Galactik Football

Galactik Football
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Genre	Animation
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
Original languages	English, French
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	24mins approx
Original release
Network	France2 (France) Jetix (Europe) KidsCentral (Singapore) Kazam!(ABC) (Australia)
Release	June 3, 2006 – ?

Galactik Football is a French animated television series, co-produced by Alphanim, France 2, Jetix and Welkin-Animation. It follows the story of a futuristic football team - The Snow Kids - as they try to win the Galactik Football Cup for their home planet Akillian, with the help of The Flux - a mystical energy, specific for every planet.

On June 20, 2007 Jetix Europe announced it had acquired a second 26 episode season set to begin airing across Europe in 2008. The second series started in United Kingdom on April 5, 2008.

Plot

The story begins 19 years in the past, where a match between the Shadows and Planet Akillian's home team is near the end. Akillian have a direct free kick, to be taken by the striker, Aarch. As he runs forward to take the free kick an explosion is heard overhead, and an avalanche approaches, marking the beginning of the Akillian Ice Age and the end of The Breath, Akillian's own Flux.

The plot then jumps forward 15 years. Aarch and his friend Clamp, a robot technician, arrive back in Akillian for the first time since the game. They aim to plan to create a new Akillian Galactik Football team capable of winning the Cup, and select a unique group of talented teenagers for his team: D'Jok, Sinedd, Micro-Ice, Mei, Thran, Ahito, Rocket and Tia. Rocket's father, however, does not want his son in the team. In her audition, Tia reveals that she has the Breath. Meanwhile Aarch finally persuades Rocket's father to allow him to join the team while their goalkeeper, Ahito, suggests their team name: Snow Kids. In their first match, against the Wambas, they are beaten and Tia is severely injured by a player bribed by Aarchs former teammate Artegor who despise him for abandoning the Shadows, his old team.

Clamp is revealed as the creator of the Meta-Flux, a synthetic and undetectable form of Flux, along with pirate Sonny Blackbones. Meanwhile, Aarch discovers Artegor still hates. He persuades Sinedd to leave the Snow Kids to play for The Shadows and he joins willingly, wanting to try and prove he's a better player than D'Jok,,his rival. At the same time an unlikely relationship grows between Rocket and Tia, while Micro-Ice is trying to get Mei to go out with him despite her instant dislike to him.

Unfortunately, in preparation of the Snow Kids' second GF Cup appearance, Ahito becomes seriously ill with a mysterious virus and has to be withdrawn from the team to recover when they travel to Genesis Stadium. The Snow Kids begin playing in the Galactic Football cup and are too shell-shocked to play properly.

Rocket gets banned from playing Galactik Football after he illegally uses the Breath to save Tia's life. He then turns to a secret 1-on-1 sport called Netherball, which is covertly being run by Beylock and Technoid so as to gather Flux signatures and use them to their advantage.

In lieu of what happens to Ahito and Rocket, the team gets two new players called Mark (their new mid-fielder) and Yuki (their new goalkeeper).

Beylock uses the collected Flux to cause an explosion on the Shadows' Archipelago, destroying the Shadow team's Flux, and engineers it to look like the Pirates are to blame. The Pirates lose their immunity and have to go on the run again.

Ahito recovers from his illness and returns to the Snow Kids.

As the series progresses, Rocket continues to play Netherball due to his suspension and goes out of control, caring for no one, while the Snow Kids are struggling to win matches, though they manage to make it to the quarter finals against the Wambas, which they win 3-2, with Mark scoring in the last second.

Tia then faces Rocket at Netherball and wins, forcing him to leave the sphere (where Netherball is played) and return to the Snow Kids.

The team win the semi-finals against the Lightnings. However, during the game Ahito has a relapse of his illness.

The Snow Kids face the Xenons in the final, winning on a penalty shoot-out.

Characters

D'Jok is the striker of the Snow Kids. He was looking for his destiny and he always says he found it in football. His faith in success and his skills led him to be the second person to master the breath after Tia. Despite D'Jok's skills he has the habit of letting his position and abilities go to his head. During the series he wears a bracelet which belonged to his late mother. He is a son of Sonny Blackbones, the Pirates leader and the best friend and big brother figure of Micro-Ice. In the middle of the first season he falls in love with Mei causing a feud with Micro-Ice which was mainly caused by Mei who wanted Micro-Ice’s position. In the 2nd season D'Jok becomes much more of a team player, and though he is still prone to "bigheadedness" he makes a good replacement captain during Rocket's suspension.

Rocket is the Snow Kids' first captain with an amazing 100% accuracy in passing and the nephew of the coach, Aarch. He is also a midfielder, captain of the team, and the fourth on the team to re awaken the breath after Thran. In the second season, he is suspended because of using The Breath to save Tia's life and is persuaded by Sinedd to play Netherball, but is forced to quit when he is defeated by Tia.

Tia is the first of the Snow Kids to master the Flux. She plays as a midfielder and has a close relationship with Rocket. Tia is shy, but gradually finds her place in the team. She is the ambassador's daughter and in the beginning she is forbidden from playing football. She also defeated Rocket in Netherball and forced him to quit.

Micro-Ice is the striker and the best friend and little brother figure of D'Jok, with a big crush on the Snow Kid's goalkeeper, Yuki and before that Mei. Micro-Ice's creativity in the field of a match is his greatest ability as a footballer, Micro-Ice is the main clown of the team, which often leads to Mark and D'Jok teasing him, but he likes helping his teammates, who are grateful for his creativity and skills on the field.

