On 13 October 2019 Thomas Astruc announced that scripts for season 4 have been done. Caitlin Donovan of the entertainment website, Epicstream, listed it as one of her top 10 animated series of 2015. She wrote that, “The characters are so charming that the tropey aspects of the show are merely a lot of fun, rather than irritating.” with creative fights and good latest Miraculous Ladybug apk CGI animation. A spin-off series, Miraculous Chibi, premiered on 31 August 2018 on YouTube and on major broadcast channels. The aforementioned problem with 2D animation was resolved by moving to CGI animation; the switch also allowed for easier implementation of mobile camera angles.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the show premiered on 30 January 2016 on Disney Channel. Marinette babysits Nino’s younger brother Chris while he and Alya go to see a movie. When Chris finds a chest full of birthday gifts for Adrien, Marinette claims that she is secretly one of Santa Claus’ helpers and that the chest contains Christmas gifts. Overwhelmed by the desire for Christmas to come early, Chris is akumatized into “Christmaster”, a villain who controls an army of toys and seeks Santa Claus. Ladybug and Cat Noir are forced to team up with Santa in order to defeat him. Afterwards, Marinette admits that the chest contains gifts for a boy, much to Chris’ disgust.
Season 2 picked up the plot which was pretty repetitive in season 1. We see Adrien and Marinette become good friends rather than just classmates. While Ladybug and Cat Noirs start developing a closer relationship understanding and respecting each other’s feelings and slowly building an unbreakable bond of trust. Inside the Miracle Box, the bug and the cat miraculous are placed in the section with Yin and Yang logo. This shows that these are contradicting powers that balance each other, making Marinette and Adrien two halves of a whole.
Mr. Damocles is the principal of Collège Françoise Dupont. In “The Dark Owl”, after trying and failing to become a superhero, and being humiliated by the media for it, he is akumatized by Hawk Moth into Dark Owl, an Owl-themed supervillain. Jean Duparc is a student in Ms. Mendeleiev’s class at Collège Françoise Dupont. At the start of “Princess Fragrance”, it is revealed that he was akumatized off-screen and turned into the Magician of Misfortune, a supervillain who threatens to make the Eiffel Tower disappear.
Marinette and her friends hang out at the Couffaine residence to listen to them play. Jagged Stone approaches them and explains that he is looking for a new guitarist after he fired his old guitarist Vivica. Suddenly, they are attacked by Vivica, who has been akumatized into “Desperada” and can capture victims in her guitar case with her magic trumpet. The group scatters and Ladybug fights Desperada, but is forced to retreat. Lucky Charm directs her to Master Fu, where she takes the Snake Miraculous and gives it to Adrien. Realizing the error in his role, Adrien suggests to Ladybug that Luka should wield the Snake Miraculous instead.