Yes, I know Z isn't actually a sequel series, but Rule of Funny.
Oh come now. If this kind of storyline worked on Totally Spies, it would have worked here.
Dakota's blog An odd agent of justiceAnd now I have this mental image of a PPG sequel along the lines of "Totally Spies meets Dragon Ball Z".
.... which I would probably watch for a good while, actually.
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They could call it... Powerpuff Girls Z! Right? Ri- <is shot>
edited 13th Aug '14 8:40:44 PM by KnownUnknown
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edited 13th Aug '14 8:46:22 PM by EvaUnit01
Yeah, Totally Spies wasn't exactly the most well written show on the block, flat characters, textbook/underdeveloped plots, etc. I suspect it was comparatively cheap to make - both it and Martin Mystery (which was better written, but still had its issues) showed noticeable animation shortcuts from time to time.
It was also the most Fetish Fuel-y show I've ever seen comes from someplace that's not Japan, so I guess that contributed to its periphery demographic.
edited 14th Aug '14 9:50:54 AM by KnownUnknown
I've never seen the film, but I'd assume that - like most theatrical releases - it required better animation than the series proper. I'd also assume that the series was better hyped in France than it was in America (the film never released over here).
Cheap shows get attention all the time. Read: Johnny Test and lots of anime. Or Disney's Robin Hood. Or Star Wars. Etc.
It also wouldn't be the first time a cheap and/or not-well written but incredibly toyetic show had lots of longetivity and made mountains of cash.
edited 14th Aug '14 10:06:31 AM by KnownUnknown
And how many cheap and toyetic shows do you know receive an animated film that did rather well?
You're making some rather bold statement. The only thing I have to agree from your statement is Johnny Test.
edited 14th Aug '14 10:13:03 AM by AfroWarrior27
Spongebob Squarepants, for one - at least on the "poorly written and toyetic" sense. The Smurfs. The multitude of Yogi Bear movies, but particularly "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear." In fact, most Hanna Barbera shows that had movies developed before the big adaptation rush nowadays.
Also, anime again - especially older anime, where a lot of the animation techniques were designed for the sake of saving money.
Though this makes me want to know more about France's animation industry - I don't know how France treats longrunners, for instance. (for one, I don't know if their industry "enforces" the hard 65 episode rule, and thus don't know whether Spies' long run is as uniquely remarkable as it would be in the US - to bring up anime again, even less successful anime can run for a time that it breaktaking by American standards, because our industry doesn't encourage long runners in the same way).
edited 14th Aug '14 10:53:24 AM by KnownUnknown

Take that, combined with spilling the Chemical X into the mixture near the start of The Movie. Not only did Mojo Jojo create his own worst enemies, he double created his own worst enemies, both by directly causing the Freak Lab Accident they were born from, and by giving Professor Utonium the inspiration to clean up his act and become a scientist in the first place.
An episode, fanfic, or whatever about Mojo actually realizing this would be just about the greatest thing ever, just for his reaction to it.