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Code Lyoko
French animated television series
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| Directed by | Jérôme Mouscadet |
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| Composers | Serge Tavitian Herman Martin |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language | French |
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| No. of episodes | 97[1][a](list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 26 minutes[1] |
| Production companies | Antefilms Production (season 1) MoonScoop (seasons 2–4) |
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| Release | 3 September &#;()&#;– 10 November &#;() |
Code Lyoko (French pronunciation:[kɔdljɔko]; stylized as CODE: LYOKO in season 1 and in all caps starting from Seasons 2 to 4) is a French anime-influencedanimated series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by Antefilms Production (season 1) and MoonScoop (seasons 2–4) for Cartoon Network,[2]France 3 and Canal J, with the participation of Conseil Général de la Charente, Pôle Image Magelis, Région Poitou-Charentes and Wallimage.
The series centers around a group of teenagers who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to battle against a malignant artificial intelligence known as X.A.N.A., who threatens Earth with powers to access the real world and generate trouble.
The scenes in the real world employ traditional animation with hand-painted backgrounds, while the scenes in Lyoko are presented in 3D CGI animation.[3] The series began its first episode run on September 3, , on France's France 3, and ended on November 10, and on Cartoon Network in the United States on April 19, and ended in after it’s final seven episodes aired online at Cartoon Network video.
A follow-up series, Code Lyoko: Evolution, began airing at the conclude of This "sequel" to the series featured live-action sequences for scenes taking place in the real world instead of its traditional 2D animation from the original series but retained the iconic CGI for scenes taking place in Lyoko, now with an updated artstyle.
The exhibit consisted of 26 episodes with the final episode airing in late , leaving off on a cliffhanger with no second season or other sequel series planned as MoonScoop later filed for bankruptcy in
Plot
Jeremy Belpois, an 8th grade prodigy attending boarding school at Kadic Academy, discovers a quantum supercomputer in an abandoned factory near his school.
Upon activating it, he discovers a virtual world called Lyoko with an artificially intelligent girl named Aelita trapped inside it. He also finds out about X.A.N.A., a fully autonomous, malevolent, and highly intelligent multi-agent system, that also dwells within the Supercomputer.
Using Towers on Lyoko to gain access to the real world, X.A.N.A. can possess electronics and other targets like a virus to wreak havoc.
Welcome to the Code Lyoko Wiki that anyone can edit! We are currently rewriting articles about Code Lyoko and its live-action sequel series, Code Lyoko Evolutiona story about a group of students in an everlasting battle to defeat an evil, sentient computer program inside a virtual world. Did You Know? Our Affiliates.X.A.N.A. is determined to eliminate anyone notified of the Supercomputer's existence so it can be free to conquer Earth and destroy all humanity.
Jeremy works tirelessly to materialize Aelita into the actual world and stop attacks caused by X.A.N.A. and aided by his three friends, Odd Della Robbia, Ulrich Stern, and Yumi Ishiyama, who are virtualized into Lyoko to save both worlds from the evil virus.
They achieve this by escorting Aelita to various Towers on Lyoko, which serve as interface terminals between Lyoko and Earth. Once the Tower is deactivated, Jeremy can launch the "Return to the Past" program, which sends the world back in hour to undo any damage caused by X.A.N.A., while anyone scanned into the Supercomputer retains their memory of the events.
The series features both two-dimensional animation and CGI. The series began its initial ninety-seven episode dash on September 3,on France's France 3, and ended its operate on November 10, and on April 19, on Cartoon Network through it's Miguzi block at launch in the United States. The series ran on their block from April 19, until June 1, where it moved into the Master Control block that year which replaced Miguzi. The block eventually ended on November 9,a day before its series finale aired on France 3 on November 10,In "Code: Earth," Aelita is finally materialized, but the group discovers that X.A.N.A. had planted a virus inside of her that will kill her if the Supercomputer is turned off. They realize that they cannot ruin X.A.N.A., or Aelita will be destroyed along with it.
In Season 2, Aelita adjusts to life in the real society, while Jeremy attempts to evolve an antivirus program to liberate her from X.A.N.A.'s power. On Lyoko, a fifth sector is discovered and the group explores more of Lyoko's secrets and mysteries.
The gang begins to uncover information about a mysterious man named Franz Hopper, who went missing ten years ago. He supposedly created the Supercomputer, Lyoko, and X.A.N.A., and is eventually discovered to be Aelita's father. They finally find out that Franz Hopper is indeed alive somewhere, hiding in the uncharted parts of Lyoko to avoid X.A.N.A.
All the while, X.A.N.A. attempts to steal Aelita's memory to gain the Keys to Lyoko and escape to the internet. At the close of the season, the organization discovers that Aelita is actually human and does not own a virus, and instead is missing a fragment of herself.
In "The Key," X.A.N.A. tricks them with a fake and succeeds in stealing Aelita's memory and escaping the Supercomputer. Aelita appears to perish as a result but is revived when Franz Hopper restores her completely, along with her missing fragment: the memories of her animation on Earth before she was virtualized on Lyoko.
