Post by stellacosmo on Oct 30, 2023 3:52:00 GMT
First of all, greetings, i'm LunaPastel and this is my very first thread on this site, and today i will be talking about something specific i had in my mind for years.
3 years ago, exactly in 2020, after i watched an episode of ratz i accidentally stumbled upon an obscure brazilean cartoon named Pixcodelics, for those who don't know what the show is, well let me tell ya'.
Pixcodelics is a 2005 Brazilean Animated Series created by Marco Alemar & Caio Mário Paes de Andrade for Cartoon Network Latinamerica and aired in August 13th of that same year. the series takes place in Lowpolys (a Fictional city inside the Internet) and it tells the story of a group of four kids, Pix, Nerd, Mary & Hack, who posess special artifacts with their specific power (like pix's telekinetic joystick for example) and with the help of a mysterious oracle named Dotcom, they manage to fulfill the important duty of saving the internet from the plans of the Evil Scientist Dr. Ping & his clumsy feline assistant Katslock, who both came from the future and their goal is preventing the "world peace" that the internet has caused. it Consisted of 65 episodes and each episode lasts from 5 minutes, and the artstyle (which the most remarked characteristic in the show) reminds of ASCII art and the characters were made by emoticons, letters & numbers.
Now, what this series has captivated my attention is the bizarre nature of it, not because of the (sometimes) wild camera angles and not because of the animation (to me its animation is unique), it is because of the lack of episodes they have on the internet. when the show aired around 2005-2006, not many people were able to record some episodes, because of this, a few episodes of this show are found on youtube (17 uploaded by the Cosmopax Channel in Portuguese, Spanish and English, 2 in Spanish and 6 in Portuguese), and each episode had no continuity between the eps. whatsoever (except that the plot is the main 4 stopping the evil plans of dr. ping).
there are 30 sec. clips, a few pictures of the first few episodes on marco alemar's website.
the show had a website where it had games, character profiles, a pixtar creator where fans created their own pixtars, and even you can download wallpapers, MSN icons, GIFs and even a map of Lowpolys in which later were incorporated into the Brazilean MMORPG game, Cosmopax (a Club Penguin-Styled online game, opened in 2007 and closed around 2012 because Webforce Networks wasn’t interested in the game, but reopened in 2014, but closed down again circa. 2017) there was also a Figurine Album made possibly by Panini, but i can't find pics of said figurine album online.
Oh, i'm also going to briefly talk about the japanese dub the series had, it premiered on the Jetix block on Toon Disney around 2007, little information is known about the dub but only pictures of the dub can be found on the ppgcom blog and no videos of said dub are nowhere to be found, luckily the 81 produce website has the names for the characters voice actors, but katslocks VA is still unknown to this very day... below is the cast of voice actors & seiyuus:
Original Portuguese:
Pix: Vagner Fagundes
Nerd: Unknown
Mary Chat: Daniella Piquet
Hack: Unknown
Dr. Ping: Élcio Sodré
Katslock: Daniella Piquet
Latino Dub
Pix: Rolman Bastidas
Nerd: Victor Diaz
Mary Chat: Melanie Henriquez
Hack: Carlos Vitale
Dr. Ping: Juan Guzman
Katslock: Lileana Chacon
Lost Japanese Dub Cast:
Pix: Yukimasa Obi
Nerd: Taisuke Yamamoto
Mary: Megumi Hazeyama
Hack: Wataru Hatano
Dr. Ping: Kouichi Sakaguchi
the english dub cast is still unknown to this very day
also it had an Article on the Revista Recreio (Brazilean children's magazine, and please let me know if anyone has a scan of the August 2005 edition of Recreio) and an Unreleased 2004 pilot (Currently Lost but Fragments of this can be found on this Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ULSU31x-M)
Sorry if this thread came out as rushed, but... this was very important to me as it was the 1st Cartoon Network co-production to be aired on this very channel and it was ahead of its time because of the internet aesthetic.
if anyone has more stuff related to the show or 2005 VHS airings of some episodes of when the show was airing (either Cartoon Network, Jetix Japan or Animania HD), Please, let me know🙏🏼 (Reply on the comments sections or send me a message in my inbox on these forums or in my twitter DMs (@/LunaPastel1) if y’all find smth abt these eps., it could be either a google drive link) i’ll update this thread if anything new happens.
UPDATES AS OF 2024:
Full Recreio Article: x.com/cosmopaxbr/status/1728934864907579770?s=46&t=oee2FvI9g753R12_5wwaYQ
Eps. 43-52 on Youtube: youtube.com/@pixcodelics?si=6xpl3_h08Eo2iiLF
Presentation Pitch: youtu.be/W-IgzNtzEy0?si=X6PoTu68kjq9S2JZ
3 years ago, exactly in 2020, after i watched an episode of ratz i accidentally stumbled upon an obscure brazilean cartoon named Pixcodelics, for those who don't know what the show is, well let me tell ya'.
