Popular animation review YouTuber Saberspark has released a video reviewing the Stitch! anime series, and you'd be surprised about his thoughts on this series.
The best, and I mean the BEST villain experiment to ever exist in Lilo and Stitch, and that's Dark End, or Darks as I call them. Their design, incredible writing, and the fact that they weren't made by Jumba immediately drew me towards them as a favorite. I even get Dark Gaia monster vibes from them too! Even if we only got to see them once like with the bad red boyo Leroy, it was still fun seeing them while it lasted in the series finale for Stitch!.
Since Darks is a guy in the English dub(and apparently voiced by the current Sonic voice actor Roger Craig Smith)and a female in the original Japanese version, I give Darks they/them pronouns. If I were to give them a gender, I'd call them she/her. To me, they look more like a female and I love me some female villains, so it wouldn't hurt to have a female villain experiment fighting Stitch.
One more thing I happened to notice. Is it just me, or does that bit where Dark End is charging up energy in the cavern remind me of this bit from the Sonic Unleashed opening:
Surely I'm not the only one that caught that or is it just a coincidence?
When Stitch landed in Japan, did he stayed with Yuna, and her grandparents for a while? When he saw Ani did he assumed she was Lilo because of their resemblance? While staying with Yuna and her family did Stitch try to find away back to Kaua'i? Why did Ani and Lilo went to Japan?
Also I love your redesign of Ani💛
Doverstar
Hi! Thanks so much! 💛💜
What you’re describing is the plot of the Stitch! anime. In Stitch and Ani, Stitch never explicitly went to Japan or met Yuna, and it’s never referenced. In Stitch and Ani, Yuna basically - for all intents and purposes - does not exist. Lilo and Ani never went to Japan!
In our story in S&A, it’s left intentionally vague where exactly Stitch went when he left in the past. It is implied that a wormhole may have had something to do with it. How long he was gone and where he was isn’t what matters in the story; what matters is that he left and now he’s back. That’s part of the emotional plot in Stitch and Ani!
Ignore the anime. The only ideas from the anime that are shared in S&A is that Lilo had a daughter named Ani, and she and Stitch had a falling-out while she was in college that led to Stitch leaving for years and years, and Kai was born around that time too. That’s it! :) Yuna and Japan do not come into the story at all.
had a dream last night that nintendo and disney collabed to make "pokemon lilo and pokemon stitch". your starters were a choice of stitch, angel, or reuben, and you caught the other experiments and trained them like pokemon. people were trying to run the game with only one experiment. dorkifier was considered the game's psuedolegendary.
The fact that the anime Stitch was aired first before Lilo & Stitch: The Series on TV5 made me think this one is the original, until I checked out their release dates on Wikipedia. Now I learned my lesson that the latter was aired first before the former, thank you so much TV5 for giving us Filipinos a confusion.
Hi-hi! It's nice to see new people in the L&S fandom. How do you feel about "Stitch" anime? What about "Stitch & Ai"?
Hi!! I've only watched like a couple of episodes from each anime lol :') I'm not really that big of a fan of the Stitch Animes, like I definitely prefer the series and stuff but it's still pretty cool!! ^_^
Stitch! anime finally receives an official English sub for the Japanese original version
It only took almost fourteen years for this to happen! ⌛
Earlier this month, Canadian Stitch! fan @aurorabarenzu discovered that English subtitles have finally been provided for the original Japanese version of the anime spin-off series on Disney+, allowing English-speaking Lilo & Stitch fans to watch the show as it was originally made and understand it.
After he shared this info with me and other Lilo & Stitch fans, I checked Disney+ to see if this was true and, lo and behold...
It was.
Note that Disney+ prevents users from taking screenshots of its video content, hence why the video appears black here. This screenshot was taken about 1:25 into the show's first episode, during the opening scene of Stitch escaping the United Galactic Federation's police and Dr. Jumba Jookiba. Infamously, the English dub of this scene had Jumba mentioning Stitch getting "all washed up" with Lilo as she grew older and got a new boyfriend (which was later proven false in the third season). Here, Jumba just gets mad at Stitch for taking his new space scooter, which has an unstable engine since he was still developing it.
Still, it's interesting to see the whole show finally get subbed by Disney themselves almost fourteen years after it debuted. This also means that the one episode that was never dubbed in English (the season two episode known as "Stitch Power", its official title translated from Japanese on Disney+ as "Stitch gets the greatest power in the universe?") can now be understood by English speakers. The same goes for the first post-series special Stitch and the Planet of Sand, which somehow lost its English dub to the depths of the Disney Vault.
However, there is a catch to this; Disney+ still refuses to let non-Japanese fans watch this series. So fans in the Anglosphere will still need to either fly to Japan or use a VPN if they want to watch this show. As Gantu would say...
(Above image by Jeff Grey on Redbubble.)
In related but more minor news, Disney+ decided to redo the official English titles for a few episodes for whatever reason.
So Reuben's name is now inexplicably misspelled in the title of "Reuben's Rice Balls", "Angel's Flight" is now "Loveable Angel", "Felix Redux" is retitled as "Spring Cleaning", "Foxy Beige" now uses the titular yokai's original Japanese name in the title as "Foxy Dolores", and "Neither Rain Nor Sleet" is now completely changed to "Stitch's Runaway Trolley".
From the anime Stitch!, my main three favorites are Witch, Darks, and Cyber, Bragg/Flute being my fourth favorite. I never realized how OP the villainous experiment trio from the anime is and it's hilarious that I happen to like all three of them. Here's Experiment Zero, Cyber, to continue the trend! He's a very well written villain experiment with a crazy story and amazing robotics. I really happen to like his design a lot as well as the robot parts on this guy.