Luna Moona and the Girls

Luna Moona and the Girls (Also known as Luna Moona e la Ragazze in Italian and Spangato in the US, UK, France and Australia) is an Italian-French adult animated television sitcom based on the comic book series by Sara Pichelli.

Plot
This show stars Luna Moona, Sofia Ling, Marnie Micanta and Sara Porto, 4 14-year old girls who attends Spangato Community School, go on adventures and deal with issues concerning the European population.

Italian
Sofia Aquino - Luna Moona, Marnie Micanta, Momo Moona, Iginio Matio, Dayra Karimi, Karen Porto, Additional Voices

Sara Zanier - Sofia Ling, Sara Porto, Isabelle Mino, Mee Ling, Zuni Mit

Samuel Sbrighi - Tenito Straffi, Edwaro Camado, Izzo Mezzo, Issac Hamer, Spongebob Squarepants

Ciro Esposito - Michael Tyrone, Hemo Straffi, Marco Bassano, Trowel Manto, Henrito Dorino, Marcinto Mazino

Segiro Solli - Roberto Rosso, Sri Shinawatra, Alessandra Parico, Puzzolo Manicer, Georando Terzina, Additional Voices

Silvia Cohen - Gulia Moona, Naniti Micanta, SJW, Vicy Minaco, Lumanta Derinta, Maurinca Terzina

French
Valérie Lemercier - Luna Moona, Marnie Micanta, Momo Moona, Iginio Matio, Dayra Karimi, Karen Porto, Additional Voices

Vannessa Paradis - Sofia Ling, Sara Porto, Isabelle Mino, Mee Ling, Zuni Mit

Dany Boom - Tenito Straffi, Edwaro Camado, Izzo Mezzo, Issac Hamer, Spongebob Squarepants

Gérard Jugnot - Michael Tyrone, Hemo Straffi, Marco Bassano, Trowel Manto, Henrito Dorino, Marcinto Mazino

Michel Blanc - Roberto Rosso, Sri Shinawatra, Alessandra Parico, Puzzolo Manicer, Georando Terzina, Additional Voices

Marianne Jones - Gulia Moona, Naniti Micanta, SJW, Vicy Minano, Lumanta Derinta, Maurinca Terzina

Main Characters
Caterina "Luna" Bassano Moona is a girl who is Swiss. She is a shy but very calm girl who would always tries to stop Marnie and Sofia. She does not like to be referred by her first name.

Mulan "Sofia" Ling Shinawatra is a girl who is Chinese-Thai. She is a smart if stubborn and short-tempered girl who tends to have a lot of fights with Marnie whenever she makes fun of her people. She has a crush on C-pop singer Pakho Chau.

Marinto "Marnie" Micanta Parico is a girl who is Belgian. She is a fat and bigoted girl who would regularly make fun of Sofia for being Chinese-Thai and Sara for being African-American. She really hates boys (and often bullies Tenito) due to her ex-boyfriend cheating on her and then accusing her of being with another boy despite that there was nothing going on between them.

Sarafina "Sara" Porto Rosso is a girl who is Mexican. She is a rather calm girl who is always loyal to her friends (only if they have the moral high grounds). She is half-Romani in her mother's side.

Recurring Characters
Isabelle Mino is a girl who is Hispanic-German. She is really innocent and gullible and, because of that, she would often blindly follows everything Marnie says and does. She once met Betty Boogie Parker when she went on a trip to Colorado.

James "Tenito" Straffi is a boy who is Luna's boyfriend. He is really political but friendly and is a straight-A student of Spangato Community School. He is Italian-Australian.

Edwaro Camado is a boy who is of Spanish decent. He is very egotistical and tends to treat girls as if they're nothing more than sex dolls which mostly causes many of the girls (except Isabelle Mino) to harbour a dislike for him. He is allergic to pizza.

Iginio Matio is a girl who was raised as a boy. She is secretive and likes to keep things to herself and only shows it to someone she trusts. Her aunt is Canadian while her uncle is Ukrainian.

Zuni Mit is a girl with a lisp. She is hyperactive and tends to try to talk to anyone around her, especially Sofia and Luna, but is usually ignored. She takes 1 pill a day.

Puzzolo Maciner is a boy who was born with no penis. He is indepenent but really helpful whenever someone is hurt and in need of confort. His least favourite character is Spongebob Squarepants.

Momo Bassano Moona is a girl who is Luna's younger sister. She is naive and is afraid of most things but tries to be there when Luna needs her. She is only 7 years old (10 in the English and Spanish dub).

Darya Karimi Shah is a girl who is from Iraq. She is a really polite but also short-tempered girl who doesn't like anyone calling her a terrorist just because she is a Muslim. She does not like Block 13

Izzo Mezzo is a non binary kid who is from Brazil. They are selfless and tends to tolerate Marnie's constant bullying towards them for being non binary. They want to be a doctor when they grow up.

Marcinto Mazino is a boy who is the grandson of an unidentified Nazi soldier. He is an Anti-Semetic and controlling person who bullies almost anyone around him especially Lumanta (his favourite bully victim and lust object). He once got a waiter fired by accusing him of hiding drugs in his food.

