Supa Team 4 : First African Animation Series From Netflix Gets Trailer and Release Date
Here’s a first trailer for Supa Team 4, Netflix’s first African animation series. The series launches next month on July 20.
The eight-part series sees comes from writer Malenga Mulendema, South African toon studio Triggerfish and London-based kids specialist Cake, with animation from France’s Superprod. African voice talent including John Kani, Pamela Nomvete, Zowa Ngwira, Namisa Mdlalose, Nancy Sekhokoane and Sparky Xulu are featured, alongside international actors John McMillan and Kimani Arthur.
In the fast-paced trailer, we see the four school-age teenagers living in a Neo-futuristic city of Lusaka recruited to become superheroes by a retired secret agent. They battle several supervillains, including a huge man with metal legs and a plague of locust-like bugs, a helmeted cyborb-like character, an older woman who produces electricity through a body suit and a crocodile one of the girls calls a “man-croco.”
“We’re a team. Always!” the girls tell each other, despite their families and others dissuading them from taking on their roles.
Mulendema is creator and co-executive producer. Anthony Silverston, Mike Buckland, Tom van Waveren, Edward Galton and Amy Keating Rogers are exec producers, and Ciara Breslin produces alongside Cake and Triggerfish.
The show is also being dubbed into isiZulu, where secret agent Mama K is voiced by Linda Sokhulu.
Zambian rapper, singer and songwriter Sampa the Great created the show’s theme song.
July is gearing up to be a great month for fans of animation in general and lovers of African culture in particular: Netflix unveiled today the first trailer for Supa Team 4, a 3D-animated series that centers around a group of teens that band together to protect the world from all kinds of threats. The series is set to premiere less than a month from now.
The trailer for Supa Team 4 delivers full Power Rangers energy, with the four superhero girls sporting multi-colored spandex suits in the neo-futuristic city of Lusaka, in Zambia. The girls also have all sorts of gadgets and can count on a cool grandma to mentor and advise them throughout their electrifying journey. She’s also the one who recruits them after observing their interactions and behavior for a while before deciding they were fit to wear the uniforms.
Supa Team 4 will also challenge the girls with dangerous villains which get teased in the trailer. They’ll face a bulky crocodile, a thunder-wielding megalomaniac, a swarm of locusts-controlling old man, as well as the mandatory giant robots and slimy kaiju that are common to superhero stories. Their leader seems to be a faceless individual with incredibly threatening vibes.
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