Forum - View topicDemashita! Powerpuff Girls Z (PPGZ)
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Niceguy9418
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Oh man... Where to begin.
I thought this looked REALLY COOL at first... I'm a pretty big fan of the PPG's, so I thought it had some good potential. But what is up with the 10 minutes transformation scenes? I don't mind the costume changes, but is the whole... I don't know, TRANSFORMATION really necessary? (At this point some people might be thinkng - well IT'S ANIME!!! DUH!!!) But according to the source material - they were bascially "super" all the time - they just hid it. (And they didn't really even do that, but they probably should have.) (Comic book cliche) But why do all the heroines in a shojo series (I'm assuming it's shojo, I could be wrong) take like 10 minutes to get dressed when half of them have super-speed and/or lightning reflexes? My wife doesn't take that long to get ready! I don't know... They have good source material, in PPG, but it looks to me like they made way too many changes, which is not necessarily bad, but the changes look like they were just made it to make it better fit shojo stereotypes. I hope I'm wrong... I'll still try to check it out... But my expectations have fallen severly. |
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Arxilius
 Posts: 38 Location: Sealed Reality |
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Finally, the dreams of Bleedman can be realized!
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
 Posts: 1325 Location: San Diego |
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Except without the trans-network crossovers. 
For me, a lot of PPG's appeal was Craig McCracken's way of working in all this random geeky mid-to-late-20th-century pop culture junk that he was into. It seems that Japan has misunderstood the spirit of the show. |
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Kidder
 Posts: 188 Location: Bat country! >.< |
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minus the darkness and character depth of Bleedman's doujinshi and throw in some Sailormoon/Card Captor Sakura-esque transformation scenes and a bubble-pop theme -_-' I'd love to see a properly animated version of Bleedman's PPG. |
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cyrax777
 Posts: 1825 Location: the desert |
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well so far based on the first ep I liked it. the whole "please dont destroy the city" made me laugh since in the original the city is contanstly getting wrecked.
as to the Chemical Z ok whatever but the orgin of chemical Z made me laugh. |
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omnistry
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I find it funny that spoiler[when the girls get the powers they know exactly how to transform without being told]
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All in all a great and cute retelling of the story. The action scenes can be a tad bit slow; but this was the first episode after all. Buttercup's transformation theme song is still the coolest. And yes, there can be some yuri jokes about Buttercup; but she's still a kid so we'll probably never know. Isn't the end theme of the show awesome, too? Very catchy. I can't wait for this show to air in America. No doubt the series in full will be joyful to watch. Do you think the original English voice actors/actresses will be back for this one? |
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Alucalb
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I really dug the first episode. Very cute art-style, really funny gags and some way groovy music.
 I look forward to seeing the rest of the PPGs' rogues gallery in action (I'm hoping to see the Rowdy Ruff Boys, they were cool).
Last edited by Alucalb on Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:32 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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RDespair
 Posts: 245 Location: California |
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I'm pretty sure this is a business issue. It makes sense to have long transformation sequences, because that means there's less new material that you need to animate thus making the production costs for each episode cheaper. |
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RDespair
Posts: 245 Location: California |
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Sorry for the double post, but there's a week interval so I figure it's okay.
Just saw episode 2. Yes, this series is definitely meant for kids. I'm not going to bother watching any more. I told a friend of mine about the series and somehow her 5 year old daughter found out about it and asked to be able to watch it. The girl ended up loving it. Now my friend is plotting on using PPGZ as a "Gateway anime" to turn her daughter into an anime junkie (previous attempts at making her an anime fan haven't been too successful). I find this highly amusing. |
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saninslayer
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i'm all for this show. when u consider how many of japan's cartoons( or anime) that we messed dont u think that they deserve a shot a us too.
not a real fan of the american version though so if i can i will check it out. |
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Mylene
 Posts: 2792 Location: Indiana |
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After seeing just the transformation sequences, I began to realize this show was going to be more of a childish and painful Pretty Cure than an enjoyable (in my opinion) Sailor Moon, so I decided not to even start it. Even if a show is bad, I try to watch it through to the end to give it chances to redeem itself. Pretty Cure was one of the few not to manage that, and given some of the style similarities, etc, I've got to figure PPGZ would be the same way. Wouldn't mind testing it out if/when it makes it over to the US. might even watch the dub, depending on who voices the girls. the original actresses might be tough unless they can properly age their voices, although an older Bubbles with young Bubbles voice would be a cute and sweet as cotton candy! |
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GospelX
Posts: 185 Location: Ann Arbor, MI |
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Not as if any of us have a background in watching the many American shows that have been dubbed in Japan, so we can't really claim that haven't screwed over much of anything. One thing I can say, though, is that they did to the first two seasons of Transformers the same thing that we did to Voltron -- mixed and matched elements from episodes to create new ones. Isn't that kind of a no-no to purists? |
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The Frankman
 Posts: 1160 Location: Binary Culture HQ |
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Fixed FTW.
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comorbid
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Cute. Silly. I'll keep watching. 
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