Canadian Studios Ready Invasion Of Adult Animation From The Likes Of Lakeside Animation, Titan1Studios, And Others

Titan1Studios has announced that they are spinning off their animation division into a new studio called Missing Socks Entertainment and with the announcement comes the reveal of three new adult animated comedies now in development.

WTF! Wrestling the Federation; Created by Puppeteer & Writer Kanja Chen (FRAGGLE ROCK) and to be showrun by Atul Rao (DEEPA & ANOOP, PRESS START!, APOLLO’S PAD), a rollicking animated half-hour workplace comedy set against Calgary’s most middling wrestling promotion circa 1980-something. The series follows the adventures of Jay Champion, a small town, Amish grappler, and his group of friends, as they deal with the cutthroat world of professional wrestling. Body slamming bears, accidentally flashing the neighbors, getting into neighborhood “turf wars” and trying to wrestle with a teammate that would sooner piledrive you than actually help you, is all in a regular day for the wrestlers of the WTF!

DRAGONS & WARTS; Written by Daniel Callaghan & Luke Watson (MEDICAL MARIJUANA MAN), a half-hour adult animated workplace comedy set in a medieval fantasy world. In the walled city of Bevnae, Lord and Lady Lesterson rule over a fiefdom of misfits and malcontents. As lesser royalty, they’re middle management in the Queen’s greater realm. To maintain their station, they must hold the Queen’s favor, which means relying on their management skills and the collective effort of their people – a congregation of colorful characters just trying to get by in a world without running water, labor laws, and insurance against acts of wizards or dragon fire.

MODERN ROGUES: CALL TO ACTION; An animated fish out of water action-comedy following real-life oddball YouTubers (Brian Brushwood and Jason Murphy) as they venture into the dangerous world of international espionage at the behest of a secret government agency… because sometimes the person you least expect turns out to be the right rogue for the job. The series will be written by Merrill Barr and showrun by Andy Sipes and Matt Mariska (DALLAS & ROBO, CODE MONKEYS). The project represents the evolution of THE MODERN ROGUE brand, an independent scripted reality series with more than 1.4 million subscribers on YouTube, created by Brian Brushwood and Jason Murphy (HACKING THE SYSTEM). Brushwood and Murphy will Executive Produce and lend their voice talent to the new series, which also boasts Actor Greg Grunberg (STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI, STAR TREK BEYOND, HEROES, and currently shooting DUSTER for HBO Max), as a Producer and the voice of the pair’s government handler.

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Lakeside Animation has announced that they are producing a new adult animated comedy series called Paralegal. According to Animation Magazine who broke the story, the series has Kids in the Hall’s Bruce McCullough attached to the series created by Tim Blair (Tallboyz), Jeremy Dobski (Just For Laughs) and Matt Lyon (Arctic Dogs).

The series follows Jerry, an eager to please junior lawyer, who teams up with Luther, a recently deceased, super-slick attorney to create a law firm catering to ghosts. With the help of the legal and supernatural experts in Jerry’s own immediate family, they work together to right the wrongs that were done to their clients, living and/or dead. McCulloch will voice Jerry’s nemesis Marlon Brisk, a local crime lord and spirit medium.

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Canadian producer Nick DiLiberto has inked a distribution deal with Momo Films for both Nova Seed and Empress of Darkness. Both feature-length adult animated films are 2D hand-drawn films released in 2016 and 2020 respectively. You can read our review for Nova Seed here. 

Synopses:

Nova Seed

In an age of men and beasts, centuries of war have left nothing more than a dying planet for conquest. Habitable lands have become scares, and mutants and half-men wander the world. Civilization has crumbled and the survival of the human race is uncertain. In an attempt to seize control of the planet, the evil Mad Doctor Mindskull lays plans to acquire the Nova Seed and harness the earth’s very life essence to create the Ultimate Super Weapon. With nowhere left to turn, a fading humanity places it’s last hopes of defeating Doctor Mindskull in a genetically modified NAC (Neo-Animal Combatant).

Empress of Darkness

Follow Alpha as he is chased and ruthlessly hunted down by Graxus’s Evil Horde who will stop at nothing until his existence is put out from this world. Leaving a trail of blood at every turn there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide in this gut-wrenching, spine-tingling, blood-drenched fantasy adventure!