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Wakfu (TV series)

Wakfu: The Animated Series, or simply Wakfu, is a French animated television series produced by Ankama Animation, based on the video game Dofus. The first season of 26 episodes began airing on 30 October 2008, and new episodes would continue to air into January 2010 on France 3. The series is directed by Anthony "Tot" Roux, and character design is handled by Xavier "Xa" Houssin and Kim "Tcho" Etinoff.

Plot
The series follows a little boy named Yugo, who travels the world with a group of friends on a quest to find his birth family. ==Characters==
Characters
Main The Brotherhood of the Tofu ;Yugo :Voiced by: Fanny Bloc, Valentin Vincent (adult) (French); Jules de Jongh (Season 1-2 & OVAs), Erika Harlacher (Season 3), Crystal Lopez (Season 4), Samuel Romero (adult) (English) :Yugo is a 12-year-old (13-year-old in season 2, 14-year-old in manga, 19-year-old in special episodes, and 20-23-year-old in seasons 3-4) Eliatrope who recently discovered his powers, and is on a mission to find his true family. He has lived with his adoptive father Alibert, working alongside him at his inn, and has no memories of his real family, and a kind and adventurous boy. He has the ability to summon teleportation portals by rotating his hand in a circular motion and throwing them to where he would like to appear. As the series progresses, he learns other abilities, such as moving at high speeds and creating beams from his portals. Near the end of the second season, it is revealed that he is the King of the Eliatropes. Yugo utilizes the 6 Eliatrope Dofus to attain godly power in an effort to defeat Ogrest, but doing so costs him his brother's friendship and nearly destroys the world. :In the third season, it is shown that Yugo and Ruel have been trying to find Adamaï everywhere, to no avail. When Adamaï, using their psychic link, shows Yugo the seeming death of Percedal, Yugo rushes to help his friend, still unable to believe his brother could be capable of such evil. It is later revealed that his actions created Oropo, an evil counterpart of Yugo. In the fourth season, he encountered his sister Nora and their mother, the Goddess Eliatrope, and got into conflict with the Necros, their leader Toross Mordal, and Yugo and Nora's corrupted brother Efrim. After being captured by Toross and his Wakfu was used to feed the Necros, Yugo instantly aged into an adult. Following Toross and the Necros' defeat, he married Amalia, becoming her husband and King of the Sadida Kingdom. :;Az ::A "Tofu" (bird) that is always seen by Yugo's side. ;Queen Amalia Sheran Sharm :Voiced by: Adeline Chetail (French); Jessica Bell (Season 1-2 & OVAs), Rosana Smith (Season 4) (English) :A 17-year-old (18-year-old in season 2, 19-year-old in manga, 24-year-old in special episodes and 27-year-old in seasons 3-4) Cra, Evangelyne is accompanying the Sadida princess Amalia as a bodyguard. She is committed to her job but also acts as an older sister to the young Amalia. She wields a bow that can fire a variety of magic arrows, making a quiver unnecessary. At first, she shows no attraction to Percedal but as the series progresses she admits that she loves him and starts a family with him by the time of the Special Episodes, marrying him at the end. In the third season, it is revealed that Eva is pregnant and living with Percedal and their two children, Elely and Flopin. When assassins attack them, she fights back but she and Flopin are captured and taken by Adamai. Before the final battle, she is forced to give birth and, with the help from Echo and Flopin, she safely gives birth to a second son, one whose powers were a threat to Oropo throughout the remainder of the season. ;Ruel Stroud :Voiced by: Patrick Bethune (Season 1-3 & OVAs), Xavier Fagnon (Season 4) (French); Hugo Chandor (Season 1-2 & OVAs), Kristina Abreu (Season 4) (English) :The twin children of Percedal and Evangelyne, Elely is the daughter and is as wild and unpredictable as her father, while Flopin is the son and is as calm and cool as his mother, and is equally skilled with a wrist-mounted crossbow. When their parents and the other members of the Brotherhood were held hostage by Count Harebourg, they stormed the palace to rescue them. Flopin