Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (also named LadyBug or Lady Bug, Miraculous or Miraculous Ladybug) is a CGI animated French series. It is a co-production by ZAG Animation, Method Animation, Disney Channel EMEA, Toei Animation, SAMG Animation, SK Broadband, PGS Entertainment and AB International Distribution. It premiered around the world starting in fall of 2015.

The first season has 26 half-hour episodes and a 10 episode web series. On November 20, 2015, Jeremy Zag announced that a second season and third season are being worked on.

Synopsis
For episode list, see Episode guide.

Modern-day Paris, Marinette and Adrien are two high school kids with a difference: they are the chosen ones to save Paris from evil! They have been entrusted with an important mission – to capture akumas, creatures responsible for turning normal people into super-baddies. When involved in such adventures, these two school kids become superheroes: Marinette transforms into Ladybug and Adrien becomes Cat Noir. But Ladybug and Cat Noir do not know each other’s true identity. Marinette is unaware that, beneath the Cat Noir costume nestles Adrien, her secret crush. Similarly, Adrien doesn’t know that Ladybug is, in actual fact, just Marinette - one of the girls in his class.

Main cast

 * Cristina Vee as Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
 * Bryce Papenbrook as Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
 * Keith Silverstein as Hawk Moth
 * Mela Lee as Tikki
 * Max Mittelman as Plagg
 * Carrie Keranen as Alya Césaire

Recurring cast

 * Ben Diskin as Nino and Max
 * Selah Victor as Chloé Bourgeois
 * Sabrina Weisz as Nathalie Sancoeur
 * Keith Silverstein as Gabriel Agreste
 * Kira Buckland as Alix Kubdel
 * Erin Fitzgerald as Rose and Juleka
 * Michael Sinterniklaas as Nathanaël

Production
The original concept for Ladybug was conceived by Thomas Astruc around 2005. One day, after meeting a young woman who was wearing a ladybug shirt and working with her, Thomas played around the idea of a ladybug, soon creating a sticky note with the design of Ladybug. Thinking that the character worked well, Thomas began to develop this character with new drawings (like as seen with fake comic book covers called The Mini Menace Ladybug) and constructed the universe around her, inspired by comic universes like Marvel. He continued to develop his idea until he met Jeremy Zag, a producer at Zagtoon, who allowed Thomas to do what he thought best with it.

There were many changes that Ladybug went through during development. The series was originally meant to be for older audiences like teens and young adults, having political stories and a darker tone. However, explained by writing director Sébastien Thibaudeau, "some elements hindered its perception and no one really knew why", so the crew worked on making it lighter for a younger audience. Toei Animation helped to create an animated promotional video showing footage of what the show would be like in order to showcase the show as an anime, but eventually, it was decided to make the series in CGI. There was also a point in time where producers encouraged making Ladybug and Cat Noir a part of a superhero team, but it didn't help sell the show, and the superhero team idea was dropped because of it.

Astruc created the show by drawing ideas and concepts from Franco-Belgian comics, American comics, and Japanese animation. He found inspiration for Ladybug from Amélie Poulain, Spider-Man, and Sailor Moon. He and his team wanted to create a show that reflected the romance and beauty of France, and they aimed for it to have superheroes that appeal to young girls while not falling into the clichés of female characters.

DVD Releases
The following is a list of the DVD volumes of the show released in the US.

Trivia

 * It takes one entire year to finish an episode, and many episodes are usually being worked on at the same time.
 * In South Korea, the show was simply titled Ladybug.
 * The logo style also varies from the original one, and is based off a conceptual logo for the series.
 * In the Croatian version, the show is called Miraculous bug.
 * As of March 2016, Miraculous has been broadcasted in over 120 countries.
 * Despite being a primarily French animated series, the show was lip-synced to English audio.
 * The Miraculous team chose to do this in order to make the series more marketable in the US.
 * Only after 10 weeks on air in the US, Miraculous entered the top 10 animated series for all timeslots and networks.
 * The show also managed to track around three for the top 10 children's television programs.
 * Internationally, Miraculous was also met with impressive numbers, become the #1 kids' show on both TF1 and EBS.

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