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Genre | Action Adventure Science fiction Comedy-drama |
Created by | Pendleton Ward |
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Opening theme | "Bravest Warriors" |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 82 (list of episodes) |
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Release | November 8, 2012 – December 24, 2018 |
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Bravest Warriors is an animated series. Set in the year 3085 onwards, it follows four teenage heroes-for-hire as they warp through the universe to save adorable aliens and their worlds using the power of their emotions. [1] It was created by animator Pendleton Ward, also the creator of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time . [2] [3]
The animated series began streaming on Frederator's Cartoon Hangover channel on YouTube on November 8, 2012. [4] The series is based on a short produced for Frederator's Nicktoons animation incubator series Random! Cartoons that aired on January 10, 2009. A comic book adaptation published by Boom! Studios launched on October 24, 2012. [5]
On October 20, 2016, a television series was announced that would also serve as a continuation of the web series. The series, which is officially considered the fourth and final season, was produced by Nelvana in Canada, in association with Frederator. [6] [7] It started airing on VRV in the United States on December 25, 2017, and Teletoon in Canada on September 3, 2018. [8] A 21-minute documentary was released on December 11, 2017. [9] [10] [11] [12]
As the voice acting for the television series was recorded between Los Angeles, California and Toronto, Ontario, although far from being the first show from using both SAG-AFTRA and ACTRA, it is the first North American animated production to credit both unions due to using more American voice actors over Canadian voice actors.[ citation needed ]
The show won the Shorty Award for Best Web Show in 2013 [13] and was nominated in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. [14] It is also a 2015 Webby Award honoree. [15] The fourth season was nominated for the 2019 Youth Media Alliance award for Best Digital First Content for all age groups. [16]
On December 3, 2019, it was announced that there will be a Catbug spinoff and Pendleton Ward will also be involved with it. However as of November 2023, no updates have been announced. [17]
On January 4, 2023, Genius Brands (now Kartoon Studios) announced that they would sell a 50% stake in the series alongside the Catbug spin-off to Japanese company Toho International, speculating a potential comeback for the series. [18]
The 4th season of Bravest Warriors became available on the official Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel on January 26, 2024. [19]
Season | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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First released | Last released | Network | |||
Pilot | January 10, 2009 | Nicktoons | |||
1 | 12 | November 8, 2012 | July 18, 2013 | YouTube | |
Minisodes | 5 | August 8, 2013 | September 13, 2013 | ||
2 | 12 | October 17, 2013 | June 12, 2014 | ||
3 | 6 | January 10, 2017 | March 7, 2017 | VRV | |
4 | 52 | December 25, 2017 | December 24, 2018 |
The series pilot, written by Pendleton Ward and directed by Ward and Randy Myers, first aired on Frederator's Random! Cartoons on the Nicktoons Network on January 10, 2009. The short features different designs and voice actors from the web series.
Bravest Warriors was launched on Frederator Studios' Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel on November 8, 2012. The first season was released between November 8, 2012 and March 7, 2013. The series features new character designs and casting from the original pilot. [33] Breehn Burns, Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi, and Fred Seibert developed and executive produced the Bravest Warriors series for Frederator Studios. Burns, writer and director of Bravest Warriors, is the co-head of Lone Sausage Productions and the co-creator of the award-winning animated short, Dr. Tran . A second season began on October 17, 2013. [34] [35] The series began streaming on the Nintendo Video service for the Nintendo 3DS in North America from November 2013. [36]
On July 20, 2016, Cartoon Hangover announced that all Season 3 episodes of Bravest Warriors would be aired exclusively on VRV, a streaming platform programmed by Ellation. Season 3, along with the previous two seasons, was launched on the Cartoon Hangover Select channel starting on January 10, 2017. [37] On September 14, 2018, the third season's episodes were uploaded internationally on the series's YouTube channel. [38]
Seasons 3 and 4 of Bravest Warriors were removed from VRV after Cartoon Hangover was removed from the service in December 2021. [39] Season 4 was rereleased on the Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel on January 26, 2024.
A comic book adaptation of Bravest Warriors by Boom! Comics at San Diego Comic-Con [40] began publication on Boom!'s kaboom! label from October 24, 2012, [41] and ran for 36 issues. [42] The final four issues have not been released as part of a trade collection. At San Diego Comic-Con in 2013, it was announced that Cartoon Hangover had teamed up with Viz Media to make comics and graphic novels of their properties, with Bravest Warriors being one of the titles announced under their Perfect Square imprint. They were announced to be released in 2014. [43]
# | Date | Writer/s | Artist/s | Collection |
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1 | October 2012 | Joey Comeau | Mike Holmes | Volume One |
2 | November 2012 | |||
3 | December 2012 | |||
4 | January 2013 | |||
5 | February 2013 | Volume Two | ||
6 | March 2013 | |||
7 | April 2013 | |||
8 | May 2013 | |||
9 | June 12, 2013 | Volume Three | ||
10 | July 2013 | |||
11 | August 2013 | |||
12 | September 2013 | |||
13 | October 2013 | Eric M. Esquivel | Volume Four | |
14 | November 2013 | Breehn Burns & Jason Johnson | ||
15 | December 2013 | Ryan Pequin, Coleman Engle & Tessa Stone | ||
16 | January 2014 | Tessa Stone | ||
17 | February 2014 | Breehn Burns & Jason Johnson | Volume Five | |
18 | March 2014 | |||
19 | April 2014 | |||
20 | May 2014 | |||
21 | June 2014 | Kate Leth | Ian McGinty | Volume Six |
22 | July 2014 | |||
23 | August 2014 | |||
24 | September 2014 | |||
25 | October 2014 | Volume Seven | ||
26 | November 2014 | |||
27 | December 2014 | |||
28 | January 2015 | |||
29 | February 2015 | Volume Eight | ||
30 | March 2015 | |||
31 | April 2015 | |||
32 | May 2015 | |||
33 | June 2015 | |||
34 | July 2015 | |||
35 | August 2015 | |||
36 | September 2015 |
Title | Date | Stories | Writer/s | Artist/s |
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Bravest Warriors: 2014 Annual | January 2014 | A is for... | Kate Leth | |
Love-Rejuvenation | Coleman Engle | |||
We Killed Catbug | Monica Ray | |||
Catbug and the Cosmic Quest | Sloane Leong | |||
Bravest Warriors: Impossibear Special | June 2014 | Drop the Beat | Kevin Church | Jess Fink |
Impossi-Bagel | Jeremy Sorese | |||
Save Us! | Nikki Mannino | Nikki Mannino Mickey Quinn (colors) | ||
Night Trap | Kevin Panetta | Paulina Ganucheau | ||
Whiz Biz | Kat Leyh | |||
Bravest Warriors: Paralyzed Horse Giant | November 2014 | |||
Jellyfish Beach | James Tynion IV | Erica Henderson | ||
Flies | Kat Leyh | |||
Got Your Back | Tessa Stone | |||
Paralyzed With Hunger | Pranas T. Naujokaitis | |||
Outside the Realm of Time | Mairghread Scott | Meredith McClaren | ||
Bravest Warriors: Tales from the Holo John #1 | May 2015 | Mr. Tickles | John Omohundro | Eryk Donovan Whitney Cogar (colors) |
Heist | Kat Leyh | |||
Do Holo Johns Dream of Electric Pee? | Ryan Ferrier | Jorge Corona Jeremy Lawson (colors) | ||
Father/Daughter Fun Day | Paul Allor | Adam Del Re | ||
Plant Bonanza | Mad Rupert | Mad Rupert Whitney Cogar (colors) |
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