Chibiverse

Premise

In an underground Disney laboratory, a group of Disney scientists took objects from various Disney Channel shows and films and put them in a machine, resulting in the creation of a small glowing bean sized orb that, when viewed underneath a microscope, showed a chibi-fied world inhabited by characters from the various shows. The series follows the quirky and comical adventures of these characters interacting with one another.

Plot

In the first two seasons, the episodes feature several Chibi Tiny Tales shorts, hosted by specific characters who, unlike in the shorts, actually speak. As the hosts introduce themselves and announce the next short, a plot is intertwined throughout these snippets until the episode's conclusion. In the second season, the series transitions to a game show format, although the season finale features a comedy roast. This season introduced characters from Kiff, Hailey's On It!, and Primos.
In the third season, the series again switched format into each episode having 3 different 7-minute original plot story segments lacking any shorts. Since then, the characters have been experiencing small adventures. This season also features more obscure and classic characters from 1990s and 2000s shows and movies, some of which have their former voice actors reprise their roles. In the fourth season, the series added characters from StuGo and The Doomies.

Voice cast

Pirates of the Caribbean:
Grey DeLisle as Redd
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers:
Jim Cummings as Fat Cat
Darkwing Duck:
Jim Cummings as Darkwing Duck
Bonkers:
Jim Cummings as Bonkers D. Bobcat
Gargoyles:
Keith David as Goliath
The Proud Family and The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder:
Kyla Pratt as Penny Proud
Tommy Davidson as Oscar Proud
Jo Marie Payton as Suga Mama
Karen Malina White as Dijonay Jones
Kim Possible:
Christy Carlson Romano as Kim Possible
Will Friedle as Ron Stoppable
Nicole Sullivan as Shego
Vincent Martella as Rufus's speaking voice
The Buzz on Maggie:
Jessica DiCicco as Maggie Pesky
Phineas and Ferb:
Vincent Martella as Phineas Flynn
Ashley Tisdale as Candace Flynn
Dan Povenmire as Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
Rhys Darby as Perry the Platypus's speaking voice
Gravity Falls:
Kristen Schaal as Mabel Pines
Alex Hirsch as Stanley Pines and Soos Ramirez
Alfred Molina as Multi-Bear
Wander Over Yonder:
Jack McBrayer as Wander
Keith Ferguson as Lord Hater and Killbot 86
Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
Eden Sher as Star Butterfly
Adam McArthur as Marco Diaz
Fred Tatasciore as Buff Frog
Descendants:
Sarah Jeffery as Princess Audrey
Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer:
Aaron Springer as Billy Dilley
DuckTales:
David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck
Danny Pudi as Huey Duck
Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck
Kate Micucci as Webby Vanderquack
Beck Bennett as Launchpad McQuack
Keith Ferguson as Flintheart Glomgold
Jim Rash as Gyro Gearloose
Kari Wahlgren as Roxanne Featherly
Eric Bauza as the Beagle Boys
Zombies:
Meg Donnelly and Amanda Leighton as Addison Wells
Austin Lee Matthews as Zed Necrodopolis
Trevor Tordjman as Bucky Buchanan
Matt Cornett as "Zombies 1 + 2 + 3 as Told by Chibi" singer
Big City Greens:
Chris Houghton as Cricket Green
Marieve Herington as Tilly Green
Bob Joles as Bill Green
Artemis Pebdani as Alice Green
Zeno Robinson as Remy Remington
Anna Akana as Gloria Sato
Danny Trejo as Vasquez
Nicole Byer as Andromeda
Alfred Molina as Snakey's speaking voice
Amphibia:
Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
Anna Akana as Sasha Waybright
Haley Tju as Marcy Wu/"Darcy"
Keith David as King Andrias Leviathan
Shelby Young as Domino's speaking voice
The Owl House:
Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda
Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
Alex Hirsch as Hooty
Mae Whitman as Amity Blight
The Ghost and Molly McGee:
Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
Dana Snyder as Scratch
Hamster & Gretel:
Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
Beck Bennett as Hamster
Dan Povenmire as Alien Pilot
Kiff:
Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns
Lucy Heavens as Helen
Hailey's On It!:
Auliʻi Cravalho as Hailey Banks
Manny Jacinto as Scott Denoga
Gary Anthony Williams as Beta
Amanda Leighton as Kristine Sanchez
Primos:
Myrna Velasco as Tater Ramírez-Humphrey
Natasha Kline as Gordita Humphrey and ChaCha Ramírez
Cheech Marin as Pop Ramírez
Shelby Young as Chuchi's speaking voice
StuGo:
Tania Gunadi as Pliny
Zosia Mamet as Merian
The Doomies:
Max Mittelman as Bobby Lafrousse
Madison Calderon as Romy Rodriguez
Original characters from the series:
Rob Cantor as Scientist #1 "Gary"
Kimiko Glenn as Scientist #2
Myrna Velasco as Scientist #4
Auliʻi Cravalho as Scientist #5
Zeno Robinson as Scientist #6
Eden Sher as Scientist #7
Shelby Young as Scientist #8 "Kylie"
H. Michael Croner and Zeno Robinson as Pebble
Jesse McCartney as Dreambot
Other franchises represented, albeit with no voice acting yet, include:

