wait remember Huntik secrets and Seekers the Titan summoning Journal protecting show that
focuses on a group of seekers known as the Huntik Foundation that have the ability to bond with and
control the power of ancient Titans locked away through amulets and Rings hidden all throughout
the world as they fight back against those seeking to use the power of the Titans for
evil having the ability to bond with the Titans as well oh and they can do magic too being able
to cast spells because that just sounds cool as heck but there was a lot planned for this cartoon
often cited as a forgotten cartoon or something that you may have some remembrance of Huntik had
all the engines full steam ahead from a talented group putting the cartoon together a trading card
game video games Amusement Park attractions and more but clearly Huntik today isn't all
those things while some of them did happen not everything did so today let's take a look into
hunting what it was all about the interesting stuff surrounding it and what happened to it
let's seek out all of the secrets we can dig up soggy young man behind me is locked Amber
huntik's secrets and Seekers is one of those shows trapped from the odds to the early 2010s that is
this mix of so many things familiar to you but yet it finds its own identity within it all we
follow our main protagonist lock Lambert your average dude who deals with very the opposite
of average things with a missing father and a newfound amulet in journal his life begins to
change drastically from the average school life that he's had into this full-on action adventure
where he is hunted by a secret organization as he continues to fall down this Rabbit Hole of
his Father's Footsteps learning to become a seeker and standing up against the organization which he
can do thanks to the help of fellow friends who tag along on his journey Locke himself voiced by
Yuri lowenthal is an adventurous person who wants to follow in his Father's Footsteps in becoming
this legendary Seeker the only problem is is that he just recently found out about this world the
power of the Titans what being a Seeker entails this was all until he finds some of his missing
fathers seeker-related possessions like an amulet in his father's Journal so him on this journey in
this want to figure out what happened to his dad as he's always dreamed of being an adventurer like
he was along with Sophie voiced by Rebecca solar they end up now being hunted by the organization
where now they meet up with Dante Vale a character that has the name and the looks of being way too
cool for who they really are voiced by Mark Thompson the group here in general under the
Huntik Foundation become well acquainted as time goes on with Dante playing this leader figure in
the beginning being the most knowledgeable and well adapted for anything that comes their way
Sophie finds this interest in her lineage and her place in everything shifting away
from the life of having her head in the books to finding who she truly is zalia voiced by Karen
Strassman is a pretty interesting character as well acting as a one-person show usually
focusing on Espionage thanks to her distrust of all sides ultimately still helping the Huntik
Foundation over her ties to the organization from her past to round out our group we also
have charit the extra mascot that just brings in some quirkiness to the group group in which
he can also speak voiced by Mark Thompson as well with him being involved in the Huntik
Foundation as he is able to build back parts of his lost memories now as this adventure begins
we see battles between ancient beasts locked behind amulets relationships that build more
heart the longer they go on and some pretty fun lore to sink your teeth into as the world
of Huntik was set to expand pretty greatly so just how then did this idea come to be how was
it formed and why did it become such a big effort between Studios across the globe to create and
why did they have to go this hard on the theme song I mean this theme song is just really good
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signing back onto untick secrets and Seekers so how did this show come to be let's let's take a
look coming from a genius trafi the creator of the show Winx Club something I will be covering
on the channel later this year he had a real vision for this show spending time at the start
conceptualizing the look and concept of what this show would be landing on the traditional animation
classic adventure look that it would have coming from Italy strafi was referred to or referenced as
the Disney of Italy by the people who have worked with him or know him personally like Sean molyneux
who would serve as the show's head writer creating the show Bible completely putting together every
little detail that the show would have to follow going forward finding this nice mix of what would
Inspire Sean growing up from the usual 80s staple cartoons to the Japanese anime that
would make their way around the world with the specific storytelling featured in Japanese media
really resonating with him which also clearly shows how we got that theme song I mean that's
just clearly such an 80s inspired theme song Sean would have a series of connections from
this starting with making adaptation nations of Japanese shows before becoming on board
with Rurouni Kenshin his time being familiar in this landscape and helping Bridge the gaps
of media from all around the world he would end up working on Yu-Gi-Oh which would then later
end him up at Winx Club getting familiar with straffi and building this relationship between
the Italian animator and director and upper deck who are the Distributors of Yu-Gi-Oh putting them
together for some discussions and really to get an understanding of what they would be putting
together in general this was now a joint production involving people and companies
from several countries so the workload would be split between these different regions to produce
the full product the writing of the show would take place all in the states so for any stories
characters or concepts that would be handled here in Italy the show's computer Graphics design work
General art and background art would all start coming together there and lastly South Korea
would handle putting the final product together with the detailed animation The Balancing Act
between the Italian side of the production and the American side of the production would go back
and forth with direction making this a true team effort being able to truly build and understand
the characters that they are creating here and develop the story lines they would follow things
here would seem to be working quite well Simone borcelli would be on board as well working as a
series assistant director tostroffi making sure to really be on top of the production as a whole
reviewing thoroughly every single scene that was finished and put together multiple times to ensure
the quality that they were aiming for he would do this during different steps of the process
leaving little room for any mess-ups or things that weren't right to make it through to the
finished product when dealing with a show in this market aiming to compete with other shows in this
space's age demographic action more specifically fighting and violence have to be handled in a
certain way to get around this similar to Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon we can shift the fighting from the
actual human characters for the most part to the more Fantastical or mystical characters which is
