įollowing the show's success, Guillermo del Toro announced that Trollhunters would be the first chapter in a trilogy of television series, collectively titled Tales of Arcadia. Yelchin was also able to provide a portion of dialogue for the final season, while the remaining portions of dialogue were recorded by Emile Hirsch. Īnton Yelchin was part of the series through the first two seasons, as he had recorded enough dialogue to complete them before his sudden death. The show has also spawned several original children's books and has been adapted into a series of graphic novels by Marc Guggenheim and Richard Hamilton, released by Dark Horse Comics. In its first three seasons, it has also received or been nominated for a BAFTA Award, several Annie Awards, Kidscreen Awards, Golden Reel Awards, and a Saturn Award. The series was nominated for nine Daytime Emmy Awards in 2017, winning more than any other animated or live-action television program that year.
Since its release, Trollhunters has been widely praised as an ambitious and boundary-pushing animated series. The second season premiered on December 15, 2017, and the third and final season premiered on May 25, 2018. The first season was released worldwide on Netflix on December 23, 2016. The first two episodes of the series premiered on October 8, 2016, at the New York Comic Con. Soon afterward, he and his friends are charged with protecting the world from the dangerous monsters that lurk in the shadows of their small suburban town. It follows the story of James "Jim" Lake Jr., a teenage boy who finds a mysterious amulet and stumbles across a secret realm inhabited by trolls and other magical creatures. Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (or simply Trollhunters) is an American computer-animated fantasy streaming television series created by Guillermo del Toro and produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and Double Dare You Productions for Netflix, based on the 2015 novel Trollhunters by del Toro and Daniel Kraus.