Season 3 shows that since succeeding in escaping the confines of the Supercomputer, X.A.N.A. targets the virtual world itself by destroying each of Lyoko's surface sectors, until only Sector Five is left. Initially reluctant, the Lyoko Warriors decide to invite William Dunbar as the sixth member.
However, shortly after being virtualized, he is possessed by X.A.N.A. Shortly after, he destroys the Core of Lyoko, destroying the entire virtual world and rendering the group unable to fight X.A.N.A., putting the entire real earth in danger. After what they thought was their defeat, Jeremy receives a coded message from Franz Hopper that allows him to recreate Lyoko and persist the fight against X.A.N.A.
In Season 4, Jeremy and Aelita construct a digital submarine, the Skidbladnir, to travel across the Digital Sea to destroy X.A.N.A.'s "Replikas," which are copies of Lyoko's sectors that are linked to X.A.N.A.-controlled supercomputers on Soil, all created for its target of world domination.
X.A.N.A. uses William as its general throughout the season to defend the Replikas and target the Lyoko Warriors in any way he can. To prevent suspicion regarding William's disappearance, Jeremy manages to program a specter to grab William's place at Kadic, although the clone has low-level intelligence and acts very stupidly.
Nearby the end of the season, X.A.N.A. decides to draw strength from all of its Replikas to create the Kolossus, a gigantic monster that later destroys the Skidbladnir. Before Kolossus destroys the submarine, Jeremy frees William from X.A.N.A.'s control.
After his return, he has a complex time gaining the trust of the group. While Ulrich defeats the Kolossus, Franz Hopper sacrifices himself to power Jeremy's "anti-X.A.N.A. program," which destroys X.A.N.A. forever upon activation. Shortly after, the group, albeit reluctant due to their nostalgia, decides to close down the Supercomputer.
Characters
Lyoko Warriors
- Voiced by: Raphaëlle Bruneau (French);[4] Sharon Mann (English)
- A year-old (later year-old) top-of-the-class student who finds and starts the factory's Supercomputer while looking for parts to create a robot.
By turning on the Supercomputer, he reawakened Aelita, the virtual world of Lyoko, and the malevolent multi-agent system X.A.N.A. His goals are mainly driven by his desire to protect Aelita, whom he has a crush on, and to save her from the Supercomputer and X.A.N.A.
by materializing her on Earth. As part of the group, he specializes in programming new ways to defeat X.A.N.A. and monitors the community while they are on Lyoko. Because he is not very athletic and is more terminal savvy, Jeremy almost never goes to Lyoko, only going there twice and vowing to never go there afterwards.
His workaholic attitude occasionally puts a strain on his relationships with the other four members of the group.
- Voiced by: Sophie Landresse (French);[4] Sharon Mann (English)
- Mainly known by her alias Aelita Stones, she is the smartest of the group alongside Jeremy.
At the beginning of the series, she was trapped within Lyoko, inside the Supercomputer. She was originally thought to be an AI until it was revealed that she's the daughter of Franz Hopper, the creator of the world of Lyoko. As a little girl, she lost her mother.
When a group of suited men came to her home, she and her father fled and virtualized themselves on Lyoko. Between the virtualization and Jeremy's discovery of the Supercomputer, X.A.N.A. stole an important memory fragment that inhibited her from becoming fully human again.
After this fragment is retrieved, she is no longer linked to the Supercomputer. After becoming human, she often has nightmares of her past life. She later enrolls as a boarder at Kadic under the alias Aelita Stones, claiming to be Odd's cousin.
She reciprocates Jeremy's feelings for her, but he often strains their relationship by overlooking Aelita and her passions in favor of working on the Supercomputer.
- Aelita is the only one capable of deactivating towers on Lyoko to completely neutralize X.A.N.A.'s attacks.
On Lyoko, she has an elf-like appearance, similar to that of "Mr. Pück," a toy elf from her forgotten childhood.
Code Lyoko | Code Lyoko Wiki - Fandom: Jeremie Belpois Aelita Schaeffer Odd Della Robbia Ulrich Stern Yumi Ishiyama William Dunbar (Joined cast in Season 2, became a Lyoko Warrior in the end of Season 3) Note: All students move up a grade in Season 3, and again in Evolution. Hiroki Ishiyama (Yumi's younger brother) Johnny Cleary (Hiroki's foremost friend) Milly Solovieff (Kadic's reporter) Tamiya Diop (Kadic's reporter) Ninon Costes.She has the ability to create or remove objects, such as rocks or bridges, from the virtual environment, called "creativity" by Jeremie. She had no weapons or offensive abilities until season 3 of the show when she developed the ability to create "energy fields," pink balls of plasma that can be thrown or used to block enemy fire from a distance.
In the fourth season, Jeremy programmed light pink-white angel wings as part of her new virtual attire, allowing her to fly and bear one other person; the star-shaped bracelet enabling her to start them by waving her hand over it.
