Kappa Mikey is an American animated sitcom created by Larry Schwarz, who chose 4Kids Entertainment as the worldwide licensing, marketing and official promotional agent of the series. The show is Nicktoons's first original half-hour series, bought during the same period as other Animation Collective series such as Three Delivery and Speed Racer: The Next Generation, as well as Flash shows from other studios, such as Edgar & Ellen and The Secret Show, though the latter was made from BBC. The series premiered on January 6, 2006, as Nickelodeon aired several reruns and premieres as a promotional movement from August 20, 2006 to January 2007. The series is MTV's first global acquisition, and is currently available on iTunes. Kappa Mikey was marketed as "the first anime to be produced entirely in the United States", according to press releases from MTV, Nicktoons Network, and various other sources, as the term anime in English is generally reserved for animation originally produced for the Japanese market. It uses Japanese animation and culture as inspiration for its concept, rather than being "true" anime. As a matter of fact, the series is a homage/parody of Japanese anime. On February 16, 2008, during their "Music Week", Nicktoons Network aired their first and only original television movie, an hour-long Kappa Mikey musical entitled "Kappa Karaoke". Officially, the episode's title is "The Karaoke Episode".
Seasons & Episode
Mikey, Gonard, Guano, Mitsuki and Lily go to camp.
Mikey decides that he wants to free a captive squid while Guano uses a new gel on his fur.
Mikey and Lily get a retainer from the Bracemaster; Guano disguises himself as a panda for a LilyMu episode.
Mikey puts an artificial-intelligence chip in a motorcycle, creating a talking bike with attitude. Lily becomes popular among the Viking community after she steps up efforts to improve her public image.
Ozu lets his rivalry with another show's producer overshadow a friendly game of baseball.
After eating a radioactive sandwich Gonard gains superintelligence, and his friendship with Mikey is strained. Meanwhile, Lily, Mitsuki, and Guano compete for endorsements.
After Mikey floods the set, the crew has to film on location while avoiding the perils of the wilderness and Kappa as well.
The cast panics when Ozu hires a script doctor who is famous for killing off characters; Guano becomes a talk show celebrity.
When the gang goes to Mount LilyMu, everyone but Mitsuki can go on the bullet train, since Mikey cannot find Mitsuki's ticket. On the train, Mikey hears mumbles and finds Mitsuki tied up. Mikey convinces the gang to help find Mitsuki, and whoever kidnapped Mitsuki. In the subplot, Yes Man quits after a fight with Ozu.
Ozu wants to get the Masked Tanuki, the local superhero, on his show as a ratings boost. Mikey and Gonard rob their own studio to lure him in, only to lure in the Cat Burgler, who kidnaps them as a means for revenge. Meanwhile, Lily and Mitsuki try to solve the mystery of Guano’s apartment.
Ozu and his crew go undercover as students and faculty at the local Lebaniku High School, in order to figure out who’s behind a DVD piracy ring, making illegal copies of their show. Mikey, unable to fit in with any of the cliques, winds up with two nerds. Gonard becomes the Lebaniku football teams’ secret weapon against their rival.
A pair of mystical friendship bracelets magically switch Lily and Mitsuki’s bodies, and they agree to live the other’s life for a while, so Mistuki can finally date Mikey. Lily ends up working with a pair of environmentalists named the Do-Gooders. In the subplot, Gonard and Guano are cursed by a tiki idol.
Mikey opens a Kappa Mikey-themed restaurant, which does lousy until Gonard starts preparing dishes for it. A rival restaurant nabs Gonard and hypnotizes him into making dishes for them instead. In the subplot, Lily is caught showing hatred toward babies, so Ozu forces her to take care of a baby for one day to regain LilyMu’s reputation.
At a video rental store on Halloween, Mikey comes across a "creepy, unmarked" DVD, and after watching it, he and his friends are cursed. Their one way to break the curse is to assist a girl named Samoa to find her gobstopper in a haunted house, looking out for clues from the DVD itself.
Mikey gets lost in Yoyogi Park and meets a Werepuff, a monster who eats peoples' clothes, and Mikey turns into one when his pants are eaten off. Lily feels suddenly attracted to him, and they soon become a celebrity couple. The only way to cure him is if he eats the fur of the original Werepuff before dawn.
Mikey finds a karaoke machine run by a robotic genie. But Mikey insults the genie, causing it to put a curse on him and his fellow LilyMu cast members so that they can't stop singing.
Since the cast of LilyMu is still unable to speak except in song, their show is cancelled. They wonder about what to do with the rest of their lives. Will they be cursed forever?
Ozu orders Mikey to write the first chapter of his memoirs for a magazine tomorrow, with the help of Guano, but things go haywire after Mikey starts making up lies about his accomplishments. Meanwhile, Gonard finds out that he could actually be royalty.
Like the heroes of the famous Japanese film The Seven Samurai, the cast responds to a distress call from a poor boy and LilyMu fan named Riku, whose playground is about to be destroyed by an evil Garbage Man to make way for a landfill. However, used to doing live shows, the five are under the impression that this is just another gig, and Riku thinks they are real heroes instead of actors.
As in Mark Twain's novel "The Prince and the Pauper," Mikey decides to take time off from being a superstar and trades places with an ordinary citizen who looks just like him.
Guano doesn't know how to finish a LilyMu clip show.
Mikey gets in trouble playing a game of golf, while Lily and Mitsuki try to join a country club.
When the cast tries to perform an episode "live", everything goes wrong.
Mikey falls in love with the actress in a kabuki play, unaware that it is actually Mitsuki understudying for her father after he breaks a leg, literally. Meanwhile, Gonard falls in love with popcorn, and it develops into an addiction.
When Lily's favorite clothing designer visits the set, Mikey and Lily compete to win his approval for their contrasting fashion lines. Meanwhile, Gonard becomes obsessed with developing his abs on Ozu's exercise machine.
Mikey threatens to quit after being forced to give up his smelly, good-luck sneakers, but then is caught in a tornado and dreams that he is in the Land of Ozu, where his friends appear as various characters similar to those in the classic film The Wizard of Oz.
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