Super Koopster

Super Koopster is a CGI adventure animated comedy web series created by Caroline Killian and produced by The One Legendary Gamer that airs on CKGamerJunior. The show revolves around Koopster, Bowser Jr., Kylie Koopa, and Toadette as they go on adventures to solve mysteries to everyday social challenges. Similar to Toad and the Kingdom Saga, the show uses viewer interactivity. Each episode runs for 20-25 minutes, followed by a live-action song performed by The Rockman Band before the credits roll. This was the second show to be hosted on the channel, the first one being Toad and the Kingdom Saga.

Premise
Each episode starts in the Mushroom Kingdom, a magical place that is home to all your favorite Super Mario characters, including Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach. When Koopster and/or his friends‘ problems occur, Koopster asks the audience to help them out. Then Koopster and his friends go into a secret base. They discuss their problem and receive a call on Saturn’s big screen from a friend who’s facing another event and transform into super-hero versions of themselves. They jump into their spaceship called Saturn and fly into the story. They help out others in need (sometimes with the spaceship’s help), while engaging in Challenges along the way. Each challenge awards them a certain number of Star Coins, each coin having a letter (Though the letters aren’t seen until the crew returns to hideaway). After returning to Hero Hideaway, Koopster and the crew will read out the letters on the Star Coins to see the answer to their problem and store them in their Super Team Chest. They use the social skills and morals learned to go back and solve their own problems. Almost every episode ends with a musical number from the Rockman Band with the singing character “Kent” appearing in both animated and live-action form.

Super Koopster gives fresh new super hero takes on Mushroom Kingdom chronicles to impart social-emotional values children learn at home to shape their character. As they start to enter the outside world, “Koopster” helps young kids to develop socio-emotional skills and solve everyday problems while building close relationships with others. Like all other CKGamerJunior content, the show uses many kinds of comedic elements. Characters interact with viewers without talking down on the audience to accurately model real-world situations.

Like all CKGamerJunior programming, Super Koopster is guided by an established whole-child curriculum that nurtures key areas of early childhood development. The show’s curriculum primarily focuses on social and emotional themes and affirms simple everyday life lessons and friend/family relationships, including friendship, teamwork, and respect.

Main Characters

 * Koopster - The main character of the show and leader of the super hero crew. He loves to draw cartoons in his sketchbook and play video games. He is also skilled with his sword, entrusted by Mario, as well as the commander of Saturn the rocket ship.


 * Bowser Jr. - A nine-year old Koopa and the youngest among the 4 heroes. He enjoys playing with his father Bowser, loves to build and wants to get strong like him. Although he gets timid and less confident in himself, he's still willing to help to save the day. His power is the alphabet. Using tools he can build and transform words into objects.


 * Kylie Koopa - A female Koopa that enjoys photography and writing. Her super form focuses on defining words which can help the team solve puzzles, mysteries, and uncover secrets. She also decodes symbols and signs. She uses her Magic Paintbrush to draw out pictures.


 * Toadette - A 7 year old female Toad that likes to play sports. Her power is on spelling, sounding, and rhyming words. She can control situations by spelling to solve others’ problems. She uses
 * Saturn - a spaceship with godlike abilities, able to communicate with the crew and help out on their adventures.

Supporting Characters

 * Bowser - The father to Bowser Jr. and a father figure to the Koopalings. Although he makes a great dad, his sense of power and bossiness gets the better of him. Bowser tends to come out more comical than villainous.
 * Mario Mario - The all famous hero of the Mushroom Kingdom. He’s taking a long break to chill with civilians in the Mushroom Kingdom.
 * Luigi Mario - Mario’s younger twin brother who’s hanging out with the crew but also has to suck in ghosts.
 * Shadow Queen - The main antagonist of the show who wants to seize power of the Mushroom Kingdom and always plots against Koopster and his crew. She has an army of 3 X-Nauts (Nax, Nas, and Nat) and owns a spacecraft named Jett.
 * Princess Peach - The princess and ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom.
 * Princess Daisy - Peach’s good friend who enjoys playing the ukele, as first seen in episode 4, “Yoshi’s Island”.
 * Keith Parakarry - Koopster’s father and a mischievous full-grown man child whose wacky antics are hard to ignore. As a part of his business, Keith owns a restaurant called “Keith’s Eatery” but no one hardly shows except for his family due to its bad reputation and Keith’s inability to cook delicious food.
 * Karina Parakarry - A famed pirate and loving mother of the Parakarry family. She cares deeply for her family. Aside from treasure hunting or other pirate adventures, most of the time she’s either taking care of Kim or tending to housework. Legend says she is one of the greatest pirates and sailors of the Mushroom Kingdom. Early on the show revealed that Karina is the first lady pirate to ever sail the seas of the Mushroom Kingdom.
 * Kent Parakarry - Koopster’s big teenage brother who loves rock music. Even though Koopster annoys him sometimes, he still enjoys his company along with the rest of his family. Towards the end of season 1, he left for college to pursue his music career, and graduated from college in late season 2 to live with his family again while pursuing his rock music career full-time. Kent had his own solo band - The Rockman Band - since the start of the show and provides all of the series’ music.
 * Kim Parakarry- Koopster’s little sister. As she is still an infant she is prone to tantrums but is very easy to please. She’s quite a playful, wacky, and outgoing toddler.
 * Goombs - Koopster’s best friend who enjoys playing with him.
 * Toad
 * Huckleberry
 * Buckleberry
 * Mr. Starfish
 * Koopalings
 * Yoshi
 * Chomp Chomp - A golden Chain Chomp that chases Bowser around the Mushroom Kingdom.

Trivia

 * This is the second original series to be produced and hosted on CKGamerJunior, releasing just months after Toad and the Kingdom Saga.


 * The show’s pilot (The Three Little Koopas) started production in 2032.


 * The pilot was revised 3 times before it was complete. With the pilot episode finished in early 2033, the final version of the pilot was dubbed as the premiere episode for the show. Shortly after, a first season of 60 episodes (including the pilot) was ordered.
 * The first version of the pilot had no animated drawing segments. The second version had these animations but were choppy. The third, final and aired version had smoother animation, and over time it’s art style evolved over the course of season 1.


 * Season 1 was produced from 2033-2035 and aired from 2034-2035.
 * Koopster’s animated fantasy sketchbook drawings revived an art style upgrade in season 2, transitioning from cel-shaded animation to smoother, more fluent CGI animations.