Kisah Bawah Tanah
| Kisah Bawah Tanah | |
|---|---|
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| Also known as | Kreepy Bizarre Tales[1] |
| Genre | Adult animated Horror Comedy Folklore |
| Created by | Hendra Wardi Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar |
| Inspired by | Malaysian horror folklore |
| Directed by | ahLoong |
| Voices of | Azman Zulkiply Firdaus Sufiyan Natasha "Tashbunny" Hashim Papi Zak "Mochie" Siti Syazwin Megat Zahrin |
| Theme music composer | Adelaine Hoh |
| Composers | Masyhuri Badri Adelaine Hoh Ken Hor |
| Original language | Malay |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Edmund Chan Seng Kee Hendra Wardi Raye Lee |
| Producers | ahLoong Hendra Wardi Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar |
| Running time | 12 minutes |
| Production companies | Animasia Studio Spaceboy Studios |
| Original release | |
| Network | Astro Prima (Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei) Boom (Thailand) |
| Release | March 9, 2026 – present |
| Related | |
| Bola Kampung Max Chuck Chicken Harry & Bunnie | |
Kisah Bawah Tanah (lit. 'Tales of the Underground') is a Malaysian adult animated television series created by Hendra Wardi and Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar for Astro Prima and Boom. The series first aired on March 9, 2026.
Overview
This show is based on different horror folklore from Malaysia.[2] The show has 26 11-minute episodes. This marks the very first adult animated series made in Malaysia.[3]
Plot
The series follows teenage skeletons, Sam and Zack, who go on adventures to work in The Mart for their zombie boss, Tok Mart.
Characters
Main characters
- Sam (voiced by Firdaus Sufiyan): a timid, but smart skeleton and Zack's best friend who often asks as the voice-of-reason to him. He has a crush on Tok Mart's daughter, Ina.
- Zack (voiced by Azman Zulkiply): a laid-back, carefree skeleton and Sam's best friend. He often tries to find ways to be more wealthy and rich.
- Tok Mart (voiced by Azman Zulkiply): a bossy, strict zombie and Ina's father, He runs The Mart and is also Sam, Zack, and Vincent's boss.
- Ina (voiced by Natasha "Tashbunny" Hashim): Tok Mart's daughter who is half-zombie and half-orang bunian and also works in The Mart with Sam, Zack and Vincent. She often tags along with Sam and Zack on their adventures.
- Vincent (voiced by Azman Zulkiply): a jiangshi who works in The Mart. Unlike the other characters, Vincent isn't capable of speech.
Recurring and guest characters
- Po and Cong (voiced by "Mochie" Siti Syazwin and Papi Zak): a pocong couple who are among The Mart's regular customers. They have a pet cat named Pocing (voiced by Natasha "Tashbunny" Hashim).
- Liz: a Penanggalan who is a famous influcencer.
- Ramli: a mummy who works as a food delivery rider and enjoys taking selfies.
- Mayor Ketot: the greedy mayor of Bawah Tanah.
- Pak Mi (voiced by Papi Zak): an orang minyak and rival to Tok Mart.
- Boo (voiced by Megat Zahrin): a shaman who serves as a freelancer.
- Baka (voiced by Papi Zak): Pak Mi's accomplice.
- Uncle Ray: a hantu raya and ex-trainer of toyol porters, kenalan rapat Tok Mart. Appears on episode 2.
- Dalang: a greedy music mogul who tricks Zack untuk menyertai kumpulan K-pop jagaannya. Appears on episode 3.
- Ali: a suspicious cosmetics and potion peddler. Appears on episodes 4 and 20.
- Cik Salmah (voiced by Ramona Rahman): a pontianak who is a celebrity chef. Appears on episodes 5 and 19.
- Bang Kai (voiced by Bront Palarae): a swamp lodge owner. Appears on episode 6.
- Hantu Air (voiced by Ezza Afiqa): Bang Kai's ex-girlfriend who lurks in his lodge waters. Appears on episode 6.
