Brave Animated Series

This article is about the 2021 taiwanese animated television series. For the Japanese media franchise, see Brave 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.

Brave Animated Series
Promotional poster
Genre	Action Adult animation Adventure Comedy drama Fantasy
Based on	Brave Series
Developed by	Yang Zi Ting Wang Wei Xiu
Written by	Yang Zi Ting
Directed by	Yang Zi Ting
Voices of	Tseng Yun Fan Gao Yun Shuo Jiang Qing Yan Jiang Du Hui Meng Qing Fu Huang Bai Wei Ma Guo Yao Chen Yan Jun Sun Ke Fang Niu Kai Yang Xu Shu Bin Teng Wei-Te Chen You Wen Liao Guo Jun Wu Kang Ren Mu Xuan Ming Lin Kai ling Huang Tzu jiao Liu Kuan-ting Fu Pin Cheng Sun Cheng
Theme music composer	Mayday Ashin
Composer	WeiFan Chang
Country of origin	Taiwan
Original language	Chinese
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producers	Yu Pei Hua Lin Chiung Fen
Producer	Wang Wei Xiu
Running time	25 minutes
Production companies	Big Cat Studio Aries Creative Public Television Service
Original release
Network	Public Television Service
Release	4 July 2021 (2021-07-04) – present

The series premiered on July 4, 2021, on the Public Television Service, being delayed from its original June 13 premiere date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] Additionally, it was released on Taiwanese streaming services MyVideo and Line TV. The show previously streamed internationally on Netflix.^{[2] [a][b]} 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 in August of 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 [zh] as Main Brave:^[3] 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:^[4] a little maniatic creature which is one of the four general demon kings.
• Sun Ke Fang [zh] as Dragon Brave:^[5][6] an Human-Dragon Hybrid who is forced to join braves for protect her parents.
• Fu Pin Cheng as Morewant:^[7] 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:^[8] 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:^[9] an anthropomorfic fish woman with hydrokinesis who is Morewant's second in hand and one of the four general demon kings.
• Chen Yan Jun [zh] as Fire Demon:^[10] an anthropomorfic fire cat with pyrokinesis who is one of the four general demon kings.
• Kao Yun Shou [zh] as Goblin:^[11] a little goblin who wants to destroy all braves with his partners Slime and Bunny.
• Jiang Qing Yan as Slime:^[12] a little slime which is Goblin and Bunny partner.
  • Quin Yan also voices Sword Brave:^[13] a swordswoman catgirl brave who fights using a katana.
• Jiang Du Hui [zh] as Bunny:^[14] an anthropomorfic warrior bunny "elf" who becomes Goblin and Slime's master and later her partner.^[c]
• Meng Qing Fu as Superstar Brave:^[15] an narcissist brave who fights using a rapier which also doubles as a Microphone. His design seems to be inspired in the American singer Elvis Presley.
• Niu Kai Yang [zh] as Dragon Slayer Brave:^[16] a former brave who protect dragons and is Dragon Brave's father.
• Xu Shu Bin [zh] as Blue Dragon:^[17] 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 [zh] as Black Brave:^[18] 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:^[19] 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:^[20][6] 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.
  • Lego Lee will voice Chief Brave in the second season.^[21]
• Mu Xuan Ming [zh] as Desire Queen:^[22] 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:^[23] a female general brave and Business King's advisor.
• Huang Tzu jiao as Old Morewant:^[24][25][6] 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:^[26][6] a bloodthirsty human who later becomes the first of the braves after killing a raid of dragons.
  • Kuan-ting also voices Sorry Brave,^[27] a cowardly brave who is the principal of the "Brave Guild", who also wants to retire.
• 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:^[28] 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.
  • Ma Guo also voices The Fallen Mad Demon, a crazy demon god who wants to destroy all braves and send the Demon Kingdom back to their greatness.

Episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released	Network
1	6		July 4, 2021	July 16, 2021	Public Television Service
2	6		August 23, 2025	TBA

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 (2021-07-04)	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 (2021-07-04)	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 (2021-07-11)	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 (2021-07-11)	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 (2021-07-18)	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 (2021-07-18)	1-06
Morewant encounters an old friend and settles unfinished business from 20 years ago.

Production

Season One

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".^[29] 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.^[30][31] In April 12, with a teaser of the main character,^[32] later on April 16, the official Facebook account announced that the first season has finished production and it was ready to be released.^[33][34]

Season Two

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.^[35] On April 17, 2025, the first teaser was released during comercial breaks on the official PTS channel, and it was announced that the season 2 will be released in summer. Later on April 25, another teaser trailer was released.^[36] On May 20 it's was revealed that the official first teaser trailer Is set to be released on May 22th.^[37] On that day it was released the first official teaser trailer, revealing that the season 2 will be released in August on the official PTS XS YouTube channel,^[38][39] alongside the first season being released in July 19th.^[40]

On July 22th, the first trailer has been revealed, confirming that the second season will be released in August 23th.^[41]

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 the sounds of some 80's and 90's videogame consoles, alongside the sound design of a Gameboy (more specifically the Game Boy Advance),^[42] 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.^[43][44] Also the score include songs like "An adventure that cannot be reborn" by Amazing Show, "World Records" by Wonfu, "Love Method" by Gugu Lu Siwei and Wei Jiaying and "Better Place" by EggPlantEgg.^[45]

In March 25, 2025, The official account announced that Amazing Show will collab with them for the new season main theme, that will be released in the 2025 Megaport Music Festival from March 29th to March 30, 2025.^[46][47]

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Nominated	Results	Ref.
57th Golden Bell Awards	October 22, 2022	Best Animated Show	"Brave Animated Series"	Won	[48][49]
		Best Sound Design (General Program)	Gao Wei Yan, Zhang Wei Fan, Lin Xie Zhong	Nominated

Future

On July 25, 2021, in an interview with GNN 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."^[50]

Notes

1. Only in 190 countries around the world.
2. Despite being released in Netflix worldwide,the series did not receive any international dubbing.
3. This was one of Du Hui last performances before she died in September 16, 2019 by Uterine cancer. Being voiced later by Tseng Yun Fan in Episode 4.