BoBoiBoy

Production

BoBoiBoy is the first product 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). Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) content developer incubation facility located in Cyberjaya and has since moved their studio at the Technopreneur Center in the middle of 2012.

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

The series was released simultaneously in two languages, Malay version and English version for the local international market, respectively. Both versions fully utilises the 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.

Season One (2011-2012) (13 episodes)

The first season of BoBoiBoy was aired on Sunday, 13 March 2011 at 7:00 pm. The episode starts when 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 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 had 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 obtains Ochobot instead. Ochobot then gives some superpowers to BoBoiBoy and his new friends, Ying, Yaya and Gopal.

For the first season,there are 13 slots with every slot consisting of two episodes which last 11 minutes each. This make total of 26 episodes all together with each episode lasting 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.

Season Two (2012-2013) (13 episodes)

The second season of BoBoiBoy was aired on Sunday, 27 May 2012 at 7:00pm on TV3. In this season, BoBoiBoy begins a new chapter of his life as he moves to Pulau Rintis to unite with Tok Aba, Gopal, Ying and Yaya. The story in this season mainly centres on BoBoiBoy and his friends' life at Sekolah Rendah Pulau Rintis. BoBoiBoy also encounters a new challenger, Fang at his new school.

Fang or Mystery Boy was first introduced in Season 1 on "Extended Finale" (Episode 26 with addition of a few minutes of scene on BoBoiBoy leaving Pulau Rintis).

Season Three (2014-2016) (26 episodes)

On 7 June 2013, Animonsta Studios channel in YouTube uploaded a sneak preview of the first episode of the third season featuring the battle between BoBoiBoy and Ejo Jo in his armour, thus confirming the third season to be in progress. On 12 July 2013, Animonsta Studios announced on their Facebook page that the third season of BoBoiBoy will be aired on 11 August 2013 with 13 new episodes making it the longest season to date. But then they postponed it and brought it to 5 January 2014. Season 3 started on 5 January 2014 and continuously aired 5 episodes for 5 weeks. On 23 March 2014, the Animonsta Studio's YouTube channel have announced that the new time slot airing on 6:00 pm from Sunday, 6 April 2014 to Sunday, 18 May 2014 due to the school test and Eid al-Fitr. Season 3 Episode 6 and so on were aired started on 4 December 2014 at new time slot, 5.35pm, Monday-Thursday at TV3 and aired started on 20 November 2014 at new time slot. This is also the first season that new episodes would be uploaded onto YouTube before its first airing on TV. It is also the first season to change the theme song, switching out "BoBoiBoy Superhero Kita" with "Jagalah Bumi" by Kotak. The last three episodes (Episodes 24-26) will be aired on 28 May, 4 June and 11 June 2016 respectively.

BoBoiBoy Galaxy (2016)

BoBoiBoy Galaxy is a rebranding of BoBoiBoy, airing its first season on 25 November 2016. The settings for the series take place after BoBoiBoy: The Movie. BoBoiBoy Galaxy will focus more on an adventure-based storyline and will have a total of 104 episodes. BoBoiBoy Galaxy is set to be released after BoBoiBoy: The Movie on 3 March 2016 in Malaysia and 13 April 2016 in Indonesia.

BoBoiBoy: The Movie

A film of the series entitled BoBoiBoy: The Movie is to be shown in cinemas at 3 March 2016 in Malaysia, 18 March 2016 in Singapore and 13 April 2016 in Indonesia. Taking place after the events of Season 3, the movie brings BoBoiBoy and his friends on an adventure on a mysterious island that houses an ancient Power Sphere older than Ochobot with untold powers after Ochobot gets 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.

Future plans

After BoBoiBoy: The Movie, Animonsta Studios has the plans to make another two BoBoiBoy films, which Nizam Razak stated that they already had their ideas on the second movie.

Awards

Anugerah Karyawan Animasi

Sponsorship