Line #72 Anime/Stitch


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Pictured: [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Sti]][[Franchise/LiloAndStitch tch]] having fun with his friends [[{{Youkai}} Kijimunaa]] and [[{{Deuteragonist}} Yuna]]. [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Wait a minute, where's Lilo?]]]]
3	->''Ichariba chodei!''
4	->--'''Stitch''' in the international edit's intro for the first two seasons
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6	''Stitch!'',[[note]]スティッチ!, ''Suticchi!''[[/note]] also known as ''Yuna & Stitch'' for its German dub, is an {{anime}} TV series spun-off from the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise, in which it serves as its second TV series after ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''. Three seasons and two post-series TV specials have been produced; the first two seasons--''Stitch!'' and ''Stitch! ~The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure~'';[[note]]スティッチ! ～いたずらエイリアンの大冒険～, ''Suticchi! ~Itazura Eirian no Daibōken~''[[/note]] yes, with those tildes--were produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}} for a total of 54 episodes and two specials.[[note]]25 episodes for the first season, 29 for the second season, and an after-season special each.[[/note]] Creator/ShinEiAnimation produced the 29 episode[[note]]and one after-season special[[/note]] third season--''Stitch! ~Best Friends Forever~'';[[note]]スティッチ! ～ずっと最高のトモダチ～, ''Suticchi! ~Zutto Saikō no Tomodachi~''[[/note]] tildes still included--as well as the post-series specials, which are known as the ''"Stitch! New Specials"'' series. It ran regularly from 2008 to 2011, while the TV specials--''Stitch and the Planet of Sand''[[note]]スティッチと砂の惑星, ''Suticchi to Suna no Wakusei''[[/note]] and ''Stitch! Perfect Memory''[[note]]スティッチ！パーフェクト・メモリー, ''Suticchi! Pāfekuto Memorī''; alternately titled in English as ''Stitch! A Perfect Memory''[[/note]]--were broadcast in 2012 and 2015, respectively.
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8	Yuna Kamihara[[note]]上原ユウナ, ''Kamihara Yūna''; "上原" can be interpreted as many different surnames such as "Uehara" but the Okinawan-favored "Kamihara" is presumed here, although it should be noted that the English dub never mentions or shows her surname[[/note]] is a young girl who lives on Izayoi, a tiny (fictional) island off the coast of Okinawa, with her father and grandmother, although the former works away from home. Much like Kauaʻi in the original film and series, Izayoi is a tropical island full of pineapples, sugar cane, and hibiscus, [[TruthInTelevision all of which are native to both the Hawaiian and Ryukyu Islands]]. Yuna practices UsefulNotes/{{karate}} every day with her friends down at a run-down old dojo, and considers herself to be a "protector" of sorts for the local kids. Her mother is deceased, and she worries for her father's safety. One day, while visiting the Spiritual Stone in the Chitama Forest, she sees an explosion in the distance, and reports start coming in of "blue monster" running amok in town.
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10	Meanwhile, [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]], who left Earth sometime after Lilo went to college and has since fallen off the wagon, is on the run from several Galactic Federation officials when he and his creator Dr. Jumba Jookiba are sucked into a [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Space Storm]] that deposits them outside Earth. Stitch, confused, hungry, and thirsty, then runs amok looking for food. He attracts the eye of the locals, who are rather fearful of him, but Yuna goes to confront him. After they square off in a [[GoodOldFisticuffs pseudo-karate match]], they bond and become friends.
