Girl Power

## Chronology

***Girl Power*** is an American animated comedy television series developed by Evan McGuire and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio for Nickelodeon. Based on the web series and franchise of the same name, the series premiered on June 7, 2020, with a one-hour special.

The series follows Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, Mandy, Starfire, Wendy Testaburger, Apple Blossom, Jessicake, Unikitty and Star Butterfly as they go on adventures in the big city.

## Premise

*Main article: List of Girl Power characters''*
The show focuses on six female teenage friends with secret identities: Blossom voiced by Cathy Cavadini; Bubbles voiced by Tara Strong; Buttercup voiced by EG Daily, Mandy voiced by Grey Griffin; Starfire voiced by Hynden Walch; Wendy Testaburger voiced by Mary Kay Bergman; Apple Blossom voiced by Kate Murphy; Jessicake voiced by Cassandra Lee Morris; Unikitty voiced by Tara Strong; and Star Butterfly voiced by Eden Sher. The ten girls meet at Cartoon City High School and form a superhero team dubbed "Girl Power".

The show tells the coming-of-age stories of Girl Power, dealing with their choices and decisions regarding their superhero identities and their secret identities. The show focuses on physical comedy, emotional storylines, and a large gallery of villains.

## Episodes

*Main article: List of Girl Power episodes''*
The new incarnation of *Girl Power* debuted at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con with the theatrical short *Race for the Cartoon Cup* which screened in theaters before the movie *Teen Titans Go! To the Movies*. The online "Super Shorts" debuted on January 17, 2020 with *Check it Out* on YouTube. The TV series debuted with the episode *The Staring Contest!* on June 7, 2020.

 1 | 14
 2 | 20
 3 | 20

## Production

Evan McGuire was approached by Nickelodeon to develop *Girl Power* into a television series, after previously working on *Character Elimination*. The television iteration of the web series *Girl Power* was announced in May 2017. Tara Strong and Cassandra Lee Morris reprise their roles as Unikitty and Jessicake respectively from *Character Elimination*, while Grey Griffin, who previously voiced Mandy from *The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy*, reprises her role as Mandy from the web series. A year later, a poster showing the first look of the main characters was released. The series is animated by the Canadian studio Jam Filled Entertainment and Hasbro's Boulder Media from Ireland.

Several of the writers for this series had previously worked on *Unikitty*, another show created and developed by McGuire. Also, his series is the second collaboration of Tara Strong and Grey Griffin, who respectively voiced Unikitty and Puppycorn on *Unikitty*.

Natalie Wetzig, a director on *Girl Power*, referred to the second series of the show in an interview at the 2020 Annie Awards. She later clarified she stated the second half of Series 1. Co-executive producer Amanda Rynda said the crew is "introducing lots of new characters and pushing the needle on new story lines" for Series 2.

On November 1st, 2021, Cassandra Lee Morris revealed on her Instagram that she completed her final lines as Jessicake in advance.

## Broadcast

The show premiered on Nickelodeon UK on June 7, 2020. It began airing on YTV in September 2020. All 14 episodes of Series 1 are available to watch on Netflix.

## Video games

*See also: Girl Power § Video games*

* *Girl Power Blitz —* Budge Studios created a *Girl Power* mobile game for Android and iOS devices which was released on August 8, 2020. It is a collection of microgames with difficulty-increasing-with-speed featuring the main characters from the show, but some microgames needed to be bought separately each character to unlock those microgames.
* *Girl Power: Teen Power —* A Nintendo Switch game published by Nintendo on June 4, 2021.

## Trivia

* The Girl Power Team is somewhat similar to the Mane Six from *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*; Mandy is similar to Twilight, Wendy Testaburger is similar to Rainbow Dash, Jessicake is similar to Rarity, Apple Blossom is similar to Applejack, Star Butterfly is similar to Fluttershy and Unikitty is similar to Pinkie Pie.
	+ In fact, Unikitty has the same voice as Twilight Sparkle, Tara Strong.
* The show is inspired by *Character Elimination*, a series created by Evan McGuire that aired on the Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon in 2017.
* A short of the show called Check it Out aired in front of *Teen Titans Go! To the Movies* in theaters.
* A video game published by Nintendo for the Switch was announced on the February 2021 Nintendo Direct and is scheduled to be released in the summer season.