How were you introduced to CL?

[Osiris offline]

Well when I got home from work I would generally relax and watch TV and one day nothing was on so I flicked through and found code lyoko on toonami it was “frontierâ€

[Lani offline]

*shamelessly revives thread* 8D

Yes, it is two months old.... but I have the sudden urge to tell my life stoy :O

Okay, so I had just come home from camp in August, and I had just under two weeks to get a costume done for Otakon. Well, I usually sew in front of the TV, and I had it on Cartoon Network that day becaue I wanted to see some Naruto commercials (shoot me >>;). Well, commercial break came on, and guess what it was?! Twas a commercial for Code Lyoko. So I'm staring at the TV with a raised eyebrow thinking, "Huh, I haven't heard of that before.... sounds... interesting..." I made a mental note to myself to check it out, but five minutes later I completely forgot that I had seen it.

Flash forward to the first day of school. My friend <s>stalks</s> comes home with me, and we get bored of the computer really quickly, so we come over to the TV. We start flipping through channels and when we get to Cartoon Network, she says, "Oh! It's Code Lyoko!" I'm sitting there thinking, "So this is the thing I saw the commercial for in August..." We sit watching for a bit, then Odd (in Lyoko form), and she goes, "Aah! That's Odd! He's a catboy!" Catboys, hmm... We continue watching for a little bit, then I see Ulrich knocked out in the lab (this episode was Cruel Dilemma, I later found out.) and I think, "Woah, he's hot." XD; So yeah. Then we had to leave for dinner. I never got to see the end of it.

Time goes on, and it became a habit that whenever I was done with my homework and/or bored with the computer, I'd go and watch TV. And Code Lyoko just always happened to be on when I would watch. My obsession happened sooooo gradually though, it's kind of scary o_o; I mean, the next thing I knew, here I am xD;

YAY! Life story.

[rachaelkawaii offline]

How were you introduced to CL?

It's funny how I was actually. I was babysitting a 6 year old and a 3 year old. And Miguzi came on and the song to CL started playing and the girls that I was babbysitting got all excited and said I LOVE THIS SHOW!! And they made me watch it with them. Then I started to like it and watched it everyday for fun. But I really started watching it everyday because of the beginning song.

*points to Lani* she made me watch it XD

[Darkness Incarnate offline]

I was going through channels on tv and heard the song and it was all down hill for there
go yumi

[Chiquita offline]

My sister told me about it. I was hesitant at first. But then my obssessin started from there.

[Aurelius offline]

One day my friend Kyle was at my friend Sasha's house and they were waiting for The Simpsons to br on, so they watched CL. Then Kyle came to my house a few days later and we watched it together. I had some funny theories too. I thought Ulrich looked like a Henry, so I named him that. Anyway, that episode was Deja Vu, and I wasn't sure whether Odd was male or female, but at the end with Sissi answered my question. That wasn't my first experience, though. Two years ago I was randomly flipping when Zero Gravity Zone was on, right at the part where Ulrich was playing soccer. I really like soccer so I watched the rest. Then I forgot about it.

[blackyumi offline]

I just started wathing it because I was bored and after the first episode I was left at

[Kharaa offline]

Like a lot of people here, I stumbled across CL while looking for the show that normally aired during that time block (I forget what it is now), and thought, "Wowza, this looks pretty tight", so I made a habit of watching when I could!

[Rycr offline]

Well, I started watching Teen Titans near the beginning of August last year. Then, they moved it forward a half-hour, and Code Lyoko took its place. I turned it on, expecting to see Teen Titans, and heard the theme song. It just happened to be the very first episode. I was going to turn the TV off and go play a videogame, but I just couldn't bring myself to pick up the remote. By the end of the episode, I was already looking forward to the next one.

Sure enough, I sat down to watch "Seeing is Believing" the next day. Then I saw the next one, and the next one, and the next one...

I became such a fan that I actually used the "Season Pass" feature of my TiVo for the first time ever to record each and every CL episode from that point forward. I found out about fanfiction at some point near the end of August, and began reading some of the stories people had. I decided to write my own story, and I actually had fun doing it! (Okay, I used to be a horrible writer, and I used to hate it with a passion. Now, I do it instead of my math homework! ...Not such a great idea...) I posted the first chapter on the day Season 2 started, which was also my birthday! Let's just say it was an awesome birthday present.

