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Stitch! (スティッチ!, Sutitchi!) is a Japanese anime television series. It is a spin-off of Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise, serving as the franchise's second television series after Lilo & Stitch: The Series. The anime series aired in Japan from October 2008 to June 2011, later receiving additional television specials in 2012 and 2015. It features a Japanese girl named Yuna Kamihara, who takes the place of Lilo Pelekai as the best friend of the titular Stitch, and is set on a fictional island in the Ryukyus off the shore of Okinawa called Izayoi for its first two seasons, replacing Kauai, Hawaii, then moving to a fictional Okinawan city called New Town for its third season.

The first arc of the series, which serves as the first season outside Japan, was produced by Madhouse and aired from October 8, 2008, to March 25, 2009, with a post-season special on June 26, 2009, also known as "Stitch Day" in reference to Stitch's experiment number (626). A second arc of the original series, called Stitch! ~The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure~ (スティッチ! ~いたずらエイリアンの大冒険~, Sutitchi! ~Itazura Eirian no Daibōken~) aired in Japan from October 13, 2009, to June 29, 2010, with another post-season special on August 8, 2010, completing Madhouse's 56-episode run. A 29-episode sequel series from the original two-arc anime, entitled Stitch! ~Best Friends Forever~ (スティッチ! ~ずっと最高のトモダチ~, Sutitchi! ~Zutto Saikō no Tomodachi~), was produced by Shin-Ei Animation and aired on TV Asahi from July 6, 2010, to March 8, 2011, with a post-season special for this season on June 19, 2011. Shin-Ei then produced two more TV specials, known as Stitch! New Specials, that continued from the series. The first special, Stitch and the Planet of Sand (スティッチと砂の惑星, Sutitchi to Suna no Wakusei), aired on June 16, 2012. The second post-series TV special, Stitch! Perfect Memory (スティッチ!パーフェクト・メモリー, Sutitchi! Pāfekuto Memorī), was announced on June 26, 2015, and aired on August 7, 2015. No further specials were produced after Perfect Memory, as Stitch! would be succeeded in the franchise by the Chinese animated series Stitch & Ai in 2017.

Set years after the events of Leroy & Stitch, Stitch has left Lilo after she went to college. He had stolen a space scooter from his creator Dr. Jumba Jookiba and reverted to his destructive programming in Lilo's absence. As Stitch was being chased by Jumba out in space, the two got caught in a wormhole. Jumba crash-lands on an asteroid in one of Saturn's rings, where he reunites with Pleakley, who had been stranded there while out on a mission about two weeks prior to the anime's events.

Meanwhile, Stitch ends up back on Earth, crash-landing on Izayoi Island, a small island in the Ryukyus. There he meets Yuna, a tomboyish girl who lives with her grandmother, practices karate, and whose marine biologist father is long out at sea working on his job. After some initial friction caused by Stitch causing chaos around the island looking for and eating lots of food and then getting temporarily stranded in a storm, the two befriend each other, and Yuna and her Gramma bring Stitch into their home. The two Izayoi Islanders show Stitch the Chitama Forest, a forest filled with magical yōkai who live there, and the Chitama Spiritual Stone, a large magical stone in the forest that provides the lifeforce of the yōkai and can grant wishes, provided that someone does 43 good deeds to prove themselves worthy of getting their wish granted. Stitch decides that he wants to become the strongest being and ruler of the universe for his wish. Jumba and Pleakley later escape Saturn and rejoin Stitch on Izayoi, and two aliens decide to stay on the island, joining Stitch's new family and helping him get his wish granted, with Jumba creating a "good deed counter" to help Stitch keep track of his progress.

Stitch does good deeds while enjoying his new life with Yuna on Izayoi, with them befriending various yōkai. They befriend Kijimunaa, a little yōkai with long red hair who has a powerful sneeze, after they help him get his home tree back from a bully yōkai, and he becomes a close ally to them. Meanwhile, Stitch's old nemesis and Jumba's former partner-in-crime Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel is at large, living in a laboratory hideout hidden on an asteroid along with Gantu and Experiment 625/Reuben, both of whom were re-hired by Hämsterviel after having been discharged from the United Galactic Federation in the interim between the events of Leroy & Stitch and this series. (In the English dub, Gantu says he was dishonorably discharged for singing karaoke poorly during a holiday party.) Hämsterviel, with Gantu and Reuben's help, spies on Stitch and learns about Stitch's new goal and eventually, by the end of the season, the Spiritual Stone. Hämsterviel goes after Stitch to take ultimate power from the stone himself.

Three of Stitch and Reuben's fellow experiments also appear during this season. Experiment 221/Sparky was somehow captured by Hämsterviel after the events of Leroy, and Hämsterviel uses a mind control helmet to get Sparky to attack Stitch. However, the Spiritual Stone eventually uses its power to destroy the helmet, bringing Sparky back to his previous friendlier self, thus allowing him to resume being one of Stitch's closest "cousins". Sparky is given a new job or "one true place" on the island, using his electrical powers at a local hair salon (this job isn't depicted in the international reversion that the English dub uses). Experiment 010/Felix was inexplicably somewhere out in space until Stitch calls for him in one episode to get out of doing cleaning, which goes well until Felix runs out of filth to clean and begins sucking up old antique things. After Jumba reprograms Felix to prevent him from further cleaning antiques, and Stitch manages to return the antique items to their owners, Felix is given a new "one true place" working for Izayoi's recycling department. Finally, Experiment 624/Angel, who has become an intergalactically popular singer in the time after Leroy, reunites with Stitch after somehow finding out where he now lives. The two resume being a romantic couple, with Angel making visits to the island during breaks on her concert tour to continue her relationship with Stitch.

In the two-part season finale "Stitch vs. Hämsterviel", Hämsterviel manages to mind control Jumba to successfully steal the Spiritual Stone's power and transfer some of it to him, becoming more powerful than Stitch. He then captures Stitch, shrinking him and trapping him in a nigh-indestructible container. However, Yuna rescues Stitch, and the Spiritual Stone temporarily transfers its remaining power to him. Stitch successfully defeats Hämsterviel, returning the Spiritual Stone's power to it, and sends him, Gantu, and Reuben to galactic prison. However, Stitch is returned to his original strength afterward, much to his dismay, as he still needs to do more good deeds to keep the "ultimate power".

Stitch continues to live his life with Yuna, doing more good deeds for his wish to be granted and meeting more yōkai and other strange beings along the way. Meanwhile, Hämsterviel, Gantu, and Reuben escape from prison at the beginning of the season and return to their hideout, and Hämsterviel plots to re-gain the Spiritual Stone's power.

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