Fun Fact: the character designs are all based on the portraits of Gustav Klimt. The King and Queen are from the painting “the kiss” while Gargona is literally the lady with snakes. The world building itself includes the blue spirals and triangles always present in Klimts works.
What I always got from the show growing up is that the world wasn't exactly real? I think Mia's parents _made_ that world for her, as well as the bracelet, and the reason it expands alongside her is because it revolves around her. It starts basic, elves vs weird woman, then expands as Mia explores. Like a minecraft map, it only loads in more chunks as you venture into those chunks. That's always how I understood it, at least.
@wercia4334 Yeah, exactly!! I distinctly remember that being said in a note when she gets the book or something. Really wondered why Negative Legend didn't bring this up
I remember watching this show once, and Gargona drove me crazy. Possibly because I could and still can only watch it in my native language (Danish), and her Danish voice is honestly horrible to listen to (in my opinion).
Actually, Mia and the other ''elves'' ARE actually fairies, it's just that in here Europe, we use the terms ''elf'', ''fairy'' and ''pixie'' interchangeably to describe magical hominids
@@snortsalineoflavender in my country we use fairy for both elves (like from lotr and elder scrolls) and fairies (small with wings). Also, instead of Santa having elves as a workforce, we have dwarves.
Mia and Me was my ultimate escapism show. I would constantly dream about being Mia and having the ability to travel into this fantasy world, especially flying, I wanted wings SO BAD. That moment when Mia finally manages to fly properly was EUPHORIC and it still comes back to me every now and then
@@maiz_kolbe5030 do you know any media where they have it as well? I never find someone pointing out this spesific side of stories and I think we're on same page with this
HOLY SHIT! AS A GIRL WHO GREW UP IN FLORENCE ITALY, WHERE THE SHOW WAS SHOT, I GOT TO MEET VIOLETTA CUZ SHE WAS A SENIOR AT MY SCHOOL WHILE I WAS IN THE SIXTH GRADE. MY TEACHER EVEN APEARED IN MANY BACKGROUND CHARACTERS. I can’t believe you are talking about not only a gem of my childhood but something that my school was involved in holy shit.
I used to love this show so much. Me and my best friend used to be the 'imaginary magic world' children and this really fueled my imagination. Maybe it's partly because of the fact it's both real actors and animation, which made it seem so real for me. And the art is just stunning.
"IS HE UNICORN JESUS???" Is not a phrase that I was expecting, but summs up Onchao pretty much! And Loved this show even with it's flaws because it's honestly very fun to wacth
The creator of the show, Gerhard Hahn is german, and in german the word "Elfen" refers more commonly to those little insect-winged people, so that’s why they’re called elves instead of faeries or pixies here.
On your point of the "cutesy girly stuff", you were right, like i also felt weird watching the show after that bc i was in my "im not like other girls" era (also the girls my grade suddenly decided that cartoon were for kids and they were big girls now watching big girl shows like zoey 101). Luckily i had a little sister so i watched it anyways while pretending i didnt like it lmao
Fun fact: In my first language, Polish, Mia and Me is called Mia i Ja. Mia i ja is pronounced Mya Iya, so it rhymes and even better, it sounds like kids pronouncing horse's neighing in Poland. Idk if it's a horse girl easter egg or if it's just an accidental thing, i love it though.
16:50 at least in the German version in the very beginning they insinuate her parents are dead since she lives with her aunt and that aunt gives her the book her parents made for her as a gift before she leaves
The whole unicorn harem thing is actually based on real horses, especially in the wild. There is one main stallion and he has many mares, but he usually has one main mare and they share responsibility. with the herd and protecting❤
Its one head stallion and the lead mare, ussually the eldest and a lot of the time the mother/grandmother to the herd, she decides when the herd moves and where to
Something I didn’t realise when I first watched the show is that the visual style of Centopia is very heavily drawing from Gustav Klimt. The king and queen look like they’ve been ripped straight out of one of, if not his most famous work, the kiss. I’m really curious why they did this? It’s not everyday you see a kids show trying to mimic the aesthetic of an Austrian painter’s work. It might be something worth noting in your next video, because now my interest is piqued (that and because I never saw past the fist two seasons, but that’s besides the point).
yeah! the only time ive heard people talking about it was just saying 'its gustav klimt i mean look at it' without much elaboration, i really wish we had more info on the show's production and design direction :( (and also why everyone introduced in the later seasons had increasingly worse characher designs)
Mia and Me, a German children's series created by Gerhard Hahn, originated in Germany or Austria. Upon further research, it has been confirmed that the show is indeed of German origin. Currently, Mia and Me is wholly owned by Studio 100, a Belgian company, through its German subsidiary Made 4 Entertainment (m4e).
Okay I kinda headcanon Violetta as gender noncom 'cuz like, her elf colorscheme and her elf look , compared to Mia and later Sara is more androgynous, and like her arc is could be interpreted as internalized Queerphobia, at first she bullied Mia because she liked fairies (Mia is somehow Queer (Bi in my headcanon) and even though Violetta also likes Fairies (is Queer) she was raised by her mother who is not encouraging imagination and wonder (is homophobic) and when she gets into Centopia (discovers a kind Queer community) she thinks "Hey, I like this" and her home life suck no matter what and her mother manipulated her into thinking that her father doesn't want to live with her (she lied abot Violetta's dad being homophobic) is like "screw it, I'm out of closet here and this place is great" but hey THAT'S JUST a silly little headcanon of mine
To put it in perspective, season 2 was produced and released at the same period Winx season 7 was. And both had circus clowns as vilains. One was just better integrated in the show and overall better executed, and it's not Brafilius.
