Bakugan (upcoming TV series)

Bakugan is an upcoming animated television series produced by, , TV Tokyo Production Inc., and. It is based on Bakugan franchise and is both a reboot of sorts and "revisiting" of the 2007-2011 anime Bakugan: Battle Brawlers. The series will air on Cartoon Network in United States and in Japan.

Plot
In this coming of age story, more-than-ordinary playing cards fell from the sky appearing around the world, 15 year Danny Kruso and his friends created a game using this cards and ball shaped creatures call Bakugan, but the becomes more dangerous, when Danny and his team the Battle Brawlers and their partner Bakugan use these cards in a power struggle for an alternate universe called Vestroia and go beyond their limits to win the battle.

Voice Cast

 * Bryson Baugus - Daniel "Danny" Kruso, Joe Brown
 * Marieve Herington - Juno Lemieux, Olivier "Olly" Du'Pont
 * Micah Solusod - Sheng Kazumi, Maskerade
 * Kimberley Anne Campbell - Julie Styles, Lia Venegas
 * Leah Clark - Alice Zwillinge, Wavern
 * David Kaye - Pyrus "Drago" Dragonoid, Liam Kruso
 * Barbara Goodson - Haos Tigrerra, Ventus Skyruss
 * Kirk Thornton - Aquos Preyas, Aquos-Haos Angelo/Aquos-Pyrus Diablo Preyas
 * John Eric Bentley - Subterra Gorem, Darkus Hydronoid
 * Dan Woren - Professor Michel Zwillinge/Hal-G, Naga
 * AJ Beckles - Winton Styles, Thunder
 * Steve Kramer - Pyrus Apollonir
 * Michael Sorich - Aquos Frosch
 * Beau Billingslea - Subterra Clayf
 * Linda Young - Darius Exedria, Grandma Kazumi
 * Lara Jill Miller - Haos Lara Lion, Ventus Oberus

Production
Spin Master Entertainment opened up a US studio and joined up Dentsu USA, TMS, and Tokyo TV to develop another Bakugan series that adapts the original 2007 anime, it also confirmed that none of the original cast from both shows not will reprise their roles, characters from both shows have been confirmed to appear, under the direction of Kazuya Ichikawa, most of the original supervising producers returning. Executive producers will be Pam Westman, Doug Murphy, Spin Master's Max Rangel, TMS' Tadashi Takezaki, Masato Kondo of TV Tokyo Production Inc., and Dentsu USA's Yasuto Muto. Dentsu USA will handle North American broadcasting, while Nelvana handles international broadcasting, Dentsu and Spin Master have confirmed that all 4 seasons will remade and split into two parts with a rounded number of even episodes total.

While the series is primarily adapts the original, but also incorporates a coming of age tone and material from the 2018 series and 2023 series, meaning major and minor changes, for example: Gate Cards will be used to activate the BakuCells (a retool of the BakuCore some of which will use Gate Card effects), the automated voice will be removed as well, G-Power will be replaced with B-Power, the size of the Bakugan will the same as the ones on the reboot, the symbols from the 2018 anime will be used (Subterra will get a new symbol), Aurelus will appear later on in the series, featured as both factions and clans, the Bakugan will open after rolling a BakuCell, and Dragonoid's evolutions will be reduced to eight (excluding Vexos Dragonoid, Maxus Dragonoid, Maxus Cross Dragonoid, and Aeroblitz, which will appear), however the ability cards, life gauge (which will featured later on the series), power level meter, BakuPod, and launchers will be featured. Characters and Bakugan from both reboots will appear later on.

Character changes
Characters will be changed more or less, considering this series is a revisited adaptation of original anime, Dan will be named "Danny Kruso" and will retain most of his original incarnations traits with red highlights in his hair just like his 2018 incarnation, he will be 15 year old, Runo Misaki will be renamed Juno Lemieux (last name after Julie Lemieux Runo's original voice actor), a 14 year old Canadian-American very focused, competitive tomboy with a tsundere personality and sky blue hair with her pigtails behind her head as well as, Medium Beige skin. Olivier "Olly" Du'Pont (a re-tooled of Marucho Marukura) will a 13 year old French foreigner, a wealthy, overly generous boy, very loyal and is the brains of the bunch. Sheng Kazumi, a 15 year old Chinese-Japanese version of his original incarnation will be strong, level headed, lone wolf, and highly skilled ninja who appear when you least expect it, while sporting a mohawk fade with a sister named Fu Kazumi. Julies' last name will be changed to Styles as in the sister of Wynton Styles, instead of being tanned she will be a 14 year old African-American girl while still retaining her traits from the original anime, but her ponytail will be on the left side and less skin. Alice Zwillinge, a German incarnation of Alice Gehabich will be born a Gemini, Masquerade will be changed to Maskerade among other character changes.

Casting
Voice rehearsal will be held at with Suzanne Goldish as voice director and Mami Okada as casting director with the original cast not returning, but only as voice consultants, Bryson Baugus will voice Danny Kruso,Marieve Herington will voice both Juno Lemieux and Olivier "Olly" Du'Pont, Micah Solusod (in his LA debut) as Sheng Kazumi and Maskerade, Kimberley Anne Campbell as Julie Styles and Lia Venegas, Leah Clark (in her LA debut) as Alice Zwillinge, Wavern, David Kaye as Dragonoid,  Barbara Goodson as Tigrerra, Skyruss, Kirk Thornton as Preyas, Angelo/Diablo Preyas, and John Eric Bentley as Gorem and Hydronoid. The announced that they're expanding their casting calls to Texas, New York, all parts of Canada.

Animation
Design from the original anime and the 2023 reboot will be used the characters, building, vehicles etc, will be seen 2D animation meanwhile, the Bakugan and BakuCells will be featured in a CG format just like in the 2018 reboot, all courtesy of TMS Animation.

Music
, Voodoo Highway's US studio will score the series, Neil Parfitt's score from the original series will be used, in which he serve as consultant. A new rendition of Daniel Leblanc and Creighton Doane's Two Worlds Collide will be preformed by.

Merchandise
Spin Master and Sega Toys will develop toys and other merchandise based on the series and will release a toyline called toyline Bakugan Generations which will be a contemporary reissue of the original toyline and produce any of the Japanese-exclusively Bakuagan as well as the unreleased Bakugan.