Which Was Worse: The Reboot or Power Puff Girls Z? 

Take a drink every time Deepcut says 'for some reason'.

The right thing that PPGZ did was that they made their own thing and even gave them a different origin story to tell it in a different way. They were very creative and were trying their best not to tarnish the image of the original. They respected the original. The reboot is garbage.

The anime version at least had heart and you could tell the creators gave a damn about the source material and put their own spin on it. The reboot was just lazy trash.

Ppgz was a magical girl anime. Dont overthink it. Just enjoy it.

how is this even a debate lmao?? anyone who's watched PPGZ knows that it's far better than the reboot, PPGZ is honestly pretty good on it's own

The reboot. At least ppgz didn’t twerk or have weird faces.

People dislike PPGZ? Really? The reboot is obviously worse

I kinda love the anime? The plot thickens some times and then return to simple but well, the arc with Bubbles and her childhood friend who turned into a monster is kinda really good...

Who the heck disliked PPGZ!? and comparing it to the reboot too smh, PPGZ was fire and now one can tell me otherwise 😂

PPGZ is fire and a nostalgia trip. The reboot is a dumpster fire

Lol yet to see a single person who didn't like ppgz and saying how this isn't even a debate on which is better lol

As someone who watched the original PPG and PPGZ growing up, here are my thoughts on the matter. The reason PPGZ is great while the reboot is trash is because while PPGZ was based off of the original show, it was original enough that it could stand on its own merits. A lot of things were different about the anime, instead of the girls being made in a lab they were regular girls who got super powers, instead of giant monsters existing because, the concept of black and white z rays explained why the heroes and villains existed and Him was the most powerful being because he made the z rays. The girls were also aged up and made to be more like regular girls that the audience could relate to and how they struggled to be heroes while the PPG were born knowing how to use their powers. We watch them struggle with school and typical problems while everyone relies on them to save the world. Not to mention because they aren't related, the girls don't automatically like each other and they eventually end up forming a family with themselves, the professor, Ken, and Poochi. On the other hand, the reboot is a shitty imitation of the original show. It is too much like the original so it is constantly being compared to it, a slice of life comedy with little to no fighting being compared to the show that is PPG. The answer s painfully obvious why PPGZ is much better than the reboot and may even be on the same level as its original source material.

The reason the show was called "Z" was actually because it was intended to refer to the final installment of particular series. (PPGZ is the one and only anime adaptation), but it's a plus that they incorporated it into the show with Chemical X. (Nothing to laugh about, and in no way related to a certain other anime) All said and done, I can always enjoy PPGZ for what it tried to do. Also, the reboot is trash.

Definitely the anime did better. The idea of a secret older sister was interesting but overall the try hard attempts humor didn’t help the reboot at all.

Honestly, I love the anime. I watched it RELIGIOUSLY as a kid, in Japanese and English, and I loved it just as much as the original PPG. It was actually my introduction to anime, the first one I ever watched. I couldn't even get into Pokémon for long. Nope. I watched Powerpuff Girls Z instead, lol

Hands down? The Reboot. They tried to turn the girls into “tweens” and it didn’t work. The girls lost their childlike innocence a bit in the reboot too. And I really disliked how they made Buttercup act like a dude. Yeah she was a tomboy in the original but she still had her girly vibes she was just more sassy and hot tempered. And I really dislike how they made Bubbles seem like an idiot in the reboot. Bubbles was always the gentle, purest, and “insecure” one. She was innocently naive not a dummy and I really didn’t like how she was involved with computer gaming. I would of had her into fashion or something due to her creative nature but yeah. Blossom was still the same but I hate how she lost a bit of her “level headed-ness.” I didn’t like how she was such a clean freak neither. The PPGZ was more creative and kept the essence of the girls....except Blossom who had like this hero maniac and boy crazy vibe. So yeah reboot was trash and I’m happy they canceled it.

