Powerpuff Girls Z

Powerpuff Girls Z
	Cover of the first DVD volume in Japan featuring Powered Buttercup, Hyper Blossom, Mojo Jojo and Rolling Bubbles
出ましたっ！パワパフガールズＺ; (Demashita! Pawapafu Gāruzu Zetto)
Genre	Magical girl
Created by	Craig McCracken
Anime television series
Directed by	Iku Ishiguro
Produced by	Tomoko Gushima; Kōhei Obara; Reo Kurosu; Mark Buhei;
Written by	Yoshio Urasawa
Music by	Hiroshi Nakamura; Taichi Master;
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TXN (TV Tokyo)
English network	AUS: Boomerang; IN: Cartoon Network; PH: Cartoon Network, Boomerang; PK: Cartoon Network; SEA: Cartoon Network, Boomerang;
Original run	July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007
Episodes	52 (78 segments)
Manga
Written by	Shiho Komiyuno
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Ribon
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	July 3, 2006 – June 2, 2007
Volumes	2
Video game
Game de Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z
Developer	Infinity
Publisher	Namco Bandai Games
Genre	Party
Platform	Nintendo DS
Released	June 14, 2007

Powerpuff Girls Z (Japanese: 出ましたっ！パワパフガールズZ, Hepburn: Demashita! Pawapafu Gāruzu Zetto, lit. They're Here! Powerpuff Girls Z) is a 2006 Japanese anime television series created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Toei Animation. Planned by Cartoon Network and produced by TV Tokyo, Aniplex, and Toei Animation, the series is directed by Iku Ishiguro, with Yoshio Urasawa handling series scripts, Miho Shimogasa (character designer of Cutie Honey Flash and Ultra Maniac and one of the animation directors of Sailor Moon) designing the characters and Hiroshi Nakamura and Taichi Master composing the music.^[1] The anime is based on the 1998 American animated television series The Powerpuff Girls, created by Craig McCracken and produced by Cartoon Network.

As production occurred in Japan, The Powerpuff Girls original series creator Craig McCracken was not actively involved with the project. Powerpuff Girls Z aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between July 2006 and June 2007. In addition to Cartoon Network Japan, the anime was also broadcast on AT-X.^[2]^[3] A manga adaptation by Shiho Komiyuno ran in Shueisha's Ribon magazine between July 2006 and June 2007.

The anime's English-language adaptation was produced in association with Ocean Productions in Canada. It was aired on Cartoon Network in the Philippines and Boomerang in Australia and New Zealand in 2008. Despite owning the IP rights to it, the anime series never aired on Cartoon Network or its sister channel Boomerang in the United States.

^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 7. ISBN 9781476672939.
^ 出ましたっ！パワパフガールズZ AT-X ワンランク上のアニメ専門チャンネル (in Japanese). March 30, 2008. Archived from the original on March 30, 2008. Retrieved August 27, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ プレスリリース. Anime Anime (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2017.

[1] Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 7. ISBN 9781476672939.

[2] 出ましたっ！パワパフガールズZ AT-X ワンランク上のアニメ専門チャンネル (in Japanese). March 30, 2008. Archived from the original on March 30, 2008. Retrieved August 27, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[3] プレスリリース. Anime Anime (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2017.

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