Twisted Wonderland Trailer Reveals Darkish Academia Anime Impressed by Disney Villains

Disney goths unite! The world of Twisted Wonderland is lastly set to reach stateside as an anime this October simply in time for spooky season on this midway to Halloween trailer announcement.

The Disney+ series will adapt an arc followers may be aware of because it facilities Yuuken, the primary character of the franchise’s earlier iterations via the favored Disney game and manga sequence, who’s invited to affix Evening Raven Faculty by a mysterious masked determine.

The varsity of Darkish Magic has seven homes, one for every of the Disney Villains featured, and that’s undoubtedly a premise we will get behind. We’d like to affix the Hades home, please.

The trailer from Disney+ showcases studios Yumeta Firm and Graphinica’s anime, showrun by chief director Takahiro Natori (Tokyo Mew Mew New) and directed by Shin Katagai (The Ossan Beginner Adventurer, Turned Invincible) as reported by Crunchyroll. The beforehand introduced information additionally named Yoichi Kato (Metropolis Hunters: Shinjuku Non-public Eyes) because the sequence author with animation artwork by Haruka Nakano and Akane Sato, based mostly on the franchise’s authentic aesthetic and animation by Yana Toboso.

After some fast analysis into the Cheshire-smiling demon cat named Grim, there’s no must say extra: I’m so in. I’d seen some items of the manga artwork and sport supplies earlier than, however now with the official sequence premiering with such a darkly enjoyable idea surrounding villainous teenagers and iconic Disney baddies, I’m very excited to see extra. The seems are Disney sure gothic targets, and the idea goes so as to add to extra enjoyable for the spooky area of interest of Disney followers able to embrace the Darkish Academia aesthetic.

Twisted Wonderland drops on Disney+ this October.

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