History Anime / Stitch

* CoolOldLady: Yuna's Gramma is well-regarded for her wisdom. Even Jumba seems to really respect her and calls her "Professor Grandma".

** [[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 the Mid Six-Twos (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 appears once in the third season.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Zuruko/Tigerlily. Much to the chagrin of both Stitch and Yuna, her cousin. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Her behavior somewhat improved over the course of the seasons]]. More so in season 3.
** Also, Bragg/Flute.

* CanonForeigner: In addition to the main cast, new experiments, such as Bragg/Flute (Experiment 145), were added with along with the ones from the original series.

* ChristmasEpisode: Each of the three seasons had one.

* CoolOldLady: Jumba seems to really respect Yuna's grandmother, and even calls her "Professor Grandma".
* 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 English dub; the original Japanese version has Stitch making the same noise each time.

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 be 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 [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries 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.

** 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 [[TheWikiRule Lilo & Stitch Wiki]] for more info.

** Also in the opening, there is a Hidden Mickey in the sushi just after the opening theme.

* ShoutOut:
** In the first episode, several kids are shown playing a game that is very obviously ''VideoGame/{{Spectrobes}} 2''--another Disney production.
** Also in the opening, there is a Hidden Mickey in the sushi just after the opening theme. Makes sense, considering it's a Disney co-production.
** The soap opera Pleakley and Gantu like to watch (at least in the English dub) is called ''[[Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless The Young and The Stupid]]''.
** An episode focuses on a trip to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Tokyo Disneyland]].

''Stitch!''[[note]]スティッチ! ''Suticchi!''; also known as ''Yuna & Stitch'' in the German dub[[/note]] (yes, the [[ExcitedShowTitle exclamation mark]] is mandatory) is an {{anime}} series from Creator/DisneyChannel Japan that serves as the second TV series in the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise. 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.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Disney finally gets to do this for a ''Lilo & Stitch'' TV series [[WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie five years after they aborted initial plans to do so]].

* SmellySkunk: Hämsterviel sends a skunk-like experiment 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]].

** 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.

* 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 and focused on SliceOfLife with a focus on the episodic hijinks by Hämsterviel and his plans, often involving Gantu.

* TwoShorts: ''The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure'' has "A Little Hamster 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.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The international version, which includes the English dub, heavily re-edited the episodes and shortened them to Western syndication lengths. Notably, eight season one episodes and a couple of season two episodes were heavily edited down to ten-to-eleven-minute segments and combined into TwoShorts episodes.

* ForcedTransformation: Yuna gets turned into a puppy in one episode.

* BalefulPolymorph: Yuna gets turned into a puppy in one episode.

* Ride/DisneyThemeParks: An episode focuses on a trip to Tokyo Disneyland.

* {{Tomboy}}: Yuna.

Meanwhile, [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]], who left Earth some time 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.

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 bulling 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.

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.]]

''Stitch!'' has been 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]] But unlike the anime, ''Stitch & Ai'' had the assistance of American animators during production and was produced in English first before being dubbed into its local language.[[note]]Also, Stitch didn't deliberately leave Lilo this time around; he was kidnapped by a warring space faction.[[/note]]

** 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 actually named "Bragg" 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 [[TheWikiRule Lilo & Stitch Wiki]] for more info.

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, which he almost did in the first season finale. 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 bulling 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.

Yuna Kamihara is a young girl who lives on Izayoi, a tiny (fictional) island off the coast of Okinawa, with her father and grandmother. Much like Kaua'i 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 took off for parts unknown, 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.

Meanwhile, [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]], who left Earth shortly after Lilo went to college and has since fallen off the wagon, is on the run from several Galactic Federation officials when he and Jumba 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.

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 thing in the galaxy, 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 be the most powerful creature in the galaxy, granted. However, all of Stitch's old nemeses are on his heels...

Apart from being part of the same franchise with the same characters, it is not related to the {{pilot|Movie}} [[WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie movie]] for ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', which had the same name though followed by "TheMovie". A heavily-edited "re-version" for the non-Japanese 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.

** Penny for Mertle.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Apparently Stitch's plan in the two Madhouse seasons, though he says that he wants "ultimate power", indicating that he wants to be [[WorldsStrongestMan the strongest being in the universe]]. [[CharacterDevelopment He loses this motivation by the end of the second season.]]

* TwoShorts: ''The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure'' has "A Little Hamster Love / Pleakley Loves Hollywood". The international version also does this to ten Madhouse episodes, turning them all into five episodes of two segments each.