Lumanta Derinta is a girl who is Jewish. She is civil and good-intended but gets very hot-tempered and stubborn whenever someone (especially Marcinto and Marnie) insults her religion and/or for having an African-American mother. Her heritage is Turkish.

Michael Tyrone is a boy who is American. He is a serious and strong will boy who doesn't like stupidity. He is Marnie's favourite bully victim (next to Sofia and Izzo).

Georando Terzina is a boy who is the son of Maurinca Terzina. He is controlling just like his mother and acts like the prince of Spangato and, because of this, everyone at Spangato Community School (except Michael, Lumanta and Dayra) doesn't like him. He has one tiny freckle on his back.

Adults
Gulia Moona and Marco Bassano are Luna and Momo's parents that are from Switzerland. Gulia is irresponsible while Marco tends to try to be serious in many situations. Gulia and Marco meet eachother when they were in High School.

Mee Ling and Sri Shinawatra are Sofia's parents. Mee works as a human right activist while Mong works for a local bank. Sri was named after a Thai trickster in Thailand folklore.

Naniti Micanta and Alessandra Parico are Marnie's parents. They are really good-hearted unlike Marnie but are unable to punish anything she does (with some exceptions). Alessandra was given a girl's name by mistake at birth.

Karen Porto and Roberto Rosso are Sara's parents. They are both drug-addicts that often wastes money on beer but still cares about Sara. Karen is Romani while Roberto is Mexican.

Hemo Straffi is James' single father. He works in the same place that Marco Bassano so he would often talks to him. Hemo's wife died when she gave birth to James.

Isaac Hamer is the school teacher of Spangato Community School. He is a lazy person who talks about his personal life rather than teach his students. He is bisexual.

Vicy Minaco is the school janiter of Spangato Community School. She is a neat freak and does not hesitate to make sure everything in Spangato Community School is clean. She is the daughter of a Canadian-Austrian War Veteran.

SJW is the school principal of Spangato Community School. She is really sensitive and thinks that everyone deserves the same rights. Her real name is Sandra Janita Wanoto.

Maurinca Terzina is the mayor of Spangato. She is really controlling as well as bossy and often thinks she's above everyone else due to her status as mayor. Her husband died when she was 37.

Trowel Manto is the school chef of Spangato Community School. He is wise and often gives helpful advises to Luna and her friends. He has a grandmother who is half-black.

Bad Guys
Vladimar Putin is a man who is the president of Russia. He loves to tell lies to get away with his crimes and kidnaps and eats animals that he hates. He wants to take over all of Europe.

Xi Jinping is a man who is the president of China since 2012. He is vain and only cares about his looks instead of everyone around him. He doesn't like Marco Bassano and banned him (and his family) from China.

Spongebob Squarepants is a sea sponge who is the CEO and Chairman of Paramount (then named Viacom then ViacomCBS). He is abusive, sexist and villainous and whenever something goes wrong, he will hurt others in many ways and because of this, everyone who works at Paramount are afraid of him, He really hates Sony.

Henrito Micanta Dorino is a 20-year old who is really insane. He really hates Marnie (his half-sister) due to the time she tricked him into killing his father Tanito Dorino as revenge for cheating on Naniti with another girl. He lives in Jail with his cellmate Kanio Macria.

Broadcast
Germany: ProSieben

Canada: Adult Swim (English), Télétoon la nuit (French)

United States: Fox

Belgium: RTBF (French), Eén (Dutch)

United Kingdom: BBC Two

Poland: TVN

Hungary: TV2 Comedy

Brazil: TV Globo

Mexico: Canal 5

Spain: Antena 3

Denmark: TV3

Sweden: Kanal 9

Iceland: RÚV

Ireland: RTÉ 2

Controversies
The episode "The Yaoi and Yuri", an episode dedicated to saying that most yaoi and yuri shippers are anti-LGBTs that only ship two people of the same gender, who aren't romantically interested in each other, together to prove that they are not homophobic was banned from the United States due to a scene where Marnie pressed a button which bombed the American Government.

The episode "Stupid Petitions" where Luna, Sofia, Marnie and Sara criticize Lewis for making a petition to have Disney buy BBC caused the real-life Lewis the Kids Media Fan to start a petition to have this show cancelled but despite this, Selento Studios chosed not to cancel Luna Moona and the Girls, stating that anyone who starts petitions are basically starting them for selfish reasons.

This show was banned in Malaysia, Turkey, Russia, South Korea, China and Venezuela due to it's amount of violence and how it would poke fun of many polititions (such as Vladimar Putin and Xi Jinping) and censorship laws. Sara Pichelli often criticize this as hypocrisy as according to her, many countries have a lot of TV Shows with a lot of contents she describes as "violent and political".

Trivia

 * Despite Sara Pichelli always dening this, this show is often compared to South Park and Family Guy.
 * While the TV and Film rights to the Luna Moona franchise is owned by Selento Studios (while the publishing rights is owned by Macorino Fumetto), The copyright is owned by Spangato, Inc, an Italian company founded by Sara Pichelli.
 * According to Iginio Straffi, Sara preferred Italia 1 and W9 to co-produce Luna Moona and the Girls, fearing that Canale 5 and France 3, two TV channels that originally intended to co-produce this show, would turn it into a kids show.