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12	While Yuna is taking Stitch back through the forest, he sees the Spiritual Stone. Yuna explains that the stone holds immense power and can grant any wish. Stitch wants to be the strongest being of the universe, and so tries to wish on the stone only to get zapped. Yuna then explains that only those who do good deeds will have their wishes granted. Stitch then makes it his mission to do 43 good deeds to have his wish, to have ultimate power and be ruler of the universe, granted. He and Yuna also meet various {{Youkai}} on the island, becoming close friends with a young, kind, timid youkai named Kijimunaa. Jumba and his partner Wendy Pleakley eventually catch up to Stitch on the island and join him and his new friends in getting his wish granted, with Jumba even making a "good deed counter" to help keep track of Stitch's deeds, both good and bad. Stitch even has some reunions with a couple of [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments his "cousins"]], [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments2Series Sparky]] and [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments0Series Felix]], as well as his girlfriend [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments6Series Angel]], who is now a pop singing sensation on an intergalactic tour. However, Stitch's old nemesis Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, who has since gotten out of galactic prison and re-hired Stitch's other nemesis Gantu and Stitch's immediate predecessor "cousin" [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments6Series Reuben]], are going after Stitch once again, and Hämsterviel wants this "ultimate power" the Stone can provide for himself.
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14	The second season sees Yuna and Stitch continuing their adventures on Izayoi, with Hämsterviel now making use of many of Stitch's other "cousins" (which Hämsterviel kidnapped in the interim and now has control over thanks to using a recording of Angel's siren song) to try to defeat him and take the Spiritual Stone's power, which he actually did in the first season finale until Yuna rescued Stitch and the Stone temporarily endowed the latter with its power. The duo also makes some new friends, with a strange alien insect named [=BooGoo=] joining their family as a pet, though they are also later joined by Yuna's bullying older cousin Tigerlily, who makes their lives a lot more difficult. Ultimately, Stitch realizes that he doesn't need "ultimate power" to have everything he wants, as he finds living with Yuna to be better than being ruler of the universe, deciding instead to use his wish to live with her forever.
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16	The third season changes the tone and setting by having Yuna, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, and [=BooGoo=] move off Izayoi and into the Okinawan city of New Town, with the first two living in a new house with Tigerlily. As Yuna deals with a bunch of other kids at her new school, Hämsterviel, Gantu, and Reuben are still going after Stitch, with the "hamster-like" alien sending more experiments--who he now has transmutated to be stronger--after the little blue alien. But this time around, Hämsterviel is trying to get Stitch on behalf of someone else--Delia, a tall, ruthless, big-eared alien woman who used to work with him and Jumba before the latter struck out on his own. She wants Stitch because--as this season reveals--he has a powerful cell within him installed by Jumba when the experiment was created; she wants this cell to create her own experiment to take over and rule the galaxy.
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18	Apart from being part of the same franchise with the same characters, it is not related to the {{pilot\|Movie}} [[WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie movie]] for ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', which had the same name though followed by "TheMovie". A heavily-revised edit for the international market, which includes the English dub, attempted to connect ''Stitch!'' to the film conclusion of ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'', in the first episode. This wasn't attempted in the original Japanese version [[SheIsAllGrownUp until a third season episode brought her back for a brief reunion with her old friend]]. Due to this, it's often believed that the series was originally intended to be an AlternateUniverse until they finally cemented it as a StealthSequel, possibly due to fan demand.
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20	Three years after its initial debut in Japan, two years after it was first broadcast in English, and a few months after the last season ended in Japan, it aired in the United States on Creator/DisneyXD in October 2011. However, it was pulled off the air less than a week later after only five episodes aired. The three seasons and two post-series specials have already been dubbed[[note]]barring one episode known as "Stitch Power"[[/note]] [[NoExportForYou but have only aired in full outside of the U.S.]] In addition to the anime, a few manga books were also published, featuring more tales of Yuna and Stitch's life together as well as new original stories of Stitch's old life with Lilo. The first two manga volumes were written and illustrated by Yumi Tsukirino, and the last two of the four volumes were done by Miho Asada.
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22	The show is on Creator/DisneyPlus, but only in Japan in its original Japanese version (with, surprisingly, ''English subtitles''). The international edit is on Disney+ Hotstar in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, all using the English dub and also having the Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and Indonesian dubs available depending on the country.
