The Boys-iverse Expands Yet Again With the Animated Series Diabolical

Amazon Studios has gone boy loopy! Er, Boys loopy! First the streaming large confirmed a live-action spin-off present set at “America’s only college for superheroes.” Then in the present day it introduced that an animated, eight-part anthology sequence titled Diabolical is on the best way from The Boys’ govt producers and writers, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

Diabolical isn’t a brand new sequence, however relatively a set of brief movies set within the superhero universe of The Boys, which I’ll now be calling the Boys-iverse. “Ever since we saw the animated film The Animatrix, a series of short animated films set in the universe of The Matrix, we’ve wanted to rip it off. Today that dream has come true,” mentioned Rogen and Goldberg, referring to the 2003 collection made by a bevy of high anime studios. (It’s additionally precisely just like the current Star Wars: Visions anthology.) Diabolical is animated by Titmouse Studios, the studio behind Star Trek: Lower Decks, the brand new Animaniacs sequence, and The Venture Bros.

While the precise content material of Diabolical hasn’t been introduced—one may assume it has one thing to do with supervillains, though within the Boys-iverse the superheroes themselves are already principally supervillains—the names of the folks making the shorts have been launched, and it’s a powerful checklist: Shang-Chi’s Awkwafina, The Boys creator Garth Ennis, New Girl’s Eliot Glazer and Broad City’s Ilana Glazer, Invincible’s Simon Racioppa, Rick & Morty’s Justin Roiland, Brooklyn 99‘s Andy Samberg, Archer’s Aisha Tyler, and naturally Rogen and Goldberg.

“Surprise! We’re almost finished with eight episodes of our animated series, Diabolical. We gathered together some incredible creators and we gave them one rule… just kidding, there’s no rules. They blew the doors off it, delivering eight completely unexpected, funny, shocking, gory, moist, emotional episodes. You think The Boys is nuts? Wait till you see this,” mentioned Diabolical govt producer Eric Kripke, who’s additionally the showrunner of The Boys.

Diabolical will premiere on Prime Video in some unspecified time in the future in 2022, as will The Boys’ different spin-off. But because the animated episodes are almost completed and it has an actual title, I think Diabolical might be premiering first.

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