- Brian: the owner of a brain farm. Appears on episode 9.
- Wari (voiced by Mia Sara Shauki): the leader of a tribe of fly-men who guard a Rafflesia flower. Appears on episode 10.
- Sulaiman: a jinn that grants wishes by stealing body parts or property. Appears on episode 11.
- Master Lim Cincang: a Taoist shaman who catches jiangshi and placed Vincent under Tok Mart's care. Appears on episode 16.
- Aida (voiced by Ezza Afiqa): a spirit that possesses hospital patients. Appears on episode 18.
- Dracu-Lah: a foreign vampire with hypnotic powers who attempts to take over Bawah Tanah. Appears on episode 19.
- General Faruko (voiced by Bryan Loo): the ghost of a Japanese army general who disguises as a night class teacher. Appears on episode 21.
Episodes
The show usually airs 2 episodes per week, on Monday and Tuesday at 7:00pm. Though the first two episodes aired on the same Monday, while the other two aired on the same Tuesday. Though as of May 4, 2026, new episodes air every Monday. The series later went on 3-week hiatus until it was announced that new episodes will premiere on June 8, 2026.
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "The Mart" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi ahLoong Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 9, 2026 | |
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Boo tricks Sam and Zack into bringing a dangerous demon-possessed can into The Mart. | |||||
| 2 | "Pawang Toyol" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 9, 2026 | |
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Sam, Zack and Ina visit an apartment to find the toyol handler. | |||||
| 3 | "Siapa Dalang?" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 10, 2026 | |
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Zack is hypnotized by an executive producer to become a singer. | |||||
| 4 | "Susuk" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 10, 2026 | |
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Sam and Zack get needles in their foreheads to become handsome, but when they look at their reflections, they into old people. | |||||
| 5 | "Amokan Salmah Si Pontianak" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 16, 2026 | |
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Sam and Zack inadvertently pull the nail from a neck of a famous chef, Cik Salmah, turning her into a dangerous pontianak. Guest star: Ramona Rahman as Cik Salmah | |||||
| 6 | "Cuti-Cuti di Paya" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 17, 2026 | |
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Sam and Zack hunt down a water ghost, while Ina has a date with zombie named Bang Kai. Guest star: Bront Palarae as Bang Kai, Ezza Afiqa as Hantu Air Absent: Tok Mart, Vincent | |||||
| 7 | "Mana Tok Mart?" | ahLoong | Story by : Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 23, 2026 | |
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Tok Mart turns into a cockroach by a witch to see what it's like in their shoes. | |||||
| 8 | "Air MaXXXwater" | ahLoong | Story by : Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 24, 2026 | |
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Becoming sick of Tok Mart's abusive orders, Sam and Zack quit their jobs at The Mart. They start a business of selling refreshing bottled water named "Maxx Water" thanks to Boo, but all this fame started to get to Sam's head. | |||||
| 9 | "Ladang Otak" | ahLoong | Story by : Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 30, 2026 | |
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Tok Mart brings Sam and Zack to a Brain Farm to get brain caviar in order to keep the Mart from getting bought by the Mayor Ketot, however while doing so, Sam and Zack discover that the brain farm is a death trap for all small brains. | |||||
| 10 | "Mencari Bunga" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | March 31, 2026 | |
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Sam, Zack and Ina search for a rare flower called the Rafflesia, but end up getting sacrified to a bunch of tribal fly people. Guest star: Mia Sara Shauki as Fari | |||||
| 11 | "Sulaiman Pemberi Hajat" | ahLoong | Story by : Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | April 6, 2026 | |
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Ina buys a machine that has a djinn that grants wishes, but by doing that, every wish started taking stuff away from the workers in The Mart. | |||||
