BoBoiBoy

Created byAnimonsta Studios Sdn. Bhd.Written byDirected byVoices ofTheme music composerYuri Wong, Jonathan LeeOpening themeEnding themeCountry of originMalaysiaOriginal languageMalayNo. of seasons3No. of episodes52 (list of episodes)ProductionRunning time20–21 minutesProduction companyAnimonsta StudiosOriginal releaseNetworkTV3Release13 March 2011 (2011-03-13) –
11 June 2016 (2016-06-11)RelatedBoBoiBoy Galaxy
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BoBoiBoy is a Malaysian animated series and franchise produced by Animonsta Studios. In this story, a young boy gains superpowers based on the elements, and has the ability to separate into different personas. With his friends, Yaya, Ying, Gopal and Fang, they form a team and fight to protect the Earth from alien threats who aim to conquer the Earth.^[1]

The original series, consisting of three seasons, was aired from March 2011 to June 2016. Its first theatrical film, BoBoiBoy: The Movie, was released on 3 March 2016.

Production

BoBoiBoy is the first Malaysian release of Animonsta Studios Sdn. Bhd., an animation company established by Nizam Razak with three other partners: Safwan Abdul Karim, Anas Abdul Aziz, and Kee Yong Pin after they left Les' Copaque Production in 2009.^[2][3]

The original concept of the story centres on a coffee-addict alien named Adu Du who has made his way to Earth.^[4] A minor change was made later, where instead of coffee, the alien is now in search of cocoa.^[5] The change, according to its Facebook fan page, was due to the fact that coffee is a bitter-tasting drink, and does not appeal to children.^[6]

The series was released simultaneously in two languages: Malay and English, for the local and international market respectively. Both versions fully utilise different voice actors. In the Malay version, the original voice actor for Upin & Ipin, Nur Fathiah Diaz, was chosen to voice the main character, BoBoiBoy.^[7] The series ended after three seasons and was taken up by its sequel, BoBoiBoy Galaxy, starting on 25 November 2016. Unlike any animated TV series in Malaysia, the end credits of the series were written in English instead of Malay, just like Ejen Ali.

Media

Animated series

The first season consists of 13 episodes and one special extended finale episode. It started airing on Sunday, 13 March 2011 on TV3. It was shown on Disney Channel Asia starting 11 June 2011. The episode starts with the main character, BoBoiBoy on a trip to his grandfather Tok Aba's home in Pulau Rintis for the school holidays. At the same time, Adu Du, an alien from the planet of Ata Ta Tiga heads to Earth to search for energy resources. He finds out that there is cocoa, a powerful energy source, which became extinct from his planet about 30,000 years ago. Adu Du wanted to conquer all the cocoa for himself so that he could be a hero for his planet. To make sure his plan succeeded, he sought help from the Power Sphere (Ochobot). However, a series of mishaps occur and BoBoiBoy obtained Ochobot instead who gave BoBoiBoy and his new friends, Ying, Yaya and Gopal, superpowers. Every episode is 22-minutes long and consists of part 1 and 2, each last for 11 minutes. Due to the cartoon's popularity, Animonsta Studios agreed to re-air the final episode with an "Extended Finale" on 1 January 2012.

The second season consists of 13 episodes, it was aired on Sunday, 27 May 2012 on TV3. In this season, BoBoiBoy begins a new chapter of his life as he moves to Pulau Rintis to reunite with Tok Aba Bin Abah Kau, Gopal, Ying and Yaya. The story in this season mainly centres on BoBoiBoy and his friends' lives at Pulau Rintis Primary School. BoBoiBoy also encounters a new challenger, Fang at his new school. Fang or Mystery Boy was first introduced in Season 1 on the Extended Finale episode. In the Season 2 finale, BoBoiBoy's friends along with Fang fight a powerful alien named Ejo Jo who plans to steal all their power watches.

The third season consists of 23 episodes, originally airing from January 2014 to June 2016. In this season, BoBoiBoy defeats Ejo Jo, and Adu Du becomes BoBoiBoy's friend. Their friendship however, does not last throughout the season. Boboiboy also gets his new Fire and Water Elemental powers. This is the first season that uploaded new episodes onto YouTube before airing on TV. It is also the first season to change the theme song, switching out "BoBoiBoy Superhero Kita" (transl. BoBoiBoy, Our Superhero!) with "Jagalah Bumi" by Kotak.^[8]

Movie

The first film of the series BoBoiBoy: The Movie was released on 3 March 2016 in Malaysia, 18 March 2016 in Singapore and 13 April 2016 in Indonesia.^[9] Taking place after the events of Season 3, the movie brings BoBoiBoy and his friends on an adventure to a mysterious island that houses an ancient Power Sphere older than Ochobot with untold powers. Ochobot has been taken by a new group of enemies called the Tengkotak, led by Bora Ra who attempts to seek out an ancient Power Sphere called Klamkabot. With a budget of RM5 million, it received positive reviews and is a box office success, grossing around RM20 million.

