Cosy Corner

Cosy Corner (original: Le Nidouille) is French cartoon where first released on television on March 17, 2003 in France (Teletoon). There it was broadcast on France 5 in the children's block "Midi Les Zouzous" in 2004, and later on "Piwi +" in late 00s. Each episode lasts approximately 6 minutes and 30 seconds. Series has 52 episodes. The director of the series is Eric Cazes, the author of the series is Béatrice Marthouret and the author of the character design is Luis Zuazua. Each episode is a completely different story.

Plot
The action of the series takes place in the early 00s. Seven anthropomorphic animals (Stella the Mouse, Victor the Bird, Mario the Crocodile, Nina the Coyote, Louis the Owl, Jacky the Hedgehog and Margot the Frog) with different personalities and temperaments live in the branches of a large tree where they have their own dwellings. The characters do not always get along with each other when they are different, but they learn to respect and cooperate every day.

Broadcasts
In Poland (Uroczy Zakątek), on March 9, 2005, the series appeared for the first time as part of the children's program "bedtime story" at 7 p.m. Later, the episodes were released on DVD (similar to the French dub of the series on VHS and DVD) with re-dub.

In Ontario Canada, the series was aired on TFO's children's program, Mini TFO, possibly with English dub (which was made in France)

In U.K, the series was aired on Tiny Pop.

Slovenian dub (Dragi Domek) was aired on TV Slovenia.

The Arabic dub (Zawiat Aliasdiqa') has two variants: The first is from Karbala TV and Ajyal TV (legal dub) and the second is from Basma Channel (illegal dub). Both dubbings are quite heavily censored.

Serbian dub was broadcast in the Mini Ultra program. It was dubbed in Loudworks studio. Title of dub is unknown.

Controversy
Even though the series "Cosy Corner" was adapted to the age of preschoolers and primary school children (upwards), it had many controversial-fanservice moments;


 * Episode 1 presented discrimination against people with ADHD. The story of Nina, a hyperactive person with difficulties in calming down, is presented here. Louis can't stand Nina's behavior and they offend each other in a rather terrible way.
 * Episodes 2, 3, 11 featured racist themes. It's about the way in which the characters treat the character of Victor. This is cruel behavior and they discriminate against him only because he is younger than them. The third episode contained very sexist content (especially about men) which was censored in the Arabic dub. This was to be taken as a dirty joke.
 * For a split second, Episode 4 had brutal themes.
 * The most controversial episode was Episode 5, where propaganda topics was presented (probably based on North-Korean propaganda).
 * Episode 13, Margot the Frog scene featured semi-nudity covered with foam in the bathtub at the end.
 * Episode 25 featured dark humor depicting fake suicide.

Links
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI0Cq__WtXQ-fOojHdqyTEDEVGxZCnBkD Arabic Dub

https://chomikuj.pl/Dracena352/Dla+dzieci/Bajki/Uroczy+Zak*c4*85tek - Polish dub

Trivia

 * The series is still lost media. The episodes in French and part of Polish dub are rare and have never been published for many years. Most of the episodes have survived in Arabic and Islamic-Arabic.
 * The series has book adaptations about early episodes of series.
 * Some episodes of the series are extremely rare.