Butterfly: Sapphire

The logo of the show.

***Butterfly: Sapphire*** is a cancelled animated magical girl action series by creator Dctc -EB-, based on her homemade comic book series of the same name without the word 'sapphire'. The show was going to adapt everything that was originally covered from the comic books into the animation.

The show was originally going to be released in April/May 2021 but was cancelled due to a comparison controversy.

*Butterfly: Sapphire* was considered as a love-letter to the magical girl genre from Japan and a love letter to Dctc's favorites like *Sailor Moon*, *Glitter Force* and *Miraculous*, comic books/manga and cartoons/anime that feature the magical girl element.

## ***Overview***

### **Past: Origin**

In the year of 2016, colorful creatures known as the Sapphires appears in the middle of nowhere during midnight, whereas they are escaping from Dependence and many other villains and their sapphires. The silver and ruby sapphire appears and rescues them all to the secret garden where the evil villains can't find them, thus returning to their own bases. The sapphires were kept hidden in the garden for nearly 3 years until they went on their own safely.

The savior of the sapphires, the silver and red one, still keeps herself in the garden where she describes it as her own new home and thus meeting a lady whom they became friends.

As of now, there are a total of 9 types of sapphire creatures that appear throughout different lands of their own kind.

### **Present**

A transferred middle school girl name Sakura is late and tries to head to school until as she finds a small magical pink butterfly humanoid named Cherry as she turns her into her superhero persona named Butterfly, who must fight using her magical blooming powers against evil who dares to make the world a bad place.

Meanwhile, Dependence, a grown, cruel and sadistic man who owns a yellow and black sapphire named Blackout, wants to conquer the world with other great villains who also possesses the power of the sapphire creatures with dangerous abilities.

While she is having her own time doing school and being a hero, she even made new friends along the way. They even have their own sapphires as well.

## ***Characters***

### **Heroes**

* Sakura (Butterfly) - The central protagonist of the show - She is a transferred, second-year middle school student who is a late person and always love to be happy and caring and really like imagination. She is also energetic and is shown to be glad, heart-warmed and noble, which describes her physical appearance. She is the guardian of her pink sapphire creature, Cherry, which transform her into her superhero alter ego: Butterfly, based on a cherry blossom butterfly. She has the ability to do magical martial arts.
	+ Twilight Butterfly - Sakura's ultimate form when combining all sapphire creatures.
* Harriet - One of the two deuteragonists of the show - She is a upbeat and shining third-year girl who likes her class, blue jays and the skies and can go up against a bully who dares attack one of her friends without being afraid. Harriet became Sakura's best friend ever since they met each other since day one of her new school. She is the guardian of her aqua sapphire creature, Jayson, which transform her into her superhero alter ego: Jacie, based on a blue jay. She has the abilities to fly, glide and use magical hand cannons.
* Valerie - One of the two deuteragonists of the show - She is a very shy and lonely first-year girl who doesn't really make friends except making friends with cats of her own kind. She doesn't like it when people tells her that cats are one of the worst and aggressive animals and dogs are better, which makes her disagreeable and if she can't take the situation any longer, she run from those who aren't like her. And to be clear, she is absolutely afraid of dogs and puppies. This is because she was born in August, where her zodiac sign is a Leo, and Leos are lions and lions are cats and belong to the cat family. She even doesn't how to swim and thus being afraid of getting into a pool of water... except for the bath water. Valerie became best friends with Sakura and Harriet, and therefore, actually making friends without being shy anymore. She is the guardian of her orange sapphire creature, LeAnn, which transforms her into her superhero alter ego: Leanna, based on a peaceful yet short-tempered lion. She has the ability to use fire and can use silver daggers.
* Kasumi - One of the two tritagonists of the show - She is a nerdy girl who likes technology and video games so much, but was disliked by mean online people who doesn't agree or like her opinions on certain things on the internet, thus wanting to end her journey on the internet. However, ever since she came across Sakura, she told Kasumi to never give up and just keep going. This then lead Kasumi to be more likeable to the internet and people of her kind like her. She is the guardian of her green sapphire creature, Beep-B00p, which transforms her into her superhero alter ego: Beta, based on the internet and video games. She has the ability to create random weapons and uses a long wand to make traps and delete enemies.
* Justine - One of the two tritagonists and the final main character of the show - She's Sakura, Harriet, Valerie and Kasumi's school president and schoolmate. Justine is very prejudiced, gifted, opened, happy-go-lucky and talented. She is the guardian of her blue sapphire creature, Righteous, which transforms her into her superhero alter ego: Justice, based on independence. She has the ability to fly, do magical martial arts, summon a object and can reflect things with her silver bands.
* Clementine - A major character of the show - She is a housewife to her husband who has a job and she is shown to be very helpful and carefree when outside with her friends and family. She is the guardian of the silver and ruby sapphire creature, Pecan, which transforms her into her eternal superhero alter ego: Peacemaker, based on a Peacock. She has the ability to fly fast, run fast, use magical hand cannons like Jacie, protect herself by using her feather shield and make magical spheres of hope that can only target to enemies and can explode. Clementine/Peacemaker and Pecan are shown to be mother figures to those who have a sapphire creature and the sapphire creature themselves.