Comics

Issues	Official title
1	BoBoiBoy: Pertarungan Terakhir
Comic adaptation of last three episodes of season 3.
2	BoBoiBoy: Sfera Kuasa
Comic adaptation of BoBoiBoy: The Movie.

Characters

Character	Voice actor	Character information
BoBoiBoy	Nur Fathiah Diaz	Main protagonist of the series. He originally came to Rintis Island to help Tok Aba at his stall during the holidays. He was granted the Elemental Manipulation Power Watch that allows him to control the elements on the planet. So far he has mastered Earth, Wind and Lightning as well as achieving the second level to each of these elements; Earthquake, Cyclone and Thunderstorm respectively. In Season 2, he moved to Rintis Island and stayed there with Tok Aba as well as going to Rintis Island Primary School. Later in Season 3, BoBoiBoy gained the ability to tap into two new elements, Fire and Water by simply transforming into the two new forms.
Yaya	Nur Sarah Alisya Zainal Rashid	BoBoiBoy's neighbour and a well-behaved, intelligent girl. She enjoys baking cookies but her cookies taste horrible that makes anyone who eats them, including animals, passes out, excluding Probe. Anyone who publicly criticizes her cookies would make her angry. She was granted the Gravity Manipulation Power Watch that allows to manipulate gravity within a 25-meter radius, but initially believed to be the ability to fly and have super strength.
Ying	Yap Ee Jean	Initially a shy girl, Ying gains the Time Manipulation Power Watch which allows her to slow down or accelerate time of her surroundings within an area of 25 meter radius, but initially believed as the ability to run at high speeds. After perfecting her powers, she overcame her sneezing problem but her power is now limited to a timer. Soon Ying was able to stop and reverse time as she can arrange everything in time and can rescue anyone from heavy injuries or death.
Gopal	Dzubir Mohammed Zakaria	Gopal is BoBoiBoy's best friend and is always supportive to his friends, but he easily gets scared. He gains the Molecular Manipulation Power Watch which allows him to change an object into another by using his imagination, but initially believed to only change objects into food and reverse its order.
Adu Du	Anas Abdul Aziz	Adu Du is an ill-tempered, bossy alien, and BoBoiBoy's nemesis. He was born in the lowest class within the Ata Ta Tiga community and was frequently bullied before being banished from his own planet. He came to Earth after finding out about cocoa power. He attempts to conquer Earth to seize the planet's cocoa but was frequently stopped by BoBoiBoy and his friends. During Ejo Jo's attack, Probe was destroyed and Adu Du lured Ejo Jo into his base to avenge Probe. After successfully driving away Ejo Jo, Adu Du attempts to fix Probe but failed. He ended up trying to behave nicely to find ways to revive Probe which was then successful. When his mother comes and angers with Adu Du behaving nicely, and gets hurt accidentally by BoBoiBoy, he switches side against BoBoiBoy once more.
Probe	Anas Abdul Aziz	Adu Du's robot minion who carries out all of his ground missions. He is actually a prototype version which explains his low intelligence resulting in frequent failures. He is incredibly loyal to Adu Du but often pampered him. He has a myriad of different weapons contained in his limbs. Whenever he gets the chance, Probe loves to discuss with the spaceship Computer on ridiculous topics on Earth. Probe imagines himself a living creature and does things that humans do like humming and sleeping. In Season 2, he was destroyed by Ejo Jo's battle robot to protect Adu Du. He was revived in Season 3 which comes along with a new form called Mega Probe but suffers from temporary memory loss, but was later fixed.
Adu Du's Computer	Yvonne Chong Shin Vun	Adu Du's computer assembled from several computer models with a female voice. She helps Adu Du in controlling the spaceship. In Season 3, she has more roles and helps set up communications to Bago Go. The computer is shown to have personality despite appearing not as much as it used to.
Tok Aba	Anas Abdul Aziz	Tok Aba is BoBoiBoy's grandfather who owns the Tok Aba's Kokotiam which sells chocolate drinks and food. His cocoa is revealed to be the most powerful cocoa on Earth and he became involved in BoBoiBoy's battle against Adu Du, though at times he proved to be too useful. During Ejo Jo's attack, he temporarily wields the Time Manipulation Power Watch.