So, I'm one of the few people who was hooked from the first episode they saw.

And I haven't watched Teen Titans since then

[Jeremified offline]

I got into CL over about a month... I saw it one time, then I saw it again the next day... pretty soon I was watching it regularly. Suddenly I became a huge fan of it when I realized that I was watching it every *week*day of my life!!!

[oddlauren offline]

I saw the log diary one first. I think that was the name of it. where ulrich is stuck on a bus that is controlled by xana. he talks to Jeremie on the phone, sissi talks to him too. this is the one where she finds ulrichs diary, and threatens to tell ppl about xana.
i saw this one, and i thought it was stupid. then i started watching it more, and eventually loved it. when did it first air?

[Quin Separable offline]

Well I would always flip the channels early to watch Teen Titans and I always caught the end of CL. My first impression: "Whoa...they have got some BIG foreheads!" I'd watch the ending of the episodes and laugh about the foreheads, but I never really watched it. However, I noticed how many of the episodes ended the same (you know characters is big trouble, the virtual girl shuts down the tower just before something bad happens) and figured that if the show was really that repetitive, I wouldn't like it.

However, one day I decided to watch an episode of it just to test the waters so to speak. The theme song came on and once it was over I was very excited about the it.

So I hoped that the show wouldn't be a disappointment.

The first episode I watched was, I believe, Mister Puck (so when I really got into it and saw the first season, I was confused why Aelita never came out of Lyoko and why William was no where to be seen). Mister Puck sparked my interest, but it wasn't until I saw Cruel Dilemma that I was hooked.

[Metrion offline]

I had heard a few good things about it from friends, but I never came to like it for a while because I didn't like the artstyle. My own artstyle, and the ones I enjoy, are very anime, and I thought that CL was an anime gone wrong. I came to call it the 'Scary giant forehead show.'

I was waiting for my brother's plane to land so that we could go pick him up at the airport and I was channel surfing. One of the episodes was on, and I started watching it from lack of anything else to do. I only had to see the first 3-D fight scene before I started liking it. It took me a while to realize that it came on Maguzi, and I watched it again the day 'Vertigo' aired. I developed a strange connection to the characters almost immediately as I heard them talk, almost as if they were my friends. The personalities of Ulrich and Odd were particularly interesting, and I wanted to investigate further. I stopped watching after that until the season repeated halfway back into Season One, where I picked it back up at Log Book.

At the time, I wasn't particularly interested in the story, but the characters. I guess it grew on me with time. Some might think the cyclic repeation of Tower Deactivateds a little tedious after a while, but I think that the solution right in the final miliseconds of the episode makes it that much more tense and thrilling.


Heheh. I let my mouth (fingers...) run. Forgive me.

[emoBillâ„¢ offline]

I saw the commercials from the last time it was banned and saw Odd running and shooting people in the Forest Sector...and thought it was like HackSlash or whatever with the online RPG and everything. (I've never actually watched HackSlash so don't blame me if I'm wrong, maybe it was another show) But then one day it came on and I thought: Wow, cool, Lyoko sounds awesome. And then I watched it. I used to think Odd was a girl, and then I found he was a boy and said "YES! HE ISH A BOY, AND HE ISH A HANDSOME BOYYYY! I WUV ODD!" and I mainly watched it for Odd. And a little Sissi ^_^

[oddlauren offline]

Odd is the best! hint my screenname. I think I thought he was a girl at first too, until a few eposides later.
I'm getting some of my friends into it. trying to anyway. 2 of them are starting to watch it, and i hope the other one will start watching it. this show rules!

[Mewberries151]

It's so funny that alot of us were really turned off by the first Miguzi commercial for it, and then watched it by accident and fell in love with it. Too cool!

