Right now, BOOM! Studios and Polygon Photos, Inc. introduced the star-studded forged for the upcoming 3D animated collection Mech Cadets, streaming globally on Netflix beginning August 10.
Tailored from the bestselling BOOM! Studios comedian collection Mech Cadet Yu by acclaimed AAPI creators Greg Pak (World Warfare Hulk) and Takeshi Miyazawa (Runaways), the collection is about 50 years sooner or later, after a terrifying alien species attacked our planet, and follows teenager Stanford Yu who works as a janitor on the Sky Corps Army Academy. However he’s solely dreamed of 1 factor his complete life — to pilot a Robo Mech, large robots from outer house who got here to humanity’s help. When he lastly will get his shot, Stanford and his classmates should put apart all private variations and work collectively as a staff with a view to defend humanity in opposition to a brand new alien invasion.
The ten-episode collection hails from Japanese animation studio Polygon Photos, whose credit embody Star Wars: Resistance, Apple TV+’s Emmy Award-winning Stillwater and Love, Loss of life + Robots for Netflix. The primary episode of the collection is an official choice of the 2023 Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant within the TV Movies Competitors class.
Meet the newly introduced voice options:
Brandon Soo Hoo (Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, From Nightfall until Daybreak: The Sequence) stars as Stanford Yu, a scrappy teenage underdog working as a janitor at Sky Corps who goals of being a Robo Pilot.
Daniel Dae Kim (Misplaced, Raya and the Final Dragon) as Basic Aiden Park, the battle-hardened chief of Sky Corps Academy and the Mech Cadet program. As a father of one of many cadets and a Basic he expects nothing in need of perfection from his daughter and his troopers.
Ming-Na Wen (The Mandalorian, Mulan) as Dolly Yu, Stanford’s loving, if a bit overprotective, mom and the calm head of the janitorial staff at Sky Corps.
Debra Wilson (MADtv, Household Man) performs Chief Max, a former Robo pilot, head of Engineering at Sky Corps and mentor to the trainees.
Rounding out the forged are: Aparna Brielle as Ava Patel, Victoria Grace as Olivia Park, Josh Sundquist as Frank Olivetti, Anairis Quinones as Maya Sanchez and James Yaegashi as Captain Tanaka.
Aaron Lam (Ash Vs. The Evil Lifeless) serves as head author and government producer for the collection. Tohru Patrick Awa (character designer, The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film) is the supervising director. Mech Cadets is government produced by Shuzo John Shiota and Jack Liang for Polygon Photos, Inc., and Stephen Christy and Ross Richie for BOOM! Studios. BOOM!’s Mette Norkjaer is co-executive producer of the collection and Polygon’s Invoice E. Miller serves as producer.
Print copies of Mech Cadet Yu Volumes 1-3 can be found at native comic-book outlets and bookstores worldwide. Digital copies could be bought from all main content material suppliers, together with comiXology, iBooks, Google Play and Kindle. Be taught extra at boom-studios.com.
