Strikers

Strikers is an American superhero drama animated series created by Chris Prynoski, for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. It's produced by Titmouse Inc. The show first premiered on June 16 2018 on Adult Swim with the show airing with a TV-14-LV rating for its violence, crude humor and language. The show has went on and received universal acclaim for its storytelling, animation and its characters. It went on to receive numerous rewards and became a massive ratings success.

Plot
A 15 year old teenager named Huey had parents who recently had his parents went missing for over a week had to go live with his aunt. Huey's parents missing has a huge effect on him, his family were everything to him. They always praise him and strived him to be better. With them missing, Huey feels like he lost his identity and his meaning in life for general. He later meets this spirit like creature who called himself Fire Striker. Fire Striker could give Huey powers if he signs a contract with him. Huey signs the contract and now possesses that striker. With these powers, Huey took advantage of this and decides to look for his missing parents and his purpose of life. The story is about Huey slowly piecing his broken identity together and forming an all new identity. However, he isn't the only one who possess a striker...

Main
Regina King(in style of Huey from the boondocks) as Huey - Huey is the main character of the show. His parents recently went missing and Huey's goal is to look for them. Huey has difficulty in expressing his emotions which cause him to look "edgy" or a rebel, doesn't help that he can be very sarcastic too. He usually expresses his emotions through his actions rather than words.

Donald Glover as Chavez - Chavez is the main villain in the show. Chavez is the leader of a secret group of strikers whose goal is to make a utopia. At the moment, he has Huey's parents who were originally apart of his team but they both are now mindless human beings due to them breaking the contract with their strikers. Chavez is still keeping them due to him not wanting to kill them and he feels like they are still apart of his team. He wants to make a utopia due to his girlfriend dying and his girlfriend's dying wish was for a perfect world. Similar to Huey, Chavez girlfriend was everything to him. With her gone, he feels like his identity is lost. This utopia he is building is the only thing that keeps him going forward in life. He must complete this utopia.

What is a Striker?
Strikers are hard to explain tbh but like the basic idea is that they are these spirits and humans cannot see them. However, humans who are struggling with their identity or dealing with feelings of frustration of being wronged or taken advantage of can see them. Now here’s the thing when humans see a striker, the striker will approach them and they will ask you to form this special contract and bond that cant be broken. If you sign this contract you will get access to the abilities of the strikers if you don' t accept the contract then you will have no memory of seeing these strikers again and you will never be able to see strikers in their spirit form. Now strikers are pretty much the power system in Strikers like how stands are power systems in jojo and nen is a power system in hunter x hunter.

When humans accept the bond with the striker they will get a watch on their wrist with the striker spirit inside of it. If they want to activate the striker, they can call upon the striker and use their ability.

Humans and strikers can become 1 with each other, if they want to use more of their power to the maximum potential, with this they will look like just look like their striker but with a more human form.

Strikers operate on their host mental state. If their host are calm and composed strikers abilities will be precise, strong and fast. If their host mental state is all fucked up, strikers abilities will be all over the place and very weak. They also operate on these energy system which is pretty much how much juice they got left. At first the energy is 100%, but whenever you use a striker’s ability /power their energy will constantly drop and if your energy is 0%  your striker will stop working and will need time to rest and you will also be hurt if your energy is 0% and will be on the verge of dying.

Scripts
List of Strikers scripts

Tropes
List of Strikers Tropes

Broadcast
In United States, the show aired on Adult swim on June 18 2018. The show was als on Netflix starting January 1st 2019. The show later moved from streaming on Netflixto HBO Max.

TV Rating
Striker is rated TV-14-LV for

Violence - There's lots of intense fight scenes in the show with blood.

Heavy themes - There's heavy topics in the show, notable example of this are characters dealing with their trauma.

Language - There is some strong language in the show such as hell, damn, pissed, shit, bitch, ass, etc.

Episodes
List of Strikers episodes

Graphic Novel Series
Fire Striker(comics)

Trailers/Promos
List of Strikers Trailers/Promos

107 Facts about Strikers(under construction)
107 Facts You Should Know About Fire Striker

Critical Response
The show became a hit every since it's first episode. The show reached universal level of acclaimed and it was loved by critics, fans and viewers who loved the seriesfor its storytelling, themes and characters that resonated with lots of people, it's dark and moody atmosphere and the way it introduces the species known as strikers. The show is one of Adult Swim's most watched and popular shows, often regarded as one of the best animated series of all time. The show has an 8.9/10 on IMDB and has a 5 out of 5 stars on Common Sense Media.

Ratings
Strikers has shown to been a ratings hit ever since the first episode with the show getting 1,500,000 viewers on average. Slowly becoming the #1 show on the Adult Swim's block, Toonami and the #1 show on Adult Swim. Despite the show being on Adult Swim, the show proved to be popular with teens, tweens and even kids.

Trivia

 * The show was originally suppose to be a kids show and Chris pitched it to Disney XD, however he felt like Disney were way too controlling on the show and he felt like the show wouldn't reach its full potential.
 * This is one of Adult Swim's most expensive show due to the highly detail backgrounds and the action scenes.