My own story mirrors many other members here in that I really was angry with Miguzi when it first started back in the Spring of 2004. It had overtaken the Toonami block which used to play one of my other favorite shows, Rurouni Kenshin, and when Miguzi moved Toonami out, Rurouni Kenshin....well, he got evicted. ^^;

So, I stayed away from Miguzi for a good week or so, because I honestly didn't think it had anything good to offer. I cannot stand Totally Spies as I'd rather not watch a show where the women care for little more than themselves and the way they look. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I might have watched but I feared it wouldn't be anything like the original which I grew up with so I avoided that as well. Teen Titans, I never quite got into, because no matter how hard it tries...it's simply not an anime...and it never uses the cliches correctly anyway, so that got scratched. Code Lyoko I knew virtually nothing about, but I figured from the misleading commercials that it was about kids who are spys and recieve missions (that scene from "End of Take" was shown with Sissi receiving her lines on a piece of paper), and then travel to other worlds where they take on different forms and super powers. The fact that it looked like it combined 2D and 3D animation (a big plus in my book) intrigued me, but not quite enough to entice me into watching it. I was still annoyed with Miguzi for cancelling Rurouni Kenshin. (The so-called "big foreheads" were never a turn-off, as quite frankly I didn't even notice them until I started frequenting TVT and someone made that comment. I still don't understand why that bothers people. ^^; )

Anyway, I came home one day and was looking for something to watch...it was about 10 of 6, and I happened to flip to the last 5 minutes of, what else, Code Lyoko, specifically the episode "Girl of the Dreams" (during it's first run on CN). I saw Yumi fighting what looked like a samurai and thought, "Ooo! Samurai-ness!". The interspersed scenes of Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita in the 3D world of Lyoko intrigued me further, and when the RTTP occured I couldn't help but think, "Woah...what was that?". My curiousity piqued, I tried to catch it again and on the following Wednesday caught "Just In Time" in its entirety and became subsequently hooked. The rest, to be cliche, is history.

[SamBlob offline]

Teen Titans, I never quite got into, because no matter how hard it tries...it's simply not an anime...and it never uses the cliches correctly anyway, so that got scratched.

I, OTOH, used to watch Teen Titans regularly when Miguzi first came on...

Code Lyoko I knew virtually nothing about, but I figured from the misleading commercials that it was about kids who are spys and recieve missions (that scene from "End of Take" was shown with Sissi receiving her lines on a piece of paper), and then travel to other worlds where they take on different forms and super powers.

...and I was thankful that Teen Titans came on last so that I could see that instead of what appeared to be a Mission Impossible wannabe cartoon... ^^;

he fact that it looked like it combined 2D and 3D animation (a big plus in my book) intrigued me, but not quite enough to entice me into watching it.

One of my reactions to the 3-D parts was "Oh, great. Another cartoon based on a video game. Just what the world needs..." ^^;

Anyway, I came home one day and was looking for something to watch...it was about 10 of 6, and I happened to flip to the last 5 minutes of, what else, Code Lyoko, specifically the episode "Girl of the Dreams" (during it's first run on CN). I saw Yumi fighting what looked like a samurai and thought, "Ooo! Samurai-ness!". The interspersed scenes of Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita in the 3D world of Lyoko intrigued me further, and when the RTTP occured I couldn't help but think, "Woah...what was that?". My curiousity piqued, I tried to catch it again and on the following Wednesday caught "Just In Time" in its entirety and became subsequently hooked. The rest, to be cliche, is history.

I was on vacation at home in April and I was bored, so I decided to check it out. I found it quite interesting, but I had wished I had seen it from the first episode because I was sure there was something I had missed from not seeing it from the beginning. The episode was (you guessed it...) the first repeat of "Teddygozilla"...

[The BB of C offline]

My friend got into the show and found the official forum. He told me it would be a good place to get some writing practice and build a reputation. So I got into them. Then I got curious and watched the show.

[odd girl offline]

i thought code lyoko was stupid untill i started watching it, wasn't i wrong?

[Rycr offline]

I have to admit, the first thing I noticed were the big foreheads. I managed to get past that and I loved the show from the moment I got used to their heads.

Of course, since the first episode I saw was TeddyGozilla/TeddyGodzilla/however you want to spell it, by the end I was like "WTF???" because of the giant teddy bear thing. But I still found myself sitting down to watch it the next day!