used his mom's bow to help free the Brotherhood while Elely merged with Rubilax to give them a fighting chance, with their fighting skills impressing their parents. After the climactic battle Yugo and Percedal have with Ogrest, and after Ogrest returned to a normal baby ogre, Elely was the first person in ages to make friends with him. In the third season, the kids have grown slightly. Elely is a lot like her father, training hard and is shown to be able to defeat an opponent many time her size "using her head" - for pummeling them to submission. Flopin is the more reserved and bookish of the kids, being more like his mother. He ends up captured alongside her by Adamai but both later escape and they reunite with the rest of their family. Secondary characters ;Adamaï :Voiced by: Dorothee Pousseo (French); Joanna Ruiz (Season 1-2 & OVAs), (Season 3) (English) :The main villain of the first season. A Xelor born on 12 of October, with twisted and obsessive motives. At the beginning of season one, he encounters Grougaloragran in the guise of a human and is initially surprised by his high levels of Wakfu. Nox is swiftly immobilized and has since been searching for Grougaloragran on his travels, as well as any other large sources of Wakfu to absorb. Nox seeks to gain a large quantity of Wakfu to travel back in time and undo a great wrong that he has done. He eventually goes after the Tree of Life, which would kill the Sadida with it. Despite absorbing Wakfu for over 200 years, Nox is only able to travel back 20 minutes in time. Upon discovering this, he grieves at the fact he will never be able to save his family. No longer supported by the Eliacube, Nox's body withers and turns to dust. :His past was revealed in a special episode, where he used to be a kind well muscular father figure named Noximilien Coxen with a flair for inventing and great skills as a horologist. He was a good father and loved his wife and children more than anything, but was depressed at the fact he could not provide financially for his family, often having to negotiate with a man over his debt. While playing with his family on the beach, Igol ran away and discovered the Eliacube. Noximilien takes it to his workshop and tinkers with it, amazed at the possibilities the device has, he becomes obsessed with researching the cube to the point of abandoning everything else. His health deteriorates and he hints that he no longer sleeps; these serve to degrade his body to a skeletal state. His family also leaves him; by the time he leaves his workshop to present his work to his wife, his home is shown to be barren and dilapidated, and a note shows that his wife has moved to live with her sister, telling him to come join them if he's ever ready. Before he receives the chance, he is told they have died in a flood. In a desperate state, he plunges deeper into his research, seeking a means to turn back time and correct his mistake. :;Marama, Frisco, and Tartufo ::Three of Nox's minions, which he refers to as his "favorites." They are first seen during his fight with Grougaloragran and...although their exact nature is unknown, they appear to be a mummified Cra, Feca, and Sacrier, and possess most of those classes' respective powers. They are all destroyed in the final battle. Defeated by Adamaï and Yugo, Marama is finally destroyed by Raze-time; Frisco and Tartufo are destroyed by Amalia. :;Weedkilios ::A Sadida analog to Marama, Frisco, and Tartufo. Much of his apparent bulk seems to come from his wood armor. he is frozen by Evangelyne and destroyed by Amalia. :;XII Raze-time ::A large clockwork-like robot created by Nox, and one of his most powerful weapons. Before being confronted by the main characters, it devastated a large section of the Sadidas' forest with its "stasis blasts." He was deactivated for good when Nox's clock is destroyed. :;Igole ::Nox's pet Bow Wow. He can travel at extremely fast speeds and has the ability to run on water to get from island to island when traveling over-sea. Igole was previously owned by a little girl who is later revealed to have been Nox's daughter, who drowned due to Ogrest's tears along with the rest of his family. In the present, Igole is adopted by an Osamoda girl named Lotie, who resembles Nox's daughter. Igole once