- Voiced by: Raphaëlle Bruneau (French);[4] Christophe Caballero and Matthew Géczy (English)
- The comic relief of the group.
Odd is credited as having great potential when it comes to school, but rarely uses it, and as a result of this, he gets bad grades due to his lack of studying. He shares a dorm with Ulrich and has a dog named Kiwi, who he hides in a dresser because pets are not allowed at Kadic Academy.
He's considered a ladies' male and has dated many of the girls at his university, but his romances tend to last only a few days. Before he attended Kadic, he lived with his parents and his five sisters. Odd's blond hair has a purple see in the middle and is worn up in a spike since being virtualized on Lyoko for the very first time.
- On Lyoko, he is clothed love a cat, with a tail and clawed gloves that launch "laser arrows." In the first season, he had a precognitive ability he called "Future Flash", but it was deleted before the second season and has been replaced by his defensive ability to create a purple force-field by crossing his arms in front of his body, covering half of his body.
Another one of Odd's abilities is being able to leverage his claws to climb on walls just like a kitten and even control monsters upon contact.
- Voiced by: Marie-Line Landerwijn (French);[4] Barbara Weber-Scaff (English)
- A more reserved member of the group, Ulrich has a hard time sharing his feelings.
His parents pressure him to achieve well in school, but he has difficulty learning and living up to their expectations. In his off-time, he practices Pencak silat with Yumi, whom he has a crush on. He suffers from vertigo, which makes it tough to participate in activities such as rock climbing.
Due to his many activities, Ulrich has a rather muscular build, thus many girls (particularly Sissi) evaluate him to be extremely handsome.
- On Lyoko, he wears a yellow and brown outfit inspired by Japanese samurai.
His main weapon is a katana, and can dual wield them. His "Supersprint" ability allows him to dash at high speed, and his "Triplicate" power lets him make two clones of himself. He can combine these abilities in a technique called "Triangulate," using his clones to form a triangle around an enemy and ambush it from behind when it is distracted.
- Voiced by: Géraldine Frippiat (French);[4] Mirabelle Kirkland (English)
- A fairly reserved student who lives near and attends Kadic.
She is the oldest of the group. She is of Japanese descent and has one younger brother, Hiroki. Because of her parents and culture, she must maintain good grades and observe family values. At home, she generally has to deal with marital issues between her parents.
She is a friend of William Dunbar, who transferred to Kadic during season 2. She practices pencak silat with Ulrich, whom she has a affection on, though it's not as obvious as Ulrich's crush on her. She always wears inky and has enough basic facts of the Supercomputer to function it in Jeremy and Aelita's absence.
- On Lyoko, Yumi is dressed in a geisha-inspired outfit with an obi sash.
Her main weapon is a Tessen fan, being given an additional one since the second season, and her one-and-only power is telekinesis, allowing her to move objects and levitate her three top friends with her mind alone; it is rarely used as it tires her out attractive quickly.
During the fourth season, we see this ability organism used five more times, now with more ease and control.
- Voiced by: Mathieu Moreau (French);[4]David Gasman (English)
- An overconfident student who starts attending Kadic Academy after he was expelled from his previous school for vandalism.
Yumi befriends him and he soon develops feelings for her. He often fights with Ulrich for Yumi's attention and is sometimes disrespectful of Yumi's boundaries, causing her to become frustrated with his unwanted advances. After proving supportive to the group during several X.A.N.A.
attacks, they vote on whether he should be allowed to join the group, but Yumi votes no and his memory is erased. Eventually, however, the vote becomes unanimous when William's membership is deemed necessary.
- On his first mission on Lyoko, William is captured and possessed by X.A.N.A., who ensnares William as its puppet.
From that point on, a clone of William, created by Jeremy, is used to pose as the real William until Jeremy is able to free him. Jeremy's program is imperfect, causing the William clone to act either unintelligent or unpredictable. Near the end of the series, the clone starts developing several human-like traits, which he eventually uses to help the warriors.
Towards the end of the series, William is finally released from X.A.N.A.'s control.
- On Lyoko, William wears a white outfit and carries a giant sword, which can release shock waves. Under X.A.N.A.'s control, his outfit turns jet and he gains a spiked gauntlet on his wrist, which can be used for defense.
He has an array of powers including enhanced strength, "Supersmoke," which allows him to convert into a cloud of inky smoke and move around at great speed, eventually gaining the ability to fly as good, a second sight allowing him to see across great distances, and levitation.
X.A.N.A. sends William to stop the Lyoko Warriors on the virtual world, and thanks to his natural abilities strengthened even further by the artificial intelligence, he proved to be a formidable opponent. He is finally released in "Down to Earth."
Villains
- X.A.N.A.
is an corrupt and powerful computer virus based on a multi-agent system. It is ruthless, bent on earth domination, and serves as the central antagonist of the series. It was originally created by Franz Hopper to destroy Undertaking Carthage: a military communications system that Hopper had previously been involved with.
