Code Lyoko: Evolution

Code Lyoko: Evolution
Created by	Tania Palumbo Thomas Romain
Directed by	Luccio di Rossa (live action) Florian Ferrier (CGI)
Starring	Mélanie Tran Léonie Berthonnaud Diego Mestanza Quentin Merabet Gulliver Bevernage-Benhadj 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
Release
Original network	France 4 and Canal J
Original release	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 X.A.N.A.'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 X.A.N.A, 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 X.A.N.A. 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. They seek to discover why she is with their new enemy and how to reunite Anthea and her 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 X.A.N.A. then secretly inhabited to carry out its plans for world domination and destruction once again.

Characters

There are several characters that do not appear in the original show:

• Laura Gauthier, portrayed by Pauline Serieys, is the fifth child to be recruited by Jeremy Belpois in "Virus." A tech-savvy youth, she is viewed with suspicion by the protagonists due to her uninitiated status. In "Mutiny," she is excluded from the group and has her memory erased for betraying them and risking William's life.

• Professor Tyron, portrayed by Franck Beckmann, inadvertently works alongside the malevolent artificial intelligence, XANA. His character is unintentionally responsible for XANA's rebirth as well as antagonizing Jeremy and his friends. He has been married to Aelita's mother, Anthea, for four years, making him Aelita's step-father.

• Samantha Suarez, portrayed by Louise Vallat, is an adaptation of Samantha Knight,^[2] a supporting character who appeared in the original series. Notable differences between Samantha Suarez and Samantha Knight include personality and skin color (Suarez is Caucasian while Knight is African-French).

Cast

Recurring

Production

The budget for the series was expected to be €5,600,000.^[3]

See also

• List of French animated television series
• List of French television series

References