CrossMore: The Series

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***CrossMore: The Series*** (also known as ***CrossMore: Unity*** in Season 3 and ***CrossMore: Infinity*** in Season 4) is an adult animated science fantasy action crossover television series produced by ABC Signature, Hollowfox Television Animation and MontalVerse Productions and Disney Television Animation and 20th Television Animation (starting with Infinity and Neverzone Apocalypse) and developed by Aaron Montalvo, Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz *(Tron: Legacy, Once Upon a Time)* as a crossover between *Star vs. the Forces of Evil*, *Gravity Falls* and *Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja*, and later on *The Simpsons*, *The Owl House*, *Big City Greens* and *Amphibia*, as well as Marvel and Disney legacy characters.

The animation is made by Rough Draft Studios and Sugarcube (as of Season 3+) with Japanese animation studio Bones co-operating with the series overseas alongside RDS Korea and Sugarcube. The series premiered on Atomix Central (Montalvo Xtreme as of June 2020) on May 24, 2019, on the Chromix block as an HCN/Montalvo Original Series (branded as HCNOG, Now a Montalvo Original), months after the 6-episode series kickstart event, which it's released on November 24, 2018. This marks the first series of the *CrossMore Universe* media franchise and established shared universe.

The series is rated TV-14 in the first episodes, and TV-MA in some previously run and future episodes.

## About the Show

The series is considered adult-animated and considered as a time skip series, and due to this, the characters will be older than their original counterpart. This makes it the first Disney Television Animation series for adults in years since Clerks: The Animated Series and The PJs.

Disney and Hollowfox Entertainment planned the project back in 2016 as an anime series, but it was delayed until the reveal in July of 2018 with a cartoon series and two anime series. All of the projects are considered "alternate continuities" as similar to one of Aaron Montalvo's series, Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X, an "alternate sequel" to Littlest Pet Shop (2012).

RC9GN creators Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas (Raven's Home, Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated), are involved with the series as executive story editors alongside Shion Takeuchi (Gravity Falls, Regular Show, Disenchantment), and David H. Goodman (Once Upon a Time). Elinoff and Thomas are also the executive producers alongside the show's developers such as Kitsis, Horowitz, Montalvo, series supervising director Rob Renzetti (Gravity Falls, Big City Greens), Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch (Fish Hooks), and Star vs. the Forces of Evil creator Daron Nefcy.

Hirsch, Nefcy and Invader Zim creator Jhonny Vazquez will provide the character concept designs for their respectful characters from their shows while Stephanie Ramirez adapts them for animation as a character designer supervisor.

The show will be animated by Rough Draft Studios (Futurama, Disenchantment) and Bones (Fullmetal Alchemist, My Hero Academia) with Bones and RDS Korea outsourcing animation overseas. Claudia Katz and Masahiko Minami will be the animation executive producers while Renzetti, Rie Koga (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Voltron: Legendary Defender) and Stephen Sandoval (Rick & Morty, Tangled: The Series) will be the supervising directors.

However, on September 28, Renzetti left Disney Television Animation after working on the six-part event and Big City Greens, with Sandoval and Koga, still remaining as the supervising directors and the former being an executive producer. Renzetti is still credited for the six-part event only after his confirmation of his departure at DTVA a week later on Twitter.

Around 2018, Disney Animation member and animator Rich Moore (Wreck-It-Ralph, Zootopia, Futurama) is involved in the series with Disney, the series' crew and Rough Draft Studios. Moore will join Bisignano and Hammersley as a supervising producer and a creative co-director alongside Montalvo.

After the end of the production for the first season, Rich Moore will not return to the series after he confirmed to leave Disney to work at Sony Pictures Animation. However, he will be a creative consultant in the series.

While Caitlin Alexander remained as line producer for the rest of Season 1, voice actor Tyson Rinehart is set to replace Alexander as line producer starting with Season 2 and voice assistant director due to Alexander being passed away in 2019. The series has been renewed for a 26-episode second season premiered on April 6, 2020.

The series is now renewed for another 26-episode season set to air in April 2020 alongside a crossover event with Hasbro's Humanoidverse and a prequel-driven 6-part miniseries called *CrossMore Zero*.

