# Brave Animated Series

Brave Animated Series (Chinese: 勇者動畫系列 Pinyin: Yǒngzhě dònghuà xìliè lit. 'Brave Animation Series') is a Taiwanese comedy fantasy animated series based on the comic book series of the same name, created by Yellow Book. It 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 them to realize that they are not in the right side of justice.
The series premiered on July 4, 2024, on the Public Television Service, being delayed from its original June 13 premiere date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, it was released on Taiwanese streaming services MyVideo and Line TV. The show previously streamed internationally on Netflix. However, in 2024, due to the contract between them and the show's producers ending, it was taken off the platform. Full episodes have since been uploaded officially on YouTube.
Brave Animated Series received positive reviews by critics, who praised its story, animation and comedy. A second season has been commissioned and is set to release sometime in 2025.

## Plot

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", who 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 is a satire of the tropes of RPG games and fantasy media, where it criticize the roles of heroes and villains and human nature.

## Voice cast

* 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 is not what people think he is.
** Yun Fan also voices Sick Demon: a little crazy creature which is one of the four general demon kings.
* Sun Ke Fang as Dragon Brave: an Human-Dragon Hybrid who is forced to join braves for protect her parents.
* 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 which is Goblin and Bunny partner.
** Quin Yan also voices Sword Brave: a swordswoman catgirl brave who fights using a katana.
* Jiang Du Hui as Bunny: an "elf" who is Goblin and Slime partner.
* Meng Qing Fu as Superstar Brave: an narcissist brave who fights using a rapier which also doubles as a Microphone. His desing seems to be inspired in the American singer Elvis Presley.
* Niu Kai Yang as Dragon Slayer Brave: a former brave who protect dragons and is Dragon Brave's father.
* Xu Shu Bin as Blue Dragon: a dragon who fell in love with Dragon Slayer Brave and is Dragon Brave'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 characters 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.
* 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 advisor.
* 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.
* Liu Kuan ting as First Brave: a bloodthirsty human who later becomes the first of the braves after killing a raid of dragons.
* Sun Cheng as Business King: an oligarch who is the current king of the brave kingdom and responsible for 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 mysterious demon, his death leading into a war.

## Episodes

| Season | Episodes | Episodes | Originally released | Originally released | Originally released |
| Season | Episodes | Episodes | First released | Last released | Network |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | July 4, 2021 | July 16, 2021 | Public Television Service |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | TBA | TBA | Public Television Service |
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 |
| 1 | 1 | "This Isn't Right" | Yang Zi Ting | Yang Zi Ting | 4 July 2021 (2021-7-4) | 1-01 |
| 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 | 4 July 2021 (2021-7-4) | 1-02 |
| Many years later, the Braves live on 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 | 11 July 2021 (2021-7-11) | 1-03 |
| The Braves and the dragons are at war. Two dragon parents attempt to rescue their daughter, who has been taken hostage. |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Even though you're useless!" | Yang Zi Ting | Yang Zi Ting | 11 July 2021 (2021-7-11) | 1-04 |
| 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 | 18 July 2021 (2021-7-18) | 1-05 |
| 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 | 18 July 2021 (2021-7-18) | 1-06 |
| Morewant encounters an old friend and settles unfinished business from 20 years ago. |||||||

## Production

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, on 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". 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. 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.

## Music

WeiFan Chang, who also composed the soundtrack from games like Detention and the single RE:IGNITE, was hired to compose the score fo the series, for the soundtrack, Chang take some inspiration of teh sounds of some 80's and 90's videogame consoles, alongside the sound design of a Gameboy (more specifically the Game Boy Advance), additionally, the main theme "The Demon King and the Brave." was composed by Mayday's singer Ashin as the music coordinator in association with the Taiwanese band LION. also the score include songs like "An adventure that cannot be reborn" by Meixiu Group, "World Records" by Wonfu, "Love Method" by Gugu Lu Siwei and Wei Jiaying and "Better Place" by EggPlantEgg.

## Accolades

| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Nominated | Results | Ref. |
| 57th Golden Bell Awards | October 22, 2022 | Best Animated Show | "Brave Animated Series" | Won | |
| 57th Golden Bell Awards | October 22, 2022 | Best Sound Design (General Program) | Gao Wei Yan, Zhang Wei Fan, Lin Xie Zhong | Nominated | |

## Future

On July 25, 2021, in an interview with GGN Gamer [zh], when they asked to Wang Wei Xiu if there are any plans for 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."
After the success of the first season, on 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.