He mentions that his motives were to avoid the French government from obtaining access to Project Carthage. Due to Hopper's repeated returns to the past, X.A.N.A. evolved until it achieved self-awareness, choosing to betray Hopper and trap him and his daughter Aelita inside Lyoko.
Hopper had no option but to shut down the Supercomputer to stop its rampage. After it was reawakened in the present day, X.A.N.A. continues to wreak havoc on Land and displays no mercy towards those who stand in its way. It grows smarter and more powerful with every come back in time and can consider of greater plans and goals beyond random destruction.
- X.A.N.A.
has no actual physical form as a program, instead, X.A.N.A. activates Lyoko structures called "Towers" to transmit extensions of its multi-agent system to the real world, while remaining inside the Supercomputer, which can only be stopped by deactivating the Towers.
On Planet, X.A.N.A. can manipulate and channel electromagnetic phenomena and hack networks or manifest ghostly spectres from outlets at will to possess objects or living things fancy a virus to bend to its will (usually marked with its eye symbol as a sign of its control) to threaten humanity or target its enemies.
After evolving further, X.A.N.A. learns to possess humans or manifest polymorphic spectres to shadow its orders as pixelized vessels with its spectral or electrical abilities. On Lyoko, it virtualizes deadly monsters to fight enemies and attack targets, and can alter environments, plant bugs or viruses, manipulate vulnerable warriors, produce prisons, program equipment and vehicles, etc.
- The only known physical incarnation of X.A.N.A.
appeared in season 1, in the episode titled "Ghost Channel," where after having its disguise as Jeremy entity exposed, he transformed into a demonic caricature figure of Jeremy and tried to kill all of the Warriors. X.A.N.A.'s voice was provided by David Gasman in this episode.
- As X.A.N.A.
continues to increase its power, its ambition also develops throughout the series. It steals the Keys to Lyoko from Aelita to escape the Supercomputer and access the world network. Upon its escape, X.A.N.A. becomes more ruthless and aggressive, now trying to destroy Lyoko to make the team powerless against it (succeeded at the end of the third season but was recreated after) and possessing William to become its weapon.
After that, X.A.N.A. also targets Franz Hopper, its biggest threat and the reason why the group keeps surviving. At the same day, the heroes discover X.A.N.A. has infected hundreds of other supercomputers in the network to erect weapons and technology to conquer the world.
Near the cease of the series, the collective manage to free William and although it succeeded in killing Franz Hopper in the last battle, the team "successfully" destroyed X.A.N.A. in his entirety in the network with Jeremy's multi-agent program.
- X.A.N.A.
virtualizes many types of monsters on Lyoko to combat enemies, guard Towers, and invade targets. The monsters generally arrive to be organic/mechanical creatures based on various animals and insects. X.A.N.A.'s monster types include Kankrelats, Hornets, Bloks, Krabs, Megatanks, Tarantulas, Creepers, and Mantas.
These monsters can be destroyed by hitting the Eye of X.A.N.A. on their bodies. In the Digital Sea, it uses monsters such as Kongers, Sharks, and the Kalamar.
Code Lyoko redirects here. For other uses of the word, see Code Lyoko disambiguation. Code Lyokois a French animated television series that utilizes normal animation as well as computer-generated imagery that this site is dedicated to giving information about. Sponsored by Antefilms and Moonscoop in association with France 3 and Canal JCode Lyoko informs its viewers about the adventures of four children who accept the task of defeating a diabolical computer upon themselves.It also created the Scyphozoa, which it uses to steal memory or possess warriors. There is also its ultimate monster which appeared in the last three episodes, the Kolossus, a fiery giant with immense strength that is fueled by the together power of its network Replikas of Lyoko sectors.
- In the video games, some monsters are exclusive to fight such as Cyberhoppers, Skarabs and Skorpion from Get Ready to Virtualize!, Insekts, Volkanoids, Mountain Bug, Insekt Lord, Ice Spider, Desert Driller and Magma Worm in Quest for Infinity and Fall of X.A.N.A., other variants are called "Dark Monsters" which are equipped with distinct abilities when in combat.
Recurring characters
- Voiced by: Carole Baillien (French);[4]Christine Flowers and Jodi Forrest (English)
- The principal's daughter and a Kadic learner.
She is a mean, overindulged, conceited, but also beautiful and somewhat popular girl who has had a huge crush on Ulrich since before attending Kadic. Sissi and Odd quite often make fun of each other, with Odd making clever comebacks whenever Sissi says something rude or whenever they need her to go away.
After Aelita is first materialized, she often does the same.
Awakens Part 2. XANA stylized as X. Its design was based on the principles of a multi-agent system and a computer virus for the purpose of destroying Project Carthagewhich Waldo defected from due to the threat it posed. Having become extremely intelligent and conscious due to the 2, return trips in a row, X.Sissi tends to make fun of and openly insult Yumi in particular, mostly due to Ulrich liking Yumi more than her. Sissi is often followed by Herb and Nicolas, whom she often shows resentment towards, but uses them to her advantage anyway.
