The Powerpuff Girls Ain't Dead Yet
 

Call it evolution, this news of an upcoming Powerpuff Girls ANIME is bound to keep people talking for a while:

This was presented at the Tokyo international animation fair, and yes people, this is actually NOT a joke, it's REAL, 100% GENUINE.

The series will premiere under the title of "Powerpuff Girls Z", as you can see, the Girls look closer to the drawings used in the popular PPG Doujshini comic strip found on the 'Net

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...s/PPGAnime.jpg

Now, before I hear the usual "PPG Sold out?" questions, keep in mind the original girl designs was heavily inspired by Astro Boy.

Wow. I actually do hope that one is real.

Good gravey.

Let's just hope it can be as funny as the Powerpuff Girls were at their best. And let's hope that the anime gets the American cast for the dub (that could make it even funnier).

I'd certainly watch it. I've seen some episodes of the Powerpuff Girls in Japanese, apparantly it's rather popular over there.

Cool, I do like that idea... hehe, I wonder what the Japanese will make from it.

Are they nuts?! They gave Buttercup a weopon?! :o

That Buttercup....she's such a Raphael type... and yes she's my fave PPG.... :lol:

But the Professor looks like Elvis now :ohwell:

I'm not afraid to say that I watched Powerpuff Girls whenever they were on, and I really like what they did to them. The anime look suits them pretty well.

So did everybody else...at least until they released the movie, after which Mckraken left the series and it completly fell apart

So that's why it never felt the same after the movie...interesting....I liked it...especially the early stuff...it was hilarious...

thats cool. i still watch the show occasionally on cartoon network.

what makes me think is are they gonna be the same age as they were in the origonal series, or are they gonna be teens. from the looks of it, they are way taller than they once were

Well, they're kindergartners in the original series, so that would make them 7 years at the very oldest (kindergartners are usually 5 or 6, 7 is an extreme).

So in order for them to have that kind of build, they'd have to be teenagers in this new series.

But, of course, this is anime we're talking about. And anime seems to be all about 10 year olds with huge breasts for some reason. My guess is the age of consent in Japan is anything past a fetus.

*nods* good point... :lol:

Age of consent in Japan is 13. That's ridiculous.

.....why. That is so wrong.

I suppose that explains Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors and hentai.

Go Japan!?!??

I guess so.

I don't know if I should say "Go Japan!" or "....EWW! BAD JAPAN! *whack*" :lol:

No! Don't! That's exactly what they WANT you to do!!

;)

That's true....hmm..oh well.

Back to this...discussion thing here. If it will be anime style, I'm expecting big guns (both kinds), sweat drops, falling over to bad jokes, and maybe full episodes of just a bunch of people talking. I can't wait to see it. :D

EDIT: How could I have forgotten giant robots?

Sounds like most everything the show already has...just drawn better.

I'm more looking forward to the villains. I wanna see an bad*ss Fuzzy Lumpkins.

Not as if the original did'nt do that already...

here a web-comic featuring anime style of the Powerpuff Girls.
http://bleedman.snafu-comics.com/

I'm not sure how Cardcaptor Sakura fits in that ?(

And Yes they need to bring back the original voice cast. at the very least, Tara Strong ;)

You've never seen the original version have you?

It ain't exactly a Kids W.B show, there are lesbian and gay undertones in it.

Actually, That's the only version I've seen. I was watching it Via fansubs when it was new in Japan. But it's not perverted, Tomoyo just is in love with Sakura. and it comes off Very Sweet and Innocent.

The only Gay overtone is Yuki and Sakura's brother, and they never even actually say anything about it. They just come across as gay.

There's no panty shots, they don'tuse the girls as sex objects. But Of course what do I know. I'm apparently an idiot.

Well, not in the OFFICIAL show...

(reads Hentai mangas)

More like a 7 year old.

Take a look at this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...2466393969.jpg

And I heard Toei was going to animate this project.

