Draft:Arcane season 1

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The first season of the French-American adult animated steampunk action television series Arcane, based on the videogame League of Legends developed by Riot Games. It serves as an origin story for multiple for the multiple characters from Piltover and Zaun to become the known characters that would be known in the videogames. The season follows the story of sisters Vi and Jinx are put in the center of an ongoing conflict between the rich, utopian city of Piltover and the seedy, oppressed underbelly of Zaun which cause the relationship between them to fall apart as they fight on rival sides in the war between the arcane technologies and clashing convictions. The season also focuses on other characters of the videogame such as Caitlyn, Jayce, Viktor, Ekko, Singed, and Heimerdinger while also creating original characters exclusively for the series.

The series voice acting is conformed by Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung, Jason Spisak, Toks Olagundoye, Harry Lloyd, JB Blanc, Reed Shannon, and Mick Wingert. The series production started on 2015 and took over six years to complete, while it was announced in 2019 at the League of Legends 10th anniversary celebration. French animation studio Fortiche which produced music videos for League of Legends, animated the series as Riot Games opted to this instead of finding a new animation studio focused on television animation. Linke and Yee serves as the showrunners while Pascal Charrue & Arnaud Delord directing.

The first season was divided in three arcs with each one containing three of nine episodes premiering on November 6, 2021, with each arc being released weekly unitl November 20, 2021. The season received universal acclaim from critics with praise towards the animation, story, soundtrack, visual style, action sequences, character development, emotional weight, mature themes, voice acting and worldbuilding; it is considered by many to be one of the greatest adaptations of a videogame. It recieved several accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program becoming the first streming series to do so. It also became the highest rated series ever released by Netflix a week after it's premiere.