Valt the Wonder Deer

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Valt the Wonder Deer
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The main characters as they appear in the first two seasons.
Mandarin 鹿精灵 (season 1)
鹿精灵之寻找兵马俑 (season 2)
鹿精灵之瓷瓶山的秘密 (season 3)
Genre
Developed by
  • Corey Powell
  • Ann Austen
  • Ron Myrick
Directed by
  • Scott Heming
  • Dan Fausett
Creative directorRon Myrick [2]
Voices of
Composer Scott Healy [2]
Country of originChina
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes156 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • John Andrews [2]
  • J. William Kim
  • Dania Zhou
Running time11 minutes (seasons 1; 3) [3]
13 minutes (season 2) [3]
Production companyDreamEast Pictures
Original release
Network Tencent Video
ReleaseDecember 31, 2016 (2016-12-31) –
February 11, 2022 (2022-02-11)

Valt the Wonder Deer (Deer Elf in Mandarin Chinese, subtitled The Quest for the Clay Guardians in season 2, The Legend of Porcelain Mountain in season 3) is an animated television series that was released to Tencent Video in China on December 31, 2016. The series is produced by DreamEast Pictures and is distributed worldwide by Jetpack Distribution.

Contents

The second season premiered October 22, 2018, and ended November 26. A third season featuring new anthropomorphic and angular designs for the characters, and was released in 2021 and ended February 11, 2022. [4]

Plot

Season 1

Valt the Wonder Deer follows the adventures of Valt, a wonder deer and his five friends as they journey to obtain special powers granted by the Five Magical Elements, as well as rescue his trapped parents, the Deer King and Queen, from the evil overlords of the Land of Metal.

Season 2

After peace and harmony has been restored to the Five Lands, Valt starts to miss his friends even though they're a portal away from him. His vacation however is cut short by more monsters suddenly arriving called the Nanomites; dark, flying swarm of bugs that can turn anything into an enemy. Valt reassembles the guardians to protect the Five Lands, but unbeknownst to him, Da-Ming and his bride are controlling the bugs, and they want to regain their throne. [3]

Season 3

Valt receives his father's powers and becomes the Protector of the Five Lands. He is then tricked by Da-Ming into opening the gate to Porcelain Mountain and unleashses a great evil. While trying to battle a Shadow Monster, he realizes his powers are gone, and he has no memory of unleashing that evil.

Characters

Main

Valt

Voiced by: Ogie Banks (English, seasons 1 and 2), Michael Johnston (English, season 3); Cao Xupeng  [ zh ] (曹旭鹏) (Chinese, season 1), [5] Li Jing (李靖) (Chinese, season 2), [6] Du Guangyi (杜光祎) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Valt (迪尔, Dí'ěr) is the main protagonist. A Wonder Deer [13] from the Land of Wood. [13]

Cobalt

Voiced by: Benjamin Diskin (English, season 1), Mick Wingert (English, seasons 2 and 3); Wang Chenguang (王晨光) (Chinese, season 1), [5] Chen Qigang (陈启刚) (Chinese, season 2), [6] Xu Gang (徐刚) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Cobalt (蓝宝, Lánbǎo) is a blue monkey [13] and Valt's best friend. [13]

Kem

Voiced by: Matthew Christo (English, seasons 1 and 2), Ted Sroka (English, season 3); Yang Mo (杨默) (Chinese, season 1), [5] Wen Jingyuan (文靖渊) (Chinese, season 2), Zhou Jianuo (周佳诺) (Chinese, baby form, season 2), [6] Zhou Nanfei (周南飞) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Kem (芥末, Jièmò) is a benevolent taotie [13] from the Land of Metal. [13]

Trika


Voiced by: Tara Sands (English); Zhang Xinyu (张馨予) [a] (Chinese, season 1), [5] Zhang Kang (张抗) (Chinese, season 2), [6] Yan Lizhen (严丽祯) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Trika (喵妹, Miāomèi) is a yellow cat from the Land of Earth. [13]

