Adventurer Carly (赵琳的探险日记, ''Zhao Lin's Adventure Diary") is a Chinese All-CGI Cartoon produced by Fantawild Animation. The first season, featuring the English subtitle "Ancient Kingdom'", follows Carly, an intrepid 14-year-old girl who’s trained as a wilderness survivalist and an archeology enthusiast by her father Zag. When Zag goes missing inexplicably, Carly joins forces with tech guru Bobby and Morgan, a young boy who can transform into a wolf to search for her dad in a riddle-solving, non-stop quest around the ancient kingdom. The trio is guided to the mysterious world of Yilo Kingdom, where the secrets of The Book of Life unfold.
This animated show began in 2023. It has been dubbed in several other languages, including English. It is a spinoff of the Chinese animation, Boonie Bears, from which the character Carly originates.
Now has a character sheet.
Adventurer Carly contains examples of:
- Amusing Injuries: Bobby goes through plenty of these. It's telling that the first time we meet his character, Carly bumps into him and he lands (with insane precision) butt-first onto a traffic cone
- Animorphism: Morgan, whose abilities depend on his heart rate. His normal form is a tiny pup, the form he is in when his heart rate is at a normal or slower speed. When his heart is beating fast, he transforms into a werewolf.
- Bold Explorer: Carly (and friends by extension)
- Bookshelf Dominoes: Bobby triggers bookcases to fall like dominoes in an effort to defeat a giant serpent that chases him and Carly in a spiraling bookcase maze.
- Bound and Gagged: any time characters are captured, you can bet this will happen
- Captured By Canines: A small arc has the heroes captured by canines
- Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity: Many cliff scaling scenes
- Car Cushion: Episode 1’s chase scene between Carly and Bobby contains one of these
- Death Course: Many are encountered during the adventures
- Distressed Dude: Bobby ends up this in a few cases, and Carly has to get him out of trouble
- Carly’s missing father, and Bobby's missing brother, also counts as this
- Fight Magnet: everywhere Carly goes, it seems that she faces opposition. Even her friends, Bobby and Morgan, faced off against her before joining her on her adventure
- Iron Butt Monkey: Bobby, the show's main Slapstick magnet
- Just a Kid: Our main trio
- Living MacGuffin: Carly’s father and Bobby's brother
- Nature Is Not Nice: ...to Bobby that is. He's had rough encounters with every animal we've met in the series: from camels, canines, rabbits, sheep, a lizard, a giant scorpion, and a giant serpent.