appeared to be a normal dog, but after being mutated by the Eliacube, he became a hyena-like creature. ;Qilby :Voiced by: Erik Colin (Season 2), Laurent Morteau (Seasons 3-4) (French); Arthur Bostrom (Season 2), Joe Ochman (Season 3), Felix Bermudez (Season 4) (English) :An elderly eliatrope and member of the Council of Six, set free from his imprisonment unintentionally by Yugo. He acts as an ally and uses his knowledge of their species to manipulates Yugo into seeking the Dofus of his dragon sister, Shinonome. Qilby's true plan is to steal back the Eliacube and drain the Wakfu of the planet to power his ship to explore the Krozmos with his brothers and sisters. :Qilby is revealed to have once been imprisoned in an empty, timeless dimension by a previous incarnation of Yugo as punishment for betrayal. Qilby orchestrated a war with a robotic species called the Mechasms, resulting in the deaths of many eliatropes and the need for them to abandon their original world. Cunning and conniving, Qilby nearly succeeds but is defeated by a combined effort by Yugo, the last remaining eliatrope children, and the unborn Shinonome. Separated from the Eliacube, he is imprisoned in the same timeless dimension by Yugo. Qilby returns in the fourth season as a supporting character, and dies in episode 10 after Yugo is transformed into a handsome man. Shushus The Shushus are a race of demons with the ability to possess objects and people. They came from a dimension called Fab'hugruta. ;Rushu :Voiced by: Marc Alfos (French) fr]; Jimmy Hibbert (English) :The tyrannical king of all Shushus. a colossal 10-meter tall fiery demon, he is the one that has mostly been destroyed down to rock and ash and is looking for a way to enter the World of Twelve, so full of light and life, that he and his demons can keep destroying things. During his battle with Goultard, his true form was revealed to be a grayish-blue cyclops-like humanoid with a yellow eye. ;Anathar :Voiced by: Antoine Tome (French); Joe Mills (Most Appearances), John Knowles (Episode 34), Ross Grant (Episodes 49, 51) (English) :A skeletal jackal-like Shushu with the power to copy the ability of anyone he touches. Originally a bound prisoner, he was released by his guardian and refused to be unsummoned. After being accidentally freed by the Brotherhood of Tofu, Remington releases him to distract the heroes; he quickly realizes this is a bad idea. Anathar participates in the final battle in possing Adamaï against Yugo, but he is betrayed and threatened of destruction by Qilby, he decides to leave him to take care of Adamai and Yugo, Qilby accepts and kills Anathar. ;Ombrage (Shadowfang in the English dub) :Voiced by: Malvina Germain (French); Fiona Clarke (English) :A seductive vampire-like Shushu imprisoned in a ring, she has the power to steal a person's shadow, which appears to represent the target's soul, and turns them into a ghoul. However, she is unable to do this if the target lacks any darkness in their heart. She is first met in a ruined town, where she has taken over her guardian's spirit, who goes by the name Vampyro. After being defeated, her guardian swears never to fall for her tricks again. She returns in the second season as an ally of Rubilax. Once Percedal is returned to his body, though, she is left behind, ignored by her guardian. In the closing scenes, however, an unknown fisherman picks her up. The Brotherhood of the Forgotten/The Siblings The main antagonists of the third season. The Brotherhood is a secret Guild whose members are all demigods or children of Dragons, making them semi-immortal. Their stated goal is to replace their parents and become the new gods of the World of Twelve, believing that the gods don't care about them and that the world has become horribly corrupt under their rule. They threw down the gauntlet against the Brotherhood of Tofu in the third season because their leader, Oropo, desires both the Percedal family children and Ruel to join their new pantheon. Furthermore, he has an unspecified need for Yugo's help as well in his plan. To that end, he is using the weaknesses and doubts in the characters to try to bring them to his side. However, later episodes reveal that not everyone in The Siblings fully trusts their leader and some begin to