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24	''Stitch!'' was succeeded in the franchise in 2017 by the Chinese animated series ''Animation/StitchAndAi'', which shares a similar premise with the anime.[[note]]Once again, Stitch is separated from Lilo, ends up in a different region of Earth, and becomes best friends with a young local girl over there in a ScienceFantasy series involving creatures based on a region's mythology.[[/note]]
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26	!!This anime contains examples of:
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28	* AffablyEvil: [[OneShotCharacter Dark End]] is quite polite. Of course, they have no problem with killing their enemies.
29	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Or Japanese. Either way, this show maintains the franchise's tradition of this trope.
30	* AllMythsAreTrue: There are the yōkais, one of which is friends with Yuna and company, a [[UndeadChild boy vampire]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent who likes candy instead of blood]], a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werecreature]] if not [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]], what looks like the FrankensteinsMonster, and so on.
31	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The international version, which includes the English dub, has two different opening themes; one for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltQBBjaXTCk the Madhouse seasons]] and another for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a74ngmvVb6g the Shin-Ei season.]]
32	* AlternateTimeline: Thanks to ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' years later, since the events and certain elements of that show contradicts what was established in this show, such as [[spoiler:Stitch having abilities not previously revealed in the original continuity]]. ''Stitch & Ai'' was produced without any consideration towards this show, meaning that there are at least two different possible timelines for the franchise post-''Leroy & Stitch''.
33	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Lampshaded in "Stitch and the Stitches"; Stitch's first scene in the episode shows him reading a book on physics, which he apparently finds to be funny.
34	* AscendedExtra:
35	** Due to her [[EnsembleDarkHorse extreme popularity]] in Japan, [[DistaffCounterpart Angel]] (Experiment 624) made prominent appearances in the show, not having to prove herself to Yuna near as much as she did Lilo, nor did she have to be [[ExecutiveMeddling locked away until the end of the series]]. As a result, she's gotten much more screen time.
36	** [[ShockAndAwe Sparky]] (Experiment 221) and [[NeatFreak Felix]] (Experiment 010) also got a few more appearances in this series, primarily during the Madhouse-produced seasons. In fact, they were the only experiments other than Angel, Reuben, and Stitch to appear during the first season, which focused more on yokai. However, Felix stopped showing up after the second season, while Sparky only appeared once in the third season.
37	** Several other experiments also appear due to the whole [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japanese love Stitch]] phenomenon.
38	* BadassCreed: The members of Yuna's dojo say it before every practice session:
39	-->''Defend the weak!\
40	Love everybody, even the stinkyheads!\
41	"Ichariba Chodei", meet one's cousins forever!''
42	* BitchInSheepsClothing:
43	** Zuruko/Tigerlily. Much to the chagrin of both Stitch and Yuna, her cousin. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Her behavior somewhat improved over the course of the later season two episodes and more so in season 3]].
44	** Also, Bragg/Flute, who acts nice to everyone to feed off their sympathy (literally, since sympathy is what makes him grow stronger), but is a bully of an experiment, especially towards Stitch.
45	* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
46	** Sparky (Experiment 221), Felix (Experiment 010), and Angel (Experiment 624) had on these mind control devices placed there by Hämsterviel, though Sparky had it twice.
47	** Hämsterviel used Swirly (Experiment 383) to hypnotize Stitch in the episode where Splodyhead (Experiment 619) and Plasmoid (Experiment 617) made their debut.
48	** During the third season, each time a "cousin" of Stitch's appears that has a yellow or red "H" somewhere on them, they're under Hämsterviel's control. Among the experiments under Hämsterviel's control with the "H" are Hammerface (Experiment 033), Slushy (Experiment 523), Splodyhead (Experiment 619), Spike (Experiment 319), Babyfier (Experiment 151), Plasmoid (Experiment 617), Sinker (Experiment 602), Kixx (Experiment 601), Bragg (Experiment 145, a.k.a. Flute or Twang/Experiment 021), Fudgy (Experiment 054), and Morpholomew (Experiment 316). In many of these instances, their eyes also change to show their irises or sclera, which has never been done in ''The Series'', and they're rather unnerving to see.
