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Step aside, Cinderella and Snow White, there’s a new princess in town and she’s kicking butt. The new Disney XD series Star vs. the Forces of Evil doesn’t officially debut until March 30, but the fandom has already started for animated princess Star Butterfly (Eden Sher) and her earthling bestie, Marco (Adam McArthur). Ahead of the show’s premiere, a second season has already been ordered, a concept that stunned even its star.

The buzzy adventure comedy comes from artist and creator Daron Nefcy, and it follows Star, a wand-toting teen princess from another dimension whose royal parents send her to Earth to live with the Diaz family. Star and her BFF Marco Diaz give her wand a workout as they battle villains — and not just the kind in their high school hallways.

In this exclusive Star vs. the Forces of Evil clip from the episode “School Spirit,” Star shows off her school spirit (or at least her protective nature) after she overhears that her high school’s football team is going to “get slaughtered” by the competition. Turns out the lingo on Earth is different than in her home dimension of Mewni, so Marco will have to do damage control, pronto.

In addition to the sneak peek, Star’s Sher (who also plays adorkable teen Sue Heck on ABC’s The Middle) talks to Yahoo TV about her voice acting debut, who she considers to be her real-life Marco, and what she’d do with her own magic wand if she had one. (Hint: It’s awesome.)

First of all, I can’t get Star’s theme song out of my head. That is the greatest song.

Right? The first time I heard it, I was like [starts singing theme song]. I know, it’s so great. I [need to find out] the name of the band who did it.

I’ve been singing it all day. Anyway, so your new show, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, was already renewed for a second season ahead of the premiere. How does that happen?

You tell me! I don’t know. I was so… I was like, “Does that happen? Is that a thing that happens in life?” I was like, wow, these fools that have put that much faith in me.

It is incredible and it doesn’t happen often.

No, and you know what, I shouldn’t have even been so self-aggrandizing to think that they’re putting faith in me. The faith is more in Daron and the team. They’re all amazing.

Well, I think it’s in you, too. I know the show got a lot of buzz at Comic-Con. Do you know anything about how fans and social media played a part in generating interest for the show before it even aired?

I kind of do my job and then let other people do that kind of thing. I heard about it — I mean the response — and it was like, cool, I’m glad that it matches my response to it, which is probably the same, but of equal or greater value. … So, I’m sure it played a part. I remember seeing a lot of, like, as soon as I went in to record the last few episodes, there was, like, they already had an entire wall of fan art.

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