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I think if Star Darlings was made more recently, seeing how astrology and stuffs like that are super popular on TikTok and IG, it could've been a lot more successful

The pain in their voice when they say "they solved the problem by writing a song" is so visceral

The fact they have “star” in front of everything sounds an awful lot like “smurf” replacing many words in the Smurfs.

First Lolirock now Star Darlings? I'm in awe, I'm so glad someone is giving them the recognition they deserve. Oh, how I miss Star Darlings

Anyone remember the “Rainbow magic” fairy book series, it’s still going and the plot hasn’t changed one bit. It’s the literal embodiment of the change your homework meme

Bro, I hate how Star Darlings turned out so mediocre! 😭 It could've been such a good reverse magical girl concept that would be reminiscent of Angel & Friends, in a way

I think it's fascinating how the show gives off like 2000s "girl" cartoon vibes yet it has more modern 3D animation and somehow it gives me nostalgia even though I never watched it.

Name a more Gen-Z thing than someone looking like they're about to participate in an 80's glam rocker derby joking about wanting to die. I think that's ✨sparkly✨

Omg no one EVER talks abt star darlings finally its getting coverage lol

oh god i remember having a book about the characters and the girl with the star glasses and light pink colour scheme was the saddest one i remember. it was literally "her parents died at a young age, so she's afraid to let anyone close because she's afraid that they'll leave her like her parents did"

I used to see the “Up” music video on every Disney Channel commercial break. Then it just faded from existence

Star Darlings deserves so much more. 🌟

we saw that eah was cancelled due to competition with disney descendants, but star darlings was also cancelled to make more time for it too. i am so infuriated by that, one of disney’s own series cancelled for another disney franchise. and they have unrelated and not similar themes and ideas.

I'll admit, i'm a fan just cause i saw the animations and like them and the songs, but never read the books. And it's so disapointing seeing a fictional world with so much potential, with worldbuilding being its backbone. It could be as good or better than Winx i believe, but no, they do a teen school drama, very short and with no depth (on the animations), just exploring little bits of the universe and the girls and they relation with each other and it's all so little! I honestly watch It all again sometimes, i still like It, but i can say that i'm watching cause i'm bored and there's nothing better to watch, and cause i love the designs and world building

My thoughts summarized are: 1.) The book series needed a bit more thought when it came to the little language quirks. Like, someone really REALLY needed to hand an astrology book and a book on the science of outer space to the Author of the Star Darlings. So that way they could've been a bit more creative with the quirks. 2.) The books should've been longer and handled a bit more in depth and their wishes given a bit more time. I honestly think they missed out on a lot of funny shenanigans they could've had with the girls deal with normal Earth things and interacting with normal people. 3.) The books should've had a standalone animated series like Monster High and Ever After High, and not just some random quick mini itty bitty series. Like we actually get to see the girls go to earth and grant wishes and do the missions and solve the mystery, all that jazz. It really pisses me off that Disney -- multi billion dollar company -- couldn't shell out a couple grand to have more effort and marketing into the books and animation. Like... Seriously Disney?.... Seriously? I literally couldn't escape five seconds of my god damn time with your Descendants marketing, but it took me looking up Monster High and Ever After High just to have Star Darlings pop up in my youtube recommendations... Pathetic really.

I completely forgot about this show, just seeing the title brought back a lot of memories

The Star Darlings names have the first letters of the zodiac signs, for example Vega is Virgo, Saige is Sagittarius, Libby is Libra, etc.

Vivica is literally everything I look forward to in a "kids-oriented show" character - she is sassy, petty and weirdly keen to destroy the main characters' lives for literally no apparent reason (or very badly chosen one). I didn't really care about the 12s' books but when hers came along, god I literally devoured it. Justice for Viv!!!

Just a few days ago, I was like, “hey what happened to star darlings?” and went on a trip down memory lane. Perfect timing with this video!

star darlings was one of the most beautiful franchises i’ve seen. i have all the books and dolls, which are all so beautifully detailed. it’s such a shame that it didn’t stay around, i would’ve loved to see what else would happen/and what the other girls would look like as dolls.