[Mewberries151]

Teen Titans, I never quite got into, because no matter how hard it tries...it's simply not an anime...and it never uses the cliches correctly anyway, so that got scratched.

I, OTOH, used to watch Teen Titans regularly when Miguzi first came on...

Code Lyoko I knew virtually nothing about, but I figured from the misleading commercials that it was about kids who are spys and recieve missions (that scene from "End of Take" was shown with Sissi receiving her lines on a piece of paper), and then travel to other worlds where they take on different forms and super powers.

...and I was thankful that Teen Titans came on last so that I could see that instead of what appeared to be a Mission Impossible wannabe cartoon... ^^;

My opinion, has indeed changed about Teen Titans though on a whole, since actually catching a few episodes recently. I did indeed fall victim to the "judging a book by its cover" with that show, as after catching a few episodes I appreciated the storyline alot more...although the cliches still can get a little much for me. *sweatdrop* I never quite got into it as much as Code Lyoko as...I don't know, I never could quite get into true super hero stories...although Raven is very cool. Plus, I'd tend to go out to eat after Code Lyoko would finish, so I never watched it as much as CL. X)

he fact that it looked like it combined 2D and 3D animation (a big plus in my book) intrigued me, but not quite enough to entice me into watching it.

One of my reactions to the 3-D parts was "Oh, great. Another cartoon based on a video game. Just what the world needs..." ^^;

Lol! I hadn't even considered that! I thought it might be a kind of "Reboot" spoof or something.

Anyway, I came home one day and was looking for something to watch...it was about 10 of 6, and I happened to flip to the last 5 minutes of, what else, Code Lyoko, specifically the episode "Girl of the Dreams" (during it's first run on CN). I saw Yumi fighting what looked like a samurai and thought, "Ooo! Samurai-ness!". The interspersed scenes of Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita in the 3D world of Lyoko intrigued me further, and when the RTTP occured I couldn't help but think, "Woah...what was that?". My curiousity piqued, I tried to catch it again and on the following Wednesday caught "Just In Time" in its entirety and became subsequently hooked. The rest, to be cliche, is history.

I was on vacation at home in April and I was bored, so I decided to check it out. I found it quite interesting, but I had wished I had seen it from the first episode because I was sure there was something I had missed from not seeing it from the beginning. The episode was (you guessed it...) the first repeat of "Teddygozilla"...

^^ I had a similar trouble. Since I came in at "Girl of the Dreams" and "Just In Time", I thought for sure I'd missed the first episode that explained everything. That's actually how I found out about TVT...I went looking for a synopsis of the first episode so that I could find out exactly who XANA was and how they'd found him. TVT had a synopsis of "TeddyGozilla" so I went and checked it out there. ^.^

We're all still waiting for that explanation though, almost two years later.

[SamBlob offline]

^^ I had a similar trouble. Since I came in at "Girl of the Dreams" and "Just In Time", I thought for sure I'd missed the first episode that explained everything. That's actually how I found out about TVT...I went looking for a synopsis of the first episode so that I could find out exactly who XANA was and how they'd found him. TVT had a synopsis of "TeddyGozilla" so I went and checked it out there. ^.^

We're all still waiting for that explanation though, almost two years later.

I went to Cartoon Network's site for more info about CL and it directed me to TVTome. I then went to look for info on it at IMDb only to find that CL wasn't listed there... The IMDb entry came up a few weeks later.

It was from that first search for CL at IMDb that I learned of the Soviet movie Aelita from 1924.

Maybe they *will* make the prequel, or maybe they'll just leave it as a mystery, like the origins of Tom Bombadil and the reason why the One Ring does not affect him in any way.

[oddlauren offline]

teen titans was cool. i love CL more though.
that's why i started getting into it. a video game, and some elf girl is stuck in the computer.
it didn't take me long to get their names correct.

[mooshie offline]

this is basically what happened (minus the screching when I watch code lyoko alone)-
during the summer I watched tv out of boredom then I saw CL and thought, "this is so for little kids" then I forgot about until the school year when I saw it again then I made a habit of watching it then I was obsessed, as i am now

[oddlauren offline]

yea, it looks like a kids show, but when i started watching it, i knew it wasn't just for kids. i'm also addicted to it.