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Code Lyoko: First Season

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Code Lyoko:First Season is a 3-disc set,9 episodes on disc 1,9 episodes on disc 2,and 8 episodes on disc 3---in ENGLISH!!I just received my copy in the mail today,and for those who think "this is Kid's stuff",I'll be 56 years young in December!!

I'm a fan of a lot of anime/psuedo-anime including Code Lyoko, Naruto, DragonBall trilogy, .hack//SIGN, Bleach and sometimes even Pokemon and so on.I really hate Yu-Gi-Oh and BeyBlade though, they are crappy

Code Lyoko was originally about four boarding school students who found an unlocked supercomputer at an old factory, but even better this supercomputer can send humans into a digital world called Lyoko which is like a "videogame" in which the person fights against pixel monsters, but if he/she gets zapped the person doesn't die but is simply sent back to to Earth.

The four students are a computer-talented boy called Jeremie, Odd a svelte comic relief character, Ulrich a boy who has talents in martial arts and a tall girl called Yumi who is a year older and has Japanese parents and responcible for leading the team.Odd, Ulrich and Yumi are the only people that go to Lyoko, Jeremie stays behind and works the computer

There are two sole "inhabitants" that actually live in Lyoko, a girld called Aelita and an unseen digital menace called X.A.N.A. who can, through the super computer access electronics on Earth and cause distress, he does this by activating "towers" and Aelita is able to deactivate the towers thus stopping XANA's attack.But she can not get through to the tower with out a fight as he sets up armies of monsters around them to intercept Aelita and the three students that go to Lyoko.

Jeremie, Odd, Ulrich and Yumi befriend Aelita and try to set up a programme in which she can leave Lyoko and live on Earth so they can shut down the supercomputer and end XANA once and for all.

This is the season 1 story, yeh gotta admit s1 is very repetive and most of it are fillers

But season 2 and season 3 rock as the story gets less repetitive and have deeper plot twists and towards the end of season 3 they get a new member

CL isn't very popular, only certain people like it so theres a chance you won't like it, but I love it.

anyways bye

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~~~~~~MercenaryFan15 aged 13 years old~~~~~~~~~~~~

Just so you all know, don't trust what it says for the language or subtitles. I've ordered from here before and when I play the DVD it was only ONE language- English. Also, there are NO subtitles.

I don't know where Amazon got the info, but is WRONG.

I love Code Lyoko and I'm over 18!! I'm 23 and about to graduate from college. Both my sister and I watch the show whenever we can. Schedule issues prevent us from watching faithfully but we even had to buy two copies of this season 1 DVD because we both refused to share!

Long Live Lyoko!

I had no idea so many of this show's fans were adults. Now I don't feel so silly for watching it! Woohoo!

The premise of Code Lyoko is fairly simple. Lyoko is a "virtual world" that exists inside a computer; while the scenes that take place in the real world are animated traditionally, the battle scenes on Lyoko are animated using CGI. The computer also houses XANA, an evil entity that wants to take over the world, which he attempts to do using control towers on Lyoko that allow him to act outside the computer, for instance, by seizing control of government weapons sattelites. The Lyoko team, a group of young teens who attend the boarding school near the abandoned factory that houses the supercomputer, are the only humans who know of its existence, and they have to find a way to defeat XANA while maintaining their dual lives as ordinary junior high school kids.

The show has its flaws, of course; I don't think there's any such thing as a "perfect" TV show, movie, or anything else. For instance, it becomes obvious fairly quickly that the animators often just reuse bits from previous episodes, which creates the occasional continuity error. It should also be noted that the English dub occasionally flatly ignores the show's French origins; for example, the characters refer to dollars rather than Euros, and even worse, at one point a character mentions the school having begun a "language exchange program"--no idea what that is--with France, despite the fact that they already live there. (In fact, one episode even reveals the school's location via satellite image. Hard to ignore that...) These are pretty few and far between, though, and therefore only of consequence to dweebs like me that notice everything.

That being said, Code Lyoko is still pretty darn entertaining, full of humor, action, and even romance. Plus, there's virtually nothing that's even remotely obscene or offensive about this show, which makes it perfect for family viewing. (Hey, kids watch Code Lyoko too! Surprise surprise!) There's also a clear message of cooperation and trust that binds the series together; the series is set at a boarding school, with students who come from literally every corner of the globe, but the culture of the school is such that the racial and societal differences between them are hardly given a second thought, and occasionally even the main cast's bitter rivals will step in to lend a hand.

The only real flaw as far as the show itself, especially in the first season, is that it relies a little too heavily on the "deus ex machina" conceit; any problems that the kids or XANA cause can easily be deleted by travelling back in time. Also, certain plot holes tend to go unexplained, such as why the abandoned factory was never torn down. (In fairness, though, the time-travel concept was largely disposed of in later seasons, maybe because the creators realized that their audience was a little more savvy than they'd anticipated.)

Unfortunately, the most glaring flaw with this DVD set is the DVD set itself. The episodes are thrown together in random order--not a problem for most of the season, but the last few episodes follow a definite arc that's incompatible with out-of-order viewing--and there are far too few extras. The only audio track, for instance, is the English dub; since this set is sold in Canada as well, I would have thought that including the original French language track would have been an obvious choice, but apparently I'd be wrong. The saving grace, in fact, is the price tag, far lower than what you'd expect to pay for a full season of just about any other show.

All in all, I wish there were a better place to start if you're new to Code Lyoko; but to be honest, it could be a lot worse. Of course, I should warn the new viewer that Funimation seems to be taking its time releasing Season 2, if indeed it ever will at all--the second volume of season 2 isn't even mentioned on the Funimation Web site anymore--so you may want to think twice about getting involved if you haven't been keeping up with the TV broadcast.

Best Show in the workd just need to come out with season 2, & 3 to buy

Wow i love this series. It is great to have this on DVD. Now I can watch at any time my favorite show. Great buy! Must Have for a Code Lyoko fan.

This DVD is worth buying.I am Code Lyoko's #1 Fan.I've been a member ever since it cam out in french which is 2003.I don't understand what they say but the graphics and cartoon and humor is very funny and cool!

I'm 14 turning 15 soon. This is one of my favorite shows along with Prison Break and Grey's Anatomy. I first watched Code Lyoko at my little cousin's house, she is 6, and it was one of the 5 episode disks playing on her television. I had nothing better to do and had seen this show just flipping around on the tv before and had not liked it, but I watched it anyway. I had finished only one episode and was completely hooked. I could not stop watching. The only down side to the first season is that every episode is pretty much the same, but I read the other reviews and so I am guessing that in the later seasons it starts getting more interesting. This is an amazing show that I cannot believe I actually liked! I never thought I would be so into Code Lyoko! This is not a kids show at all. I would recommend it to every age out there.

I've been buying all of the stupid 5 episode disks for like a year or two. I'm glad they finally came out with the season one in whole. If you are reading this and are a code: lyoko fan, you should definitely get this