A Kind of Magic (TV series)
A Kind of Magic is a French animated television series created by Michel Coulon, based upon Arthur de Pins's original design. It was produced by French animation company Xilam Animation with the participation of France 3 and Disney Television France in Season 1, Gulli and Canal J for Season 2. The series was directed by Charles Vaucelle for Season 1 and William Renaud for Season 2, the character designer by David Gilson and the executive producer by Marc Du Pontavice.
The story deals with a 10-year-old child named Tom, and his family's problems, including his older sister Cindy, who is crazy after every boy she sees, his toad 'His Highness', his evil maternal aunt Ferocia who wants to turn him evil as well, his ditzy fairy mother Willow and his vegetarian ogre father Gregore who have been exiled from Fairyland and now have to live on Earth.
The series first aired in 2008 on Disney Channel France and France 3. The series was rated the most popular series at the 2007 MIPCOM Junior trade show, attracting over 280 buyers.
A second season started airing in 2018. The second series aired on Canal J.
It is now a web series on the YouTube channel with the same name.
Production
Others Name: Magic - La Famille FéeriqueCreated By: Michel Coulon and Arthur de Pins
Directed By: Charles Vaucelle and William Renaud
Scripts By: Michel Coulon, Yves Coulon, Jean-Marc Lenglen and Mark Hodkinson
Art Direction: Romain Coudray
Decoration: Cécile Thomas
Starring: Trevor Devall, Kelly Sheridan, Erin Matthew, Pauline Newstone, Sapir Darmon And Mark Oliver
Editors: Lou Bouniol and Saïd Ouadfel
Music: Hervé Lavandier and Vincent Artaud
Chief Director: Marc du Pontavice
Co-Director: Patrick Malka
Production Manager: Marc du Pontavice
Executive Producers: Katell Lardeux and Marie-Laurence Turpin, Dorothée Lanchier and Pierre Meloni
Production Company: Xilam, with the participation of France 3, Gulli and Canal J
Budget: 7'000'000 €
National: France
Main language: French
Genre: Animation, comedy, fantasy
Duration: 26 minutes, 13 minutes
Characters
Willow Tom and Cindy's Mother, The Fairy, Ferocia's Sister-in-law, Gregore's wife.Others Name: Darling Dragonfly, Silver-winged Dragonfly
Personality: Willow is optimistic, light-hearted, positive, motherly and carefree. She also has a mischievous side as seen in Meet The Parent and Frames!. She believes that good will always conquer evil. She can be strict when she has to and she can be overprotective shown in the Wishing Powder. Willow is also a strong woman, always honest with her heritage and who she is. While she tried to integrate into the real world, she refused to forget who and what she was. She also stood up by herself, not letting anyone take her for granted and not letting the world disappoint her. Underneath his cheerful, positive and carefree personality, Willow is a very smart woman. However, she is very dashing and innocent.
Appearance: Willow is slender with fair skin, light purple hair, light blue wings and blue eyes. She also has prominently wide hips.
Outfits: In the real world, she wears a pink dress with a purple belt, purple star earrings, and purple boots. In Wonderland, her hair is longer, up to her waist. She also wears an orange skirt with leaf borders. When wearing pajamas, she wears green pants and cream yellow tank top.
Strength and ability: Even as a fairy in the real world and wonderland, she uses her wings and flight. In addition, she uses her magic with her wand to do anything.
Gregore 40 years old, Tom and Cindy's Father and Willow's Husband.
Others Name: Big oaf, Dear
Personality: Despite giving up on becoming a reformed goblin, he is a sweet, kind, gentle and responsible father to Tomy and Cindie. In addition, he is a father, always a little clumsy, kind, cheerful, but cowardly and afraid of anything. Towards a difficult personality when he dislikes Candy's antics and mischief along with Ferocié's laughter, calling his name and insulting him except for whatever happens to him, he's often angry fierce, aggressive, hot-tempered and always evil
Appearance: Gregore is a very large, muscular and 9 feet tall with red hair, mahogany beard and brown eyes.
Outfits: In the real world, he wears a yellow shirt with two pockets, black belt, maroon pants and black shoes. For his pajamas, he wears a blue shirt, pale white shorts and slippers. In Fairyland, he wears a green Robin Hood-like shirt with a black belt, coffee brown pants and black shoes.
Tom 10 years old, Tom is Cindy’s younger brother, the main character and also the leader of the family.
Others Name: Little Brother, Shrimp, Squirt
Personality: Clever, spontaneous and mischievous, Tom has the presence of mind of a boy who has had to take care of himself from very young. Thanks to his limitless imagination and instinctive quick reflexes, he is able to convince anyone of anything. This skill is very useful to his absent-minded family members who are always forgetting they no longer live in a world of magical creatures.