49	* BrokenAesop: In the Madhouse seasons, Stitch is racking up points for good deeds purely for his own benefit, rather than because they're the right thing to do.
50	* CanonForeigner: In addition to the main cast, new experiments, such as Bragg/Flute (Experiment 145), were added along with the ones from the original series.
51	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Experiment 627, while still Stitch's AlwaysSomeoneBetter rival, makes a complete 180 in personality, going from the wild, slobbering [[TheHyena hyena-like]] whose only dialogue was "[[PokemonSpeak Evil]]!" in the original series, to a WickedCultured eloquent-speaking gentleman with some {{noble demon}} traits after saving Stitch and his love interest, Angel, from being crushed by Hämsterviel's ship despite Jumba proclaiming him completely incapable of turning good in the original series. Could count as {{fridge brilliance}} considering the series took place after Stitch left his original Hawaii home where Lilo grew up into an older girl, so 627 must have had time to mature.
52	* ChristmasEpisode: Each of the three seasons had one. Season 1 had "Stitch and Santa", Season 2 or ''The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure'' has "We Wishy You a Washy Christmas", and Season 3 or ''Best Friends Forever'' has "A Very Stinky Christmas".
53	* CompanyCrossReferences:
54	** In the first episode, several kids are shown playing a game that is very obviously ''VideoGame/{{Spectrobes}} 2''--another Disney production.
55	** In the opening, there is a Hidden Mickey in the sushi just after the opening theme.
56	** An episode focuses on a trip to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Tokyo Disneyland]].
57	* ContinuityNod:
58	** The {{recurring extra}} that is [[HawaiianShirtedTourist Ice Cream Man]] from the original series with the ice cream cone returns. And ''he '''still''' doesn't get his ice cream''!
59	** Also, Pleakley's first name is still [[GenderBlenderName Wendy]].
60	** Angel appears as Stitch's [[LegCling leg-wench]] in his fantasy during the first episode.
61	* CoolOldLady: Yuna's Gramma is well-regarded for her wisdom. Even Jumba seems to really respect her and calls her "Professor Gramma".
62	* CouchGag: During the episode titles of the third season, which has Stitch rolling around in a purple space with stars and bubbles as an off-screen Yuna says the episode's title, Stitch says a random word or two (usually part of the title itself) or make some vocal noise once he uncurls to give a thumbs up to the viewer. Interestingly, this is only for the international edit's dubs; the original Japanese version has Stitch making the same noise each time.
63	* CuteBruiser: Mess with Yuna, and you're liable to lose your nose.
64	* DenserAndWackier: While not completely off the walls and having several intimate moments of its own, this series is more [[GagSeries gag-filled]] than any other work in the franchise and often depicts the aliens, especially Stitch, at their silliest. The third season increases this trope even further compared to the first two.
65	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Ehrm... this [[http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/a/a5/ScreenCapture_21.02.13_18-18-13.jpg picture.]]
66	* DubInducedPlotHole:
67	** The English dub makes an attempt to connect it to the old continuity by having Jumba claim Stitch ran away from Lilo as she got a boyfriend. [[BrokenAesop What about ʻohana?]] Even more glaring in the dub for season 3, where the explanation given for Lilo and Stitch's separation is not only about the same as the original Japanese version but directly contradicts Jumba's explanation. Well, [[HandWave Jumba could have just been speculating]]...
68	** Also, Gantu and Reuben have gone back to Dr. Hämsterviel just because Gantu was [[InsistentTerminology dishonorably discharged]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for singing karaoke at the holiday party]]. What's funny about that is being dishonorably discharged is ''worse'' than being fired.
69	** Another issue is that Hämsterviel inexplicably has a number of experiments that were reformed in the original series under his possession and are now subservient to him, though it's been explained that he kidnapped them, and in one episode he mentions that he used a recording of Angel's siren song to convert them back to evil.