Alia

Voiced by: Lyra Blake (English); Wang Jinghong (王晶弘) (Chinese, season 1), [5] Zhang Yan (张琰) (Chinese, season 2), [6] Luo Yuting (罗玉婷) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Alia (丽娅, Lìyà) is an orange fire bird [13] from the Land of Fire. [13]

Yark

Voiced by: Matthew Christo (English); Zhao Mingzhou (赵铭洲) (Chinese, season 1), [5] Guo Hao (郭号) (Chinese, season 2) [6]

Yark (壕哥, Háogē) is an ice-snorting yak [13] from the Land of Water. [13]

Valanteen

Voiced by: Colleen O'Shaughnessey (English); Mo Yanming (莫颜铭) (Chinese, season 2) [6]

Valanteen (如意, Rúyì) is a girl Wonder Deer [13] from the Land of Water. [13]

Tao

Voiced by: Colleen O'Shaughnessey (English)

Tao (陶, Táo) is a boy made out of clay who is a member of a group of ancient clay guardians.

Da-Ming


Voiced by: Christopher Swindle (English); Feng Sheng [ zh ] (冯盛) (Chinese, season 1), [5] Zhang Zhankun (张占坤) (Chinese, season 2), [6] Zhao Guoqing (赵国卿) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Da-Ming (达大王, Dádàwáng) [b] is an evil short green taotie, and the main villain of the series. [13]

Mungo

Voiced by: Christopher Swindle (English); Chen Zhao (陈昭) (Chinese, season 1), [5] Yang Yang (杨扬) (Chinese, season 2), [6] Jia Qiu (贾邱) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Mungo (王大明, Wángdàmíng) [b] is an evil large tall purple taotie. He is Da-Ming's nephew and assistant. [13]

Drusilla

Voiced by Beth Payne (English, season 1), Misty Lee (English, season 2); Abu (阿步) (Chinese, season 2) [6]

Drusilla (达女王, Dánǚwáng) is an evil female taotie and Da-Ming's wife. [13]

Urgon

Voiced by Benjamin Diskin (English); Hu Qian (胡谦) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Urgon (乌尔刚, Wū'ěrgāng) is Valt's father. [13]

Reyna

Voiced by Tara Sands (English); Fan Churong (范楚绒) (Chinese, season 3) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Reyna (蕾娜, Lěinà) is Valt's mother. [13]

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
1 52December 31, 2016 (2016-12-31)February 19, 2017 (2017-02-19)
2 52October 22, 2018 (2018-10-22)November 26, 2018 (2018-11-26)
3 52December 1, 2021 (2021-12-01)February 11, 2022 (2022-02-11)

Broadcast

The first 26 episodes of Valt the Wonder Deer were released on the streaming service Tencent Video in China on December 31, 2016, which garnered over 9 million views in its first two weeks. [2] The second half of the first season was released on February 19, 2017.

In the United Kingdom, the English dub of the series was broadcast on Propeller TV for one season around June 2017.[ when? ] The English dub was released onto Jetpack Distribution's YouTube channel on August 24, 2019, but it was later taken down.

The series is now streaming on Tubi and is divided into 9 one hour episodes.

On July 4, 2025, a set of official Rednote, Weibo and Douyin profiles collectively named Deer Elf Nostalgia [c] (鹿精灵回忆杀, Lù Jīnglíng Huíyìshā) were opened. The first posts were made on August 4, 2025, uploading videos teasing the release of episodes from the Valt the Wonder Deer season 3 reboot through the profile. [7] [9] [11] The Mandarin Chinese dub of the first two episodes of that season were then posted on August 8, 2025, [8] [10] [12] with further episodes being posted to those three profiles on a semiweekly basis every Monday and Wednesday at a rate of two episodes per day, [d] [e] up until the final two episodes were posted on November 12, 2025. [18] [19] [20] On December 3, 2025, the Deer Elf Nostalgia social media profiles started posting the original English version of season 3 under the same biweekly schedule. [f] [21] [22] [23]