Thran is the Snow Kid's defender and the older brother of Ahito. He's very intelligent and knows much about machines. He always says that he is the older brother by usually nicknaming Ahito 'little brother'.

Mei is the overly-ambitious defender of the Snow Kids. Although she is gifted in her current position, defence, she badly wanted to be striker for most of the 1st series, and accidentally broke the friendship between Micro-Ice and D'Jok, and felt guilty and upset after Micro-Ice left the team and finally accepted her position as the defender of the team. Her mother is always forcing her to make contracts and ads to make a career Micro-Ice agreed to teach her how to disobey her mother. In the 2nd season Mei often talks to Corso( a pirate, along with Sonny Blackbones) in secret, so Sonny can learn of how D'Jok (her boyfriend) is doing. Although she was very selfish in the first season, Mei is still very sweet and always helps when she is needed.

Ahito is the Snow Kids' goalkeeper. He rarely misses the ball and despite his rather odd sleeping patterns, he is always alert during games. He is the younger brother to Thran. In the second season, he falls ill, but returns to full health during a match against the Wambas. In the semi-final match with the Lightnings, he falls ill again. In the very final episode of the 2nd season, the final against the Xenons, he is taken off and Yuki (his cousin) replaces him, but then while saving a penalty she is injured and Ahito returns to save Luur's shot.

Yuki is Thran and Ahito's cousin. At Thran's suggestion, she is recruited by the Snow Kids to take Ahito's place after he falls ill. She initially lacks confidence in her abilities and finds it difficult to get along with D'Jok, who takes an immediate dislike to her. She also replaced Tia in midfield when she left with the Pirates to go to the Technoid prison to save her parents. Yuki becomes Micro-Ice's girlfriend, and plays brilliantly in the final against the Xenons.

Mark joins the team to replace Rocket, when he is suspended after using the Breath illegally. He is an old friend of D'Jok and Micro-Ice from before the formation of the team, he is quite a cruel person, but one who enjoys a joke, and irritates Micro-Ice immensely when he shows affections to Yuki.

Sinedd used to be the striker of the original Snow Kids, but early in the series, he abandoned his team to join the Shadows. His parents died in an unknown Flux War. It appears he is very arrogant and has a pessimistic nature but in truth Sinedd has many reasons to be upset, with so many people taking immediate dislike to him because of his reputation, and his mother and father dying. Sinedd is a misunderstood young man.

Aarch is the former striker of team Akillian and the Shadows. He is Norata's close brother, a rival of coach Artegor, who is a coach of the Shadows, and the uncle of the Snow Kids' captain, Rocket. After the Ice Age on Akillian, Aarch left his home planet to continue his career as a footballer, joining the foreign team Shadows where he and Artegor became close team mates. There was a match between Shadows and Cyclops, where Aarch suddenly, after a great footballing move, fell down and lost his Flux, called the Smog. After that, he quit being a footballer. Aarch plans on using all his knowledge about football on a new team made from the seven teenagers of choice and then, try to win the Galactik Football Cup which he always wanted to do. In the 1st and 2nd season he has quite a few run-ins with his nemesis Artegor but it seems that he genuinely wants to be friends with Artegor again, and is extremely pleased when Artegor becomes assistant coach of the Snow Kids, even if only for a short time.

Dame Simbai is the medic on Aarch's technical staff, and she is responsible for looking after the Snow Kids' health.

Clamp (who was Professor Yarrit Lobnor) is a close friend of Aarch's and the technical adviser to the team. He is determined to help Aarch form a championship team and return the Breath to Akillian.

Sonny Blackbones is the leader of The Pirates, a rogue group whose aim is to fight the galactic corporation Technoid. He initially investigates the Snow Kids because of what he believes are Aarch's ties to Technoid, but soon becomes involved with the team for much more personal reasons. Later in Season 3 it is found out that he has another son.

General Bleylock is a ruthless executive of Technoid. Bleylock's interests in the Snow Kids lie in their ties to the Metaflux. He is happy to return the galaxy to “the bad old days” when flux was used for war instead of sports, if it means he can take control of the galaxy. In the 2nd season his ship is blown up by his "helper" Harris. He was the main antagonist of the first two seasons.

Artegor Nexus is the former striker of the team Akillian and Shadows. He was a best friend of Aarch, now his worst enemy. He is the coach of the Shadows and was before hand coach of the Red Tigers. Artegor takes Sinedd away from the Snow Kids and trains him as his protégée. Artegor eventually becomes sick with the smog in the 2nd season and is treated by Aarch and the gang.

Episodes

Main article: List of Galactik Football episodes

Media

It aired its first season in "India" on 2007. The second Season however aired on 2009. Both the seasons were dubbed in HINDI and aired on JETIX and DISNEY XD respectively.

Other information

Galactik Football has its own virtual world and MMO game on the web called Club Galactik. Development of the game was announced early 2009 by the show's producer Alphanim and MMO game publisher Virtual Fairground. The entire virtual world will be completed in April 2010, in time for the third season of Galactik Football.

See also

• Disney XD
• List of Galactik Football episodes
• Flux (Galactik Football)

External links

• Producer's site
• Official site
• Club Galactik