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, also known by the title of its anime adaptation, , is a Japanese manga series by Hekiru Hikawa that uses
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, frequently referencing Japanese and American pop-culture in many ways. It features several first year students and their teachers in a school in Japan, though the main focus is on class 1-C. The manga was serialized in Square Enix's ''
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'' between the November 2000 and October 2011 issues, and the chapters are collected in 17 ''
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'' volumes. A 26-episode
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television series adaptation aired in Japan on
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between July 4 and December 26, 2005 with its title renamed as ''Pani Poni Dash!''. The anime is licensed by
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in North America. There have also been several
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s created based on the TV series and manga. A special
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was released with a DVD box set containing the anime series on April 15, 2009 in Japan.


Plot

''Pani Poni Dash!s central storyline revolves around Rebecca Miyamoto, a child prodigy homeroom teacher, and the antics of her class 1-C. The characters attend a high school called the where Rebecca has taken up a job as one of the teachers after being the youngest graduate at
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and is being watched by space aliens who screw up the story every now and then. Though the story hardly strays from the focus of the four first-year classes labeled 1-A through 1-D, the mishaps that occur in them, the teacher's lounge, and on school trips also become sources of material for
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regarding satire, anime, Internet, gaming, and popular culture.


Media


Manga

''Pani Poni'' was serialized in the manga magazine ''G Fantasy'' published by Square Enix between the November 2000 and October 2011 issues. Seventeen volumes were released in Japan. The translated versions of the manga are also released in
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and
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, from Chingwin Publishing Group in
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and Haksan Culture Company in
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. There are four spin-offs of original ''Pani Poni'' manga. Most of them features
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style. is currently serialized in ''Tech Gian'' ( Enterbrain) from July 2001, and focuses on Hikaru Nikaido (class 1-A) as a heroine. was serialized in '' Dengeki Moeoh'' between March 2002 and June 2008. It featured Kurumi Momose (1-C) as a heroine and illustrated her part-time job on a cafe. Rei Tachibana (1-C) also took part in some episodes as . was serialized in ''Ace Momogumi'' ( Kadokawa Shoten) from June 2003 to December 2004, when the company discontinued the magazine. It described the fictional
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group named ''Momo-gumi!!'' that Yuna Kashiwagi (1-A) belongs to. is alternately serialized in ''G Fantasy'' with ''Pani Poni'' from August 2006. It shows how Behoimi (1-D) became a "real" magical girl, and fights against the invaders from other planets.


Drama CDs

''Pani Poni'' has also created ten
drama CD Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...
s based on the series, the first of which was released in Japan on February 27, 2004. While the first seven preceded the anime, and thus were based on the manga version, the last three released have been based on the anime adaptation.


Anime

An
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television series adaptation titled ''Pani Poni Dash!'' aired in Japan between July 4 and December 26, 2005, and contained 26 episodes. King Records subsidiary Starchild has the video and music rights for the anime. A special
OVA , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA s ...
was released with a DVD box set containing the anime series, on April 15, 2009. A Blu-ray box set of the series including the OVA was released in Japan on April 26, 2017. The anime was licensed
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in North America (it was once licensed by ADV Films for $138,666 effective June 30, 2006; however, through a fallout of ADV's license partner Sojitz/ARM Corporation, ''Pani Poni'' was transferred to Funimation), ADV Films in the
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, Mighty Media in Taiwan, and TVee.co.kr in South Korea. Funimation released a complete DVD box set on March 10, 2009. The episode names are based on adages and
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s. Each episode is only loosely connected to the central plot. Many of the jokes in the series rely on satire, established character behavior, Japanese Internet and anime culture such as emoticons (At some points in the series, a character's face is replaced by an emoticon.), or non sequitur comments and actions (especially by Ichijo). The series also contains numerous parodies and references to popular culture, which include ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Doctor Who'' and the '' Cthulhu Mythos''.


Music

;Opening themes # by Peach Moon Academy Class 1-C (feat. Himeko in TV episodes 2–9, 14, DVD episodes 1–8, 25 and OVA; feat. Rei in TV episodes 11, 13, 16; feat. Kurumi in TV episode 17 and DVD episode 15; feat. Rokugō in TV episodes 19, 22) # by Peach Moon Academy Class 1-C (feat. Ichijo in TV episodes 10, 12, 15, 18 and DVD episodes 9-14, 16) # by Peach Moon Academy Class 1-C (feat. Miyako in TV episodes 20–21, 23 and DVD episodes 17–23; feat. Rokugō in TV episode 24 and DVD episode 24) ;Ending themes # by Peach Moon Academy Class 1-A&B (in TV and DVD episodes 1–7, 9-12) # by Behoimi (in TV and DVD episodes 8) # by Rebecca Miyamoto (in TV and DVD episodes 13, 25) # by Peach Moon Academy Class 1-D (in TV and DVD episodes 14-23 and OVA) # by Rebecca Miyamoto (in TV and DVD episode 24) # by Peach Moon Academy Class 1-C (feat. Himeko in TV and DVD episode 26)


Internet radio shows

''Pani Poni Dash'' has two
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shows titled and . The first one was aired from November 2005 to February 2006, while the latter one was aired from December 2005 to September 2006, both on Animate TV. The shows were hosted by
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and Chiwa Saito who played Behoimi (1-D) and Rebecca "Becky" Miyamoto in the anime respectively. While the latter one was remixed as "DJCD"s, the former has never been officially released.


Notes


References

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External links


Manga official website

Anime official website

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