7.8 /10 1 Votes
Creative director(s) Ben Jones First episode date 27 October 2014 Language English | 7.7/10 IMDb Opening theme "Major Lazer" Network FXX Composer Major Lazer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Diplo
Ferry Gouw
Kevin Kusatsu Developed by Nick Weidendfeld
Diplo
Ferry Gouw
Kevin Kusatsu Voices of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Angela Trimbur
John Boyega
Ashante "Taranchyla" Reid
James Adomian
J.K. Simmons Theme music composer Diplo
Derek "DJA" Allen Genres Musical theatre, Action fiction, Science Fiction Similar Stone Quackers, Axe Cop, Lucas Bros Moving Co, Golan the Insatiable, High School USA! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Major Lazer is an American animated television series based on the electronic music project of the same name, created by DJ and record producer Diplo with Ferry Gouw and Kevin Kusatsu. It first premiered on FXX as a sneak peek on October 27, 2014, and then regularly on April 16, 2015 as part of their Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD) block. After Stone Quackers, Major Lazer is the second ADHD original series to be aired on the channel after FOX had stopped its broadcast of the block itself.
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- Major lazer season 1 2015 episode 1 2 3 full cartoon tv series 2015
- Plot
- Production
- Principal cast
- Additional voices
- Broadcast and reception
- References
The show has been renewed for a second season. On September 3, 2016, it was announced that John Boyega had left the series to focus on the new Star Wars films.
Major lazer season 1 2015 episode 1 2 3 full cartoon tv series 2015
Plot
Set in the future, Major Lazer is a Jamaican superhero with a laser gun for a right hand who fights against the dystopian forces led by Jamaica's leader President Whitewall and his servant General Rubbish. Major Lazer is assisted in his fight by President Whitewall's daughter Penny Whitewall and hacker Blkmrkt.
Production
Major Lazer had been in production for nearly five years before its premiere. An animated television show, it was originally considered for Adult Swim in 2011. The musical group Major Lazer, on which the show is based, previously starred animated characters, including the character of Major Lazer. Ferry Gouw, along with John Pham, served as art director for this incarnation. Other musicians such as Jay Z, and the Odd Future collective, had signed on for television shows on the network during the year; Odd Future's came out as Loiter Squad the next year. Billboard announced Major Lazer would premiere on Fox in 2014. Cat Power and Riff Raff were said to have collaborated on the soundtrack for the show.
In 2015, Billboard announced the show would premiere on FXX. Diplo called the long wait of the production "worth it to have such a succinct TV show for our music fans and cartoon fans alike". He said that it would appeal to "any fans of hip-hop [and] electronic music or '80s cartoons, and the culture that gave birth to [Major Lazer's] musical landscape". Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who voices the eponymous character, described the feeling of the show as "like being high". J. K. Simmons voices President Whitewall, while Aziz Ansari, Ezra Koenig, Riff Raff, Andy Samberg, and Charli XCX make guest voice performances.
Principal cast
Additional voices
Broadcast and reception
The show premiered on April 16, 2015. The Major Lazer group's third album was expected to be released near the same date, but was moved to June 1. A special preview of the show was broadcast on October 27, 2014, on FXX. Erik Adams of The A.V. Club graded the series with an B, praising its visuals reminiscent of the "chunky outlines, washed-out colors, and fantastical content of '80s Saturday-morning fare" while calling the writing solid yet familiar.
In 2016, Teletoon at Night began to broadcast the show at 11:15pm EST in Canada.