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Narrative
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From left to right: Polly Esther, Speedy Cerviche and Guido Anchovy
"A fully functioning, cybernetic, technologically advanced team of superheroes... and nobody's got a flashlight?"
— Polly Esther
The English dub of Kyatto Ninden Teyandee licensed by Saban, who didn't manage to get transcripts of the original dialog (or just horribly translated scripts, according to the writer). As such, the writers had to make up stories and dialog out of whole cloth. It seems to have worked fairly well, all things considered. The show is better known around the world as "Samurai Pizza Cats" more than the original source.
The Cats are the owners/employees of a pizza parlor, who defend their city and the royal family (pushy, spoiled Princess Violet [Usa-Hime], and her demented father, Emperor Fred [Shogun Tokugawa Iei-Iei]) from the machinations of the villainous rodent, the Big Cheese (Koon-no-Kami). Between the giant robots, the ninja crows and the, um, peculiarities of their emperor, this is both harder than it sounds and easier than it ought to be.
While the plots can be a bit formulaic, most of the show's appeal comes from the humor and the lame puns (some main characters being Speedy Cerviche [Yatarro], Guido Anchovy [Sukashii], Polly Esther [Pururun] and "Big" Al Dente [Wanko-no-Kami]), and an astounding number of running gags.
The show is notable for being perhaps the only heavily edited, rewritten and hacked-up anime dub which fans actually prefer to the original. Whereas the original show is merely a cute kids' action cartoon, the english Pizza Cats is chock full of sly references, shameless puns, rapid-fire sardonic humor, and a total refusal to so much as acknowledge the fourth wall. As a matter of fact, even the original creators reportedly prefer the English version, saying it's what they should have made in the first place.
Despite what you may have heard, it is not a lame Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rip off, but a decent cartoon that can stand on its own merits. (It was, however, licensed as part of a TMNT Follow The Leader movement.)
This series provides examples of:
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