
Itzan Escamilla
Jack (voz)

After a necromancer takes over the magical world of Idhun, two adolescent earthlings help fight an assassin sent to kill all Idhunese refugees on Earth.
Fantasy underdogs get a pass from me. I root for the story that tries to cram a whole war into a space too small for it. The Idhun Chronicles is that show. Magical world under siege.
A necromancer's shadow stretching across kingdoms. Rebels fighting to last. Chosen ones, plural.
The animation is lush. The storytelling panics. It feels like a novel read aloud too fast.
Beautiful lines, gone before you can hold them.
The series opens with a resistance, a prophecy, a world worth saving. Jack and Victoria, two Earth teenagers, get thrown into a war between the last free people of Idhun and Ashran, the necromancer who seized control. Classic, almost comforting in its familiarity.
A map of places you've never heard of and immediately want to walk. A sword that hums with destiny. A villain whose power outruns his originality.
Necromancers are cheap in this genre. One with something new to say is rare. The setup isn't the problem.
The clip is. The pace feels less like urgency than fear that you'll leave if a scene sits still.

The pictures rescue it more than once. Idhun and Earth collide in a style that borrows anime dynamism and still looks like itself. Floating islands with jagged edges and a soft, dreamlike glow.
I wanted to get lost there. The fights have a fluidity that makes them feel weighty even when the stake is the fate of two worlds, a phrase so large it almost evaporates. In the first episode Jack and Victoria are cornered by an assassin in a subway station.
Neon lights on wet pavement. The camera lingers. For a second you believe this world might be worth the war.
"A visually striking fantasy whose ambitious world-building outpaces its storytelling."
Vibrant animation and an imaginative setting bring Idhun to life. Uneven pacing and thin character development make the story feel disjointed; the voice cast is generally well received.
On 8 January 2021, the same day Netflix dropped the second batch of The Idhun Chronicles, Laura Gallego posted that more seasons were not planned. The adaptation covered only the first book. A day later she wrote that no agreement had been reached to adapt the later books, "lo sentimos." FormulaTV printed both posts from @_LauraGallego. Triada and Panteon stay on the page. The English title is The Idhun Chronicles. The Spanish title is Memorias de Idhun. Zeppelin TV made it for Netflix. Maite Ruiz de Austri directed. Ten episodes, two parts of five, running 25 to 27 minutes. Part 1 arrived worldwide on 10 September 2020. Part 2 arrived on 8 January 2021 with almost no push. Gallego and Andres Carrion developed and wrote the scripts. latestnetflix.com's take is that Alexis Barroso and Pilar Blasco are listed as executive producers.Kaelo Del Rio composed.,,
In autumn 2018, Gallego sat in on a Castilian dubbing cast of professional voice actors. She later said some of those actors were swapped, unexpectedly, for performers with no dubbing experience. Her statement on her own site was blunt. Those voices, she wrote, "no son las que yo habia imaginado para mis personajes." She wanted specialists. Production wanted something else, and their criterion won. The final Spanish leads were Itzan Escamilla of Elite, Michelle Jenner, Nico Romero, Sergio Mur, and Carlos Cuevas. Jenner was the one with a real dubbing resume. Gallego did not name who replaced whom. Fans did. A dubbing student even cut a comparison video against Escamilla. Several of the actors answered on social media after Part 1 landed, and FormulaTV said they did not do it gently.,
Gallego's site, on 13 August 2020, said Part 1 adapts the first section of La Resistencia, five episodes of 25 minutes, for subscribers anywhere Netflix reaches. Eldiario.es sold the project as Netflix's first Spanish original in anime style, produced by Zeppelin in Vitoria-Gasteiz, with Jenner as Victoria, Escamilla as Jack, Mur as Kirtash, Cuevas as Alsan, and Romero as Shail. The books, published from 2004 to 2006, had sold about a million copies. Netflix title 81002001 still lists two parts and a 16+ rating in Spain. A rumor that Movistar+ almost took an earlier animated version circulated in Spanish tech press. Treat that as rumor. The confirmed break is the rights line. Netflix had book one. Gallego would not sell two and three on the terms on the table. The live gossip on this title treated the show as a low-key mystery with a single grokipedia page. The actual gossip was public in August 2020 and closed in January 2021. Book fans wanted dragons and unicorns through Panteon. They got ten episodes of La Resistencia and an author who said she was sorry.,,,
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