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Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1 is an animated supernatural-action series created by Echo Wu, who also serves as the showrunner of the series. It features a voice cast comprising Ali Wong, Bowen Yang, Lucy Liu, and Jimmy O. Yang, among others.
The series revolves around the teenager Jentry Chau, who is hunted down by the demon Mogui for her soul to harness her supernatural powers.
The show's first season features 13 episodes and was released on December 5, 2024. The official logline of Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1, as per Netflix, reads:
"A teen hero fights terrifying creatures from the underworld in this animated horror comedy blending elements of Chinese mythology and Texan culture."
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Jentry learns about her powers in Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1
The Chinese-American teenager Jentry Chau lives in Seoul with her great-aunt Gugu, who raised her after her parents' death. A week before her 16th birthday, Jentry discovers that she is being chased by someone named Cheng.
Gugu explains that she signed a deal with Cheng to spare Jentry for the first 16 years of her life. Honoring his promise, Cheng has now returned to steal her soul, which is tied to her supernatural powers.
To fight off Cheng, Gugu and Jentry set off to Texas, where they lived before moving to Seoul. The duo left their hometown in Texas after the 8-year-old Jentry unintentionally started a fire and burned down half of the Texan town. Jentry, who has the ability to shoot fire from her hands, felt guilty for her actions and suppressed her fire powers after that fateful accident.
Jentry's powers are reawakened on her 16th birthday
After arriving in Riverfork, Texas, Gugu urges Jentry to learn to channel her fire powers so that they can defeat Cheng and the Mogui, a parasitic demon working with Cheng to steal her powers. Soon after she turns 16, Cheng visits the two and gets into a fight with Gugu, who gets killed while protecting her great-niece.
Distraught, Jentry unleashes her fire powers on Cheng and sends him away for the time being. She realizes that her powers get triggered under stress. It also opens her third eye, making it possible for Jentry to see Gugu as a ghost despite her death.
By the end of Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1 episode 1, Jentry realizes that her powers have opened a portal between Earth and the underworld called Diyu. The animal-like creatures from the underworld warn Jentry to close off the portal or face deadly consequences.
Ed, the undead creature (jiangshi), who was initially sent by Cheng to keep an eye on Jentry, becomes her ally in the mission.
Jentry resumes her life in Riverfork in Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1
Jentry runs into her childhood crush Michael at her favorite restaurant, Mimi's, in Riverfork. Later, Michael tells her about the urban legend of the demon girl of Rivefork, who set fire to the town, unaware that he is talking about Jentry. She also learns that Riverfork bounced back from the incident by turning the burned-down sites into a profitable tourist attraction.
Realizing that they will be staying in Riverfork for a while, Jentry enrolls at the Riverfork High School. On her first day at school, she meets Vice Principal Wheeler and notices his obsession with finding the demon girl of Riverfork. She also befriends Stella, who happens to be Michael's girlfriend.
Not long after, Jentry accidentally announces that she is the demon girl of Riverfork over the microphone, making other students wary of her.
Jentry learns the truth about her parents and her powers in Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1
From a young age, Jentry believed that her parents had died soon after she was born. In episode 3 of Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1, the young girl discovers a shen pearl, which enables her to see visions of her parents when she was a newborn.
She learns that her parents, Moonie and Peng Chau, made a deal with Cheng in exchange for a large sum of money. As per their deal, the couple was supposed to give Cheng a set of yellow robes imbued with magical powers. Cheng sought out the robes as they would help bring his daughter back to life.
However, the couple betrayed Cheng and handed him ordinary robes, instead of placing the magical robes on their daughter. In anger, Cheng killed Peng and erased Moonie's memories. After the incident, Gugu decided to raise the young girl all alone.
Jentry realizes that she wasn't born with magical powers, but that her powers come from the yellow robes and hence, can be given back. She wants nothing to do with the powers that brought harm to her loved ones.
Jentry falls for Kit in Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1
At school, Jentry catches the attention of a handsome new guy named Kit. He is revealed to be a painted-skin demon hired by Cheng to steal Jentry's qi (life force). Cheng promised to give him a soul and make him human in return.
But, he falls in love with Jentry and decides to help her get rid of her powers so that she can live as a normal teenager. Together, they create a Jentry skin, which Kit wears to distract Gugu while Jentry transfers her powers back into the yellow robes.
However, Jentry's closeness with Michael makes Kit jealous and he returns to Cheng, hoping to make good on their deal. He hands Cheng the robes and the latter successfully brings his daughter back to life. However, Cheng's daughter does not recognize him as her father and wishes to go back. A heartbroken Cheng regrets not considering his daughter's wishes before bringing her back to life.
Cheng's daughter uses the powers from the robe to open multiple portals, including one in Jentry's school, while trying to find her way back. Jentry finds Cheng's daughter and consoles the young girl, who hands the robe back to Jentry. However, Cheng attacks Jentry and stabs her in the chest, only to reveal that it was Kit wearing Jentry's skin the whole time.
Kit sacrifices himself in the name of love and succumbs to his death. Seeing Kit's dead body, Jentry puts on the robe and fights the Mogui to extract Cheng from within. After bringing out Cheng, she helps the father-daughter duo reunite in the afterlife. Moreover, the Mogui promises to help Jentry find her mother in exchange for its life.
Jentry reunites with her mother in Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1
Jentry enters the Diyu and successfully returns with information about her mother's whereabouts. She tracks her mother down and the two reconnect in a bid to make up for lost time.
Meanwhile, the Mogui summons monsters from the Diyu for a final showdown with Jentry in the school, which he puts in a hex. The Mogui possesses Moonie's body, unbeknownst to Jentry.
During the school lock-in, the possessed Moonie tries to turn Jentry against Gugu, calling her powers a curse for the family. However, Jentry refuses to believe Moonie and defends Gugu, who has sacrificed a lot to raise her all alone.
In the end, Gugu separates Moonie from the Mogui, who is killed by Jentry's fire powers at last. However, the moment is bittersweet as it is also time for Gugu's ghost to disappear, now that she has fulfilled her purpose. As they share a tearful goodbye, Jentry transfers their memories into a pearl necklace so that she can revisit them whenever she wants.
After completing their mission, Jentry and Moonie move back to Seoul. But, they swiftly move back and forth between Seoul and Texas due to Jentry's portal-opening abilities. She also begins dating Michael and stays in touch with her friends, finally living the life she always wanted.
Viewers can watch all episodes of Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld season 1 on Netflix.
