CodeScan

CodeScan is an American-British animesque animated television series produced at Jetix Cymru (credited as "Disney XD Productions Cardiff") and later Aura Television Productions UK for Nicktoons Family and Flare+. The series was in development since 2017. The series began airing in the United States on August 19th, 2019 on Nicktoons Family. Aura Television Productions distributes the series in North America, the UK, and Germany.

In February 2020, it was announced that the series was renewed for a second season, under the name CodeScan SuperDrive, set for an August 17th, 2020 premiere on Nicktoons Family. It was also announced that post-SuperDrive seasons would switch production to Aura Television Productions UK.

In June 2020, Beta Cartoon Productions announced it was investing $10M USD into the series to help fund the production of the series and improve the animation quality of later seasons.

In May 2021, it was announced that all future CodeScan seasons, starting with the series' third season (split into two parts titled CodeScan Gamer and CodeScan XT respectively), would be released on Flare+ rather than aired on Nicktoons Family. Part 1 released on August 15th, 2021 for streaming, with a television broadcast on Beta Cartoon beginning at least 30 days after the Flare+ release. Part 2 would follow in November 2021. Reruns of the first two seasons would continue to air on Nicktoons Family until its rebrand as NFCartoons in 2022.

On June 18th, 2021, it was announced that CodeScan was renewed for a fourth season, which would release in 2022. In October 2021, it was announced that the season would be split into two parts of 13 episodes each, similar to the third season; in January 2022, the two parts' titles and episode titles were revealed (as CodeScan Ballgame and CodeScan All-Stars respectively).

On February 4th, 2022, Flare+ announced that they had ordered another 13 episodes for the fourth season, announced as the final season of the original CodeScan continuity, set for a spring 2023 release. Titled CodeScan Beginnings, the extra episodes would revolve around the creation of the world of CodeScan.

On July 20th, 2022, Flare+ renewed the series for a fifth season, tentatively titled Re:CodeScan, for an August 2023 release. The fifth season was announced to be a 13-episode season.

In August 2022, the creators mentioned that the fifth season may be the series' final season due to them moving on to MarbleArena.

Season 1

 * Mike
 * Neil
 * Bo

Season 2

 * Umesaka
 * Momoi
 * Ose

Season 3

 * Muranaka
 * Tsukiyomi
 * Kiyota
 * Witthaya
 * Patipon
 * Luk

Season 4

 * Kouumoto
 * Kozato
 * Suou
 * Karl

Premise
Each season (with the exceptions of All-Stars and season five) focuses on three friends who find a machine that can scan bar-codes on several items (mostly toys they already own) and use them to their advantage (i.e. turning their toys into powerful monsters). However, the friends are chased down by a mysterious organization who plan on taking over the game.

Episodes

 * A Season 4A, Ballgame, doesn't have a companion as the installment is centered around baseball.
 * B Previous companions also came back for Season 4B, All-Stars, but weren't as prominent as Rover in the installment.
 * C No new companions are introduced in Season 4C, Beginnings, as it revolves around the creation of the world of CodeScan. However, previous companions appear in the season.

Season 1 (2019-20)

 * Season 1 is the only season of the series where the main character is sent to the world of CodeScan before his or her friends.
 * Season 1 is also the only season of the series where the main characters are sent between the world of CodeScan and Earth several times throughout the series, whereas future seasons/installments would keep the characters in the world of CodeScan until said seasons' finales.
 * Season 1 is one of two seasons to have a crossover with Card Masters; in season one's case, the crossover happened in episode 13.
 * The CodeScan school has been mentioned in future seasons, but with the exception of its formation in Beginnings, had not directly appeared again since the first season.

Season 2 (CodeScan SuperDrive) (2020-21)

 * SuperDrive is one of two seasons to have a crossover with Card Masters; in the case of SuperDrive, the crossover happened in episode 12 (episode 38 overall).

CodeScan Gamer

 * The part was expected to be 26 episodes long, but upon being told that the series was moving to Flare+, the creators decided to split the season into two parts, therefore cutting out filler episodes from Gamer and necessitating an entirely new part to replace said filler episodes (XT).

CodeScan XT

 * XT is the only installment of the series where the companion of the installment is not allowed to go to Earth with the main characters; this would later be brought up in Season 4B, All-Stars.
 * The final three episodes were edited into a 75 minute television film when it aired on Beta. A ten minute clip show prologue would be shown before the actual film was shown.