* 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.
* CutAndPasteTranslation: The international version, which includes the English dub, heavily re-edited the episodes and shortened them to Western syndication lengths. Notably, eight season one episodes and a couple season two episodes were heavily edited down to ten-to-eleven-minute segments and combined into TwoShorts episodes.

* 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.
* MistakenForGay: In one episode, Jumba and Pleakley are helping a postman deliver a letter to Yuna. The postman mistakes Jumba and Pleakley for a married couple by asking them, "So, how long have you two been married?"

** There was also Bragg/Flute, another flute-carrying cat/rabbit-looking experiment who grew stronger the more attention and sympathy it got from those around it. This included framing Stitch in a {{wounded gazelle gambit}} so Yuna and her family would take its side. Databases suggested that with enough attention it would have become a hulking not-so-cute monster.

** In fact, 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.
* BrokenAesop: Stitch is racking up points for good deeds purely for his own benefit, rather than because they're the right thing to do.

* 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.

** 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.

* {{Flanderization}}: Oddly enough, a case of ''reverse'' flanderization. The end of the original movie (and ''Stitch Has a Glitch'') see Stitch speaking in more or less complete sentences, while in ''The Series'', he speaks his alien tongue Tantalog and only scattered fragments of English. Here, he's taken the next logical step and speaks increasingly fluent English/Japanese over time, even losing his famous [[ThirdPersonPerson illeism]].
* 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. Season 3 shifted the location to Okinawa New Town and focused on SliceOfLife with a focus on the episodic hijinks by Hämsterviel and his plans, often involving Gantu.

* HandWave: The explanations given in the English dub for why Gantu is evil again and other {{RetCon}}s.

** In the final non-special episode, there was Dark End, an experiment created by the anime-only villain Delia to defeat Stitch. Not only was it 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 it was 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 that he was able to stand a fighting chance against Dark End.

* RealAfterAll: The "Spiritual Stone" zaps Sparky, removing the mind-controlling device, thus proving to Gantu (who dismissed it as an Earth legend) they exist in the fifth episode.

** In the third episode of the dub, Pleakley says his species is genderless, despite his species having been shown to have genders in the [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries initial series]].

* TakeOverTheWorld: Apparently Stitch's plan in this series, or at least the two Madhouse seasons, though he says that he wants "ultimate power", indicating that he wants to be [[WorldsStrongestMan the strongest being in the universe]]. [[CharacterDevelopment He loses this motivation by the end of the second season.]]

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Subverted in that the series takes place on the fictional island of Izayoi in Okinawa Prefecture that 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!''

* 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'' [[RecycledInSpace IN JAPAN]] though replace Lilo with Yuna.

** [[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 the Mid Six-Twos (Angel, Reuben, and Stitch) to appear during the first season, which focused more on yokai.
** Not to mention several other experiments due to the whole [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japanese loves Stitch]] phenomenon.

* AffablyEvil: [[OneShotCharacter Dark End]] is quite polite. Of course, he has no problem with killing his enemies.

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* DubNameChange: Certain characters, mainly Yuna's classmates, have received Western names in the dub (Piko is Penny, Sae is Sasha, Reika is Jessica, etc). 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?

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* RealAfterAll: The "Spiritual Stone" zaps Sparky, removing the mind controlling device, thus proving to Gantu (who dismissed it as an Earth legend) they exist in the fifth episode.

** Stitch needing Yuna to teach him right from wrong, despite having already gone over that extensively with Lilo.

** Piko (Penny) for Mertle.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Apparently Stitch's plan in this series, or at least the two Madhouse seasons. [[CharacterDevelopment He loses this motivation by the end of the second season.]]

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Done by Bragg/Flute (Experiment 145), on Stitch so it could feed on the attention and sympathy from Yuna and her family.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Dark End's first and final appearance of the episode of the same name, he is permanently taken off the show, and a lot of fans wondered what happened to him. That being said, it was the last regular episode of the series.

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* AllMythsAreTrue There are the yōkais, one of which lives with Yuna and co, a [[UndeadChild boy vampire]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent who likes candy instead of blood]], a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werecreature]] if not [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] and what looks like the FrankensteinsMonster.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The international version, which includes the English dub, has two different openings; 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.]]

* AscendedExtra: Due to their [[EnsembleDarkHorse extreme popularity]] in Japan, [[ShockAndAwe Sparky]] (Experiment 221) and [[DistaffCounterpart Angel]] (Experiment 624) made prominent appearances in the show, the latter 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.