This show knows how to make you feel safe the moment the opening plays. Every episode slots a small, genuine moment of connection between characters into a familiar adventure shape, and somehow that's enough to make you keep coming back, even when the plot is doing the same thing for the fifth time. The soundtrack alone carries you through, but it's really the character animation that does the work, these kids' faces say everything, and the show trusts that to be enough. It's a Saturday morning cartoon that remembers what that actually means: a place to spend time with people you're starting to care about, not a story that needs to prove itself every week.

Prince Pietro, heir to the kingdom of Popolocrois, is half human and half dragon. The villain GamiGami makes another attempt to seize the kingdom, and fails as he always does. Soon afterward a mysterious girl called Hyuu turns up in the forest close to Popolocrois Castle. Her appearance sets Pietro, his friend Narcia the witch, and the rest of their companions off on a new fantasy adventure. The story picks up after the events of the first Popolocrois game.