I remember being a little bit addicted to Star Darlings because of the cute songs, pretty animations and also the story. Although it's not as good as any other animated series out there, it still has a huge part in my heart. Seeing that they just focused more on animating Descendants than this story is understandable yet makes me a little bit sad and the animation of Descendants always makes me remember about what happened to Ever After High which makes me more sad.

Lillie: “If my name is Lillie, what does it mean?”

"you can find the books you were still reading in middle school" this is guardian of ga'hoole erasure!

anybody remember the book series "magic tree house"? it was my favorite book series in 3rd grade and it really made history more interesting for me, the book series wasn't that popular in the school library (the Geronimo Stilton series was everybody's favorite) so I was able to borrow the books I wanted. Also, the 3D-ish art in star darlings is beautiful

Ok, but can we at least admit that the animation is beautiful with the stars and the glowing and the sparkles and the glitter? Also some of the songs are fire. **cough** Up **cough cough**

Their names are literally The Zodiac signs. I wouldn't have that much interest in this series, because it is not in any way my style of books (because I only read the best of childrens books, like Percy Jackson and KOTLC) But it seems kinda cool.

Does anyone else remember Novi Stars? I remember having one of the dolls and the theme song of the web series was always stuck in my head.

i was obsessed with their designs as a kid and i wanted the dolls!

I’m surprised Negative didnt include or mention the Star Darling dolls They were a pretty big deal when they came out, they didn’t last long though. They were short lived like the books and show.

This video just unlocked so many memories i used to like this show 😭 does anyone remember the BRATZ witches show? Edit: bratzillaz

I read (most of) the books as an adult, cause at the time I needed something very uncomplicated to relax my brain, and one thing that stood out to me a lot (aside the overuse of star-related neologisms) was that all of them took place in the USA, like the rest of the world was just water. That felt a) odd, b) missed opportunity, and c) very shallow. Though cover arts are pretty cute.

If we're talking about popular children's books, anyone remember Rainbow Magic?? I adore it, even now, it was just so fun

I loved this show so much when i was younger. the character designs, the way everything and everyone was so shiny, and the books were glorious. tysm for covering this show!

i loved star darlings when i was in high school. it seems like no one remembers it, though. i’m super excited to watch this one, negative!

I still listen to the song Wish Now and remember this show everytime. I even found one of the books @ Dollar Tree

I dunno, that 80's glam look floored me when you swapped to it. Almost makes me want to try it, and I look like a neanderthal had a baby with a mountain.

I saw the thumbnail and I was like "wth is Star Darlings?" and then it hit me like a truck. I cant believe I forgot about it and then suddenly remembered it

6:34 is why I shipped those 2 when I was a kid. To this day I still firmly believe that Cassie was trying to ask her out, saw Sage's reaction, realized Sage wasn't interested, and then added the friend line to fix things.

Aaa I remember star darlings! They had such pretty dolls I always wanted, with those glass inset eyes like Liv dolls or Bratzillas (another doll line I wish would come back)!

Omg I worked at the animation studio that did the animation for the shorts! I worked on an unrelated project, so this is all second hand knowledge, but there was actually supposed to be a full length series. However the dolls based on the characters did not sell as well as Disney had hoped (and I'm assuming books too, since you mentioned they're not very good?) and the whole project was scrapped. The animation studio ended up doing only the shorts and one "full-length" episode (22 mins) which was originally supposed to be the season finale. No idea if the reason I heard for cancellation was true or not, but stumbling on this was a bit of a blast from the past :)

Till this day I've never given up hope that it would come back. I was in the height of my interest for astrology when this came out so I looooved it but wasn't no one talking about it at the time.

THE BLUE LIPSTICK LOOK IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. A SERVE IF YOU WILL

Oh you should do "What happened to Puppy in my pocket" It was surprisingly an engaging show

Instead of "Starsalutations" should be "Starlutations". Just my opinion.

Ah, yes! Another one is following in the footsteps of Izzzyzzz. More artistic makeup would be a lovely sight!

THIS DUDE IS LITERALLY BRINGING BACK MY CHILDHOOD

This show is so underrated! I never seen anyone talk about it but here we are. Thanks for recaping the books because I only seen the show and didn't have the books because when I saw the finale for the first time, I was confused when Scarlett got kicked out of the SD and was replaced by Ophelia, etc. I finally get some closure for the series and I wish the books were animated and had more depth

I was really excited about Star Darlings! I'm sad that it didn't get more popular.

