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Dante: The Rise of the King in Yellow

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Dante: The Rise of the King in Yellow is a teen-superhero action saga grafted onto Robert W. Chambers' King in Yellow / Carcosa mythos. In Kyoto, a team of teenage "Hyper Heroes" is charged with guarding the Mask of Pallid Splendor — an artifact tied to the King in Yellow, a cosmic entity who rules the dead city of Carcosa and warps reality through madness. When Dante's estranged, broken cousin Kaizo is remade into the entity's masked herald and steals the artifact, the team must reckon with a threat their mentors have spent decades fearing. The series braids large-scale superpowered combat with intimate stakes — family, lost friendship, and the seductive promise of power that hides a trap.

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  1. 1
    1. Ep. 1: The Pact
    1. Ep. 1: The Pact

    1. Ep. 1: The Pact

    1 min. 45 sec.

    In a ruined shrine at night, seventeen-year-old Kaizo — a boy with a robotic arm who believes his family sees him as nothing but broken wires and steel — kneels and begs an unseen power for purpose, offering his mind, soul, and arm. Yellow light floods his veins and a pale mask rises from the earth as the King in Yellow manifests in tattered robes. The King names Kaizo not broken but "the key," seals the mask to his face, and promises that through Kaizo's sacrifice the world will remember his forgotten name.

    1. Ep. 1: The Pact
  2. 2
    2. Ep. 2: Hyper Heroes
    2. Ep. 2: Hyper Heroes

    2. Ep. 2: Hyper Heroes

    1 min. 35 sec.

    On a Kyoto street at dusk, the Hyper Heroes shut down a jewel heist in seconds — Dante drops from a rooftop trailing lightning, DJ splits into flame-wreathed clones, and Leah, Luke, Jade, and Roboco snap the fleeing robbers into cages of metal and fox-fire. Bystanders cheer and the team trades grins and fist-bumps in the glow. Then their mentor Sylvania appears at the edge of the lights, the warmth draining from his face as his gaze cuts past the celebration to single out two of them: Dante and DJ.

    2. Ep. 2: Hyper Heroes
  3. 3
    3. The Mask of Pallid Splendor
    3. The Mask of Pallid Splendor

    3. The Mask of Pallid Splendor

    54 sec.

    In his storm-lit office, Sylvania briefs Dante and DJ on the Mask of Pallid Splendor — pulled from Carcosa, carrying a piece of the King in Yellow's will — and reveals the two boys alone are "attuned" to it where everyone else was thrown back. Slendel steps from the shadows to warn DJ that he watched the mask tear his own best friend's mind apart, and makes him promise to walk away the moment he hears the song. The mask goes on display at the museum tomorrow; the boys are to guard it, never touch it, and never look too long, because every answer it offers is a trap.

    3. The Mask of Pallid Splendor
  4. 4
    4. The Heist
    4. The Heist

    4. The Heist

    1 min. 17 sec.

    Sent by the King, Kaizo infiltrates the museum, kills the lights, and outmaneuvers Dante and DJ to steal the Mask of Pallid Splendor. The reunion is barbed — old wounds between him and DJ surface mid-fight — before yellow mist erupts and he vanishes with the artifact. Shaken on the empty floor, Dante's hand hovers over his communicator, unable to make the call.

    4. The Heist
  5. 5
    5. Reach Him, Don't Fight Him
    5. Reach Him, Don't Fight Him

    5. Reach Him, Don't Fight Him

    52 sec.

    Sylvania locks a furious Dante and DJ down for failing to stop Kaizo, while the mentors argue whether the boy can still be saved. Junko insists he isn't lost — Dante is his blood, DJ made him belong — so the plan shifts from combat to connection. The two are sent out with one rule, reach Kaizo not fight him, as the yellow mist swallows the block.

    5. Reach Him, Don't Fight Him
  6. 6
    6. The King's Champions
    6. The King's Champions

    6. The King's Champions

    50 sec.

    In a corridor between realms, the King in Yellow berates Kaizo for nearly losing the mask to his cousin's pull and warns that a whole team of champions now gathers against them. Kaizo refuses to be anyone's puppet and meets the King's unease with a dangerous smile. He splits the mist and summons three fearsome allies of his own.

    6. The King's Champions
  7. 7
    7. What Waits in the Fog
    7. What Waits in the Fog

    7. What Waits in the Fog

    1 min. 8 sec.

    Aboard the Hyper Battalion airship, the team is ambushed by Genken — a mountain-sized giant sent by Kaizo who flips the ship and dangles them over open sky. Fighting as one, they break his grip with clones, bronze, and Dante's final bolt, sending him tumbling into the clouds. Then Carcosa itself rises from the mist, every dead-still spire angled toward their deck.

    7. What Waits in the Fog
  8. 8
    8. Two Fronts
    8. Two Fronts

    8. Two Fronts

    43 sec.

    Kaizo blasts into Hyper Hero HQ, hurls Slendel aside, and marks Dante and DJ as future memories. Tomaoki steps out of the line to defend his son, lightning gathering in his fists. Uncle and nephew collide — golden energy against lightning — cracking the floor between them.

    8. Two Fronts
  9. 9
    9. The Haunted Forest
    9. The Haunted Forest

    9. The Haunted Forest

    1 min. 6 sec.

    Dante, Leah, Luke, and Jade cross Carcosa's golden sands into a living forest that seems to watch and lure them, DJ holding the ship as their only way home. A stone fort appears out of nowhere, and inside they find the Liminal Void — a spinning tear leaking sick golden light. Dante steps up alone, telling the others to seal it if he isn't back in ten minutes.

    9. The Haunted Forest
  10. 10
    10. The Throne
    10. The Throne

    10. The Throne

    50 sec.

    Dante plunges through the rift into the King's own realm, a warped plain beneath a bruised yellow sky. He finds the King in Yellow enthroned, and his powers die as he's forced to his knees by a promise of limitless power. Dante shakes it off and accuses the King of working with Kaizo — only for the King to call the boy "merely a tool."

    10. The Throne