| 12 | "Kubur Keramat" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | April 7, 2026 | |
| 13 | "Kabus" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | April 13, 2026 | |
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When a living fog turns everyone into stone, Tok Mart takes advantage of this moment and gets the survivors of the fog to buy his products. | |||||
| 14 | "Grafiti" | ahLoong | Story by : ahLoong Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | April 14, 2026 | |
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When Sam and Zack find cursed silver paint, it sucks everyone who ever gets close to the painting wall. Now, they have to find a way out of the Empty Realm Dimension before the paint dries up, destroys the dimension and kills all of them. | |||||
| 15 | "RnR" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Hendra Wardi | April 20, 2026 | |
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Sam, Zack, Po, Cong, Pocing and Ramli arrive at an abandoned R&R to deliver some food delivery, but little do they know (except Sam and Pocing) is that there's a giant monster with poor eyesight near the area hoping to get his deliveries. Absent: Tok Mart, Ina, Vincent | |||||
| 16 | "Vincent" | ahLoong | Story by : ahLoong Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | April 21, 2026 | |
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When Vincent was unable to sleep due to his fulu not working right, Tok Mart and the gang head to Vincent's old village to visit an old friend named Master Lim Cincang, who was a shaman, to figure out the problem. It turns out that the red ink on the fulus are expiring. Sam, Zack and Ina go on a journey to get a new red ink. | |||||
| 17 | "Serangan Klon" | ahLoong | Story by : Arzuan 'Alet' Anuar Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | May 4, 2026 | |
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Boo creates a mosquito to steal the blood of Tok Mart and make a clone of him, Unfortunately, the mosquito took Zack's blood by mistake. So Boo and Baka took the real Zack and put his clone in his place. | |||||
| 18 | "Hospital" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | May 11, 2026 | |
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After an incident in The Mart, Sam, Zack, and Ina send Tok Mart to the hospital for a surgery. But soon encounter a ghost who is looking for a body. Guest star: Ezza Afiqa as Aida | |||||
| 19 | "Dracu-LAH" | ahLoong | Story by : Ahmad Izham Omar Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | June 8, 2026 | |
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A famous western monster named Dracula visits Bawah Tanah on Halloween night, but he doesn't seem to like all the things Malaysians monsters do in their home. So, he plans to take over Bawah Tanah and make them the way he wants them to be. Guest star: Ramona Rahman as Cik Salmah | |||||
| 20 | "Minyak Dagu" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | June 15, 2026 | |
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Sam's been looking for a girlfriend, so he gets a chin oil from Ali to attract girls, but when Ina accidentally mistakes the chim oil for sambal belacan and adds it to the mixed rice they become attracted to Sam. | |||||
| 21 | "Balik Sekolah" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | June 22, 2026 | |
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Sam and Zack go to a night school in order to get a degree to raise their salary, but what they don't know is that their school teacher, Faruk, is a dangerously abusive Japanese general named Faruko. Guest stars: Bryan Loo as General Faruko, Mia Sara Shauki as Student Boy | |||||
| 22 | "Amokan Penanggal" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | June 29, 2026 | |
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When Ina's insults causes Liz to lose her temper and ruin her reputation on livestream, Baka steals Liz's body in order to promote Minyak Inc.'s products, but unfotunately he accidentally forgot the head so he grabs Pocing and puts her in Liz's body to take her place. Now Sam, Zack and Ina must help Liz get her body back before sunrise or else she will die. | |||||
| 23 | "Kereta Kuning" | ahLoong | Story by : ahLoong Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | July 6, 2026 | |