I think the “she’s an elf but she has wings?” thing can be explained with the context that it’s a Belgian show! I’m Dutch but we share a lot of things with Belgium and “elf” here is a very generic term that could, depending on prefix, suffix, diminutive etc be a lot of things. It covers anything from classic elves to pixies and more, and also overlaps with the word “fee”, thus also pulling in things like fairy godmothers and evil fairies such as Maleficent, hell it can even be expanded to just mean “sorceress”. It’s a very broad term, but basically Mia being called an elf wouldn’t be weird for Belgian audiences, it’s just awkward for the translation!
It's actually a coproduction between Germany, Italy and Canada (only the company that owns the rights is belgian). And in Germany it's similar! I actually went to look this up and found out something interesting about these words' history: The german "Fee" comes from medieval french, and in Germany it came to mean something between a sorceress and a nymph. The french "faerie"/"féerie" was adopted by late medieval England and used to desctibe the realm of the little people that Chaucer already called "elfs". During elizabethan times "faerie" and "elf" became more or less interchangable and were used this way by Shakespeare. During the 18th century, a lot of his works were translated into german, and since the word "Fee" had such a stark difference in meaning from the english "faerie", most translators used the word "Elfe" instead. This word became the most used when referring to the Little People that the english ended up calling "faeries". Only in recent years, with english and american works getting translated with "faeries" as "Feen", or Tolkien-inspired fantasy often using tall, humanoid elves, this imagery changed .
I remember watching this show when I was in elementary although I never got the chance to see past s1 and I'm happy that it still holds up decently today! Btw if you're interested in another rainbow show I suggest Monster allergy, long only 2 seasons. For any Italians interested in rewatching it it's fully free in Italian here on TH-cam (except for the finale of s2 that for some reason was copyright striked)
@@frauleinzuckerguss1906 according to Wikipedia yes, but the show wasn't fully/only Italian and it was inspired by a Disney comic (still italian I think)
Grew up on this show before I even got into Winx Club and it had me rewatching it over and over - being much older now, I can tell the problems but man, its easy too overlook when wearing the nostalgia glasses - also completely forgot about the love stories in this show besides emo tarzan because they did not interwst me at all and I dont think I even picked up that there was a spat over Mo in season 1 as a kid. Edit: yes I was totally a horse girl
Question, could that also be a tiny bit why Blitzø is your profile pic? Also I don’t mean to offend you in any way, as I also believe I could have been a horse girl(don’t know details on what it all entails though) and also watch Helluva Boss and know Blitz loves horses.
I always loved how it took awhile for mia to fly. Most main characters understand the world they get transported to instantly, and its more realistic that she wouldn't know how to do everything instantly.
9:16 I think it can work if the villain is elderly or they are the ruler of something and they sit back most of the time while their soldiers do stuff but you can see their orders and making plans.
Oh god. I'm only 16 but as a 6-7yo having just moved away from my friends, school and old life, this show helped me escape real life problems for like two episodes on some days
I remember watching this show when I was younger! I don’t remember the plot at all I just remember I really enjoyed it. I’m very excited to see what you think of it!!!
I'm about to watch this video now, but YES FINALLY MIA AND ME GETS SOME ATTENTION!! I used to really love this as a kid, I really hoped to see someone talk about it, and here we are now, let's go!
My sister mom and I used to watch this show when my dad went out to play dnd, I hope to show it to my youngest sister sooner or later, especially since there's new seasons last time I checked, lots of fond memories of the show
Honestly I love how the world of centopia is inspired by Gustav Klimt's work, it really makes the world of centopia beautiful. I wish more shows were inspired off of famous works
I have been waiting for someone to actually talk about this show. It was abut out of my age range when it came out but I still enjoyed it for what it was. Also I rewatched the first few episodes and I think the book is more like an interactive video game than an actual magical artefact? (Ignoring the fact that it literally makes your physical body disappear when you're using it) So I guess the whole "Mia is the special" thing and everyone just going with it makes more sense when you consider that her parents designed it that way. Takes a lot of the stakes out of the conflict though. (And questioning the whole "we don't know where the parents are" thing: Don't we find out early on that they're dead or am I mixing it up with another show?)
10:07 I'm pretty sure I remember that in the episode where Panthea gets the thrumptus (or however it's spelled) she gave each of her servants a few parts and said they have to hide them all around Centopia so the thrumptus can never be rebuild again.
This show was my ENTIRE childhood, (I literally have drawings from my childhood of this show) it was one of my favorite shows and I feel like no one else really watched it when I was little but I loved it. It’s still a show I vividly remember watching it as well as a tiny bit of the plot. Have a great day
I never watched too far because I was put off by the animation change, but the world and first arc of Mia and Me was so appealing to me! And also unicorns. I love unicorns.
I know the theme song by heart to this day! Season 2 was my favourite, new characters and a bully redemption arc is all it takes for me. I remember I was very upset when they changed the actress for S3, I think I also stopped watching the show after that. Sometimes I still wonder about the relationship of the main characters, Mia, Yuki and Mo would make the absolute power poly couple.
I really liked Mia and Me when it came out, but I was embarrassed to watch it because I was 13 at the time so I was 'too old'. What a shame. It's a lovely show with some fantastic character designs.