Appearance: Tom is a slender humanoid hybrid with fair skin and blush pink cheeks, brown hair and brown eyes.
Outfits: In the Real World, he wears a red shirt, blue jeans and white shoes. In Fairyland, he wears a ruby red shirt with a white collar and a dark red belt with a golden buckle, black pants and dark maroon shoes. When in pajamas, he wears a olive-moss green long sleeved shirt and pants.
Cindy 14 years old, is Tom's older sister.
Personality: Stubborn, rebellious, and very romantic, Cindy knows that a better future awaits her. In Fairyland, she was responsible for cleaning the sewers of the kingdom, but in the Real World, she dreams of grand projects and a more agreeable life. Like all teenagers, she worries about being accepted by the other children at school. In general she opposes the use of magic because she considers it distasteful, but she makes use of it when it helps her accomplish what she wants.
Appearance: Cindy is a slender humanoid hybrid with fair skin and rosy cheeks with long blonde hair and eyes. lavender blue.
Outfits: In the Real World, she wears a strawberry-pink shirt with primrose long-sleeves with her cool-grey denim blue pants and shoes, but in Fairyland, her hair is now longer with an orange star attached and wears a aqua-teal shirt with her ragged dark teal skirt and her Cinderella-like slippers. In such episodes, even when she was in pajamas, she wears a light blue pants and a blue shirt with dark teal long sleeves.
Ferocia Ferocia is a character, Tom and Cindy's Auntie, Wollow's sister-in-law, a witch, an anti-hero
Others Name: Hideous freak
Personality: Many words describe Ferocia that her personality has: Neutral, horrible, terrible, nasty, mean, cruel, wicked and a pain in the rear, but also neutral. She delights in causing mayhem, even for her own family. She laughed when her brother planned to rob her sister and brother-in-law of all their savings and she enjoyed frightening Tom with the idea of being forgotten if his parents had more children. She adores tormenting Gregore and will take every opportunity to torment him. She also likes to taunt His Highness about his ugliness. Ferocia has a macabre sense of humor and sees horror films as comedies. When she had her powers she was a villain to be feared.
Appearance: Ferocia is a really short woman, a few inches taller than Tom. She is also fat with a wide body, short arms and hands and feet. Her skin is pale light-purple white, her hair is black and she has dull brown eyes. Her mouth has been described as toady and she always wears bright red lipstick. Her hair is styled in a butterfly style. She also wears deep blue and dull purple eye shadow.
Costumes: In the Real World, Ferocia wears a knee length purple dress with a black belt and matching boots. In Fairyland, she wears a similar dress but dark blue in color and a dark orange, crescent moon-shaped amulet hangs from her neck. Her hair is also much longer.
Episodes
| Number In Series | Number Of Season | English Name | France Name | Written By | Storyboard By |
| 27 | 1 | Candy Through The Looking Glass | De l'autre côté du miroir | Fiona Leibgorin | Matthieu Pitschon |
| 28 | 2 | Trapped As A Tomboy | Un garçon presque manqué | Lison d'Andrea | Etienne Pinault |
| 29 | 3 | The Future's Tense | Futur Imparfait | Fiona Leibgorin | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 30 | 4 | A Natural Beauty | Belle à l'intérieur | Jean-Marc Lenglen | Olivier Dutranoy |
| 31 | 5 | Going Viral | Les stars de l'école | Jean-Marc Lenglen | Jerome Fardini |
| 32 | 6 | Operation Tamara | Opération Tamara | Jean-Marc Lenglen | Paul Herve |
| 33 | 7 | My Dad The Super Hero | Mon père ce super-héros | Michel Coulon | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 34 | 8 | A Princess For His Highness | Une princesse pour mon Monseigneur | Alexandre Reverend Renaud Gagnon | Etienne Pinault |
| 35 | 9 | The Tables Have Turned | La triche | Yves Coulon | Jerome Fardini |
| 36 | 10 | The Clay Model | Pote à modeler | Renaud Gagnon | Etienne Pinault |
| 37 | 11 | Thicker Than Mud | Un air de famille | Caroline Torreli | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 38 | 12 | The Spellbook Strike Back | À chacun sa voix | Laure-Elizabeth Bourdaud Elisa Loche | Olivier Dutranoy |
| 39 | 13 | The Pixel And The Profile | Fée's Bok | Fiona Leibgorin | Etienne Pinault |
| 40 | 14 | Tom's Tall Tales | Tom pousse | Arnold Boiseau | Jerome Fardini |
| 41 | 15 | Willoween | Willoween | Renaud Gagnon | Stéphane Annette |