PPG 2016 theme: ok PPGZ theme: *pure awesomeness*

I cant take this seriously because you straight up said you didnt watch it in the video and then call the anime version bad for not showing an arc that you didn't see. Really? That's like reading the first chapter of a book and then skipping to the end, only reading a few pages in between, and then being mad at the ending after you didnt read the book. Seriously, it's like you're deliberately trying to make fans of this show angry for views

People..hated the anime version? Edit: This reply section as been going strong for some time now, the different views are Interesting ngl but some are insane as well.

Why is this even a debate? Leave Z alone, it was fine. The reboot is cancer, like Teen Titans Go.

While PPGZ isn’t really the go to “yes good show” thing for me, it is better to watch that than the reboot because: You can’t compare PPGZ with PPG, while the reboot forces to you compare

PPGZ was fire.

Side note - the Giant robot thing. That happened in the original PPG. Just in case everyone forgot ^.^ Only in the original using the robot to fight with actually destroyed the city even worse than it would have been if they fought the monster themselves. And the mayor banned the use of the robot as a result.

Z wasn’t bad but could have been better if it was redone. Blossom was done dirty though.

I rather watched the Japanese version instead the reboot version because they act more like a superhero

The reboot was way worse-

the reboot is in ever account, undeniably, objectively worse then Z. the "reboot" feels at times almost ashamed of it's source mattrel and things like miss bellum and the like.

The reboot got rid of Miss. Bellum. That is another reason to dislike it.

Powerpuff girls OG : YES 👍 PPGZ: YES 👍 PPG REBOOT : NO 👎

Oh come on Powerpuff Girls Z wasnt that bad >:(

I personally really liked Z , it was cute and took and unique approach to the idea of the Powerpuff Girls

PPGZ is what is nostalgic and a nice touch it wasn’t perfect but I wouldn’t compare it to the dumpster fire in 2016

The ppgZ version in my opinion was really nostalgic and cute. The reboot is so weird and im not a fan of the mary sue older sister.

I think the reboot was worse

Yo Z was lowkey heat, ya'll dont even know

Even the Japanese were more respectful than the Cartoon Network himself

Ppgz had its own identity, its different enough to separate from the original. I’m not seeing the Z Girls to be the same as the og Girls. The Reboot on the other hand insisted that they are the new original Girls and they just butchered everything.

This is an easy win for PPG Z. It's like comparing Rebels or Clone wars to me

Roses are red PPGZ was great When the reboot was announced We already knew it was too late.

Bro the reboot is garbage. PPG was my childhood, and so was PPGZ. I love and respect them both equally. You can see the intention and the heart put into each. But with the reboot, it’s obviously just for money. It feels hollow and heartless. They didn’t even add the RRB.

One my biggest gripes with the anime is turning Blossom into a stereotypical, magical girl lead, instead of her original personality. Because we seen tons of those types of love freak magical girl leads, that it would have been awesome to see anime Blossom be the smart girl pink lead which is very rare. Just shows that some in the Japanese entertainment industry can be just as formulaic in their own ways when it comes to shows. But I agree with the fact that the reboot is a husk of what the original was.

I like the originals better.... But z' are not bad

The reboot. Signed everyone born in the 90s

Me before watching the video: Pfft! Obviously PPGZ was better. Me while watching the video: ...well damn, didn’t think it was that badly written 😔....PPGZ is still better than the reboot tho

Z was stupid in the “lol okai thats cute” way The reboot is dry

I personally believe literally any powerpuff girl related media prior to the REBOOT is better than it , especially Z .

*_The reboot was much worse_*

As a weeb I loved power puff girls Z, especially when I was younger, I thought It was like an anime spin off and in my opinion its way better than the reboot

PPGZ was my favorite show when I was younger

The reboot is much much worse, even if you factor in the bad dub

From what I remember PPGZ was pretty great. The reboot it TRASH

To be completely fair on the robot part, I do remember the original series having the professor create a robot for the girls called Dynamo. Doesn't beg the question of why the girls even need a robot, but it's not a PPG Z original creation.