I could have sworn I remembered them saying that centopia was a really detailed video game that her dad designed and created for her specifically or smth and then it turned out to be a real place
Oh boy I waited for this deep dive for so long because this show have been living in my head rent free! Let me start with the fact that I love the fairy world's portrayal being art nouveau. There are Klimt inspired designs, because YES, the patterns and the world is based off of famous Klimt paintings. As a ex-art student, when Klimt was brought up, I realized why were these designs so familiar. Also... fun fact, art nouveau is a pretty decorative style, so because of this a lot of characters wear spiraling clothing, golden jewellery and decorative hair pieces. I suppose Mia's parents were art nouveau enthusiasts.
Gonna be honest. As a little German girl watching this show, I really loved the little animations showing Mia's emotions in the real world. It kind of gave the show it's own style?
Honestly I remember a show kinda like this- she had tanned skin and blue hair- she also had a pink headband and she didn't rlly had any problems she would just go into a flower into a place-?? This sounds like I'm describing a overdose experience-
Okay, the "It's just for kids" thing is NOT an excuse for lazy writing. Kids shows that have things "Just Happen" without reasons behind them lead to kids that accept things without wanting to know the reasons behind them. Kids shows should have BETTER writing and be held to a HIGHER standard than those for adults, because those stories form the foundation of those childrens' lives and minds and moral systems! Hold them to higher standards! Hold them to the HIGHEST standards!
Oh my GOODNESS, Mia and Me was one of my ultimate childhood shows! I remember it was all I talked about with a friend who also loved it. We literally pretended that we could meditate and transport our minds to Centopia and tried to convince our other friends of it during recess. Good times lol
i had to stand up and take multiple deep breaths when i saw the thumbnail. to say this show was my childhood is an understatement so it's nice to get an outside perspective because without you pointing it out, i never would've noticed that centopia is pretty much girls only and i do agree, that the writing is average for most of the seasons. also don't they say that mias parents are dead in the first episode? and Panthea DOES order her servants to spread them around edit: i think i'm one of the few fans of this show that hated horse growing up edit: is it made clear that Ono had a harem? because if yes, then the localised version i watched changed them to be his friends
Mia and me is from italy!!! They made a belguim/dutch dub later. (I'm dutch 🙃) Loved the first season of the show 🥰 2th season kind of sucks 🥹 loving your video's 💕 Same production as maggie and bianca fashion friends (sorry big rainbow s.r.l. fan girl here 😂) Nope I wasn't a horse girl 🙈
I remember watching this show as a kid and dropping it pretty early into season 1 just because the real life segments were boring and I had cooler things to watch. I might not have had the words for the lack I saw, but kids are smart enough to recognise its there.
im so excited for this video, i used to watch mia and me (Os mundos de Mia in Portuguese) and i was kinda obsessed with it and a few months ago me and my younger sister found the episodes and were rewatching it together it was just so much fun. Made me feel all gooey and warm from the happy memories i had of watching this show.
I remembere watching this show a couple years back. It was alright. Tho i remember hating the voice acting for one of the seasons cause mai kept exhaling her lines. 7/10 would recommend
i used to be so obsessed with this show that me and my friend made a new cover for a book i had that was around the same shape as mias and we would pretend to go to centopia lmao
I am so happy that this show is getting covered! Mia and me was my favorite show as a kid. I also rember really liking slugterra when I was a kid os far.
Man I watched this show when I was so young that I remember absolutely nothing abt it other than the character designs The art direction/fashion design for the elves and unicorns is still pretty cool
This was the last series I expected to see again today It's been soo long since I've seen this show and I had forgotten this show existed Seeing these characters again was like seeing your 3rd grade class again after 10 years
AHHH THE NOSTALGIA I’ve been thinking of Mia and Me recently from when I was younger, and then I come back to your channel after ages to find this?! A blessing lol
I went to school in Florence Italy and was classmates with that bully girl! Some of these scenes were even filmed in my school during summer vacation! Most of the live action characters in the show are all from my school. My theater teacher was the one that casted them
How could I forget about this? 😭 one year for my birthday I got a Mia and me fake Lego set thingy, I was so confused on what it was since I asked for another Lego friends set… anyway I saw on the front that it was also a tv show, so I found it on Netflix and was obsessed after that
YOU DONT KNOW HOW LONG I WAS WAITING TO EITHER HAVE SOMEONE NOTICE THIS SERIES OR FINALLY HAVE THE TIME TO MAKE A VID ABOUT MYSELF OH MY GOODNESS YESSS TYSM!!!!
This is my childhood. This show was my absolute favorite, I had all the DVDs (they came in weekly show-themed magasines and we had all of them). I loved it, even though I normally hated stereotypically "girly" stuff
I liked the show, but the Quality for each season kept going down hill well except for season one and two, i would've have that magic bracelet be run by magic itself, but it has a time limit and she would need to let it charge on its own without using it or she may break it and may never return. Its that simple.
Holy frik, Negative! We have the same Cinnamoroll sweater!! Loved the video btw, I miss this show since they took it off Netflix. Your setup is lookin very nice too :)
I really appreciate your commentary, you are always so friendly and good natured about shows that you could genuinely be critical about and be justified. You recognize that 5 star television isn’t the goal of most of these shows and you hold them to the standard of what they are trying to achieve rather than what you desire of the show as a viewer. You do mention what could be done better but it is always with the idea that the writers would have made that decision if they could have or went in a different direction on purpose. Your commentary is always constructive and supportive and I genuinely appreciate that. Thank you.