Not digging these new "powers" they have. I'll reserve judgement until I see em in action, but it looks like "just another magical girl anime" when Powerpuff Girls was entertaining on several levels. I can understand Bubbles having...bubbles, and Blossom having a mallet...but why does Blossom have a yo-yo? What's that got to do with her personality.

Hopefully, because this is deemed a "kid's show", the Japanese won't feel the need to dumb it down so much that it only appeals to children and retarded otakus. But Japan DOES have a reputation for doing that. You should see how they butchered Transformers half the time...

Did you see what they did to TMNT with that "Super Turtles" crap? Although I gotta admit it was kinda funny, though...

Hmm...not what I was really expecting from this, the animation just looks crap, especially by Toei standards if there the guys producing it.

It seems Japan have no faifth in characters that are'nt thier own developing with what they already possess, so they provide them new abilities to make them appeal more to thier audiences, most of which include combining thier chracters into one being, this almost ALWAYS happens. Transformers, Digimon, Shinzo, you name it, they've done it, expect us to see all of the PPGs to form thier retarded fourth sister "Bunny"

I thought it was hilarious. One thing I enjoy is Japanese versions of American cartoons, and vice-versa. They butcher our stuff just as much as we butcher there's.

Another horrible Japanese attempt at a fine American icon was the Spider-Man manga from the 70's.

Here's a taste of the idiocy...

Origin of the Lizard:

A scientist (not named Kurt Conners, he had some Japanese name I can't remember off the top of my head) for a pharmacutical corporation was exploring in an African jungle when his partner double-crossed him and shoved
him off a cliff. He woke up in a valley populated by giant reptiles. In order to survive he acted like the reptiles and eventually his body underwent a "Darwinian change" (their words, not mine). And now he's able to transform into the Lizard at will!

Yeah...BAD.

Imagine the japanese coming with a Garfield anime... :dead:

Good lord...What is THAT?

Hmmm...

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PANEL 1

Odie: Aafu! Aafu!

Garfield: Odie-chan o nametteijanai da yo!

PANEL 2

*Odie licks Garflied*

Garfield: Yamero!

PANEL 3

Garfield: Boku wa shimeru...

PANEL 4

*Garfield falls over*

Odie: Aafu! Aafu!
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Yeah, the Japanese and Jim Davis have a lot in common...stale humour and cliches.

Spider-Man's Japanease action series...produced by the same guys behind Sentai, aka the source material for Power Rangers.

And yes...he had a giant robot.

This looks awesome to me!! I can't wait to see it!
I totally love the Power Puff Girls! This is such a treat! :D

One thing I don't like about this new design is how the Professor looks...
He looks to be about the same age as them... To me that's just odd. He's supposed to be like, a father figure to the girls.
He just doesn't look right to me... :ohwell:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...s/PPGAnime.jpg

The girls look great. But the Professor should be tall and strapping.

The anime looks kinda...scary. :lol: It could be good, we'll just have to wait and see.

Anyway, I've had the pleasure of reading Bleedman's doujinshi series and highly recommend it! It's very good, so go read it!

It looks good, but the girls look too much like Astro Boy. :lol:

Well it's official.... PPGZ that is.... Found some info on it on one of the news sites I go to:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/

At the recent Tokyo Animation Fair, Toei Animation, Aniplex and Cartoon Network announced a new series tentatively titled DAMESHITAA! POWERPUFF GIRLS Z. So the POWERPUFF GIRLS, an American cartoon that was originally inspired by Japanese anime, has now been optioned by the Japanese and translated back into a very conventional-looking piece of TV anime. Noticeable differences in the new version are that the Powerpuff Girls are now older, have fingers instead of stub-hands, carry weapons, and the Professor has been turned into an angry-looking preschooler.

They each have weopons: Blossom has what appears to be a yoyo, Bubbles has umm..bubbles?, and Buttercup has a hammer:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/do...0401/taf33.jpg

And it appears somebody else beat me to showing the stills from the pilot ep....this is gonna be rather interesting....oh well the PPG are back....and all grown up!