| 42 | 16 | Fairy Busy | Un travail de fée | Michel Coulon | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 43 | 17 | Cinderella's Rebellion | Cendrillon se rebelle | Michel Coulon | Etienne Pinault |
| 44 | 18 | Your Own Medicine | Dans la peau d'un crapaud | Renaud Gagnon | Stephane Annette |
| 45 | 19 | The Ogre Who Wanted To Be Santa Claus | L'ogre qui voulait être le père Noël | Michel Coulon | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 46 | 20 | The Delight Of Gründa | Les Délices de Gründa | Lison d'Andrea | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 47 | 21 | The Prince, The Frog And The Witch | Le Prince, la grenouille et la sorcière | Michel Coulon | Etienne Pinault |
| 48 | 22 | The Hybrid Heartthrob | L'Idéal de Cindy | Yves Coulon | Etienne Pinault |
| 49 | 23 | Professor Ferocia | Mademoiselle Férocette | Fiona Leibgorin | Stephane Annette |
| 50 | 24 | The Nature Of The Beast | Grégor dans tous ses états | Lison d'Andrea | Jerome Fardini Alexandre Ulmann |
| 51 | 25 | Ferocia Fiancé | Les Fiançailles de Férocia | Caroline Torrelli | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 52 | 26 | Tom Only | Tom sans famille | Laure-Elizabeth Bourdaud Johanna Goldschmidt Elisa Loche | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 53 | 27 | Cat's Got Your Tongue | Une vie de chat | Michel Coulon | Stéphane Annette |
| 54 | 28 | Jojo The Dodo | C'est pas Jojo | Lison d'Andrea | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 55 | 29 | The Big Bad Field Trip | Promenons-nous dans les bois | Elisa Loche | Stéphane Annette |
| 56 | 30 | Mrs. Nice Ferocia | Férocia super sympa | Fiona Leibgorin | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 57 | 31 | Strong As An Orge | Petit ogre deviendra grand | Cyril Deydier Renaud Gagnon | Etienne Pinault |
| 58 | 32 | In Your Wildest Dream | Même pas en rêve | Michel Coulon | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 59 | 33 | Master Of Delusion | Abracadabra | Michel Coulon | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 60 | 34 | Big Bad Dog | Le Grand gentil loup | Elisa Loche Pierre Le Gall | Etienne Pinault |
| 61 | 35 | A Fish Out Of Water | Comme un poisson dans l'eau | Renaud Gagnon | Stéphane Annette |
| 62 | 36 | My Not-Fairy Family | Ma famille pas féerique | Michel Coulon | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 63 | 37 | A Valentine's Pipe Dream | Ma sorcière mal-aimée | Lison d'Andrea | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 64 | 38 | A Children's Game | Un jeu d'enfants | Lison d'Andrea | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 65 | 39 | Inseparables | Inséparables | Lison d'Andrea | Stéphane Annette |
| 66 | 40 | The Cruelest Of Them All | Blanche-Niaise et les sept nains | Renaud Gagnon | Etienne Pinault |
| 67 | 41 | Beauty And The Beast | La belle et la grosse bête | Michel Coulon | Stéphane Annette |
| 68 | 42 | Prince Not-So-Charming | Monseigneur dans toute sa splendeur | Fiona Leibgorin | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 69 | 43 | Love Give You Wing | L'amour donne des ailes | Elisa Loche Pierre Le Gall | Etienne Pinault |
| 70 | 44 | The Charming Orge | L'Ogre charmant | Caroline Torrelli Pierre Le Gall | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 71 | 45 | Can't Scare Me | Même pas peur | Renaud Gagnon | Stephane Annette |
| 72 | 46 | Mirror, Mirror, Off The Wall | Miroir, mon beau miroir | Michel Coulon | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 73 | 47 | An Almost Perfect Day | Une journée presque parfaite | Renaud Gagnon | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 74 | 48 | Right Under Your Nose | Au nez et à la barbe | Lison d'Andrea | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 75 | 49 | The Broken Wands | Maman, on a cassé la baguette! | Lison d'Andrea | Alexandre Ulmann |
| 76 | 50 | My New Best Friend | Ma nouvelle meilleure amie | Elisa Loche Pierre Le Gall | Stephane Annette |
| 77 | 51 | Princess Melba Three | Princesse Melba III | Renaud Gagnon | Romain Cislo |
| 78 | 52 | In My Shoe | Vis ma vie | Pierre Le Gall | Alexandre Ulmann |
International Distribution
In Latin America, the series aired on Disney Channel. In Asia, it was also broadcast on Disney Channel.| Country | Channel |
| ABC | |
| VRT | |
| Disney Channel, France 3, Gulli | |
| Disney Channel, Super RTL | |
| Disney Channel | |
| Disney Channel | |
| 2M | |
| Disney Channel | |
| SIC K | |
| Disney Channel | |
| Disney Channel | |
| TSR, Minimax | |
| Disney Channel, Smart Çocuk, Kidz TV |