From Italy comes the new cartoon series that occupies a place in those television fictions that we are highlighting by not show appropriate values for smaller viewers. In this case it is 'Winx Club', a series created in 2004 that has managed to go around the world, causing great expectation among children viewers. The fiction has more than 120 premiered chapters, whose duration is around 22 minutes, and from it has originated a franchise that includes toys, clothing, books and video games.
Despite having been broadcast by Clan TV, currently fiction It has a daily gap in the Disney Channel programming, which broadcasts the 'Winx Club' chapters from 2:10 p.m. and 5:25 p.m. In total, four daily episodes are broadcast in which we can follow the adventures of this fairy group, although the series is also released on DVD. In addition 'Winx Club' has four episodes of one hour, focused on the stories that are collected in its first two seasons.
Who is part of Winx Club?
The series presents a group of powerful teenagers who go to school to learn how to use magic and thus become great fairies in the future. The story of 'Winx Club' takes place in a fictional world, where magic is always present and where the protagonists of the series they carry out their particular war between good and evil. The protagonists stand out for being powerful, beautiful and fashion addicted girls, a hobby that alternates with their daily teachings.
The world that presents us 'Winx Club' divides its characters into three schools of magic. In the first place there is Alfea, the fairy school where the protagonists study. But there is also room for Red Fountain, the place where boys who want to be warriors study and Torre de Nubes, the school where the evil witches of the series study. The first episodes of the series revolve around these three schools, where the various characters are presented and the intentions they will develop over the course of the story are shown.
What can we expect from the series?
During the time I have been analyzing children's fictions, I have noticed the many points in common that most of them have, productions that fall again and again in the same harmful stereotypes for the child audience. This fact is repeated even more when it comes to series aimed at the female audience, who are reluctant to leave the clichés that do so much damage when they are shown to the public.
Therefore, one is aware of the difficulty of abandoning that superficial ideal that surrounds the female characters we see in these fictions. In 'Winx Club', again, we find some beautiful protagonists, who despite living in a magical world and have numerous problems to face, do not stop abandoning the ideal of beauty, linked to the world of fashion and Slender figures that stand out for a worrying thinness. That is the prototype offered by 'Winx Club', like so many other children's series that unfortunately we are already used to seeing on the small screen.
And, although the story of 'Winx Club' tells the process by which a group of girls with powers become fairies, there is also time for love plots. Male characters frequently appear in fiction, coming from a school for boys with powers. With the passing of the chapters we see how all the protagonists end up in love with some of these guys, giving a special place to the love plots that come out on numerous occasions in the middle of the fight between good and evil carried out by the protagonists of 'Winx Club'.
In the chapter that we collect in this article we see how the first days of the protagonists spend in the school for fairies. The girls begin to know each other and show their concerns about the course they have started. To commemorate the beginning of the course, students prepare for a party, in which they will meet the boys of the Red Fountain school. For the party, the girls do not hesitate to put on their best dresses and even some decide to go shopping to find something suitable. The party is interrupted by the group of witches that Bloom must face so they don't get away with it.
'Winx Club', magic and superficiality of the hand
The Italian television series has become a worldwide success after being broadcast in more than 150 countries. How could it be otherwise, its impact has caused the creation of two films that continue with some of the plots that have already been shown in the series and there is already a third in production that will be released soon. Currently, in Spain the chapters corresponding to its fifth season are broadcast, although there is a planned sixth season with which it is expected that 'Winx Club' exceeds the symbolic figure of 150 episodes.
There are many children spectators, mainly girls, who have seen in 'Winx Club' a fiction to follow, motivated by a story that continues to advance and that usually presents an evolution throughout its seasons. Even so, the series opts for stereotypes and at no time does it move away from the harmful values that many current fictions present, presenting itself as a much more adult series than we might think at first. This is one of those examples that show that sometimes television entertainment hides many negative values that often go unnoticed when the television is turned on.
