It's been a while since I read this one but I stumbled across it again and remembered how much I loved the series when I first started. This comic was delightful, the art was stunning and the writing made you feel like you were best friends with the characters.

Graphic novel adaptation of the "Origins" episodes of the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir animated series. The art is recycled stills/screencaps from the show and is a pretty faithful, if not exact, adaptation of the aforementioned episodes. Hopefully there will be more original art/stories for future graphic novels since Miraculous an all-ages series that is is steadily growing in popularity.

Marinette is a high school girl often pushed around by her peers, especially when the handsome new student Adrien enters. Mysterious gems are released, and Marinette obtains one. So does Adrien. The gems give them superpowers and costumes, transforming them from ordinary teenagers into Lady Bug and Cat Noir, There are other gems out in the world, and anyone that obtains all of the gems would have absolute power.

Hawk Moth's gem allows him to transfer a bit of his power into devoted followers, so he decides to imbue followers to become super villains to draw out heroes. Once he captures them, Hawk Moth intends to collect the gems and keep them for himself.

Based on the ZAG Entertainment TV show, the manga tells the story of how Lady Bug and Cat Noir first became superheroes. Much like the show, the manga focuses on the heroics of Marinette and Adrien in their alter ego form, as well as the high school drama. They learn important lessons about being courageous and fair and learning to understand how others think and feel.

Much of the artwork is drawn from stills of the show, which will delight fans. As a very graphics-intensive early pdf copy, however, pages loaded very slowly on my computer. Still, it was worth the wait and was a great way to recap the series and early episodes (which I had missed).

I am a grown woman and I still loved this book. Not only was it a story I was highly interested in, I felt that it was great addition to show. It's everything fans of the shows, regardless of their age, want and came to love about the franchise.

Odd but decent origin story adaptation of the children's cartoon.

*Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review*

I prefer the animated version that this one. I liked this adaptation since I've already watched almost all the episodes, I thought there was going to be something new here but no, it's the same first episode. The artwork is the same as well.
I would've liked to know something more about the real Origins, the powers and everything and not just how they obtained their powers and met each other.