Aug 11, 2009
Although I not a big fan of PPG I really enjoyed this series. And because it's based the Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, I will compare them too.
The CN's series was an attemt to make a japanese style cartoon in America (just look at it: chibi characters with big eyes, magical girl feeling - schoolgirls turn ito heroes - that's not typical in the US.)
This series is a kind of "We show you a real japanese PPG". So the Aniplex made a franzische with some modifications.
First the changed the situation: to show it's an improvement of the US series, the Chemical X get
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a new ingredient and becomes Chemical Z.
Second: the girls get they power instead of they created by the professor. Also the girls are older now (not kindergarten aged, they go to school). The professor is less clumsy but he has a hasty son who makes up this shortage.
As a typical magical girl anime, the girls have to transform. The robot pet Peach's voice needed to trigger the transformation. They have weapons too (that's also typical) - but less superpowers.
Now the same things: the character names are the same as in the US series, each part is contains two episodes. Naturally the scene is changed to Tokyo.
The music also confirm the feeling that this is an "answer" or parody of the US series: the used music styles give some american feeling. During Blossom's and Bubble's transformation we can hear two typical 70's, 80's disco beat and during Buttercup's transformation I waited Madonna to start singing "Music". XD Even, the first ending is like the "Skater boy" from Avril Lavigne especially the ending's intro like Skater boy's intro
On the whole I really like this series (and the US prequel too)
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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