Marvel's Chinese universe has promised that the audience has never seen before. It was a franchise where the films would be far more interconnected than those in any other property before, recreating the experience of being able to read a comic book and see a character that appears for a problem before heading to their adventure. This unique quality made MCU be pop -culture Guggernaut more than a decade after its launch in 2008. But that was then; Now, what was once the biggest feature of MCU has become the worst mistake.

Indeed, since 2019, it has become more refreshing for MCC's films or shows to be as excluded from the rest of the franchise (As was the case with the "Moon Knight"), in order not to find the audience to find themselves to make infinite amounts of homework just to understand the plot. It also does not help that MCU has left a few loose ends to hang for years, only to eventually tie them to a shortage (Like what happened in "Captain America: Brave New World").

But the franchise that requires viewers to watch dozens of films just to understand a new one is not the same as a successful expanded universe. There are better ways to make interconnectivity. Take "Thunderbolts,*" movie that acts in response to MCU on "Legends of DC" by DC by both focusing on superhero teams made up of characters that were introduced in other projects. As with that show arrowverse, it is useful, but not completely necessary to understand where the heroes come from "Thunderbolts*" - because it is not really their past that is important in the story that is available as much as they are when they are together.

Now, Marvel seems to have another ass of the sleeve (the one that shows a better way to achieve interconnectivity) in the form of "Eyes of Wakanda", an animated TV show that offers a phenomenal world-class building without requiring many homework. Those who attended the Anesian International Animation Film Festival got the chance to watch the first episode of the series, and it is formed to be something pretty ... as well, I hope, a sign of things that should arise for MCU.

"Eyes of Wakanda" is an anthology series for Wakanda's attempts to regain stolen artifacts throughout history. The first episode, titled "In the Lavian Day", begins in Crete in 1260 BC. And followed by a shameful former member of Dora Milaye, while they follow the "lion", a man defended by Wakandan's guard, in order to manage his own band Pirates, using the stolen tech technology to fill his kingdom. The whole thing inspires her from the hypothesial tribe in real life known as sea peoples, which terrorized Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean region in the late bronze time. (Sea peoples also played a prominent role in Gendy Tartakovski's excellent second season.)

The spin-off "Black Panther" is visually astonishing and unlike everything else we have seen from Marvel's animation. A 2.5D appearance of "What if ...? To be animated," Eyes of Wakanda "is just further, the director of" Black Panther ", Ryan Kogller and his team's efforts to bring Wakanda with a sense of cultural specificity, from her clothes and buildings to the body's body.

In terms of the story, "Eyes of Wakanda" manages to be independent even when exploring the long history of the fictional nation of the same name and expands to the prologue of Kogller's first film "Black Panther", revealing in more detail how Wakandan's society has become so advanced. As the director "In the Lion's Day" explained, Todd Harris, after the episode, is aimed at exploring how Wakanda's tactics and culture have developed over time and the funds with which the country has remained preserved for as long as there is.

Since each episode moves to a new period of time and focuses on different artifacts stolen from Earth (but with a sense of connection between them, because everyone explores the effects of episodes before them), this feels like the perfect way to expand the Marvel universe. Of course, there will be some famous MCU characters that appear (as Harris confirmed, we will first see iron at one point, though not the version you can expect), but what makes this more and more attractive is that the show also functions as a history of MCU history.

As Nick Hughes (Samuel L. Acksekson) put it at the end of the original film "Ironoal Man" when he appeared in the yard of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Runior), "Do you think you are the only superhero in the world?" We have previously gained a look at the MCU's long history, including retrospectives showing the original ants and WASP. However, we have never received anything like "Eyes of Wakanda", ie. An expanded history lesson showing how MCC has been developing and changing over the centuries.

This is something that the franchise "Starwell War" features researching different angles on his universe, spreading at certain times and painting a full more complete image of his fictional setting. Even after so many MCU films and shows, including all those limited series that work specifically as world -class building, the property is still strange to be missing.

This is what makes Wakanda's "eyes" feel so special. It is a show that seems to fulfill MCU's promise by recreating the experience of reading a comic book and following a character, just to discover that there is a special one -time researcher exploring their past and origin. It helps Wakanda to be the most missed place in MCU, a country with a sense of history, tradition and culture that viewers are eager to see more than (as opposed to, say, all the same alien planets we barely had time to explore in the films "The Guardians of Galaxy").

"Eyes of Wakanda" will begin streaming on August 6, 2025, at Disney+.