move on their own. ;Oropo :Voiced by: Franck Lorrain (French); Christopher Corey Smith (Season 3), Roly Gutierrez (Season 4 & Special) (English) :Oropo is the owl-masked leader of the Brotherhood. He believes that the current gods are lazy and selfish, and wants to usurp them alongside The Siblings. Oropo is very calm and persuasive individual, able to win others to his side with these traits. He claims to hate violence and chaos, and is lenient on others despite what he considers flaws in their personalities. He also follows the principles of the end justifying the means, and that sacrifice is necessary for change. Oropo is extremely powerful, able to bend time and space in the creation of his multi-dimensional tower of dreams. He is also able to enter people's minds through the cracks of their doubts and fears. ;Lady Echo :Voiced by: Hélène Bizot (French); Julie-Ann Dean (OVAs), Cherami Leigh (Season 3), Katlyn Dannes (Season 4 & Special) (English) :The second in command of The Siblings, meant to replace her mother Eniripsa. Echo is the face of the guild whenever Oropo is not around. It was revealed that she is in a relationship with Oropo and joined his cause for aligning to his beliefs and simultaneously being in love with him. ;Adamaï :Voiced by: Jeremy Prevost (French); Todd Haberkorn (Season 3), Christian Vandepas (Season 4) (English) :Once a member of the Brotherhood of the Tofu, but soon joins the Siblings after a falling out between him and Yugo over using the Eliatrope Dofus. Adamaï gained a taller body and even more powerful abilities after draining the Eliatrope Dofus, becoming even darker and villainous, willing to kill his former friends. He returns to his good self as he reunites with Yugo. ;Sipho :Voiced by: Jean-François Vlérick (French); Taylor Clarke-Hill (OVA), Keith Silverstein (Season 3), Josh Portillo (Season 4) (English) :Child of a dragon, used as a spy. ;Count Harebourg :Voiced by: Sylvain Agaësse (French); Jimmy Hibbert (English) :A Xelor demigod who is a master of time and ice magic. In the OVA, he was to be Amalia's groom in a political engagement in exchange for two Dofus for Yugo; but a front to use the Sadida forest to power his kingdom. Imprisoned for his actions in the OVA, meant to replace his Father Xelor when the time comes. ;Ush Galesh :Voiced by: Jonathan Amram (OVA & Season 4), Nathanel Alimi (Season 3) (French); Taylor Clarke-Hill (OVA), Joe Ochman (Season 3), Kevin Garcia (Season 4) (English) :A demigod Ecaflip who is intended to replace his father. Tends to treat everything as a game, but in doing so he will respect the rules of the game. ;Poo :Voiced by: Pascal Casanova (French); Kirk Thornton (Season 3), Frank Montoto (Season 4) (English) :A clumsy demigod Pandawa working with Adamaï for the Forgotten Brotherhood. Despite his size, he is very fast and agile. After attacking Percedal and Eva and their family, Adamaï tasks him with finding the escaped Elely. When challenged by her, he just toys with the kher but ends up being knocked unconscious due to her Iop tenacity to never give up. ;Toxine :Voiced by: Caroline Combes (French); Reba Buhr (English) :A Sram assassin who can turn invisible and has a featureless black body with glowing green markings. She uses a poisonous dagger in battle. ;Coqueline (Mishell in the English dub) :Voiced by: Emmylou Homs (French); Cassandra Morris (Season 3), Annemarie Blanco (Season 4) (English) :Member to replace her father Osamodas. ;Dark Vlad :Voiced by: Cyrille Monge (French); Ben Pronsky (English) :Goultard's evil persona that is forcibly transformed by Adamai when he stole the Eliatrope Dofus. They kept him as a challenge to the heroes, since Elely is the one they desire to be their Iop God, not him. ;Black Bump :Voiced by: Boris Rehlinger (French); Kaiji Tang (Season 3), Jesse Inocalla (Season 4) (English) :Member meant to replace his mother, Feca. ;Arpagone :Voiced by: Cathy Diraison (French); Cindy Robinson (Season 3), Elizabeth Price (Season 4) (English) :The only member who is not a demigod as she joined to help force her estranged husband, Ruel, to replace Enutrof. ;Dathura :Voiced by: Geneviève Doang (Special), Celine Melloul (Season 3) (French); Fiona Clarke (Special), Cindy Robinson (Season 3), Elizabeth Price (Season 