Valt the Wonder Deer
Valt the Wonder Deer is an animated television series that was released to Tencent Video in China on December 31, 2016. The series is produced by DreamEast Pictures and is distributed worldwide by Jetpack Distribution.
The second season premiered October 22, 2018, and ended November 26. A third season featuring new anthropomorphic and angular designs for the characters, and was released in 2021 and ended February 11, 2022. A fourth season featuring new anthropomorphic and angular designs for the characters, was released in 2023.
Plot
Season 1
Valt the Wonder Deer follows the adventures of Valt, a wonder deer and his five friends as they journey to obtain special powers granted by the Five Magical Elements, as well as rescue his trapped parents, the Deer King and Queen, from the evil overlords of the Land of Metal.Season 2
After peace and harmony has been restored to the Five Lands, Valt starts to miss his friends even though they're a portal away from him. His vacation however is cut short by more monsters suddenly arriving called the Nanomites; dark, flying swarm of bugs that can turn anything into an enemy. Valt reassembles the guardians to protect the Five Lands, but unbeknownst to him, Da-Ming and his bride are controlling the bugs, and they want to regain their throne.Season 3
When Valt and his friends left, Kem was all alone until he saw an amulet of darkness. Kem puts on the dark amulet and he became the Lord of Darkness and turned Da-Ming, Mungo, and Drusilla into stone. He wants to destroy the Five Lands and take over the world. Valt and his friends relays that Kem is in danger. So they start their journey to the Land of Darkness and save their friend before it's too late.Season 4
When the seven friends are in the protect crystal for many years, then everything changed when the army of dark deer broke the crystal. The lord of the dark deer chained Valt and Valanteen with the collars of chain to stay together. But then they were saved by Miko the bunny warrior and their friends. She tells them about a Dark Deer named Marcus has been free from the amulet and unleashed the army of dark deer. They must find their way back and save the Five Lands.Characters
Main
Valt
Valt is the main protagonist. A Wonder Deer from the Land of Wood.Cobalt
Cobalt is a blue monkey and Valt's best friend.Kem
Kem is a benevolent taotie from the Land of Metal.Trika
Trika is a yellow cat from the Land of Earth.Alia
Alia is an orange fire bird from the Land of Fire.Yark
Yark is an ice-snorting yak from the Land of Water.Valanteen
Valanteen is a girl Wonder Deer from the Land of Water.Tao
Tao is a boy made out of clay who is a member of a group of ancient clay guardians.Da-Ming
Da-Ming is an evil short green taotie, and the main villain of the series.Mungo
Mungo is an evil large tall purple taotie. He is Da-Ming's nephew and assistant.Drusilla
Drusilla is an evil female taotie and Da-Ming's wife.Urgon
Urgon is Valt's father.Reyna
Reyna is Valt's mother.Broadcast
The first 26 episodes of Valt the Wonder Deer were released on the streaming service Tencent Video in China on December 31, 2016, which garnered over 9 million views in its first two weeks. The second half of the first season was released on February 19, 2017.In the United Kingdom, the English dub of the series was broadcast on Propeller TV for one season around June 2017. The English dub was released onto Jetpack Distribution's YouTube channel on August 24, 2019, but it was later taken down.
The series is now streaming on Tubi and is divided into 9 one hour episodes.
On July 4, 2025, a set of official Rednote, Weibo and Douyin profiles collectively named Deer Elf Nostalgia were opened. The first posts were made on August 4, 2025, uploading videos teasing the release of episodes from the Valt the Wonder Deer season 3 reboot through the profile. The Mandarin Chinese dub of the first two episodes of that season were then posted on August 8, 2025, with further episodes being posted to those three profiles on a semiweekly basis every Monday and Wednesday at a rate of two episodes per day, up until the final two episodes were posted on November 12, 2025. On December 3, 2025, the Deer Elf Nostalgia social media profiles started posting the original English version of season 3 under the same biweekly schedule.