Mia and Me

Mia and Me
Genre Fantasy, action, adventure,
Created by Gerhard Hahn
Starring Rosabell Laurenti Sellers
Adrian Moore
Saphia Stoney
Josephine Benini
Voices of Rosabell Laurenti Sellers
Andrew Craig
Tajja Isen
Rod Wilson
Linda Ballantyne
Jonathan Wilson
Elizabeth Hanna
Norma Dell'Agnese
Composer(s) Gerd Kaeding
Country of origin Italy/Germany/Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 52
Production
Executive producer(s) Bill Speers
Anthony Power
Location(s) Florence (Live action part)
Running time 20 minutes
Production company(s) Lucky Punch
ZDF
Rainbow S.r.l.
March Entertainment
Release
Original network Rai Due, ZDF, Canal+, Treehouse TV, Nick Jr.
Picture format 1080i:HDTV
Audio format Stereo
Original release 19 December 2011 (worldwide)[1] – present
External links
Website

Mia and Me is a 2011 live action/CGI animated television series created by Gerhard Hahn.[2] The title is about Mia only; as in end of the opening theme song: "There (Earth) I'm Mia, here (Centopia), I'm me." In the United States the second season started on February 1, 2016 on Nick Jr.

Premise

The story begins when a girl named Mia goes to a prestigious boarding school in Florence, Italy as an exchange student. Her parents died recently in an accident. Her father was a successful game maker. Mia's aunt gives Mia a game that her father made before he died. The game is in the form of a large book called "The Legend of Centopia" (a book he read to her when she was younger) which is full of mystical rune writing that gives Mia the latest password (that has to be read backwards) that allows her to go to the magical world of Centopia. The land is full of winged elves (fairies), pans (goat-like creatures), unicorns, dragons (they do not breathe fire) and much more. Perhaps the strangest creature there is Polytheus, a snake like being with snake hair like a Gorgon. He is a trader, strictly in it for the money (though what good money is on such a world is debatable) but has done the Elves some good turns without reward, such as when he fixes their waterdome, saving them from a munc attack (Episode 23).

While in Centopia, Mia is a beautiful, winged, fairy-like, elf girl. Mia is very special because she can talk to unicorns. No one else in Centopia has that ability. She meets a unicorn named Lyria and later, her winged son (born in "The Golden Son" episode), Onchao. She befriends Yuko, a girl warrior who likes Mia but is jealous of the attention Mo pays her, Prince Mo, son of King Raynor and Queen Mayla, and Phuddle, a pan, the comic relief (though more often annoying than funny). In Season 1, with the help of oracles from the magic book, they must find all the trumptus pieces, a magic horn made by Phuddle. It was captured, broken apart and, in twenty pieces, scattered by the munculus on orders of Queen Panthea (Episode 4) as it is the one thing that can destroy the evil beings. Water from the elve's waterglares shrinks munculus (a.k.a. muncs) but it is only a temporary effect.

They also have to stop the evil Queen Panthea, her right hand woman General Gargona and her munculus army (who ride on blue dragons and fire non venomous snakes which encircle and trap their victims) from capturing the unicorns. Panthea needs their horns as without them she becomes (even more) old and ugly (her face is always hidden by a mask). But the horns are linked to the unicorn shaped island of Centopia so every time she takes and destroys a unicorn horn, more of the island dies and vegetation and trees become desert. The "golden unicorn" Onchao is the only unicorn with wings. He can make the desert bloom again (the other unicorns can do this but less easily) and later, restore horns to unicorns who have had them cut off by Panthea. There are also four unicorns with elemental powers (earth, air, fire and water) who mostly stay out of the affairs of others but join in the final battle.

In Episode 9 the elves make friends with a baby dragon (Baby Blue) which quickly grows up and as a full sized dragon, helps them a few times. Episode 22 is the only episode that takes place at night. Mia has a wrist amulet that when charged allows her go to Centopia and when the battery runs down, she returns to Earth till it recharges itself again (we see the recharger in Episode 25). Though she may spend many hours in Centopia, only a few minutes pass on Earth. At her school, we see cartoon effects around her and characters there, as in question marks when they are puzzled, flowers, comic characters, etc. Vincent is her friend there and learns about her ability to travel to Centopia. The stuck-up and nasty Violetta is against her. Paula starts off as a friend of Violetta but over time comes to realize how nasty and shallow Violetta is and joins Mia. She learns about Centopia in the final two part episode (Episode 25 and 26).

The evil ones are finally defeated (the trumptus blast turns them into flowers) with only Gargona surviving in ep 26. It is in the final pages of the book and Mia goes back to her world where it is the end of the school year, and she says she will see her friends in a few months after the summer break. According to the Panda TV site, the artwork for the land of Centopia is based on the art of Gustav Klimt. This is particularly noticeable in the robes worn by the King and Queen as well as Mo's shirt. Also Gargona is heavily influenced by Hygieia in the ceiling paintings of the University of Vienna.

There is a second season, with an antagonist named Rixel. This season takes place during summer vacation and at a certain point violetta also goes to utopia and turns into a fairy.

Cast

Live action

Animation

Episodes

Series 1

# Title
1 Talking to Unicorns
2 Centopia's Hope
3 Restoration
4 Trumptus Lost
5 The Golden Son
6 Onchao's Oasis
7 Hope in Pieces
8 Ziggo's Day Off
9 The Elves and the Dragon
10 The Blossom Tree
11 All That Glitters
12 Phuddle's Foibles
13 The Fire Unicorn
14 The Wizened Woods
15 Miss Know-It-All
16 The Unicorn Trap
17 All Dressed Up
18 King for a Day
19 The Panned Piper
20 Cave of Truth
21 Against the Wind
22 Under the Moon
23 Choosing Sides
24 Tears of Joy
25 Panthea's Proposal
26 End of an Age

Series 2

# Title
1 The Mysteries Visitor
2 Behind the Curtain
3 The Animal Guardians
4 Dragons in Danger
5 The Ghost of Blackwood Forest
6 The Spell of the Green Fluids
7 Beyond the Wall of Vines
8 A Father's Feather
9 Speaking with Stones
10 Dancing with Stars
11 The Unwanted Roommate
12 That's What Friends are For
13 Return to Panthea's Castle
14 The Whistling Bolobo
15 My Name is Varia
16 Crossing the Rainbow Bridge
17 Taking Sides
18 A Shower of Pollen
19 The Fiery Flower
20 Journey to the North
21 The Unicorn King
22 The Rainbow Spring
23 Hide and Seek
24 A Sticky Situation
25 The Strongest Team
26 Breaking the Spell

Broadcast


In Canada, the series is broadcast on Treehouse TV. In the United Kingdom, the series aired on Nickelodeon (UK, Ireland and the Netherlands)in 2014 in Serbia it broadcast on Tv ULTRA, in January 2014, Nickelodeon began airing the series in the Philippines July 1, 2013 The series aired in Singapore on MediaCorp Okto and in Australia on Eleven. In the United States, the series is carried by Nick Jr. beginning May 3, 2014.[3]

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