With Halloween on the way, Netflix has debuted the teaser trailer for an appropriately supernatural animated treat on the way: Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld. The kids & family-targeted 2D series premieres December 5.
The preview spot introduces us to not-so-typical teen girl Jentry, who will have to face her literal demons in the magic-charged new action-adventure series created by Echo Wu who won a Silver Medal Student Academy Award, Emmy Student Award and BAFTA Student Award for her animated short The Wishgranter (Ringling College of Art and Design). The teaser also includes a new song from K-Pop star Jessi, titled “3X (세 번),” that will be featured in the show.
“Sometimes finding your self-identity is coming face-to-face with your own demons,” Wu told Netflix’s fandom outlet TUDUM. “There are different layers to what that means. It rings quite true in Jentry. She’s trying to figure out what these powers mean to her. Are they part of her? Are they cursing her? You see this character trying to figure out who she is.”
The series follows Jentry Chau (voiced by Ali Wong), 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.
The voice cast also features Bowen Yang, Lori Tan Chinn, Lucy Liu, Jimmy O. Yang, Sheng Wang, Woosung Kim and A.J. Beckles.
Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld is animated by Titmouse, with Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio and Ben Kalina acting as executive producers alongside Wu, Wong and Aron Eli Coleite.
