Brave Series

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. 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. Additionally, it was released on Taiwanese streaming services MyVideo and Line TV. The show previously streamed internationally on Netflix. 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. The second season was released on August 23, 2025, on the same platform. Brave Animated Series received positive reviews by critics, who praised its story, animation and comedy, and the first season won the Best Animated Series Award on the 57th Golden Bell Awards.

• Genre — Action Adult animation Adventure Comedy drama Fantasy • Based On — Brave Series • Developer — Yang Zi Ting Wang Wei Xiu • Writer — Yang Zi Ting • Director — Yang Zi Ting • Voices — * 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 — Ashin • Composer — WeiFan Chang • Country — Taiwan • Language — Chinese • Executive Producer — * Yu Pei Hua • Lin Chiung Fen • Producer — Wang Wei Xiu • Company — * Big Cat Studio • Aries Creative • Public Television Service • Num Seasons — 1 • Num Episodes — 6 • Runtime — 25 minutes • Network — Public Television Service • First Aired — 2021 07 04 • Last Aired — present

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.

• Illustration — From left to right: War King, Business King, Red Dragon, Reporter, Desire Queen, Dragon Slayer Brave, Blue Dragon, Sick Demon, Dragon Brave, Chief Brave, Fire Demon, Water Demon, Morewant, Main Brave, Goblin, Bunny, Slime, Loyalty Brave, Despair Brave, Sword Brave, Superstar Brave, Black Brave, First Brave, Old King, Old Morewant and Yellow Book (As seen on the first season). • Tseng Yun Fan as Main Brave: 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: a little maniatic creature which is one of the four general demon kings. • Sun Ke Fang as Dragon Brave: an Human-Dragon Hybrid who is forced to join braves for protect her parents. • Fu Pin Cheng as Morewant: 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: 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: an anthropomorfic fish woman with hydrokinesis who is Morewant's second in hand and one of the four general demon kings. • Chen Yan Jun as Fire Demon: an anthropomorfic fire cat with pyrokinesis who was formerly one of the four general demon kings before retiring after some divisive reactions of his peaceful beliefs. • Kao Yun Shou as Goblin: a little goblin who wants to destroy all braves with his partners Slime and Bunny. • Jiang Qing Yan as Slime: a little slime which is Goblin and Bunny partner. • Quin Yan also voices Sword Brave: a swordswoman catgirl brave who fights using a katana. • Jiang Du Hui as Bunny: an anthropomorfic warrior bunny "elf" who becomes Goblin and Slime's master and later her partner. • Meng Qing Fu as Superstar Brave: 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 as Dragon Slayer Brave: a former brave who protect dragons and is Dragon Brave's father. • Xu Shu Bin as Blue Dragon: 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 as Black Brave: 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: 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: 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 voice Chief Brave in the second season. • Mu Xuan Ming as Desire Queen: 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: a female general brave and Business King's advisor. • Huang Tzu jiao as Old Morewant: 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: a bloodthirsty human who later becomes the first of the braves after killing a raid of dragons. • Kuan-ting also voices Sorry Brave, 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: 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. • Li Shi Yang as Blood King: a vampire demon king that serves as a psychologist, and also as an hypnotizer. • Cheng Yu Shen as Lonely General: a lovely freak soldier created by the Magic Academy who has a great fascination to books. • Li Yun Qing as Lady Boss: a female orc who wants to go to a war against the Braves for revenge of the death of her father. And who also is Water Demon's spiritual sister • Chen Zhen Yu as Library Witch: a mage who works as an assistant in the Magic Academy and who has a crush with Lonely General, just to set him unconscious on a fantasy dream. • Shao Zhen Yu as Lance Brave: a warrior brave who kills their enemies piercing their hearts. • Yang Shi Ying as Disaster Brave: a psychopathic witch brave who likes to make chaos to the demons and is very close to Lance Brave.

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". 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. On April 12, with a teaser of the main character, later on April 16, the official Facebook account announced that the first season has finished production and it was ready to be released.

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. On April 17, 2025, the first teaser was released during commercial 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. On May 20 it's was revealed that the official first teaser trailer Is set to be released on May 22. 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, alongside the first season being released on July 19. On July 22, the first trailer has been revealed, confirming that the second season will be released on August 23.

WeiFan Chang, who also composed the soundtrack from games like Detention and the single RE:IGNITE, was hired to compose the score for 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), 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. 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. In Season 2, there where included songs like "Legend of the Shared Dish" by A拔 Alex, "Bad Boy" by A-Mei, "Free" by Chang Chen Yue, "Love in a Shared Dream" by Chen Pinling and "Take it Slow" by The Dinosaur Skin (featuring Crispy). On 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 29 to March 30, 2025. The theme song being "Tales" for the opening credits and "Esemble" for the ending credits.

• Award — Date of ceremony — Category — Nominated — Results — Ref. Reference(s) • 57th Golden Bell Awards — October 22, 2022 — Best Animated Show — "Brave Animated Series" — rowspan=1 • Best Sound Design (General Program) — Gao Wei Yan, Wei Fan Chang, Lin Xie Zhong — rowspan=2 • 2026 Rockie Awards — June 16, 2026. — Best Animated Series — "Brave Animated Series" • 9th ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival — May 17, 2026 — Best Animated TV Series — "Brave Animated Series - Episode 3" — rowspan=1 • 61th Golden Bell Awards — October 23, 2026 — Best Animated Show — "Brave Animated Series 2" — rowspan=1 • Best Sound Design — Kao Wei-yen, Lin Hsieh-chung, Wei Fan Chang, Chen Pin-ling, A拔 Alex — rowspan=1 • Best Art Design — Chen Wei Yuan — rowspan=1

On July 25, 2021, in an interview with GNN Gamer, 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." After the success of the second season, on November 12, 2025, it was confirmed that a third season is now on production.