As a follow-up to our list of 32 upcoming animated shows and films on Netflix, here are 11 more banger programmes that you just HAVE to watch.
In our previous entry, we highlighted a wide range of upcoming treats, from “Ultraman: Rising” to “Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie.”
Well, here are eleven more Netflix animated movies and series you need to look out for:
Big Mouth Season 8
- Release Date: 2025
- Cast: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Ayo Edebiri, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, Andrew Rannells, Jordan Peele
“Big Mouth” is the critically-acclaimed and Emmy-winning adult animated comedy about the glorious nightmare that is puberty. Inspired by Kroll and Goldberg’s childhoods, it follows a group of friends and their hormone monsters as they navigate adolescence, human sexuality, and coming of age. The final season, which will air in 2025, will make Big Mouth the longest running series in Netflix history, outside of Kids and Family programming.
Pookoo
- Release Date: 2025
- Cast: TBA
Pookoo is a buddy comedy about a small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of The Valley, who magically swap places and embark on an unforgettable adventure.
Tokyo Override
- Release Date: 2024
- Cast: TBA
In an AI-optimised Tokyo 100 years in the future, an orphaned teenage hacker blends in until a favour for her only friend accidentally draws her into a benevolent gang of outcast motorbike riders. They begin to uncover the seemingly utopian city’s sinister underbelly by investigating a murder linked to a drug syndicate.
The series is directed by Yusuke Fukada and Veerapatra Jinanavin in collaboration with Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. The film was animated by the RiFF Studio, a Thai-based animation studio known for its work on Mantra Warrior: Legend of the Eight Moons, EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME, Nine Satra, and more.
Leviathan
- Release Date: 2025
- Cast: TBA
“The Leviathan” is set at the beginning of an alternate version of World War I that follows two characters, Aleksandar of Hohenberg, a prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Deryn Sharp, a commoner girl who dreams of joining the Royal Naval Air Service. The two meet at the HMS Leviathan and change the course of the war and history altogether. It’s based on Scotts Westerfield’s “Leviathan,” and illustrated by Keith Thompson. The animation is directed by Christophe Ferreira.
Exploding Kittens
- Release Date: 12th July, 2024
- Cast: Tom Ellis, Sasheer Zamata, Suzy Nakamura, Mark Proksch, Ally Maki, Kenny Yates
Earth sucks, so God (Tom Ellis) gets fired and is sent to Earth to reconnect with humanity. The catch? He is trapped inside the body of a fat house cat. As part of his rehabilitation, he moves in with a dysfunctional family and attempts to solve their problems, but he spends most of his time chasing laser pointers. To top it all off, Godcat’s next-door neighbour, who is also a cat, turns out to be his arch-nemesis, the Antichrist. The end result is a battle between good and evil. Except that Godcat (Ellis) is distracted by a pigeon he spotted in the garden, and Devilcat (Sasheer Zamata) is taking a nap on someone’s laptop.
Terminator Zero
- Release Date: 29th, August 2024
- Cast: TBA
2022: A decades-long war has raged between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: Skynet, an artificial intelligence, became self-aware and began its war against humanity.
Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee, who is developing a new AI system to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is pursued by a relentless assassin from the future, whose actions permanently alter the fate of his three children.
Twilight of the Gods
- Release Date: 2024
- Cast: Sylvia Hoeks, Stuart Martin, Pilou Asbaek, John Noble, Paterson Joseph, Rahul Kohli, Jamie Clayton, Kristopher Hivju, Peter Stormare, Jamie Chung, Lauren Cohan, and Corey Stoll.
In a mythical world of great battles, great deeds, and great despair, Leif, a mortal king, is rescued on the battlefield by Sigrid, an iron-willed warrior with whom he falls in love. On their wedding night, Sigrid and Leif survive Thor’s wrath of terror, sending them — and a crew of crusaders — on a merciless mission for vengeance against all odds. Directed by Zack Snyder, Jay Olivia, and Eric Carrasco, Twilight of the Gods is about a hero’s journey of love, loss, and vengeance that takes him across various realms, from vast woodlands to hell itself, with fierce and bloody battlefields and wars against deities and demons.
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
- Release Date: 10th, October 2024
- Cast: Hayley Atwell, Allen Maldonado, and Earl Baylon
Over 25 years since her first appearance, Lara Croft will once again wear her fingerless gloves to search for ancient artefacts in the new animated show Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft.
The series picks up immediately after the events of the Survivor Trilogy of video games — Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider — with Lara abandoning her friends to embark on increasingly dangerous solo adventures. However, Lara is forced to return home after a dangerous and powerful Chinese artefact is stolen from Croft Manor by a thief with an uncanny personal connection. Her daring pursuit will lead her on an adventure around the world and into the depths of forgotten tombs, forcing her to confront her true self and decide what kind of hero she wants to be.
Arcane Season 2
- Release Date: November 2024
- Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell
The continuation of the hit Netflix series, based on the popular MOBA game League of Legends, is back. After the death of Silco and the attack on the Piltover Council by Jinx, Piltover and Zaun fall into chaos as war looms around the corner. Vi joins Piltover’s finest alongside Caitlyn in an effort to bring peace and find her sister, Jinx. However, amidst the chaos, powerful factions from foreign lands threaten the two nations, and a mysterious beast emerges that will further shake the balance.
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
- Release Date: 2024
- Cast: Paul-Mikél Williams, Sean Giambrone, Darren Barnet, Raini Rodriguez, and Kausar Mohammed
Set six years after the events at Camp Cretaceous, members of “The Nublar Six” are struggling to find their footing outside the islands, navigating a world now populated by dinosaurs and people who want to harm them. Reunited in the aftermath of a tragedy, the group comes together only to find themselves on the run and catapulted into a global adventure to uncover a conspiracy that threatens dinosaurs and humans alike, as well as finally learn the truth about what happened to one of their own.
Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld
- Release Date: 2024
- Cast: Ali Wong, Bowen Yang, Lori Tan Chinn, Lucy Liu, Jimmy O. Yang, Sheng Wang, Woosung Kim
Jentry Chau (voiced by Ali Wong), a Chinese-American teen living in a small Texas town, discovers that a demon king is after her supernatural powers, which she has spent her entire life trying to suppress. Jentry must now battle an entire underworld’s worth of monsters while balancing the horrors of high school with the assistance of her weapons expert great-aunt and a millennia-old jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampire).
