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Pryce's Anime Review: Pani Poni Dash!

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Pryce's Anime Review: Pani Poni Dash!
« on: September 28, 2009, 12:25:50 AM »
Damn it's been awhile since i've actually watched anime.

Title: Pani Poni Dash!


Genre(s): Comedy, School Life

General Info: The 11 year old Miyamoto Rebecca becomes the new teacher of a classroom which is full of weirdos. Despite her cute looks she's a little beast and can be pretty sarcastic and offensive. The school is not safe anymore now that she's in charge of a class and her students, Himeko, Ichijou, Rei and a white rabbit who took a liking to Rebecca help her to rough up the school and the neighbour-class with its teacher "ojii-chan".

Number of Episodes: 26
Original Run: Jul 4, 2005 to Dec 26, 2005


Characters:

Rebecca Miyamoto: Rebecca, also referred to as "Becky" by her class, is the homeroom teacher of class 1-C and a mathematics teacher. She was born to an American father and a Japanese mother, although she keeps her mother's last name. Rebecca enrolled at MIT at the age of nine and graduated at ten with a triple major. She then entered Peach Moon Academy at age eleven as a teacher. Normally lethargic and halfhearted, she dons a cool face to keep her genius reputation. However, when confronted with a frightening or uncomfortable situation, she immediately reverts to her childish state, weeping uncontrollably (called the "hau hau" by the students in episode 21) and often hides behind a curtain. She is extremely popular and a confidante to the students.


Mesousa: Mesousa is a parody of the "cute mascot" type characters often seen in anime, with one huge difference: Mesousa has a severe case of depression. His lack of thumbs makes everyday tasks almost impossible, further deepening his depression. Practically useless in every way, Mesousa serves as the slapstick of the series, being blown up in one episode and having his legs broken in another, all without complaint. He also appears to be somewhat infatuated with Ichijou. His "tastiness" stat is a reference to the mascot character Menchi from the parody anime Excel Saga. Mesousa is not Becky's pet, but, rather, her companion who tries to help her in class such as getting and holding the footstool for her while she stands on it to write on the blackboard. His name derives from the combination of "meso meso," a Japanese psychomime for whimpering, and "usagi" (兎, "usagi"?), which is Japanese for "rabbit".


Ichijou: The class representative of 1-C, Ichijou is easily the most surreal character in the surreal world of Pani Poni. She is inexplicably capable of breaking all physical laws in order to make a joke. Her power is used equally for good and for fun: sometimes she'll be the savior of the class, while at other times she only manages to exacerbate the situation. She is able to carry her youngest sister around in her pocket. Ichijou is quite muted, using short sentences to express herself; she is also a master of the non sequitur. The class brushes off most of her odd behavior and abilities, simply chiming, "Don't worry, about it. It's Ichijou." She is one of two characters aware of the aliens observing the class.


Himeko Katagiri: Himeko is a wastefully energetic girl who often shouts "maho" ("マホ", "maho"?) - a nonsensical catchphrase that perhaps references the word "aho" ("あほ", "aho"?), meaning "idiot" or "fool." She frequently annoys the other students in her class with her antics and inability to carry a straight train of thought. Her "ahoge" (the lock of hair on her head) contains a mysterious power that gives Himeko her limitless energy and is capable of movement on its own accord.


Kurumi Momose: Kurumi is girl who is above average in appearance, athletics, and academics, but who nonetheless suffers from being called plain/boring all the time. If there's even a hint that somebody has called her plain/boring, she goes off to sulk alone, often in the rabbit cage with Mesousa. She has been known to fade almost completely out of existence altogether when she gets called plain/boring or ignored too much. Kurumi is a very fast sprinter, and also played varsity basketball. She is the sister of Shu Momose of class 1-A who is known for his cooking skills, something that she herself does not possess. Unlike in most anime and manga where the younger sister will call her brother Onii-chan (お兄ちゃん, Onii-chan?), Kurumi refers to her brother as Aniki (兄貴, Aniki?), which is a much more masculine way of addressing an older brother. It might be due to this that, due to her reactions as seen in episode 20, she has a fascination with how some girls in Japan are now using the pronoun boku (僕, boku?), meaning "I", which is usually only said by Japanese males. It is never explained why she enjoyed this so


Sayaka Suzuki (Rokugou): Sayaka, also known as "Rokugō" (6号, "Rokugō"? meaning "#6"), is a good girl who often gets taken advantage of because of her kindness, although she doesn't seem to mind. Miyuki Igarashi of class 1-A gave her the nickname Rokugō because she was the sixth girl in the school to bear the name Suzuki, though this is never explicitly explained in the anime version. Sayaka's catch-phrase is saying that something is "-of the year", (for example, "teacher of the year"). In certain episodes, Becky refers to Rokugō as "over-sized" or "big ribbon" due to her hairstyle.


Rei Tachibana: Rei is a girl with a heart and appearance as cold as ice. Of the girls in class 1-C, Rei is the most mature one. Threatening bodily harm is Rei's way of enforcing order in the classroom with Himeko being her usual target. She's the one to put Becky in her place when she gets out of hand and also the one to lure Becky out from behind the curtain with candy after she's put the fear of God into her. Rei has the second highest GPA in the entire school and works four days per week at a Chinese restaurant. Despite her apparent coldness, Rei is often the one to teach Becky important m0ral lessons. She has also shown herself to have a greedy streak as when during the school festival she purposely made it so their classroom was the most popular so that she could reap the profits later.


Miyako Uehara: Miyako is known as a "study-bug", a name which she earned through her perpetual studying and which she detests, though her score is almost average. She will often get mad if she is unable to study due to the crazy antics that she often gets put into, which are also often against her will. She also has a very large and very shiny forehead which gets more extreme with each episode. It starts off with a simple sheen in the first episode; in the second episode, it becomes a blinding flash; by the third episode, others are actually able to style their hair in the reflection on her forehead. In a later episode, her forehead becomes so bright that the other characters are forced to don welding masks to be able to look at her. Also, she apparently possesses ESP. In some of the more strenuous events in the series, she always tries to keep a level head, though is not always able to accomplish this with sheer will power alone. She is not always seen wearing glasses as she does have contact lenses as well. She explained in episode 4 of the anime that after long hours of studying, it's much easier on her eyes to wear glasses than contacts.

Openings:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8oc5tRCVKY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2scn9WUBOw&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZVcugd3D8&feature=related[/youtube]

My Review: Pani Poni Dash is the epitome of random, with its outrageous situations and many many refrences to other animes like Doraemon, Berserker, adn the Gundam series, various video games like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Guilty Gear, and even American films like Charlies Angels, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Friday the 13th. This series keeps the laughs coming and once it ends, unfourtanetly, leaves you wanting more with little way to satisfy that.

My Rating: 5/5
Temperature of your beverage: Body temperature desu nya
Awesome Points: 575


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Re: Pryce's Anime Review: Pani Poni Dash!
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2009, 12:59:04 AM »
BUNNNY! =D

Yay ^-^


Haha, no questions this time, except to poke fun at your brush your teeth censorship =P
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Re: Pryce's Anime Review: Pani Poni Dash!
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2009, 03:37:56 PM »
Fixed, it was supposed to be m0ral.
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Re: Pryce's Anime Review: Pani Poni Dash!
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2009, 01:06:43 AM »
This anime has finally pushed my mind into insanity :-D. Its wonderful. Like being in a pool of happiness on a raft made of sunshine and candy.

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Re: Pryce's Anime Review: Pani Poni Dash!
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 01:19:34 AM »
=O I wanna be in a pool of happiness on a raft made of sunshine and candy!
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