Kyatto-Ninden Teyandee

Title:Kyatto-Ninden Teyandee
Legendary Ninja Cats
Samurai Pizza Cats
キャッ党忍伝てやんでえ
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Notables: Animation - Studio Nue
R1 License - Discotek
The setting is a Japanese looking village named "Little Tokyo" where the Pizza Cats run a pizza fast food business. Little Tokyo is populated by all kinds of animals. The official governor of the town is the Emperor, but since he has gone bananas a council takes care of the well-being of the village. One of the members of this council is called Seymour "Big" Cheese, who secretly wishes to take over control of the village. The pizza take away restaurant is merely a cover for their true job... Whenever evil is afoot, the Pizza Cats are launched towards the danger from the gun-lookalike clock tower that emerges from the top of their restaurant.


54-episode TV anime that premiered on February 1, 1990.
Animated by Studio Nue and Studio Targe.
Licensed by Discotek.
Was aired in syndication by Saban Entertainment in the 1990s, who made a new English dub that changed character names, created their own plot and changed the dialogue to include fourth-wall humor and pop culture references.
OverallArtAnimationCharacter Design MusicSeries StoryEpisode StoryReviewer
Watch 6 5 6 5 5 5 Ggultra2764 [series:3168#1552]
Saban's spin on Samurai Pizza Cats is well-known to older anime fans as Saban made their own gag dub on Legendary Pizza Cats through changing character names and plot details, adding a campy series announcer and not being shy to toss around puns, pop culture nods and breaking the fourth wall. The story goes that Saban got a poor translation of the series script thus they tossed it out and did their own spin on the series. Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of anime gag dubs as you can only go so far with poking fun of things in a series and the fact that Saban could stretch this out over 52 episodes (two episodes from the original version were cut due to being recap episodes) means that this baby got far more dragged out than the gag dubs done for Ghost Stories and Milk-chan combined. Samurai Pizza Cats isn't much different in that regard as the series mostly follows a repetitious plot structure to the same ilk of other Saturday morning children's cartoons (and kids anime for that matter) where our heroes are doing their thing, the lead villain is attempting a plot using the "monster of the day" to take over the city, the heroes spring into action, often find themselves getting into trouble, will call for help in some form, eventually beat said "monster of the day", big villain blows his top, dramatic pose of the heroes viewing the city, and repeat for the majority of episodes. In addition, the show's animation is obviously cheap with its budget as it makes liberal use of animation shortcuts throughout its run and the character designs are starting to show their age. In spite of many older anime fans having good memories of Saban's dub to Samurai Pizza Cats, I can't really find myself seeing how it is memorable to older fans due to its repetitious developments and Saban beating a dead horse from continuing to push on with their gag dub far beyond the point where it would be funny.

Last updated Saturday, March 26 2016. Created Saturday, March 26 2016.

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