Ahead of the second season's premiere, it has been renewed for a third season with plans for additional characters from other shows (planned with The Owl House, Amphibia) to be in the series' main roster. It starts around Summer 2021. In December 2020, it has been announced that the characters from Big City Greens will also be appearing in both CrossMore (starting with S3) and CrossMore B.A.

It has been announced that Eden Sher, the voice of Star Butterfly, is set to produce the series starting with Season 3, joining Ash, Hammersley, and Olson, with her husband Nick Cron-DeVico set as executive story editor and producer. Eric Kaplan is set to replace Mark Rizzo as a producer as well.

In October 2020, it has been titled CrossMore: The Series - Unity with a release of June 2021. Later this month, it was pushed forward for a release of the middle of May 2021 with expansion from 26 to 30 episodes. One episode will be a "genderswap" episode with a new cast set to play the character's genderswapped counterparts.

Due to a structure in Montalvo Corporation, leading to Brian Ash becoming head of storytelling and VP of development for Montalvo Media, including Hollowfox Entertainment and FH Enterprises, Ash is now the series' co-executive producer alongside Hirsch, Nefcy, Dana Terrace, Elinoff and Thomas. Dana Terrace will be the consulting director starting with Season 3.

Former Hasbro executive Eliza Hart (who joined Hollowfox Entertainment as a producer of Animation after leaving Hasbro in 2019 amid MLP's end and eOne acquired by the company) joins Olson, Kaplan, Sher, and Cron-DeVico as producers.

Alan Wan will replace Rie Koga as supervising director (after Koga's departure and new tenure at Netflix) starting with the series' third season. Later on, Sugarcube will join the animation production alongside Rough Draft and Bones starting with Season 3. After the first two episodes of the fourth season, Sandoval will be the sole supervising director.

As Disney relaunched 20th Television Animation as an adult-oriented unit and complement to Disney TVA, The series will move to 20th Television Animation starting with the series' fourth season and the miniseries, CrossMore: Neverzone Apocalypse. However, the cast and crew will remain as DTVA will collaborate with 20th. Sher and Cron-DeVico are set to be promoted to co-executive producers starting with Season 4 and Neverzone Apocalypse, with Sib Ventress set to be the series' supervising producer alongside Kaplan.

The fourth season, set to be the series' last, will be aired in three parts, one of 26 episodes while two parts will be 16 episodes, and the series will conclude with a second Avengers x CrossMore event and a third theatrical CrossMore feature film. Later in SDCC 2023, the final 16 episodes has been surprisingly announced to be a set of 16 full-hour episodes set for a Spring 2024 release, later revealed to be March 1st, 2024.

### Multilanguage Release

For the Spanish dub of the series, instead of being dubbed in Argentina, the series is dubbed in Mexico at Taller Acustico SC (a dubbing studio in Mexico City, Mexico primary for Disney productions), as the developer would love it to be dubbed in Mexico because people like Mexican Spanish dub better than Argentine ones. So far, the only voice actor to reprise its role as Howard Weinerman is Gabriel Ramos, since he returned to Mexico after his work in Argentina.

In 2020, before production on the second season's Japanese dub, Toshihiko Seki won't reprise his role as Scrooge McDuck for the series due to being infected with COVID-19 as he was tested positive, Kentaro Ito is set to replace him. Starting with Season 4 and future miniseasons, amid Tatsuhisa Suzuki announcing his retirement from his career due to his physical and mental health problems, Takahiro Sakurai will replace him as King Clawthorne.