CodeScan Ballgame

 * Ballgame is the first installment not to have a companion, presumably due to revolving around baseball and thus adding a companion would not make sense.
 * Ballgame is also the first installment where the main villains are defeated without using barcodes, not counting the barcodes used to summon the baseball bats.
 * Ballgame is the first installment to reference other former Nicktoons Family original series besides Card Masters, via referencing Baseball Team 106.
 * Ballgame is slated to be the only installment where the main characters don't upgrade their barcode machines by the end of the story.
 * Due to being the first part of the final season for the original continuity, Ballgame is the first installment to feature the main villains of the season banned from the world of CodeScan following their defeats (as Xen Ju escaped merely unscathed aside from its dissolution in the first season, Organization Insanity was only disqualified from the Grand Prix in SuperDrive, and the main villains of both parts of season three were arrested towards the end of their respective parts (the Gamer Pirates of Gamer for copyright infringement, and the Ransomware Squad of XT for fraud and supposedly scamming)).

CodeScan All-Stars

 * All-Stars is the first installment not to introduce new main characters, instead using characters from previous stories (such as the leaders of the main groups from their respective seasons/half-seasons and their companions).
 * All-Stars is slated to be the only installment where the main characters are transported into the world of CodeScan in episode one, whereas previous seasons/installments of the series have the characters go to the world of CodeScan in the second episodes of each season/installment and Beginnings forgoes sending its protagonists to the world of CodeScan altogether due to them being the original creators of said world.
 * All-Stars is one of only two installments where no new companions are introduced, but ones from previous installments appear (the other being Beginnings).

CodeScan Beginnings

 * Beginnings is the only installment not to have the main characters teleported into the world of CodeScan, due to the protagonists of Beginnings being the original developers of said world.
 * As a result, Beginnings is the only installment of CodeScan set entirely on Earth, while previous installments mainly took place in the world of CodeScan.
 * Beginnings is one of only two installments where no new companions are introduced, but ones from previous installments appear (the other being All-Stars).
 * The first two episodes of Beginnings aired right after All-Stars's finale on Beta Cartoon.
 * Similar to XT, Beta Cartoon will present the final three episodes of the season as a television film with a ten minute clip show recap showing before the actual film, totaling 75 minutes without commercials.

Season 5 (Re:CodeScan) (2023)

 * As a rebooted universe, several changes are made for the season:
 * The villains of the season have no ties to Xen Ju.
 * Companions are notably absent.
 * There would be a tournament utilizing characters' barcodes, similar to MarbleFight tournaments in MarbleArena.
 * The reboot would be an anthology series, albeit one whose characters eventually meet up in the end.
 * As opposed to every other season (which got 26-39 episodes each), season five would only run for 13 episodes plus an epilogue serving as the 14th and final episode of the season. This is mainly due to the show's animation being moved to Studio YanYan, who were also working on the 2D animation for Get Your Heart Beat at the time.
 * Karl is the only character from the original continuity appearing in the reboot continuity.

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Syndication
In September 2019, Beta Cartoon bought the U.S. cable syndication rights to the series alongside Card Masters. In addition, the Beta networks/blocks in Italy, Poland, and Southeast Asia also obtained the broadcast rights to the show in their respective regions.

Aura feeds have aired the series in select markets, including in Germany, South Korea, and in Latin America and Brazil. YTV 2 also aired the first two seasons of the series.

In Wales, Aura (then known as Disney Channel Wales) began airing the first season in syndication in May 2020; the third season onward was originally slated to also air on the channel, but has since been moved exclusively to Flare+ in the UK and Ireland.

As a result of the syndication rights being picked up by Beta (and later seasons 3-5 being co-developed with Beta), the first two seasons were among the few Nicktoons Family originals not to regularly air on its parent network, although the first season did eventually air as a part of EXO.

Home video
The Nicktoons Family run of CodeScan (covering the first two seasons) would be offered on Blu-ray in Region 1 via Aura DVD Authoring from September 12th, 2022. It has yet to be seen whether seasons 3-5 would receive a physical release in North America.

Trivia

 * Jetix Cymru staff, when asked whether or not the show will compete against Bakutsuri Bar Hunter, have stated that "there are no similarities between that anime and this show".
 * The first two seasons were the only Nicktoons Family original series not commissioned by Ravenworks to be produced entirely without NickFamily Studios' involvement.