Watch: All-new Star Wars, Black Knight and The Gryphon – these are the most anticipated new sci-fi and fantasy series in May 2023
Aliens, eternal warriors and world-devouring beasts. These are the 7 most exciting new sci-fi and fantasy series in May 2023. Plus: Big news for 2 fantasy favourites, Arnie’s first series ever and Sir David Attenborough’s dinosaurs are back for Season 2!
Complete with titles, release dates, genres, info and links to watch your favourite science fiction and fantasy TV series right now.
Exciting New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Series in May 2023
Star Wars: Visions Season 2
Disney Plus, 3 May 2023
The super-unique project that invites international animation studios to redo Star Wars in their style as shorts is back. And this time it’s way more international. Season 1 featured mainly Japanese anime studios, but Star Wars: Visions Season 2 features the likes of British studio Aardman (Wallace and Gromit), Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon, Korean Studio Mir and South Africa’s Triggerfish. That means there’s a collection of 9 all-new short films in unique new styles in Disney Plus’ Star Wars: Visions Season 2.
Watch: The Star Wars: Visions Season 2 Trailer
Genres Star Wars, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Anthology,
Streaming Disney Plus | Watch it
Unicorn: Warriors Eternal
HBO Max, 5 May 2023
New from Adult Swim (Cartoon Network’s YA productions), Unicorn: Warriors Eternal tells the tale of immortal heroes who are reincarnated during the Industrial Revolution in London. But something went wrong. Instead of their normal, strong adult bodies, this time they are put into weak and awkward teenage bodies. And they don’t have all their powers or their memories. Madness ensues in Unicorn: Warriors Eternal.
Watch: The Unicorn: Warriors Eternal Trailer
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adult, Animation
Streaming HBO Max | Watch it
Silo
Apple TV, 5 May 2023
One of the few filmed sci-fi series in May, Silo sees a future community of people living hundreds of meters underground in a silo structure, because the surface world is unsafe. We don’t know why, and neither do they – so much time has passed, and no one remembers why they live down there. But when a new threat appears, and they’re forced to start questioning, an engineer starts discovering disturbing secrets, urging her to push on and discover the truth in Apple TV’s Silo.
Watch: The Silo Trailer
Genres Science fiction, Dystopian, Drama, Thriller
Streaming Apple TV | Watch it
Tale Of The Nine-Tailed 1938 (Season 2)
Amazon Prime Video, 6 May 2023
A little confusing since Season 1 is on Netflix, Korean fantasy series Tale of The Nine-Tailed’s Season 2 comes to Amazon Prime in selected territories this month – but you should be able to unlock and watch anywhere through Amazon SVOD. In this season, the Fox gets taken back to the year 1938, when Japan occupied Korea and he must find a way back to the present in Tale of The Nine-Tailed 1938.
Watch: The Tale of The Nine-Tailed Trailer
Genres Fantasy, Drama, Action
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
Ultraman Season 3
Netflix, 11 May 2023
The final season of Netflix’s Ultraman will continue the story after Rena and Shinjirou (Ultraman) woke up on the Dark Star organization alien ship demanding humans give up half the Earth or die, until the six heroes, Ultraman, Seven, Taro, Zoffy, Jack, and Ace banded together to confront the Golden Fortress. But now, it’s teased that Ultraman somehow disgraces himself and loses everything, which is exactly what Dark Star wanted – Earth’s six heroes broken up so it can unleash a devastating new weapon in Ultraman Season 3.
Watch: The Ultraman Season 3 Trailer
Genres Science Fiction, Superhero, Japanese, Tokusatsu, Animation, Anime
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
Black Knight
Netflix, 12 May 2023
Based on the Delivery Knights webtoon by Korean artist Lee Yoon-Kyun, Netflix’s rendition of Black Knight takes us to a dystopian future-Korea where the Earth has no more oxygen. Only 1% of the population survives, and they depend heavily on an exploitative system and oxygen supplied by elite deliverymen. Until one of these decides it’s time to challenge the status quo and fight back in Black Knight.