70	*** Additionally, in the third season, the experiments are inexplicably podded again, even the ones under Jumba's possession. In the first two seasons, the experiments remained activated and the ones Hämsterviel had were held in prison cells.
71	** "New Town" has a flashback scene showing why Yuna and Stitch are no longer living on Izayoi. The scene shows Yuna and Stitch sitting on an Izayoi beach where she sadly tells him that Gramma wants her to move with Tigerlily, as her cousin is moving to the main island in Okinawa. The Japanese original explained that Yuna and Stitch moved with Tigerlily because Izayoi Elementary School would be closing down the next year, and Tigerlily would be transferred to the main island, so Gramma wanted Yuna to continue her education at New Town's schools. However, the English dub erases this detail, which makes Yuna's move feel more like she was forced to move with her dreaded cousin by her Gramma for no real reason.
72	** Then there are the issues of some experiments getting different names and/or numbers between Japanese and English, such as the case of Bragg/Flute/Twang. (See SeriesContinuityError below.)
73	** Inverted with the episode featuring Lilo and Stitch's reunion--we're given no explanation in the Japanese version of just how Stitch didn't know Nani was pregnant and that Lilo was late to their reunion because Nani was going into labor. In the dub, it's explained that Stitch was on a mission for the Galactic Armada during Lilo's college years, making it possible that they simply weren't able to contact him easily during that time.
74	* DubNameChange: Certain characters, mainly Yuna's classmates, have received Western names in the dub (Piko is Penny, Sae is Sandra or "Sasha", Reika is Jessica, ''et cetera''). It's business as usual for an English dub of a kids' anime, but what makes it more glaring is that there's no attempt to hide that the series is set in Japan otherwise. Surely they could have kept the names as is?
75	* EasterEgg: This show has a lot of Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey\|Mouse}}s; the English dub even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]].
76	* EnslavedTongue: Checkers, the Experiment that makes others cater to his wearer like royalty, is now modified to take control of the wearer's body so Hämsterviel speaks through them.
77	* {{Flanderization}}: Oddly enough, a case of ''reverse'' Flanderization in the English dub. Throughout the original films and ''The Series'', Stitch usually spoke his alien tongue Tantalog and only scattered fragments of English. Here, he's taken the next logical step and speaks increasingly fluent English over time, even losing his famous [[ThirdPersonPerson illeism]].
78	* ForcedTransformation: Yuna gets turned into a puppy by a transmutated Elastico in "Elastico 2.0". Later in the same episode, Hiroman, Toriko, and Makiko all get turned into circus animals themselves, respectively turning into a seal, an elephant, and a monkey.
79	* {{Gasshole}}: Stitch, somewhat surprisingly, in a couple episodes:
80	** In "Dads Day", Stitch farts a few times during instances when he pretends to be (what he thinks is) a normal human father. These include one fart that is visually depicted coming out of his patookie, and his last fart at the end, which is so massive that Yuna's classroom gets filled with his gas cloud, leading to everyone chasing after Stitch for the disgusting gesture.
81	** In the original Japanese version of "Sprout 2.0", on the flight to the island in Jumba's spacecraft, Yuna tickles Stitch so much that he unintentionally releases a massive fart twice in a row, the second of which goes ''directly into Yuna's face''. The cabin becomes so filled with his gas cloud that Jumba and Toyoda-san (Dolores) put on gas masks and Reiko (Jessica), Toriko, and Makiko, who stowed away on the ship by hiding in a burlap sack, end up revealing themselves coughing. Mercifully, the international edit cuts the farts out (albeit in a clumsy manner), with Jessica instead revealing herself and her friends because she was annoyed by Yuna and Stitch laughing from all the tickling.
