POWERPUFF GIRLS Z: The Powerpuff girls adaptation you didn't know about.
Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z (出ましたっ!パワパフガールズ Z Demashita! Pawapafu Gāruzu Zetto?, They've Headed Off! Powerpuff Girls Z) or PPGZ aired in Japan on TXN (TV Tokyo) between July 1st, 2006 and June 30, 2007. The plot of the anime differs much from the original series. Professor Utonium was experimenting while his son Ken Kitazawa/Utonium created Chemical Z (a variant of his father's Chemical X) when a local restaurant specialty fell into the Chemical X. Ken uses the chemical to destroy an ice glacier and avoid an ecological disaster. The impact causes white and black Z-Rays to fly across the skies of Tokyo city. The white lights hit Momoko Akatsutsumi (Blossom), Miyako Gotokuji (Bubbles), and Kaoru Matsubara (Buttercup) transforming them into the Powerpuff Girls.
The series was first announced on April 1, 2005 (a month after the original show ended), many people & fans a like considered it to be an April Fools' Day prank at the time.
The original creator of The Powerpuff Girls, was not involved with the project outside of one meeting with the Japanese producers before the series started, making this the first piece of Powerpuff Girls-related media not to have him involved. The second being the Dance Pantsed special and the third being the 2016 reboot.
This series is a AU (Alternative Universe) from both the 1998 and 2016 ones.
An prototype of the show was presented at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2005
In the second to last episode, Girlz, Beyond Time and Space! / Only a Matter of Time, the original Powerpuff Girls make a little cameo alongside the Giant Fishballoon.
Momoko's personality from her original counterpart (blossom) is the one that's vastly different compared to the rest, she's also directly inspired by Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon in how she loves sweets and is crush crazy.
The only adaptation of the Powerpuff girls where none of the girls are directly related to each other
As you can tell from my profile, this is the theme/mascot of this Tumblr blog lol!
This show is what got me introduced to anime as a whole, being obsessed with Powerpuff girls, I immediately got hooked onto the show and watched all of it on YouTube (surprisingly). It's one of the most nostalgic for me and I find it much more entertaining than the og source material lol.
My favorite episode in fact was when the rowdy ruff boys were introduced and it was a power trip to watch but very fun. The transformations are also some of my favorite parts of the show, I NEVER skip those honestly, the music, the choreography never gets old imo.
Although I don't really like that they swapped Bubbles' and Blossom's personality, Momoko is more like the og Bubbles while Miyako is more reserved than her og counterpart, this switch is probably due to magical girls tropes but I'm not a big fan of it as I like how they are in the original series.
I also like how it can be emotionally mature sometimes, that one episode where Miyako had a friend who was ill made me cry as a kid but I'm actually not sure if it's a real episode considering it's been so long since I've last watched it so I have no idea if this is a real episode or nah 😭
Honestly you guys should give it a try, this is a great adaptation/remake of the source material (unlike the 2016 one) [Link2WatchHere]. Thank you for reading my second entry in this blog \(◎o◎)/