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Hello steemians

Doing a break from my usual artposting for making an animated series recommendation, the show in question is named Wakfu, and is based on a MMORPG of the same name developed by Ankama, at glance it seems pretty much a generic adventure fantasy world where you can find elves, paladins, dragons, etc but Ankama has actually developed a quite nice fictional universe with even an original creation myth related to the events of the series of which I will tell a bit later in the post, It also has this unique art style and character design, that definitively draws a lot from anime aesthetic but still stand apart, that being said it would be easy to believe Wakfu is of Japanese production but actually it's entirely done in France.

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Ankama has produced other animated material related to Wakfu's universe, such as Dofus: Treasures of Kerub (2013) with a follow up movie Dofus: Livre 1 - Julith (2016), and apparently more coming soon. These animated features depict events that happened well before the Wakfu series timeline, giving more insight to this whole universe, in fact some of the characters introduced in them appear eventually in Wakfu as well.

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Wakfu's universe uses the common trope of duality, ying & yang, good vs evil, but presents it in fresh and original way that makes it interesting, the universe called Krosmoz with apparently an egg shape was formed by the clash of the force of creation Wakfu and the force of destruction Stasis both incarnated by the primordial deities of Ealiatrope and the Great Dragon respectively, from this huge Krosmoz that contains hundreds of billions of galaxies everything of interest seems to be happening in the planet called the World of Twelves, named that way because of the 12 ruling gods in it, each god represents a race of the planet inhabitants, which mostly resemble humans, elves and some furry like creatures (anthropomorphic cats and dogs) but I stop here as this is actually covered in either the series Wakfu or Dofus, BTW Dofus is the name for the Dragon Eggs, which are central to storyline.

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Now this animated series is not new by any means, it was first aired in 2008 with a 1st season of 26 episodes, then in 2011 a second season started which would have 26 episodes too, then came a number of special episodes or short films continuing the story until a full new season got released last year (2017), I'm not sure if the 3rd season is officially finished at ep.13 or if will continue to 26 like the other two, is not strange for Ankama to space out episodes by months, so they might come up with more soon.

Now enough talking, here are some actual videos showing you what I'm recomending:

• First fighting scene from ep.1, the main antagonist "Nox" against the dragon "Grougaloragran"
  

Here the rematch between the same characters a lot of episodes later, see the increase in animation quality

Here the "origins story" of Nox, this one in particular was actually outsourced to a Japanese animation studio and character designs by Masaaki Yuasa, you may know him for "Lu over the wall"

Another fight scene from the Dofus movie

I hope this has sparked some interest in you for this animated series which I find quite entertaining and now for closing some extra material, I believe this is the DeviantArt account of the Character Designer for Ankama, if not is a damn good fan art, enjoy!
https://xa-xa-xa.deviantart.com/

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