Mix Master
A boy must mix creatures to save his town.
It aired in South Korea from 2005 to 2006 and later on Cartoon Network across Asia. The show centers on a fantasy card game and spawned a standalone sequel, Mix Master: Final Force.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Soung-Cheol Ko; Kenichi Nishida
- Theme music
- Yong-Suk Bang (original version); John Majkut (English version)
- Composer
- Yong-Suk Bang (original version); Mike Tavera (English version)
- Country
- South Korea; Japan
- Language
- Korean
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 39
- Executive producers
- Moon-Ju Kang
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Plot
The story takes place in the town of Gamebridge, where a portal from the fictional Mix Master video game world of Atreia accidentally opens. This allows game creatures called hench, along with the evil Prince Brad, to invade the peaceful town. The main protagonist, 11-year-old Ditt Lee, receives a card shuffler from the eccentric Dr. Joeb. He must learn to mix hench—fusing them together—to restore peace and fulfill his destiny as the one true Mix Master. Over two hundred hench species appear, ranked from 1 (low) to 7 (high) based on power. Hench of the same rank and species can be fused to create a stronger hench. They exhibit human-like traits such as sleeping, eating, talking, and tiring from overuse. Hench bond with honest and friendly humans but must obey the owner of their card shuffler. Above rank 7 exists the Ultimate Hench, formed by fusing all eight rank-7 hench with the Mix Master and the Master Hench. Legend says the Master Hench must choose a human friend, who then becomes the Mix Master. The Master Hench can be mixed to create the Ultimate Hench, capable of defeating Giara.
Broadcast
Mix Master: King of Cards debuted on KBS2 in South Korea on October 4, 2005, and concluded after 39 episodes on July 18, 2006. The first episode was screened in Japanese at the Korean Cultural Center in Tokyo in 2009. A 16:9 high-definition remaster for the 20th anniversary began airing on Cartoon Network in South Korea in February 2025, later appearing on Laftel and a dedicated YouTube channel. Taffy Entertainment acquired international distribution rights in October 2005 and sold the series to Nickelodeon in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain in September 2006. In the United States, it debuted on Kabillion in January 2007. The UK premiere on Nicktoons occurred in May 2007, and it aired in Singapore on Kids Central that same month. Cartoon Network broadcast it in Australia and New Zealand. An English-subtitled version aired on KBS World from 2010. The HD remastered dub was uploaded to YouTube from January 2025 to January 2026, and Kartoon Channel began streaming it on August 22, 2025.
Merchandise
Sunwoo Entertainment signed deals for over 100 products after the series debuted in South Korea. Jaemi Books published a line of comics starting November 1, 2005. Hanbitsoft released a physical trading card game, and Samsung produced educational software. In September 2006, Upper Deck was reported to have acquired rights for an English trading card game, but Taffy Entertainment clarified in 2007 that discussions had occurred but nothing was finalized. Taffy used Amazon's CreateSpace to release three manufacture-on-demand DVD sets in North America in October 2013.
Video games
The animated series is based on the Mix Master massively multiplayer online role-playing game, originally developed by Xai Media and published by Samsung. It launched as an open beta in South Korea on April 15, 2003, and debuted in Japan on April 28, 2004. Japanese publisher SeedC acquired all rights in 2006 and launched or partnered for versions in China, France, Germany, and other territories. The English server, run by SeedC's Australian division, launched on May 18, 2007, and shut down by early 2011. SeedC produced the Mixmaster QR app for au mobile devices in Japan in July 2008. Aurora Games purchased the property in 2009. SeedC sold Japanese publishing rights to BIGLOBE in 2010, reacquiring them in 2012; BIGLOBE renamed the game reMix Master on December 21, 2011. SeedC sold its gaming business to Global Systems in 2015, which operated the Japanese game until its closure in April 2017. Aurora Games was absorbed by its parent in late 2014, and Joyple took over, relaunching English, French, and Japanese versions in 2017 and 2019. Sunwoo Entertainment and HiCocoon developed Mix Master TCG, an online trading card game that launched in open beta in South Korea on August 25, 2005, and ended service in late 2006. SeedC published it in Japan from May 24, 2006, until its shutdown on June 30, 2007.
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