Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4638690-20200513073218

Hi there, Jae here. I am mostling making this post to gather my thoughts because I've recently come back to the series. I watched BBB Movie 2 with my friends and finished off Season 1.

I was looking forward to seeing what BoBoiBoy Galaxy Season 2 had to offer...only to find out that Galaxy Season 2 was relegated to a comic series instead of a Animated Series. Not that I am not excited, I found it extremely confusing why Monsta would push their most popular series into a Comic Series and I was sort of devastated to find out that we might not be getting any more Galaxy in animated format. I just couldn't find an explanation or info.

So I cracked my fingers and got into digging for more information.

BoBoiBoy Galaxy S2 Comic Series

I went above and beyond, scrolling through all of Monta's official channels (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc) and it seems that it's true that Galaxy S2 is now a montly Comic Series, which physical copies are avaliable in Malaysia only. Digital versions of the comics wil be 2-3 months behind and will be released digitally on a Monsta Comics app releasing June 1st, 2020 according to the official website.

It seems sort of weird to relegate Galaxy to a comic series when the series was pretty well recieved (from what I can gather), so I'm just short of messaging Monsta myself for more information (I really did btw, and they more or less seem to confirm the comic thing, but I'm awaiting a response on the potential of an animated Galaxy Season 2 series). It seems unlikely that the content will be adapted into animation due to reasons seen in the next point below.

Another thing I found is that, the Galaxy S2 comic series seems to be a test of some sort, according to this bullet point seen on the Facebook annoucement of this comic series (this bullet point was absent from the Twitter and YouTube annoucement posts). This extra bullet point seems to imply that Galaxy S2 is used as a gateway to introudcing new heroes of the Power Sphere Universe (known as the PSU) in a comic format.

Edit (15/05/2020): It seems that Galaxy S2 becoming an animated series is not totally out the window.Monsta did get back to me, saying that there were no official annoucements right now for Galaxy S2 and that most of the workforce is dedicated to Mechamato and Papa Pipi. While they aren't working on S2, it does seem that they haven't thrown the whole thing out, interesting. They didn't mention anything about Elemental Heroes, but I do feel like that that's in preproduction.

BoBoiBoy Elemental Heroes, a New Series?

Something I was surprised to find, during my scrubbing of official Monsta outlets, I wound up at the Monsta website because in an old tweet, they were advertising a job position for a 2D artist that specializes in illustration (probably for Galaxy S2 comic series). This may be old news to some, but thought I bring it up anyway. If you visit the BoBoiBoy Series tab in Monsta website, it doesn't list BoBoiBoy as 'BoBoiBoy Galaxy' like it used to.

Instead, BoBoiBoy was listed as 'Elemental Heroes'. Not only that, but in the description it lists the episodes as 76 Episodes x 22 Minutes. By the way, this number combination is also on a repeated  image that Monsta likes to post while advertising their episodes on youtube (though the series is still listed as 'Galaxy' instead of 'Elemental Heroes'). The most recent post I've seen of this post is just yesterday on May 12th 2020, so this information is probably still accurate.

Interesting Notes about Elemental Heroes:

- Series is represented by Elemental Heroes: Praise Koko Ci that I am such a compulsive screenshotter. In an ancient memory, I remember teasing my friends about the fact that we were well outside the age demographic (7-12 years) BoBoiBoy was for.I had taken a screenshot of BoBoiBoy Galaxy's series on the Official Monsta website! BoBoiBoy Galaxy was only listed having 26 Episodes with 22 minutes. You may be wondering, but Galaxy only has 24 episodes! Well remember there was supposed to be a Galaxy Special that takes place after S1 and before BBB2? That's likely where the 2 episodes went. This has since been replaced by Elemental Heroes.

- 76 Episodes x 22 Minutes:  This is a very strange number becaure there is no way to add any of the 22min episodes avaliable to equal 76. There was a rumor going around that Elemental Heroes is the umbrella term for the BBB series as a whole, including the original BBB series (back in 2011), but this is false.

Calculations: 14 (S1) + 27 (S2) + 26 (S3) + 24 (Galaxy) is 91 episodes in total. Not our number.

I checked the Official BBB Galaxy Playlist and it has 46 videos in it's playlist, half of it is just the Dub and the other is Eng Sub.

- Movie Outfits: BoBoiBoy and Friends are wearing their BBB2 Movie Outfits, not their Galaxy outfits.

- Reveal Posters - The earliest post I could see of the Elemental Heroes poster is a tweet made back in Feb 2020 where they showed their new show lineup. The poster lineup is: Elemental Heroes, Mechamato, Papa Pipi, and Fly with Yaya. This is the same way BBB2 movie was first announced back in 2018 (alongside Mechamato). Another interesting note is that BBB Galaxy & OG BoBoiBoy was in the old lineup, since been removed alongside Stoppy: The Vehicle Islands (which I could find no info about).

Conclusion So where does that leave us? I think I've more or less pieced together what happened to Galaxy S2 and Elemental Heroes. Though to be honest, this may not be new news to some, it was certainly a pleasant discovery proccess for me.

I think at one point, Galaxy was planned to have a 2nd Season. The plot of Season 2 was basically the BoBoiBoy Galaxy Special and the BBB2 Movie, but it was later decided to make a 2nd Season into the Special and movie. Some of their resources was dedicated to making Mechamato with help from Bandai, which seems to be have been in production as long as the BBB2 has been production. Unused concepts for Galaxy S2 was made into a Comic Series under the same name, to be used as a stopgap need for dedicated fans since Elemental Heroes was still in production and will not be released for a while. The Comic Series is also being used as a test to see if they can introduce new heroes in the PSU this way.

According to the fan Instagram Account BoBoiBoyFacts.id, Elemental Heroes is a new series that will be released after Mechamoto airs (take this with a grain of salt because I was unable to find this info anywhere official). According to the Official Monsta website, Mechamoto will air in 2021, but I don't think it'll take that long to get news about Elemental Heroes. It appears to me that Mechamato will have 1 Season first and if production for that is complete, resources can be allocated to BBB EH. The only conflicting info is that the image they keep resharing still says that the mysterious 76episode x 22minute series is still Galaxy. It's really also possible that the true Season 2 of Galaxy is Elemental Heroes.

Hey, they probably are working on Elemental Heroes right now.

But we probably won't see it in a while.

But that's just a theory, a BoBoiBoy Theory.

Thanks for reading. Hopefully we get to see more info about EH soon! 