Samurai Pizza Cats
 

Does anyone remember the anime cartoon, Samurai Pizza Cats. It was a dub notorious for being hilarious and completely different from the original. I watched this on UPN when I was 9.

I watched it as a kid and really liked it. More recently I was mildly obsessed with watching episodes of the show in Japanese and then watching them in English just to see how incredibly different they are. The tone isn't even the same. I think the story behind how the dub was made is really interesting.

Also got Kyattou Ninden Teyandee for the Famicom a couple months ago and it's pretty great.

How well has it aged? I've wanted to see it in recent years but never gotten around to it. I think I'd watch the american version since it seems to be more interesting than the actual show.

The dub holds up surprisingly well. The writing is so weird and off the wall that it stands the test of time. At least for the most part.

Is this stuff on DVD yet? As a kid I was convinced that it was just a "bad TMNT ripoff" (didn't even realize it was Japanese) due to the name. But later I found out otherwise and as such I've literally never seen a single episode.

Not sure why I singled this out considering I watched C.O.W.Boys and Street Sharks and hell even during that brief period I was super into Power Rangers, I watched Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills.

I have the Kyatto Ninden on dvd...much prefer that to the Samurai Pizza cats...

Why is that?

You don't say!? Never saw the one coming!

This is the same person who prefers Next Mutation to the 80s TMNT 'toon, opinion is therefore invalid

I loved SPC as a kid, and I still enjoy it now. I don't trust myself to evaluate it objectively, though: people will have to look at the episodes and decide for themselves, because my nostalgia-goggles are pretty thick.

But I can still be critical of it. One flaw is that once you know it's a dub, moments where the character's words don't match their facial expressions, however funny they are, keep standing out to you. And a lot of the jokes are dated, referring to nineties pop culture. And yes, it is a formulaic show. If you don't like the characters, jokes, or the artwork, it's pretty much the same thing every episode: some wacky thing happens in town, the bad guys make a robot, and the Pizza Cats have to destroy it.

All that, and it's hard not to notice that the Big Cheese is really supposed to be a fox. :)

But I can't help myself. I just absolutely love it.

And yes, it is available on DVD right now. Discotek Media licensed it:

http://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Pizza-...rai+pizza+cats