Shuriken Academy

Shuriken Academy is an upcoming Mexican-American animated series aired on 2025. It was the American co-production with DreamWorks Animation and the Mexican co-production with Little Witch Pictures (DreamWorks known for producing Chicken Run, Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda and Little Witch known for producing Guardians, Bad Cat Serafín, Kung Fu Wa! and Little Witch Academia) in association with Netflix and NBCUniversal Syndication Studios.
==Characters==
===Main===
* Hayao Miyamoto (voiced by Chris Pratt) is a 13-year-old ninja student of the Shuriken Academy. Shigeru is intelligent, hardworking, and eager to learn. His dream since childhood is to become a ninja. It is hinted that he has a crush on Kiki. He was named after Shigeru Miyamoto from Nintendo and Hayao Miyazaki from Studio Ghibli.
* Kiki Kadono (voiced by Chloe Bennet) is a 13-year-old ninja student of the Shuriken Academy, and the only female member of the main group, also the most studious of them. She frequently cites examples from important lessons, and possesses great deductive skills and origami talent, and her weapon is a jump rope. She also has quite a short fuse, and has a crush on Hayao. She was named after the Studio Ghibli character Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service and the Japanese author Eiko Kadono.
* Zack Spielberg (voiced by Charlie Day) is an 13-year-old ninja student of the Shuriken Academy. He is originally from the Jewish family in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was named after the Mexican cartoonist Zack Isaac and the American filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
* Akuma "Aku" (voiced by Ken Watanabe) is a supernatural shapeshifting demon villain.
* Atsuko "Akko" Yoshinari (voiced by Kimiko Glenn) A bitter second-year student and she is a powerful and skilled ninja, but her anger keeps advancing further. This, combined with her great height, may mean that she has been held back for an unspecified amount of time. She may be named after Atsuko Kagari from Little Witch Academia and Yoh Yoshinari.
* Jesús Navarro (voiced by Anthony Ramos) a Mexican student who came to Shuriken Academy to hide from a vicious group, He is originally from Mexico City.
* Lucille Besson Lasseter Smith (voiced by Alice Isaaz) A rather confused young, British-French-American girl who believes Shuriken Academy is a diving school. French filmmaker Luc Besson whom he may be named after John Lasseter from Skydance Animation and Sarah Smith from Locksmith Animation.
* Principal Tsuki (voiced by George Takei) the principal is always worried about the school's funding and is also money-obsessed to the point.
==Movie==
A computer animated film, entitled The Shuriken Academy Movie, has been produced by DreamWorks Animation and Little Witch Pictures with the co-productions in the United States and Mexico. The film adaptation was distributed by Universal Pictures.
==Broadcast==
the series was the streaming service released on Netflix. produced by DreamWorks Animation, the animation studio counterpart subsidiary of NBCUniversal and Comcast. Little Witch Pictures reached a deal with DreamWorks Channel to distribute in Latin America.
Category:Netflix
Category:DreamWorks Animation
Category:Zack Isaac Sanchez Productions
Category:Mexican animated television series
Category:Netflix Original Series
Category:Netflix shows
Category:Ninjas
Category:Anime-influenced animation