### Differences from its Original Shows

See Also: *CrossMore Universe/Canon Differences*

* The characters are all aged up due to the 4-to-5-year time skip. This will avoid controversies with sexual content and references towards the characters due to age and people's lack of differentiation between fictional and non-fictional, as well as the matter of fiction affecting reality or not.
	+ In terms of timeskips, the character's ages will be consistent with the timeline of the release of the shows (except Simpsons and Family Guy). (Example, in the year 2019, Star and Marco from Star vs. The Forces of Evil are 19 (they were 15 at the end of the series, taking place in 2016) while Anne from Amphibia is 13 years old.)
* After Star and Marco became a couple at the penultimate episode of Star vs. the Forces of Evil they will remain a couple at the start of the series. Despite that, it has been reworked to become a couple after Season 3 rather than Season 4, meaning Star and Tom break up at the end of Divide.
* Dipper and Mabel move to Gravity Falls, Oregon after graduating from college in California. Their new profession takes place at the Mystery Shack, ran by Soos and Melody.
* Robbie's voice actor is changed, as similar to another TJ Miller-voiced role replaced in Big Hero 6: The Series, he's now voiced by Brooks Wheelan.
* Being an alternate universe sequel to Star vs., the magic didn't get destroyed whether cleaved or not. Not to mention earth hasn't been merged with other dimensions from the SVTFOE series until Season 2's episode "Re: Cleaved".
* Some pairings in the series differ from the separate show's canon.

### Premise

After an error with the dimensional fabric happened when a 19-year-old (21 in Season 3+) Star Butterfly (Sher) and Marco Diaz (McArthur) traveled through dimensions, they suddenly entered Gravity Falls, in a different continuity from their world as they meet Dipper (Ritter) and Mabel Pines (Schaal), twin brothers who now work with Soos (Hirsch) and their friends, Pacifica Northwest (Buscarino), Grenda (Faruolo) and Candy Chiu (Yang) at the Mystery Shack to find more weirdness in the place.

And then, two other people from another dimension seem to follow Star and Marco to Gravity Falls, and it is a former Norrisville high school student, Randy Cunningham (and he is still the ninja) (Schwartz) and his best friend Howard Weinerman (Caldwell). And as they find a way to get back to their respective dimensions, they will have bonding moments, adventures, and other types of excitement together while facing a new unlikely enemy over many dimensions.

In Later Seasons, with the other dimensions from the timeline merged after S2, new friends meet and form a bigger alliance to fight for the expanded Universe that merged other separate worlds, as well as seeing a new hierarchy in the Mickey Mouse Councilhouse overseeing and supporting the new CrossMore Squad, all while an old fighter vows vengeance against Star,

## Characters

*Main article: CrossMore Universe/Characters*

## Episodes

*Main article: CrossMore: The Series/Episodes*
The series is planned for 26 episodes, with a Kickstarter series event with 6-episodes aired for a full hour and three nights in November 2018. The series premiered its second 26-episode season in April of 2020. Then on the same year, it has been renewed for a third season with characters from The Owl House, Amphibia, and The Simpsons appearing and joining the cast with the title being named "Unity" in October of 2020. For the fourth and final season, the show will have 52 episodes separated in three parts airing for three years starting in July of 2022.

The series will air on HolCom Network's Atomix Central under the Chromix block. Disney will also have American syndication rights to be aired on Freeform and FX Networks (under the FXX network due the latter being part of the Disney-Fox merger plan since 2017) and is set to air in August of 2019 on both networks. In Canada, the series will be airing through ABC Spark and HFXN Canada. (It was planned to be on Teletoon At Night, but due to its closure on April 1st in favor of Adult Swim's 24/7 network, it never came to fruition.) In the United Kingdom, the series aired on FOX after the Disney acquisition, but since it closed down in 2021 amid international streaming plans, it moved to Montalvo Chromix starting with the second half of Season 3 while simultaneously streaming through Disney+.

In Japan, the series will air with a Japanese dub on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, BS Japan, AT-X as well as airing on Dlife late at night. And HolCom Networks International will also air the series on HFXN. The TXN/AT-X versions of the Japanese dub will contain opening sequences similar to other anime series. After Dlife closed down, the series moved to FOX in 2020, starting with Season 2.

### Shorts

There will be shorts of the series starting with the series' third season but will be aired on Montalvo Television Networks and streamed through Montalvo Play and MontalVue around late 2020.

