GG Bond

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GG Bond (simplified Chinese: 猪猪侠; traditional Chinese: 豬豬俠) is a 3D Chinese animated TV series created by Zhibin Gu a.k.a. Ben Gu, a member of the China Animation Association, and CEO of Guang Dong Winsing Company Limited. A film series based on the TV series has currently four films: (2012),^[1] GG Bond 2 (2014), GG Bond Movie: Ultimate Battle (2015) and GG Bond: Guarding (2017).^[2]

Background[]

The series is about the titular character, an intelligent and mischievous pig named GG Bond (猪猪侠, meaning "Pig Hero" in Chinese) under the care and custody of Dr. Mihoo, his teacher who enjoys inventing different gadgets. The series began in 2005 and has aired for 14 seasons in 3D computer-generated animation.^{[citation needed]} The production company has distributed one season of episodes yearly since 2005. Most seasons are completely distinct and do not share the same canon, but Season 16 affirmed the existence of a multiverse within the series to explain the inconsistencies.

A majority of GG Bond episodes are comedies with moral lessons regarding values such as courage, friendship, harmony, integrity, perseverance, and respect for elders. Several noteworthy environmental issues are also often discussed, including homeless animals, environmental damage, deforestation, and pollution.^{[citation needed]} Episodes of the series often include a humorous take on classic fairy tales with modern technology. Seasons 1-12 all contained 52 episodes, while seasons 13 and 14 contained 124 and 104 episodes respectively. Seasons 1-6 each tell a distinct story, while seasons 7-9 and 10-12 both told three-season sagas, with the original format resuming in Season 13. Seasons 10, 11, and 12 aired in halves. Season 13 aired in semi-quarters of 26, 26, 36, and 26 episodes while Seasons 14 and 15 aired in perfect quarters.^{[citation needed]}

Characters[]

GG Bond (猪猪侠, Zhū Zhū Xiá)

The protagonist of the series. He is a pig who wears a red suit and is full of enthusiasm; he is obsessed with lollipops and always wants to help others.

Phoebe (菲菲, Fēifēi)

As the only female hero of the series, she is calm, being a great student in several series.

Super Q (超人强, Chāorén Qiáng)

The antagonist/antihero. Super Q is arrogant, simple-minded, athletic, meanwhile sometimes evil. As the seasons progressed, he slowly became more of an ideal hero.

Bobby (波比, Bōbǐ)

Super Q's semi-loyal sidekick that plans on doing bad things to others; he has evolved just as Super Q has.

S-Daddy (小呆呆, Xiǎo Dāidāi)

His Chinese name means "Little Dull." S-Daddy is simple-minded, treats his friends well, he loves empathy, but when he loses control, he becomes a dangerous threat.

Dr. Mihoo (迷糊博士, Míhú Bóshì)

Dr. Mihoo is the teacher/inventor for GG Bond and his friends. He is smart but gets confused about the current situation, especially relationships.

Seasons[]

Seasons 1-6: Distinct Stories[]

GG Bond Ι: Magic Jurassic (2006):GG Bond was a martial artist pig in a prehistoric world where resources are strained by overpopulation. At the cost of his own life, he entrusted a powerful "Magic Wisdom Ball" to Wang Xiaoer that could be used to save the environment. Wang Xiaoer instead used the ball for his own gain. When GG Bond is reincarnated and sees what Wang Xiaoer has done, he knows it is up to him to fix the problem, no matter what Wang Xiaoer tries to do to stop him.

GG Bond II: Martial Arts 2008 (2007):Primary school student GG Bond is dragged back in time to the competitive islander of Olympus. His only hope to return is to recover the "Keyinuoer” diamond from the dragon who guards it at the peak of Bright Mountain. He can only do this if he wins the island's athletic competitions. He has the power of a super lollipop which enhances his athletic abilities for only a few minutes, but must face up against sports genius Super Qiang if he hopes to ever go home.

GG Bond ΙΙΙ: Adventure in the Future (2008): This time, GG Bond is sent to 2080 to find a world divided, where the poor live on a lower, polluted level. He finds that his primary school, Parents' Hope School, is about to be taken over by a competitor, Super Technology School. To defend against this, he must win sports competitions to raise funds.

GG Bond Season 4: The Transform Angel (2009): GG Bond was an intern angel that has magic power. In order to become a real angel he has to complete a mission: to help Dasha, a gloomy-faced but kind-hearted monster gain confidence and record Dasha's happy laughter as a proof. GG Bond thus embarks on a long journey.

GG Bond Season 5: Fairy Tales of the Brick Kingdom (2010):When GG Bond's grandfather, EE Bond, tries to save the dinosaur from extinction by traveling back 60 million years, he accidentally winds up in the Brick Kingdom, a fairy tale world built by blocks, along with half of the rest of the city. Since they cannot leave, they slowly transform the world with technology like their own. His grandson, GG Bond, follows in his grandfather's footsteps as an Assembler, somebody who can build the blocks of the Brick Kingdom into anything. He uses these skills to fight evil.

