OwlStarZ: CrossMore Alternate Dimensions

***OwlStarZ: CrossMore Alternate Dimensions*** *(**アウルスターズ -クロスモア アルテネット ティメンションス-**, AuruSutaazu -Kurosumoa Arutenetto Dimenshonsu)* is an upcoming anime television series produced by Walt Disney Japan and Montalvo Media Group through its AkaKen production studio and animated by Studio Trigger and Wit Studio. This is the first series in the *CrossMore Alternate Dimensions* series of stand-alone projects separate from both previously established *CrossMore* shared universes.

The series, being a crossover of *Star vs. the Forces of Evil* and *The Owl House* created by both Daron Nefcy and Dana Terrace, is supervisingly directed by Tensai Okamura (The Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Exorcist) and co-directed by Yosuke Hatta (Ranking of Kings) and Yoshiyuki Kaneko (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners) from a story by Aaron Montalvo, John Bailey Owen (The Owl House), Jeremy Adams (Monkie Kid), Akira "Mark" Fujita (Mao-Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart) and Todd Casey (Star vs. the Forces of Evil) with action battle direction by Tetsuro Araki (Attack on Titan S1-3, Death Note) and Hiroyuki Imaishi (Promare, Kill la Kill), series composition by Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass, Sk8 the Infinity) with co-operation by Bingo Morihashi (Devil May Cry series), character and creature concept designs by Yuki Kanamaru (More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers) and former DTVA artworkers Becky Dreistadt and Andy Garner-Flexer adapted by Mami Omori and Takumo Norita with animation direction from Trigger's Masaru Sakamoto and Yusuke Yoshigaki and Wit Studio's Kyoji Asano and Yasuyuki Ebara.

The series is set for a February 2024 release first on streaming through MontalVue and Disney+ worldwide (as well as Hulu in the United States, Star+ in Latin America before its merger with the latter service in Q4 2024 and Crunchyroll outside of Asia) before airing on Japanese television networks through AT-X and TV Tokyo, as being part of the Winter 2024 anime season. A "prelude" special episode is airing and streaming in November 17, 2023.

## About the Show

### Setting

The series takes place on Earth when the magic from both the Mewnian dimensions and the Boiling Isles were intertwined into both sides between the planet Earth, with the notion of humans living and co-existing with magical beings, demons, creatures and other mystical beings from both places outside Earth.

### Premise

Earth has earned a deal between the Demon Realm and the Magical Realm in order to bring a plethora of diverse task forces between magical and supernatural beings and experienced humans, known as part of the "Mewni Boil Sentai Project". Today, a modern day task force of the MBS Project set on Earth, consisted of young adults with experience in magic, fighting and co-operation, led by Star Butterfly and Luz Noceda and consulted by The Clawthorne Sisters and The Butterfly Monarch, will be dedicated to fight for magical and ordinary beings against the forces of evil, while hanging out with each other and the crew as best friends. Dark stuff will ensue in the future, somehow.

## Characters

### OwlStarZ Task Force

* Star Butterfly (CV: Sora Amamiya [Japanese]; Eden Sher [English]; Annie Rojas [Spanish])
* Marco Diaz (CV: Natsuki Hanae [Japanese]; Adam McArthur [English]; Miguel Angel Leal [Spanish])
* Luz Noceda (CV: Kana Hanazawa [Japanese]; Sarah-Nicole Robles [English]; Mireya Mendoza [Spanish])
* Amity Blight (CV: Haruka Tomatsu [Japanese]; Mae Whitman [English]; Nycolle Gonzales [Spanish])
* Hunter Deamonne (CV: Mamoru Miyano [Japanese]; Zeno Robinson [English]; Arturo Castañeda [Spanish])
* Gus Porter (CV: Yuki Kaji [Japanese]; Isaac Ryan Brown [English]; Ivan Bastidas [Spanish])
* Willow Park (CV: Akari Kito [Japanese]; Tati Gabrielle [English]; Angelica Villa [Spanish])
* Viney (CV: Natsumi Fujiwara [Japanese]; Ally Maki [English]; Alondra Hidalgo [Spanish])
* Skara (CV: Ai Fairouz [Japanese]; Kimberly Brooks [English])
* Edric Blight (CV: Seiichiro Yamashita [Japanese]; Ryan O'Flanagan [English]; Emilio Treviño [Spanish])
* Emira Blight (CV: Ai Kayano [Japanese]; Erica Lindbeck [English]; Jessica Angeles [Spanish])
* Janna Ordonia (CV: Atsumi Tanezaki [Japanese]; Hayden Daviau [English]; Montserrat Aguilar [Spanish])
* Tom Lucitor (CV: Toshiki Masuda [Japanese]; Lucien Dodge [English]; Jose Luis Piedra [Spanish])
* Pony Head (CV: Touko Aoyama [Japanese])
* King Clawthorne (CV: Kosuke Okano [Japanese]; John Patneaude [English]; Luis Leonardo Suarez [Spanish])
* Vee Noceda (CV: Eri Kitamura [Japanese]; Michaela Dietz [English])