4) (English) :Member, meant to replace her father, the god Sadida. This is the very same being whose actions caused Ogrest to become the living natural disaster he had been for centuries, a fact that fills her with guilt. ;Kali :Voiced by: Marie Facundo (French); Kira Buckland (Season 3), Kelsey Poppen (Season 4) (English) :Member to replace her mother Sacrier. Other ;Mandhul :Voiced by: Michel Vigne (French); Keir Stewart (English) :;Taure Bullies ::Voiced by: Michel Vigne, Gérard Surugue (French); Tom Clarke-Hill, Taylor Clarke-Hill, Joe Mills (English) ::A group of bull-like monsters that plague the Puddlies by stealing their food with brute force. ;Vampyro :Voiced by: Benjamin Pascal (French); Keir Stewart (English) :Formerly a Iop named Wagnar, he fell in love with a Shushu named Ombrage, who was sealed in a magic ring. Wagnar wore the ring that Ombrage was trapped in and her demonic powers transformed the guardian into "Vampyro", causing him to steal the souls of the townspeople to form an army of ghouls. When Yugo's team visits Katrepat town, Vampyro ambushes them with this army of ghouls and kidnaps Evangelyne in order to give Ombrage a body to inhabit. When transformed into Vampyro, he has an unfortunate allergy to Tofus, which eventually becomes his undoing. Afterward, he realized she was merely using him and swore to never fall for her trickery again. Ombrage returns in the second season, now wielded by Rubilax in Percedal's body. ;Sybannak :Voiced by: Dolly Vanden (French); Fiona Clarke (English) ;Breadnought :Voiced by: Elisabeth Fargeot (French); Julie-Ann Dean (Episode 8), Fiona Clarke (Mini-Wakfu) (English) :A Enutrof who seeks to ruin Xav the Baker's chances at winning the Chtibrout Baker's Tournament by destroying his golden wheat storage. She wreaks havoc on the village while riding atop a golem made of giant pieces of bread. Yugo takes on Breadnought and nearly wins, but she escapes before he claims victory. At the climax of the Baker's tournament, the Breadnought is revealed to be Xav's father's assistant, also known as Chouquette, who wanted her master to win the contest as she was in love with him. ;Gonnard the Great (Rich McDeek in the English dub) :Voiced by: Serge Faliu (French); Eric Meyers (English) :A supposed herald who visits Yugo and his friends during their stay at Xav the Baker's home, informing them of a gold-robbery crime wave. Gonnard displays a herald's knowledge, seeming to know much about their adventures up to the point that he makes contact with them, but turns out to be an absorbent genie, whose body's substance becomes whatever he eats, and was responsible for the crimes. He is defeated when Ruel tricks him into eating chocolate coins. ;Saule :Voiced by: Constantin Pappas (French); Joe Mills (English) ;Smisse Monde :Voiced by: David Krüger (French); Eric Meyers (English) ;Remington Smisse :Voiced by: David Krüger (French); Eric Meyers (English) :A charismatic Rogue who is a well-known collector of Shushu and is able to wield many of them without losing control over them. He is extremely sly and cunning, always trying to gain the upper hand through deceptive means and likes to play dirty. His deceptiveness sometimes becomes his own undoing; during a fight with Evangelyne over the possession of Percedal -- who was trapped in Rubilax's sword body -- he falls off the edge of a building, hanging upside down at the end of a rope. He promises Eva that he won't trick her if she saves him, however, when he gets to the ledge, he tries to kill her with a sword Shushu. Eva dodges the attack, and Remington ends up destroying the ledge he was hanging onto and plummets to his apparent death. However, it is revealed that he did survive the fall in Episode 8 of the second season. He meets Eva again in prison where he releases Anathar. Later on, he, Sadlygrove and Yugo are taken to the Shushu world. He is left behind while the others escape so he could save his brother, Grany and is presumed dead once again. Remington and Grany are later seen as Rushu's personal slave/masseur in Episode 20 until they escape through the Shushu invasion portal in Episode 24. At the end of the Battle of Crimson Claw Archipelago, Remington takes Eva hostage in exchange for Rubilax, but is defeated and knocked into the