Winx Club (season 8)

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File:Winx8Card.png
Title card for the season
Country of origin Italy
No. of episodes 26
Release
Original network Rai YoYo
Original release 15 April 2019 (2019-04-15) – 17 September 2019 (2019-09-17)
List of Winx Club episodes

The eighth season of Winx Club aired from 15 April to 17 September 2019, on the Rai YoYo preschool channel in Italy. The English version premiered on Nickelodeon Asia on 8 January 2020.[1]

This season was heavily retooled to appeal to a preschool target audience,[2] and it is only loosely connected to the rest of the series. The creative team at Rainbow SpA (which is co-owned by Viacom) restyled the characters to appear younger, and the plot lines were simplified.[2] Most of the show's longtime crew members were not called back to work on this season, including art director Simone Borselli, who had designed the series' characters from season 1 to 7, and singer Elisa Rosselli, who had performed a majority of the songs.[3]

In another change from previous seasons, Nickelodeon's American team served as consultants rather than directly overseeing the episodes; at the time, Nickelodeon was instead working with Rainbow SpA on a new series called Club 57.[2] The American writers remained as consultants for season 8[4] and Nick's Pierluigi Gazzolo continued in his role as a director for Rainbow SpA.[5] Also during this season's production, series creator Iginio Straffi stepped away from focusing on the series. He shifted his concentration to other work with Nickelodeon, including Club 57, as well as a live-action adaptation of Winx Club aimed at an older audience.[2]

In 2019, Straffi explained his reasoning for gradually lowering the series' intended demographic:

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In the last ten years, the animation audience has skewed younger. Nowadays, it's very difficult to get a 10-year-old to watch cartoons... The fans of the previous Winx Club say on social media that the new seasons are childish, but they don't know that we had to do that.[2]

Synopsis

The Winx Club notices that some of the stars in the sky are disappearing. They determine that the return of Valtor is linked to this strange occurrence. The fairies travel to Lumenia, the Magic Dimension's brightest star and the light source for Stella's home planet of Solaria. Lumenia's queen gives them the power of Cosmix to protect the magical universe's billions of stars. Along the way, the Winx also meet Twinkly; a helpful golden creature who powers the very core of Lumenia.

Episodes

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See also: List of Winx Club episodes
No.
overall		 No. in
season		 Italian title
English title		 Italian air date[6]
183 1 "La notte delle stelle"
"Night of the Stars"		 15 April 2019 (2019-04-15)[7][8]
184 2 "Il regno delle Lumen"
"A Kingdom of Lumens"		 16 April 2019 (2019-04-16)[9]
185 3 "Attacco al nucleo"
"Attack on the Core"		 17 April 2019 (2019-04-17)[10]
186 4 "Popstar!"
"Popstars!"		 18 April 2019 (2019-04-18)[11]
187 5 "Il segreto di Orion"
"Orion's Secret"		 19 April 2019 (2019-04-19)[12]
188 6 "La stella faro[13]"
"Doom of the Lighthouse Star"		 21 April 2019 (2019-04-21)[14]
189 7 "Trappola su Prometia"
"Trapped on Prometia"		 22 April 2019 (2019-04-22)[15]
190 8 "Negli abissi di Andros"
"Into the Depths of Andros"		 23 April 2019 (2019-04-23)[16]
191 9 "La luce di Gorgol"
"The Light of Gorgol"		 24 April 2019 (2019-04-24)[17]
192 10 "Il potere dell'Idra"
"Hydra Awakens"		 25 April 2019 (2019-04-25)[18]
193 11 "Il tesoro magico di Syderia"
"Treasures of Syderia"		 26 April 2019 (2019-04-26)[19]
194 12 "Festa a sorpresa"
"Surprise Party on Earth"		 28 April 2019 (2019-04-28)[20]
195 13 "L'ombra di Valtor"
"Valtor's Shadow"		 29 April 2019 (2019-04-29)[20]
196 14 "La stella dei desideri"
"The Wishing Star"		 29 July 2019 (2019-07-29)[21]
197 15 "Una nuova missione"
"Mission for the Prime Stars"		 30 July 2019 (2019-07-30)[22]
198 16 "La festa dello Sparx"
"The Sparx Festival"		 31 July 2019 (2019-07-31)[23]
199 17 "Il vestito della regina"
"Dress Fit for a Queen"		 1 August 2019 (2019-08-01)[24]
200 18 "La valle degli unicorni alati"
"Valley of the Flying Unicorns"		 2 August 2019 (2019-08-02)[25]
201 19 "La torre oltre le nuvole"
"Tower Beyond the Clouds"		 3 August 2019 (2019-08-03)[26]
202 20 "Il cuore verde di Lynphea"
"The Green Heart of Lynphea"		 11 September 2019 (2019-09-11)[27]
203 21 "La gara di ballo su Melody"
"Dance Contest on Melody"		 12 September 2019 (2019-09-12)[28]
204 22 "Il segreto dell'armonia"
"The Secret of Harmony"		 13 September 2019 (2019-09-13)[29]
205 23 "Fra terra e mare"
"Between the Earth and the Sea"		 14 September 2019 (2019-09-14)[30]
206 24 "Tra i ghiacci di Dyamond"
"Dyamond on Ice"		 15 September 2019 (2019-09-15)[31]
207 25 "La volpe bianca"
"The White Fox"		 16 September 2019 (2019-09-16)[32]
208 26 "Scritto nelle stelle"
"Written in the Stars"		 17 September 2019 (2019-09-17)[33]


References

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