Regal Academy facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Regal Academy
Genre	Action/adventure Comedy Fantasy Musical
Created by	Iginio Straffi Joanne Lee
Written by	Sean Molyneaux Michaek Maurer Benjamin Lazar Platt Joe Deasy Merrill Hagan Omeed Dariani
Directed by	Iginio Straffi
Creative director(s)	Simone Borselli
Composer(s)	Michele Bettali Stefano Carrara Fabrizio Castanìa
Country of origin	Italy
Original language(s)	Italian
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Joanne Lee Annita Romanelli
Producer(s)	Iginio Straffi
Running time	23 minutes
Production company(s)	Rainbow S.p.A. (Viacom) Rai Fiction
Distributor	Rainbow S.p.A. (Viacom)
Release
Original network	Rai YoYo (Italy) Nickelodeon Nick Jr.
Picture format	1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	5.1 surround sound
Original release	May 22, 2016 (2016-05-22) – October 8, 2018 (2018-10-08)

Regal Academy is an Italian animated television series co-created by Iginio Straffi and Joanne Lee. The series is produced by the Rainbow studio, which is co-owned by Straffi and Viacom. Viacom's Nickelodeon channels broadcast Regal Academy worldwide, while Rai YoYo airs the series in Italy. It premiered on Rai YoYo on May 22, 2016, and on Nickelodeon U.S. on August 13, 2016.

The series is a comedic reimagining of several fairy tale characters. It originated as a dark comedy concept called Twisted Fairy Tales that the Rainbow team designed in 2009. After several years of changes, the show was previewed in 2013, under the working title Royal Academy.

Plot

The series follows Rose, a teenage girl from Earth who discovers a key which leads to FairyTale Land, where fairy tales come to life. She ends up at a prestigious school named Regal Academy. Rose finds out that she is the granddaughter to the headmistress Cinderella. Rose decides to enroll at Regal Academy and learn how to use magic while having adventures with her friends.