Musical

On May 1, 2019, a Chinese musical for the series, Deer Elf: In Search of the Rainbow Bridge [c] (鹿精灵之寻找彩虹桥, Lù Jīnglíng zhī xúnzhǎo cǎihóng qiáo) premiered in the Beijing China Puppet Theater. [24]

Notes

  1. ↑ no relation to the actress and model Zhang Xinyu (also known as Viann Zhang) born March 28, 1987, despite sharing the exact same name spelling in Chinese. The voice actress who provided the Chinese season 1 dub voice of Trika was born in May 15, 1987 [14] [15]
  2. 1 2 In the Chinese dubbed version, Da-Ming goes by 达大王 (Dádàwáng, lit. "great king Da"), while Mungo inherited a variant of Da-Ming's English name in a mix-up of the Chinese translation process
  3. 1 2 Unofficial English translated title
  4. ↑ Exceptions were occasionally made to this schedule when it came to posting the Mandarin Chinese dub to the Deer Elf Nostalgia accounts. The August 8 premiere landed on a Friday, presumably chosen due to the lucky connotations of the number eight in Chinese. Episodes 17 and 18 were posted on Thursday September 4, due to the previous day's 2025 China Victory Day Parade landing on a Wednesday and therefore conflicting with the usual schedule. Wednesday October 1, Monday October 6, and Wednesday October 8 were skipped over in a row from the posting schedule, due to the combined National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival public holidays that year, with regular posts resuming on Monday October 13 with episodes 33 and 34.
  5. ↑ For unknown reasons, the Mandarin Chinese dub of season 3 episode 6 is unavailable on Rednote, however it is still viewable on Douyin [16] and Weibo [17]
  6. ↑ The Deer Elf Nostalgia accounts all took a brief hiatus from posting after the English versions of episodes 37 and 38 were posted on Wednesday February 4, 2026, in part due to a combination of the 2026 Winter Olympics and the Chinese New Year public holiday. That hiatus ended over three weeks later, when a chapter of a spinoff comic was posted on Friday February 27, and English episodes resumed its regular posting schedule starting with episodes 39 and 40 on Monday March 2.

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Milligan, Mercedes (January 31, 2017). "DreamEast and Jetpack Ink 'Valt the Wonder Deer' Deal".
  3. 1 2 3
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  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "鹿精灵之寻找兵马俑（豆瓣）".
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "鹿精灵回忆杀－小红书".
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "十年之约，今日赴！🦌 - 小红书".
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "@鹿精灵回忆杀 的个人主页 - 微博".
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  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "鹿精灵回忆杀的抖音 - 抖音".
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  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "dreameastpictures". Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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  15. ↑ "@张馨予_兮音 的个人主页 - 微博".
  16. ↑ "鹿精灵第三季第6集·影王传说 #鹿精灵第三季 #我走抖音看动画 #影王传说 #童年回忆杀 #爷青回 - 抖音".
  17. ↑ "鹿精灵第三集第6集·影王传说 - @鹿精灵回忆杀的微博 - 微博".
  18. ↑ "鹿精灵第三季第52集 · 战胜阴影 - 小红书".
  19. ↑ "鹿精灵第三季第52集·战胜阴影 - @鹿精灵回忆杀的微博 - 微博".
  20. ↑ "鹿精灵第三季第52集 · 战胜阴影 鹿精灵第三季最后一集完结啦🎉🎉感谢大家这段时间的陪伴，后续账号还会继续发布鹿精灵相关视频，希望大家能够继续关注账号💗 #鹿精灵回忆杀 #童年回忆 #鹿精灵第三季 #我在抖音看动画 #爷青回 - 抖音".
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  22. ↑ "英文版鹿精灵第三季·第一集·守护者迪尔 - @鹿精灵回忆杀的微博 - 微博".
  23. ↑ "英文版鹿精灵第三季·第一集·守护者迪尔 #鹿精灵第三季 #英文版鹿精灵 #童年回忆杀 - 抖音".
  24. ↑ "儿童动画音乐剧《鹿精灵之寻找彩虹桥》开启全国巡演". new.qq.com. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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