GG Bond Season 6: Rescue Crew Comes (2012): An evil baby wielding advanced technology arrives on the Fairy World with a goal to cause as much evil as possible, ostensibly as a school application for his home planet, where people are measured by their power to cause suffering while maximizing their selfishness. To combat this, GG Bond and his friends each acquire a set of armor and starship, with each embodying a different type of happiness, being Hope, Love, Health, Wealth, and Fame respectively, while also sharing the common love of Teamwork. They thus begin a fierce battle against the forces of evil, knowing that failure means the destruction of their planet and loss all fairy tales forever.

Seasons 7-9: First Shapeshifting Pod[]

GG Bond Season 7: Monster Hero (2013): One day, a mysterious monster towering above buildings assaults GG Bond's hometown on the blood moon, occurring once every thirty years in-universe. GG Bond bravely faces the monster, and surprisingly, the magical G-Watch he obtained from Mr. Mihoo activates and dissolves the monster. Having absorbed the powers of the monster, GG Bond gains the power to transform into any of its five incarnations at will, once per day for ten minutes. He resolves to secretly use this power for good, and thus begins his career as a vigilante hero that targets evil monsters.

GG Bond Season 8: Kung Fu Team (2014): After a hard-fought battle against a magical two-headed dragon, GG Bond's secret identity is exposed, opening him to a life of fame. Mr. Mihoo uses a magical machine to transfer four-fifths of GG Bond's power into his comrades, leaving them each able to transform into one of the five incarnations. They form the Kung-Fu team, a private organization dedicated to keeping order, and task themselves with gathering Element X to upgrade and evolve their powers so that they may combine their powers and perform astonishing feats. Meanwhile, a cloaked man wielding the power of darkness seeks to gather enough Element X to open a portal to Hell so his armies can come through. He recruits four monsters and a princess whom he imbues with dark magic, and they thus begin a new battle for the Fairy World.

GG Bond Season 9: Shapeshifting Union (2015): After narrowly defeating the cloaked man, whom GG Bond learns is his long-lost father, they forgive and integrate their former enemy monsters into society. The cloaked man, better known as Barrow, returns to hell and gathers three new monsters, then returns to the Fairy World to begin a new war. The Kung-Fu team is recognized by the royal court and made an official government organization, the Shapeshifting Union. The king grants them a magical formula, which they use to further upgrade and evolve themselves so that their transformations gain magical weapons. The factions soon clash in a war that will decide the fate of the Fairy World.

Seasons 10-12: Second Shapeshifting Pod[]

GG Bond Season 10: The Legend of Warriors (2015): In the Crystal City, there is a group of righteous Five-Spirit Guards who protect the locals from evil. They possesses the power to each shapeshift into a different automaton at will. GG Bond resolutely joins a local pod of four guards to fight against the evil King Dragon. The dragon campaigns to collect a myriad of magical artifacts to gain power, accompanied by three defecting guards. Meanwhile, Super Q and Bobby's allegiance is beginning to waver...

GG Bond Season 11: Light Guardians (2016): After finally slaying King Dragon, the Five-Spirit Guards of the Kingdom redeem the treasonous guards. Super Q and Bobby team up to revive Joy, a guard petrified after his heroic sacrifice, by using the power of the lake of Twin City. However, in doing so, they also create another Joy embodying his dark side. He brainwashes Super Q and Bobby into slaving for him and become adversaries to GG Bond. Light Joy joins GG Bond's team of now only three, accompanied by the squad of redeemed guards, and begins a war to eliminate his dark side forever.

GG Bond Season 12: Dream Guardians (2016): Crystal City has an outright victory in the final battle against Twin City. In the final battle, the redeemed guards die in action, while both versions of Joy are thrown into a world between worlds and sealed away forever. The G-Watch has exhausted much of its energy; in a turbulence of its inner power, five Oblivion Warriors are created. The evil power that Oblivion Warriors use would sweep away victims' dream and make people become numb puppets. GG Bond, having redeemed Super Q and Bobby, begin a campaign to retrieve five spirit fragments, and thus begin a war against oblivion.

GG Bond Season 13: Agent G (2017)[]

First Quarter: While GG Bond is out shopping, he meets Dr. Mihoo recruiting interstellar agents. GG Bond joins up and is granted Woody, the Iron Tiger, created by his grandfather, as his pet and became one of five agents in Mihoo's team. Woody is roughly the size of a dog, but can transform into giant robots. For the time being, he remained on the Fairy World doing random deeds, controlling plot lines several episodes long. As a primer, life becomes relaxed for now.

