Samurai Pizza Cats
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Samurai Pizza Cats |
| Original title | キ ャ ッ 党 忍 伝 て や ん で え Kyatto Ninden Teyandē |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language |
Japanese / English |
| Year (s) | 1990-1991 |
| length | 21 minutes |
| Episodes | 54 (Japanese Original Version) 52 (Samurai Pizza Cats) |
| genre | Comedy |
| Theme music | Reina Yazawa |
| idea | Shingo Kaneko |
| production | Tatsunoko Production, Sotsu / Saban |
| music |
Kenji Kawai / Shuky Levi & Haim Saban |
| First broadcast | February 1, 1990 on TV Tokyo |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 10, 1992 on RTLplus |
Samurai Pizza Cats ( Japanese キ ャ ッ 党 忍 伝 て や ん で え , Kyattō Ninden Teyandē ) is an anime television series from 1990 and 1991 with mecha and science fiction elements.
action
The series is about the three anthropomorphic cats Speedy Gorgonzola (Yattarō), Guido Casanova (Sukashii) and Polly Ester (Pururun), who live together in Little Tokyo, an imaginary Japanese city with both traditional and futuristic elements in which there are still countless other animal species live, run a pizzeria. But running the pizzeria mainly serves as a camouflage for the true task of the cats (one cat and two tomcats, to be precise), because when calamity approaches, the three fight as samurai against monsters, wearing cybernetic armor. The rat (originally a fox) Big Zaster ( Kitsune zuka Koon-no- Kami ) with his crow-lackeys turns out to be a constantly recurring adversary . They often use huge robots ( mecha ) for their conquest plans .
Origin and publications
Tatsunoko and TV Tokyo produced the series' 54 episodes. Directed by Kunitoshi Okajima, Takeshi Serizawa, Shinji Sakai and Katsumi Kosuga. Among the scriptwriters for the series there was Satoru Akahori who later anime as Bakuretsu Hunter and Saber Marionette J became known. TV Tokyo first aired the series on Japanese television from February 1, 1990 to February 5, 1991.
In 1991 some episodes were edited together as Samurai Pizza Cats: The Movie in English. This was later broadcast on television in the United Kingdom and Canada, and finally in the United States in 1996. In the English version, some violent scenes were removed, the music exchanged and the script rewritten. In the Japanese original, the protagonists are ninja , while in the English version the protagonists appear as samurai.
Synchronizations in French, Spanish and German were created based on the English version. In Germany, the series was first broadcast by RTL plus in 1992 . In 2001, Fox Kids took the series into its program.
Web links
- Samurai Pizza Cats in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Samurai Pizza Cats on Anime News Network (English)