Brave Animated Series
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| Genre | Action Adult animation Adventure Comedy drama Fantasy |
| Based on | Brave Series by Yellow Book |
| Developed by | Yang Zi Ting Wang Wei Xiu |
| Written by | Yang Zi Ting |
| Directed by | Yang Zi Ting |
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| Theme music composer | LION |
| Composer | WeiFan Chang |
| Country of origin | Taiwan China |
| Original language | Chinese |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Producer | Wang Wei Xiu |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Public Television Service |
| Release | 4 July 2021 – present |
Brave Animated series (Chinese: 勇者動畫系列 Pinyin: Yǒngzhě dònghuà xìliè lit. 'Brave Animation Series') is a Taiwanese black comedy fantasy animated series based on the comic book series of the same name, created by Yellow Book, is produced by Big Cat Studio in association with Aries Creative and Public Television Service. The series is set in a RPG fantasy video game-like World, where a group of heroes who want to stop the evil forces of the Demon Kingdom, only for realize that they are not in the right side of justice.
The series was originally scheduled to be released on June 13, 2021 on Public Television, but due the COVID-19 Pandemic it was delayed to July 4[1], additionally, the series was released in MyVideo on August 1, and in LineTV in Taiwan and Worldwide on Netflix on September 1, 2021[2] [a] ,the series received positive reviews by the critics, who praised the story, the animation and his comedy.
A second season is set to be released in some point of 2025.
Plot
[edit]In a World of Fantasy, exist three races, Humans, Demons, and Dragons, which are in constant conflict, for humans exist a group of warriors called "Braves", wich try to eliminate the grand demon king "Morewant", and send peace to the kingdom, a Newbie Brave tries to defeat the demons but when he discover than they are not evil beings, and the Braves are actually bloodthirsty warmongers who want to eradicate demon race for XP, decide to unite with the demon kingdom to stop them.
The series its a satire to the tropes of RPG games and fantasy media, where criticize the roles of heroes and villains and the human nature.
Voice Cast
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- Tseng Yun Fan as Main Brave: a Newbie who joins the Braves to take down the demons and restore peace, only to learn that he's not what people think he is.
- Yun Fan also voices Sick Demon: a little crazy creature wichi is one of the four general demon kings.
- Sun Ke Fang as Dragon Girl: an Human-Dragon Hybrid who is forced to join braves for protect his parents.[3]
- Fu Pin Cheng as Morewant:a brave and the eventual king of demons who needs to pay constantly the rent of the Morewant Tower.
- Huang Bai Wei also voice Fair Brave: the young brave version of Morewant and one of the guards of the old king before becoming the king of demons.
- Teng Wei Te as Water Demon: an anthropomorfic fish woman with hydrokinesis who is Morewant's second in hand and one of the four general demon kings.
- Chen Yan Jun as Fire Demon: an anthropomorfic fire cat with pyrokinesis who is one of the four general demon kings.
- kao Yun Shou as Goblin: a little gobling who wants to destroy all braves whit his partners Slime and Bunny.
- Jiang Qing Yan as Slime: a little slime wich is Goblin and Bunny partner.
- Jiang Du Hui as Bunny: an "elf" who is Goblin and Slime partner.[b]
- Meng Qing Fu as Superstar Brave: an narcissist brave who fights using a rapier wich also doubles as a Microphone.
- Niu Kai Yang as Dragon Slayer Brave: a fomer brave who protect dragons and is Dragon Girl's father.
- Xu Shu Bin as Blue Dragon: a dragon who fell in love with Dragon Slayer Brave and is Dragon Girl's mother.
- Shu Bin also voice a news reporter of the brave kingdom .
- Chen You Wen as Black Brave: an old and fierce brave who was one of the guards of the old king, After losing to Fair Brave, he stabbed himself with his own sword and recorded what happened live while recognizing the young Fair Brave as "The New Morewant."
- Liao Guo Jun as Loyal Brave: a brave who is very loyal with his king and who was Fair Brave's old friend. This is the first original charactes of the series.
- Wu Kang Ren as Chief Brave: Black brave's son and the current leader of the braves who follows the king's commands, also is the one in charge of receiving the monthly payment of the rent of the Morewant tower.[3]
- Mu Xuan Ming as Desire Queen: a succubus in a cheerleader outfit who is one of the four general demon kings and Chief Brave's Partner.
- Lin Kai ling as Despair Brave: a female general brave and Business King's consigliere.
- Huang Tzu jiao as Old Morewant: a peasant demon and the previous king of demons before Fair Brave who sacrificed himself to give him his powers.[3]
- Liu Kuan ting as First Brave: a bloodthirsty human who later becomes the first of the braves after killing a raid of dragons.[3]
- Sun Cheng as Business King: an oligarch who is the current king of the brave kingdom and the responsable of giving pay to the braves for killing demons.
- Cheng also voices Red Dragon: a formidable dragon who is Dragon Girl's uncle.
- Xu Huang Huang as War King: A warmongering king who after taking the old king place, he decided to eliminate all the demon race, he died after facing off Morewant in the last days of war
- Ma Guo Yao as Old King. The king before War King, who wanted peace between Humans and Demons, but he was slayed by a misterious demon. Leading his death into a war.
