The Boys is getting an Animatrix-style animated spinoff

If you’ve ever been curious about Awkwafina’s fanfic for Amazon’s gory anti-superhero series The Boys, your moment has come — or at least, it’s on the way.

Prime Video announced on Dec. 5 that the live-action series will be getting a spinoff in 2022, featuring eight “deliciously unique, twisted animated episodes set in the world of The Boys.” The initial video announcement, featuring series star Karl Urban, who plays anti-superhero activist Billy Butcher, says each episode will be written by a different person or team.

Garth Ennis was the creator of the first comic book version. BoysOne of the credited authors is, Other notables include Awkwafina, a movie star and musician (recently featured in Shang-Chi, the Legend of the Ten Rings and Shang-Chi), Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg, longtime writing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, SplicedCreator and Invincible screenwriter Simon Racioppa, Archer’s Aisha Tyler, Rick and Morty’s Justin Roiland and Ben Bayouth, and sibling duo Ilana Glazer (co-creator of Broad City) and Eliot Glazer (producer of Neue Girl).

Other details were not provided in the announcement. DiabolicalEven though there is an emphasis on eight writers, or teams of authors, it suggests that the anthology contains unlinked shorts along the lines of The Animatrix or Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots. The video, which prominently features Billy’s bulldog Terror energetically licking his own genitals, certainly suggests the animated series will continue to express The Boys’ love of all things transgressive. The series, about a world full of superheroes who abuse their powers and anti-heroes who hunt and punish them, has certainly left plenty of room for side stories — the sprawling cast and the scope of the world suggests a lot of unmined potential that could be taken up by creative minds.

Diabolical It seems unrelated to what was previously reported BoysSpinoff is a series about college students that explores what education means for super-powered young people. Boys world.

DiabolicalPrime Video will launch in 2022