why we have the whole Titan aspect where they end up in these massive brawls but the humans
are still around for the situational observations and conflict-based dialogue once all was said and
done the show would officially premiere on on January 3rd 2009 on the CW for kids the first
season was pretty fun mainly focusing directly on the character of Locke and his journey to be this
incredible Seeker just like his father was while having to face the organization who was constantly
after him and his group this group being the Huntik Foundation which are the Protectors of
the world from certain Seekers as these Seekers are for the greater good of understanding learning
and unearthing these lost treasures that contain immense power holding in these Titans which can
be used for evil if fallen into the wrong hands we see this season as a global Adventure finding
these items and making sure that the beings inside are bonded with a Seeker to be on the
good side of things before it's too late and they get bonded to the dark side the show boasts an
array of cool and creative character designs for the Titans and when they are summoned for battle
we always get an exciting yet sometimes repetitive introduction to the Titan coming out to battle for
the next season however the show would change in animation style very noticeably going from
the traditional animation look to flash animation very similar to what happened to chaotic also the
whole releasing of the second season wasn't as smooth as the episodes just coming out as you
think they would as when the show was done being on CW for kids some just thought that the show was
over and taken off the air but what happened was that Viacom made a purchase of 30 ownership into
Rainbow Spa strathy's Animation Studio this meant that Huntik would be in the hands of Viacom to
distribute through their ownership of Nickelodeon across the globe Nicktoons in the U.S would get it
a lot later than the rest of the world premiering season 2 throughout 2012 and 2013 leaving the
final 15 episodes unaired or unreleased on their Channel until Netflix would release the series on
streaming in October of 2015 so the several year gaps surely didn't help with the brand recognition
to build this show at least in the territory that I'm familiar with but another real problem
that it faced may have caused some pushback from audiences truly getting into it and it was this
loose reference people would make to the show as being this ripoff of Yu-Gi-Oh in some ways but for
the second season in general the character writing did seem to ramp up a bit working towards flushing
them out Beyond only focusing on lock being the sole entity hero that everyone is just around to
support but rather getting their time to shine amongst all of the action and excitement from
there season 2 also brings in a greater threat to the world and the Huntik Foundation known as
the blood spiral allowing us to find out more about Sophie's character and her connection to
the overall plot and a new season also means hey maybe add a new character to join on the
adventure to add a lot more for the story or to produce more action figures take your pick here
we have Den Fierce a character that would have a real reason personally to help fight against the
evil that is rising thanks to his brother who was raised alongside of him in an orphanage being now
fully corrupted to spiral while Den wanted away from that life now trying to save his brother he
ends up with the Huntik foundation and has this unique ability thanks to his spiral Mark to bond
with a Titan of Darkseid only allowed bonds making a pretty useful fit for the team like
I said it felt like there was a larger urgency for richer characters for an audience to attach
themselves to with storyline that raises the stakes in the overall action but while the show
was entertaining and finding a more distinct voice how was the fan base dealing with it
what else was there to keep people interested in the property especially because all of the
weird release scheduling of the second season and remaining episodes if the show wasn't enough to
keep the attention over time whether due to the show itself or the scheduling then there really
is no brand recognition right let me have some please that pretty much wraps up basic training
the hunter trading card game all the tools are in your hands now there was another major aspect to
the show or I guess the property as a whole that was the additional Market outside of the animation
originally working with Upper Deck there was no doubt that some form of card game needed to come
out of this which led to the card game releasing a month after the show would Premiere giving us a
clue that working with upper deck a good part of developing the show was developing a card
game to go along with it like most trading card games based on shows that don't feature it as a
main mechanic like Yu-Gi-Oh would the game would feature Seekers Titans and cards that would cause
the action and would be your standard 1v1 game the cards in general were cool but we never saw
anything take off from this and outside of that another major piece of the success pie would be
action figures which the show definitely did from smaller to larger sizes that you can find
in stores as far as sales go with them it's really kind of hard to determine the show would come to
an end after two seasons 52 episodes in total it had a decent sized fan base that wasn't all
that not certain about the future of the franchise however like the show was popular enough to have
Theme Park attractions for it in Rome at magic land so internationally there was interest Beyond
just the region you may be familiar with and just look at all this drip you could get I mean come
on you're telling me you wouldn't wear this for more expansion they did try and come out with a
Nintendo DS game in 2009 but it was never fully finished or released for some reason it was said
to be quite the experience with a story mode that would have taken around 20 hours to complete and
having some sort of multiplayer functionality to it but in 2010 there was a haunted game that did
come out this time for iOS devices Huntik Titan defense playing as a seeker and different Titans
that you unlock you fight back against those trying to attack you and get access to the
journal speaking of book related things there was also a decent amount of comics produced for the
show as well and so if not for the lack of effort Huntik was priming itself to be a property that
was on all fronts trying to dominate but with the landscape being heavily filled with so many other
franchises literally filling the shelves it's hard to stand out Huntik did at the bare minimum bring
a pretty entertaining show that featured some fun characters and creature designs that should keep
you fairly entertained throughout its run the series would eventually just become listed as
quietly canceled if the Silence of it all and the weird release scheduling didn't already give that
away which I think is pretty sad there was some fun ideas here at play that ultimately never got
to be fully realized but it did end up finding something unique and true to Itself by the end
which I would also love to know from you are you a fan of Huntik when it came out from the
show to the card game any of it really did it capture your attention how do you feel about it
let me know in the comments thanks so much for watching a like And subscribe later thank you
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