Vamos Brincar com a Turma da Mônica (or Let's Play with Monica and Friends) is a Brazilian computer-animated television series created by Mauricio de Sousa and based on his Monica and Friends comic books. Produced by Mauricio de Sousa Produções, with animation studio Hype Animation and co-production with Gloobinho, originally debuted on the Giga Gloob app on October 12, 2022,[1][2] with the end of the app, were released on Globoplay on July 11, 2023 and ended on December 19, 2024. With 52 episodes, it is a reimagining of the central characters from the Monica and Friends comic books in a preschool context.
On pay TV, the series has been shown on Gloobinho since October 12, 2023, and on the sister channel Gloob on January 6 and October 5, 2024.[3]
Monica, Jimmy Five, Milena, Maggy and Smudge are five very close friends, all four years old. They get together every day at Monica's house to play together while their parents work. Together, the children experience joy and conflict, filled with laughter, games and lots of music, proving that every good story needs a great beginning!
Between little adventures in the backyard, activities in the playroom and unexpected discoveries about how the world works, the beginning of the little gang's life is observed, narrated and commented on by Samson, Monica's pet stuffed rabbit. Not only can he talk, but he also talks to the audience and mediates debates on the topic of the day with three other children of the same age group: Jeremiah, Denise and Nick Nope. Each of them always brings a particular way of thinking about each subject.
Revealed to the public with a teaser released during the Comic Con Experience in São Paulo in 2017,[4] Vamos Brincar is, in the words of Mauricio de Sousa, "a program aimed at very young children, aged two or three years old, and It shows, for example, Monica learning to walk and play alone and starting to form the personality of Monica from the comics that everyone already knows."
In 52 episodes and 7 minutes, animated in 3D CGI by the Hype Animation studio, Monica, Jimmy Five, Smudge, Maggy and Milena are presented at the age of 4, in various games under the supervision of the rabbit Samson. Initially announced for release on the paid channels Gloob and Gloobinho in 2020,[5] the first episodes of the production were made available on the Giga Gloob app on October 12, 2022.[6]
On July 11, 2023, the first ten episodes of the first season were made available in the Globoplay catalog.[7] The second part, with 16 episodes, was released on the platform on October 12, the same day the series debuted on the Gloobinho channel.[3]
On July 23, 2024, the series was renewed for a second season, which would premiere on August 20, with 13 episodes.[8][9] Divided into two parts of 13 episodes each, it was released on Globoplay on August 20 and December 19 of the same year.[10][11]