Powerpuff Girls Z

Inspired by the American cartoon *The Powerpuff Girls*, *Powerpuff Girls Z* reimagines the concept with a magical-girl twist. Professor Utonium and his son Ken investigate the mysterious Chemical X, but an accident involving a mochi cake alters the mixture into Chemical Z. When Ken tests it by firing a Chemical Z ray at a glacier in Tokyo Bay, it releases a wave of unusual black and white lights across the city.

Those black lights transform anyone they strike into monsters—most notably a zoo monkey who becomes Mojo Jojo. The white lights, meanwhile, find three ordinary girls—Momoko, Miyako, and Kaoru—granting them the ability to transform into the heroic Powerpuff Girls Z.