I Wasn't Tagged But Whatever. I Loved To See How Everyone Was Introduced To Miraculous.

I wasn't tagged but whatever. I loved to see how everyone was introduced to Miraculous.

So, when I was at high school there was this younger kid who everyday took the same bus as I did. One day we were talking about cartoons and he asked me if I ever watched Miraculous. I was like "Uhhh... no? Why is a ladybug inspired hero so cool anyway? There are so many other cooler animals" so he told me to give it a try.

When I stay out for long I usually turn on the tv for my dog. She loves watching cartoons. I got home after school somedays later and there she was, watching Miraculous on Gloob.

The first thing I noticed was how the caracters designs were diferent. I hate when all people look the same on a cartoon. Then I saw Marinette acting on full akward mode around Adrien and it brought me those sweet pre teen feelings I used to have around my crushes and found it completely adorable. But at the beggining I though Chloe was dating Adrien. My mind went "giiirl, I know she's terrible but you shoudn't steal other's boyfriend".

I guess the episode was Stormy Weather. When she detransformed I didn't understand why the heroes were letting her go, since I wasn't watching the akumatization part. Then Hawkmoth went crazy pissed about LB. (Ok. That man has some issues)

The love square and random lucky charms were what caputured my atention, so I watched another ep. At the end, Gabriel detransformed. My mouth dropped while I was freaking because OMG IT'S HIS FATHER!

Anyway. After that day I became Miraculous addicted.

Your Miraculous Story

Since there’s a Sweet-ember event in the fandom for 5th anniversary of Miraculous, I think it’s the perfect moment to make a post I wanted to for a long time but I was too busy with making fanarts or too lazy to write this.

How and when you got introduced to the Miraculous? And what was your first impression?

I haven’t seen a single episode until October 2019 (or late September, I’m not sure), but I have already heard about the show around 2016. The Chat Noir fanart of my old friend I have seen on her deviantART (she also has Tumblr account, but that’s inactive for over 2 years) was my first encounter with Miraculous I remember. We were close internet friends around 10 years ago (we have even met in real life once), both active in the Pokémon community on deviantART back then. Although I haven’t talked to her for years, I had used to visit her DA from time to time. I have heard about the show more times before the second half of 2019, but I have never tried to watch it.

That changed when Puls 2, a Polish television station which isn’t a typical kid channel but it shows variety of animations from 6 to 20 (even movies in weekends), has began airing Miraculous in September 2019 (from the start it was the whole season 1 and the first half of season 2). Of course the Polish Disney Channel also airs Miraculous since 2015 like most of European countries, but Puls 2 is quite easily accessible, while all the Disney channels are not (I have never had access to any in my house). I have much contact with kids shows on TV thanks to children around me and since we’re watching Puls 2 often (their selection of cartoons is quite good, in my opinion definitely the best from all channels I have access to, even if there’s also that annoying Alvin and the Chipmunks CGI animation). So I had to see Miraculous sooner or later there. I have also been very curious about the show as I have been aware it’s popular among adults. And finally it did happen around October I have mentioned above.

I don’t remember the exact first episode I have seen, but I think it was something from season 2 (that’s why it’s more possible that it happened in October than September). Now I think it could be Despair Bear. My first impression wasn’t too good. I couldn’t realized what makes Miraculous special among other kid shows. For instance in Despair Bear I have seen a typical bully girl (though thankfully without a group of other snobbish girls who admire her, like in many other shows) who isn’t well-liked among kids in the school (which was very good in my opinion), but that main male, who is the love interest of the lead female, likes her for some reason. Back then I hadn’t understand their relationship, so I thought he defended her only because the show writers wanted him to be that Perfect Boy who is nice for everyone, no matter how terrible persons they are. So I really disliked Adrien at first, he seemed to be too perfect to me (I just haven’t taken into account his Chat Noir side). I had no idea how much wrong I was, both Adrien and Chloé are more complicated characters than I could imagine back then. Despite all that, I decided to give a show a chance and try to watch it online after some time but still in October.

I started with season 2, because I thought it should be better than season 1 for some reason. My intuition wasn’t wrong in that case, I like season 2 (and 3) much more than the first one. I had much time on my hands then, so I have seen all seasons 1 and 2 episodes in Polish and subs of most of season 3 before November. In Poland season 3 has premiered on 4th November, but the whole season was aired in just a month (the finale has premiered on 6th December, both episodes were aired at the same day, one after another). I have been drawn into Miraculous fandom quickly and I have created my Tumblr blog on 15th December.

In this post we are doing also tag people we’re curious the most, to encourage them to tell their Miraculous story. But there’s no pressure to write anything. If you’re not interested just ignore it.

@vampexx @veroocasanova @zinnianana @flightfoot @familyagrestefanblog @emsylcatac @kisilinramblings @whimsicallyconfusedforlife @miraculousmyblog

And everyone who wants to. I invite everyone to creating a post with our Miraculous stories. Thank you. :)