| | | Includes Bonus Episode!
Features: DVD
After winning a role on LilyMu, a hit anime show in Japan, Mikey Simon is catapulted to super-stardom in a country he knows nothing about. He and the rest of the cast must adjust to his new found fame - and all of the crazy adventures along the way.Includes the episodes Lost in Transportation, Easy Come, Easy Gonard, and The Man Who Would Be Mikey!
"...a cacophony of sights, sounds and animation interspersed with some relatively clever writing." Laura Fries, Variety
Editor's Note
LilyMu was once Japan's most popular animated show, but its ratings have fallen. To bring it back to the top they're holding a scratch card contest to find their new star and the lucky card holder is Mikey Simon. But can an American cartoon actor star in a Japanese series when they are drawn in different styles? Full of references to American and Japanese pop culture, Kappa Mikey is a humorous look at the clash between the two societies and the cartoons that come from them.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Bonus Episode | | DVD-ROM Features: How To Draw Mikey, LilyMu Squares Interactive Game, & Desktop Wallpaper | | Interactive Menus | | Music Video | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: STARZ/SPHE |
| Release Date: 9/18/2007 |
| Running Time: 66 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 14738 | | UPC: 00013131473896 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew | Elizabeth Winter, et. al. - Editor | | Gary Mack - Voice Of | | Joel Blanco - Producer | | John R. Angier - Original Music By | | Kether Donohue - Voice Of | | Larry Schwarz, et. al. - Writer | | Michael Gold - Executive Producer | | Michael Sinterniklaas - Voice Of | | Sean Schemmel - Voice Of | | Sergei Aniskov - Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 7 of 10
Made almost exclusively for chemically altered young adults, or perhaps with the U.S. snowboarding team in mind, "Kappa Mikey" is a cacophony of sights, sounds and animation interspersed with some relatively clever writing. Catching most of the jokes or the visual gags, however, requires quick TiVo reflexes and extensive knowledge of pop culture -- which means the show, the first original series for Nicktoons Network, shouldn't take long to become a cult hit...Touted as the first American-made anime cartoon, the show will undoubtedly spawn Internet debates on the authenticity of this claim. The real mislabeling lies in calling it a kids' show, since it's clearly not designed for the lower end of Nicktoon's 6-14 demos...Anime has proven to be a big draw in this country, especially for boys, but it's not just an aesthetic, it's a sensibility as well. And not all of the elements here are praiseworthy. Instead of bridging cultures, the animation here seems like just another way to stereotype an entire culture...Animation used to be peppered with double entendres and odd references so as to make TV time with the kiddies a little more tolerable for the adults in the room. Perhaps it was just a matter of time before TV bypassed the middleman -- the kids. - Laura Fries
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