# Where to Watch Penguin Highway

**Penguin Highway streams on Crunchyroll — and free with ads on Tubi. A boy-genius investigates why penguins are appearing in his landlocked suburb — a whimsical sci-fi mystery that's smarter and stranger than its premise suggests.**

## Where to Watch

- [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/penguin-highway)
- [Tubi TV](https://tubitv.com/movies/590279/penguin-highway-english-dubbed)

Crunchyroll streams it, and Tubi has it free with ads — no excuse to miss this one.

## Synopsis

Fourth-grader Aoyama approaches everything like a researcher: notebooks, hypotheses, daily observations, and an unshakable certainty that he'll grow into a great man. His orderly world produces a genuine anomaly when penguins start materializing in his inland suburb — and the trail leads to the cheerful young woman at his dentist's office, who can apparently create them out of thin air. What starts as a comedy of a small scientist with a big crush escalates into real, reality-bending science fiction, with an emotional undertow about growing up that arrives exactly when you've stopped expecting it.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** MOVIE
- **Episodes:** 1
- **Premiered:** 2018
- **Studio:** wit studio, studio colorido co., ltd.
- **Score:** 7.4

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## FAQ

### Where can I watch Penguin Highway?

It streams on Crunchyroll, and free with ads on Tubi.

### Is Penguin Highway a kids' movie?

Kids will enjoy it, but it's really an all-ages sci-fi mystery — the ideas and the ending resonate hardest with older viewers.

### Is it based on a novel?

Yes — it adapts a beloved Tomihiko Morimi novel, and it keeps his signature mix of whimsy and melancholy.