It is also available on Amazon Prime and Tubi TV. Crunchyroll began streaming the series on December 27, 2015. Despite being lost in translation, the English version became a cult hit among anime fans due to its rapid-fire pop-culture references and farcical nature.Īfter Saban's rights to the series expired, Discotek Media took over the licensing for home video release in North America, while Madman Entertainment holds the license for Australia and New Zealand. All the voices were done by an all-Canadian cast of vocalists, and major editions were done by the producer, Andy Thomas, who came up with the title name, character renaming (for international recognition). It was instead the writers would make a completely original dialogue, similar to the Animaniacs-like wacky comedy in contrast, where the fourth wall is subsequently broken. Nearly every episode presented a unique villain mecha central to the plot, such as a "double-decker" robot based on the father and son from "Lone Wolf and Cub", a giant hot-tub robot (used to scare people into joining health spas), Long Tall Sally (a play on the song lyric of the same name), Sunblock-16 (an orbital fan-dancing robot that blocked the sun from Little Tokyo, preventing the Pizza Cats from recharging their solar powers), and others.įrom 1991 to 2000, when Saban licensed the English version, proper translations of the original Japanese episodes were either of poor quality, non-existent or incomplete since the transcripts were not acquired. The plots in the English versions consist of sly references, shameless puns, rapid-fire sardonic humor, and total refusal to so much as acknowledging the fourth wall. The original series is known for its cultural humor consisting of Japanese puns, pop culture, and fourth-wall breaking. The show is most notable for being the heavily edited anime dub making fans actually prefer it to the original. It's a rivalry battle between good and evil as the Samurai Pizza Cats serve justice with a slice of pizza, as they protect Edoropolis from Koon-no-Kami's ambitions. So Inuyama enlists the services of the Pizza Cats pizzeria and their cat employees who double as ninjas called the Nyankī. However, the commander of the Palace Guard Big Al Dente (Inuyama Wanko-no-Kami) learns of the fox's ambitions but the minister's plausible deniability makes it difficult for prosecution. The council is led by the prime minister, The Big Cheese (Kitsunezuka Koon-no-Kami), who constantly plots to overthrow the Shogun with his machinations and clan of ninja crows. But being the doddering eccentric the shogun is, the actual leadership falls on his neurotic daughter Princess Vi (Tokugawa Usako) and the royal council. The world is populated by cybernetic beings that are half anthropomorphic animal and half androids (" animaloids" for short), with Edoropolis led by shōgun Emperor Fred (Iei-Iei Tokugawa). The series takes place in Edoropolis (Little Tokyo in the dubbed version), a mechanical city fusing both feudal Japanese culture with contemporary culture.
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