CODE LYOKO // Archive V5-001

ARCHIVE//V5 RECORD: V5-001 SUBJECT: CODE LYOKO STATUS: RECOVERED A forgotten supercomputer. A virtual world hidden beneath an abandoned factory. An artificial intelligence with a concerning amount of free time. And a group of French middle schoolers who somehow became humanity's entire cybersecurity department. Yeah. We're opening the Code Lyoko archive. Code Lyoko was one of the strangest, coolest, and most unmistakably 2000s cartoons I grew up with. From XANA and Lyoko to Aelita, Jeremie, Yumi, Ulrich and Odd, this show had an identity that was impossible to confuse with anything else. So for the first entry in Archive//V5, we're going back to the factory to figure out what made this bizarre little French cartoon so memorable and why hearing the words "Transfer. Scanner. Virtualization." can still activate a dormant part of my brain twenty years later. This is RECORD V5-001. CODE LYOKO. Recovered. Now playing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ARCHIVE//V5 is a series where VELO5 digs through the media archives to revisit the shows, games, anime and other strange pieces of entertainment that refuse to leave our collective memory. Some records should probably stay buried. We're opening them anyway. #CodeLyoko #ArchiveV5 #2000sCartoons #Nostalgia #VELO5