Darkstar’s Quest

Content warnings.:  Cartoon Blood and Gore, Physical Violence, Death, Child Death (Lion Cubs).

Overview
Darkstar’s Quest is an original animated series created by Kassella Huffman, formerly known as Manatheghostwolf, and released on Youtube in episode formats. On March 23rd 2012 the opening for Darkstar’s question was released on Kassella’s channel. The first episode of the series soon followed, being released on August 18th 2012 at a little over nine minutes long. Though Darkstar’s Quest does have voice actors, most of the first episode is silent. Instead relying on its animation, visuals, and at times subtitles. The unfinished second episode of Darkstar’s Quest was later released on October 21st 2015. During the production of the second episode Kassella decided to reboot the series for a number or reasons. The main ones being the older animation and wanting to fix plot holes in the story.

On October 27th 2015 a new casting call for the series was uploaded. Followed in December by a newly reanimated opening for the series. Due to copyright problems on the original first episode, a copy of episode one was uploaded in August of 2016 with a slightly different set of audio tracks.

On Febuary 11th 2019, Kassella uploaded a video titled “Plans for Darkstar’s Quest/episode 2”. Kassella shared in the video that she had since decided to reboot the series with its original plot line. The video contained a reanimated and slightly longer unfinished version of episode two. On August 13th 2020 Kassella uploaded four new videos, three of which were related to Darkstar's Quest. Specifically the videos were clips from the unfinished episode two which was original released in October of 2015. All three clips showed now completed scenes and included voice actors lines that have previously not been in the October video. It is currently unknown if a completed version of the second episode will be released. It is currently unclear if the series is still in production or on hiatus.

Plot
Darkstar is an angel wolf living among her mother Starfur's pack. One day she goes down to the river when a dark malicious figure takes her over and she falls unconscious. When Darkstar awakens, to her horror she discovers the dead bodies of her packmates cubs lying next to her. While still covered in the cub's blood she’s discovered by her packmates. Darkstar is immediately accused of the crime and after capturing her brings her to their den where the pack demands she be killed for the crime. Her uncle and leader of the pack Twotails instead banishes her to the living world and reveals her demon heritage to Darkstar. Along with her demon father’s name, Death Angel. Vowing to return to the pack some day, Darkstar descends to earth where her adventures begin.

Characters
The main cast of Darkstar’s Quest consists of Darkstar, Zander, Falcon and Morgan. But also includes a large cast of side characters such as Twotails, Deathangel, Dirge, Kin-Chi, Bloodsplatter, Sinheart, and Starfur.

Links
Youtube.