A look at the events with animation in May.
Netflix
Samson (Marmaduke) (May 6th)
Samson is a clumsy and disobedient dog, but with a heart of gold. This time he has to take part in an elegant dog competition, and for him, who cannot avoid trouble, it is no small matter!
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 – Sustainable Warfare (9 May)
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_20 Season 1 Movie Remake
45″ with the addition of new scenes.
Barbie – The Academy of Princesses (May 16)
Blair Willows is working as a waitress when she finds out her sister entered her in a lottery. The winner is inducted into the prestigious Academy for Princesses. With surprise, it is Blair who goes to the academy where he meets the principal Privet, a very strict woman but at the same time very kind to Blair.
vampire in the garden (May 16)
The fated encounter between a human and the Vampire Queen could change the world. In a cold winter, humanity lost its battle against vampires and with it what many of them called home. The few who survived erected a wall of light in a small town to try to stay safe and live in peace. Momo lives a cramped life but hopes to coexist with vampires. Well, the vampire queen once loved humans and vanished from the battlefields. War comes to the cities of men. Long ago, humans and vampires lived together in harmony in a place called Heaven. This is the story of a young girl and a vampire on a journey in search of heaven.
Boss Baby: Back to family (May 19)
This time Theodore Templeton, accused of embezzlement, is forced into hiding with his brother and two nieces. The protagonist will try to pose as one of his brother Tim’s sons. Will he succeed?
Love, Death & Robots – third volume (May 20)
Terrible creatures, sensational surprises and comedy noir in this adults-only animated anthology series presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher.
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 – second season (May 23)
In the not too distant future, cyber problems have become a real plague. These cases are handled by Kusanagi Motoko, a cyborg who heads Division 9 of the Public Security Division.
Shaman King (2021) – Part Four (May 26)
Yoh Asakura is the descendant of a very old family of shamans. He can see ghosts from a young age and rather than ignore or fear them, he always tends to make friends. His greatest wish is to live in peace. The story begins in Tokyo, where she goes to school with a boy named Manta whom she met in a cemetery. Manta immediately becomes a great friend of his, so much so that he reveals his ability as an intermediary with the spirits. Yoh is in Tokyo to take part in the Shaman Battle, a tournament between shamans that takes place every 500 years to choose the shaman king. The shaman king is the messiah who turns the great destruction of this world into a great rebirth every 500 years, joins the Great Spirit and becomes the most powerful shaman on earth. Ren Tao, also descended from an ancient shaman family, will be his greatest rival.
Amazon Prime Video
Naruto – first and second season (May 1st)
Orphaned by birth, Naruto Uzumaki is a Leaf Village ninja who likes to fool around to get attention. Although he is only twelve years old, he already dreams of becoming a Hokage, the ninja at the head of the village. Always an abandoned child, Naruto accidentally discovers the reason everyone is keeping him at a distance: Sealed inside is the spirit of the Fox-Nine-Tails, a gargantuan supernatural demon that leveled the tide years ago. After entering the Ninja Academy, Naruto is placed in Group 7, consisting of Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, and led by Master Kakashi Hatake. Between multiple adventures in countries of different cultures and exciting battles against dangerous opponents, Naruto begins a journey to discover himself, his origins, the value of friendship and the honor of being a ninja.
Hotel Transylvania 2 (1st of May)
Mavis and Johnny, who have been married for a year, have a son, Dennis, who shows no signs of being a vampire. Because of this, Mavis thinks it best to move to California, where Johnny grew up, believing the world of monsters is too dangerous for a human child. Johnny has been feeling neglected lately as Mavis is particularly obsessed with her son for doing whatever needs to be done for his good. Johnny, like Dracula, is reluctant to leave the hotel he now lives in, admitting that he finally feels comfortable in this place…
Haikyu!! – second season (May 11)
After attending a volleyball game, young Shoyo Hinata sets a personal goal of becoming the sport’s “little giant”. He joins his middle school volleyball club and takes on the inter-school tournament with the team, but he and his teammates must bow down to a strong team led by a formidable player named Tobio Kageyama. Eager to reach the top and get revenge on Kageyama, Shoyo continues to practice volleyball even as he enters high school, where he finds his rival Kageyama at the school club.
bleaching – Fourteenth Season (May 25)
Ichigo is a boy with a very special gift: he can see ghosts. His family has two sisters with powers similar to yours and a skeptical and slightly insane father. One day he is involved in a strange accident and thanks to his powers he is the only one present who understands what is really happening. The turmoil of the last days is caused by a few creatures that use great spiritual power to hunt down and devour the souls of ghosts and humans: the hollows. Opposing them are the Shinigami (Gods of Death), also invisible to ordinary people, and with the added task of bringing peace to the souls trapped on Earth. Soon, due to his supernatural powers, Ichigo himself becomes prey to the Hollows and “reborn” as a shinigami in a last-ditch effort to save his loved ones…
Disney+
Cip & Dale Agenti Speciali follows the story of the two Disney squirrels who once became TV stars thanks to the hit series of which they were the protagonists. Now living in Los Angeles, they have no contacts and lead very different lives: Cip lives a life away from the limelight, working as an insurance salesman; while Dale hopes to recapture the glory of the past by working at nostalgia conventions and has also decided to undergo surgery to be in CGI. The two squirrels are forced to meet again when one of their former castmates appears to have vanished into thin air. To find out where he may have ended up, Chip and Dale must step back into the role of Rescue Rangers detectives and solve the case.
Sources consulted:
Serial things (I, II)
Disney + (Twitter)