is a 2006 Japanese

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television series created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of

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. Planned by

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and produced by

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, and Toei Animation, the series is directed by Iku Ishiguro, with Yoshio Urasawa handling series scripts, Miho Shimogasa (character designer of ''

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'' and ''

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'' and one of the animation directors of ''

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'') designing the characters and Hiroshi Nakamura and Taichi Master composing the music. The anime is based on the 1998 American animated television series ''

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'', created by

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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 on AT-X. A

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adaptation by Shiho Komiyuno ran in

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's ''

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'' magazine between July 2006 and June 2007. The anime's English-language adaptation was produced in association with

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in Canada. It was aired on

in the Philippines and

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in Australia and New Zealand in 2008. Despite owning the IP rights to it, the anime series never aired on

or its sister channel

in the United States.

Plot

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 a daifuku 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 14-year-old 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's

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, Bubbles' bubble rod and Buttercup's hammer from evil monsters.

Episodes

Media

Music

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 by

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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 actresses

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and

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who voiced the Powerpuff Girls Z. The album has a booklet that features concept art for all the characters. ; Opening themes # by

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(#1–26) # by Hoi Festa (#27–52) ; Ending themes # by

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(#1–13) # "Look" by

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(#14–26) # by Wiz-US (#27–39) # by Hearts Grow (#40–52)

Manga

A manga adaptation illustrated by was published in

's ''

'' magazine between July 3, 2006, and June 2, 2007. Shueisha collected its chapters in two volumes, released on June 15 and July 13, 2007.

Video game

was developed by Infinity and published by

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for the

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on June 12, 2007. The game has board-game style gameplay similar to ''

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'' 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.

Notes

References

External links

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* at

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