Characters

Students

• Rose Cinderella (voiced by Jessica Paquet in the English version, Chiara Francese in the Italian version) is an ordinary girl from Earth who unlocks her fairytale past as the granddaughter of Cinderella. Enrolling in Regal Academy at the request of her grandmother, she befriends Astoria, Joy, Hawk and Travis after they are assigned to be in the same group for a class. Though initially disliked due to her disregard of grades, klutziness, and ditzy mannerism, the school population gradually warms up to her due to her constant optimism and kindness. Like her grandmother, she is a lover of fairytales and shoes, later coming to own a wand that utilises Pumpkin Magic to conjure objects. Rose also later comes to own a pair of signature Cinderella glass slippers. Her romantic interest is Hawk SnowWhite.
• Travis Beast (voiced by Henry Benjamin in the English version, Manuel Meli in the Italian version) is the grandson of the Beast. Like Rose, he lives on Earth. He specialises in art and tends has a sarcastic attitude. When he gets angry, he becomes a real beast and possess immense and uncontrollable strength. Travis later comes to own a wand that utilises Fury Magic that can create powerful tornadoes and hurricanes. His romantic interest is LingLing in season 2.
• Astoria Rapunzel (voiced by Erica Schroeder in the English version, Giulia Tarquini in the Italian version) is the granddaughter of Rapunzel and living up to her fairytale, has very long wavy purple hair with green highlights at the ends, in reminisce of ivy. She is a perfectionist and a bookworm, aspiring to get perfect grades always, and is known for being the most hardworking princess at Regal Academy. Her hair is alive, and can be used as an extra pair of hands to hold things by wrapping around them. Astoria later comes to own a wand that utilises Tower Magic that grows strong ivy branches and flowers
• Hawk SnowWhite (voiced by Billy Bob Thompson in the English version, Alex Polidori in the Italian version) is the grandson of Snow White and just as his grandmother was "the fairest of them all", he is likewise charming and thus highly popular among girls. Like his grandmother, he also has an uncontrollable love for apples. His exaggerated heroism can sometimes get him and his friends into uncomfortable situations. Hawk later comes to own a wand that utilises Snow Magic that can freeze things and people, and conjure snow and ice. His romantic interest is Rose Cinderella.
• Joy LeFrog (voiced by Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld in the English version, Emanuela Ionica in the Italian version) is the granddaughter of The Frog Prince, although he is known as Professor LeFrog in Regal Academy. She has the ability to switch between her frog and human forms at will, although both share the similar love of insects for food. Like Rose, she is cheerful and very supportive of her friends. Joy later comes to own a wand that utilises Frog Magic, which can turn anyone, including her, into frogs.
• Vicky Broomstick (voiced by Laurie Hymes in the English version, Eleonora Reti in the Italian version) is a student who carries on evil plans and wishes to be the ultimate fairy tale villain. However, her plans are always thwarted by Rose and her friends, thus her goal is for Rose to be expelled from Regal Academy.
• Cyrus Broomstick (voiced by Michael Henning in the English version, Emanuele Russa in the Italian version) is the cousin and friend to Vicky. He is lazy and likes to nap a lot, even during class. Because of his laziness, he is usually coerced into helping with Vicky's schemes.
• Ruby Stepsister (voiced by Brittney Hamilton in the English version, Joy Saltarello in the Italian version) is a student who is friends with Vicky and usually helps her out with her evil plans (by mostly doing the bulk of the work). She has a crush on Hawk which is another reason she helps Vicky. Ruby's power allows her to tidy up things.
• Esquire Frog is Joy's love interest from Frog Academy. At first, Joy is nervous to talk to him, but she eventually gets the chance to kiss him. In the second season, it is revealed he has an evil rival named Von Frogg. When Esquire was young, he was placed under a curse that turned him into a frog, and he prefers living as a frog to a human.
• Gerald Ugly Duckling is the grandson of the Ugly Duckling. He is very unhappy with his looks and hopes he will become like his grandfather someday. Gerald is meek, shy and polite. Unfortunately, he has a horrid self-esteem problem. He sees himself as ugly and wants to look better.
• Finn Whale is the grandson of the original whale of Sinbad. Always slow and clumsy, he does nothing to hide his nature.
• Leena Tom Thumb is small in size but very brave, just like her grandpa Tom Thumb, and she has no fear of runaway pumpkins or rampaging ogres. However, she is always "squished" flat because she cannot get out of the way.
• Odette Swan (voiced by Lin Gothoni) is Grandma Swan's granddaughter. Her grandma was once the Swan Princess and she inherited her title. Not only can she dance very well, but dance is her reason for living. She and Gerald hang out together.
• Pinocchia is the friendly, smiling living doll, the granddaughter of Pinocchio. and sister of Pinocchio She is compulsive about telling the truth and distrusts anyone who lies.
• Violet Ogre is the Ogre's granddaughter, and has inherited the same traits of her grandfather, just with a (very slight) female touch... starting from her girly name!
• LingLing Iron Fan is a transfer student from an academy in China. Having grown up trained to be a perfect warrior and an outstanding student, she is completely clueless about fashion, dance, romance and other typical high school group activities. She later comes to develop feelings for Travis after he released her from a transformation spell. Her romantic interest is Travis Beast.

Season 2 additions:

• Kira Snow Queen is the daughter of the Snow Queen and only introduced in season 2. Tasked by her mother to infiltrate the student body by posing as the daughter of Jack Frost, she teams up with Vicky and Cyrus after they find her out. She primarily uses crystal magic that can surpass Hawk's snow magic.
• Shawn Beast is Travis' cousin introduced in season 2. He is Astoria's childhood friend and they appear to have feelings for one another. Astoria rejects him as a dance partner when they are on competing teams, so he partners with Alicia instead.