82	* GenreShift: The first two seasons (which themselves are a Genre Shift for the entire franchise) were set on the fictional island of Izayoi off the coast of Okinawa Island where most episodes focused on {{yokai}} and UrbanLegends, although season two did involve more episodes with the experiments than season one. Season three shifted the location to Okinawa New Town, becoming more of an urban SliceOfLife with a focus on the episodic hijinks by Hämsterviel and his plans, often involving Gantu.
83	* GirlishPigtails: Yuna.
84	* HandWave: The explanations given in the English dub for why Gantu is evil again and other {{RetCon}}s; Creator/JessWinfield's involvement in the international version likely played a role in these.
85	* HappyEndingOverride: The anime undid some positive outcomes from the ending of ''Leroy & Stitch'': Gantu is back to working with Dr. Hämsterviel, who has escaped prison, experiments are on the loose again, and Stitch leaves Lilo and ends up living on a different island with someone else, contrasting the purpose of ''ʻohana''.
86	* HelplessWithLaughter: In "The Return of 627", Jumba notes that 627's main weakness is his immature sense of humor. The others exploit this by dancing until he laughs so much that he ends up unconscious.
87	* IdealHero: Yuna. Even after she accosts the bullies who hurt her friend--and ''forcefully'' makes them return his game--she still offers to help them and gives the Mertle {{Expy}} Penny some sugar cane.
88	* IChooseToStay: When Stitch finally gets his wish at the end of the second season, getting his forty-third and final good deed after defeating Cyber (Experiment 000), instead of using it to gain ultimate power like he had been wanting, he instead wishes to stay with Yuna forever, teleporting back to her.
89	* IKnowKarate: Yuna; she even runs a dojo that she inherited from her grandfather.
90	* IdenticalGrandson: [[spoiler:[[ShesAllGrownUp Lilo]]'s daughter looks just like Lilo when she was [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch a]] [[WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie little]] [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries girl]] complete with red flowered dress and Scrump doll]]!
91	* HalloweenEpisode: "Dracula, Jr." and "Witch".
92	* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the original movie and, to a certain extent, ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. However, the violence in this show is, while still fantasy violence, greater compared to ''The Series''. The international version actually toned this down, but apparently the edits there were apparently not enough to prevent it from being taken off the air in the U.S. (assuming that it was taken down there because of the violence).[[note]]Japanese children's programming have looser standards compared to the United States.[[/note]]
93	* LogoJoke: In the first season opening for the original Japanese version, the Disney logo zooms into view, and then gets zapped by Stitch in his stolen police cruiser.
94	* MarketBasedTitle: [[https://bilder.wunschliste.de/sendung/hr/v15580.png The German dub]] titles the show ''Yuna & Stitch'', which also maintains the NameAndName tradition of past entries.
95	* MissingMom: Yuna's mom. At one point, Penny/Piko from the original version teases her that her mom left because she's such a screw-up. "A Recurring Nightmare" reveals that Yuna's mother died when she was a baby.
96	* MistakenForGay: In one episode, Jumba and Pleakley are helping the postman Mr. Honda deliver a letter to Yuna. Mr. Honda mistakes Jumba and Pleakley for a married couple by asking them, "So, how long have you two been married?"
97	* NameAndName: The German dub is the only version of this show to maintain the "Person & Stitch" naming convention (and the last one to use that specific order outside of the country where the work was produced).
98	* NextSundayAD: The show takes place approximately two decades after the events of ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'' (i.e. sometime in TheNewTwenties), but it looks completely identical to [[TurnOfTheMillennium mid-to-late 2000s]] society, before the proliferation of smartphones.
99	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Stitch and all the other alien characters are drawn using the same style from the films and ''The Series''. All the new human characters, however, are done in a more traditionally {{Animesque}} fashion. Also, [[spoiler:Lilo and her daughter]] are drawn in the same style as the films and ''The Series''.
