Jeri Jacquin
Coming to DVD from SHOUT! Factory, DHX Media and co-creator
Gwen Stefani is the animated series that will have you dancing with KUU KUU
HARAJUKI.
Love, Angel, Music, Baby and G are members of the band HJ5.
Music isn’t their only love as they mix it up with fashion and style as well.
In this magical world the girls are part of the Harajuku district of fashion
and a kid culture.
G and her ‘tick tock time to rock!’ tag line is the enthusiastic
lead singer in the HJ5 group. The dancer of the group who is also its
fashionista is Love who creates amazing inventions. Angel brings chic and fun
to the gang of gals with her 325 pairs of shoes and accessories.
Music brings edge and attitude to the group with her honesty
and toughness while protecting her musical family. Baby is exactly as her name
implies with her good nature and the kawaii of babies and rattlesnakes.
Finally, Rudie is the HJ5’s manager who does his best to
keep the group busy with gigs. The problem is that a lot of weirdness happens
when you are dealing with aliens and general Harajuku.
Life and weirdness make it hard to finish a concert!
SHOUT! Factory
has grown into a tremendous multi-platform media company. Releasing new animated
features such as the exquisite Long Way North, and the epic fantasy Beauty And The Beast.
Also their own original horror film, Fender Bender gives fans a good scare. For more of
what SHOUT Factor has to offer please visit www.shoutfactory.com.
DHX Media brings pure-play
children’s content such as Teletubbies,
Yo Gabba Gabba!, Calilou, In the Night
Garden
Also available is the kawaii soundtrack to the successful
series HJ5: Kuu Kuu Harajuki with the
shows theme and five new songs from the television series including Dancing in the Sunlight, Change it Up and All for One.
The inspiration for this series is provided by Gwen Stefani,
a Grammy Award-winning songstress. She brings the show to encourage and
celebrate self-expression, imagination and individuality surrounded by street
fashion and music.
The DVD includes the episodes Totally Teen Genie, Angel’s Flight, Music Baby, Wanted Audience, Game
Over, Phony Ponies, Hello Puppy, G This is Awfully Deep, Baby’s Birthday, Labor
of Love, Bad Boy and Little Girl, Yummy Bear Nado, Drums of Doom, and Adventures in Housesitting.
KUU KUU HARAJUKU contains all fourteen episodes are on the
DVD along with the featurette Bringing
the Band to Life. This series is fun, colorfully animated and bring
characters together that are different and yet are so very cool together.
The one person I turn to when it comes to knowing whether a
series works is my granddaughter. She loves animation, fun characters and music
and KUU KUU HARAJUKU gets her seal of approval. Laughing, dancing and focused
on each episode, she has found a group she enjoys watching again and again.
This is a series that totally encompasses loyalty,
friendship, fun and a sense of humor about the challenges of being together.
That is something I want all kids to embrace and with this group of animated
characters it is a sure thing.
In the end – they are bringing the music and fun!
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