Code LYOKO "Starts April 19th" TALKBACK (Are there even spoilers?)

[Chad Bonin]

Code LYOKO. Probably the most mysterious of the Miguzi launch shows (TMNT is well-known, Totally Spies is already on CN, and Teen Titans has been a hit), this is the official Pre-Talkback Thread to the series. A mix between ReBoot and Digimon (According to good 'ol Karl Olson), kids enter virtual reality to stop a virus from attacking Earth.

The series premieres on Miguzi on April 19th at... uh... can't remember right now.

Additional Info From William C. Maune:

This is the official description from Cartoon Network: "Code LYOKO – The series tells the adventures of a group of students who are the only ones who know that there is a parallel, virtual world called LYOKO."

[Karl Olson]

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Info on the pilot that Lyoko started as.
http://m.ol.free.fr/pages/cg/garage.htm
http://m.ol.free.fr/pages/cg/garage2.htm

The pilot Lyoko started as.
http://www.rapido.net/antefilms/video/garage_mov.html

[Lord Dalek]

It's from the Totaly Spies! people. It's French. It eerily reminds me of dear ol' "Calamity Jane". This may be interesting.

[Karl Olson]

It's from the Totaly Spies! people. It's French. It eerily reminds me of dear ol' "Calamity Jane". This may be interesting.

It's also from one of the creators of Molly Star Racer.

[Sketch]

Weird character designs... could be interesting. It's like Digimon crossed with Reboot and with no monsters... or something like that...

[Lord Dalek]

I hope they get better voice actors for the actual series.

[William C. Maune]

The series premieres on Miguzi on April 19th at... uh... can't remember right now.

5:30 PM (Eastern/Specific) - Cartoon Network has 26 episodes.

[UberMonkey]

Just posted my thoughts in the "What'll Miguzi's killer app be?" thread, not seeing this first. Oh well. Like I said - bar the large foreheads and strange voices, this seems to have a lot of potential to be a pretty sweet kid's sci-fi series. The pilot's trailer hints at a plot have me excited - I just hope they don't drop the ball at all. I'd sort of like a redub so I don't have to strain to understand what was just said, but I'll watch it whatever we get when it starts.

[Jimmy Kustes]

It's like the Weekenders mixed with peanut butter.

[EscaflownePilot]

Wow... that trailer was awesome... until the CG scenes...

The animation and character designs were kinda' neat, I didn't have a problem with the voices like many others here did, and it really hinted at being a tad on the darker side... but, dang, that CG sucks...

[Tienshin]

Wow, judging from the pilots this show has some serious potential. Not bad at all.

[William C. Maune]

I added this to the first post in the thread, but in case any missed it this is the official description from Cartoon Network:

"Code LYOKO – The series tells the adventures of a group of students who are the only ones who know that there is a parallel, virtual world called LYOKO."

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Sounds like a Digimon ripoff(the description sounds so much like Digimon Adventure Zero Two it isn't even funny), but it might be pretty good.

[RedBoot]

As long as the series has better CGI (a LOT better CGI...), then it should be pretty good.

Was the kid with the pointy blond hair and the dog a girl or a boy? I think it was a girl...

[UberMonkey]

I'm pretty sure that kid ("Odd" as I recall) was a girl. Especially looking at what I think is her LYOKO persona.

So, there's one change from the pilot - Xanadu/Zanadu is LYOKO now.

[Lord Dalek]

I bet trying to pronouce "LYOKO" will be a hotbed of discussion in the upcoming weeks.

[Duke]

Pronounce it like the Japanese pronounce "Ryoko."

[EscaflownePilot]

Which, for the uninitiated, would be "lee-oh-koh"... sorta... their r's aren't really r's or l's... it's like a flicking thing you do... yeah...

[Chad Bonin]

I think it's...

Lee- Like the name (Conveniently, both my middle and Lightspeed Blue's last name)
Oh- Like "Oh, hey".
Ko- Ummm... it's a co-production.

[William C. Maune]

Ah! So it is actually "Knux Lee Five"

[Chad Bonin]

A-ha-ha! William, your general ineptness of Rangers screws you over yet again!

(My name has a disturbingly strong similarity to a Ranger's)

[PaQ]

wow. This show looks like it has some potential. Unique character designs, but the idea and story that I could gather from that pilot looks like a good start..

I think I'll have to tune in for this one. Nice find for Miguzi.

[UberMonkey]

A-ha-ha! William, your general ineptness of Rangers screws you over yet again!

