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Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (also named LadyBug or Lady Bug

or Miraculous Ladybug) is a CGI animated French series. It is a co-production by Zagtoon Inc., Method Animation, Disney Channel EMEA, Toei Animation, SamG Animation, SK Broadband, PGS Entertainment and AB International Distribution.

There will a first season with 26 half-hour episodes and a 10 episode web series.

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.

Marinette is an ordinary teenager in Paris. She loves hanging out with her friends, wants to work in fashion, and is deeply in love with Adrien who never noticed her. But Marinette transforms into Lady Bug at night and fights evil thanks to her superpower of luck. She would be the most powerful superhero if only Cat Noir (Adrien) wouldn’t keep annoying her with his power of bad luck. And most of all, he keeps telling her he wants to kiss her. Yuck!

First drawing in existence of Ladybug by Thomas Astruc.

The original concept for Ladybug was conceived by Thomas Astruc.

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 teaser 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.

Thomas 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 created 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.

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