Valt the Wonder Deer

Valt the Wonder Deer (Deer Elf in Mandarin Chinese, subtitled The Search for Terracotta Warriors in season 2, The Legend of the Porcelain Mountain in season 3) is a Chinese–American animated television series that was released to Tencent Video in China on December 31, 2016. The series is produced by DreamEast Pictures and is distributed worldwide by Jetpack Distribution.

Valt the Wonder Deer
The main characters as they appear in the first two seasons.
Also known as	Valt the Wonder Deer: The Legend of the Porcelain Mountain (season 3)
Mandarin	鹿精灵 (season 1) 鹿精灵之寻找兵马俑 (season 2) 鹿精灵之瓷瓶山的秘密 (season 3)
Genre	Action Adventure[1] Comedy[1]
Developed by	Corey Powell Ann Austen Ron Myrick
Directed by	Scott Heming Dan Fausett
Creative director	Ron Myrick[2]
Voices of	Ogie Banks Benjamin Diskin Matthew Christo Tara Sands Lyra Blake Christopher Swindle
Composer	Scott Healy[2]
Country of origin	China United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	104 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	John Andrews[2] J. William Kim Dania Zhou
Running time	11 minutes (season 1) 13 minutes (season 2)[3]
Production company	DreamEast Pictures
Distributor	Jetpack Distribution
Release
Original network	Tencent Video (China) Propeller TV (United Kingdom)
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	December 31, 2016 – present
External links
Website

The second season premiered October 22, 2018, and ended November 26. A third season is in production featuring new anthropomorphic and angular designs for the characters, and is set to release in 2020.[4]

Plot

Season 1

Valt the Wonder Deer follows the adventures of Valt, a wonder deer and his five friends as they journey to obtain special powers granted by the Five Magical Elements, as well as rescue his trapped parents, the Deer King and Queen, from the evil overlords of the Land of Metal.

Season 2

After peace and harmony has been restored to the Five Lands, Valt starts to miss his friends even though they're a portal away from him. His vacation however is cut short by more monsters suddenly arriving called the Nanomites; dark, flying swarm of bugs that can turn anything into an enemy. Valt reassembles the guardians to protect the Five Lands, but unbeknownst to him, Da-Ming and his bride are controlling the bugs, and they want to regain their throne.[3]

Season 3

Valt receives his father's powers and becomes the Protector of the Five Lands. He is then tricked by Da-Ming into opening the gate to Porcelain Mountain and unleashses a great evil. While trying to battle a Shadow Monster, he realizes his powers are gone, and he has no memory of unleashing that evil (voiced by Mark Hamill).[5]

Characters

Main

• Valt (voiced by Ogie Banks) – The main protagonist. A wonder deer[6] from the Land of Wood.
• Cobalt (voiced by Benjamin Diskin) – A blue monkey[6] and Valt's best friend.
• Kem (voiced by Matthew Christo) – A taotie[6] from the Land of Metal.
• Trika (voiced by Tara Sands) – A yellow cat from the Land of Earth.[6]
• Alia (voiced by Lyra Blake) – An orange fire bird[6] from the Land of Fire.
• Yark (voiced by Christo) – An ice-snorting yak[6] from the Land of Water.

Recurring

• Da-Ming (voiced by Swindle) – An evil toatie, and the main villain of the series. He is green.[6]
• Mungo (voiced by Christopher Swindle) – Another evil toatie. He is Da-Ming's nephew and assistant. He is purple.[6]
• Drusilla – Another evil toatie and Da-Ming's lover.[6]
• Urgon – Valt's father.[6]
• Reyna – Valt's mother.[6]

Episodes

Season		Episodes		Originally released
				First released	Last released
	1	52		December 31, 2016	February 19, 2017
	2	52		October 22, 2018	November 26, 2018

Broadcast

The first 26 episodes of Valt the Wonder Deer were released on the streaming service Tencent Video in China on December 31, 2016, which garnered over 9 million views in its first two weeks.[2] The second half of the first season was released on February 19, 2017.

In the United Kingdom, the English dub of the series was broadcast on Propeller TV for one season around June 2017. The English dub was released onto Jetpack Distribution's YouTube channel on August 24, 2019, but it was later taken down.

Musical

On May 1, 2019, a Chinese musical for the series, Deer Elf: In Search of the Rainbow Bridge (鹿精灵之寻找彩虹桥) premiered in the Beijing China Puppet Theater.[7]

References

1. "Jetpack Picks Up Global Rights to DreamEast's 'Valt the Wonder Deer'". Animation World Network.
2. Milligan, Mercedes (January 31, 2017). "DreamEast and Jetpack Ink 'Valt the Wonder Deer' Deal".
3. "54. Valt the Wonder Deer 2". Agogo Studios.
4. ""鹿旋风"席卷深圳 国漫新形象展中国动漫新风向". December 10, 2019.
5. "VALT THE WONDER DEER: The Legend of Porcelain Mountain - DREAMEAST PICTURES - Products - Asia TV Forum". www.asiatvforum.com. October 2, 2019.
6. "dreameastpictures".
7. "儿童动画音乐剧《鹿精灵之寻找彩虹桥》开启全国巡演". new.qq.com.

External links

• 鹿精灵 on Tencent Video