I love PPGZ. I practically grew up on the OG and PPGZ.

Ppgz was an absolute banger, one of my fav renditions

PPGZ was iconic

Everyone is talking about how the PPG twerked in the reboot, but not about how in one of the reboot episodes, Princess Bluebelle mistook Buttercup for a prince and kissed her.....Yes, an adult kissed a child, and on the lips.

I feel as if this video was kinda something to just fill in a slot for the content. That's just the vibe I get from this video, like a English paper you just had to push out for a sake of the grade

Also about Ken Utonium: Ken is a clone of the professor but he does consider the professor (and his wife we never actually meet) his mother and father

Reboot is worse and its not even close

blossom in ppgz has a magic yoyo… wait a second… MIRACULOUS LADYBUG?!?!?!

Hard to say. Both had potential, and Z had some originality with it's piece, but they both are just to bright and colorful for my taste. I actually watched the anime, and i have to say, much like Phantomstrider's opinion on the reboot, it focused too much on the girls and their hum drum lives. The Villains depicted in it were actually less intimidating then their original counterparts (except HIM, he was pretty well done), even the Amoeba Boys. Speaking of Boys, the Rowdyruff's were such a dissapointment, coming off less as sexist rivals and more like sexist brats, who didn't even have any powers to fight them (yeah they got some in ep 51, i know), or hardly any appearances (2 episodes, 1 guest appearance, and 1 cameo >:( ) As for the reboot, from what little i saw, I hate how it imitates TTG, instead of trying to be more like it's counterparts. While it did try to bring in some new blood to the villain rack, it more or less shat on the Main gallery (especially the Ruffs....dammit!). The new recurring characters were just awful I mean... A rainbow panda with eyes like he's on ecstasy, a freaking annoying pony/unicorn whatever, and why the F#%$ did they think they needed to include that distasteful excuse of a 4th PPG? Overall, I'd have to say the reboot was the worst. Cause while Z could have been better, it at least tried to be something like the original...heroic. You can actually feel for the characters and what they're trying to do. The reboot...like i said, it's like TTG, an insult to something once grand. I mean if your going to be ridiculous, at least do it with some taste. Yes the original had it's more cartoony bits too, at least there was thought put into it.

Reboot. Z was actually fine.

I liked the anime because while it was admittedly very ADD in it's structure, it was a love letter to the original series crew who made powerpuff girls because they loved anime which is what the designs of the girls were based off of in the first place. Specifically chibis. As well as the way Mojo JoJo would speak in an almost Japanese speech Pattern. Plus since Japan tends to (for the most part) respect its younger audiences unlike the USA, they were able to finally explain why the original series crew never approved of the RowdyRuff Boys being shipped with the PowerPuff Girls, and even tried to make fun of the idea of the ship in one episode. The boys are genetic twins of the girls. (Something i knew when i was 5YEARS OLD. IF A 5 YR OLD DOESN'T APPROVE OF A SHIP YOU KNOW THE FANDOM IS MESSED UP) Genetic twins, for those who don't know, are imperfect clones with the most glaring differences being biologically younger and being the opposite gender to the source material. Like Danielle "Danni" Phantom from Danny Phantom for example.

I speak spanish and this PPGZ anime was like "WOW HOW AWSOME" I didn't know why it had a lot of Hate It was my childhood with the original cartoon

Personally, I got quite the amount of laughs out of PPGZ. It had a number of good moments. But it is certainly not a masterpiece or anywhere near the level of the OG PPG. Most episodes were "okay" at best and "meh" at worst in my opinion. I still like it though.

Lmaooo ppgz is amazing. Especially compared to the “reboot”

I'm guessing you watched the Dub of PPGZ because I can't even stand the awful dubbing I watched the show with Subtitles and loved it- despite how nonsensical it was

the reboot. it fundamentally doesn't understand the core concept of the original series, at least the anime used the original villains more, there are only a small hand full of him episodes in the reboot but had even more in the original series. the reboot could've been great if it slowly introduced the classic villains and then the newer villains.