She was initially part of the gang and knew about Lyoko, but was kicked out after breaking her oath to hold the Supercomputer a secret. Her memories of Lyoko were subsequently erased. She becomes friends with the Lyoko Warriors at the end of the series.
Sissi also shows a dislike for her full name, Elisabeth, often making sounds of disgust when it's mentioned.
- Voiced by: Bruno Mullenaerts (French);[4]David Gasman (English)
- An eighth-grader at Kadic and a classmate of the Lyoko Warriors.
He is the second-in-command of Sissi's gang, and sometimes even the boss in times of emergency when Sissi proves to be incompetent, as he is the most intelligent member of their community. Herb is also shown to be in love with Sissi, although he doesn't tell her because of her crushes on various boys, most notably Ulrich.
He is the second-best scholar in his class after Jeremy and the two often rival with each other, but Herb is almost always the loser. Herb is also shown to be easily scared off, hasty to run away when something troubling happens.
- Voiced by: Carole Baillien (French);[4] Matthew Géczy (English)
- An eighth-grader at Kadic.
He is the third member of Sissi's gang. He usually does not exhibit much intelligence, which is commonly conveyed through his frequent employ of pauses and uhs in speech. He usually only does things when Sissi orders him to, and will otherwise not do much on his hold.
Nicolas also has also been shown to have a devotion on Aelita, although he never acts on it. He can play the drums, and was in the Pop Rock Progressives, a band started by Odd. He is generally more tolerant of and less rude toward the Lyoko Warriors than Herb and Sissi are.
In some episodes, it is shown that he has at least some degree of intelligence, as he wrote a script for a performance of Romeo and Juliet. Nicolas is also shown to be as easily frightened as Herb is.
- Voiced by: Bruno Mullenaerts (French);[4] Allan Wenger (English)
- The leading of Kadic Academy, who is easily controlled by his daughter Sissi.
He can be stubborn and incredibly ignorant at times, especially when members of the Lyoko Warriors are trying to convince him of any risky activity caused by X.A.N.A. His appearance is based on Hayao Miyazaki.
- Voiced by: Frédéric Meaux (French);[4]David Gasman (English)
- The physical education lecturer of Kadic Academy and the chief disciplinarian.
He is frequently mentioned to have had an extensive job history, although whenever it comes up, he almost always ends up dismissing it by saying, "I'd rather not talk about it." Jim is often shown to digress from his lectures as he starts to reminisce on stories of his past, usually before existence interrupted by someone or cutting himself off.
On several occasions, Jim has discovered the reality of Lyoko or X.A.N.A. and displayed his helpfulness and willingness to keep it a confidential, however, his memories are always erased through the use of "Return to the Past." One of his more notable secrets is that he once starred in a film called Paco, the King of Disco.
- Voiced by: Nathalie Stas (French);[4] Jodi Forrest (English)
- Usually referred to as Mrs.
Hertz, she's a science lecturer at Kadic. She is the most shown primary academics instructor in the series and appears to teach most branches of science at Kadic. She is also the only faculty member shown to organize field trips, which happens on several occasions.
She has been shown to dislike or be disappointed in Odd and Ulrich, but takes a liking to Jeremy, and later Aelita.
- Milly Solovieff and Tamiya Diop
- Milly voiced by: Mirabelle Kirkland (English)
- Tamiya voiced by: Julie Basecqz (French);[5] Barbara Weber-Scaff (English)
- The sole members of the Kadic News crew, who are both are in sixth grade and give a dorm room.
Tamiya is of Franco-African descent and seems to be less driven by her emotions, which allows her to think more clearly than Milly when bad things arise to them.
- Voiced by: Guylaine Gibert (French); Barbara Weber-Scaff (English)
- Yumi's younger brother.
He is often shown pestering her about things and purposely being annoying, such as asking her to do his homework or mentioning her feelings for Ulrich. He is frequently shown playing on a handheld gaming device, and is often shown with his friend, Johnny Cleary.
Hiroki has, on occasion, assisted Yumi when she needed it, although he usually requires some form of bribe.
- Takeho and Akiko Ishiyama
- Takeho voiced by: David Gasman (English)
- Akiko voiced by: Barbara Weber-Scaff (English)
- The parents of Yumi and Hiroki.
Takeho is shown to be a fairly standard semi-strict busy father and works for a local branch of a Japanese company. Akiko is depicted as a typical non-working housewife and is generally the first one to ask Yumi if something is wrong. When her parents appear in an episode, it usually focuses on Yumi's family issues.
- It is implied that Takeho and Akiho own a low-key fractious relationship, with semi-frequent arguments that their children sometimes overhear.
This seems to contribute to Yumi's reserve, and possibly, her reticence in seeking a more serious emotional connection with Ulrich.
