Si Nopal

Si Nopal is an animated comedy comic series created by Naufal Faridurrazak. The Si Nopal series premiered as a Facebook comic strip July 21, 2015 and has undergone various concept changes at the beginning of its publication.

Plot
In the initial version, the comic Si Nopal tells the personification of the comic artist named Si Nopal. This comic has a very simple premise, where the character Si Nopal comments on various phenomena of everyday life. As time goes by, the concept of Si Nopal's comic is growing with the addition of Si Nopal's family characters such as his father, mother and younger sister who is called Cute Girl or Cuty.

Then there are the addition of additional characters, especially on the web series, such as Uyah, Pak Guru, Milos (Si Cendol), Caty (The Cat), and others.

Web comics
The comic strip Si Nopal was first published on Si Nopal's Facebook page on July 21, 2015. At this point, the comic strip Si Nopal has very simple illustrations and is done completely digitally. Apart from Facebook, Si Nopal comics are also published on Instagram.

Since October 14, 2015, Si Nopal's illustration style has started to look more organic and manually drawn. At this point, the comic Si Nopal tried various approaches to the comic concept, from illustration design to character design. The concept that is now being used by the comic Si Nopal has already begun to appear in the comic strip which was published on January 2, 2017.

The official serialization of the comic Si Nopal began on May 9, 2017 under CIAYO Comics. Si Nopal's comics were published by CIAYO Comics until 2020, while the last upload of Si Nopal's comics via Facebook was on September 28, 2018. Si Nopal's official page was then directed to promote the animation of Nopal's animation.

Printed comics
The Si Nopal comic strip collection was collected and printed by the publisher Bukune. The book Si Nopal Comic Strip premiered on October 16, 2018.

Animation
Anima Si Nopal (written as animasinopal) is a web series created by Naufal Faridurrazak. The first episodes were first uploaded onto Facebook on June 25, 2017. Then it started to be uploaded onto YouTube on April 15, 2018. Later, videos were uploaded to Instagram on 13 August 2018 after the fourth episode of the web series was released.

Since 2019, animasinopal has become a popular web series in Indonesia and Malaysia. An animation with the title Strange Story While Camping premiered on January 22, 2019 and received more than 22 million views as of May 2019. Meanwhile, an animation entitled The Strange School Spirit Song premiered on February 9, 2019 and gained more than 24 million views as of May 2019. The School Holiday Song episode that aired on March 22, 2019 received more than 19 million views as of May 2019.

In April 2019, the identity of the voice actor for the Cute Girl character was revealed, namely Nadiah Rifatum Mumtaz who is Naufal's own younger sister.