Episodes
[edit]| Season | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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| 1 | 6 | July 4, 2021 | July 16, 2021 | Public Television Service | |
| 2 | 6 | TBA | TBA | ||
As ofJuly 4, 2021, six episodes of Brave Animated Series have been released.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
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| 1 | 1 | "This Isn't Right" | Yang Zi Ting | Yang Zi Ting | July 4, 2021 | 1-01 |
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The Braves must kill the demon king Morewant to achieve peace, but unexpected news about the human king leads them to question their loyalties. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The way the world sees us…" | Yang Zi Ting | Yang Zi Ting | July 4, 2021 | 1-02 |
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Many years later, the Braves live off of taxpayer money and do easy kills to level up. Vowing to stop them, a goblin and a slime find help along the way. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "What other choices do I have?" | Yang Zi Ting | Yang Zi Ting | July 11, 2021 | 1-03 |
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The Braves and the dragons are at war. Two dragon parents attempt to rescue their daughter, who's been taken hostage. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Even though you're useless!" | Yang Zi Ting | Yang Zi Ting | July 11, 2021 | 1-04 |
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Goblin and Slime convince the young Brave terrorizing their village to join them as they set out to find a powerful weapon. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "We're the same…" | Yang Zi Ting | Yang Zi Ting | July 18, 2021 | 1-05 |
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Dragon Girl discovers the truth about the conflict between the Braves and the dragons. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Look what he's like now!" | Yang Zi Ting | Yang Zi Ting | July 18, 2021 | 1-06 |
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Morewant encounters an old friend and settles unfinished business from 20 years ago. | ||||||
Production
[edit]In 2018 the Ministry of Culture had raised funds for the creation of new animated series and adaptations of national comics and IP's, among the studios that participated in the external bidding process for the adaptations, in February 25, 2021 where the indie company Big Cat Studio announced an association with Yellow Book to produce an animated series of the comic book series "Brave Series"[4]. The series received a forward-looking budget subsidy of TWD44.2 million, of which 1 millionTWD was used for behind-the-scenes documentary shooting, having an average budget of 7.2 millionTWD per episode and being in production for over 2-3 years with the deconstruction and reorganization of the first 260 chapters of the original work into 6 episodes, with a writing period of about half a year.[5][6] In April 12, with a teaser of the main character, later on April 16, the official Facebook account announced that the first season has finished production and it was ready to be released.[citation needed]
Accolades
[edit]| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Nominated | Results | Ref. |
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| 57th Golden Bell Awards | October 22, 2022 | Best Animated Show | "Brave Animated Series" | Won | [7][8] |
| Best Sound Design (General Program) | Gao Wei Yan, Zhang Wei Fan, Lin Xie Zhong |
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Future
[edit]In July 25, 2021, in an interview with GGN Gamer, when they asked Wang Wei Xiu about the future of the series, he responded: "Of course I hope there will be a second season of animation! At present, the comic series of Yellow Book is still in progress. I hope everyone can support it. [...] As for peripheral products, there are currently some plans in progress, and we ourselves are looking forward to the actual products."[9]
After the success of the first season, in November 24, 2022 was announced that the series was renewed for a second season. Later on July 26, 2024, the official account announced that the season 2 is now in Post-Production and is set to release in some point of 2025.[citation needed]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Only in 190 countries around the world.
- ^ This was one of Du Hui last performances before she died in September 16, 2019 by Uterine cancer.
References
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- ^ 編輯, TNL (2021-07-02). "公視《勇者動畫系列》為動畫元年打頭陣，黃子佼與眾星出席線上記者會大談創作秘辛". The News Lens (in Chinese). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ a b c d 巴哈姆特. "黃色書刊《勇者系列》改編動畫年內大貓工作室製作推出 黃子佼參演配音". 巴哈姆特電玩資訊站 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2025-01-07.
- ^ 巴哈姆特. "黃色書刊《勇者系列》改編動畫年內大貓工作室製作推出 黃子佼參演配音". GNN Gamer (in Chinese). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ 楊政勳 (2021-06-16). "人氣台漫改編影集 《勇者動畫系列》斥資4,320萬高規格製作". Mirror Media (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "為四格漫畫添材加薪《勇者動畫系列》老讀者也能讀出新趣味". Mirror Media. June 17, 2021.
- ^ "111年度電視金鐘獎節目類得獎名單". Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development (in Chinese). 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "誰說台灣沒有好動畫 :《勇者動畫系列》《歐米天空》金鐘獎認證值得推薦的好動畫，你想當勇者還是飛上天空？". TNL Mediagene (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2022-10-26. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
- ^ 巴哈姆特. "重新定義勇者與魔王《勇者系列》動畫化 專訪原作黃色書刊、導演與製作人". GGN Gamer (in Chinese). Retrieved 2024-10-31.
External links
[edit]- Official PTS+ Page
- 勇者動畫系列 in Facebook (in Chinese)
- Brave Animated Series in IMDb
- Brave Animated Series in X
- Brave Animated Series in Netflix (archived)