Netflix today announced the new animated series Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld, from first-time showrunner Echo Wu and executive producers Ali Wong (Beef) and Aron Eli Coleite (Locke & Key). Titmouse is handling the animation for this 2D series.
The series follows Jentry Chau, a Chinese-American teen living in a small Texas town, who finds out a demon king is hunting her for the supernatural powers she’s been working her whole life to repress. With the help of her weapons expert great-aunt and a millennia-old jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampire), Jentry must now fight an entire underworld’s worth of monsters while balancing the horrors of high school.
Ali Wong, who voiced Bertie in Netflix/Adult Swim series Tuca & Bertie, will also star as Jentry in this supernatural action series, alongside Bowen Yang (SNL, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai), Lori Tan Chinn (Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, Turning Red), Lucy Liu (Elementary, Kung Fu Panda franchise), Jimmy O. Yang (Space Force, We Bare Bears: The Movie), comedian Sheng Wang and U.S.-born K-pop star Woosung Kim (The Rose).
Wu attained international recognition for her Ringling College of Art & Design Computer Animation graduate film, The Wishgranter (2016, watch on Vimeo), which won the Student Academy Award Silver Medal for Animation as well as Best Animation honors from the Emmy Student Awards and BAFTA Student Awards and other prizes.
All images and photos courtesy of Netflix.