One of my favorite books when I was younger was Avalon: Web of Magic. It was such a fun series and the drawings within the books. I wish they'd done something with it. 10/10 would recommend the book if anyone's looking for a fun kid's series.

YESS FINALLY SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS

You know what's a good book series that is constantly slept on, GUARDIANS OF GAHOOLE

Ugh let’s talk about how they just dropped the doll line and I only recently found out they did make the band sets but they are pretty rare

I watched the last episode when I was in 6th grade, 12 years old at the time. Scarlet was my favorite. I'm 16 now and I always wondered what in the world happened to it as new episodes or videos from the Star Darlings channel never came out anymore. Thank you for making this video and bringing me back to part of my childhood, for one last time.

I was just watching one of your videos (the alice in the wonderland one) and when I saw the notification my brain was like: first, how dare you bring memories that I didn't even knew I had? And second, are you watching me? Anyway, I love your content. Don't forget to drink water.

thank you for covering this! it was so cool having a doll series based off the zodiacs and with such a pretty aesthetic, and for them to pour all the potential into books they never promoted was terrible especially considering the lackluster finale. i actually have sage’s book and theyre really good reads!

Disney really screwed over this series. Making 10 episodes of complete filler THEN decided to put things in the book in the very last finale of the show is asinine.

Let’s be real the romance genre is the easiest because if it’s duel POV and enemies to lovers, I’ll eat that ish up

Star Darlings definitely would've worked better as a tv show instead of a book series.

OMGGG THIS WAS ONE OF MY FAV CHILDHOOD ESPECIALLY THE SONGS- 😭❤

There’s a manga only disney princess. Also: wtf happened to Hanazuki?! I’m so salty they cancelled hanazuki, it was so cute and it actually really helped me.

I suspect that reason for its mysterious abrupt ending is due to it being too creative, and modern Disney, ever since Bob Iger took over, almost always distrusts, rejects and fears creativity since new material, to them, is always risky, like any art or science. All because of corporate-think and Iger's shortsighted monopoly.

i really liked star darling as a kid and i had two books about the series. i kinda miss it.

I remember reading those books I believe I had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8. Although I seem to have lost 7 and 5 at some point but I remember reading Scarlet (5) and Piper (7). I remember seeing one of the songs on Disney channel during commercial breaks a while after I had read the books. I really like how there’s little pain splotches on the inside of the pages, gives the books more life.

I remember my favorite thing about star darlings wasn’t the books or show (I didn’t even know the plot), it was the dolls. I always wanted the dolls but they never had the characters I wanted in stock :( I was surprised you didn’t mention them in this video! They always looked high quality to me.

If Disney Plus airs a live action Star Darlings series that would bring all the books and the canceled stories to life then that would make it better than it was before and I have this kind of dream cast right now since they're a lot of characters introduced in the books 1. Millie Bobby Brown as Sage 2. Paulina Chavez as Libby 3. Storm Reid as Leona 4. Lana Condor as Vega 5. Daniella Rose Russell as Scarlet 6. Emily Skinner as Cassie 7. Iman Vellani as Piper 8. Ashley Liao as Astra 9. Becky G as Tessa 10. Olivia Rodrigo as Adora 11. Hailee Steinfeld as Clover 12. Madison Taylor Baez as Gemma 13. Anya Taylor-Joy as Vivica 14. Joey King as Ophelia 15. Elizabeth Banks as Lady Stella 16. Kathryn Hahn as Lady Cordial/Lady Rancora 17. Ben Schwartz as MO-J4 18. Judi Dench as Professor Elera Ursa 19. Cody Simpson as Ganymede 20. Emma Thompson as Professor Dolores Raye 21. Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Professor Ungeina Bright 22. Michael Douglas as Professor Findley Claxworth 23. Lady Gaga as Professor Illumia Wickes 24. Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas as Professor Lucretia Delphinus 25. Michelle Pfeiffer as Professor Margaret Dumarre 26. Karen Gillian as Professor Nicola Cecelia 27. Bradley Cooper as Professor Rupert Dag 28. Kathryn Newton as Young Stella 29. Ariela Barer as Young Cora 30. Christine Baranski as Lady Astrid

Was I the only one who thought Scarlet was half-human? I haven't read her book but I always thought they were building to something with her desire to go Earth. And the fact she called it "Earth" stood out to me

Oh god the nostalgia from the title, I have the books somewhere in my room

I think this is the first topic you've covered that I have exactly zero knowledge on, so I'm interested.

