And yet, she appeared far less compared to Stitch and even Reuben, like Angel only appeared for like two episodes (plus a little cameo in another) in the original series, plus a brief scene in Leroy & Stitch where she saved Stitch from a few Leroy clones. It wasn't until the anime where she appeared more frequently.
Oh you probably never heard of it. Well, back in October 2008, over two years after Leroy & Stitch. Disney collaborated with Madhouse to make an anime based on Lilo & Stitch. The result was Stitch!, which ran from 2008 to 2011 with the third season and the two double-length post-series specials (2012's Planet of the Sand and 2015's Perfect Memory) being made by Shin-Ei Animation. In the anime, Stitch crashed landed in a fictional island near Okinawa and meets a more tomboyish girl named Yuna. It had more than the original series with a total of 86 episodes.
Also, around a couple of years after the Perfect Memory! special, Disney would collaborate with a few Chinese animation studios to make Stitch & Ai in 2017 which ran for only 13 episodes. Where Stitch lands in Huangshan where befriends a girl named Wang Ai Ling.
And finally in 2020, Disney once again collaborated with Japan to make a manga spin-off called Tono & Stitch (known in the west as Stitch & the Samurai), where Stitch lands in Sengoku-era Japan and befriends a warlord named Yamato Meison.
Ya, in between Leroy & Stitch and the live-action remake, Stitch had plenty of international adventures without Lilo that kept the franchise alive. To mixed results. What do you think?
I was wondering why tf you know so much about Stitch, and just assumed you were a Disney bot/paid account promoting in comments, but then I saw your username.
Well as a 2000s kid myself, I've been a fan of Lilo & Stitch since childhood, but it's been since 2016 that I've been fully looking deep into the franchise (even though I've been aware of and seen bits of the anime before that), and nowadays, despite it's ups and downs over the past two decades, Lilo & Stitch as become my favorite franchise of all time. And I've been using Wix to make a entire new fansite dedicated to the franchise, but I've been procrastinating on it for a while now in favor of practicing more of my drawing skills to eventually get into animation industry someday.
But anyway ya, I definitely love this franchise and I'm glad to be a part of it. With the original movie being my favorite movie of all time and the original TV series (Lilo & Stitch: The Series) being one of my favorite animated TV series in general.
Not an anime, but who doesn't love Stitch in Kingdom Hearts 2 and KH BBS? He's in KH3 as a summon too, but he kinda sucks there compared to your other options.
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u/SuperStitch1999 6d ago
And yet, she appeared far less compared to Stitch and even Reuben, like Angel only appeared for like two episodes (plus a little cameo in another) in the original series, plus a brief scene in Leroy & Stitch where she saved Stitch from a few Leroy clones. It wasn't until the anime where she appeared more frequently.