Did you know that Powerpuff Girls Z was a thing ?

[Deleted member 2791]

You probably know about the OG Powerpuff Girls cartoon. You probably also know about the recent Cartoon Network reboot that got cancelled with how awful and out of place it was despite reusing the same artstyle.

But did you know about Powerpuff Girls Z (or Zeta in glorious french speaking countries) ? It aired while I moved to other cartoons as a kid but I distinctively remember it because of how different it was. If you're in the US you probably don't know since it never aired there AFAIK. I realized that while talking cartoons with an US friend and how weird the convo went when I mentionned this.

It's basically a magical girl version of the cartoon. anime. It was super popular in Europe but man it's so funny looking at a japanese adaptation of an US show. They're even eating ramen despite that everything still takes place in an american-inspired city!

what does this revelation (if it's even one) inspires you, era

 

[Lord Vatek]

I learned about that a while ago but my reaction was basically: "Powerpuff Girls got an anime spin-off? Yeah that sounds about right".

 

[Bard]

Yes, I did.

It's ok, we don't need to talk about it.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Indeed. Never watched it, I think, but I knew about it.

This made me look up the name of a project that I had thought was official until now, but wasn't: "Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi."

It was a Cartoon Network cross-over kinda deal with a similar style. I think I had played a flash game of it on Newgrounds or something.

Similarly, there's the official FusionFall Legacy with artwork in this vein.

 

[vypek]

Yes, a long time ago I was curious about it but had no way to watch it or where to even find it.

 

[Beedig]

I know this show ended up getting a dub, but it's not the dub Craig McCracken wanted to do. I remember saying he wanted to do a dub with the original cast but give it a Samurai Pizza Cat dub kind of treatment.

 

[MMarston]

Indeed. Never watched it, I think, but I knew about it.

This made me look up the name of a project that I had thought was official until now, but wasn't: "Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi."

It was a Cartoon Network cross-over kinda deal with a similar style. I think I had played a flash game of it on Newgrounds or something.

Similarly, there's the official FusionFall Legacy with artwork in this vein.

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Wait

Why are there Nickelodeon characters in here lol

 

[Deleted member 11008]

I think it was a bit popular here in Mexico, but the original series was more liked. Still it was nice the series feature almost the same voice cast.

It's basically a magical girl version of the cartoon. anime. It was super popular in Europe but man it's so funny looking at a japanese adaptation of an US show. They're even eating ramen despite that everything still takes place in an american-inspired city!

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Wait, reverse Phoenix situation? lmao

 

[Googleplex]

Indeed. Never watched it, I think, but I knew about it.

This made me look up the name of a project that I had thought was official until now, but wasn't: "Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi."

It was a Cartoon Network cross-over kinda deal with a similar style. I think I had played a flash game of it on Newgrounds or something.

Similarly, there's the official FusionFall Legacy with artwork in this vein.

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Dude. That's not fusion falls. That's Fan art by Bleedman. Please don't post that pedophilic shit here.

 

[Kewlmyc]

Indeed. Never watched it, I think, but I knew about it.

This made me look up the name of a project that I had thought was official until now, but wasn't: "Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi."

It was a Cartoon Network cross-over kinda deal with a similar style. I think I had played a flash game of it on Newgrounds or something.

Similarly, there's the official FusionFall Legacy with artwork in this vein.

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Oh god, I remember this. Was done on DeviantArt by some dude named Bleedman (lol). Used to be a huge fan of it when I was like 13. The two pages every month killed me.

Wait

Why are there Nickelodeon characters in here lol

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It's more of a giant cartoon crossover rather than just Cartoon Network. Though only Dexter, Powerpuff girls, and Samurai Jack ever played a role in the story, if I recall correctly.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Dude. That's not fusion falls. That's Fan art by Bleedman. Please don't post that pedophilic shit here.

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Wait, what? I didn't say that the above was FusionFalls (I said that there is that as well), but I don't know about any pedophilic anything. That art I posted seems innocent enough.

 

[Googleplex]

Wait, what? I didn't say that the above was FusionFalls (I said that there is that as well), but I don't know about any pedophilic anything. That art I posted seems innocent enough.

