanks to a magical key, six-year-old Alice travels to Wonderland, where she befriends Lewis the rabbit. Alice loves her adventures in Wonderland, even if she has to deal with the whimsical and hot-headed Queen.


In the Beginning: The Bible Stories
1992
country: Italy
In the Beginning features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon, with the final episode featuring the birth of Jesus Christ. As with the second Superbook series, some stories were stretched out over several episodes. Unlike Superbook and The Flying House, however, no contemporary characters from modern times were inserted into the stories, save for the series mascot and viewpoint character, Roco the fox.


Leo Da Vinci
2019
country: Germany
15 year old Leo and his friends Lollo and Lisa work on his ingenious inventions to help the city’s rulers, the Medicis, from the traps and ploys of a mysterious Conspirator.


Corto Maltese
2003
country: Italy
Elegant, daring, generous, Corto Maltese travels around the world wherever his current whim tales him. In every exotic locale his code of honor leads him to battle on behalf of the poor and the weak, battles he win due to his sparkling wit and daring.


Spike Team
2010
country: Italy
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Acqua in bocca
2007
country: Italy
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My 2 Cents
2026
country: Italy
When his friend Wild Boar lands himself in hot water with organized crime, Zero and the gang unite to save him while barely coping with their own lives.


PopPixie
2011
country: Italy
Protected and empowered by the magical Tree of Life, the miniature metropolis of Pixieville is home to a group of extraordinary little creatures.


This World Can't Tear Me Down
2023
country: Italy
When an old friend returns to the neighborhood, Zerocalcare wants to help him find his place back in the world. But what's the right thing to do?


Cattivik
2008
country: Italy
The misadventures of Cattivik, a nice and clumsy criminal always looking for something to steal.


Dinofroz
2012
country: Italy
The series depicts the adventures of Tom, a 12-year-old boy and his friends who, after playing a board game, are transported to a world where they can transform into dinosaurs using stones called Rockfroz.


Regal Academy
2016
country: Italy
Rose Cinderella is an average teenage girl who's as obsessed with shoes as she is fairy tales. But when she finds a key that unlocks a magical new world, she learns that fairy tales are not just in storybooks! When Rose tumbles into Fairy Tale Land, she discovers something even greater – her own magical family legacy! Her grandmother Cinderella is headmistress of Regal Academy, where five famous fairy tale families come together to teach the next generation of princes and princesses how to become heroes…with a lot of help from their legendary grandparents. Now Rose and her new best friends – Astoria Rapunzel, Joy Le Frog, Travis Beast and Hawk Snow-white – figure out how to fly dragons and outsmart witches, all while learning to use their magic and live up to their famous family names.


Simba: The King Lion
1995
country: Italy
After the lion king is shot by hunters, the other animals of the jungle decide to work together to raise his orphaned lion cubs, including his favorite son, Simba. Simba and his siblings end up being raised by a wolf along with a deer named Buckshot (changed from Bimbo to avoid being a walking copyright infringement), who had also previously lost his parents to hunters. It turns out the tiger Shere Khan was the one who arranged the death of Simba's father so he could be the king of the jungle, and he wishes to capture Simba with the help of his minions.
Italian television's international profile rests largely on crime — organized-crime sagas rooted in specific cities and their histories, made with unusual documentary texture.
Animated television covers everything from long-running adult satire to prestige anime. It's a format where a distinctive visual voice can survive far longer than in film, and where some of the sharpest writing on TV lives.