### MBS Committee

* Eda Clawthorne (CV: Sayaka Ohara [Japanese]; Wendie Malick [English]; Alicia Barragan [Spanish])
* Lilith Clawthorne (CV: Mamiko Noto [Japanese]; Cissy Jones [English]; Rosalba Sotelo [Spanish])
* Raine Whispers (CV: Mitsuki Saiga [Japanese]; Avi Roque [English])
* Darius Deamonne (CV: Akio Otsuka [Japanese]; Keston John [English])
* Moon Butterfly (CV: Masako Katsuki [Japanese]; Grey DeLisle [English])
* River Johansen (CV: Masashi Ebara [Japanese]; Trevor Devall [English])
* Eclipsa Butterfly (CV: Ryoka Yuzuki [Japanese])
* Globgor (CV: Junichi Suwabe [Japanese]; Alejandro Saab [English]; Omar Soto [Spanish])

### Villains

* Phillip B. Wittebane (CV: Tomokazu Seki [Japanese]; A.J. Locascio [English])
* Odalia Blight (CV: Keiko Nemoto [Japanese]; Rachel McFarlane [English])

### Other Characters

* Rafael Diaz (CV: Toru Nara [Japanese]; Artt Butler [English])
* Angela Diaz (CV: Kei Kobayashi [Japanese]; Nia Vardalos [English])
* Camila Noceda (CV: Minami Takahashi [Japanese]; Elizabeth Grullon [English])

## Episodes

*Main article: OwlStarZ: CrossMore Alternate Dimensions/Episodes*
There will be a total of 16 half-hour episodes set to be released on streaming and on television every week. However, it is planned for more seasons after the first arc. It will be streaming worldwide on MontalVue and on Disney+, with the latter having an one-app experience merged with Hulu in 2024 in the United States, while outside of the US, Disney+ will stream the series through the Star hub and in Latin America it will be streaming on Disney+ as well.

Hulu will also stream the series in the United States (before a decision to shut down after Disney buying the remaining stake of Hulu from Comcast in December 2023) while Star+ will also stream the series in Latin America alongside Disney+ until both services are merged unto Disney+ LatAm in the second quarter of 2024. Also, Sony announced that the series will be streaming on Crunchyroll alongside MontalVue and Disney+.

The series will be released first in Japanese with the English and Spanish dubs (produced by Studiopolis and AkaKen USA and Taller Acustico under Disney Character Voices International S.A.) coming three weeks later while future international dubs will come later around during and after the show's run. Before the series begins, a prelude episode directed by Okamura and written by Okouchi and Morihashi is released on November 17, 2023.

For home video releases, Discotek Media, in partnership with Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Montalvo Home Entertainment (the latter of which has struck a new deal with Discotek for AkaKen physical media releases past and present) has licensed the home video rights for the series.

## Other Media

### Manga

Kodansha will publish the manga, written by Kentaro Yasui and illustrated by Yu Wazu. The manga series will be published under Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine. Kodansha Comics, in partnership with Disney and Montalvo Media Group, licenses the worldwide rights to the manga series.

## Music

* Music by: Akihiro Honda (Cygames) & Kenta Matsukuma
* Music Production: Sony Music Japan (in partnership with Walt Disney Records)
* Opening Themes:
	+ Beginnings Arc / Season 1: Daydream Believer (***デイドリーム ビリーヴァー**, Deidoriimu Biriiuaa*) by FLOW x Orange Range (SACRA MUSIC)
* Ending Themes:
	+ Beginnings Arc / Season 1: New World Symphony (***新世界交響楽**, Shin Sekai Kōkyōgaku*) by Sayonara Ponytail (SME Music)