Yellow, Princess of the Desert

Yellow, Princess of the Desert (also known as 黄色、砂漠の王女 in Japan) is an American-Canadian-Japanese animated action show created by Kanta Kamei and Brenda Rainbow produced by WildBrain and Fuji Television in association with Porchlight Entertainment and Pony Canyon for Red Princess in North America and Jetix in Europe. The series revolves around a young princess named Yellow and her quest to protect the Desert Kingdom from her rival Prince Blue and his kingdom the Ocean Kingdom. It is also an adaptation of the 1993 manga "Princess Yellow" (プリンセスイエロー/Purinsesuierō)

Following the success of Green's Clubhouse and the high rating of various anime shows on the network, Red Princess was seeking ways to combine the two together. Originally the show was intended to air on The CW but was rejected for being aimed at children. It was also pitched to Nicktoons but was rejected due to the tense action from the pilot. The series made its linear television premiere on Red Princess on April 7, 2019, at 9:30 PM after an airing of Denver, The Last Dinosaur and before an airing of The Adventures of the Book of Virtues. The series is still running with the third season currently in production set to come out on October 4, 2021. The series also has a movie in production with a 2022 release with an English dub provided by WildBrain.

Yellow, Princess of the Desert currently has a positive reception for being an anime aimed at children that still has enough action to warrant the attention of more mature audiences. The series was also nominated with an Emmy award as well. New episodes for the series currently air on Red Princess (Tuesdays at 9 PM) in North America, Fuji Television (Saturdays at 8 AM) in Japan, and Children's BBC (Sundays at 4 PM) in England.

Premise
Yellow, Princess of the Desert revolves around the adventures of Yellow, a 16-year old princess of the Desert Kingdom who is said to be the promised child to destroy the evil Ocean Kingdom, who plots to flood the entire Earth with water and is operated by her 18-year old arch-nemesis, Prince Blue, who is said to be the child of a king of destruction. Yellow also has her buddy, Captain Love, a 22-year old pirate who had her crew killed by a tsunami created by Prince Blue's minions back when he was 12, and her boyfriend Fred, a noble yet cowardly 17-year old knight who thinks he's strong but in reality, he needs more training. All three of them share a common foe: Prince Blue. He also has his friends: The Diamond Triangle, A cyclops hand who was originally made of sand bricks who was kicked out for being destructive, and his girlfriend Latina, a 19-year old mermaid who wants an entire planet for herself. The protagonists from Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic show up as supporters of Princess Yellow as well as The Nightmare Clan (comprising of a team of bandits) supporting Prince Blue.

Pirate Talk
On Red Princess, the series has a made-for-TV. Pirate Talk takes place at the end of the episode and revolves around Captain Love telling the viewer about the overview of the episode. It is similar to Jane and the Dragon's Dragon Talk. On Jetix airings, Pirate Talk appears after the show's credits.

Production
Production of the show could originate as early as 1996 when Viz Media, the publisher of the Princess Yellow manga series joined forces with DIC Entertainment to produce a TV adaptation for the series intended for North American Audiences. However, despite the two want to make a TV show for the manga, only 20 3 minute shorts were released onto video. Most of them were built right onto various other shows. Notably Inspector Gadget and Hamtaro. The entire collection of shorts were released onto DVD by Paramount Home Media Distribution (Lionsgate for the 2021 rerelase).

Following that, the anime itself started production in 2005 by DIC Entertainment and Fuji Television. Both companies realized that Two major broadcast networks were planning to merge at that time (The WB and UPN), so they decided to pitch the show to The CW, four times. All of them are being rejected for being aimed at kids. Later, in 2010, Cookie Jar Entertainment, DIC's successor pitched the show to cable children's network Toonix (now known as Jetix) but was rejected in favor of Digimon Fusion. So after a long nine years, the series was later picked up by Scripps-owned Red Princess following the network wanting new original content.