(My name has a disturbingly strong similarity to a Ranger's)

Kimberly? :p

[NovaSaber]

Pronounce it like the Japanese pronounce "Ryoko."Doesn't "Ryoko" have that "ry" consonant sound that doesn't exist in English? Since that sound doesn't exist in French either (I think), I doubt it's the proper way to pronounce "LYOKO".

[Duke]

I pronounce it the same way people pronoune "Ryoko" except with an L instead of an R.

[Lyokophile]

Hello , I found your forum on Code Lyoko and I think I can answer you about some questions. Yes , I'm french ( so please excuse the bad grammar :sweat: ) and I saw several episodes of CL actually. I really enjoy ... :D But first , you must know it's not at all like Digimon , that's not the same story and it's 10.000 times better . Besides , about the prononciation well , I'm not sure , because I haven't got the right accent ( that's my teacher who tells that :sweat: ) but I think you're right , it's LEE-O-KO. And finaly , Odd is definetly a boy , not a girl :p ...
That's will be all , I hope I haven't done much spelling mistakes (:sweat: ) that's really good cartoon network bought CL , you will enjoy it , in france its seems to have fans . We have a forum ( in french of course ) where we can speak with the 3 scenarists , nice persons who answer our questions :) .
If you want to have a look : http://www.catsuka.com/interf/forum/viewtopic.php?t=778&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Bizzzzz

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Nice to hear from someone who's seen the show. I doubt you can be right about better than Digimon(only about 10-15 series in the world have ever managed that feat, and I strongly doubt this is one of them), but it sounds like it should be a good series.Just wondering, how many episodes has it aired over in France?

[William C. Maune]

Hello , I found your forum on Code Lyoko and I think I can answer you about some questions.

Welcome to the Toonami/Miguzi board! We've had people from throughout North and South America on the board and a few British folks, but I believe you are our first French visitor. Thank you very much for the Code Lyoko information! It can be hard to find a lot of advance information about new European cartoons here in the United States. All we really know about is Molly Star-Racer, which still seems to be almost two years away.

Finally, your spelling and grammar were great! I wouldn't have known that English wasn't your first language if you hadn't mentioned it.

[Lyokophile]

Only 26 episodes ... :( I've seen 10 ... But they may make a second season , but we're not sure ... As you can see , except the antefilm site , there is no official site or fan site ... That's weird ...
But about Digimon , I can assure you that's not at all the same. Digimon's really commercial , with episodes and episodes and episodes ... CL is more "traditional" and really more worked , ( and the characters are more mature , that's more interesting :rolleyes: ). CL is more humble , if you prefer . I think , for exemple , it wasn't first destined to be exported to america etc ( of course i'm not sure )... However I hope you will like it :anime: .
Bizzz

[Lyokophile]

William C. Maune ------------------> THANK YOU VERY MUCHHHHHHHHHH

[Chad Bonin]

So, with Code LYOKO premiering only on Miguzi, will we be seeing more Lyokophiles?

I doubt you can be right about better than Digimon(only about 10-15 series in the world have ever managed that feat, and I strongly doubt this is one of them)I dunno, you'd be surprised at the amount of shows better than Digimon... coming from a guy who actually enjoys Digimon.

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Personally, I think Digimon was a huge achievement. A good combination of action and drama. Plus, most of the tunes in it rock. "Butter-Fly", "Target","The Biggest Dreamer" etcetera. I think Digimon represents a combination of a lot of different factors that only a select few others have achieved.


But I'm looking forward to LYOKO.

[Chad Bonin]

I enjoy Digimon, I do, but I really don't even put it in the top 20 of animated series...

Anyways, it's nice to have someone who actually has seen Lyoko.

[Youko Recca]

Welcome Lyokophile, and thanks for the info.For every show there is atleast one huge fan that will help us here at TZ.

[Lyokophile]

Thanks :anime: I'm glad to help :anime:

[Lyokophile]

Oh yes and , in France , a DVD has been launched a month ago with the four first episodes. I bought it and I would have been happy to put the episodes on internet but i'm not really good in computeur science :sweat: , sorry ...
Normaly , you will be lucky , you will have the episodes on the right order. In france , our chanel france 3 don't boardcast ( is it the right word ?) the episodes in the real order :( ...

[Mysteryinfoman]

It sounds intersting and could be a great show, the trailer has nice animation but the CG does not look that great.

