Xiaolin Chronicles


Xiaolin Chronicles is an American-French animated/CG television series presented as a continuation of the Warner Bros. Animation's series, Xiaolin Showdown. The series premiered on August 26, 2013, with three back-to-back episodes serving as a preview. The full series premiered on September 14, 2013. It was produced by ActionFliks Media Corporation in collaboration with the French studio Genao Productions.
The show aired for twenty episodes from August 26, 2013 to March 6, 2014 on Disney XD, leaving the last six episodes unaired in the United States until July 1, 2015, when Chronicles was made available to watch on Netflix.
In a newsletter published on July 25, 2015, creator Christy Hui announced that Chronicles will not continue with a second season and will be a standalone series. However, she stated that there will be a new Xiaolin project that will continue in a format to that of Showdown.

Production

Produced in France and the United States with Christy Hui returning as executive producer, the show is animated in 2D animation while CGI was used for all of the Xiaolin Showdown scenes. The show features new character designs and a slightly altered logo for the show. With the exception of Tara Strong and Jennifer Hale, the original's voice cast was replaced due to budget and timing issues. All Shen Gong Wu from the original series had to be renamed because Warner Bros. Animation have no any involvement with the series as they ended the partnership with the series after ended in 2006, but Warner Bros. still owns the titles and rights to the names. Sunwoo Entertainment contributed some of the animation for this series

Plot

Omi, Kimiko, and Clay have recently risen to the rank of Shoku Warrior except for Raimundo, where they must continue to uphold their duty of finding and collecting all of the mystical Shen Gong Wu artifacts before the evil Heylin forces do. They are joined by a recruit from Europe named Ping Pong, who competes with a mysterious girl named Willow for the position of Xiaolin Apprentice. Through the events of the show's pilot, the monks learn that Willow is evil, and is the apprentice to the formidable Heylin warrior Chase Young. She and Chase destroy the temple and take all the Shen Gong Wu. With their temple destroyed, the monks must search for a new temple, while still trying to collect all the Shen Gong Wu and protecting the world from the likes of Chase Young and the villainous Jack Spicer.

Characters

Season 1 (2013–15)

Principal voice actors

The series premiered on Cartoon Network in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2014. Cartoon Network Southeast Asia followed on December 15, 2014. In Australia, Xiaolin Chronicles debuted on Eleven on June 7, 2015, with a second run on Cartoon Network beginning July 17, 2015. The series debuted with the launch of Family Chrgd on October 9, 2015 in Canada.