Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City

Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City is an animated children's web series based on the Strawberry Shortcake franchise, produced by WildBrain Studios and aired on YouTube on September 18, 2021. The series follows an aspiring baker Strawberry who arrives in Big Apple City to get her big break and has adventures with new friends.

Synopsis
Strawberry travels to Big Apple City, where all the biggest names in baking go to get their break. Along with her cute cat, Custard, she teams up with her new friends – Orange Blossom, Lime Chiffon, Lemon Meringue, and Blueberry Muffin – as well as their lovable pets. Together, the entrepreneurial girls run their fabulous food trucks and enjoy daily adventures filled with laughter and singing as they strive to survive.

The show itself is implied to take place in the year 2323, though Prawbowo Muhammad is a peabrain who thinks it takes place in the "Far Future of 2323"

Main

 * Strawberry Shortcake (voiced by Ana Sani) is the main protagonist of the series who is an optimistic, kind, energetic and friendly girl who wants to become the best baker in the Berryworks factory and Big Apple City. She is mostly friendly with everyone and is good friends with Orange Blossom, Lemon Meringue, Lime Chiffon, Blueberry Muffin and everyone else. Her only enemies throughout the show in its first season are Bread Pudding, Raspberry Tart and Sour Grapes, who despise her and are the ones who tried to have Strawberry get kicked out of the Berryworks because she's not a talented baker just like her family. As of season two, the three of them are currently good friends with Strawberry too and are also reformed of their cruel actions that happened towards Strawberry throughout season one. Strawberry is also the leader of her and her friends' team, the Berry Besties and her new enemies throughout the show are the Purple Pieman (who's also the uncle of Sour Grapes) and Crabapple Jam (who's the new and current owner of the Berryworks factory) and her two associates who are also twins, Cheese Strudel and Cherry Streusel. She's the niece of her Aunt Praline and she also runs the baking food truck in the Berryworks, which is given to her as a gift by her aunt and also has a pet cat named Custard.
 * Orange Blossom (voiced by Bahia Watson) is Strawberry's athletic best friend who is energetic, kind, loves sports, and is a tomboy and she always helps Strawberry everytime whenever she needs help in her food truck or everything else that she needed for her baking business in the Berryworks too. She runs a smoothie stand in the Berryworks.
 * Lemon Meringue (voiced by Andrea Libman, reprising her role from Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures) is one of Strawberry's best friends who's a know-it-all and is also a tomboy like her friend Orange. She is also the best friend/partner of Lime Chiffon and she always helps Strawberry everytime whenever she needs help in her food truck or everything else that she needed for her baking business in the Berryworks too. She runs a lemonade-limeade truck with her best friend/partner, Lime Chiffon in the Berryworks and is also a professional mechanic who helps fix her friend, Strawberry's oven in her food truck whenever it catches a fire or accidentally explodes. She also fixes everything else in the Berryworks.
 * Lime Chiffon (voiced by Margaritta Valderrama) is another one of Strawberry's best friends who is sweet and kind and the best friend/partner of Lemon Meringue and she always helps Strawberry everytime whenever she needs help in her food truck or everything else that she needed for her baking business in the Berryworks too. She has two dads and she also runs a lemonade-limeade truck with her best friend/partner, Lemon Meringue in the Berryworks. She is also good friends with Bread Pudding.
 * Blueberry Muffin (voiced by Diana Kaarina) is another one of Strawberry's best friends who is spirited, calm and kind, and she always helps Strawberry everytime whenever she needs help in her food truck or everything else that she needed for her baking business in the Berryworks too. She has a spiritual mom and a younger brother and she also runs the ice cream shop in the Berryworks. She also has a sibling rivalry with her younger brother at times as he always tries to annoy her and her friends, but she loves him nonetheless.
 * Bread Pudding (voiced by Chirag Naik) is the main antagonist in the first season of the series, the protagonist in the second season and is Strawberry's former arch-enemy. He is a serious and also arrogant, selfish, rude and very strict and disciplined boy who works as the coordinator/overseer of the Berryworks and is good friends with Raspberry Tart and Sour Grapes as they also work for him and is the one who wants and tries to have Strawberry to be kicked out of the Berryworks because she's not a talented baker just like her family. He always tries his best to be better than Strawberry at everything along with the help and assistance of his two friends, Raspberry and Sour, who helps him in his schemes too, but always fails and as Strawberry always tells them that she's unbeatable. At the end of season one and as of season two, he, alongside his two friends, Raspberry and Sour become good friends with Strawberry, and also becomes good friend with Lime Chiffon at the end of season one and as of season two. As of season three, he still works at the Berryworks as the factory's main coordinator/overseer and is joined by two other coordinators/overseers who are twins and are also very strict just like him, Cheese Strudel and Cherry Streusel and he also works for the current and new owner of the Berryworks, Crabapple Jam too. He's also the son of the Berryworks' original owner, Figgy Pudding.
 * Raspberry Tart (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain)
 * Sour Grapes (voiced by Meg Roe)
 * Huckleberry Pie (voiced by Vincent Tong) is Strawberry's crush who works as a street musician in the Big Apple City and loves playing his guitar. He tries to get everyone in Big Apple City to tip him and to listen to his music, but it never works at times though.

Production
When Iconix Brand Group purchased the Strawberry Shortcake brand assets from American Greetings in February 2015, until the Canadian company WildBrain (known at the time as DHX Media) acquired the band from Iconix in May 2017, the Strawberry Shortcake series was originally revealed and developed on June 30 of the same year. Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City premiered on September 18, 2021 on YouTube.

A second season premiered on June 25, 2022.

A third season premiered on July 15, 2023 on the official Strawberry Shortcake YouTube channel.

Broadcast
After debuting on YouTube, the series aired on the Canadian children's channel Family Jr., starting on October 17, 2021. The series was released on Netflix, on April 15, 2022 in all countries. In the United Kingdom, the series premiered on Tiny Pop on March 7, 2022.

Home media and streaming services
With several other WildBrain properties, Berry in the Big City was added to Netflix on September 21, 2022, in the United States.

NCircle Entertainment has the DVD rights for the series in Region 1. The series' first three seasons have been released in DVD box sets.