Princess Robot Bubblegum

Princess Robot Bubblegum (Japanese: プリンセス・ロボット・バブルガム/Purinsesu Robotto Baburugamu) is a Japanese anime series produced by Red Cloud Tsunami Series, featured in the HD Universe of the Grand Theft Auto series.

Description
Princess Robot Bubblegum is a general parody of (少女, young female) anime; however, it incongruously mixes this with tropes of  (少年, young male),  (青年, mature male), and  (変態, pornographic) anime.

In Grand Theft Auto IV, PRB is only mentioned in a radio advertisement, however in The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony, the program itself appears on television, specifically on CNT. Within the game universe, it courts controversy, with Weazel News in GTA IV reporting on a protest by Asian Americans against the airing of the anime. Also, in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, there are many advertisements of PRB throughout Liberty, mostly in Dukes and Bohan.

In Grand Theft Auto V, the anime was supposed to broadcast again, but some parents were aware of issues concerning young males possibly raping cosplayers at schools. Thus the anime show was banned from airing on TV (although it is already banned since the beginning of the game).

"The #3 hit show in Japan is back! After a brief period off the air due to some overzealous parents groups in America and Europe Princess Robot Bubblegum returns!"

- PRB website

In the enhanced version of Grand Theft Auto V, however, a new episode of the show is available to watch, and is broadcast on CNT.

Website
The show maintains a website on the in-game internet at princessrobotbubblegum.com where the player can watch an episode and browse a list of all previous episodes in Seasons 1 and 2.

Master Hentai's Merch Emporium
A non-interactive official merchandise store is available on the website listing 4 episodes banned in the USA and a number of items "Coming soon".

Official Sponsors

 * Nogo Vodka
 * Logger Beer

Shiny Wasabi Kitty Claw
Shiny Wasabi Kitty Claw is a claw machine minigame featured in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of The Diamond Casino Heist content update, available in the Arcade.

Trivia

 * The name of the anime might be based from  which is also set in the future.
 * In popular culture, there's a character named Princess Bubblegum in the  franchise.
 * The title character's voice in GTA IV ' s PRB commercial is a mock-Asian caricature; in The Ballad of Gay Tony, she has the American accent more typical of dubbed characters in English-dubbed anime.
 * Characters in PRB often break the, mentioning the show's writers, translators, future or past episodes and merchandising.
 * In a scene of Master Hentai's, a banner can be seen hanging on a wall, which is written in Japanese, saying "忍者は毎日オナニー", which translates to "ninjas masturbate every day".
 * Master Hentai comically refers to the, when talking about the forces of Evil (personified as an ) and Darkness (personified as a ), "One is east coast and the other is west coast! And if you listen to the way that they sound, it's completely different..."
 * "Hentai" is Japanese for "pervert". Hentai is also the word used for manga and anime pornography used in the west.
 * During PRB's "Final awkward transformation montage", the background music is the theme song from the music video show "" that ran from 1983 until 1992.
 * The Sword Boy character design could be a jab at the Final Fantasy series for its over the top use of belt-themed clothing and over-sized swords.
 * His design also seems to be based on Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII, most notably the use of a giant broadsword and bearing a similar arm bracelet and shoulder piece.
 * The show is mentioned in the credits of Grand Theft Auto V for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 despite only being available for the enhanced version of the game.
 * It is possible that the characters Saki, Humpy, Muffy, Grindy, Smoker and Poopie are based on the exceeds from Fairy Tail as both "species" are cat like creatures who have the ability to fly.
 * In The Diamond Casino &amp; Resort update for Grand Theft Auto Online, a PRB-themed livery is included for the new Übermacht Zion Classic which also adds a or body pillow to the rear seat of the vehicle. The body pillow features Princess Robot Bubblegum and it appears to have  stains on it.