100	* NotSoHarmlessVillain:
101	** In the final non-special episode, there was Dark End, an experiment created by the third-season-only villain Delia to defeat Stitch. Not only were [[ShesAManInJapan they]] an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j974lSZcW6M adorable (arguably more so than Stitch), long-eared, rabbit-like experiment with androgynous voice and features]], but they were powerful enough to cause a giant fissure in a soccer ball field just by stamping its foot and breaking open a giant containment pod containing Gantu, Reuben, and Hämsterviel by lightly tapping its claw on the glass. And finally, completely [[CurbStompBattle stomped]] Stitch till he lost consciousness twice, though not without making him undergo a {{humiliation conga}} first and wiped the floor with Stitch's nine other cousins. It wasn't until, through some contrived power gained from the love and support of Yuna and her friends triggering his power cell that he was able to stand a fighting chance against Dark End.
102	** There was also Bragg/Flute, another flute-carrying cat/rabbit-looking experiment who grew stronger the more attention and sympathy he got from those around him. This included framing Stitch in a {{wounded gazelle gambit}} so Yuna and her family would take his side. Databases suggested that with enough attention it would have become a hulking not-so-cute monster.
103	* ProtagonistTitle: Only Stitch's name is in the title this time around, except in the German dub.
104	* PinkySwear: Yuna and Stitch do this often.
105	* PunchClockVillain: Reuben. He really doesn't care whether Hämsterviel's plans succeed or fail. [[StatusQuoIsGod Or if it just fails, period]].
106	* RealAfterAll: In the fifth episode, the Chitama Spiritual Stone zaps Sparky, removing the mind-controlling device, thus proving to Gantu (who dismissed it as an Earth legend) they exist.
107	* SayMyName: [[spoiler:Lilo screams out Stitch's name in the original Japanese dub of "Lilo" after she figures out that Stitch left his necklace on a tree.]]
108	* ScienceFantasy: Considering the presence of yōkai, a stone that can grant wishes, and whatnot in what has previously been a soft sci-fi franchise.
109	* SequelSeries: A sequel series to a sequel series, no less. This status is fully cemented in an episode in the third season, where it is revealed [[spoiler:that Stitch ran away from Lilo after he thought she abandoned him, with them being finally reunited in that episode.]] However, after ''Animation/StitchAndAi''--which doesn't ever follow or lead up to the events to this show--years later, this is now considered a ''possible'' continuation of Stitch's story rather than the definitive follow-up.
110	* SeriesContinuityError:
111	** In the third episode of the English dub, Pleakley says his species is genderless, despite his species having been shown to have genders in the [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries initial series]].
112	** Stitch needs Yuna to teach him right from wrong, despite having already gone over that extensively with Lilo.
113	** Gantu and Reuben being evil again, despite Gantu having been reinstated to his position in the Galactic Armada and Reuben finding his one true place in ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch''.
114	** In the English dub of the third season episode "Swapper 2.0", Heat (Experiment 609) is misidentified as Splodyhead (X-619), who already appeared earlier in the series, including the first episode of the same season. Making this worse is Pleakley outright saying, "I remember him well, Experiment 619!" with Jumba responding with, "Yes, also known as Splodyhead!" ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And]]'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the English credits even misspell "Splodyhead"'s name]] (as "Splod'''e'''yhead")!
115	** The whole debacle over the name and number over the yellow, rabbit-like flute-playing experiment. Known as "Flute" and numbered 145 in the English dub, the experiment was known for many years by non-Japanese fans to be named "Twang" and numbered 021 in the Japanese original, thanks to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/stitchipediaalilostitch/images/1/1e/ScreenCapture_14.05.13_19-06-22.jpg/revision/latest/185?cb=20130515004323 this image]] and the fact that 021 is named "Twang" in the experiments list seen in the credits of ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'' (whereas "Flute" doesn't appear anywhere in said list). However, the experiment is [[https://liloandstitch.fandom.com/wiki/File:145-Bragg_misnumber.png actually named "Bragg" (ブラッグ)]] in the Japanese original. Bragg does appear in the experiments list as 145, but the Japanese production team accidentally misnumbered him as 021, which led to the errors. Read [[https://liloandstitch.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Bragg_(145)/@comment-37803634-20190907050527?permalink=33454#comm-33454 this comment]] on Lilo & Stitch Wiki for more info.