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That's how a Bleedman comic gets you. Nice art and simi-clever story. Then you notice the gratuitous panty shots on underaged characters and you NOPE the fuck out by page 4

 

[Deleted member 2791]

Wait, reverse Phoenix situation? lmao

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full reverse

 

[Madison]

I watched all of it.

all of it

 

[PSqueak]

Yes, to me it still feels like this was "yesterday", i do realize it's been a decade or so since this.

Really loved the first OP and ED for this show.

 

[CO_Andy]

which animation studio worked on it?

 

[LostSkullKid]

I remember seeing some kind of merch for it at like Wal-Mart when it came out but I thought it was some kind of parody merch and not an actual show. I didn't find out it was actually real until years later.

 

[Sparkedglory2]

Yeah. It's been around for quite a while

 

[Z-Beat]

Indeed. Never watched it, I think, but I knew about it.

This made me look up the name of a project that I had thought was official until now, but wasn't: "Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi."

It was a Cartoon Network cross-over kinda deal with a similar style. I think I had played a flash game of it on Newgrounds or something.

Similarly, there's the official FusionFall Legacy with artwork in this vein.

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Some of these are Nickelodeon characters. Gir, Gaz, Helga Zim, Dib, Dora, and Jimmy Neutron

 

[808s & Villainy]

Yeah

 

[cyress8]

Knew about it, but did not watch because I knew it would not hold up to the original.

OG Powerpuff was so damn good.

 

[Laserdisk]

Where is HIM?

 

[MMarston]

Some of these are Nickelodeon characters. Gir, Gaz, Helga Zim, Dib, Dora, and Jimmy Neutron

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And then you got Spawn just hanging around these goobs for some reason.

 

[Squarehard]

Of course.

It haunts me every day.

 

[Watchtower]

That's how a Bleedman comic gets you. Nice art and simi-clever story. Then you notice the gratuitous panty shots on underaged characters and you NOPE the fuck out by page 4

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So much of Bleedman's problematic shit would at least be mitigated if he actually made all of the characters teenagers like he clearly designs them as. Yeah they'd still be underage but at least it'd be slightly better than sexualizing children in literal elementary school. Even PPGZ had enough sense to make the girls preteen.

Not that it entirely matters anyway - he fell off on his own when he gave up the crossover angle in favor of his own angsty melodrama.

 

[Beedig]

Where is HIM?

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[Alastor3]

Yes, I did.

It's ok, we don't need to talk about it.

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This

 

[L Thammy]

I'm pretty sure no one got the mixed demographic appeal of The Powerpuff Girls starting from the final season of the original series. The marketing never did. The original was never really a little girl's show despite the aesthetic, and constantly had references to things like Dragonball, Star Trek, The Beatles, Faust, Godzilla, Mazinger Z, and tons of other stuff that could easily go over kids' heads. Never watched Powerpuff Girls Z, but from what I hear it's again something that misses that and goes very much into the standard magical girl anime territory.

 

[Gaardus]

You probably also know about the recent Cartoon Network reboot that got cancelled

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Woah, I hadn't heard it was cancelled! Is that a recent development? The Wikipedia page doesn't mention the show ending.

 

[Deleted member 2791]

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can't believe they put hisoka in that show

 

[giraffereyn]

Indeed. Never watched it, I think, but I knew about it.

This made me look up the name of a project that I had thought was official until now, but wasn't: "Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi."

It was a Cartoon Network cross-over kinda deal with a similar style. I think I had played a flash game of it on Newgrounds or something.

Similarly, there's the official FusionFall Legacy with artwork in this vein.

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Wow it's been a long time since I followed this one. This is the one where grown up Mandy bangs Grim right? Oh yeah there are the kids on the bottom left: the kid with the black robe and scythe and the kid with the bow and dress.

 

[SOLDIER]

Sigh, I remember marking out over the Bleedman comics. I just thought it was a cool idea with a lot of neat crossover nods, including my personal favorite of Samurai Jack being the gym teacher.

Then I learned about the artist's...tastes, followed by the increasing angst including shit like Mandy causing 9/11 (yep) and...yeah.

It's always such a waste considering how good his art was.

