Jade Armor is a French animated television series produced by TeamTO that premiered on 7 September 2022.

Premise

The mystical Jade Armor is a legendary superhero. And now, it is Lan Jun's turn to be Jade Armor. Each day, she must contend with both an evil array of super villains and the very real trials of teenage life.

Characters

• Lan Jun Ya is the main character of the series. She lives with her father, grandmother, and great-grandmother and has recently become the new Jade Armor.
• Theo Khan is one of LJ's best friends. He loves action movies.
• Alisha is LJ's other best friend and Theo's sister. She loves boba more than anything.
• Shenwu is the wind tortoise beasticon.
• Chinlon is the water dragon beasticon.
• Baihu is the earth tiger beasticon.
• Zuchue is the fire phoenix beasticon.
• Liam is Lan Jun's father.
• Zee Schuan is Lan Jun's grandmother. She and LJ's great-grandma are often referred to as "The Grams".
• Fei Fei is a local flower shop owner who has a crush on Zee Schuan.
• Mr Melki is the local reporter. He uses a drone to film himself around Ban Tang.
• Shingchi is LJ's mother, who disappeared when she was very young.
• Angela is the owner of the Boba Bistro. She plays Mah Jhong with Fei Fei and The Grams.
• Junior is Angela's son.
• Kai is a boy from school that LJ has a crush on. He likes to skip school and breakdance in the park.
• Pearl Bow is an intelligent but mean girl at school who doesn't get along with LJ.
• Lucy Slater is one of Pearl's lackies, similarly intelligent.
• Jasmine is Pearl's other lacky, she and Lucy dress the same except Jasmine wears pink and Lucy wears blue.
• Lu is one of LJ's classmates. He's dating Ank.
• Ank is one of LJ's classmates. He's dating Lu. They're in the Stamp Club.
• VP Lane is the Vice Principal and also a teacher at LJ's school.
• The Crimson Lord is the main villain of Jade Armor. He defeated the previous Jade Armor and needs to collect Shards to regrow his body and armor. In Jade Infinity Jade Armor have use the good shards into Chrimson Lord and turn him good and defeated him.
• William Zhou Zhou Butler aka Will, is the Crimson Lord's distant cousin and loyal minion.
• Black Tiger aka Mrs. Bow, is Pearl's mother, owner of The Shop of the Strange, and a technological/magical thief. She has a pet mouse named Shabon.
• Xinyan is a Beasticon that used to work for the Crimson Lord, but rebelled and now seeks to destroy all of mankind for treating animals and beasticons badly.

Development

The show was created by Chloe Miller and executive producer Corinne Kouper based on a concept by M. Pongo Kuo. It was co-developed by Mary Bredin, with M.J. Offen as head writer and Ghislaine Pujol as story editor.^[1] French animation studio TeamTO began developing the series in 2015.^[2] The original concept for the show was an action series with a male protagonist.^[3] After Chloe Miller joined the show,^[3] Lan Jun, who was originally created as the male protagonist's best friend, became the main character. When creating Lan Jun, the showrunners wanted her to be an "ordinary girl" who was both feminine and strong, without relying on either gender stereotypes or a "tomboy" archetype.^[2] Miller and Kouper also sought to add more comedic elements to the story, and place a heavier focus on family and heritage. The series' inspirations include kung fu movies, magical girl anime, and superhero comics.^[3] The series was intended for viewers in the 3- to 12-year old age demographic.^[4]

To help the storyboard artists visualize the show's action and fight scenes, the showrunners' hired a stunt coordinator to film the action scenes on camera. The storyboard artists then built off of the filmed stunts to create "bigger than life" animated sequences. The series' choreography was inspired by films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.^[2]

TeamTO released a pitch bible and trailer at Kidscreen Summit in 2016.^[5] The series' second season began development in June 2023.^[6]

The show's producers had difficulty finding Asian voice actors and voice actors who could dub the French series into other languages. As a result of the difficulty in finding voice actors with dubbing skills, TeamTO's École Cartoucherie Animation Solidaire partnered with Frog Box and Titrafilm to create a dubbing course.^[7]

Broadcast and ratings

Episodes

References