sea. Remington and Eva are last seen sailing into the sunset in a wrecked submarine. :;Grany Smisse ::Voiced by: Mathias Kozlowski (French); Tom Clarke-Hill (English) ::A talking Bow Meow who Remington calls his brother, which Ruel finds odd. He is as sly and cunning as his brother, and like him not above using a double cross to get their way. Despite this, however, both brothers are shown to care about one another, as Remington chose to stay behind in the Shushu world to save him. ;Dragon Pig :Voiced by: Patrick Bethune (French); Keir Stewart (English) :A wild boar/dragon hybrid who wants to get revenge on The Brotherhood of Tofu for hunting a baby piglet. Afterward, he kidnaps Ruel and takes him to his underground labyrinth. When looking for Ruel in his labyrinth Yugo, Eva, and Amalia are turned into pigs. Dally leads them through the rest of labyrinth and faces off against him, at the end. He is beaten by Dally and forced to free Ruel, as well turn Yugo, Eva and Amalia back to normal. ;Riglesse :Voiced by: Mael-Davan Soulas (French); Jimmy Hibbert (English) ;The Emporg :Voiced by: Bruno Magne (French); Keir Stewart (English) :A fearless, yet rude minotaur-like Brakmarian who is known for being the strongest player of Gobbowl. ;The Voice Thief :Voiced by: Paolo Domingo (French); Taylor Clarke-Hill (English) ;Felinor (Boris Eca in the English dub) :Voiced by: Loic Houdre (French); Tom Clarke-Hill (English) ;Bellaphones :Voiced by: Anouck Hautbois (French); Fiona Clarke and Jules de Jongh (English) ;Cassis :Voiced by: Martial Le Minoux (French); Frank Stubbs (English) ==Episodes==
Production
The series was animated with Adobe Flash, all the production is done at Ankama's headquarters in Roubaix, with the expection of some episodes of the third season that were outsourced at Kaibou Productions and Caribara in Montreal alongside Waooh! in Liège and the special episodes "Noximilien l'Horloger" and "Ogrest, la Légende", both produced in Japan, the episode was directed by Eunyoung Choi with Masaaki Yuasa on character designs and features a radically different art style made by the same team of animators who worked on Kaiba and Kemonozume. ==Reception==
Reception
Wakfu has received generally positive reviews. Writing for Common Sense Media, reviewer Emily Ashby gave an overall positive review, praising the plot and graphics, but warned parents of elements potentially unsuitable for younger kids. The show has a rating of 8.1 on IMDb. Writing for thereviewgeek.com, Greg Wheeler, praised the plot and characters, but opined that the show has a slightly overlong runtime. ==Netflix streaming==
Netflix streaming
Netflix acquired the right to the show and started showing it on its streaming, according to Variety Ted Sarandos, Netflix's CCO, said "Animation has a very strong history in France and French animators are among the best and most innovative in the world." Sarandos added that Netflix expected "to further strengthen our relationship with Ankama and other French animation studios." The series started airing on Netflix in September 2014. ==Kickstarter campaigns==
Kickstarter campaigns
On January 20, 2014, Ankama launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce an English-language dub of the series for release on region-free Blu-ray Disc in English speaking territories. The campaign's goal to dub the first season was met on January 21, 2014, and the campaign's goal to dub the second season was met on January 30, 2014. On June 8, 2020, Ankama launched another Kickstarter campaign for the production of the fourth season of the series, with an initial target of €100,000; the target was reached within an hour after the campaign started. In the end, more than 1.5 million euros were collected from nearly 18,000 donors, setting a European record. On February 12, 2025, Ankama launched another Kickstarter campaign for the production of the fifth and final season of the series. Once again, the original target of €500,000 was reached within a few hours. However, it was plainly known that this would not be enough, as €500,000 is the cost of a single episode, and Ankama would need €13 million for a full season, expecting that half of this would come from the donors. ==References==
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