Supporting characters
- Voiced by: Mathieu Moreau (French);[4] Paul Bandey (season 2), Alan Wenger (season 4) (English)
- More commonly known as Franz Hopper (a combination of his middle name and the maiden name of his wife) he is/was the creator of both Lyoko and X.A.N.A., and was involved in the creation of Project Carthage.
His wife Anthea, was kidnapped by men in black suits and he was forced to flee with his young daughter, Aelita. The two went to live in a house called the Hermitage, located in a park near Kadic Academy and the abandoned factory. While working as a science teacher at the school, he constructed the Supercomputer in the factory, and programmed X.A.N.A.
and the virtual world of Lyoko within it. When the men in black suits tracked him down again, he took Aelita to the factory and virtualized her into Lyoko with him, where he believed they would be safe. However, X.A.N.A.
refused to obey its creator's orders or live in peace alongside Franz and his daughter. Franz was forced to shut the Supercomputer down until it was eventually discovered by Jeremy nearly ten years later. In one of the final episodes of the show, he sacrifices himself to allow Jeremy to finally destroy X.A.N.A.
- Voiced by: Alexandra Correa (French); Jodi Forrest (English)
- The college nurse who often aids the students injuries from any incidents.
In "X.A.N.A.'s Kiss," Jim was kissed by a Polymorphic Specter disguise as her and attempted to ask her for a date, much to her confusion.
- Voiced by: Jodi Forrest (English)
- One of Odd's ex-girlfriends that only appears in two episodes.
She first appears in "Rock Bottom?" where Odd hires her as a DJ to Yumi's party but was short lived after X.A.N.A. caused a earthquake to sink the school. She appears again in "Final Round" where both her and Odd enter a skating competition.
- Voiced by: Jodi Forrest (English)
- Hiroki's best friend that introduced in Season 3.
It is revealed in "The Pretender" that he has a crush on Yumi, despite their age difference and he asks Ulrich for dating advice (which is embarrassing because Ulrich also loves her).
- Voiced by: Sharon Mann (English)
- Aelita's pink-haired mother who was kidnapped by a group of Men in Black when they lived at a Mountain Cabin, this traumatized Aelita with nightmares and hallucinations of her imaging the mysterious men as a pack of ravenous wolves while herself resembles her doll Mister Pück.
Development
Origins
Code Lyoko originates from the film brief Les enfants font leur cinéma ("The children make their movies"), directed by Thomas Romain and produced by a group of students from Parisian visual arts school Gobelins School of the Image.[6] Romain worked with Tania Palumbo, Stanislas Brunet, and Jerome Cottray to create the movie, which was screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.[7] French animation company Antefilms took interest in the film due to its atmosphere and offered Romain and Palumbo a reduce to turn it into a series.[3] This led to the development of the pilot, Garage Kids.[6]
Garage Kids was produced in by Antefilms.
The project was created by Palumbo, Romain, and Carlo de Boutiny and developed by Anne de Galard. Its producers were Eric Garnet, Nicolas Atlan, Benoît di Sabatino, and Christophe di Sabatino.
Similar to its succeeding show Code Lyoko, Garage Kids was originally envisioned as a episode miniseries detailing the lives of four French boarding school students who uncover the secret of the virtual world of Xanadu; created by a research group headed by a character known as the "Professor".
The pilot featured both traditional animation and CGI.[8]The Matrix had "enormous influence" on the pilot according to Romain, citing the concept of a machine allowing the characters to dive in a virtual world, an operator who supervises the trip and the correlation between the action in the real nature and the virtual world.[3] Anime also served as inspiration, specifically Serial Experiments Lain for its "worrying digital dimension" and Neon Genesis Evangelion for its perilous entities to fight.
While similarities to Tron have been noted, Romain admitted to not having seen the film yet when the series was being developed.
When the concept on the virtual world was added, Antefilms suggested animating it with CGI to help make the series unique, promote a video game theme and make the separation between the virtual and genuine worlds clearer.[3] While incorporating it, Palumbo and Romain wanted to avoid making the series "too playful and superficial" and sought to "get around the censoring done by TV channels that tend to soften youth programs" by writing episodes "with tension, suspense, even tragic scenes.
Things that are hard to envision seeing in a cartoon series for kids."
A team of artists were recruited in organize to give the backgrounds of the real world a feasible appearance. The factory and boarding schools specifically were modelled after locations in France.
The factory was based on a Renault production plant in Boulogne-Billancourt (Île Seguin), which has since been demolished.[9] The school, Kadic Academy, is based on Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which Romain had attended.[3][10] Palumbo and Romain were adamant on keeping the locales based on "the France we knew", as they wanted to avoid what they perceived as "fantastical" or "Americanized" locations other French cartoons used at the time.[3]
Scripting for the series officially began in January , with Frédéric Lenoir, Françoise Charpiat, and Laurent Turner being brought on as writers.[11][12] It was around then when Aelita was added, who at this point was an AI who lived on the virtual world.
