![]() The game's producer, Ryota Niitsuma, was quoted in an interview as saying: "One of the main anime we got more requests for than any others was Samurai Pizza Cats. The main characters were intended at one point to appear in the Wii fighting game Tatsunoko vs. パープ) who shows up later on in the game and appears to ally with Koon-no-Kami. The game features most of the characters in the series as well as an additional villain, a mysterious scientist named Dr. Players take the role of the three main cats and Otasuke members, who can be switched to at any time and have special abilities to progress through the game. A standalone handheld LSI game (similar to Nintendo's Game&Watch) was also made. Although the game was never officially released in the West, complete English adaptation (characters and places names changed to corresponding ones from Samurai Pizza Cats) are available via a fan-made ROM patch. It was officially released in Japan only but was bootlegged outside Japan as Ninja Cat. In 1991, Tecmo (now known as Koei Tecmo) published a video game based on the anime for the Family Computer. Some episodes of the dubbed version were never aired on United States television due to risque humor (at the time) and depictions of homosexuality. Every episode excluding the two clip shows was dubbed into English. It was decided to write completely original dialogue for the English dub, playing the show as a wacky, Animaniacs-esque comedy in contrast to the less farcical original. When Saban licensed the English version, Samurai Pizza Cats, proper translations of and information about the original Japanese episodes were either of poor quality or non-existent. ![]() See also: List of Samurai Pizza Cats characters English dub Known collectively as the Nyankī (a play on the Japanese word for a cat's meow and the term " Yankee"), they are assigned to stop Koon-no-Kami and his evil henchmen's plans to take over Edoropolis. Instead, Inuyama enlists the services of Yattarou, Pururun and Sukashii, cat ninja who work in the city's pizzeria, with their operator Otama. Unknown to the prime minister, council member Inuyama Wanko-no-Kami, the commander of the Palace Guard, learns of his designs on leadership, but is unable to prosecute him for treason because of his plausible deniability. The council is headed by the ambitious prime minister Kitsunezuka Koon-no-Kami, a fox who constantly plots to overthrow the Shogun with the help of his trusted advisor Karasu Gennari-sai, and Karamaru, the leader of an army of ninja crows. The city is notionally led by shōgun Iei-Iei Tokugawa, but as he is a doddering eccentric, the actual leadership is in the hands of his neurotic daughter Tokugawa Usako and a council. The series is set in Edoropolis (a portmanteau of " Edo" and " metropolis"), a mechanical city that fuses feudal Japanese culture with contemporary culture populated by cybernetic anthropomorphic "animaloids" (or animal androids). I really hope that children who pick it up enjoy the adventures of our little Italian underdog (cat).See also: List of Samurai Pizza Cats episodes So before I knew it, I was writing about Toto and her brother Silver's nocturnal adventures around London. Like a lot of cat owners (or cat servants), we like to imagine our pets having secret lives when we're out or asleep. One of them, Toto, has been blind from birth, but we quickly realised she had ninja-like reactions. Can they find the giant snake before it's too late?ĭermot says, 'The idea for Toto first came to me when my wife and I rescued two stray cats from an olive grove in Italy. One evening, news reaches Toto that a king cobra has escaped from London Zoo! Together with help from a very posh rat and two hungry tigers, Toto and Silver must investigate. By day Toto and Silver seem to be ordinary cats, but by night they love to have adventures! Toto is almost totally blind and learned to trust her senses from a ninja cat-master who taught her back in Italy, where they were born. Toto the cat and her brother, Silver, live footloose and fancy-free in a townhouse in London. For fans of The Aristocats, The Secret Life of Pets, 101 Dalmatians and Atticus Claw Breaks the Law. Join Toto for a funny animal escapade written by one of the UK's best-loved broadcasters. Meet Toto: she's no ordinary cat, and she can't wait to have an adventure with you!
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