historietas assombradas
Haunted Tales for Wicked Kids (Historietas Assombradas para Crianças Malcriadas in Portuguese), or Haunted Tales, is a Brazilian animated television series produced by Cartoon Network Brazil. The series chronicles the adventures of Pepe and his friends in a dark world filled with sinister creatures and monsters.
The series revolves around the adventures of Pepe, a wicked boy who lives in a dark mansion with his grandmother, a witch who works selling artifacts and magic potions on the internet. She always send her grandson to deliver them. In each episode, Pepe and his friends (Marilu, Roberto, Guto and Gastón) undergo supernatural adventures facing various monsters
On 2 November 2017, Copa Studio, Vitrine Filmes and Glaz Entretenimento presented a film adaptation based on the show that released in cinemas, titled "Historietas Assombradas - O Filme" (lit. Haunted Tales: The Movie). When Pepe discovers that he is adopted and that his parents are alive, he decides to go out on a quest in search of them.
Characters
- Maria Lourdes "Marilu" da Silva (voiced by Iara Riça) - Pepe's best friend and partner. She assists Pepe in his supernatural adventures, often getting the group into more trouble before saving the day. She has a crush on Pepe and Mario.
- Peperoni Von "Pepe" Kittenberg III (voiced by Charles Emmanuel) - A troublemaker and rude boy with spiky red hair who works as a delivery boy for his grandmother. He is always getting into mischief and causing problems, facing all the monsters and mythical beings that appear in his town, almost always through his fault. Pepe's friends are Marilu, Guto, Gastón and Roberto who often follow in the supernatural adventures.
- Ramona Bravaria de Lemornio "Vó" Peperonito (voiced by Nádia Carvalho) - Pepe's grandmother with whom he lives in his dark mansion. She is a wicked old witch who lives experimenting with their cats and sells potions using his grandson as a delivery boy. In one episode it is revealed that she is the older sister of Lady Death.
- Guterico "Guto" Flores and Gaston de la Fleur (voiced by Oberdan Junior and Luis Sérgio Vieira) - Conjoined twin brothers who have two heads together on the same body. Guto tends to be nicer while Gaston is mean and rude.
- Beto "Roberto" Massa (voiced by Charles Emmanuel and Rodrigo Antas) - A tall, muscular boy. He studies in the same room with Pepe and his friends despite being slightly larger than them. He is always dressed in a varsity jacket and has a quiff.