Pixcodelics is a 2005 Brazilean Animated Series created by Marco Alemar & Caio Mário Paes de Andrade for Cartoon Network Latinamerica and aired in August 13th of that same year. the series takes place in Lowpolys (a Fictional city inside the Internet) and it tells the story of a group of four kids, Pix, Nerd, Mary & Hack, who posess special artifacts with their specific power (like pix's telekinetic joystick for example) and with the help of a mysterious oracle named Dotcom, they manage to fulfill the important duty of saving the internet from the plans of the Evil Scientist Dr. Ping & his clumsy feline assistant Katslock, who both came from the future and their goal is preventing the "world peace" that the internet has caused. it Consisted of 65 episodes and each episode lasts from 5 minutes, and the artstyle (which the most remarked characteristic in the show) reminds of ASCII art and the characters were made by emoticons, letters & numbers.
Now, what this series has captivated my attention is the bizarre nature of it, not because of the (sometimes) wild camera angles and not because of the animation (to me its animation is unique), it is because of the lack of episodes they have on the internet. when the show aired around 2005-2006, not many people were able to record some episodes, because of this, a few episodes of this show are found on youtube (17 uploaded by the Cosmopax Channel in Portuguese, Spanish and English, 2 in Spanish and 6 in Portuguese), and each episode had no continuity between the eps. whatsoever (except that the plot is the main 4 stopping the evil plans of dr. ping).
there are 30 sec. clips, a few pictures of the first few episodes on marco alemar's website.
the show had a website where it had games, character profiles, a pixtar creator where fans created their own pixtars, and even you can download wallpapers, MSN icons, GIFs and even a map of Lowpolys in which later were incorporated into the Brazilean MMORPG game, Cosmopax (a Club Penguin-Styled online game, opened in 2007 and closed around 2012 because Webforce Networks wasn’t interested in the game, but reopened in 2014, but closed down again circa. 2017) there was also a Figurine Album made possibly by Panini, but i can't find pics of said figurine album online.
Oh, i'm also going to briefly talk about the japanese dub the series had, it premiered on the Jetix block on Toon Disney around 2007, little information is known about the dub but only pictures of the dub can be found on the ppgcom blog and no videos of said dub are nowhere to be found, luckily the 81 produce website has the names for the characters voice actors, but katslocks VA is still unknown to this very day... below is the cast of voice actors & seiyuus:
Original Portuguese:
Pix: Vagner Fagundes
Nerd: Unknown
Mary Chat: Daniella Piquet
Hack: Unknown
Dr. Ping: Élcio Sodré
Katslock: Daniella Piquet
Latino Dub
Pix: Rolman Bastidas
Nerd: Victor Diaz
Mary Chat: Melanie Henriquez
Hack: Carlos Vitale
Dr. Ping: Juan Guzman
Katslock: Lileana Chacon
Lost Japanese Dub Cast:
Pix: Yukimasa Obi
Nerd: Taisuke Yamamoto
Mary: Megumi Hazeyama
Hack: Wataru Hatano
Dr. Ping: Kouichi Sakaguchi
the english dub cast is still unknown to this very day
also it had an Article on the Revista Recreio (Brazilean children's magazine, and please let me know if anyone has a scan of the August 2005 edition of Recreio) and an Unreleased 2004 pilot (Currently Lost but Fragments of this can be found on this Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ULSU31x-M)
Sorry if this thread came out as rushed, but... this was very important to me as it was the 1st Cartoon Network co-production to be aired on this very channel and it was ahead of its time because of the internet aesthetic.
if anyone has more stuff related to the show or 2005 VHS airings of some episodes of when the show was airing (either Cartoon Network, Jetix Japan or Animania HD), Please, let me know🙏🏼 (Reply on the comments sections or send me a message in my inbox on these forums or in my twitter DMs (@/LunaPastel1) if y’all find smth abt these eps., it could be either a google drive link) i’ll update this thread if anything new happens.
UPDATES AS OF 2024:
Full Recreio Article: x.com/cosmopaxbr/status/1728934864907579770?s=46&t=oee2FvI9g753R12_5wwaYQ
Eps. 43-52 on Youtube: youtube.com/@pixcodelics?si=6xpl3_h08Eo2iiLF
Presentation Pitch: youtu.be/W-IgzNtzEy0?si=X6PoTu68kjq9S2JZ
tbh i’ve always wanted to talk about the show for a long time ago, also not trying to be rude but.. do you have any memory of some episode plots while it aired on CN in those years?