Second Quarter: After a confrontation with the alien lord Dracula, GG Bond's life does not change much. He continues his odd life as an agent, not thinking much of it. However, Mihoo begins to dwell on his life before his banishment to the fairy world by the Galactic Alliance. The agents are left unaware of this, continuing their lives with newfound high tech. A mechanical mosquito pandemic begins, while a starship watches from the shadows...

Third Quarter: The Galactic Alliance has assaulted the Fairy World, forcing Mihoo to summon his starship and evacuate the five agents. Woody is severely wounded in the process, and his IQ degrades to that of a common pet. Now on the run from the galactic government, the agents escape to the plastic planets of the outer rim. They begin a quest to assemble the four long-lost friends of Mihoo, to engage in a guerilla war to retake the government.

Fourth Quarter: After an assault on the galactic capital loses the agents their ship, they crash on the planet and lose most of their memories due to an anomaly. Police, the president of the galaxy, activates a device that brainwashes citizens into perfect obedience. GG Bond is the only team member to remain sane, and struggles to gather his team to face of against Police once and for all.

GG Bond Season 14: Dodgeball Legend (2018)[]

First Quarter: While watching a game of legendary dodgeball as a toddler, GG Bond gets an autographed dodgeball from the star player Apolloson. From that time on, GG Bond decides to become a professional dodgeball player. As a teenager, he befriends the retired Apolloson, named Mihoo, names him his coach, and recruits S-Daddy and Phoebe and assembles a rookie team, the Little Tigers, and receiving a magical pet mandatory for all players to amplify their power, whom he names Woody. After a practice session with Super Q's team, GG Bond registers as a "comet" level team, and must win ten consecutive games to become as professionals and join the planetary league.

Second Quarter: After experiencing many challenges, GG Bond's team gets stronger and joins the planetary league. There, they begin a friend-foe relationship with Super Q's team, often working together to climb the rankings. Phoebe's grandfather begins to disapprove of her joining a relatively unknown dark horse team. After multiple refused requests by the Little Tigers for him to acquire them, and some harsh training with Mihoo's retired teacher, Windy, they qualify for the biennial International Cup. Phoebe's grandfather deploys his top team, the Black Holes, to meet them in the finals; a fierce battle is inevitable for GG Bond to be champion.

Third Quarter: Claiming victory in the International Cup, the Little Tigers are promoted to the stellar league. Phoebe's grandfather is exasperated, but his chief scientist and master magician Joe Bailey preps a new project. He begins to kidnap magic pets from players, and kills them to extract their energy. After he destroys Super Q's team with his newfound powers when they refused his requests, their remnants joined the Little Tigers. The newly expanded team begins a hard-fought battle to climb the rankings, and soon becomes the top team in the stellar league. Joe Bailey brainwashes one of GG Bond's oldest friends, Nutty, and manipulates him into working for him by infusing him with his stolen energy. GG Bond leads the Little Tigers in the final game of the season, determined to purify Nutty once and for all.

Fourth Quarter: GG Bond narrowly defeats Nutty, forcing him to embrace the light once more. Joe Bailey has used his newfound powers to open a portal to an alternate dimension, stockpiled with magical pets. He stages a heist and obtains their spirit heart, a crystal possessing power orders of magnitude more than anyone in history. GG Bond leads the Little Tigers in a futile attempt to stop him, but nonetheless obtain the power to fuse completely with their magic pets, instantly raising their power to a level capable of elevating them to the status of one of the strongest teams in the galaxy. Having won their stellar league, and now possessing unprecedented power due to their fusions, the Little Tigers qualify for the Space Cup, the top-level competition between the 64 top teams of the galaxy. With all their strength, GG Bond leads the team to their narrowest victories in five consecutive games against top-tier galactic teams, qualifying tor the finals. Joe Bailey bribes his way onto team "Chasm," and uses the power of the spirit heart to effortlessly obliterate every opponent, including the infamous Eternals. This turn of events becomes a major upset for the Little Tigers, who expected to face the Eternals in the finals rather than Joe Bailey. As the only team that could hope to have a chance against Joe Bailey's near endless powers, due to their perfect fusions, GG Bond and Woody lead the Little Tigers into the finals. They both know that despite their power, there was only one only once-used method to triumph, which could cost one of them their life...

Reception and awards[]

• Winner of "Domestic Animation Golden Award" of the 17th Shanghai TV Festival.^[3]
• Nominated for the 2009 "Best Domestic Animation" at Shanghai TV Festival.^[4]
• Winner of the 2009 KAKU Annual "Best Animated Series" as reported by Beijing Review.^[5]
• GG Bond character listed as one of China's "Top 10 Animation Characters" of 2010 by China Toy Trade.^[6]

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