Viewtiful Joe (anime)

Viewtiful Joe
Viewtiful Joe Volume 1 DVD cover
ビューティフル ジョー (Byūtifuru Jō)
Genre	Action/Adventure Comedy
Anime television series
Directed by	Takaaki Ishiyama
Studio	Group TAC
Licensed by	NA Geneon Entertainment
Original network	TV Tokyo
English network	UK Jetix US Kids' WB!
Original run	2 October 2004 – 24 September 2005
Episodes	51 (List of episodes)

Viewtiful Joe (ビューティフル ジョー, Byūtifuru Jō^?) is an anime series based on the video game series of the same name.

The series follows a similar plot of the games, but there are many differences. The series, comprising fifty-one episodes, was shown every Saturday on the Japanese television station TV Tokyo from October 2, 2004 until September 24, 2005. The show was licensed by anime distributor Geneon Entertainment, with its first twenty-six episodes airing in United States on Kids' WB. It was taken off the air when the Kids' WB block transferred to The CW.

Viewtiful Joe was later licensed for distribution in other parts of the world by MGM Television. The anime debuted in the United Kingdom on Jetix on July 2, 2007.Viewtiful Joe premiered on Cartoon Network Brazil on July 3, 2006 and ran again in country's RedeTV! in HD on November 27, 2006. It aired in Mexico starting on July 4, 2006. On June 23, 2008, the show began airing on Cartoon Network in other parts of Latin America. In 2009, Viewtiful Joe became available on Crunchyroll's streaming service for its users outside Asia.

Following the games' storyline, movie lover Joe and his girlfriend Silvia enjoy a seemingly normal trip to the movies to see an action flick starring Joe's idol, Captain Blue, when suddenly the leader of the evil Jadow force reaches out of the screen and takes Silvia into the movie. Joe is forced to follow her by Captain Blue's mecha, Six Majin (renamed "Machine Six" in the English anime, and "Six Machine" in the Spanish dub), and meets Captain Blue in the flesh who grants Joe the power to become an action movie hero in his own right called Viewtiful Joe.