I saw this video and I BOLTED to watch it. I remember watching this as a kid and it totally escaped my mind for at least… 5 years? and I’ve never seen anyone talk about it since. THANK YOUUU!
Caught a piece of this when it premiered and came back to rewatch what I missed :) Has a nice rewarchable feel to it anyway so might watch again if I need background videos in future seeing this is technically my second watch through
I remember sometimes catching a few glimpses of this show on tv when u was younger but i dont remember much of it. A few months ago i remembered it and found it on a streaming site and was finally able to watch the full show. I am a really big winx fan so i also really enjoyed this show. It might not have been the most perfect show but it was still fun. I mostly watched it in the back while doing something i can turn my brain off for. The animation is so gorgeous and the way they showed off all the creatures is just mwah i love it.
BROOO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!! I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT SHOW AND JUST COULDN'T FIND ANYONE TALKING ABOUT SO YEAH I APPRECIATE THAT A LOT
omg that thumbnail awakened a memory in me I totally forgot about this series! yet it definitely had a major impact on my psyche -- like you said, there are a lot of shows like this one but my fairy-fantasy daydreams were most similar to Mia & Me, now that I remember it. however I think I might have skipped past the live action later in the show because I found it so boring lol -- i only watched the first season i'm pretty sure haha.
I love your content your reviews and videos are are always so put together and structured. They also never get boring, I can easily watch a review about a show I never heard about!!
OH MY GOD I LOVED THIS SHOW WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I REWATCHED IT SO MANY TIMES AGHHH I'm honestly tempted to rewatch it yet again just cause its so nostalgic for me, and the theme song will forever be engraved into my brain. One of the things that bugged me when i was younger is the different VAs in the later seasons. Like, ik they just weren't able to keep them all... but Fuddle's new VA just DIDNT sound like him at all qwq
Fun Fact: the character designs are all based on the portraits of Gustav Klimt. The King and Queen are from the painting “the kiss” while Gargona is literally the lady with snakes. The world building itself includes the blue spirals and triangles always present in Klimts works.
I literally just noticed that now. That's unbelievable. I watched that so many years....😂😂😂but that's certainly amazing tho
i recognized the art style but i never realized that the characters were from the paintings themself! neat!
Exactly. These designs are one of the reasons why I gave this show a shot. How often do you see shows with Gustav Klimt references and designs.
@@seeleunit2000the anime Elfen Lied is the only other example I can think of!
i wondered about that! i noticed that they looked reminiscent, but didn’t know they were actually based on his works! very cool
What I always got from the show growing up is that the world wasn't exactly real? I think Mia's parents _made_ that world for her, as well as the bracelet, and the reason it expands alongside her is because it revolves around her. It starts basic, elves vs weird woman, then expands as Mia explores. Like a minecraft map, it only loads in more chunks as you venture into those chunks. That's always how I understood it, at least.
That’s so interesting ! :0 I never thought about it that way
Low-key love this interpretation
It might have been translation thing, but I still remember she read it's supposed to be *video game*
This is what I always thought as a kid too
@wercia4334 Yeah, exactly!! I distinctly remember that being said in a note when she gets the book or something. Really wondered why Negative Legend didn't bring this up
Honestly i just wanna give a shoutout to Gargona. Girl refused to throw in the towel after god knows how many seasons and honestly, i respect that.
Honestly the trix and gargona have something in common
Yes
I remember watching this show once, and Gargona drove me crazy.
Possibly because I could and still can only watch it in my native language (Danish), and her Danish voice is honestly horrible to listen to (in my opinion).
@@mariepigen08 I know what you mean, sometimes the dubbed voices are so bad 💀 Thankfully she was fine in the hungarian dub
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Actually, Mia and the other ''elves'' ARE actually fairies, it's just that in here Europe, we use the terms ''elf'', ''fairy'' and ''pixie'' interchangeably to describe magical hominids
As someone that is from Europe I never heard of elf and fairy beign used interchangeably. Maybe it's just where I'm from.
yeah! often the same word, even
@@anna4338same
here in germany it's different. we use the word fee for pixie and fairy (hominids with wings) and elf for yeah elf (like the ones from lotr)
@@snortsalineoflavender in my country we use fairy for both elves (like from lotr and elder scrolls) and fairies (small with wings). Also, instead of Santa having elves as a workforce, we have dwarves.
Mia and Me was my ultimate escapism show. I would constantly dream about being Mia and having the ability to travel into this fantasy world, especially flying, I wanted wings SO BAD. That moment when Mia finally manages to fly properly was EUPHORIC and it still comes back to me every now and then
Do you know Izzzyzzz by any chance?
So adorable omg 😭😭😭
I KNOW! Like the way they portrayed how she learns to fly and how it probably feels was so believable when I was little
@@Znp-jm3zy it was the embodiment of character development fr
@@maiz_kolbe5030 do you know any media where they have it as well? I never find someone pointing out this spesific side of stories and I think we're on same page with this
I was so upset that Vincent didn’t get to go to centopia but violetta did 😔😔
Same
Same it really pissed me off
@@Lommiku Plot Armor am I right??
