Safety, for Kipo, has always meant living below ground. Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, an American animated series from 2020 credited to Bill Wolkoff and Radford Sechrist, begins on the day that safety ends and she finds herself on the surface with no map home.

What is Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts about?

Kipo has been raised in an underground community, sheltered from a world she knows mostly by reputation. A mutant attack changes that in a moment, throwing her up to the surface and far away from the only home she has known. Up there, nothing she learned below quite applies. The landscape belongs to mutated creatures, the rules are unfamiliar, and every stretch of ground has to be read before it can be crossed. Each episode pushes her a little further through this world as she learns, fast and by necessity, how to survive in it, who can be trusted, and how she might find her way back to the people she lost.

About the cast

Karen Fukuhara leads the voice cast. Around her are Sydney Mikayla, Dee Bradley Baker, Deon Cole, Coy Stewart, Grey DeLisle, Dan Stevens and Sterling K. Brown, a line-up that mixes career voice actors with performers better known from live-action work.

Context & significance

The series is filed under action, adventure, animation and fantasy, and it uses all four. The setting is post-apocalyptic, yet the tone is closer to a quest story than to a grim survival tale: the surface is dangerous, but it is also strange, colourful and full of things worth being curious about. Episodes run about 24 minutes, which keeps the pace quick and makes the show easy to watch in short sittings or several chapters at a time. Because the story follows one girl from sheltered beginner to capable traveller, it works for older children and teenagers. Among viewers it is one of the more warmly regarded animated series of its year.

Watching Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts on Ktime

K-Time offers Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can choose Farsi voices or the original audio with Farsi text. This page is open to everyone; playback needs a K-Time account login. The whole experience, from search to player, is designed for Persian-speaking households outside Iran.