### International Airings

* Japan - TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, BS Japan, AT-X, Dlife (2019-2020), FOX (2020-present), HFXN/Montalvo One
* Asia - FX
* Canada - ABC Spark, HFXN Canada/Montalvo One, Chromix Network/Montalvo Chromix
* Latin America - FX
* Europe - FOX (Italy), Neox (Spain), FOX/Montalvo Chromix (United Kingdom)
* Australia - 9Go!

### Streaming

Due to a partnership between Netflix and HolCom Networks and also due to the series being more of a HolCom Networks production than a Disney one, despite being co-produced by the latter's Television Animation division and ABC Signature Studios, CrossMore will be the first post-Netflix partnered Disney series to stream on Netflix, worldwide, labeled as an original series internationally and as a secondary Netflix original in North America and Japan. It is part of a Netflix deal with HolCom, as streaming rights to CrossMore ended up on Netflix alongside the Harmony Unleashed series and films.

Montalvo said, that people like Netflix more, and Disney accepted that since it's more of an HCN Original Series, they won't stream it on Hulu or Disney+ (obviously the latter since D+ is family-oriented) after their deal with Netflix ends at the launch of Disney+. Montalvo always stated that he will fight against Netflix's limited content caused by streaming competition.

In December of 2020. after the announcement of Hulu's international counterpart, Star has unveiled as both an add-on for Disney+ in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Europe and as a stand-alone streaming service in Latin America (under the name of Star+), Montalvo announced a non-exclusive shared streaming deal with Star in order to stream the first two seasons of CrossMore and its future spin-offs and films on Disney+ Star in CA/AUNZ/EU/SIN starting on February 23, 2021 at launch, and later in Latin America on Star+ at launch on June of 2021. Also, starting on December 25, 2020, Hulu will share the streaming rights with Netflix and Montalvo Television Networks under the latter's separate U.S. non-exclusive streaming deal with Disney, and will be streamed through three languages: English, Spanish and Japanese (with Japanese openings and endings). Weekly new episodes starting with the series' third season premiere will be streamed in the same day. Amid Disney CEO Bob Chapek's plans to merge Hulu and Disney+, Montalvo plans to make CrossMore's secondary streaming rights move from Netflix to either Hulu or Disney+ if both services merged.

In March of 2022, after Disney+ announced that all the TV-MA rated Marvel series produced for Netflix will be added to the service on March 18 with updated parental controls in the United States, Montalvo announced that the CrossMore Universe series, miniseasons, spin-offs and films will be added to Disney+ in the United States in May 25, the same week as The Last Requiem airs on Chromix through Saturday Night at the Movies (as well as Chromix celebrating Toonami's 10th anniversary of its revival) before releasing on Disney+ the next day (May 29). Following the announcement, Netflix announced not to renew the streaming rights for the CrossMore series with Disney and Montalvo the first two seasons and the Quantum Caper miniseason leaving in Early 2023 despite the series remaining on Disney+, MontalVue and Hulu. Amid this, the deal with Disney becomes an exclusive deal for the CrossMore Universe as well as other separate universes of the franchise. with new episodes streaming on Hulu and MontalVue the next day after it airs on linear television and the first five episodes going to Disney+ three weeks since the first episode's run.

In Japan, the series will be streamed weekly by Netflix, GyaO, and Bandai Channel. The Japanese release on Disney+ Star will be released on October 27, 2021 (alongside Resilience of the Blood Moon) at launch.

### Ratings

* United States - TV-14, TV-MA
* Latin America
	+ Ecuador and Mexico - B, C
* Japan - PG-12
* Asia - 16
* Canada - 14+, 18+
* Australia - M
* Brasil - 14

## Other Media

### Spin-offs and Limited Series

*Main article: CrossMore Universe/Series#Spin-offs*
Montalvo said about possible spin-offs from the show, with one that focuses on Elena and Sofia, turned out to be Royal Painmakers and another one focused on a team handled by Janna, Tom, Eda, and Bart, turned out to be CrossMore B.A.. Later on October 7, 2020, for New York Comic Con X MCM Comic Con Metaverse, it has been announced for a future release with the spin-off's titles being revealed during the "CrossMore Summit". Also

### Short-Form AU Anthology Series

In addition to the third season, a possible second telefilm and a special miniseries, a short-form series called "CrossMore: The Series Presents - AUxiliary Anthology" has been announced for late 2020 on MontalVue and Montalvo Play, in addition to a release on YouTube.