When choosing a director, the team wanted "a new generation" to be in charge of the series.[13] Jérôme Mouscadet was hired in June after having dinner with a friend who worked at Antefilms. While Mouscadet had trial with animation from directing small films at a small business, he never directed a series before.
Jeremy Belpois, an 8th grade prodigy attending boarding university at Kadic Academy, discovers a quantum supercomputer in an abandoned factory near his school. Upon activating it, he discovers a virtual world called Lyoko with an artificially intelligent girl named Aelita trapped inside it.
One of his first major contributions was to drop the thought of the characters retaining their powers in the real earth, which he decided after wanting to further separate the virtual world from the real world.[14] Progress was slow over the summer of , which Mouscadet attributed to the series' leader writer "[taking] a lot of vacation".[13] Antefilms reached out to Sophie Decroisette as a replacement, who had recently been a writer for Malo Korrigan and was on a break after giving birth to her first child.[12] Decroisette described this stage of writing as expanding the concept and finding strong motivations for the characters.
On Garage Kids' pilot, she said: "I really just saw a teaser that was focusing on images[. T]here were great ideas in the images, notably the transition from one universe to the other, but plot-wise, it was just "they travel from one universe to the other", with no explanation on "how" and "why".
They had no concrete motivation, they were fighting X.A.N.A., which was represented as ebony spheres, something like this, but none of this was clearly defined. Our job, with the other writers, was to endeavor to introduce "scientific accuracy"".
The writers struggled the most with finding a motivation for Jeremy. Charpiat suggested during a conference that he want to take Aelita onto Earth, which became the basis for the first season. Another concept emerged from Lenoir in the form of a time travel mechanism to explain how X.A.N.A.
could result in massive damage to Earth, with other people witnessing the destruction, and have the heroes repair it without people becoming suspicious.[12][15] This eventually turned into the Supercomputer's "Return to the Past" function.
Networks were hesitant to Garage Kids due to its serial nature, as they feared it would alienate potential viewers who missed the first episodes and they wanted to rerun the series without worrying about episode order.[3] This lead the writing team to shift to a more episodic format.
Romain ultimately chose to leave the series after this change in to work on the French-Japanese anime series Ōban Star-Racers. Tania Palumbo remained on the series through its conclusion as artistic director. She designed and named the main characters, with Jeremy being named after one of her and Romain's classmates at Gobelins.
The series' human personality designs were primarily influenced by Japanese animator Kōji Morimoto's way.
After the series was sold to France 3 and Canal J, producers felt "Garage Kids" was too unclear for a title and requested it be renamed.[16] Palumbo and production manager Anne de Galard ultimately settled on "Code Lyoko", with Lyoko originating from the Japanese synonyms "涼子" (ryoko) meaning "travel" to further emphasis the dive into the virtual world.[3] The virtual world was subsequently renamed "Lyoko" as well.
Writing
The writing process for Code Lyoko usually began with the head writer asking the other writers for story pitches.[16] If they liked an idea, it next had to receive approval from the show's director, producers and broadcasters before it could be turned into a 4-page synopsis.
After going through the approval process again, it was then expanded into a script and approved one last time to be sent off for production. Writing an episode typically lasted 2–3 weeks, though some took longer if higher-ups were unhappy with the story or it ran into issues.
Sophie Decroisette, head penner of Code Lyoko's first three seasons, described Image Problem as "very difficult to write" after its original writer left the show following the synopsis phase, requiring another writer to step in and finish it.
The writing team was also mandated by production to approve 4 scripts per month.
Following the success of the first season, the show was able to have more continuous storylines. Decroisette and show director Jérôme Mouscadet wrote the series' backstory during the break between season 1 and 2.[17] Before Romain left the project, the idea of Lyoko being created by a team of researchers had changed to just one: Franz Hopper.
However his motivations and self were never established. Decroisette revealed during production of season 4 that the full backstory would not be told in the show, as she considered it "very complicated dense and [not] really important to the story."[16]
The show's international success in the United States also affected movie.
Romance elements were ultimately reduced after season 2 to appease American audiences.[16] Aside from this, Decroisette otherwise noted that she "never felt censored" while operational on the series, apart from a self-imposed restriction to note stories appropriate for children.[17] Bruno Regeste became head writer for Code Lyoko's final season after Decroisette stepped down while she was pregnant with her second child, though she continued writing scripts and closely monitored episodes involving Replikas.
Animation
The series' traditional animation was handled overseas by Animation Services Hong Kong Limited,[18][19] Fantasia Animation and Welkin Animation also worked on the show's first two seasons.[18] Starting around the third season, a team dedicated to Code Lyoko was formed at Hong Kong Limited's studio, who were managed on-site by two members from Antefilms' Paris office.[13] This change stemmed from Mouscadet's desire for a more consistent animation quality, which he described trying to supervise it prior to that aim as "a little bit appreciate steering an ocean liner with binoculars".
