Chaotic is an American animated science fantasy television series produced by 4Kids Entertainment. It was animated by Canadian studio Bardel Entertainment for season 1 and South Korean studio Dong Woo Animation for season 2 and 3. It is based on the Danish trading card game of the same name, with most of the plot based on the original storyline of the Danish trading card game. The rights have since defaulted to Bryan C. Gannon, who's leading an effort to revive the game for modern audiences by licensing the franchise to Epic Story Media.

Premise

Chaotic tells the tale of a teenage boy named Tom and his friend Kaz. They both play the Chaotic Trading Card/Online Game. Kaz always tries to tell Tom about a secret code to play for real which Tom refuses to believe. While playing online Tom receives the special password. When he enters the password into his game scanner he is transported to a place called Chaotic that is able to take him to another world where the characters, locations and items in the card game came to life. There are two parts to the Chaotic world, Chaotic itself and Perim. Chaotic is where the people play an advanced version of the card/online game where they transform into the creatures. The games can be watched via monitor by other players. The second part is Perim. In Perim the creatures, locations and items from the game are real. Players from the Chaotic game can teleport into Perim and scan the locations, creatures and items with their scanners, gaining the ability to use them in their games. There are four tribes in Perim. Two tribes, the heroic-looking Overworlders and the demonic-looking Underworlders, have been at war over a great power called the Cothica. Despite their names, there is no definite good and evil tribe, as both have different stories and interpretations of how the war began, with each tribe seeing the other as being evil and the ones who started the conflict. The Danians (insectoid creatures) and Mipedians (reptilian creatures) have since joined the war, turning it into a four-way conflict over the Cothica. It is said that the Mipedians were once united with the Overworlders and the Danians united with the Underworlders. It is still unknown why they separated. Both Chaotic and Perim are made up of a mysterious code called the "Chaotic Code". The code is noted for constantly changing in random ways. Thus, it is considered "chaotic." In Perim, the Chaotic Code describes everything. It contains the information for all the creatures, BattleGear, attacks, Mugic, and locations. The Cothica, mentioned above, is the source of all the codes in Perim. The code also describes everything in Chaotic. The BattleDromes, Transporters, and CodeScanners can analyze and/or modify this code for matches, transport, or creation of virtual cards. When the players are in Chaotic/Perim, they exist simultaneously on Earth so their daily lives can continue without drawing concern or attention from others. When a Chaotic player leaves Chaotic they become one person again and the Earth version of the player gains the memories of anything they experienced in the Chaotic/Perim world. This is awkward the first time they transport, as their online deck is blocked so that their Chaotic self can use it and their scanner becomes non-functional, causing many people to believe they have broke their scanners until they are re-united with their Chaotic self.

Episodes

Characters

Principal voice actors

Other voice actors

The voice director for the series was Darren Dunstan.

Samsung Voice Cast

Broadcast

A short preview was shown on 4Kids TV on September 30, 2006, at 10:30 AM ET. The show officially premiered on October 7 of that same year. 4Kids Entertainment plans to "roll out the storyline over seven years", implying there were seven seasons planned for the television series. A second season, called Chaotic: M'arillian Invasion, began airing in September 2008 on 4Kids TV. While season 1 used flash animation, seasons two and three were animated in traditional animation. Jetix (U.S.) bought the cable rights to the show and began airing it daily at 7:00 AM on October 1, 2007. Digital cable providers, such as Comcast, Cox Communications and Bresnan Communications, began to air four new episodes in February 2008 on 4KidsTV's Video On Demand service. Teletoon and The CW4Kids aired most of the premiere episodes for their respective countries. The CW4Kids premiere episodes began airing in February 2009 with M'arillian Invasion episode 14, while Teletoon began airing the second season in January 2009. Cartoon Network took over premieres for the final seven M'arrillian Invasion episodes in the U.S. in August 2009, but The CW4Kids regained the premieres when the third series, entitled Secrets of the Lost City, started on October 31, 2009, where the rest of the series would then have its premieres simultaneously on both Cartoon Network and The CW4Kids. Toon Disney aired the show on Jetix. On February 13, 2009, Jetix, along with Toon Disney, merged into a new network called Disney XD. The Jetix brand no longer exists in the United States, but the first season of Chaotic continued to air on the network. Cartoon Network acquired the rights for the second and third seasons and began airing them and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's in June 2009. By airing the second season straight through, The CW was able to premiere episodes before The CW4Kids. The series finale aired on March 13, 2010, but the show continued to air on Cartoon Network and Disney XD until 2011. In 2019, the owner of Chaotic, Bryan Gannon, announced in an interview his plans to revive the television series. The series will not consider to be a reboot, but it will instead pick up where it left off from "Son of the Spiritlands", similar to the Samurai Jack season 5 revival. The series is currently available on Tubi, Amazon Prime and Peacock.

Video game

Chaotic: Shadow Warriors is a 2009 action video game based on the TV series. It was released in North America on November 10, 2009, on the PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS.