Yes, this show is for children, but that doesn't mean it should be empty, shallow and bland, let alone repetitive. I guess the point is to curb children's behaviour by showing them examples of how to deal with simple problems. Fine, not the first, not the last show to do this. However, beyond this moralizing simplicity there is nothing. Just good ol Kiya being cocky and making the same mistakes over and over again. All characters are utterly annoying and all they do is dancing and yelling like there's no tomorrow.
Be thankful if you've watched it in English, at least their voices sound like children's. In the Spanish dubbed version (done in Mexico, I believe), children sound as though they were fourteen and on the brink of a mental breakdown.
A typical episode goes like this:
Heroes having fun and yelling.
A villain (another child) does something extremely annoying.
Drums.
Heroes transform into themselves but with other clothes.
They yell like slaughterhouse animals.
Villains are punished (including being tied with ropes) Heroes go back having fun.
More yelling.
Another user mentioned that Kiya aims at a female demo and PJ Masks at a male one. PJ Masks is mediocre at best, but slightly more interesting, there are better characters and more things happen, although the yelling (and the awful dubbing) are pretty much the same. This makes me think that Kiya, far from distancing from stereotypes just aims at preserving them (boys get a more 'interesting' and nuanced story while girls get the shallow one).
Perhaps the sole positive aspect of this show is that white characters are not the paragon of virtue they are anywhere else. Though I'm still perplexed by the fact that in both shows scientists are portrayed as selfish and evil, which makes me raise my eyebrows.
Be thankful if you've watched it in English, at least their voices sound like children's. In the Spanish dubbed version (done in Mexico, I believe), children sound as though they were fourteen and on the brink of a mental breakdown.
A typical episode goes like this:
Heroes having fun and yelling.
A villain (another child) does something extremely annoying.
Drums.
Heroes transform into themselves but with other clothes.
They yell like slaughterhouse animals.
Villains are punished (including being tied with ropes) Heroes go back having fun.
More yelling.
Another user mentioned that Kiya aims at a female demo and PJ Masks at a male one. PJ Masks is mediocre at best, but slightly more interesting, there are better characters and more things happen, although the yelling (and the awful dubbing) are pretty much the same. This makes me think that Kiya, far from distancing from stereotypes just aims at preserving them (boys get a more 'interesting' and nuanced story while girls get the shallow one).
Perhaps the sole positive aspect of this show is that white characters are not the paragon of virtue they are anywhere else. Though I'm still perplexed by the fact that in both shows scientists are portrayed as selfish and evil, which makes me raise my eyebrows.