The 3D segments were animated in-house by Antefilm's CGI team at their Angoulême office.
Episodes
Main article: List of Code Lyoko episodes
Telecast and home media
The show first premiered on France 3 on 3 September and ended on 10 November in France and on Cartoon Network in the U.S.
on 19 April The second season started on 19 September The two-part X.A.N.A. Awakens prequel aired on 2–3 October , and the third season started a afternoon later on 4 October The fourth and final season began on 18 May The concluding episode aired on Cartoon Network was "Cousins Once Removed", and the remaining seven episodes were released online on Cartoon Network Video.
During its run, it was simultaneously both part of its afterschool weekday action animation light-toned programming block, Miguzi from until when it was carried over into its rebranded Master Control block. It was also a standalone show on its primetime slot and continued until The show also aired on Kabillion from to
The exhibit also aired in Latin America and Japan on Jetix.
In Italy, the show aired on Disney Channel, Rai 2, RaiSat Smash, Rai Gulp[20][21] and was published on DVD by Delta Pictures under the label 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
In January , all four seasons of Code Lyoko were released on iTunes in the U.S. and France by MoonScoop Holdings, although as of May , only seasons 1 and 2 are available and other seasons have been removed. In October , all four seasons were released on Amazon Instant Streaming and on DVD in the U.S., however, these DVDs are now out of print.[citation needed]
All four seasons were made obtainable on Netflix on 6 August , but were removed for unknown reasons.
The show was eventually returned to Netflix on 1 October after being taken down following MoonScoop's bankruptcy.[22] Since , all of the English-dubbed episodes (including the prequel X.A.N.A. Awakens) are viewable on YouTube. Since , an upscaled HD version of the series is also available on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.
and the United Kingdom.[23]
Reception
Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the show 4/5 stars, writing: "Kids will like the battles in Lyoko -- each plays out much like a video game", and added: "Strategy and teamwork are themes throughout the series."[24] In a retrospective of the show for Comic Book Resources, Noah Dominguez wrote: "Whether you're a returning traveler or are only visiting Lyoko for the first time, Code Lyoko still holds up as a distinct, easily-accessible gem of the s".[25]
Code Lyoko was voted as the best show by Canal J viewers in France.[26] The series has achieved international fame as well, becoming the #2 display on Cartoon Network's Miguzi block upon its premiere in the United States.[27] It was the block's most popular series in and Cartoon Network's #3 optimal performing show overall in [28][29] Kabillion had it as #4 in monthly average views in [29] The show has reached success in Spain as one of Clan TVE's highest-rated shows,[29] on Italy's Rai2 network,[29] and in Finland and the Joined Kingdom as well.
The exhibit also won France's Prix de l'Export Award for Animation in December [30]
Merchandise
Several Code Lyoko products have been released, including DVDs, a series of cine-manga by Tokyopop, a series of four novels by Italian publisher Atlantyca Entertainment, apparel, and other accessories.
In , Marvel Toys released a line of Code Lyoko toys and action figures.
When the show was about to come to an end in , The Game Factory released three video games based on the show: Code Lyoko and Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A. for the Nintendo DS, and Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity for the Wii, PSP, and PlayStation 2.
The games were met with mixed to positive reviews from critics despite some criticisms of gameplay. There possess been other games released through various mediums, one being Facebook.[29][31]
A series of Clan TVE festivals in Spain included live stage shows based on Code Lyoko among other things.[32] A game show known as Code Lyoko Challenge was planned to be released in late , but fell through.[29]
Novels
A series of four chapter books was released by Atlantyca Entertainment and distributed in Italy and other countries.[33] The novels delve deeper into the unanswered questions of the series.
Taking place after the finish of the series, X.A.N.A.
Here is a list of characters that has appeared throughout the series. Elizabeth Delmas Herve "Herb" Pichon Nicholas Poliakoff Margaret/Marguerite "Magali" de Vasseur Claire Girard Paul Gaillard Bastien Roux Emily LeDuc Romain Le Goff Taelia Schaeffer (Aelita's dream twin sister) Theo Gauthier Jean-Baptiste Pujol Naomi N'Guyen Heidi Klinger Valerie Tania Grandjean 2 Unnamed Tania Grandjean's.
has miraculously survived and returns though weakened and initially missing its memories. X.A.N.A. possesses Eva Skinner, an American girl, and travels to France in order to infiltrate the gang and execute them off. Unaware of their enemy's presence, the group works to find clues about Aelita's past, left by her father Franz Hopper, and confirm whether or not her mother is still alive somewhere, but at the same time, a terrorist group, the Green Phoenix, has become interested in the Supercomputer and intend to use both it and the virtual earth of Lyoko for evil purposes.
It was confirmed that the series will never be released officially in English, nor the final two books released in French. However, sometime later, a fan community came together and sought to not only culmination the series but translate it into more languages, including English.
They have since completed their work and made it free for free download in September [34]
See also
Notes
- ^Includes the two-part prequel titled "XANA Awakens".