### **Villains**

* Blake - The main antagonist of the show - She is a gentle yet cruel person who causes destruction in the country of Sapphire, therefore ruling the country and using it as a secure, industrial prison country known as Incarceration. Anyone who tries to go over there will be taken and be kept in prison, work there for injustice or otherwise, get killed... Blake is the guardian of her black sapphire creature, Blackout, which transforms her into her supervillain alter ego: Dependence, based on the loss of society from different realities from different dimensions.
* Stacy - The secondary main antagonist of the show - She is a short and mean teenage girl who is the sidekick and perfect assistant of Dependence and has a love interest towards him. She was once a reject of Sakura's middle school at one point where she is a mean and aggressive girl to everyone and therefore, the principal expels her, making her want revenge towards the school. However, she got sucked into a portal that leads her into the dimension Dependence is in, working for him. She is the guardian of her purple sapphire creature, Lilack, which transforms her into her supervillain alter ego: Femme Fatale, based on legendary criminals. She has the ability to distract opponents to get her attention, disguise as a fake human, run fast, teleport and use a silver belt (than a whip).

## ***Inspiration***

The show (and the book) was inspired by Dctc's favorites such as *Glitter Force ,* *Sailor Moon* and *Miraculous*.

## ***Cancellation & Controversy***

In May 18th, 2021, Cappy did a Rankout review on *A Bee's Adventure* and gave it a D- out of S rank. While some of his opinions are good, most of them came out negative to where Bearpuff4 (the creator of *A Bee's Adventure*) has stole his and Dctc's idea of *Butterfly* before *A Bee's Adventure* was announced in late August 2020. He told Dctc about the situation and she replied by saying "So? Just make it already". Cappy then reaffirms that *Butterfly* consists a bug-themed main character fighting against another bug-themed character, similar to Bearpuff4's characters Bee and Yellow Jax. If they were to make it, fans of the *Gacha Life* fanbase would call it a knock-off of *A Bee's Adventure* and would get negative reviews. Dctc was saddened, but got disappointed about the controversy and decided to tell Cappy to cancel the show.

## ***Gallery***

The old initial poster and preview of the webshow.The new initial and promotional poster of the webshow.Butterfly, in her Heroine form. This is the Gacha Club version of her render since the webshow will make the jump into GC.
## ***Trivia***

* The show (and the book) was originally going to be akin to the *Heroes* series and/or *Heroes R* or *Sunshine* due to being a magical allusion of the series.
* It was said that if a person uses all of the 9 types of sapphire creatures and gives their all to their greatest and mightiest opponent(s) yet and possibly win or lose, they'll lose half of their memories.
	+ It is possible that Butterfly herself may use all 9 types of the sapphire creatures, and wipe out half of her memories.
* Butterfly is a spoof and a mix of Sailor Moon herself and Emily/Glitter Lucky from *Glitter Force*. Especially her sapphire.
	+ On the other hand, She was also going to be a mix to Marinette/Ladybug but that's not technically the case. The reason why is because Marinette has a (former) love interest towards Adrien (Cat Noir), she lives with her parents and has more friends, whereas Sakura has no love interest towards any boy, she lives in a dorm and has new friends she made. The only thing that both Marinette (Ladybug) and Sakura (Butterfly) has in common is that they both transform into heroes within a small magical buddy of theirs...except that Ladybug's kwami, Tikki, has a time limit while Sakura's sapphire doesn't, although she can manage to transform back to her original state by force.
* Dependence is a spoof and a mix of Ganondorf and Lord Brevon from the adventure series, *The Legend of Zelda* (by Nintendo) and the platformer series, *Freedom Planet* (by GalaxyTrail) but with bee-like attributes.
* Jacie is a spoof of Chie and Alya Césaire from the role-playing game, *Persona 4* (by Atlus) and the superhero TV show *Miraculous* (by ZAG).
* Leanna is loosely a spoof of Lucy from the online versus game *Ninjala*, by GungHo.
* Beta, Peacemaker and Femme Fatale are not a spoof to any character from a media franchise. They're their own character with no mixes to any other character.
* The state that the main characters are living in is unnamed and it is simply called The State. However, they're actually living in Washington D.C..

## ***News/Updates***

* On December 2020, *Butterfly: Sapphire* was taking a hiatus.
* On February 2021, *Butterfly: Sapphire* will be making the jump from *Gacha Life* to *Gacha Club* for more clothing, hair, details and many more.
* On May 18th, 2021, *Butterfly: Sapphire* got cancelled due to a controversy of comparing it to another bug-themed *Gacha Life* video "*A Bee's Adventure*" by Bearpuff4.