Code Lyoko: Evolution

Code Lyoko: Evolution
Created by	Tania Palumbo Thomas Romain
Directed by	Luccio di Rossa (live action), Florian Ferrier (CGI)
Starring	Léonie Berthonnaud Diego Mestanza Quentin Merabet Gulliver Bevernage-Benhadj Mélanie Tran Marin Lafitte Pauline Serieys Bastien Thelliez Frank Beckmann Sophie Fern
Country of origin	France
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26[1] (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	23 minutes approx.
Broadcast
Original channel	France 4 and Canal J
Original run	January 5, 2013 – December 19, 2013
Chronology
Preceded by	Code Lyoko

Code Lyoko: Evolution is the sequel to the French animated television series Code Lyoko. It premiered on December 19, 2012, on France 4. It blends live-action with CGI, picking up where the original series left off. In addition to improving upon the CGI in the original series, the soundtrack has been overhauled as well.

Plot

Set one year after the events of the original series, Jeremie Belpois, Odd Della Robbia, Ulrich Stern, William Dunbar, Yumi Ishiyama and Aelita Schaeffer return to their daily lives and routines at Kadic Academy. X.A.N.A, despite their success in defeating it previously, suddenly reappears, reborn with even more strength and power than ever before. The protagonists resume their former double lives in order to protect humanity from XANA's evil schemes once again. Joined by William Dunbar, who has finally been accepted as the sixth Lyoko warrior, and an unreliable girl-genius named Laura Gauthier, the seven heroes are bent on unraveling the reasons for such a return and to exterminate the malevolently evil sentient, autonomous artificial intelligence/multi-agent system that is threatening the world once again.

In addition to X.A.N.A., the gang eventually discover that they have another dangerous enemy, a mad scientist called Professor Tyron, who seems to be the one responsible for unintentionally returning XANA to life. He commands a group of several virtual human avatars in green and black-striped costumes to counter the Lyoko warriors. In Tyron's lab the group also discovers Aelita's long-lost mother, Anthea Hopper-Schaeffer, and seek to discover why she is with their new enemy and how to reunite mother and daughter.

In the cliffhanger episode Ultimate Mission, it is revealed that Tyron had been married to Anthea for four years and is now Aelita's stepfather and legal guardian. His only purpose of marrying Anthea was to get his hands on her late husband's archives so that he could effectively create the Cortex region, which XANA then secretly inhabited to carry out its plans for world domination and destruction once again.

Cast

Code Lyoko: Evolution characters	Original Actors/Actresses
Aelita Schaeffer (Stones)	Léonie Berthonnaud
Jérémie Belpois	Marin Lafitte
Odd Della Robbia	Gulliver Bevernage-Benhadj
Ulrich Stern	Quentin Merabet
Yumi Ishiyama	Mélanie Tran
William Dunbar	Diego Mestanza
Laura Gauthier	Pauline Serieys

Recurring

Code Lyoko: Evolution characters	Original Actors/Actresses
Elizabeth Delmas (Sissi)	Clémency Haynes
Mr. Delmas	Éric Soubelet
Professor Lowell Tyron	Franck Beckmann
Miss Hertz	Sophie Fougère
Jim Morales	Bastien Thelliez
Waldo Franz Schaeffer (Franz Hopper)	Hugues Massignat
Anthéa Hopper-Schaeffer	Sandrine Rigaux

Production

The budget for the series was expected to be €5,600,000.^[2]

See Also

• List of French television series

References