HOLY SHIT! AS A GIRL WHO GREW UP IN FLORENCE ITALY, WHERE THE SHOW WAS SHOT, I GOT TO MEET VIOLETTA CUZ SHE WAS A SENIOR AT MY SCHOOL WHILE I WAS IN THE SIXTH GRADE. MY TEACHER EVEN APEARED IN MANY BACKGROUND CHARACTERS. I can’t believe you are talking about not only a gem of my childhood but something that my school was involved in holy shit.
Bro and not only that. Many people from my school even got to be extras. Only the seniors at that time of course.
Wow
thats so cool.
That's neat.
I'm going to believe this is true because that's cool as hell and I want to believe it.
I used to love this show so much. Me and my best friend used to be the 'imaginary magic world' children and this really fueled my imagination. Maybe it's partly because of the fact it's both real actors and animation, which made it seem so real for me. And the art is just stunning.
same haha. Seeing a real person become this magic flying being made me so incredibly jealous. I would constantly fantasise about being her
"IS HE UNICORN JESUS???" Is not a phrase that I was expecting, but summs up Onchao pretty much! And Loved this show even with it's flaws because it's honestly very fun to wacth
The creator of the show, Gerhard Hahn is german, and in german the word "Elfen" refers more commonly to those little insect-winged people, so that’s why they’re called elves instead of faeries or pixies here.
On your point of the "cutesy girly stuff", you were right, like i also felt weird watching the show after that bc i was in my "im not like other girls" era (also the girls my grade suddenly decided that cartoon were for kids and they were big girls now watching big girl shows like zoey 101). Luckily i had a little sister so i watched it anyways while pretending i didnt like it lmao
Same
'How many of you who grew up watching this show were horse girls? I bet you watched Spirit' That was a scarely accurate call-out.
me, I watched both in my childhood
Literally me
Was a horse girl at heart when I was a kid 💔 watched Spirit and the show
Fun fact: In my first language, Polish, Mia and Me is called Mia i Ja. Mia i ja is pronounced Mya Iya, so it rhymes and even better, it sounds like kids pronouncing horse's neighing in Poland. Idk if it's a horse girl easter egg or if it's just an accidental thing, i love it though.
same here, i watched it in serbian, also called Mia i ja
In Russian too
All slavic languages
Mia and Me sounds like an alliteration
Yay, i love polish
16:50 at least in the German version in the very beginning they insinuate her parents are dead since she lives with her aunt and that aunt gives her the book her parents made for her as a gift before she leaves
that was my version.
The whole unicorn harem thing is actually based on real horses, especially in the wild. There is one main stallion and he has many mares, but he usually has one main mare and they share responsibility. with the herd and protecting❤
Its one head stallion and the lead mare, ussually the eldest and a lot of the time the mother/grandmother to the herd, she decides when the herd moves and where to
Something I didn’t realise when I first watched the show is that the visual style of Centopia is very heavily drawing from Gustav Klimt. The king and queen look like they’ve been ripped straight out of one of, if not his most famous work, the kiss.
I’m really curious why they did this? It’s not everyday you see a kids show trying to mimic the aesthetic of an Austrian painter’s work.
It might be something worth noting in your next video, because now my interest is piqued (that and because I never saw past the fist two seasons, but that’s besides the point).
Wow, that's really interesting!
I just looked up the art and you're right, the outfits are basically identical!
yeah! the only time ive heard people talking about it was just saying 'its gustav klimt i mean look at it' without much elaboration, i really wish we had more info on the show's production and design direction :( (and also why everyone introduced in the later seasons had increasingly worse characher designs)
I miss this show. I completely forgot about it as I got older. I’m so glad you got to cover this topic.
Mia and Me, a German children's series created by Gerhard Hahn, originated in Germany or Austria. Upon further research, it has been confirmed that the show is indeed of German origin. Currently, Mia and Me is wholly owned by Studio 100, a Belgian company, through its German subsidiary Made 4 Entertainment (m4e).
Okay I kinda headcanon Violetta as gender noncom 'cuz like, her elf colorscheme and her elf look , compared to Mia and later Sara is more androgynous, and like her arc is could be interpreted as internalized Queerphobia, at first she bullied Mia because she liked fairies (Mia is somehow Queer (Bi in my headcanon) and even though Violetta also likes Fairies (is Queer) she was raised by her mother who is not encouraging imagination and wonder (is homophobic) and when she gets into Centopia (discovers a kind Queer community) she thinks "Hey, I like this" and her home life suck no matter what and her mother manipulated her into thinking that her father doesn't want to live with her (she lied abot Violetta's dad being homophobic) is like "screw it, I'm out of closet here and this place is great" but hey THAT'S JUST a silly little headcanon of mine
OMG THATS ACTUALLY SO SMART
OMG this was literally my favorite thing as a kid. I’m still mad at Netflix for taking it off the air but I’m really glad you’re covering it now!
SAME!
Same!!😊
just pirate..?
The episodes are on TH-cam
To put it in perspective, season 2 was produced and released at the same period Winx season 7 was. And both had circus clowns as vilains. One was just better integrated in the show and overall better executed, and it's not Brafilius.
I think the “she’s an elf but she has wings?” thing can be explained with the context that it’s a Belgian show! I’m Dutch but we share a lot of things with Belgium and “elf” here is a very generic term that could, depending on prefix, suffix, diminutive etc be a lot of things. It covers anything from classic elves to pixies and more, and also overlaps with the word “fee”, thus also pulling in things like fairy godmothers and evil fairies such as Maleficent, hell it can even be expanded to just mean “sorceress”. It’s a very broad term, but basically Mia being called an elf wouldn’t be weird for Belgian audiences, it’s just awkward for the translation!
