Miracle Star

Miracle Star is a 2014 chinese-language cartoon series and a Gumball Rip-off.

## Plot

The daily misadventures of a goat and a frog.

## Why It Sucks

1. It is a rip-off of The Amazing World of Gumball. It also looked like if MAD made a parody out of TAWOG.
2. Miao Le Xing's design is very weird and we can't tell if he supposed to be a bull or a goat.
3. The title sounds way too similar to the Japanese anime "Lucky Star".
4. The first episode "Big Eater" promotes excessive eating since Miao Le Xing enters an eating contest just to eat food, which causes him to become insane and try to eat everything he sees.
5. Not only do Miao Le Xing and Gua Gua rip-off Gumball and Darwin, but they even rip-off how Upin and Ipin scream from the Malaysian animated cartoon "Upin dan Ipin".
6. The animation feels cheap and low-quality.
7. The voice acting is below average.
8. The lip-syncing is way off despite Chinese being it's original language.
9. Apart from the two main characters, there are also rip offs of almost every character from Gumball, such as a Milk Bottle who's a rip-off of Penny, a piece of Broccoli who's a rip-off of Carmen, a guy who rips off Principal Brown and Teri, a cloud who's literally Masami and a giant spider who's a rip-off of Tina.
10. Uses copyrighted logos without their owner's permission, such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Windows XP logos.
11. The theme song is horribly sung and cringeworthy, albeit the instrumental is catchy.
12. Almost all of the episodes have scenes that rip-off a Gumball scene, and even some of them use plots from Gumball episodes. For example, "The Horror Movie" is a ripoff of "The DVD" since both episodes have the two main protagonists of their respective show destroying a DVD that was a rental (in both Gumball and Miracle Star, the characters destroy it accidentally), thus ending in the main characters doing a homemade version of the film that was on the rental disc.
13. "Big Eater" has a weird glitch where, during the scene where Miao Le Xing and Gua Gua are eating ice cream, the logo of the show appears for no reason whatsoever. However, this was fixed in the Youku version.
14. Some episodes feature disgusting gross-out humor, an example is "Big Eater", which features a scene where Gua Gua pokes a now-evil Miao Le Xing, which causes Miao to vomit on-screen (albeit there's a censored version of the episode where the screen is black in the moment he vomits).
15. It doesn't only ripoff Gumball and McDonald's, the Hector rip-off in this show is also a ripoff of Sulley from Pixar's Monsters Inc. and its prequel Monsters University.
16. Almost all of Miao Le Xing's friends are eating-themed. Either they're food, drinks, mouths and even organs.
17. Chun Ni has large breasts for unknown reasons.
18. The food characters look way too much like the characters from the web series Battle for Dream Island.
19. One of the songs in the milk commercial that eventually made the show infamous was also stolen, it was taken from a Korean show from KBS without permission.

## Redeeming Qualities

1. The animation is passable in some aspects.
2. The credits theme is rather relaxing, and it's slightly better than the theme song.
3. The backgrounds are decent.
4. Despite being weird and confusing, Miao Le Xing's design is admittedly cute.
5. Some funny moments.
6. The theme song can be nice to listen to, despite being annoying and cringe-worthy.
7. Some of the characters are likable.

## Trivia

1. Miracle Star was mocked by the writers of The Amazing World of Gumball in the episode "The Copycats".
2. Miao's mother has no breasts, but some adult material in this show may horrify young children.
3. It does not include an Anais Ripoff for some reason if you ask me.
4. Cartoon Network lated ended up suing Sanyuan Foods for $10,000 (65,300.96 yuan)

## Reception

Miracle Star has a 1.3/10 rating on IMDb.