Pani Poni Dash!
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| Pani Poni Dash! | |
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| ぱにぽにだっしゅ! (Pani Poni Dash!) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Parody, Satire, Shōnen |
| Manga: Pani Poni | |
| Authored by | Hekiru Hikawa |
| Publisher |  Square-Enix |
| Serialized in | G Fantasy |
| Original run | November 2000 – |
| No. of volumes | 9 |
| TV anime | |
| Directed by | Akiyuki Shinbo |
| Studio | GANSIS, Shaft |
| Licensor |  ADV Films |
| Network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | July 3, 2005 – December 25, 2005 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
Pani Poni Dash! (ぱにぽにだっしゅ! Pani Poni Dasshu!?) is a Japanese series based around the concept of parody, for it frequently references Japanese culture in a wide array of ways. It centers several first year students and their teachers in a school in Japan, though the main focus is on class 1-C.
Pani Poni Dash!, though with the original name simply as Pani Poni, first began as a manga series by Japanese mangaka Hekiru Hikawa which was first serialized in the Japanese manga magazine G Fantasy, published by Square Enix, in November 2000. Currently, there have been nine separate volumes released. Later, the series was adapted into a television anime series which aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between July 3, 2005 and December 25, 2005. The anime has since been licensed in the United States by ADV Films though the manga remains unlicensed. There have also been several drama CDs created based on the series.
Much of this series' humour relies on numerous parodies and references to other manga, films, or TV shows, including The Exorcist, Gundam, Super Mario Bros., and Chuck Norris, a good deal of which needs to be freeze-framed to catch. The series also contains many jokes and references about the Japanese culture and language, making the series possibly quite unfriendly to foreign viewers. Japanese Internet culture, such as on the infamous Japanese message board 2ch, is another pillar of Pani Poni Dash!'s humour, with many references to Japanese emoticons. At some stages in the series a character's facial features will be replaced by these emoticons.
Each episode is almost entirely standalone and only very loosely connected to the central plot which is hardly mentioned at all. Most of the jokes in the series rely on satire, established character behaviour, Japanese Internet and anime culture, or non sequitur comments and actions (especially by Ichijo). Another characteristic of Pani Poni Dash! is that the name of each episode is based on an adage or proverb that applies to the episode in some way. Unlike other 26-episode anime, Pani Poni Dash! features three entirely different opening sequences, with both new art and new music each time. The opening songs, of which there are several versions, are sung by the seiyū of the different characters in the anime.
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[edit] Plot
Pani Poni Dash!'s central storyline revolves around Rebecca Miyamoto, class 1-C's child prodigy homeroom teacher, and the antics of class 1-C. The characters attend a high school called the Peach Moon Academy (桃月学園 Momotsuki Gakuen?), though the story never strays from the focus of the four first year classes labeled 1-A through 1-D. The mishaps that occur in other classes, in the teacher's lounge, and on school trips also become sources of material for topical allusions regarding satire, anime, Internet, gaming, and popular culture.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Media
This series first began as a manga which was later spawned several drama CDs and was also adapted into an anime.
[edit] Manga
The manga version of the series, simply titled Pani Poni was first serialized in the manga magazine G Fantasy published by Square Enix, in November 2000. Currently, nine volumes have been released in Japan.
[edit] Drama CDs
Pani Poni has also created ten drama CDs based on the series, the first of which was released in Japan on February 27, 2004. While the first seven came before the anime, and thus were based on the manga version, the last three released have been based on the anime adaptation.
[edit] Anime
The Pani Poni Dash! anime aired in Japan between July 3, 2005 and December 25, 2005 and contained 26 episodes in total. The anime has since been licensed by United States based company ADV Films.
[edit] Episodes
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Official website
- (Japanese) Official website (TV Tokyo)
- (Japanese) Official website (Square-Enix)
- (Japanese) Official site of original writer (comics)
- Official ADV Films website
- Pani Poni Dash! at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
