Editing The Powerpuff Girls (section)

=== Anime adaptation ===
{{Main|Powerpuff Girls Z}}
In April 2005, plans for a Japanese [[anime]] series based on the cartoon, ''Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z'', were announced.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nagado |first=Alexandre |date=April 7, 2005 |title=Meninas Superpoderosas em versão animê |url=https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/meninas-superpoderosas-em-versao-anime |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914024457/http://omelete.uol.com.br/series-e-tv/meninas-superpoderosas-em-versao-anime/ |archive-date=September 14, 2012 |access-date=June 1, 2011 |website=Omlete.com.br}}</ref> The series premiered in Japan the following year with 52 half-hour episodes, airing each Saturday from 2006 to 2007. It was made as a way to exploit the popularity that ''PPG'' was having on Japanese satellite television; however, in order to broadcast it on a channel like [[TV Tokyo]], it had to be produced locally.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fritz |first=Steve |date=January 20, 2009 |title=Ani Shorts: Craig McCracken 2 - PPG, Foster's and Comics? |url=https://www.newsarama.com:80/1987-ani-shorts-craig-mccracken-2-ppg-foster-s-and-comics.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002211322/http://www.newsarama.com:80/1987-ani-shorts-craig-mccracken-2-ppg-foster-s-and-comics.html |archive-date=October 2, 2016 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=[[Newsarama]]}}</ref>

''Powerpuff Girls Z'' deviates from the original series in terms of genre and animation style.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lloren |first=Jason |date=July 10, 2006 |title='Powerpuff Girls' Re-Anime-Ted |url=https://blog.sfgate.com/culture/2006/07/10/powerpuff-girls-re-anime-ted/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911070300/http://blog.sfgate.com/culture/2006/07/10/powerpuff-girls-re-anime-ted/ |archive-date=September 11, 2012 |access-date=June 1, 2011 |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |publisher=[[Hearst Communications]]}}</ref> It features junior high school students Momoko Akatsutsumi (Hyper Blossom), Miyako Gotokuji (Rolling Bubbles), and Kaoru Matsubara (Powered Buttercup) as the three heroes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PowerPuff Girls Z Characters |url=https://www.cartoonnetworkasia.com/minisite/ppgz/characters.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116101146/http://www.cartoonnetworkasia.com/minisite/ppgz/characters.php |archive-date=January 16, 2014 |access-date=January 14, 2014 |website=Cartoon Network Asia}}</ref>

McCracken told [[NPR]]'s ''[[Talk of the Nation]]'' that he had little involvement in this version: "I said, well, as long you keep that core foundation the same, feel free to reinterpret or re-imagine it in a way that you feel is going to better play in your marketplace [...] once we did the initial development on it, I kind of gave them my blessing and said, you guys can go off and make this show [...] I was really just there in the initial conception of it."<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.npr.org/2007/11/01/15850605/powerpuff-girls-reinvented-for-japanese-audience |title=Powerpuff Girls Reinvented for Japanese Audience |date=November 1, 2007 |last=Conan |first=Neal |type=radio broadcast |publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=May 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504115853/https://www.npr.org/2007/11/01/15850605/powerpuff-girls-reinvented-for-japanese-audience |archive-date=May 4, 2022 |url-status=live |transcript=Transcript |transcript-url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/15850605}}</ref>