Kappa Mikey

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Kappa Mikey
Hey! (Hey) Look! (Look!) Out in the streets! Don't you see that man is Kappa Mikey?
Running Time: 22 minutes Country: United States Release Date: February 25, 2006 – September 20, 2008 Network(s): Nicktoons Network Nickelodeon Created by: Larry Schwarz Distributed by: Starz Media Cake Entertainment Starring: Michael Sinterniklaas Sean Schemmel Stephen Moverley Kether Donohue Gary Mack Jesse Adams Carrie Keranen Dan Green Wayne Grayson Bella Hudson Seasons: 2 Episodes: 52

Kappa Mikey is an American animated television series created by Larry Schwarz. The show was created by Schwarz's studio Animation Collective.

Plot

The series is a parody of Japanese anime, featuring a young American actor named Mikey whose appearance is styled after Western cartoons, and travels to Japan to star in a tokusatsu show called LillyMu, where his anime-styled co-stars represent common anime clichés.

Why It Rocks

1. The premise of a Western cartoon character co-starring along side anime characters is very unique for its time.
2. Decent flash animation, mostly for the non-anime characters like Mikey. However, the animation does gets better in Season 2.
3. Good voice-acting.
4. Some of the characters are likeable, like Guano, Gonard, Mitsuki and Mikey himself.
5. Surprisingly, it does satirise the common anime tropes really well. It even pokes fun of such.
6. It was one of the few original series to have been aired on Nicktoons Network, such as Making Fiends, Corneil & Bernie, The Secret Show, Skyland, Edgar & Ellen & etc.
7. Amazing theme song. What gives this an upgrade is that it was actually composed by an artist from Japan, even for a flash-animated series. How awesome is that?!
   • Also, the songs in "The Karaoke Episode" and "Mitsuki Butterfly" are also good and catchy.
8. It was one of the fewer animated series to not have animation outsourced to any animation studios abroad, as well as not have an agency.
9. A clever running gag that occurs when anime characters can do one thing that Mikey himself can't, due to him being drawn in Western.

Bad Qualities

1. Since this series was animated in Flash without the assistance of any overseas animation studio, people may find the anime characters a poor effort.
   • Also, the CGI of the show didn't aged well.
2. The start of each episode can be too formulaic.
3. Some use of toilet humor and fart jokes.

Trivia

1. The show was announced to be released from Noggin's teen block called The N, However, the show was moved to Nicktoons Network.
2. This was Animation Collective's first ever animated series for television.

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