Gako and Rio

Bionicle: Gako and Rio is an animated web-series. Having a season 1 premier on the Larnuu Works YouTube channel in Nov 18, 2012, with a series finale episode in Mar 29, 2015. Specials were made up until Feb 11, 2017, and in Jan 11, 2020, there was a revitalization on the CubePunks YouTube channel, turning the series from stopmotion to 2D animation and dropping any connection to Bionicle canon.

The show revolves around two slackers, Gako (red) and Rio (blue). Most episodes revolve around the two being inconvenienced by an interruption to their lazy life style, get in a situation that only escalates a problem and then resolve it. Scenarios can be as mild as someone's lunch being stolen, to as extreme as being caught in the middle of a city wide riot.

## Gako and Rio: Classic (Season 1)

#### **Episode List**

1. The Tango With the Cable Guy
2. Where's the Liver?!
3. The Mystery of the Hungarian Needlemouse (PT.1)
4. "Clubbing"
5. AirBoard Hustle
6. River City Rampage (PT.1)
7. River City Rampage (PT.2)

* Bonus: The Spirit of Some Clever Episode Name

## Gako and Rio: Alpha (Season 2)

#### **Episode List**

1. Prepackaged Lunches
2. X Cube Hussle
3. Neighbors
4. A Very Meta Christmas
5. Party Farty (PT.1)
6. Party Farty (PT.2)
7. Escape

* Bonus: Epilogue

The Epilogue episode was made as a special to better bridge events between Alpha and Omega. It was also produced due to criticism that the finale episode felt abrupt and not like a proper ending.

## Specials

#### **Onipex and Pals crossovers**

1. Room-Mate
2. Room-Mate 2

While not necessary canon to the Onipex and Pals series, these two episodes are regarded as canon within Gako and Rio.

#### **Holliday Episodes**

* Christmas at Econ

* Dat Tree

#### **Shorts**

* Barrok's Gift

* Kellogs

#### **Non-Canon Appearances**

* Pressure Point (Title characters have minor role)
* Pressure Point 2 (Title duo cameo in flashback)
* Chapter Omega (Title characters have minor role)
* MATA (Gako cameo)

Appearances in other projects not considered to be part of the Gako and Rio Bionicle canon.

## Gako and Rio: Omega (Film)

Gako and Rio: Omega is a feature film project teased in the post credits of Gako and Rio Alpha. It's also refenced in subsequent specials such as *Epilogue* and *Room-Mate 2.* Series creator Larnuu has yet to produce this special, and it's up in the air if he will ever get around to it. Reasoning being that his current lifestyle and living areas are not stop-motion animation friendly, especially for projects filmed over many days that require large physical set pieces. On top of that, he’d rather use his free time on other efforts like the cartoon revival of the series.

## Gako & Rio (Revival)

In 2017 it was announced Larnuu chose to revive Gako and Rio as an original web cartoon. This was done due to a dissatisfaction of pouring so much time and effort into a passion project that would always be limited to the audience of pre-existing Bionicle fans. After years of development, the first episode was released in full in 2020. With plans to expand in the future, the current vision is to make it a series of web shorts that are produced periodically. It drops all ties to the Bionicle continuity, existing in its own universe and uses the previous iterations as a base to work off of.

#### **Episode List**

1. Pilot
2. Café

An original soundtrack was also created for the pilot episode. It can be found individually on music hosting platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp.

## Links/Sources

* Bionicle Series Playlist
* Revival Playlist