The first season of the Taiwanese satire fantasy animated television series Brave Animated Series is based on the comic book series of the same name written by Yellow Book, was developed for television by Yang Tzi Ting and Wang Wei Xiu. The season was produced by Public Television Service in association with Big Cat Studio and Aries Creative.
The story is set in RPG-like world, where three races: Humans, Demons And Dragons coexist, but are in constant conflict, The series follow the Braves, who are considerated heroes for the brave kingdom, but in reality they are warmongering soldiers that kill all demons just to get XP. The series follows multiple characters, like Morewant, Main Brave and Dragon Girl, who tries to stop the braves while they questionate what is the true side of justice.
The season was released in the official PTS channel on July 4, 2021. It received positive reviews by the critics,who praised its story, animation and comedy, and it won the Best Animated Series Award on the 57th Golden Bell Awards.
Episodes
Cast
Main
Tseng Yun Fan as Main Brave / Sick Demon. Sun Ke Fang as Dragon Girl. Fu Ping Cheng as Morewant. Huang Bai Wei as Fair Brave. Kao Yun Chuo as Goblin. Wu Kang Ren as Chief Brave.
Recurring
Teng Wei Te as Water Demon. Chen Yan Jun as Fire Demon. Mu Xuan Ming as Desire Queen. Jiang Du Hui as Bunny. Niu Kai Yang as Dragon Slayer Brave. Xu Shu Bin as Blue Dragon. Liao Guo Jun as Loyal Brave. Chen You Wen as Black Brave. Jiang Qing Yan as Sword Brave / Slime. Meng Qing Fu as Superstar Brave. Lin Kai ling as Despair Brave. Sun Cheng as Business King / Red Dragon. Xu Huang Huang as War King. Ma Guo Yao as Old King / Flying Sword.
Guest
Huang Tzu jiao as Old Morewant. Liu Kuan ting as First Brave.
Production
The series began production in 2018, When the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan started funding for new animated series in the region based on original IP's, an indie animation studio called "Big Cat Studio" proposed to make an animated series bases on "Brave Series", a web comic book series created by Yellow Book, with a budget of NT$40 million, where NT$1 million were used in the behind the scenes.
Writing While the series is based in the first 260 pages of the comic book, the director Yang Tzu Ting decided to make a new original story based on the three first chapters of the series, having a writing period of about half a year and including an original characters like Loyalty Brave
Casting The series is conformed by an assemble cast, Tseng Yun Fan, Fu Ping Cheng, Kao Yun Chuo, Jiang Du Hui, Teng Wei Te, Chen Yan Jun, and Mu Xuan Ming were cast in secret and voiced the characters on from 2019 to 2020, Du Hui was the responsible of voicing "Bunny", but after her death in September 2019 due to uterine cancer, she was replaced by Yun Fan in episode 4, additionally, recognizable actors like Sun Ke Fang, Liu Kuan ting, Huang Tzu jiao and Wu Kang Ren were cast to voice some characters in the series.
Music The music was composed by Wei-Fan Chang, who also worked on games like Detention, House Flipper and Asterigos: Curse of the Stars, Chang used some videogames sounds as reference for the soundtrack, especifically from 90's videogames and a sound design of a Gameboy Advance. Also, Mayday's singer and songwriter Ashin composed the main theme "The Demon King and the Brave." alongside with the band LION additionally bands like Eggplant Egg, Amazing Show, Won Fu, Gugu Lu Siwei and Wei Jia-Ying served in the score of the season.
Accolades +AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryNominatedResults57th Golden Bell AwardsOctober 22, 2022Best Animated Show"Brave Animated Series" rowspan=1 Best Sound Design (General Program)Gao Wei Yan,Wei Fan Chang,Lin Xie Zhong rowspan=1
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