Galactik Football

Galactik Football
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 language	English
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 – September 6, 2008

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 happens 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. Thay 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 training, Tia discovers that she can use Breath on her own. Aarch persuades Rocket to join the team while their goalkeeper, Ahito, suggests their team name: Snow Kids. In their first match, against the Wambas, they are beaten comfortably.

Clamp is revealed as the creator of the Meta-Flux, a synthetic and undetectable form of the Flux, which could be used in a military role. Meanwhile, Aarch discovers his old teammate Artegor hates him for abandoning their team when they were children. He persuades Sinedd to leave the Snow Kids to play for The Shadows he joins straight away wanting to prove he's not only a better player than D'Jok,his rival, but also the best player ever, and that he will be the one lifting the Galactik Cup. At the same time an unlikely relationship grows between Rocket and the midfielder Tia, while Micro-Ice falls in love with Mei, leading to Micro-Ice moving back to defence to allow her to be the striker.

Ahito becomes seriously ill and has to be withdrawn from the team to recover when they travel back to Genesis Stadium.Meanwhile The Snow Kids return as champions to try and retain the cup.Now that The Pirates are no longer wanted and have immunity from prosecution Sonny starts spending more time with his son D'Jok.

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 Shadow 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.

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 quarter 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.

Characters

• D'Jok is the striker of the Snow Kids. He was looking for his destiny and he found it in football. His faith in success and his skills led him to master the breath second 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 from his mother. He's a son of Sonny Blackbones, Pirates leader and the best friend and big brother figure of Micro-Ice. In the 2nd season D'Jok becomes much more of a team player, and though he is still prone to "bigheadness" he makes a good replacement captain during Rocket's suspension. And in the final if the first season he falls in love with Mei and so does she but in the second season D'Jok is too busy being the new captain and doesn't really say much to Mei.
• Rocket is the Snow Kids' player with a 100% accuracy 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's suspended because of using The Breath to save Tia's life, he also used to play Netherball, but then he quit when he was defeated by Tia.
• Tia is the first of the Snow Kids to master the Flux. She plays as attacking midfielder and has a close relationship with Rocket. Tia is shy, but gradually in the series, she finds her place in the team. She is the ambassador's daughter and in the beginning she is forbidden from playing football. In the 2nd season Tia goes through severe emotional trauma when Rocket (whom she loves) is suspended , she is the also the one who beat him in Netherball to force him to quit. She is very sweet but she has never does anything wrong. She is what you call perfect like her boyfriend Rocket in season 1.
• 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. Micro-Ice's creativity in the field of a match is his greatest ability as a footballer, Micro-Ice is the clown of the team, he can sometimes be tactless but he always means well, a few people on the team (Mark) enjoy teasing him. He used to have a crush on Mei.
• Thran is the Snow Kid's defender and the twin brother of Ahito. He's very intelligent and knows much about machines.
• Mei is the overly-ambitious defender of the Snow Kids. Although she's gifted in her current position, she badly wants to be Striker for the media attention and advertising career. She was trying to break the friendship between Micro-Ice and D'Jok, but after Micro-Ice left the team, she felt very guilty for this. She finally accepted her position as the Defender of the team, Her mother wants her to make a career at all costa, but she learned from Micro-Ice, how to refuse her mother. In the 2nd season Mei often talks to Corso (the pirate) 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's the twin brother to Thran. He takes medicine to stay alert at match's. In the second season, he falls ill, but returns to full health during a match against the Wambas'. On the match with the Lightnings, he falls ill again, In the very final of the 2nd season, he is taken off and Yuki (his cousin) replaces him, but then while saving a penalty she is injured and Ahtio returns to save Lurr'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 when Tia 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, who 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 and irritates Micro-Ice immensley 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's 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 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 Kid's captain, Rocket. After the Ice Age on Akillian, Aarch left his home planet to continue his career as an athlete, 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 football action fell down and lost his Flux named Smog. After that, he quit being an athlete. 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. In the 1st and 2nd season he has quite a few run-ins with his "nemesis" Artegor but it seems that he genuinly wants to be friends with Artegor again, and is extremely pleased when Artegor becomes assistant coach of the Snowkids even if it was 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 and diet.
• Clamp 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.
• General Bleylock is a ruthless executive of Technoid. Bleylock's interest in the Snow Kids lies 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.
• 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 Snowkids and trains him as his prodigee. 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

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 done in 2010, in time for the third season of Galactik Football.

See also

• Jetix
• List of Galactik Football episodes
• Flux (Galactik Football)

External links

• Producer's site
• Official site
• Club Galactik