| Powerpuff Girls Z | |
 Cover of the first DVD volume in Japan featuring Powered Buttercup, Hyper Blossom, Mojo Jojo and Rolling Bubbles | |
| 出ましたっ！パワパフガールズＺ (Demashita! Pawapafu Gāruzu Zetto) | |
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| Genre | Magical girl |
| Created by | Craig McCracken |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Iku Ishiguro |
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| Written by | Yoshio Urasawa |
| Music by |
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| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
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| Original run | July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007 |
| Episodes | 52 (78 segments)(List of episodes) |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shiho Komiyuno [ja] |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | Ribon |
| Original run | July 3, 2006 –June 2, 2007 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Video game | |
| Game de Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z | |
| Developer | Infinity |
| Publisher | Namco Bandai Games |
| Genre | Party |
| Platform | Nintendo DS |
| Released | June 14, 2007 |
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Powerpuff Girls Z (Japanese:出ましたっ！パワパフガールズZ,Hepburn:Demashita! Pawapafu Gāruzu Zetto;lit.They're Here! Powerpuff Girls Z) is a 2006 Japaneseanime television series created to commemorate the 50th anniversary ofToei Animation. Planned byCartoon Network and produced byTV Tokyo,Aniplex, and Toei Animation, the series is directed by Iku Ishiguro, with Yoshio Urasawa handling series scripts, Miho Shimogasa (character designer ofCutie Honey Flash andUltra Maniac and one of the animation directors ofSailor Moon) designing the characters and Hiroshi Nakamura and Taichi Master composing the music.[1] The anime is based on the 1998 American animated television seriesThe Powerpuff Girls, created byCraig McCracken and produced by Cartoon Network.
As production occurred in Japan,The Powerpuff Girls original series creator Craig McCracken was not actively involved with the project.Powerpuff Girls Z aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between July 2006 and June 2007. In addition to Cartoon Network Japan, the anime was also broadcast onAT-X.[2][3] Amanga adaptation by Shiho Komiyuno ran inShueisha'sRibon magazine between July 2006 and June 2007.
The anime's English-language adaptation was produced in association withOcean Productions in Canada. It was aired onCartoon Network in the Philippines andBoomerang in Australia and New Zealand in 2008. Despite owning theIP rights to it, the anime series never aired onCartoon Network or its sister channelBoomerang in the United States.
Professor Utonium, his son, Ken Kitazawa, and his toy dog, Peach, are busy working on Chemical X, a powerful chemical substance in Tokyo City (New Townsville in the English dub), when Peach accidentally drops adaifuku into a vat of Chemical X, which magically transforms it into Chemical Z. Countries around the world suddenly experience weather calamity, and Ken uses a light beam ray attached to the vat of Chemical Z to blast Chemical Z on an iceberg in the Tokyo City bay, causing black-and-white rays of light to appear in the skies above it.
Three ordinary girls, Momoko Akatsutsumi, Miyako Gōtokuji, and Kaoru Matsubara, are engulfed in white light, which transforms them into Hyper Blossom, Rolling Bubbles, and Powered Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls Z. Peach is also engulfed in white light, transforming into a toy dog who can talk and call the girls to transform. Numerous rays of black light engulf people, animals, and objects to transform them into evil monsters who want to take over Tokyo City, such as Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, Princess Himeko, Sedusa, the Gangreen Gang and the Amoeba Boys. The Powerpuff Girls Z must protect Tokyo City with the help from the Professor, Ken, Mayor Mayer and his assistant, Ms. Bellum, and use their respective weapons, including Blossom'syo-yo, Bubbles'bubble rod and Buttercup's hammer from evil monsters.
The anime uses six pieces of theme music, two opening themes and four ending themes. In the English dub, an original song is used for the opening theme whilst the end credits used shortened versions of the six Japanese opening and ending themes. The official soundtrack was released in Japan byAniplex on June 27, 2007. The soundtrack consists of TV size versions of most of the series theme songs, the series score by composers Taichi Master and Hiroshi Nakamura presented in the form of a party mix and character songs performed by Japanese voice actressesEmiri Katō,Nami Miyahara andMachiko Kawana who voiced the Powerpuff Girls Z. The album has a booklet that features concept art for all the characters.
A manga adaptation illustrated byShiho Komiyuno [ja] was published inShueisha'sRibon magazine between July 3, 2006,[4] and June 2, 2007.[a] Shueisha collected its chapters in twotankōbon volumes, released on June 15 and July 13, 2007.[7][8]
Game de Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z (ゲームで 出ましたっ！パワパフガールズＺ,Gēmu de Demashita! Pawāpafu Gāruzu Zetto) was developed by Infinity and published byBandai for theNintendo DS on June 12, 2007.[9] The game has board-game style gameplay similar toMario Party and features Hyper Blossom, Rolling Bubbles and Powered Buttercup competing with Mojo Jojo to get to the center of the board, competing in minigames along the way.
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