Does anyone remember the book mouse soup? Frog and Toad? amelia bedelia? Junie B Jones? Dork Diaries? Or the bad case of stripes? Great childhood ✨🤍

Speaking of Disney IP's everyone forgets anyone remember Spectrobes? A line of original video-games Disney interactive made.

I'll be honest, I've never heard of this series/franchise until now.

With Halloween on the horizon it would be nice to see something like Ruby Gloom or Scary Godmother get the "what happened to" treatment. Something about gothic children's shows like those got a cult following in the 2000s, but never seemed to last long. If you didn't see them at the time they were popular, then you probably missed out.

Damn I remember this series, sad I dont remember any of it 💀

The dolls were high quality, I still want to buy one for my collection. I never read the books, but visually I always liked the series, the animated series could have used a little bit less of the glow effect because most of the time it was hard to watch because of it.

Dude, I only ever read the first book and am still so sad that nothing about it exists anymore

I remember star darlings!!! That theme song was awesome-

PLEASE I WAS LITERALLY THINKING ABOUT THEM A WHILE AGO thank you for this blessing

I hope star darling comes back

Damn, Star Darlings just isn't doing it for you? Oh well. At least you know it exists and put it out there. The concept and worldbuilding had so much potential it's a shame that Disney won't do more with it. A lot of fans out there complain that the webisodes don't follow the continuity of the books, and that's one flaw that I do agree with. It's like there are 2 different teams working on different projects under the same franchise but never checked with each other, and that's probably what happened. To those of you who aren't aware, there are 2 other SD properties that Negative didn't mention in this video (besides the doll line) + (KZfaq won't let me post links here) : 1) There was a Star Darlings mobile app game. It's got multiple story arcs with each Star Darling character (mainly focus on Sage, Libby, Leona, Vega, Scarlet) + choose a dialogue, dress up, trivia, etc. Sadly it was taken down from the app store ages ago. There's a gameplay video on KZfaq if you look for it. 2) There was a one-shot comic printed in a Disney UK magazine. It has long since been sold out but there was someone who managed to get their hands on it and post it on Tumblr for all to see. Handle is @ herebeminis Also back in 2017, someone asked the co-creator of SD on Twitter, Shana Muldoon Zappa, if the show is on hiatus and will there be any more content. Zappa replied "Stay tuned...There is more to come!" And then nothing happened after that. No new books, new episodes, new dolls, nothing. There's a screenshot of it posted on "nataliezworld . com" blog as proof.

OMG YESSSS I've been waiting for you to cover this. We need more Star Darlings stans.

Too bad Disney fumbled this project. With the right people, this concept could have been fun! Awesome video! You're hysterical 😊❤

My favorite book from when I was younger will always be dear dumb diary because even though it was written by a grown man they were still incredibly relatable as a teenage girl. If they were still coming out I would still read them

Absolutely love the makeup in this video! I swear you can pull off literally any look you want flawlessly.

I never heard of star darlibgs before. But you Make exploring franchises fun so i'm not complaining

The songs are some of the best Disney released, musically and lyrically. Also better than some of the "magical girls" cartoons where the girls form a band.

This is the first one I've actually never heard of but I love the character designs for the show. I definitely would've been into this if it came out a few years before

This makes me so saddd 😭😭 tbh by the time the star darlings came out I was about 12 or 13 so I wasn’t watching Disney as much but THEY HAD GOOD MUSIC. That “up” song was unironically good and if it actually had a series I think it would’ve done decently. It’s funny because any time I bring up the star darlings no one ever remembers 💀

I was wondering about the Star Darlings! I bought my daughter one of the books from Dollar Tree and she loved it so much she wanted the products and dolls for it. By now they were all expensive and the only thing I could afford was a poster. I always wondered what the deal with them were.