[Lyokophile]

I don't know what is CG but if my guess is right , you're talking about the 3D ( 3 dimentions ) = digital effects , i don't know how you call it :sweat: .
Don't worry , it has been getting much better ( they changed it , like they changed several things you can saw on the trealer ). We can even speak of a pretty result.
Please I would like to know how much time difference there is between france and america , to know what time it is in america when i wrote at this moment . :anime:
Biiiiizzz

[Mysteryinfoman]

First off, welcome and thanks for the info and second, it's good to know the CG is getting better and CG stands for Computer Graphics, so yeah and is is also good to know that it's not a digimon sort of rip-off. :)

[EscaflownePilot]

Oh yes and , in France , a DVD has been launched a month ago with the four first episodes. I bought it and I would have been happy to put the episodes on internet but i'm not really good in computeur science :sweat: , sorry ...
Normaly , you will be lucky , you will have the episodes on the right order. In france , our chanel france 3 don't boardcast ( is it the right word ?) the episodes in the real order :( ...Thankfully, Cartoon Network does broadcast the episodes of their shows in their proper order... but most networks over here aside from Cartoon Network do the same thing yours does... it's so annoying!

Anyway, is the series episodic - that is, does each episode have it's own story (like how Pokemon usually works) or is it one full, continuous storyline (like most anime series) where it's all multi-part episodes?

[lostrune]

I don't know what is CG but if my guess is right , you're talking about the 3D ( 3 dimentions ) = digital effects , i don't know how you call it :sweat:

Yeah, when they say CG (computer graphics), they usually mean 3DCG.

Please I would like to know how much time difference there is between france and america , to know what time it is in america when i wrote at this moment . :anime:
Biiiiizzz

Consider this: the east coast of USA (Eastern Time) is 5 hours behind (-5) Greenwich Time in England. Excluding Maine, the US mainland has 3 more timezones: Central Time (-6 hrs), Mountain Time (-7), and Pacific Time (-8).

[Lyokophile]

Ok thanks for having explained the meaning of CG and for the time difference. So if i'm not too bad in calcul ( sorry i sucks in maths ... ) it's about 10am-1 pm o'clock when it's 6 pm at home ... *weird*:sweat:
To answer your question about the episode yes , it's mainly episodes with their own story . French productors don't seems to like full storyline episode whereas the public seems to appreciate very much ... Too bad ...

Anyways it seems poeple from the french forum are watching what we say so i better have to be careful lol :sweat: ...

Nicoluve from the french forum wanted to tell you something so there is his message :

"The story of Code Lyoko: in the vitual world called Lyoko, only the beautyful Aelita resists to the tyran XANA, machiavelic artificial intelligence. When four kids discover the supercomputer who allows communication between Earth and Lyoko, they join their forces to help Aelita. But now they will have to fight XANA in both real and virtual world.

The real world's graphic style is a classic anime style, but the graphic style in Lyoko is a new generation 3D style. If you want some previews, you can find some wallpapers on this site:
http://to3.france3.fr (http://to3.france3.fr/)

Nothig like Digimon. A Matrix's kid-version would be a beter definition.

Don't say "I dislike it" before seeing a few episodes. If possible, don't miss ONE episode. "

That's all.
Bizzzzz

[EscaflownePilot]

Mmm... the video on that site makes the CG look so much better than in that other trailer. I'm getting excited for this thing...

[Karl Olson]

Hmm, that trailer(ish thing) looks a lot better CG wise. Looks like they have gotten a solid find in Lyoko. It's reminicent of a Nickelodeon show (large cast of kid aged characters,) but certain elements definetely seem very Toonami/CN (action, dark story, etc.)

[Conan-san]

Hey, maybe if they also get Zentrix, CGI could be somting of a way to go with Mizugi.

[Wanted]

You guys make this show sound GREAT. It's too bad I don't have cable.

[Wanted]

It's from the Totaly Spies! people. It's French. It eerily reminds me of dear ol' "Calamity Jane". This may be interesting.Antefilms, not Marathon, made the show.

[Obi]

The plot sounds pretty interesting...(even though I'm still getting a Digimon vibe).

[Wanted]

I might be getting way ahead of myself, but I'd like to see this happen in America:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000XOOHW.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

DVD? Sounds good to me.

[Skyduke]

Have to say, this is an amazing cartoon.

