Anime Profile: Samurai Pizza Cats
Fields |
USA Info |
Japanese Info |
Image |
|---|---|---|---|
Title |
Samurai Pizza Cats | Kyatto Ninden Teyande(キャッ党忍伝てやんでえ) |  |
Released |
40 TV episodes(52 were dubbed) | 54 TV episodes | |
Dates |
1991(Dubbing), Sept 9, 1996(broadcast) | Feb 1, 1990–Feb 5, 1991 | |
Company |
Sabban | Tatsunoko/Sotsu Agency/SHAFT/Studio Nue/Studio Taji/TV Tokyo | |
Creator |
Goh Mihara | ||
Director |
Various(Katsumi Kosuga, Kunitoshi Okajima, Mineo Fuji, Shingo Kaneko, Shinji Takagi) | ||
Genre |
Comedy | Comedy | |
Characters |
-- listed below -- | -- listed below -- |
Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon.
Anime Characters: Samurai Pizza Cats
English Name |
Japanese Name |
 |
English Name |
Japanese Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bad Bird | Karamaru | Lucille | Omitsu | |
| Bat Cat | Mietoru | Meowzma O'Toole | Gotton | |
| Big Al | Wankoh | Polly Esther | Pururon Nyan | |
| Big Cheese | Kon no Kami | Princess Violet | Usa-hime | |
| Emperor Fred | Shogun Tokugawa | Speedy Cerviche | Yattaro | |
| Francine | Otama | Spritz T. Cat | Nekkei | |
| General Catton | Rikinoshin | Madonna(+) | Deedee(+) | |
| Geri Atrich | Gennaraisai | Michael(+) | The Sundance Kid(+) | |
| Guido Anchovy | Sukashi | Prince(+) | Cosmo(+) | |
| Guru Lou | Reikai Nosuke |
Anime Description: Samurai Pizza Cats
An action comedy of the Super Deformed variety (think big heads on little bodies), Kyatto Ninden Teyande is the story of a land that looks a lot like old time Japan (only with lots of mechanical contraptions and the like) peopled by humanoid animals (some of them are just plain strange). This already-strange land is protected by a band of samurai cats who operate under the guise of a pizza house (that happens to have a giant revolver on the roof).
The action is intense but tripped up to make the whole business funny rather than serious. Despite all that goes on, no one dies in this series (they just get hurt a lot) and enemies get sent flying all the time. It's part of what makes an SD action series so hilarious.
When Saban acquired the rights to the series and turned it into the Samurai Pizza Cats, they proceeded to do a little creative editing (particuarly with the smarty-mouthed narrator and by turning the main antagonist from a fox into a rat) to make an already-wacky series even crazier.
Note: Although the series was Dubbed in 1991, it never broadcasted on American television until 1996.
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Anime Description: Samurai Pizza Cats
The Pizza Cats are a trio of humanoid cats who every episode has to fight one of their arch-enemy's (Big Cheese) robots. Every episode usualy starts in a parlor called the Pizza Cat, and whenever something bad is going on, they go down ovens and get super armor and get shot out of a big cannon. Of course, they win, but the show is extremely funny and totally cool.
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