FJM Animated Universe

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**FJM Animated Universe (FJMAU)** is a shared universe that consists of two animated shows published on The Philmer's YouTube channel - *Team Y* and soon *Elastico*. The episodes are released in English, as well as Polish.

Sometimes, the series uses crossovers. For example, Gregory Enius appeared in the second episode of *Team Y*, giving some references to his protégé Elastico, the titular character of the upcoming cartoon.

The series began on August 26, 2016 with the release of the *Team Y* pilot episode. The second episode premiered on April 22, 2019. Soon, next episodes will appear, including the ones of *Elastico*.

The world, in which the series takes place is Universe-731. The series' name may be alternatively used to describe said universe.

## History

### Beginning - numerous *Team Y* incarnations

Originally the FJM Animated Universe was supposed to be made only out of a potential Team Y cartoon, the first plans of which were created already in the early months of FJM Heroes, in 2015. The project was supposed to be created by The Philmer, who would make an animated series in Paint. However, after doing a few test drawings and frames, he quickly left the project for the novels and the first incarnation of FJM Shared Universe, especially not being able to connect the frames into a fluid animation.

Nevertheless in August of 2015, moving to paint.net software, The Philmer decided to make another attempt, being inspired by a few superhero cartoons he watched during that time. This time he managed to make the whole title sequence, as well as the first minute and a half of the actual first episode. Soon, a plan for two seasons was made, but was scrapped almost as quickly, when in November of the same year, the creator abandoned the cartoon project again, considering all the existing frames as ugly.

### The third time's a charm

Eventually, on January 17, 2016, the works on another attempt of making a cartoon started and this time ended with a success. The Philmer spent three months to develop the story for the first season and then making a few templates. Finally, in April of 2016, the production of the pilot episode, at the time known as Episode 0, had started. However it was quickly renumbered to be Episode 1 and the two-parter opening the show was moved to Episodes 2 and 3. After a few months of work, hardware and private life issues, *Pilot* premiered on August 26, 2016, being the first Team Y medium available to a wider public. Although it eventually aged, according to the creator, it still got relatively positive opinions.

### Expanding the universe

Up until that moment, the cartoon universe was supposed to consist out of one and only animated series. Despite the title, the appearances of characters outside of Team Y were planned, e.g. Gregory Enius in Episode Two. That state of things was held until April 2017, when inspired by Arrowverse and DC Animated Universe, as well as other non-superhero shared worlds, The Philmer decided to expand the Animated Universe by possibly another production. That way, an idea for a spin-off titled *Elastico* was born. Although three years have passed since announcing it, it is still planned and will premiere after the third episode of *Team Y*. Meanwhile, the second episode, *Happy Birthday!*, appeared after years of work on April 22, 2019.

## Concept

As with the FJM Shared Universe, the Animated Universe also maintains the concept of a shared world, which this time looks slightly different. Obviously, here the action is also set in Poland, but this version of the country is even more advanced than the novels one.

The history of this universe appears similar to the Shared Universe, but is not identical, hence there are many differences in dates and the turn of events. For eample, the counterpart of the Battle on PAZIM in this world is the Battle on The Unity building, which additionally didn't take place on January 21st 2015 like in novels, but on March 4th. Most importantly, the creation of Team Y took place on July 10, 2015, not March 14. As far as until the beginning of events from *Team Y* the differences are this small, from the first episode on, they become gradually bigger. The differences in heroes' designs are also notable. While in the novels the costumes have many other details and look as if they existed in the real world, in the animations they keep more of a cartoon-comic book vibe.

## Shows

As mentioned, the FJM Animated Universe consists of two amateur animated series.

 Elastico