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When Bawah Tanah's highway gets haunted by a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, the citizens of Bawah Tanah turn to Minyak Inc's ai mart to get their groceries, causing The Mart to lose more customers. But then, Nenek Kebayan offers Sam and Zack to deliver food to her sister who is on the same highway as the yellow Volkswagen Beetle, much to Sam and Zack's horror. Though, when Sam and Zack crash into the car itself, They discover something is off with the car. | |||||
| 24 | "The Mega Fight" | ahLoong | Story by : ahLoong Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | July 13, 2026 | |
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Tok Mart has been beating Pak Mi's animal opponents with the help of a Polong named Zam, who has been going inside them and fighting in Tok Mart's styled fight moves. Although he was a good fighter, he dreams of becoming a dancer. Unfortunately for Tok Mart, Baka kidnaps Zam and makes a deal with Pak Mi, if he defeats Tok Mart, he will set Zam free. Pak Mi then sends Zam into Baka's body and uses him as his fighter. With Zam gone, Tok Mart decides to use Zack in the final fight against Zam in Baka's body. | |||||
| 25 | "Kem Bina Semangat" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Moe Izwan Kamal Tan Eng Jun | July 20, 2026 | |
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After their poor attempt at teamwork causes an incident with Tok Mart's balloon, Tok Mart sends Sam, Zack, Ina and Vincent to a motivation camp to improve their teamwork skills, but the four ended up entering a haunted house with a harimau jadian named Pak Belang chasing them. On their journey, they meet a creepy little girl who claims to be called Nabila who keeps disappearing and a movie producer named Din. | |||||
| 26 | "Telaga Tujuh" | ahLoong | Story by : Hendra Wardi Script by : Hendra Wardi | July 27, 2026 | |
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Tok Mart sends Sam and Zack to ride on the giant talking eagle named Pak Lang to the Telaga Tujuh waterfall area to collect its water as fuel for Tok Mart's portal. But little do they know is that the area is guarded by seven bunian guardians, led by their leader, Iffah, who sentence the duo to death for lying and stealing their water. Guest Star: Ezza Afiqa as Iffah Absent: Ina Note: The episode reveals the source for Tok Mart's portal fuel comes from the seven lakes and the season ends on a cliffhanger with Pak Mi and Baka appearing out of the blue to discover Tok Mart's portal source, leaving the cliffhanger to be resolved in either the show's next season or its movie. | |||||
Crossover shorts
To promote the series, Animasia Studio has made crossover shorts with its other shows like Bola Kampung Max, Chuck Chicken and Harry & Bunnie.
Perlawanan Bola di Bawah Tanah (with Bola Kampung Max)
Tok Mart summons Roslan, Saiful and Iwan from Bola Kampung to help fight the Elemental Cats from Chuck Chicken Power Up.
- Cabaran dari Alam Lain
- Perlawanan Bola Sepak
- Pembantu dari Bola Kampung
- Pembantu, Assemble!
- Latihan Kini Bermula
- Peluang Untuk Menang
- Friendly Match
- Persediaan Terakhir Sebelum Final!
- Perlawanan Terakhir
Dari Lawan Jadi Kawan (with Chuck Chicken)
Chuck Adoodledoo, Flick Feathers, and Wing Span get teleported into Bawah Tanah to stop and capture Dr. Mingo with the help of Sam, Zack and Ina.
- Perjumpaan Pertama
- Salah Faham
- 1,2,3 Serang!
- Pencarian Dr Mingo
- Kerjasama Pasukan
Silap Mata Silap Dunia (with Harry & Bunnie)
Po and Cong's pet pocong cat, Pocing falls through a magic hat and swaps places with Bunnie from Harry and Bunnie
- Pocing Hilang
- Arnab Siapa Ni?
- Magik
- Tempat Baru Pocing
- Yuhuuu
Broadcasters
| Country | Networks | Official Languages |
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 Malaysia |
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Malay |
 Singapore |
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Malay |
 Brunei |
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Malay |
 Thailand | Malay Thai | |
References
- ↑ https://www.kisahbawahtanah.com/post/2025-malaysia-animated-series-5-must-watch-shows-this-year
- ↑ YT (2025-09-22). "Kisah Bawah Tanah: Malaysian Urban Legends Brought to Life in Animation". Kisah Bawah Tanah. Retrieved 2026-03-28.
- ↑ https://www.kisahbawahtanah.com/post/the-future-of-malaysia-famous-cartoons-kisah-bawah-tanah
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