Samurai Pizza Cats
| Samurai Pizza Cats | |
Cover art of the American DVD box set
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| Genre | Comedy, mecha |
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| Anime television series | |
| Produced by | Andy Thomas (producer) Winston Richard (executive producer) |
| Music by |
Shuki Levy Kussa Mahchi |
| Studio |
Tatsunoko Productions Sotsu Agency Saban |
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| English network | |
| Original run | February 1, 1990 – February 12, 1991 |
| Episodes | 52 |
Samurai Pizza Cats is an American animated television adaptation of the anime series Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee), produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Sotsu Agency. Saban picked up the North American rights to the series in 1991, which originally aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from 1 February 1990 to 12 February 1991 for a total of 54 episodes, and produced an English adaption for a total of 52 episodes. The English version of the series first aired in 1993 on YTV in Canada and in 1996 in the United States on first-run syndication. The English language version became a cult hit among anime fans due to its rapid-fire pop culture references and farcical nature.
Saban's distribution rights to the series expired in 2002.Discotek Media currently holds the North American home video license to the series in North America, while Madman Entertainment holds the license for Australia and New Zealand.
Crunchyroll began streaming the series on December 27, 2015.
The series is set in Little Tokyo, a mechanical city which fuses feudal Japanese culture with contemporary culture, and is populated by cybernetic anthropomorphic animals. The city is nominally led by Emperor Fred, a doddering eccentric. The city's actual leadership lies in the hands of his daughter Princess Violet and a city council. The council is headed by the ambitious prime minister Seymour "The Big" Cheese, a rat, who constantly plots to overthrow the Emperor. He is aided by his inept minions: trusted adviser Jerry Atric and Bad Bird, the leader of an army of ninja crows.
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