116	* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:Lilo]].
117	* ShoutOut: The soap opera Pleakley and Gantu like to watch (at least in the English dub) is called ''[[Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless The Young and The Stupid]]''.
118	* SmellySkunk: Hämsterviel sends a skunk-like experiment named Skunkuna to retrieve Mr. Stenchy for him. It has the ability to shoot powerful stink bombs. It's also apparently female as in the end [[spoiler:it falls in love with Mr. Stenchy, and their respective stenches cancel each other out]].
119	* SparklingStreamOfTears: Happens to Pleakley when he is reunited with Jumba.
120	* StealthSequel: All signs point to this being an AlternateUniverse series, [[spoiler:then adult Lilo shows up]].
121	* StrongFamilyResemblance: Lilo's daughter Ani looks exactly like her mother in her youth.
122	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
123	** Yuna for Lilo.
124	** Penny for Mertle, with Jessica taking over the role for both in the third season.
125	* TakeOverTheWorld: Apparently Stitch's plan in the two Madhouse seasons to be "ruler of the universe", though he also says that he wants "ultimate power" (i.e. he wants to be [[WorldsStrongestMan the strongest being in the universe]]). [[CharacterDevelopment He loses this motivation by the end of the second season.]]
126	* ThePowerOfFriendship: What allowed Stitch to defeat Dark End at the end of the third season.
127	* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Subverted in that the first two seasons take place on the fictional island of Izayoi in Okinawa Prefecture, which oddly resembles the island of Kauai (the ecology of the Hawaiian Islands and the Ryukyu Islands is fairly similar). Much like how the original focused on the Hawaiian culture, the culture of Okinawa and the Ryukyus is featured in ''Stitch!''. Played a little straighter in the third season with Okinawa New Town, though, since it's a city.
128	* {{Tomboy}}: Yuna is a girl who is skilled in karate.
129	* TooDumbToLive: In Sparky's debut episode, after the mind-controlled Sparky electrocutes Stitch, Yuna decides to attack him... [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat only to]] [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat be shocked]] herself. Considering this is a GagSeries, it doesn't stick.
130	* TookALevelInJerkass: Angel this go around. She's spoiled, demanding, and often cruel to Stitch, and has dumped him in favor of someone else no less than three times. This can be attributed to her having spent years in-universe as a popular singer, picking up several diva traits along the way.
131	* TwoShorts: ''The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure'' has "A Little Hämster Love / Pleakley Loves Hollywood". The international version also does this to ten Madhouse episodes, cutting them all down into five episodes of two segments each.
132	* TrueCompanions: The show's tagline is, "When we meet, we become family," an Okinawan phrase that describes their hospitality.
133	* TruthInTelevision: Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyus are pretty much [[JustForFun/XMeetsY the Hawaii of Japan]]: pineapples, hibiscus, floral-patterned clothing, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_languages their own language]], a rich cultural history... A perfect analog for ''Lilo & Stitch'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN JAPAN]] though replace Lilo with Yuna.
134	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: What do the people of Yuna's town do when they realize a pair of aliens have just landed in their town? Throw a party to welcome them, of course.
135	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Done by Bragg/Flute (Experiment 145), on Stitch so he could feed on the attention and sympathy from Yuna and her family.
136	* {{Youkai}}: There are several varieties living in the Spiritual Forest.
137	* YouNoTakeCandle: Despite this show being set years after ''Leroy & Stitch'', the Japanese original version maintains Stitch's broken speech patterns, which are more prominent here due to the increase of dialogue for him. {{Subverted\|Trope}} in the English dub, in which he actually becomes increasingly fluent in the human language.
138	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Dark End's second and final appearance in the episode of the same name, he is permanently taken off the show. That being said, it was the last regular episode of the series.

Context Anime / Stitch