Islands of Wakfu (TV series)

Islands of Wakfu is a Canadian-French-American animated television series based off of the game of the same name. The series was in production since October 2018 and premiered on December 26th, 2019 on YTV Family. France Télévisions and Aura Television Productions/OverFlare represent the series in France and the US respectively.

On April 30th, 2020, it was reported that after episode 20, the broadcast of the rest of the season would go on hiatus until July 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The series resumed on July 30th, 2020.

On November 4th, 2020, YTV Family renewed the series for a 13-episode second season, which began airing in July 2021. YTV Family stated that Ankama working on production of the final season of the main Wakfu cartoon was the cause for the shortened season. The developers confirmed in August 2021 that the second season would be its last due to Ankama focusing on production of the main Wakfu cartoon's final season. A two-episode series finale, based on the final part of the game's story, aired on YTV 2 on December 16th, 2021; the developers stated that YTV Family ordered the episodes during the production of season 1 so that they could be aired whenever the show was about to end.

Production
In September 2018, YTV Family and Nelvana acquired production rights to an animated series based on the Islands of Wakfu game. Ankama, France Télévisions, NickFamily Studios, and OverFlare assisted in the production.

Plot
Main article: Islands of Wakfu

Episodes
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Broadcast
The series aired on YTV 2 in Canada and France 3 (initially France 4) in France. French broadcast rights were transferred to France 3 upon the airtime reduction of France 4. The French dub is also played on Télétoon in Quebec. The CW's Nickelodeon Family on The CW block acquired the exclusive over-the-air rights in the United States; the over-the-air rights were later sold to Aura on The CW following Nickelodeon Family on The CW's dissolution in December 2021 and subsequent temporary return of the time to CW affiliates. Aura acquired the cable rights in Germany and is currently broadcasting the series, in both English and German; season 2 would be one of the final programs to debut on the network bilingually, as Aura Germany is set to become a monolingual (German-language) channel in January 2022. In Wales, Disney XD acquired the first-run cable rights and began airing the series on January 20th, 2020; only the first season was aired before the show was announced to move to Aura and Cartoon Network. On January 31st, 2020, it was announced that SurgeAnime Extra 's Western Domination block had acquired the first-run US cable rights and will begin airing it in spring 2020. In February 2021, it was announced that Nickelodeon Family's NFGo! block had secured the rights to broadcast season 2 via cable in the United States, and will additionally air reruns of season 1. NFCartoons added reruns of the series to its schedule at launch. It was also announced that the AnimeCore feeds in Italy and Poland would air the series as part of their respective Beta Cartoon blocks.

Streaming
The series streamed on Netflix in North America. Aura Television Productions had stated at the time that the series may remain available on Netflix after the launch of Flare+ due to the multiple parties involved in the series' production.

On August 30th, 2022, Aura pulled the series from Netflix in North America, due to the streaming rights moving to Teletoon+ (in Canada) and Flare+ (in the United States).

Trivia
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