HEADS UP : In my description, there are a few spoilers. Nothing major - most of it will be discussed during the first episodes, but I thought I ought to warn y'all. :)

I am indeed new to this board ( and this will likely be my only post, as well ), but I thought Code Lyoko deserved a heads up. The graphic style in itself is pretty... well, different. It's a love or hate situation, I guess. CGs are fine, but nothing mind-blowing, either. I think what makes it a good cartoon is the fact that since it is based around the fact that entering the "Code Lyoko" basically turns back time to the events that happened before the last attack from the hostile artificial intelligence, some pretty mature themes can be discussed; such as death or love.
The fights during the CG are on a video game style; ie, the characters are "virtualised", and possess a sum of hit points. If they lose all their hit points ( haven't watched all the episodes, but I'm sure it must happen at one point ), they are knocked out of the game and must wait a long time to re-enter, thus basically making them useless for the rest of the alert.
Since I didn't see the first episode, I'm not exactly sure about how the characters came to be, but I remember the blond guy with glasses always talking of a way to have Aïlita materialize "like they had" ( by the way, he is in love with her ) - so it's likely that they all have at least some degree of connection to the virtual world.
All in all, some really great work. Didn't think a French Studio had it in them. I really hope a second season is in the works. Anyway, enjoy.

[Lyokophile]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I KNEW you would like it !!!! That's a great show:anime: . I'm really happy to know you liked it ( but have you understand a word of the french DVD ? :confused: ) And to answer your question , we still don't know how they discovered Lyoko :( but it seems that the production is arguing about the 2nd saison . I think it's a good start . But we can't do nothing more than hope.

Voilà , Au revoir.

Oh ,and by the way , we're working on , and soon you'll have a code lyoko site on the net :D .

[Skyduke]

I live in France. I discovered Code Lyoko by chance on a wednesday morning while I was bored and just checking out random channels. The style of the drawing was peculiar enough that it piqued my curiosity. And yes, I do speak French :D ( but I am Belgian )

If you hadn't figured it out, the DVD cover says "Will you be able to keep a secret" ?

[Lyokophile]

Ok , sorry ... :o :sweat:

[bigddan11]

Maybe Miguzi will be a pretty decent block after all, but seeing that picture of the host Erin makes the block seem to kiddish for TMNT, Teen Titans, and possibly this. I'll just have to wait until April 19 to see for certain.

[Wanted]

Maybe Miguzi will be a pretty decent block after all, but seeing that picture of the host Erin makes the block seem to kiddish for TMNT, Teen Titans, and possibly this. I'll just have to wait until April 19 to see for certain.Have faith in CN. Besides, Erin is 13. How kiddish could a 13 year old be? But the sea creatures are a different story.

[Obi]

The characters' forheads scare me.

[Wanted]

The characters' forheads scare me.Don't mind them.

[William C. Maune]

CartoonNetwork.com's first Code LYOKO image is up:

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/watch/tv_shows/codelyoko/index.html

[Mysteryinfoman]

This must be the show I am most looking forward to, I think it has to do with I have seen all the other shows on the block as of now.

[Wanted]

CartoonNetwork.com's first Code LYOKO image is up:Pretty Neat Picture (PNP). If only CN would do so with all of their shows.

[Obi]

Still not digging those foreheads...maybe it wouldn't be so bad if their eyes were bigger, but they're not.

[Lyokophile]

Hello . Just to tell you that we have made a site about Code Lyoko :D . Of course it's under contruction , our site is quite little for the moment :sweat: . But you'll see . It will be getting better :) .


Our site : http://home.tele2.fr/codelyoko/

Bisous .

P.S : Obi , forget the foreheads , really ...

[sag_2002]

"Garage Kids"? That's an odd name. Good thing they changed it.

Oh well, this has potential. Once you get past the foreheads and the CGI, it's not looking too bad. I'll try to tune in, and if I do, I'll be back here to post my thoughts.

[vivi-lyokofan]

hello, I am vivi, a friend has lyokophile,
I come to think that google translated our site http://home.tele2.fr/codelyoko and that you could y acceder while clicking on the flag americains of the acceuil :p
sorry I don't speak english very well :sad: but I think that you would understand:shrug:

[vivi-lyokofan]

It's me again
I want juste tell you, there now a forum in english in our site http://home.tele2.fr/codelyoko/
you can written message to other american or talk with french people of codelyoko

[Majin Gohan]

I think its a good show, its starting to become one of my favorite shows....

[animefiend]

cool show. It's one of my favs. Thanks to lyokophile for clearing up the confusion about Odd :D . Does any one know if Sissy will join the gang?

[vivi-lyokofan]

we are known that sissi would like to join the group but it will not become their friend ;)
do you think that she will arrive there? :rolleyes:

[Red]

Guys this was the pre-show talkback, there are current ones now. (One will be posted this afternoon)