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Powerpuff Girls Z

By Bobby /Jan 22, 2007
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[filed under film b/c someone forgot to create a tv category! -ed.]

Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the trio of cute crimefighters known as the Powerpuff Girls have come back in a Japanese television animated series called Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z.  But this time they are 13 year old Tokyo schoolgirls, and they have digits. 

In the new series the storyline has been adapted.  For example the girls are no longer sisters created by Professor Utonium like in the Cartoon Network series, Chemical X has been replaced by Chemical Z (Powerpuff Girls Z—duh!) and the sinister Mojo Jojo is no longer a former lab monkey which was actually a nice Oedipal twist in the original.  Due to exposure from the mysterious Chemical Z, the three schoolgirls can now transform into their super-powered alteregos with a glitzy power up sequence that hasn’t been seen since Sailor Moon.  Of course the characters have been redesigned from looking like cartoons to the anime aesthetic but they still maintain their characteristic color coding.

The series debuted on TV Tokyo on July 2006, but we haven’t heard of any plans to bring the new Powerpuff Girls to the States which is fairly odd if you think about a Japanese series coming to America based on an American series that was inspired by Japanese anime.  Sugoi!

For more info on Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z: Wikipedia

Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z opening sequence