Boyster

Boyster
Genre	Comedy Adventure
Created by	Frederic Azemar Emmanuelle Fleury Fabien Limousin
Directed by	Damien Barrau Fabien Limousin
Voices of	Akie Kotabe Rasmus Hardiker Matthew Forbes Rob Rackstraw Jules de Jongh Lizzie Waterworth
Composers	Alexis Pecharman Denis Vautrin
Country of origin	France United Kingdom
Original languages	English French
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	52 (18 unaired in the U.S.)
Production
Producers	Franck Ekinci Camille Sorceau
Editors	Bob Mittenthal Michael Rubiner Fabien Limousin Marianne Barbier
Running time	22 minutes (11 minutes per segment)
Production company	Je suis bien content
Original release
Network	Disney XD France 4
Release	June 16, 2014 (2014-06-16) – May 4, 2017 (2017-05-04)

Boyster (Molusco) is an animated television series that premiered on Disney XD on June 16, 2014. The titular Boyster character is half human and half mollusk, and his name is a portmanteau of "boy" and "oyster."

Plot

The series focuses on the adventures of a half-human, half-oyster mutant named "Boyster", who was born from an toxic spill and adopted by a pair of humans and raised with his shell brother Shelby. Naturally, Boyster has to keep his oyster side under wraps, but he will use his many oyster-esque abilities to save the day.

Characters

Main

• Boyster Likowski (voiced by Akie Kotabe) is the main protagonist and title character of the series. He is a half-human half-oyster child, has only two hairs and is endowed with superpowers: these include spitting pearls, stretching his limbs to infinity, etc. He is shy and horrified that someone might discover his powers. It is because of an oil spill that he and his brother are mutants, they were found on the beach and then adopted by Lola and Eugene Likowski. He is 11 years old at the beginning of the series but at the end, he is 12 years old. He is a fan of Spido-Dude, a reference to Spider-Man.
• Shelby Likowski (voiced by Matthew Forbes) is Boyster's clam twin brother. He is intelligent and has a very high IQ. He almost never leaves his home and prefers to watch television all day long (which is where he gets all his knowledge from). He is obsessed with the "Prestige and Passion" series and admires the theories of Charles Darwin.
• Rafik (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker) is Boyster's best friend. He's around 11–13 years old, and an overexcited kid. He is one of the only characters in the series to know Boyster's secret. He loves to act, make drama for any situation and often finds things funny even if they aren't really funny. He gets jealous when Boyster spends time with someone else, and he is arrogant and boastful, always thinking he is the best even giving himself the nickname "Rafik the Magnificent".

Supporting

• Eugene Likowski is the adoptive father of Boyster and Shelby. He is a botanist and he is very fond of gardening. He is overprotective of Boyster and wouldn't want anything to happen to him.
• Lola Likowski (voiced by Jules de Jongh) is the adoptive mother of Boyster and Shelby. She is an ingenious person and she loves fixing cars and making objects.
• Alicia (voiced by Lizzie Waterworth) is Boyster's love interest. She is very rich and her parents are stingy and obsessed with money and want her to marry a billionaire at all costs. Alicia dreams of becoming an artist and loves drawing portraits of her beloved cat, Vanilla. Alicia is a nice girl, with a strong sense of integrity, who can't stand being rejected. She likes Boyster a lot but does not suspect that he has a crush on her and, worse, that he has powers. She is around 11–13 years old.
• Ozzy (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker) is a bully at Boyster's school. A vain, idiotic and arrogant person, he loves hitting and putting people down, especially Boyster and Arthur. He seems to be in love with Alicia but obviously she doesn't love him due to his meanness. Ozzy has a lack of self-confidence and would like to be able to impress his two ruthless and muscular sisters by showing them that he can be as strong as them. He is described as being "ugly" by Rafik.
• Arthur (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker) is a socially inept nerd with a passion for the extraterrestrial. He is very smart and is able to create an alien detector, he has been collecting toasters since he was 5 years old and is a fan of Sherlock Holmes. He doesn't have very good breath, he is in the chess club and was in the detective club. He gets harassed and beaten by Ozzy but, despite this, he remains sympathetic towards Ozzy and would like to be his friend. He has a pet spider named Ursula.
• Mr. Marion "Teachinator" Pluss (voiced by Rob Rackstraw) is a teacher at Boyster's school. He is known as the strictest teacher at the school, and is usually seen angry or shouting. He has perceived robotic vision and the students call him the "Teachinator". In the episode of the same name, it is revealed that he only wished to please his late father, who was also a strict teacher.

Episodes

Season 1

Season		Episodes	Air date
			Season premiere	Season finale
	1	52	June 16, 2014	May 4, 2017

No.	Episode	Original airdate	Production code
1	Supermollusk	June 16, 2014	101a
2	The Necklace	June 16, 2014	101b
3	Teachinator	June 17, 2014	102a
4	The Alien	June 17, 2014	102b
5	Shelby, the Art Lover	June 23, 2014	103a
6	Skeleton	June 23, 2014	103b
7	A Strange New Friend	June 30, 2014	104a
8	Muscle Boy	June 30, 2014	104b
9	Love at First Sight	September 22, 2014	105a
10	Go Fish!	September 22, 2014	105b
11	Quiz Show No No	September 29, 2014	106a
12	Fish Humor	September 29, 2014	106b
13	A Third Arm	October 8, 2014	107a
14	Pool Partay	October 8, 2014	107b
15	Puffed Up	October 16, 2014	108a
16	Marble Mischief!	October 16, 2014	108b
17	Free Gilly	November 10, 2014	109a
18	The Studio Inferno	November 10, 2014	109b
19	Girlster	November 17, 2014	110a
20	Video Star Vanilla	November 17, 2014	110b
21	Wings of Love	May 18, 2015	111a
22	Blackmailed!	May 18, 2015	111b
23	Local Hero	May 19, 2015	112a
24	Full Speed Ahead	May 19, 2015	112b
25	Three Hours of the Condor	May 20, 2015	113a
26	Boyster Pox	May 20, 2015	113b
27	The Stache	May 21, 2015	114a
28	Bust a Move	May 21, 2015	114b
29	Sneezy Art	May 26, 2015	115a
30	Magic Rafik	May 26, 2015	115b
31	Wavester	May 27, 2015	116a
32	Hand in Sticky Hand	May 27, 2015	116b
33	It Takes a Thief	May 28, 2015	117a
34	Lab Coat Party	May 28, 2015	117b
35	Pranks a Lot	2017	118a
36	Tough Hombre	2017	118b
37	Multiplazzyty	2017	119a
38	Crustacean Invasion	2017	119b
39	He's Got Legs	2017	120a
40	Boyster Claus	2017	120b
41	Snow Daze	2017	121a
42	Pearls Before Swine	2017	121b
43	It's Not Easy Being Clean	2017	122a
44	Superstition	2017	122b
45	A Very Special Advisor	2017	123a
46	Kitchen Nightmare	2017	123b
47	Homecoming (Part 1)	2017	124a
48	Homecoming (Part 2)	2017	124b
49	Shelby Holmes	2017	125a
50	Boysterclone	2017	125b
51	Now You See It	2017	126a
52	Rash Decision	2017	126b

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2015	Annecy International Animated Film Festival	TV series	For "Teachinator"	Nominated

External links

• Boyster at IMDb