Category: Television (Page 17 of 66)

‘Rick and Morty: The Anime’ Official Trailer #2: Spin-Off Series Coming to Adult Swim and HBO Max

August 13, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: August 15, 2024 on Adult Swim. Next day on HBO Max. The Japanese version, with English subtitles, premieres August 17, 2024.

Synopsis: In this 10-episode anime series from the world of Rick and Morty, Rick relaxes in a pseudo-world between multiverses, Summer helps Space Beth fight the evil Galactic Federation, and Morty falls in love with a mysterious girl who happens to be an atemporal being.

English voice cast:
Joe Daniels as Rick
Gabriel Regojo as Morty
Joe Daniels as Jerry
Donna Bella Litton as Summer
Patricia Duran as Beth

Japanese voice cast:
Youhei Tadano as Rick
Keisuke Chiba as Morty
Akiha Matsui as Summer
Manabu Muraji as Jerry
Takako Fuji as Beth

‘Win or Lose’ Teaser Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis and Cast List: Will Forte Stars In Pixar’s Disney+ Original Series

August 11, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: February 19, 2025 on Disney+.

Synopsis: Win or Lose, Pixar Animation Studios’ first-ever original series, follows the Pickles, a co-ed middle school softball team, in the week leading up to their championship game.

Each episode offers a look inside the off-the-field life of a character—a player, their parent, the umpire—revealing their funny, emotional and always relatable point of view in a unique visual style.

‘Rising Impact’ Season 2 Official Trailer: The Battle for the Camelot Cup Heats Up In Netflix’s Golf Anime

August 7, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: August 6, 2024 on Netflix.

Synopsis: Golf prodigy Gawain and Camelot Academy’s Japan team take on gifted young golfers from the U.K. and U.S. schools in the coveted Camelot Cup.

Over the course of two seasons, this series follows the growth of third-grader Gawain Nanaumi as he encounters the sport of golf and competes with his rivals.

Rising Impact, the first serialized manga by Nakaba Suzuki, author of hit series The Seven Deadly Sins, began its run in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998.

‘Dora’ Official Season 2 Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis and Cast List: Bilingual Series Returns for 26 New Episodes

August 6, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: September 13, 2024 on Paramount+.

Synopsis: In the second season, Dora and her best monkey friend, Boots, encounter new challenges, overcome tricky obstacles, and explore new fantastical territories. Kids will join Dora on her journey as she meets new friends and helps others, learning inspiring lessons through catchy songs and nonstop laughter.

Disney’s ‘Kindergarten: The Musical’ Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis and Cast List

August 5, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: September 3, 2024 on Disney Jr., with 10 episodes premiering the following day on Disney+.

Synopsis: Kindergarten: The Musical follows 5-year-old Berti who, along with her new friends, is navigating all the exciting and emotional experiences that come with starting school for the very first time.

The series takes place in a kindergarten classroom at Porter Elementary and features fantastical Broadway-style song and dance numbers that help the kids express their big feelings and provide a peek into their incredible imaginations.

‘Sakamoto Days’ Official Teaser Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis, Cast and Poster

August 4, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: January 11, 2025 on Netflix.

Synopsis: Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld. He’s running a neighborhood store with his lovely wife and child and has gotten a bit out of shape. But one day a figure from his past pays him a visit with an offer he can’t refuse: return to the assassin world or die!

‘Terminator Zero’ Official Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis and Cast List: Netflix Anime Takes Franchise In A New Direction

August 1, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: August 29, 2024 on Netflix.

Synopsis: 2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity.

Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity.

As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.

Voice cast:
Timothy Olyphant (Terminator)
André Holland (Malcolm Lee)
Rosario Dawson (Eiko)
Ann Dowd (The Prophet)
Sonoya Mizuno (Kokoro)

Created and executive produced by Mattson Tomlin. Directed by Masashi Kudo. Animated by Production I.G.

‘Solar Opposites’ Season 5 Official Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis and Poster: Korvo, Yumyulack, Terry and Jesse Are Back

July 29, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: August 12, 2024 on Hulu.

Synopsis: Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens who are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome.

Korvo (Dan Stevens) and Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone) only see the pollution, crass consumerism, and human frailty while Terry (Thomas Middleditch) and Jesse (Mary Mack) love TV, junk food and fun stuff.

On season 5, now that alien mission partners Terry and Korvo are married, the whole Solar Opposites team are focused on family values.

