
It starts a little slowly, but once all the funky pieces start coming together, the show is a vibrant mosaic, with a unique world, multidimensional character relationships, and a deeper underlying plot that explores the deep-seated tensions between the surviving humans and the mutants. Kipo’s plot is familiar, sending its young heroes on a fantasy exploration quest. After Kipo’s burrow is attacked by a mysterious giant mutant animal, she manages to escape to the surface. While some human survivors remain on the surface, most have descended into underground communities known as burrows.
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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, created by How to Train Your Dragon 2 story artist Radford Sechrist, takes place in a world where mutated animals have taken over, and nature has swallowed the ruins of human civilization. Anyone who spent some part of their childhood making their stuffed animals fight world conquerors through the power of pop music should immediately understand. Each episode brings kooky creatures and wacky challenges that tie into a deeper, darker arc. The first episode of DreamWorks’ newest animated Netflix series feels like the creators cracked open a toy box and created a zany game of make-believe from everything inside. By the end of the episode, Kipo learns that not all mutants are eager to meet humans - and not all humans want to befriend mutants. That earns her the trust of a cute, four-eyed pig-creature that she dubs Mandu (after a Korean dumpling), but it also means that after she tries to pet some giant, multi-eared fluffy baby bunnies, their immense mother sits on her. In the first episode of Netflix’s new animated post-apocalyptic fantasy series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, the protagonist, excitable 13-year-old human Kipo (Karen Fukuhara), is on a quest to pet every cute thing that comes her way.