The Reboot Definitely. I Really REALLY HATE THE REBOOT😡

if your wondering about that kid with the professor in the Japanese sub that his son to help him out around the lab

Me: loudly listening to that amazing PPGZ ending theme Wat ppl didn't like it??

I watched PPGZ only once and that was last year, its what really got me into anime and.... why am I even saying anything the entire comment section agrees with me anyway

If the PPG reboot was like PPGZ I think people would have loved it. I've seen a few PPGZ episodes on RU-vid and it looked awesome. It was what I wanted the PPG reboot to be.

Meh the reboot kinda seemed worse to me

The anime version wasn't that bad in my opinion

I watched PPGZ when I was a pre-teen I cried when it was over cause I wanted more PPG content :/ also HIM in the og PPG is the Devil they just never called him that cause CN didn’t allow it they even joke about it in his introduction saying his name is to evil to say lol

The robot thing is also a reference to the original xd

As I also saw the manga version of this, Ken the kid that lives with professor is his kid

sadly have to agree. as much I dislike the anime, it's still a lot better than this sloppy reboot. The anime at least put some effort into itself, while the reboot just tries to walk on the success of the original without actually understanding what made the original so great.

At least ppgz introduce there characters and what happened to make got super powers compared to the reboot

Ok deep we need you to look at this again but as a 2000s weeb, modern weebs cant weeb the way those weebs could weeb

Ok, I'm sure most of us know that PPGZ was fire!❤️

Imagine disliking the PPGZ. PPGZ was such a soulful remake of the original story with a more magical girl esque feel. They made it work really well and its still one of my favorite anime to this day

The original Powerpuff girls was my childhood. I got introduced to the anime while in middle school and I've fallen in love with it ever since! 😍❤💙💚 I just recently re-watched it today! 10/10.

What I find weird is that I was oddly on-board with the Magical Girl redesign in the first half of PPGZ - I liked anime and magical girl stuff so this was a refreshing take on the characters and gave the show a chance to do serialized storytelling. Obviously though even the Japanese fans of OPPG must have been disoriented cause after the dec/jan break mid-season all of the magical-girl tropes were removed. We no longer saw the PPGZ in their secret identities, Rolling Bubbles' boyfriend (the one who chose to live their life as a monster) disappeared and was never mentioned again and most annoyingly no more transformations. . . Which to me was weird cause I thought all that stuff was Awesome! What I didn't think was cool was that the series went from smart well though out storylines to mindless drivel (the complete opposite of the OPPG who started out as mindless drivel but later on had seriously dark, emotional and even heart wrenching stories. Lest we forget Dick Herdly.)

6:00 Oh come on there was an emotional hook I'm not going to say it was a very good one but the talking dog thought he was going to end up non sapient or functionally dead by giving up his chemical x juice for the good of the city. You could have at least watched found a good summary for the last five episodes or so. Also wait why did you only watch the first two episodes of the reboot?

Ppgz is my childhood when i was 4-7 it sad its over Old villains are awsome But the New villains are lame and boring worse

Great video! But a LOT of inaccuracy regarding the anime at some points a prime example being at 2:11 when you stated new villains besides gang green gang and Mojo jojo. That’s not really correct a lot of the same villains make their return but the difference being their origin story. The rest of the villains are the same but instead of well.. ‘constantly’ being a villain like the ppg transform when they get a trigger from an item or noise. A prime example being Princess Morbucks where she when she hears her cat screaming she transforms. Medusa is there too being a really cute girl who transforms whenever in contact with lipstick,,, and while yes there are new villains there’s a lot of old ones (Even the RowdyRuff Boys! Which I found cool!) This does show a lack of research on your part regarding it..or well..lack of attention if you actually watched the show for this video and just didn’t really bother to give it any attention! Despite anyone’s opinion on this show it was really clever and offered a new view of the powerpuff girls as a whole! And anyone who hasn’t watched it I genuinely encourage because this video kinda skimped on all of what made the show fun!

