The series is noted for its faithful portrayal of the gods of Mount Olympus as fallible beings succumbing to real human faults and weaknesses, such as selfishness, temper tantrums, debauchery, laziness, and vanity.

The main character of the story is Pollon, a sweet, precocious little girl who is the daughter of the God of the Sun, Apollo.

In addition to its success in Japan and the United States, Little Pollon has been a successful television program in France on La Cinq in the late 1980s under the title La Petite Olympe et les Dieux, with Pollon's name changed to "Olympe".

In Italy, the series was successfully broadcast in Italia 1, with the title C'era una volta... Pollon, and it has regular reruns.

The Little Pollon production team followed up the series in 1983 with another anime based on a Hideo Azuma manga, Nanako SOS.