Demashitaa! PowerPuff Girls Z

Okay what the hell. I was excited about this before when it was revealed but to my surprise the new PowerPuff Girls anime actually turns out to be a lot of fun and fairly well animated. I kind of wish it had more of the visual effects that the original PowerPuff Girls show had such as trailing speed lights and explosions but the anime counterpart manages to take stereotypical magical girl material and splice it with the original's setup and humor pretty well.

Instead of being born from chemical X via some accident it's now an accident where a daifuku is accidentally dropped into chemical X to create a new chemical, chemical Z. Somehow the world climate goes wacky with Tokyo turning into a snowland along with Egypt and Venice drying up, and well you get the idea. So the son of the professor, Ken, loads up some kind of ray gun with chemical Z and blasts one of mountains of snow causing the world climate to go back to normal somehow. However, this sends tons of odd particles of chemical Z everywhere. Three normal girls end up protecting kids from getting hit by these particles and when struck get their powerpuff girl powers which causes crazy spaztastic well-animated henshin sequences. So anyway the girls who play Bubbles and Buttercup don't think too much of it except that it's odd or inconvenient. Blossom on the other hand gets a first encounter with a chimpanzee who's been struck by Chemical Z who, you guessed it, has turned into Mojojojo.

Anyway, I'd say the whole henshin sequence, Professor having a son, being located in Tokyo, having a mascot dog, magical girl setup with devices and weapons, and creation story are what separates this show from the original. There are plenty of references and old characters to the original series that make this show fun. It's almost to the point that the characters make fun of themselves. In the first episode the girls get tired out so right when Mojo is going to lay the smackdown they just zip down to the streets below and eat some ice cream. Confused, Mojo goes down and joins them. It's silly moments like this that really make the show for me and I'll be sure to watch it more in the future.

The OP and ED songs are a bit weak compared to the original series but they work.

Anyway, give it a look. If you were a fan of the original show then you should enjoy this show.

Seriously, you don't need to understand Japanese at all if you've seen the show so go ahead and click on the links below if you're at all curious.



Youtube links:
Powerpuff Girls Z episode 1
Powerpuff Girls Z episode 2-1
Powerpuff Girls Z episode 2-2
Opening
Ending


Raw torrents:
Episode 01


Fansub torrents:
Doremi-Fansubs (#Doremi @ irc.rizon.net) & Fighting Magic (#FightingMagic @ irc.rizon.net)
Episode 01
Episode 02

TV-Nihon (#TV-Nihon @ irc.zirc.org)
Episode 01
Episode 02
Episode 03 - NEW!

Expect updates in this thread

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Originally Posted by K_ Takahashi

I suppose that this now fits in with the 'Magical Girl' genre. I also dont know what beef you have with the OP/ED, they sound decent (come on single!!!!).

No, I don't really mind the OP/ED. In fact I find the Engrishy ED to be quite hilarious but they're weak compared to the opening and ending sequence for the original PPG show. Doesn't quite pack the same punch. It's just a comparison. I know they're completely different and as I said the OP/ED for the anime work and they're fine but it probably could have been better.

Originally Posted by K_ Takahashi

It seems that Doremi fansubs (w/ fightingmagic) are going to sub this, so I have a backup for whenever the shitty dub comes out I'll have something to fall back on.

Ah good ol' Doremi subbing interesting shows and subbing the show they're named after but I love 'em anyway.

Actually I'm quite looking forward to the dub as it stands to gain a lot if pulled off properly. I'd be real interested in seeing the original PPG VA gang getting together again and dubbing this. It could infact prove to be better in a Samurai Pizza Cats kind of way and if you've seen that show then you know exactly how awesome that would be.

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Um, what did you say? No offense, but I didn't understand those first two sentences.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm pretty sure the daifuku that dropped into Chemical X is a sweet so that kind of plays on the whole sugar, spice, and everything nice setup. =p

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Wow, this PowerPuff Girls Z stuff is really serious business, huh Keym? =/

I was speaking idiomatically.

That's very tragic. What kind of a god would allow this to happen?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah, the original had it's bad and great days as well. Sometimes it had some really fun writing like the Beat-alls episode where most of the dialogue was plays off of Beatles song lyrics or titles and they used a monkey called Yoko to break up the band of misfits.

Really, the whole icecream and autograph and Mojo versus Blossom initial face-off were all in the feel of the original show.

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Japanese society has crushed the PPGs for you, eh. Hmmm... I wonder what would have happened if they took a more Super Milk-chan approach to it.

Anyway episode two is out and T-N has translated both it and episode one so I'll add links and info for them in the first post. Enjoy!

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