‘Creature Commandos’: Teaser Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis and Cast List for New James Gunn Series

July 28, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: December 5, 2024 on HBO Max.

Synopsis: Creature Commandos tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails… they’re your last, worst option.

Voice cast:
Steve Agee as Economos
Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana
Anya Chalotra as Circe
Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky
Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr.
Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel
David Harbour as Frankenstein
Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus
Indira Varma as The Bride
Viola Davis as Amanda Waller

Written and executive produced by James Gunn.

‘Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance’ Official Trailer #2: Limited Series From the Writer of ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man’ Coming to Netflix

July 27, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: October 17, 2024 on Netflix.

Synopsis: Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance is composed of six 30-minute episodes focusing on the European front of the One Year War, which was the setting of the first Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam.

The series is written by Gavin Hignight, who wrote the animated series Tekken: Bloodline and Transformers: Cyberverse, as well as the video game Marvel’s Spider-Man and is directed by Erasmus Brosdau, who has worked on the animated series Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness and the video games Star Citizen, Ryse: Son of Rome and Crysis.

‘My Deer Friend Nokotan’ Official Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis, Poster and Cast List: Oshioshio’s Manga Gets Anime Adaptation

July 21, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: July 7, 2024 on Prime Video, Crunchyroll, ADN and Anime Onegai, among others.

Synopsis: No one knows Torako used to be a delinquent. All of her classmates only know her as the perfect student. But everything changes when Nokotan, a transfer student with antlers, enters her life.

Antlers aren’t the only thing strange about Nokotan. Her deer nose can sniff out Torako’s secret past! Whether it’s at school or the zoo, chaos follows this doe-eyed girl’s every step. Torako has so many questions! Is Nokotan a deer, a girl, or something in-between?

‘Dragon Ball DAIMA’ Official Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis and Poster: Goku, Vegeta and Piccolo Return for a Great Adventure

July 20, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: October, 2024.

Synopsis: Due to a conspiracy, Goku and his friends are turned small. In order to fix things, they’ll head off to a new world! It’s a grand adventure with intense action in an unknown and mysterious world. Since Goku has to make up for his petite size, he uses his Nyoibo (Power Pole) to fight, something not seen in a long time.

‘Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures’ Season 2 Official Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis, Poster and Cast List

July 17, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: August 14, 2024 on Disney Jr. and Disney+.

Synopsis: Set 200 years before The Phantom Menace, during the High Republic era, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures follows Jedi younglings Kai Brightstar, Lys Solay, and Nubs as they study the ways of the Force, explore the galaxy, help citizens and creatures in need and learn valuable skills needed to become Jedi along the way.

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Season 2 follows the younglings as they continue their training and embark on even bigger missions across the galaxy. Helping to lead the younglings on these missions is Master Zia’s new Padawan, Wes Vinik, and his astromech R0-M1.

As they continue their training and grow in the ways of the Force, the young Jedi will travel to new planets with new and old friends and encounter adversaries like The Ganguls, who are growing in their pirate ranks.

‘Terminator Zero’ Official Teaser Trailer, Release Date, Synopsis and Cast List: Original Anime Series Coming to Netflix

July 16, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Release date: August 29, 2024 on Netflix.

Synopsis: 2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines.

1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity.

Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity.

As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.

Voice cast:
Timothy Olyphant (Terminator)
André Holland (Malcolm Lee)
Rosario Dawson (Eiko)
Ann Dowd (The Prophet)
Sonoya Mizuno (Kokoro)

Created and executive produced by Mattson Tomlin. Directed by Masashi Kudo. Animated by Production I.G.

Paramount and the Described and Captioned Media Program Form Partnership to Add Captions and Audio Description to Nickelodeon Series

July 15, 2024 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Paramount and the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) have announced a partnership that ensures hundreds of hours of Nickelodeon’s animated and live-action series will be accessible to families with young viewers and students with disabilities.

The multi-year agreement commences with several Nickelodeon series, including Bossy Bear, Tiny Chef Show, Blues Clues & You! and Santiago of the Seas and will include distribution via DCMP’s free streaming services for families and schools. Additional Nickelodeon series will be made available on DCMP’s services on a rolling basis through 2029.

The Nickelodeon series will air and stream with captions and audio description. Audio description is a secondary audio track with additional narration that provides access to key visual elements of a video for persons who are blind, without interfering with the audio or dialogue.

DCMP is providing audio description through a Television Access grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The purpose of the grant is to improve results for children with disabilities through support for the addition of audio description to widely available programs with educational value.