Wakfu

Wakfu is a French animated television series produced by Ankama Animation, based on the video game Wakfu. The first season of 26 episodes began airing on 30 October 2008, and new episodes would continue to air into January 2010 on France 3. The show is animated with Adobe Flash software; all the production is done in France except the special episodes "Noximilien l'Horloger" and "Ogrest, la Légende", both produced in Japan. The series is directed by Anthony "Tot" Roux, and character design is directed by Xavier "Xa" Houssin and Kim "Tcho" Etinoff.

Dubbing History
There had been several attempts to dub the series into English, with several pilot dubs being produced. In 2009 the first two episodes were shown for the very first time in English at the London MCM Expo, this dub features Barbara Weber-Scaff as Yugo, Sharon Mann as Amalia, Jodi Forrest as Evangelyne, David Gasman as Percedal, Paul Bandey as Ruel, and Matthew Géczy as Rubilax & Alibert. In 2011 a dubbed version of episode 9 was shown at Anime Expo, this dub is believed to have been recorded at Ocean Productions in Vancouver Canada. The cast in that dub isn't exactly clear, but it is most certain Jillian Michaels voiced as Yugo, Don Brown voiced as Ruel, and Jonathan Love voiced as Rich McDeek. On Chinook Animation's website, their portfolio lists working on 5 Wakfu episodes, two voice actors from Calgary, Lucas Gilbertson & Doug de Nance, have even confirmed their involvement in the series. Gilbertson confirmed he voiced as Percedal in that dub, it is currently unknown what roles de Nance did. It is unknown if this Calgary recorded dub is related to the Ocean dub or not, considering that Chinook is Ocean's sister company.

Dubbed versions of episodes 8 and 28 were originally available to watch on Planet Nemo Animation's website back in late 2013, this was an attempt to shop the series around in the hopes of an American network picking it up. Not much is known about this dub as these episodes have long since been removed. This dub may or may not be related to Ankama's 2009 pilot dub.

In early 2014 Ankama launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund an official English dub for the series, the campaign reached $483,524 out of an $80,000 goal. The dub was recorded in the UK at Flix Facilities, Ltd. The dub cast mostly consists of British voice actors as well as a few American voice actors who happen to be based in the UK. This dub covered nearly everything in the series, including the Specials, OVAs, Shorts and even the spin-off series Dofus: Kerub's Bazaar. In mid-2014 Netflix bought the distribution rights to the series, they released the first season on their servers in September of that year which marked the official debut of the dub. There was an initial backlash for not including the original French audio, the French audio was eventually added after the second season was put up. Netflix would also go on to co-produce the series' third season. The dub has received very polarizing reception from fans, many criticize the dub for its poor sound mixing and lackluster voice performances, while others defend it saying it has a certain charm to it.

Netflix covered the dub to Season 3 themselves, which was released on their servers in 2018. This dub switches to an entirely new voice cast based in Los Angeles. This dub strongly differs from the previous one, having several differences with how certain names or words are pronounced.

Video Releases
* Also Includes OVAs & Specials