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There She Is!! (떳다 그녀!!)

There She Is!! (떳다 그녀!!) is a South Korean Flash web animation series produced by the studio SamBakZa, telling the story of a romance between Doki, a female rabbit, and Nabi, a male cat, in a society where love between different species is socially unacceptable. The five-part series premiered online in April 2003, won international awards at Brazil's Anima Mundi festival, and became one of the most-viewed and highest-rated animations on Newgrounds after its release there in 2004.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Five-part Flash original net animation (ONA), roughly 4 minutes per episode, with no dialogue²^•³
Run	April 20, 2003 to December 9, 2008, with a hiatus between episodes 2 and 3²^•¹
Studio	SamBakZa, a three-person team; based on the manhwa One Day by cartoonist Sogong, animated by Amalloc⁴^•⁵
Premise	Doki, a rabbit, falls in love with Nabi, a cat, in a world where cat-rabbit relationships are forbidden²
Awards	First place in both the Web Animation Professional Jury and Web Animation Audience divisions, plus the Special Award Anima Mundi Web, at Anima Mundi 2004 in Brazil⁴
Newgrounds record	First two episodes are the site's highest rated animations, at 4.38 and 4.43; the first episode has over 5.8 million views¹

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Premise and style

The series follows Doki, a cheerful female rabbit who falls for Nabi, a reserved male cat, at first sight and pursues him despite social norms that forbid relationships between species. Nabi initially resists and even tries to cure Doki of her feelings, but is gradually worn down by her persistence, and the story becomes an exploration of whether a connection can bridge a deep social divide.² As the couple dates in later episodes, they face open discrimination: Nabi is thrown out of a cafe and later jailed for dating a rabbit, Doki is attacked by anti-miscegenation protesters, and society polarizes into supporters and opponents of the relationship. The final episode offers neither full acceptance nor tragedy; the lovers never reach the escape they contemplate, but they choose to maintain their commitment while working within their community for change.⁶

The episodes contain no dialogue and are set to Korean indie rock and pop songs, one per episode: Witches' "떳다! 그녀!" (There She Is!) in episode 1, Bulldog Mansion's "Happy Birthday to Me" in episode 2, and Tabu's "월식" (Lunar Eclipse) in episode 4, among others.³ Commentators have noted the series' classic manhwa style elements and high-quality animation for Flash work.⁴

Interpretation and legacy

The series has been read as an allegory for prejudice and social conflict. Moviefone describes it as paying homage to the way the LGBT community has historically been treated,⁹ and the media scholar Grace Han of Stanford University discusses it alongside the later series Alien Stage as a viral Korean web animation that prominently features "sexual minorities" (songsosuja) and sought audiences outside Korea.¹⁰ An academic study of transcultural fandom treats the series as a case of fan communities forming across national, ethnic, and linguistic differences, noting that its fan board gradually became more Anglophone as the series climbed rankings on English-language hosting sites.⁶

Continuation. After HD versions of the original five episodes were uploaded to YouTube on December 28, 2015, SamBakZa launched an Indiegogo campaign on January 12, 2016 to fund a new episode.⁸ The resulting short, There She Is!! Another Step (떳다 그녀!! Another step), a 12-minute film centered on the three scruffy rabbit brothers known as the Jjintta-set and their history with discrimination, premiered on Newgrounds in August 2020 as a paid preview, was released on DVD in 2021, and became freely available on SamBakZa's YouTube channel on March 30, 2024.¹¹

Production and release history

The first episode was released on SamBakZa's website in April 2003 and uploaded to the Flash animation community Newgrounds on April 10, 2004.¹ According to Amalloc, the pilot was not originally intended as a series; it was expanded after the group received many positive reviews and messages from fans.⁵ The second episode, "Cake Dance," followed in February 2005, and the remaining three episodes, "Doki & Nabi," "Paradise," and "Imagine," were released between May and December 2008.⁵^•⁷ From the third episode onward, the Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency joined production, and distribution rights to the series were licensed to that agency.⁸^•⁴

Reception

The series drew positive feedback from South Korean online communities on its 2003 premiere and critical acclaim overseas after its Newgrounds release.¹ At the 2004 Anima Mundi festival in Brazil, the first episode won first place in both the Web Animation Professional Jury and Web Animation Audience divisions, as well as the Special Award Anima Mundi Web.⁴ On Newgrounds, every entry in the series won both the Daily Feature and the Weekly Users' Choice Award, and the first two episodes became the site's highest rated animations, with scores of 4.38 and 4.43; the first episode is among the site's most viewed, with over 5.8 million views.¹ On MyAnimeList, sources report different aggregate scores, 8.19 and 7.82.¹^•³

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Korean and East Asian web series

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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