| Galactik Football | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Action Fantasy Romance Comedy Animated |
| Format | Animated television series |
| Created by | Collectif Auteurs |
| Voices of | Anne Byrne Malcolm Douglas Michael FitzGerald Roger Gregg Lara Lenehan Dermot Magennis Doireann NíChorragáin Caitríona NíMhurchú Gavin O'Connor Marinette Pichon Mario Rosenstock Anthony Royer Jonathan Ryan Susan Slott |
| Country of origin | France |
| Language(s) | English, French, Dutch, Romanian |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 78 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 26 mins approx |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | France2 (France) Jetix/Disney XD and Nicktoons (Europe) KidsCentral (Singapore) Kazam! (ABC) (Australia) |
| Picture format | 4:3 (Season 1-2) 16:9 (Season 3+) |
| Original run | June 3, 2006 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Galactik Football is a French animated television series, co-produced by Alphanim, France 2, Jetix Europe and Welkin-Animation. It started airing its 3rd 26-episode season in territories around Europe in June 2010.
In the universe of Galactik Football, the inhabited worlds of the Zaelion Galaxy compete in Galactik Football, a sport analogous to soccer, but played seven to a side. The game is further complicated by the addition of Flux, which enhances a player's attributes such as speed, strength and agility, or grants special powers such as teleportation. The story follows the fate of an inexperienced Galactik Football team, the "Snow Kids", as they aim to compete in the Galactik Football Cup.[1]
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The story begins during a football match between the home team of planet Akillian and the Shadows. Akillians have a direct free kick, to be taken by their captain, Aarch. As he takes the free kick an explosion is heard and an avalanche sweeps over the stadium, marking the beginning of the Akillian Ice Age and the loss of The Breath, Akillian's own Flux.
The plot then jumps forward 15 years. Aarch and his friend Clamp, a robotic technician, arrive back on Akillian for the first time since the game. Aarch aims to create a new Akillian Galactik Football team capable of winning the Cup, and selects a group of talented teenagers for his team: D'Jok, Sinedd, Micro-Ice, Mei, Thran, Ahito, Rocket and Tia. However, Rocket's father and Aarch's brother do not want him on the team, and agree only to let him play on the condition that the newly named Snow Kids will win a match against the incumbent Akillian team, the Red Tigers, who are coached by Aarch's estranged old friend and team-mate Artegor Nexus. During her try-out Tia reveals that she still has the power of the long-lost Breath.
The Snow Kids beat the Red Tigers, becoming the new Akillian team. However, an embittered Artegor lures Sinedd away from the Snow Kids and recruits him to the Shadows, whom he has agreed to coach.
The Snow Kids progress through the competition and one-by-one they develop the Breath of Akillian, despite some intra-team tensions caused by Tia and Rocket's burgeoning relationship and Micro-Ice's unrequited crush on Mei. Unknown to any of them however, is that all seven of the players have been affected by the Meta-Flux, a synthetic undetectable Flux, inadvertently created by Clamp and pirate Sonny Blackbones, that was the true origin of the Akillian Ice Age. This Flux is now coveted by the ruthless General Bleylock, who happily endangers the Snow Kids to get his hands on it.
It is only with the help of Clamp and his old partner, the pirate Sonny Blackbones, that the Snow Kids are able to escape General Bleylock's machinations and win the Galactik Football Cup.
1 year after their 2nd GF Cup victory in succession, the mysterious Lord Phoenix invites everyone in the galaxy to a special mixed- flux tournament on the planet Paradisia. After a bad friendly match against the Shadows, D'Jok and Mei have an argument causing Mei to dump D'Jok and join the Shadows. Yuki leaves the Snow Kids temporarily to join the Elektras and D'Jok also leaves the team after being recruited by Team Paradisia. A Wamba named Lun-Zia joins the Snow Kids for the mixed- flux tournament.
New episodes have started appearing on Disney XD UK leading to the end of Season 3. Currently at 2:45am.
No new episodes have been aired since September 25, 2010 because of unclear reasons, but it is believed that the company that supplies the actors for the voices for each character have refused to collaborate for any more episodes. A fourth season should go ahead as planned, but it is likely that Season 3 will not be re-filmed.But Season 3 can be seen on Youtube.
Galactik Football has its own virtual world and MMO game on the web called Club Galactik. Development of the game was announced in early 2009 by the show's producer Alphanim and MMO game publisher Virtual Fairground, But Club Galactik closed down because of its Publisher Virtual Fairground.