Ppgz is my first anime that i actually love as a child and the only anime I'm watching when i was 7 I really love it as i love the og ppg but when I heard the reboot, i tried watching it and it is a disaster.

I liked the anime in a it’s okay to watch especially if I’m gonna draw or something, Blossom being boy crazy was just cringe idk. Reboot has problems, but I like one episode and that’s it.

I really liked PPGZ just because it gave me a huge nostalgia trip and embodied that sense of nonsensical anime I love. Sometimes you just wanna watch something nonsensical for the sake of it (not only that, but it was extremely different from the original and I respected that). When I saw the reboot, I tried to hold onto it, just as I did for Teen Titans Go, just because I missed the franchise. But as things progressed, just like TTG, I couldn't do it anymore and had to let go. I wouldn't even watch it if I wanted nonsensical cartoon logic. It wasn't even a good "dumb cartoon". It just became a dumb cartoon and I had to stop watching all together. So uh- moral of the story: Watch PPGZ and the original series.

Power Puff Girls Z was Great , and tbh I don't think anyone is saying the Reboot is better lol

Ppg z is great end of story

Power puff girls z was good ,the new reboot was trash like Voltron season 7-8 trash

3:57 Oof what you said there isn't going to age too well. Though it was played off as a joke in the original the girls do act like those said aforementioned late 20th century stereotypical girls, in that one slumber party episode, and some other episodes further on. I also suggest you check out PPGZ in its original dub since the English Dub does the show no justice.

PPGZ is fine, not bad but not good. PPG2016 is just awful.

Powerpuff girls z's him reminds me on the joker

ppgz was fire (2)

This guy doesn't know anime.

Both have its flaws. PPGZ is a mess in storytelling in the fiest half of the series and is filled of anime cliches in general up to the core, the Reboot is so desperately mainstream for the sake of being purposely memeable that it lost the little identity it ever had. But I think the difference is that while one of them actually succeeded in achieve what it meant, the other just fails continually. The Reboot was introduced as a literal sequel to the original series, it instantly targeted the old fans for the sake of nostalgia, you can look back to the first teasers and pvs and CN really tried to convince the audience they were going to get the old series back with new stories. But CN's current formula is slap Teen Titans Go as much as they can into every show, and the Reboot suffered from it. The show only lived for the sake of being purposely memeable and to attack the old fans. It's a reboot created for the only sake of taking adventage of nostalgia and silly humor that, in some way, it's worse than TTG's cus at least TTG was self-aware, while ghe ppg reboot wasn't. It aas just a nostalgia crapfest and maybe the only time it actually shined was during the Bliss arc with the 4th and "original" girl. The rest of the show is just memes for the sake of it in the most souless way possible. It didn't achieve it supposed original goal of bringing "the old show" back, and because of it the show failed lots of expectations. On the other hand, PPGZ had a different intention. There is plenty of rumors of why it was born, but the point is that PPGZ had the intention to be an anime that used elements from the og ppg but it never intended to replace, surpass or BE the original show. Look, the anime didn't even air in North America, it was targeted to other audiences and it never intended to have any real connection with the original show to the point that every character is its own character, the fact that CN gave so many freedom to Megumi Ishiguro and Yoshio Urasawa is enough to show that CN never ever cared for the show to surpass or bring back the original much less emulate it. In that sense PPGZ was its own show, managed to achieve irs own aesthetic that, even if had many cliches and anime tropes, still gave the show its own identity, and it even managed to achieve something that the reboot couldn't and that is a sub-fandom from the original fandom that actually liked it and enjoyed it and treasures it with as much love as the og show, while the reboot is just a hit or miss for the old fandom. PPGZ managed to actually gave tribute to the og show without having to mess with it or be directly involved on it and it didn't need its original audience to be alive, while the Reboot always messed around in the OG show's shadow.