Like SPC, KNT is now available in full on Crunchyroll (and has been since May), complete with subtitles. You can watch the whole series for free without signing up.

I've never actually seen the original series before (except for clips here and there), so I'm going through it now, though I'm kind of skipping to the end and watching the last episode first, as I've always wanted to see it. I'm struck by how similar the plot is to the SPC dub, and it makes me wonder if they might have hung onto the original script for this one.

A question for Tigriss, felineki, or anyone else who might know: When Otama is revealed as "head of the Cat family," what's the significance? The Nyankee aren't related, so is she supposed to be like a mob boss, or something?

*snort*

For the curious, the full series is available to watch here on Youtube (although it's subtitled in Chinese).

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Full roster was leaked this morning due to Capcom borking up the HTML on their site. Remaining characters are Zero, Frank West, Yatterman 2, and Joe the Condor. No Speedy... at least, not until the sequel.

Notes on fighting game panel.

What happens to Nyanma? Does she die? 

The SPC finale introduces the "cat-bird special", which Polly describes as "milk sauce over chicken wings in a saucer".

There's a box of 10 Yutaka figures up right now. The auction lasts for another three weeks with no bids; the Buy It Now price is $30.

There's also a nice SPC poster going for $10.

Francine never got enough love. That's why she's so much fun to write about.

Needs moar video

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK692dXZRuo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK692dXZRuo</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvc8sc3pN8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvc8sc3pN8</a>

woof

Can we get a video of the hyper in action?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4nkVK76GBU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4nkVK76GBU</a>

I'm glad to see that work on this is still progressing; I was worried that we wouldn't get to see any more.

Some thoughts:

You may want to speed up Polly and Guido's assist moves. MUGEN tends to be very fast-paced and combo-heavy (despite how horribly imbalanced it is in general), and as it stands, their attacks seem a little sluggish.

You've given your reasons for preferring the English localization, but I think that throwing in a few KNT lines might help to add some atmosphere; hearing Speedy bust out with "HISSATSU! NEKO ME SURASSHU!" during his super would definitely give me chills. 

*nodnod* his website has been up since nearly the dawn of internet time. funny, i was just looking at it a couple days ago, too.

Ack, don't look at that! It's ugly! 

MUGEN Pizza Cats are something I've wanted to see for a long time.

I'm curious, did you make these sprites yourself? There's only been one SPC/KNT video game, to my knowledge, and that was for the Famicom.

... where is Colleen's left hand in that picture?

Did you slice it off? 

Toy companies actually do have a lot of control over the content that makes it into certain television shows; Hasbro, for example, maintained a tremendous amount of influence over what showed up in Transformers, and certain characters were created specifically so toys based on them could be sold to children.

It sounds as if Tenko was referring to the extra-topping armor upgrade when he talks about "mega up parts". I keep hearing that Bandai had a stake in the series, so it's entirely possible that this was something that was added to the plot at their insistence so they could sell action figures and model kits later on.

It's probably pretty good. The Pizza Cat is consistently packed with customers, which suggests that it's a popular place; it's also a chain restaurant with franchises in the north, south, east, and west, so it obviously does enough business to support these branch operations.

New art from Mr. Oma.