It's actually a coproduction between Germany, Italy and Canada (only the company that owns the rights is belgian). And in Germany it's similar! I actually went to look this up and found out something interesting about these words' history:
The german "Fee" comes from medieval french, and in Germany it came to mean something between a sorceress and a nymph. The french "faerie"/"féerie" was adopted by late medieval England and used to desctibe the realm of the little people that Chaucer already called "elfs". During elizabethan times "faerie" and "elf" became more or less interchangable and were used this way by Shakespeare. During the 18th century, a lot of his works were translated into german, and since the word "Fee" had such a stark difference in meaning from the english "faerie", most translators used the word "Elfe" instead. This word became the most used when referring to the Little People that the english ended up calling "faeries". Only in recent years, with english and american works getting translated with "faeries" as "Feen", or Tolkien-inspired fantasy often using tall, humanoid elves, this imagery changed .
As someone who LOVED this show as a kid I totally remembered the live action section and the animated section as two different shows
I remember watching this show when I was in elementary although I never got the chance to see past s1 and I'm happy that it still holds up decently today! Btw if you're interested in another rainbow show I suggest Monster allergy, long only 2 seasons. For any Italians interested in rewatching it it's fully free in Italian here on TH-cam (except for the finale of s2 that for some reason was copyright striked)
Monster allergy was a rainbow show?
I distantly remember catching a few episodes and finding it pretty cool. Iirc it had some very cool lore potential
@@frauleinzuckerguss1906 according to Wikipedia yes, but the show wasn't fully/only Italian and it was inspired by a Disney comic (still italian I think)
I love Monster allergy
Omg I Loved monster allergy!
I got a MA mug at a flea market! Didn't know they existed.
Grew up on this show before I even got into Winx Club and it had me rewatching it over and over - being much older now, I can tell the problems but man, its easy too overlook when wearing the nostalgia glasses - also completely forgot about the love stories in this show besides emo tarzan because they did not interwst me at all and I dont think I even picked up that there was a spat over Mo in season 1 as a kid.
Edit: yes I was totally a horse girl
Question, could that also be a tiny bit why Blitzø is your profile pic?
Also I don’t mean to offend you in any way, as I also believe I could have been a horse girl(don’t know details on what it all entails though) and also watch Helluva Boss and know Blitz loves horses.
@@Yue_the_Demon That's what I thought as well!
I completely forgot about the love triangle, but still love thsi show
I always loved how it took awhile for mia to fly. Most main characters understand the world they get transported to instantly, and its more realistic that she wouldn't know how to do everything instantly.
My childhood self was sooo mad when they changed the actress 😭 i cried all day
9:16 I think it can work if the villain is elderly or they are the ruler of something and they sit back most of the time while their soldiers do stuff but you can see their orders and making plans.
Or if they have some sort of illness or injury, which can also work for a motivation and/or defeat too
This is low-key hilarious, though. Villian: If not for my bad back and aching knees, I would have slaughtered you
Oh god. I'm only 16 but as a 6-7yo having just moved away from my friends, school and old life, this show helped me escape real life problems for like two episodes on some days
I remember watching this, I was so disappointed that she doesn't invite her friends in her world
I remember watching this show when I was younger! I don’t remember the plot at all I just remember I really enjoyed it. I’m very excited to see what you think of it!!!
6:05 it is established in episode one that her parents are dead
I'm about to watch this video now, but YES FINALLY MIA AND ME GETS SOME ATTENTION!! I used to really love this as a kid, I really hoped to see someone talk about it, and here we are now, let's go!
My sister mom and I used to watch this show when my dad went out to play dnd, I hope to show it to my youngest sister sooner or later, especially since there's new seasons last time I checked, lots of fond memories of the show
I remember when this was on Netflix when I was like-10. It was my favorite show when I couldn’t find any more winx club content
Also I never watched Spirit-I only ever heard of it when the 3d show came out on netflix a few years ago
Honestly I love how the world of centopia is inspired by Gustav Klimt's work, it really makes the world of centopia beautiful. I wish more shows were inspired off of famous works
I have been waiting for someone to actually talk about this show. It was abut out of my age range when it came out but I still enjoyed it for what it was.
Also I rewatched the first few episodes and I think the book is more like an interactive video game than an actual magical artefact? (Ignoring the fact that it literally makes your physical body disappear when you're using it) So I guess the whole "Mia is the special" thing and everyone just going with it makes more sense when you consider that her parents designed it that way. Takes a lot of the stakes out of the conflict though.
(And questioning the whole "we don't know where the parents are" thing: Don't we find out early on that they're dead or am I mixing it up with another show?)
10:07 I'm pretty sure I remember that in the episode where Panthea gets the thrumptus (or however it's spelled) she gave each of her servants a few parts and said they have to hide them all around Centopia so the thrumptus can never be rebuild again.
This show was my ENTIRE childhood, (I literally have drawings from my childhood of this show) it was one of my favorite shows and I feel like no one else really watched it when I was little but I loved it. It’s still a show I vividly remember watching it as well as a tiny bit of the plot. Have a great day
I never watched too far because I was put off by the animation change, but the world and first arc of Mia and Me was so appealing to me! And also unicorns. I love unicorns.