Watch: The Black Knight Trailer
Genres Science fiction, Dystopian, Action, Korean
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
Mulligan
Netflix, 12 May 2023
Mulligan, the accidental hero who bumbled into saving Earth from an alien invasion gets crowned president of the now-ruined world and tasked to rebuild it. With just a few thousand survivors left, can Mulligan (golf term for giving a guy another chance – get it?) make a new, better world, or will it just be more of the same? We find out in Netflix’s new animated comedy Mulligan.
Watch: The Mulligan Trailer
Genres Comedy, Adult, Animation, Post-Apocalyptic, Political, Sitcom, Irreverent
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
Clone High
HBO Max, 18 May 2023
Another sci-fi-inspired irreverent adult animation, Clone High, is a refresh of the 2002/2003 MTV show and features a high school for the teenage clones of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Gandhi, Cleopatra, and JFK, Except with the over-the-top, hormone-fueled craziness needed to parody 90s teen dramas. All in HBO Max’s Clone High.
Watch: The Clone High Trailer
Genres Adult, Animation, Goofy, Science Fiction, Sitcom, Irreverent
Streaming HBO Max | Watch it
Yakitori: Soldiers Of Misfortune
Netflix, 18 May 2023
Based on the new novels by Carlo Zen, Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune is a surprise military sci-fi web anime series announced just weeks before its Netflix release. A young man searching for a purpose joins an elite planetary orbital infantry force called the “Yakitori”. Fate and destiny go two ways, though – and it could be either one for him and his team in Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune.
Watch: The Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune Opening
Genres Science Fiction, Military, Animation, Anime
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
The Gryphon
Amazon Prime, 26 May 2023
Though there’s no English trailer for it (yet), Amazon Studios press has confirmed that the Hohlbein German fantasy series, Der Grief, will be available in English as The Gryphon on 26 May. We hope that’s the case. Three slightly-troubled adolescents discover a way to a fantastic world inhabited by a fearsome gryphon creature who subjugates all and is said to devour worlds in The Gryphon.
Watch: The Gryphon Trailer (German)
Genres Fantasy, Creatures
Streaming Amazon Prime | Watch it
Fantasy Series Now in English
Alchemy Of Souls Season 2
Netflix, out now
Everyone’s favourite Studio Dragon production! And, although technically released on Netflix in January, it wasn’t available in English. Until now. If you haven’t watched it yet, rejoice – Alchemy of Souls Season 2 is now in English, too. This time Jang Uk is bitter and haunted by the loss of Mu Deok (Naksu), Park Dang Gu is the leader of Songrim, Seo Yul has been away for years – and Jin family have been hiding a secret prisoner: Jin Bu-yeon is alive (and looks a lot like a certain assassin we know) in Alchemy of Souls Season 2.
Watch: The Alchemy of Souls Season 2 Trailer
Genres Fantasy, Romance, Period drama, Magic, Action
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
Not Sci-Fi and Fantasy but Worth a Look
Queen Cleopatra
Netflix 10 May 2023
We can’t call it a fantasy show, because it’s documentary-style, but it’s a Roman-Egyptian-Macedonian period piece, so might be worth taking a look at Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra.
Watch: The Queen Cleopatra Trailer
Genres Period Drama, Docuseries, Historical
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
Prehistoric Planet Season 2
Apple TV, 22 May 2023
Also not sci-fi, but thought you’d want to know Sir David Attenborough’s Prehistoric Planet Season 2 is coming this month. Enjoy!
Watch: The Prehistoric Planet Season 2 Trailer
Genres Dinosaurs, Documentary
Streaming Apple TV | Watch it
FUBAR
Netflix, 25 May 2023
Not sci-fi but we thought you’d want to know Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring in his first series ever! When a retired CIA operative is pulled back into one last job and realises the daughter whom he’d been trying to hide his spy work from his whole life is also secretly an operative, they have to team up to save the day in Netflix’s FUBAR.
Watch: The FUBAR Trailer
Genres Spy, Adventure. Comedy, Drama, Arnie
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
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