Ochobot	Muhammad Fathi Bin Diaz	The Generation 9 Power Sphere found by Adu Du. Initially mistaking BoBoiBoy as its master, Ochobot grants BoBoiBoy his Elemental Power Watch before his friends and Fang in the second season. Since Tok Aba's cocoa was revealed to be Ochobot's activator, he became a helper at Tok Aba's Kokotiam. In BoBoiBoy: The Movie, Ochobot gains an alternate look & the teleportation power.
Multi-Monster (S1E3-E4)	Anas Abdul Aziz	Originally a single, giant monster created to defeat BoBoiBoy, Multi-Monster has the ability to split into two every time he is defeated but gets smaller in the process. The Multi-Monsters then switch sides and helped BoBoiBoy and his friends escape from Adu Du's spaceship. Later, they set up their own village at the toxic waste where they first fought BoBoiBoy.
Papa Zola	Nizam Razak	A fictional superhero who came to BoBoiBoy's world as a result of BoBoiBoy and Gopal getting out of the Papa Zola game. He helped the Power Band wielders battle against the Sleep Monster. After that, he ended up as a mathematics and physical educations teacher at Rintis Island Primary School. It was revealed that Papa Zola has a wife in a game called Mama Zila, and later has a daughter named Pipi Zola.
Pipi Zola (BoBoiBoy Movie 2)	Ieesya Isandra	Papa Zola and Mama Zila's daughter who was cute, innocent, and intelligent.
Sleep Monster (Season 1, episode 7–8)	Anas Abdul Aziz	Papa Zola's nemesis who can put his opponents into sleep with his attacks as well as an expert on checkers. Just like Papa Zola, he came out of the game but battled against BoBoiBoy and his friends and in the end, was put back to sleep permanently by BoBoiBoy after his defeat in his own dream world.
Fang	Wong Wai Kay	He moved to Rintis Island and went to the school on the island in hopes of becoming the most popular student. However, due to Gopal mentioning BoBoiBoy and frequently exaggerating him as being a better person, Fang became jealous of BoBoiBoy and frequently wants to fights him. He becomes friends with BoBoiBoy, Ying, Yaya, and Gopal from season 3 and onward.
Ejo Jo (Season 2, Episode 1, 3, 10, 12–13; Season 3, Episode 1–2)	Noriman Saffian	Adu Du's former neighbour and classmate, as well as Adu Du's loyal bully. He was born into the second class family within the Ata Ta Tiga community and was an elite soldier in the army before he was dismissed due to arrogance. He drove Adu Du away from his own village and exiled him to Atata Tiga. After finding out about Adu Du's operations on Earth, he arrives on Earth to fight against BoBoiBoy and his friends with a desire of taking all of the Earth's powers for himself.
Ejo Jo's Computer (Season 2, Episode 10, 12–13; Season 3, Episode 1–2)	Kee Yong Pin	Ejo Jo's computer with a male voice that is more advanced than Adu Du's Computer and can collect more accurate information.
PETAI (Ejo Jo's Robot)		With complete name Perisai Tempur Angkasa-I (Battle Space Robot-I), PETAI is a more advanced version of Probe, because it is the final product of the Battle Robot developed. In its first appearance, it destroyed Probe, then attacked Adu Du and the Power Band wielders. Later, it destroyed BoBoiBoy's school and kidnapped the students of 5 Jujur and Papa Zola but not BoBoiBoy, Fang and Ochobot. In the Season 2 Finale, it was destroyed by Fang's Shadow Dragon and its energy core taken by Adu Du to restore Probe.
Bago Go	Nizam Razak	A salesman from Atata Tiga who is part of the "Five Scammer Commanders" organization. As the name of the group suggests, he scams others into buying his products at unreasonably high prices while only buying his customers' products at incredibly low prices. Unlike his brothers, though, Bago Go puts money ahead of his pride as a conman and is reluctant to destroy Adu Du when his brothers tell him to do so.
Three Rob		An incompetent group of robbers composed of Rob, Robert and Roberto who usually rob items that are deemed useless usually (laundry, goalposts, etc.). Despite this, they manage to escape prison (the first two times, however, were thanks to Adu Du).

Awards

Anugerah Karyawan Animasi^[10]

International broadcasts

Country	Channel	Airdates
Indonesia	RTV	16 December 2020
	MNC TV	20 October 2014
Thailand	MONO29 Cartoon Club[citation needed]	19 August 2018
India[11]	Hungama TV	12 June 2017
	Marvel HQ	5 June 2019
Vietnam	Pops Kids (YouTube channel)	March 2018
People's Republic of China	Tencent Video[12]	December 2017

References

External links

• BoBoiBoy at IMDb
• BoBoiBoy on Facebook