Beneath Manila's ordinary streets, this animated series stages a running conflict between the human city and the folklore that never left it.
What is Trese about?
Alexandra Trese works both sides of a line most people never notice: the daylight world of the police and the older, half-hidden world of spirits and creatures drawn from Filipino folklore. When crimes carry the fingerprints of something beyond ordinary explanation, she is the one detectives call, and the show builds its cases around that partnership between rational investigation and supernatural knowledge. Across the season, a larger pattern emerges behind the individual cases, hinting at unrest building among the city's hidden factions rather than treating each episode as a fully closed mystery. The series keeps its crime-procedural backbone even as the cases push further into folklore, letting one genre discipline the other instead of the show tipping fully into either.
About the cast
Shay Mitchell heads the English-language voice cast, joined by Carlos Alazraqui, Eric Bauza, Steve Blum, Jon Jon Briones, Matthew Yang King and Griffin Puatu across the recurring roles. Between them the cast carries the show's mix of clipped procedural dialogue and the older, more formal cadences given to its folkloric figures.
Context & significance
Trese adapts a Filipino comic series into animation, carrying over character designs and a sense of place rooted specifically in Manila rather than a generic city backdrop. Animated crime series that lean on regional folklore rather than imported mythology are still rare in wide release, and this one uses that specificity as its main point of difference from more familiar urban-fantasy shows. The production pairs Philippine source material with international animation and voice work, a combination that shapes both how the city looks and how its supernatural side is written.
Watching Trese on Ktime
Trese streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the page itself costs nothing to read. Viewers exploring animated crime and fantasy titles will find it sitting alongside other genre series in the catalogue, all reachable through K-Time's Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking audiences.