Staff

• Headmistress Cinderella (voiced by Kathryn Cahill in the English version, Aurora Cancian in the Italian version) is the headmistress of Regal Academy. Having been able to hold her own against her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is not afraid to speak her mind now that she's a grandmother. She likes to organize balls and dresses. Much like her granddaughter Rose, Cinderella loves shoes.
• Coach Beast (voiced by HD Quinn in the English version, Pierluigi Astore in the Italian version) is a brash gym teacher who yells at students to run a thousand laps or do a thousand pushups. He punishes students if they break the rules of the school. Underneath his tough exterior, Coach Beast has a heart of gold and a secret love for roses. He teaches dragon riding.
• Professor SnowWhite (voiced by Lori Gardner in the English version, Emanuela Baroni in the Italian version) is a strict teacher at Regal Academy, finding herself at odds with Rose and her friends over their adventures. She loves apples and has lots of apple treats on her desk. Snow White teaches etiquette, teamwork, and how to use magical items and powers.
• Doctor LeFrog (voiced by Marc Thompson in the English version, Gianni Giuliano in the Italian version) is the potions professor at the school. With a constant serious look in his eyes, he appears to be funny and ridiculous. Doctor LeFrog is unfazed when something goes wrong and will continue to teach the class because he is absent-minded.
• Magister Rapunzel (voiced by Kayzie Rogers in the English version, Alessandra Cassioli in the Italian version) is the poetry and literature teacher. Because she has spent so much of her time in the tower, Magister Rapunzel excitedly wants to talk and show off her books. Unfortunately she loses control of the conversation and ends up talking to statues, paintings, and even her own hair.
• Professor Wolfram is an anthropomorphic wolf who is always impeccably dressed and is well-mannered. He teaches chivalry and heroism, with his assignments turning into adventures for students. However, there is something dark going on during his assignments.
• Professor Beauty is the art professor at Regal Academy. She is very kind, often having a good word for everyone. Professor Beauty is able to see the positive even in bad, unfortunate situations. She can talk about a piece for hours and hours.
• Professor IronFan LingLing's grandmother.

Episodes

Season One (2016–17)

Season Two (2017–18)

The second season of Regal Academy was released on November 5, 2017. It has 26 episodes. In the new season, Rose and her friends return from summer holidays and ready to take on new and exciting adventures in Fairy Tale Land. With the help of new magical items and funny pumpkin creatures called the PomPoms, the heroes will undertake new missions and face a mysterious student named Kira, and her mother the evil Snow Queen who wants to trap them all in her snow globes. Regal Academy now airs on Nick Jr..

Broadcast

Regal Academy premiered in Italy on Rai YoYo on May 21, 2016. In the United States, it began airing on Nickelodeon on August 13, 2016. In Canada, it began airing on YTV on December 3, 2016.

It also aired on Nickelodeon in Latin America, on Gulli in France, on Nickelodeon in Poland (November 14–29, 2016), on ZOOM (since September 4, 2016) in Israel, on Nicktoons, on 14 November 2016 in South Africa and a few weeks later on e.tv, on Nickelodeon and TuTy in Czech Republic and on MBC 3 in the Middle East and North Africa starting October 2017. It also began airing on POP OTO & POP TV in Slovenia starting in January 2018, and on RTL Kockica in Croatia, starting on February 5, 2018, on Hang Meas HDTV in Cambodia.

Titles in other languages

• Albanian: Akademia Mbreterore
• Arabic: ريجال أكاديمي
• Bulgarian: Рийгъл академи, romanized: Riĭgŭl akademi
• simplified Chinese: 富豪学院; traditional Chinese: 富豪學院; Pinyin: Fùháo xuéyuàn
• Croatian: Kraljevska akademija
• Finnish: Kuninkaallinen akatemia
• French: Regal Academy : L'Académie royale
• German: Regal Academy
• Hebrew: ריגל אקדמי
• Hungarian: Regal Academy
• Indonesian: Regal Academy
• Khmer: ???
• Korean: 리갈 아카데미
• Malay: Regal Academy
• Polish: Królewska Akademia Bajek
• Portuguese: Regal Academy
• Romanian: Academia Regală
• Russian: Королевская академия, romanized: Korolevskaya akademiya
• Serbian: Ригл акедеми / Rigl akedemi
• Slovene: Kraljevska akademija
• Spanish: Regal Academy

See also

In Spanish: Regal Academy para niños