A World Without Danger

A World Without Danger

Code Lyoko is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo. The series centers on four boarding school students Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to fight against an evil and sinister sentient artificial intelligence/multi-agent computer program called XANA with a virtual humanoid being named Aelita. The series features both two-dimensional animation and CGI.

The series began its initial ninety-five episode run on 3 September 2003 on France's France 3, and ended its run on 10 November 2007. In the United States, the show was first broadcast on 19 April 2004 on Turner and Time Warner's Cartoon Network. On 31 May 2011, production company MoonScoop revealed on Facebook that the show is returning with a fifth season, rebranded as Code Lyoko Evolution, that is set to air in late 2012. The new season will be twenty-six episodes long and contain a mixture of live-action for scenes on Earth and contuine to be CGI for Lyoko scenes.

Code Lyoko has spawned an array of related merchandise, including three video games, a tie-in book series, figurines, a new MMORPG in development, a Facebook social game due in spring 2012, a few online flash games, and a merchandise store in CafePress. The show achieved ratings success in multiple countries.