I know the theme song by heart to this day! Season 2 was my favourite, new characters and a bully redemption arc is all it takes for me. I remember I was very upset when they changed the actress for S3, I think I also stopped watching the show after that. Sometimes I still wonder about the relationship of the main characters, Mia, Yuki and Mo would make the absolute power poly couple.
I really liked Mia and Me when it came out, but I was embarrassed to watch it because I was 13 at the time so I was 'too old'. What a shame. It's a lovely show with some fantastic character designs.
the book was a gift from her late parents thats why the parents arent there
This show was my childhood.
knew it was Italian but popular in Germany too.
I could have sworn I remembered them saying that centopia was a really detailed video game that her dad designed and created for her specifically or smth and then it turned out to be a real place
i fought the mia and me fandom was dead.
but its nice to know theres still some fans of the show.
Oh boy I waited for this deep dive for so long because this show have been living in my head rent free!
Let me start with the fact that I love the fairy world's portrayal being art nouveau. There are Klimt inspired designs, because YES, the patterns and the world is based off of famous Klimt paintings. As a ex-art student, when Klimt was brought up, I realized why were these designs so familiar. Also... fun fact, art nouveau is a pretty decorative style, so because of this a lot of characters wear spiraling clothing, golden jewellery and decorative hair pieces. I suppose Mia's parents were art nouveau enthusiasts.
Gonna be honest. As a little German girl watching this show, I really loved the little animations showing Mia's emotions in the real world. It kind of gave the show it's own style?
violetta's elf hairstyle slays tbh
Not Only girls can get to this world according to older seasons:)
True.
this show was literally my childhood😭 I still have the dolls that i got for my birthdays lol
Honestly I remember a show kinda like this- she had tanned skin and blue hair- she also had a pink headband and she didn't rlly had any problems she would just go into a flower into a place-?? This sounds like I'm describing a overdose experience-
it's luna petunia
@@MousseChocoCookie Wait.. FINALLY FINALLY I CAN GO TELL EVERYONE THE SHOW NAME AND THEY WON'T THINK I TAKE HER0INE
@@AmithystChi remember that show
I grew up with this show(I'm from the Balkans) and it was my entire childhood. I'm so happy people outside of Europe are discovering it. Great video
Okay, the "It's just for kids" thing is NOT an excuse for lazy writing. Kids shows that have things "Just Happen" without reasons behind them lead to kids that accept things without wanting to know the reasons behind them. Kids shows should have BETTER writing and be held to a HIGHER standard than those for adults, because those stories form the foundation of those childrens' lives and minds and moral systems! Hold them to higher standards! Hold them to the HIGHEST standards!
"If I come out a little negative, I'm sorry" says NEGATIVE Legend.
Oh my GOODNESS, Mia and Me was one of my ultimate childhood shows! I remember it was all I talked about with a friend who also loved it.
We literally pretended that we could meditate and transport our minds to Centopia and tried to convince our other friends of it during recess.
Good times lol
i had to stand up and take multiple deep breaths when i saw the thumbnail. to say this show was my childhood is an understatement so it's nice to get an outside perspective because without you pointing it out, i never would've noticed that centopia is pretty much girls only and i do agree, that the writing is average for most of the seasons.
also don't they say that mias parents are dead in the first episode? and Panthea DOES order her servants to spread them around
edit: i think i'm one of the few fans of this show that hated horse growing up
edit: is it made clear that Ono had a harem? because if yes, then the localised version i watched changed them to be his friends
OMG IM SO HAPPY U MADE THIS VIDEO THIS CARTOON WAS LITERALLYYYY MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD 😭😭😭😭its so underrated
Mia and me is from italy!!! They made a belguim/dutch dub later. (I'm dutch 🙃) Loved the first season of the show 🥰 2th season kind of sucks 🥹 loving your video's 💕 Same production as maggie and bianca fashion friends (sorry big rainbow s.r.l. fan girl here 😂)
Nope I wasn't a horse girl 🙈
I remember watching this show as a kid and dropping it pretty early into season 1 just because the real life segments were boring and I had cooler things to watch. I might not have had the words for the lack I saw, but kids are smart enough to recognise its there.
This show was a huge part of my childhood!!
im so excited for this video, i used to watch mia and me (Os mundos de Mia in Portuguese) and i was kinda obsessed with it and a few months ago me and my younger sister found the episodes and were rewatching it together it was just so much fun. Made me feel all gooey and warm from the happy memories i had of watching this show.
Os mundos de Mia é o nome brasileiro? Eu lembro-me ser chamado (A Mia e eu) em Portugal mas pode ser só a minha memória
em portugal tbm se chama os mundos de mia, não sei se depois o nome foi mudado mas eu lembro me de esse ser o nome no canal panda lol@@joana9951
@@joana9951 Bem, eu lembro-me vivamente de ouvir o nome "Os mundos de Mia" nos anúncios do canal Panda 😅, não sei se foi diferente noutros canais.
10:32 in the episode where it gets broken, she oders her dragonriders to take all those pieces and spread them to the corners of the worls
🌒The queen and king of the land, is like cut-outs from Gustav Klimt painting.🌘
Me and my sister watched this when we were younger and I loved the theme song, and still do
omg the way little old me really wanted Vincent to go to Centopia had me hopeful the entire season
OMG FINALLY IM SO GLAD PEOPLE ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THIS THIS SHOW WAS MY CHILDHOOD 😪
I remembere watching this show a couple years back. It was alright. Tho i remember hating the voice acting for one of the seasons cause mai kept exhaling her lines.
