Winx Club is an Italian-American franchise by Rainbow SpA with a number of spinoff series. ABOUT:Winx Club is set in a magical universe filled with numerous planets and kingdoms. In the original first season, Bloom is living on earth when she discovers the fairy Stella being attacked by monsters. Bloom helps fight them off, discovering in the process that she herself is a fairy. Stella convinces Bloom to join her at Alfea, the best school for fairies. The two soon for friendship with other fairies, witches, and pixies, and fight a variety of enemies throughout the seasons. The seventh eighth season is intended as a reboot. There are also spinoff series including PopPixie, World of Winx, and an upcoming live action series Fate: the Winx Saga. SPINOFFS: PopPixie focused on the Pixie characters, who mysteriously stopped being featured on the main show for no explained reason. World of Winx follows the original girls, along with Roxy, as they spend time in Bloom's hometown on Earth and spend time finding earth people with magical talents. Most of the fandom don't consider the spinoffs as canon, given they often directly go against concepts introduced in the original. CHANGING AUDIENCE, ANIMATION, DUBS, & STUDIOS:Originally, Winx Club was dubbed by RAI in both Italian, and a locaclised English version.
Later, 4Kids dubbed season 1-2 in the international release, which is the one most fans are familiar with. The original 2 season were intended to appeal to the 10-16 bracket, so involved complex storylines, violent action scenes, and darker artwork and themes, and was highly successful in Italy. Nickelodeon took over dubbing during season 3, and were involved with writing and animation from then on. The target audience became much younger as a result, aiming at the 8-12 bracket. This resulted in fewer dark themes, brighter colours, character redesigns, and less action scenes. From season 4 onward, the art style changes often, employing increasingly more CGI. Nickelodeon also produces a shortened version of seasons 1-2. Budget cuts meant season 7 had another change, with replacing the voicing cast to cut costs, and reanimating with minimal CGI. Several years later, season 8 became a soft re-boot, aimed at preschoolers. This meant the cast was aged down, themes were simplified, new casts and crews were brought in.
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