Adventures of the Gummi Bears
TaleSpin
Goof Troop
The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show
Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series
Recess
Pepper Ann
The Halloweentown franchise
Johnny Tsunami
Teacher's Pet
Lizzie McGuire
Lloyd in Space
Fillmore!
Holes
The Haunted Mansion
Dave the Barbarian
Brandy & Mr. Whiskers
American Dragon: Jake Long
The High School Musical franchise
Hannah Montana
The Replacements
Wizards of Waverly Place
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
Fish Hooks
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
Dog with a Blog
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Two More Eggs
Pickle and Peanut
Bunk'd
Future-Worm!
Milo Murphy's Law
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

Production

In July 2022, Disney Television Animation announced that the series, based on the Chibi Tiny Tales shorts, would premiere on July 30. The show consists of shorts centered on "chibi" versions of characters from various Disney Channel programs such as Amphibia and Phineas and Ferb, as well as Disney Channel films such as Zombies and High School Musical, compiled into a half-hour series.
According to series writer Ben Siemon, the series will only consist of Disney Channel-specific characters and that franchise characters that appear in spin-off series of Walt Disney Animation Studios or Pixar movies, such as Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Monsters at Work and Big Hero 6: The Series cannot appear on the series due to licensing reasons. Siemon also revealed the characters from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and the Mickey Mouse & Friends franchise cannot appear on the series due to Marvel and Disney being protective over how their characters are represented. However, some characters from DuckTales or Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers have appeared in the series. These characters are treated as part of the Disney Television Animation catalog rather than the core Mickey & Friends franchise, allowing them to be included in crossover segments.
The series has also featured characters from Disney Channel Original Movies (DCOMs) and live-action Disney Channel sitcoms, reflecting their shared production umbrella under Disney Branded Television. In particular, previously live-action characters from franchises such as Lizzie McGuire and Hannah Montana are given new "Chibified" designs and make silent cameos in some episodes, most prominently in the Season 4 episode "Love Boat Liars".
The character Doug Funnie, from the animated series Doug, has not appeared in Chibiverse. Although later seasons of the series were produced by Disney for ABC, resulting in Disney owning the ancillary rights to the characters, the character originally debuted on Nickelodeon. Siemon explained that the character exists in what he described as a “very murky, legal area” due to those origins, stating that the production team is currently unable to use the character in the series but expressed hope that the situation could change in the future.

Episodes

All episodes for seasons 1 and 2 were directed by Sabrina Alberghetti and written by Benjamin Siemon, with Dan Siegel co-writing "Pizza vs. Fireworks".

Release

Chibiverse premiered on Disney Channel on July 30, 2022. Episodes from the first season were uploaded to Disney Channel's YouTube channel prior to their television debuts on the same days. The first season was added to Disney+ on March 8, 2023. Seasons 2 and 3 were released on Disney+ on August 13, 2025.