7/10 would recommend
i used to be so obsessed with this show that me and my friend made a new cover for a book i had that was around the same shape as mias and we would pretend to go to centopia lmao
I am so happy that this show is getting covered! Mia and me was my favorite show as a kid. I also rember really liking slugterra when I was a kid os far.
THIS!! i had forgotten mia & me's title, thank you for reminding me, very happy
I loved this show when I was a kid. Just a blast to the past here.
Man I watched this show when I was so young that I remember absolutely nothing abt it other than the character designs
The art direction/fashion design for the elves and unicorns is still pretty cool
This was the last series I expected to see again today
It's been soo long since I've seen this show and I had forgotten this show existed
Seeing these characters again was like seeing your 3rd grade class again after 10 years
Bro mias parents are dead , and the masked lady did told her servant to spread the princes all across. 😅
AHHH THE NOSTALGIA
I’ve been thinking of Mia and Me recently from when I was younger, and then I come back to your channel after ages to find this?! A blessing lol
I went to school in Florence Italy and was classmates with that bully girl! Some of these scenes were even filmed in my school during summer vacation! Most of the live action characters in the show are all from my school. My theater teacher was the one that casted them
How could I forget about this? 😭 one year for my birthday I got a Mia and me fake Lego set thingy, I was so confused on what it was since I asked for another Lego friends set… anyway I saw on the front that it was also a tv show, so I found it on Netflix and was obsessed after that
I hardly remember this but this was my favorite show ever and I totally had a crush on fairy Mia looking back 😭
This show is literally my childhood and I got so excited when I saw this. Well done!
Omg yes!! Been waiting for someone to talk about this show 😭
:)
YOU DONT KNOW HOW LONG I WAS WAITING TO EITHER HAVE SOMEONE NOTICE THIS SERIES OR FINALLY HAVE THE TIME TO MAKE A VID ABOUT MYSELF OH MY GOODNESS YESSS TYSM!!!!
Also I love your animated sprite character! It's so whimsical!
I watched Seasons 1 and 2 of Mia and Me as a kid! I don't remember the details, but I remembered really liking it, especially the water unicorn. :D
The little cartoon Negative Legend version is awesome! Can't wait to see you as an actual Vtuber
This is my childhood. This show was my absolute favorite, I had all the DVDs (they came in weekly show-themed magasines and we had all of them). I loved it, even though I normally hated stereotypically "girly" stuff
I liked the show, but the Quality for each season kept going down hill well except for season one and two, i would've have that magic bracelet be run by magic itself, but it has a time limit and she would need to let it charge on its own without using it or she may break it and may never return. Its that simple.
Holy frik, Negative! We have the same Cinnamoroll sweater!!
Loved the video btw, I miss this show since they took it off Netflix. Your setup is lookin very nice too :)
god I used to love this show so much, it’s great to see you talk abt it!!
I really appreciate your commentary, you are always so friendly and good natured about shows that you could genuinely be critical about and be justified. You recognize that 5 star television isn’t the goal of most of these shows and you hold them to the standard of what they are trying to achieve rather than what you desire of the show as a viewer. You do mention what could be done better but it is always with the idea that the writers would have made that decision if they could have or went in a different direction on purpose. Your commentary is always constructive and supportive and I genuinely appreciate that. Thank you.
I love your new animated self, it looks amazing and embodies yourself and your personality so well
I saw this video and I BOLTED to watch it. I remember watching this as a kid and it totally escaped my mind for at least… 5 years? and I’ve never seen anyone talk about it since.
THANK YOUUU!
Caught a piece of this when it premiered and came back to rewatch what I missed :)
Has a nice rewarchable feel to it anyway so might watch again if I need background videos in future seeing this is technically my second watch through
This is literally THE video I've been waiting for my entire life. ❤
I remember sometimes catching a few glimpses of this show on tv when u was younger but i dont remember much of it. A few months ago i remembered it and found it on a streaming site and was finally able to watch the full show. I am a really big winx fan so i also really enjoyed this show. It might not have been the most perfect show but it was still fun. I mostly watched it in the back while doing something i can turn my brain off for. The animation is so gorgeous and the way they showed off all the creatures is just mwah i love it.
BROOO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT SHOW AND JUST COULDN'T FIND ANYONE TALKING ABOUT
SO YEAH I APPRECIATE THAT A LOT
omg that thumbnail awakened a memory in me I totally forgot about this series! yet it definitely had a major impact on my psyche -- like you said, there are a lot of shows like this one but my fairy-fantasy daydreams were most similar to Mia & Me, now that I remember it. however I think I might have skipped past the live action later in the show because I found it so boring lol -- i only watched the first season i'm pretty sure haha.
Maybe they were inspired by Lizzie Maguire with the feelings animation. I loved that show.
I love your content your reviews and videos are are always so put together and structured. They also never get boring, I can easily watch a review about a show I never heard about!!
OH MY GOD I LOVED THIS SHOW WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I REWATCHED IT SO MANY TIMES AGHHH
I'm honestly tempted to rewatch it yet again just cause its so nostalgic for me, and the theme song will forever be engraved into my brain.
One of the things that bugged me when i was younger is the different VAs in the later seasons. Like, ik they just weren't able to keep them all... but Fuddle's new VA just DIDNT sound like him at all qwq