PPGZ was also a wasted concept: I was hoping for the anime equivalent of the show, with crazy animation along the lines of Trigger. Instead we got a show aping Magical Girl shows and doing it so blandly that I'm pretty sure even Japan hated it.

 

[PSqueak]

Wow it's been a long time since I followed this one. This is the one where grown up Mandy bangs Grim right? Oh yeah there are the kids on the bottom left: the kid with the black robe and scythe and the kid with the bow and dress.

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They're not the same comic, he actually stopped doing this one and started doing the one where Mandy Banged Grim (and also, Mandy orchestrated nine eleven to impress Grim), it was dumb and edgy and not worth for me, he should have stuck to this one that was just a dumb fun crossover instead of trying to do a "serious" story with his OCs Donut Steal.

 

[Illusion]

Indeed. Never watched it, I think, but I knew about it.

This made me look up the name of a project that I had thought was official until now, but wasn't: "Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi."

It was a Cartoon Network cross-over kinda deal with a similar style. I think I had played a flash game of it on Newgrounds or something.

Similarly, there's the official FusionFall Legacy with artwork in this vein.

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I love these comics (and Grim Jr). It killed me when I found out this has been going on since 2004 with like 1 chapter a month.

It's one hell of a binge tho.


And with the Powerpuff Girl Z I knew about it about a year or two since it came out because I saw an image of the Rowdyruff Boys episode with them peeing on people and was curious if the rest of the show was crazy like that. (It isnt).

 

[Laserdisk]

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Nice

 

[atomsk eater]

Yes. Watched a few episodes and was bored with it.

 

[nekkid]

I hate everything about it, and I've only seen those screenshots.

 

[Iloelemen]

Yes, it aired multiple times in my country.

 

[Brickhunt]

I remember getting excited expecting a DBZ-like adaptation. That fucking Z was such a tease. Sigh.

And yeah, I also used to read the Doujishin when I was young. As you get older, however, it gets creepier.

It does make me think what CN doesn't capitalize it's IPs more in crossovers events. Why the fuck Dexter and PPG crossover special wasn'tt a thing should be the riddle for the ages.

P.S: the hate the reboot got was stupid. Yeah, the first season was rough, but the show improved later. Most of all, it's not focused on people from our generation. I wish people just got over it instead of whinning over it.

 

[BenRoderick]

Yes, it was a thing.
I remember watching when I was 8 and it was on Boomerang in my country Australia about November I think and since then, I was loving the show until a few years ago, I rediscover watching the subtitled version of Powerpuff Girls Z which it is uncut and the English version was supposed to be the Cartoon Network version of a 4Kids dub and it is quite a mediocre kids' anime. I don't think it would be recommended to watch, but give it a try of course.
By the way, I prefer the Japanese version than the English version because the English version of Powerpuff Girls Z does not have a based-on-the-source-material dub like in the English version, Momoko, Miyako and Kaoru are named Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup even if they're not transformed because I think the English version was supposed to be the 1998 original.

 

[Rand a. Thor]

Its decent enough, if not completely missing the mark in what made the original universally loved. Doctor Utonium and his son being stand ins for Astro Boy and Dr Tenma in their designs is hilarious though, and it does fit the shout out nature of the original show however. Also Mojo is fucking HUGE conpared to the OG Mojo.

 

[Regulus Tera]

watched a few episodes back in the day. There are much better magical girl / heroine anime out there.

 

[AnansiThePersona]

I remember trying to watch it many years ago and getting super bored. I thought the idea of reinventing this American cartoon as anime was cool...but the execution was lackluster.

 

[Strike]

I'd forgotten that this was a thing. Still probably better than the later seasons and the reboot.

 

[Rosebud]

Sadly I know it now.

 

[Deleted member 19626]

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I used to read this all the time when I was in high school. I enjoyed it at the time but not sure if it was actually any good or I just liked all the characters in the same place

 

[Deleted member 52442]

Yeah, I watched it. it's alright. The only episode that made an impression is a nice episode with Bubbles and a Werewolf kid.

 

[Deleted member 3897]

I did, never watched it though.

 

[Mr. X]

 

[NHarmonic.]

It was ok. The designs of the girls are great.

It was a clever concept with bland execution. Still better than the reboot.