Alternative Titles
Japanese: ใใณใฎใณใปใใคใฆใงใค
Spanish: Penguin Highway: El Misterio de los Pingรผinos
French: Le Mystรจre des Pingouins
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Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Aug 17, 2018
Source:
Novel
Duration:
1 hr. 57 min.
Rating:
PG - Children
Statistics
Score:
7.531 (scored by 3776637,766 users)
Ranked:
#2050 2
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Popularity:
#2316
Members:
104,607
Favorites:
365
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Ranked #2050Popularity #2316Members 104,607 For a child, Aoyama has knowledge comparable to an adult. As such, he is often teased by his classmates. He also has a crush on the friendly woman he recently met at a dental office. One morning, penguins start mysteriously appearing around his neighborhood. Nobody knows where they came from and how they managed to get there. Aoyama is determined to find out more, and he joins his new crush in researching the penguins.
As time passes, they discover a levitating sphere which they nickname "The Sea." Whatever goes into The Sea does not come back out, and the only things that can destroy it are the penguins. However, something horrifying is created when the penguins do...
Penguin Highway follows Aoyama and the woman's research on the mysterious penguins' origin, as well as the many difficulties Aoyama faces throughout his investigation.
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Mar 10, 2026
Penguin Highway is a highly watchable film. Smooth and enjoyable from start to end. Features many artistic and well-drawn stills. Chess sets and white roses and penguins and rainbows and splashing water and a rogue square of blue-wrapped chocolate.
The penguins of course are the main mystery of the film. Where did they come from and where are they going?
The only reason I wouldn't recommend this to mainstream film watchers is that the main relationship is kind of immature and puerile, like some weird ecchi mother-figure X child relationship where the kid is just becoming obsessed with boobs. Japanese anime watchers will have no problem with
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this but it is weird to the outsiders.
I mean it is really, really close. Penguin Highway is pretty good.
(Disclosure: I really, really like penguins but I tried to have as little penguin bias as possible in this review. Thank you for your understanding.)
Reviewerโs Rating: 7
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Jul 19, 2025
POLICE!! POLICE!! THIS WOMAN IS HERE TO MEET A TEN YEAR OLD BOY, I REPEAT THIS WOMAN IS HERE TO MEET A TEN YEAR OLD BOY!!! You had one job penguin highway, you had ONE FUC-
Animation. The animation is very amazing,mwah chef's kiss. The style, the ambience it's just... it's just so good it feels like they're trying to draw your attention from something, hmmmmm... oh yeah, trying to draw your attention from the fact that THE ADULT WOMAN GROOMED A TEN YEAR OLD BOY, yeah penguin highway you're not slick, I know why your animation's good, you might have tricked my good friend
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but you won't trick m- AWWWWW IS THAT A FACKING PENGUIIIIN!!! AN ARMY OF PENGUIIINS!!!!!? Animation's a 10 cause...penguin ๐ง
The story of penguin highway is very easy to follow, Aoyama,a smart kid feels he's to grown for his age, meets lady with with supernatural abilities and basically have an adventure. The characters however, I'm sure whoever made them was thinking with the wrong heart, I mean how can you tell me you made a boy that's smart borderline genius and quite frankly very relatable to extremely intelligent children, and then you go ahead and FACK it all up by making him a FACKING DEGENERATE,why just why, let's not forget the FACKING 20 SOMETHING YEAR OLD LADY who clearly knew the child was oogling her and instead of reprimanding him, she rather enables him, WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FU-
Oh but biggy it's a kid's show, don't read into it that much. A kid's show, A KID'S SHOW? Aight bet, reverse the roles real quick and instead of a boy ogling and think about breast 30mins a day, its now a ten year old girl who's obsessed with a 20 something year old man's VEINY ASS DI-. Not so kid friendly now is it. 7,story gets a 7
Overall if you're a fan of studio Ghibili styled animation you'dlike the style of this animation and if you like MEETING AND INVITINGTEN YEAR OLD BOYS you'llalso love this show, the art'sgood, story's not but fun to watch either way, 7. Babai
Reviewerโs Rating: 7
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Sep 28, 2019
I really disliked this movie. I merely thought it was disappointingly mediocre when I finished it a few weeks ago, but the more I've thought about it, the worse it's become.
Coming from someone who loves some of the previous works of the author (Tatami Galaxy, Uchouten Kazoku), I was pretty stoked for this. A more recent movie, The Night is Young, Walk on Girl wasn't my favorite anime movie of all time, but it had some decent pieces that was really just hampered by Yuasa's over indulgence in his artistic ego. I felt like a different director this time could really bring this movie to
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life. And I love penguins; they're cute!
Instead what I got was an incoherent plot, a vapid non-story that preys off people's inability to properly distinguish between an aesthetic story and a lousy package masquerading as such. It envelops itself with cute penguin art and good animation that laughably fails to mask its mediocre story and characters. The other parts of the movie are pretty unremarkable so while I wouldn't rate it any worse for its soundtrack or ideas, they certainly didn't add anything substantive.
But honestly, the worst part about this film isn't the fact that its characters are just archetypal cut outs, poor renditions of some of Tomihiko Morimi's better works, or that it was needlessly long for how little of a story there was, or that I even lost my fondness for the penguins over the course of the movie. No, the worst part is that the movie is littered with a very feeble and perfunctory "on the fence" optimistic sheen about life and its circumstances, excessively abusing this veneer of optimism to give it more substance than it really has. It doesn't help at all that the ending is a spoon fed moment where everything is left to one's interpretation, as if the movie didn't already need massive suspensions of disbelief to pass as a good film.
This isn't a knock against movies that attempt to be optimistic, mind you. There are plenty of great anime with a positive, comfy, and encouraging perspectives. Penguin Highway is not one of them.
It's just bad.
Reviewerโs Rating: 3
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