I am an apprentice at a public library & help out a lot in the children's section. The ungodly amount of Erin Hunter books is so hard to handle in seasons when people return a lot of books, mainly because it's hard to always keep space on the shelves for at least 30 books of *one single author*. Same with the Diary of the Whimpy Kid series. We have a at least three copies of every single book & if they happen to get back in masses we have to push & shove all the books on the rest of the shelves around to create remotely enough space.

Something that sincerely pisses me off with a lot of the new stuff Disney is releasing is the obvious lack of thought under the guise of marketing. They're trying to reach a target audience that finds interest in this new, brilliant, glittery series at first, but then it slowly levels out to the point where nobody pays attention anymore because it's poorly written and animated. All for the sake of getting more income. Disney. A multi-billion dollar company. Has poorly written and animated content. _Blasphemy_ but I'm _not surprised._ They _SEE_ how the well-written and well-animated content sells, right? Literally name any popular Disney series and I guarantee it's been highly successful because there was thought put into it and people passionately worked on it for _years._ Not to say they haven't with Star Darlings or anything else, but... there could bear to be some changes that could've made a difference. I'm a writer too. I get creativity - pure fiction - is difficult. Trust me, I know. I'm having trouble developing my own series right now because there's so much to think about and develop. Originality ain't easy in this day and age either. Especially when you get a good idea like this _and it just goes down the drain._ I also see why they may hesitate to put so much money towards a new series because you never know how it's going to do. Yeah, that makes more sense. It's all about the money. It's never about the content itself anymore. Honestly I'm starting to believe it never was. _Also Disney, that is a bold freaking move saying "Women Rights" when you have a history of sexism yourself, but good on you._

YAS!!! Finally, I’ve been waiting for this video!!! I miss this show so much, Disney took off one fo their best animated shows, and it still angers me to this day!!!

I only found out about this story cause I got a hard copy of one of the books for free when I went to a back to school fair with my siblings. I've yet to read it but I honestly might now

What Happened to Skyland Story The story of Skyland revolves around a rebellion organized by former guardian Mila, a powerful Seijin and the pirate Marcus; with whom Mila has fallen in love. Together they persuade the various bands of pirates to band together to launch a rebellion. The rebellion initially sees success but something goes horribly wrong while the Rebels are liberating a Sphere-controlled block. Many pirates are killed, Marcus vanishes, and the rebellion is all but destroyed. Mila takes their two young children, a son named Mahad and a Seijin daughter called Lena, and escapes to Babylonia, in the heart of the Sphere-controlled zone. She stays there for 12 years, hiding both her daughter’s and her own Seijin abilities as she raises her children on a small farm. But Oslo never forgot her, or his fascination for the prophecy and his belief that Mila is the Lady of Light and they were the ones mentioned in the prophecy. In the year 2251, his Guardians finally locate her. Mila fights back but is captured and taken away to Karzhem, Skyland’s most secure prison. The location can only be pinpointed by the sphere, not the resistance because it moves to unpredictable locations. Though Mila dismisses the prophecy and his belief that they are the ones it referred to, Oslo comes to believe that the Lady of Light is actually Lena, especially given that her powers exceed her mother's. Her children, before Mila is located, are sent away in a stolen Sphere ship with instructions to find a man known as the Vector. Mahad, a 17-year-old pilot, and Lena, 12 years old and already a powerful Seijin, are shot down and then rescued by a small group of pirates led by Captain Cortez. They join the resistance, determined to find their mother, free Skyland, and learn more about the father. Oslo has plans of his own: to capture Lena and fulfill the prophecy, ruling Skyland.

"OH my stars, that really is wish world" Who's her VA sounds familiar

I liked the series. Its sad that it never became an actual cartoon just like 3 episodes.

i seriously thought star darlings was a dream

I think the last time, I looked forward to Scholastic releases was when they were publishing the first (entirely in color) collection of Jeff Smith's Bone series (which I first read through Disney Adventures). Back in the day (and before I got into Redwall books), I was big fan of Goosebumps, and Animorphs (particularly, the books written from Rachel's perspective, which retrospectively was probably a clue that I was likely not cisgender).

I love your unofficial “What happened to...”

Thanks to you, I finally know what happens to this serie. In my country, the books never came to the libraries, but the animated shorts were shown EVERY. SINGLE. COMMERCIAL. BREAKS. I thought it was a new show and I was pretty hyped to see it, but my expectations were never fullfiled.