Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about SHIMMER AND SHINE!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Shimmer and Shine is an American animated television series, created by Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz . the series is based on an unreleased pilot from 2013, and premiered on Nickelode the second season is set in a magical land where Shimmer and Shine live . the characters are transported to Zahramay Falls, where the genies reside . in the first season, Leah reveals her Zeta’s dragon, Nazboo, loves cleaning, glitter, and collecting genie bottles . her pet is a gibbon monkey named Tala. Shine – a courageous genie with purple eyes and blue Shine is an animal lover and is often hungry . her pet is a Bengal tiger cub named Nahal . Unlike her sister, she hates cleaning . Leah is a blonde girl with green eyes who owns a genie bottle necklace . although Shimmer and Shine usually mess up her wishes, she is patient and forgiving . in the first season, he is oblivious to the fact that Leah has genies . he responds to something strange or unusual happening in a carefree manner . in the second season he princess Samira is the ruler of Zahramay Falls . she is in charge of checking up on all the genies in training . despite Zeta being her self-proclaimed rival, she likes Zet Zeta the sorceress is a resident of Zahramay Falls with green eyes and purple hair . she is Princess Samira’s rival and wishes to replace her as the most powerful person . her plans before becoming a sorceress, she was a genie-in-training under Empress Caliana along with Samira, whom Zeta befriended as a new student . she later quit school Kaz has a pet Ziffilon named Zain, who summoned by one of Zac’s wishes . though he and Zac get along well, he occasionally becomes unenthusiastic when granting Caliana was the one who gave Samira her special necklace back when she was a little genie-in-training . she is also old friends with Rohan, the normally shy crystalline golem that guards the captain Zora – a pirate genie who is Shine’s idol . she is absentminded at times and can be very clumsy and forgetful, especially when she is on an adventure . captain Layla (voiced by Danica McKellar) is an ice genie who is a good friend of Princess Samira . she originally lived in a genie bottle buried on a sandy beach in Za Nila (voiced by Mila Brener in US, and Kimani Arthur in UK) – a mermaid who lives in the waters near Zahramay Falls . she helps the girls obtain the Mermai Nila and the girls obtain the gem by befriending its lonely Guardian . she teaches them the spell to activate the gem’s power which can both transform into Mermaids and undo the transformation allowing the girls to Ayla (voiced by Liliana Mumy) is a hair-changing genie who has the power to change hairstyles . minu is flitter genie and Afina lives in a glitter Nadia (voiced by Brittany Snow in season 3 and Lana McKissack in season 4) is the Dream Genie who is the only genie capable of granting wishes involving dreams . she is also in Ezri (voiced by Gunnar Sizemore) – Nadia’s assistant who like Nadia knows about everybody in Zahramay Falls as he recognizes Leah, Shimmer, Shine, shaun (voiced by Ramone Hamilton) is Shaya’s twin brother who’s a cloud genie . Tala is Shimmer’s pet gibbon monkey . she has green eyes and wears Rocket is Zac’s pet beagle who appears in several episodes of the first season and reappears in the third season . he is a rambunctious dog with a tendency to dro the only pet native to Leah and Zac’s world, he eventually is wished to Zahramay Falls by Zac though is mistakenly seen as a monster by genies like Kaz and animals native he is generally more considerate of others and prefers to play fair in competitions . he befriended Zeta when she came to Manetikar to find a dragon for a pet . in Zeta’s attempt to make one of the larger flying dragons her pet failed . he agreed and went home with her to her lair in Zahramay Falls, where he has lived ever since . Parisa – Leah’s pet Zahramay fox who possesses the ability to camouflage herself, making her practically invisible, whenever she wants . she also has a talent for painting . Zac uses one of his wishes to wish up a pet Ziffilon for Kaz . Zain is by far the largest of the pets, as he is big enough for Kaz to ride on his back . like most Zoomicorns – Winged Unicorns native to Zahramay Falls and Rainbow Zahramy introduced in the second season . there is also a game called zoomicorn toss, where players ride flying Scallywag flies around by spinning her tail in helicopter like fashion . her magic goes out of control when scared, causing random magic effects . Nazboo and his siblings tend to get into trouble when they are together Nazboo’s sister Razboo has purple scales and wears a dark pink bow on her head . his brother Kazboo has dark green scales, a purple mohawk, while his brother Frank has blue scales Zahrora, Zoomdust, and Zadazzle – three Zarahcorns . Dahliza – Princess Adara’s Zarehcorn . Fuzzle Whuzzles – Little creatures the pilot was created by Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz, who previously worked on Dora the Explorer . it was ordered to series by Nickelodeon in march 2014 . Shimmer and Shine was renewed for a fourth season consisting of 20 episodes . the fourth season premiered October 20, 2018. Season 4 was eventually increased to 26 episodes. “, 6 on each DVD.