The series is produced by Aaron Montalvo, Stephen Sandoval, Edward Kitsis, and Adam Horowitz with Sandoval as a supervising director. The short-form series tell stand-alone stories that explore alternate universes of the series where the magic is destroyed, the gang is in a high school anime, they got superpowers and joined forces with the Avengers, and even there is a live-action ABC drama.

### Films

In June 2020, Disney and Aaron Montalvo announced films for the CrossMore series with one or two being a feature film for theaters. A telefilm titled "CrossMore: The Telepicture Show - Trinity of Royalty" is set for a Fall 2020 release and will be crossing over with Elena of Avalor and Sofia The First. Later on, another telefilm named CrossMore: Civil War is set for a July 2021 release, a week followed by new episodes of the series returning. In July 2021, a third telefilm has been announced known as "The Last Requiem: A CrossMore: The Series Movie" set for a Spring 2022, alonsgide an announcement of a theatrical trilogy for the series.

#### CrossMore Universe Anime Tales

An anime feature series is in development at Bones and Walt Disney Japan in co-operation with Hollowfox Entertainment. Series director Kenji Ono will be the chief director with Christie Tseng as a character concept designer, Yukinori Kitajima and Aaron Montalvo as executive producer and story supervisor.

### Comics

IDW Comics and Hollowfox Entertainment, in cooperation with Disney Books, announced a deal to make comic books and graphic novels based on the television series of the same name. Montalvo, Kitsis, and Horowitz will be the comics' executive producers, with the former being a creative consultant, and Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas will be executive story editors.

## Music

* Music by: Michael Giacchino, Ludwig Goransson (Season 2-3), Mick Giacchino (Season 4)
* Additional Arrangement by: Brad Breeck (Season 1-2), Brian H. Kim (Season 1-2), TJ Hill (Season 2-4), Nami Melumad (Season 3-4), Daniel Rojas (Season 4), Chris TIlton (Season 4), Chad Seiter (Season 4), Amie Doherty (Season 4)
* Music Production: Avex Pictures, TV Tokyo Music

### Japanese Songs

* Season 1
	+ Opening Theme 1: Fly Away by BACK-ON (From Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2)
	+ Opening Theme 2: Sanmi Ittai by Little blue boX (From Danball Senki / Little Battlers eXperience)
	+ Ending Theme 1: Candy by FAKY
	+ Ending Theme 2: With You by BACK-ON feat. Me (Misono Koda) (From Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3)
* Season 2
	+ Opening Theme 1: I Wish by BACKDRAFT SMITHS (From Battle Spirits: Strong Galaxy Ultimate Zero)
	+ Opening Theme 2: Ready to Ride by CLUTCHO (From Gaist Crusher)
	+ Ending Theme 1:
	+ Ending Theme 2: Itsuka mata aetara by EXILE TAKAHIRO
* Season 3
	+ Opening Theme 1: Dreamin' On!! by Da-ICE (From One Piece)
	+ Opening Theme 2: wimp by BACK-ON ft. Lil' Fang from FAKY (From Gundam Build Fighters)
	+ Ending Theme 1: Chase Me by FAKY (From Gundam Build Fighters: Battlogue)
	+ Endling Theme 2:
* Season 4
	+ Opening Theme 1: Infinity by Swanky Dank (From Gundam Build Divers)
	+ Opening Theme 2: VERMILLION. by Nightmare
	+ Special Opening Theme 1: THE WORLD by Nightmare (From Death Note)
	+ Opening Theme 3: Endless Nova by Tatsuyuki Kobayashi
	+ Opening Theme 4:
	+ Ending Theme 1: Epitaph ~for the future~ by TOHOSHINKI
	+ Ending Theme 2: Magic Time by SudannaYuzuYully (From Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise)
	+ Special Ending Theme 2: Alumina by Nightmare (From Death Note)
	+ Ending Theme 3: Star Main by Da-iCE
	+ Ending Theme 4: pARTs by Natumi.

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