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asei
I love absurd comedy. I love Akiyuki Shinbo's shows.
But this doesn't work at all. I know that this show relies on the comedy of the absurd and that it is (mostly) episodic. I mean it has an overarching plot. So you can't judge seriously a comedy.
But is there any comedy? Sure you might find funny the characters' personalities and their interactions. It is good for 1, 2 even 3 episodes. But during all the show the jokes are the same. Take episode one and episode 26. Is there any difference?
No! I repeat each and every episode has the same jokes. When something repeats over and over it just gets lame and boring.
I had hopes for the show and on the mid point, there were 2 or 3 episodes that were better than others, but after that everything got even worse.
The best part of the show is the m…
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If I could be given a chance to describe Paniponi Dash! In one sentence, I would say it’s a very chaotic and experimental take on the slice-of-life school comedy genre of its time. It mercilessly bombards you with random referential humor. It doesn’t follow a distinct format in delivering its jokes. Whatever Shafts in the creator's minds on what they think is funny, they will insert it regardless if it makes sense to the overall theme of the show or not. In most cases, the show is not even identifiable as a school comedy but a jumble of genres instantly shifting themes from time to time.
This review might have some minor spoilers but Paniponi Dash! the story is not the main focus of the show so you won't be losing much on the experience.
First of all, we need to discuss the show's story…
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Pani Poni Dash is an excellent comedy that is a perfect match for Shaft. Its heavy use of non-sequitor humour and fast pace with constantly changing scenes fits well with shafts animation style allows them to go full out when animating it.
Content wise, there is essentially no overarching plot. Episodes may refer to each other, but actions do not have consequences and wierd things constantly happen that are reversed or never brought up later. The lack of plot structure is actually pani poni’s greatest strength as it allows it to have ridiculous events with no lasting consequences on the world or the characters such as becoming a mech pilot to fight a giant delinquent for one episode. The stories told are often vehicles for comedy and are not important in their own right, despite some bei…
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In Russian:
O BOZE 10/10, DAITE DVE BEKKI.
А если серьезно, то что же такое Pani Poni Dash, это очевидно слайс, и как бы многие могли бы подумать, здесь нет пони. За что же мы любим слайсы:
• Миловидность – происходящее должно умилять, так как смотрят слайс, что бы отдохнуть.
• Ненапряжность – в слайсе не должно быть сюжетов, нет, он конечно есть, но на уровне, вот 3 подруги, мы ходим в школу, первая отличница, вторая забияка, третья лоля.
• Простота юмора – в слайсе не должно быть сложного и «тонкого» юмора, он должен быть простым, его не должно быть много.
• Рисовка – практически самое главное в слайсе, никто же не будет смотреть слайс в рисовке какого-нибудь Ghost in the Shell.
Что же мы имеем в Pani Poni Dash:
• Миловидность 10/10, милые все поголовно, девочки имеется ввиду, хотя и не…
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PaniPoni Dash!
Welcome to…. One of the best anime ever! Seriously, it’s a super comedy, think comedy from anime and then square it = super comedy. PaniPoni Dash! Is an anime filled, totally loaded, with references. If you thought Lucky Star had a lot of references to anime, PaniPoni Dash! goes one step further, or like several; every single episode has references to mangaka artists, seiyuu, music artists, historic figures, other anime, manga/anime magazines, Indiana Jones, Star Strek, Kamen Rider:…… yeah, a lot of references; I don’t think there is a 5 minute period where something doesn’t get referenced, so this anime is almost like a test, how well do you know your Japanese culture? I can’t even say otaku things, because it’s a lot lot lot more than just otaku things. (Also, not necessa…
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I only ever give a perfect review to an anime that truly shines in what it does and manages to appease my tastes in every way imaginable. Pani Poni Dash is no exception and is the first anime that I ever felt truly earned a perfect score from me as I could not find a single flaw about it.
Now, before you just continue scrolling to other reviews of this anime, fearing that I might just be some overly joyful fan of the anime that is not giving it any negative opinion because I am distracted, I want you to read all of what I have to say first.
Anyway, if you seek random comedy, absurd story and a cast of characters that give off a different vibe, Pani Poni Dash falls perfectly under this category. In fact, I think it defines these categories quite well.
Until Azumanga Daioh, we believed t…
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"Rebecca Miyamoto. Born of an American father and a Japanese mother. Graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the youngest graduate in the school's history. She then returned to Japan to become a highschool teacher. However, she was only ten years old at the time."
The success of a little manga-turned-anime you might have heard of called Azumanga Daioh spawned a long chain of imitators, eventually developing into the slice-of-life sub-genre that many of us know colloquially as the "cute girls doing cute things" genre. Pani Poni Dash is one of those shows, and that, coupled with the quote above, ought to be all I really need to say about the plot for you to know exactly what this show is like... notice I said ought to be. The show's creators decided that putting a new hat…
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Now I might be risking a little doing such a review on this but this anime gets a lot of good reviews and is liked and well reviewed by a lot of people in the anime community so I have taken it upon myself and after seeing the highest low score giving by Vivisection, I thought I would have a go and tell you my thoughts of this anime so lets get in to it.
Story (2/10)
As an eternal optimist, I really wanted to like this show; random humour and the otaku nod to fans usually have me lapping up any serving of amusing antics. My kind nature was instead bitch-slapped into submission by one of the biggest heaps of god-awful unfunny trash I have seen in a long time. Even before the closing credits of the first episode rolled, I anticipated a humongous disappointment. It wasn’t until six episodes…
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Oh yes, Pani Poni Dash. How I love thee. Surprisingly, this was one of the first Animes I ever watched.
Story: None here, it's slice of life random comedy, move on.
Art: A very quirky and vibrant art style that really compliments the tone and feel of this Anime.
Sound: I thought all the characters were voiced pretty well for both the English Dub and the Japanese version. I felt the English voices in some cases were a new take on a character and they actually turned out quite well. If your not a English Dub hater, the English voice acting isn't an ear sore and its definitely enjoyable.
Characters: Yes, the characters are a bit flat. However, since this Anime uses quite a bit of satire, the show puts each character into an archetype in order to be able to use them in their next parody. T…
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The show has the most random things in it. In my opinion it the funnest and weirdest anime ever.Noting makes scenes only the weirdest people can understand it, like my best friend Claire and I.So if you like random animes with 10 year old high school teachers, demented evil and sadistic students ,and a cat that calls himself god I highly recommend this anime.Enjoy ^-^
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The best way to describe Pani Poni Dash! is the way Konata Izumi described it in Lucky Star, "With an anime like that you just have to go with it." If you set and try to think about it you will go crazy because nothing really makes sense. This is the premiss of what ever plot the writers and artist who created this completely insane and over the top world. This is a comedy worth watching even if you can't fallow what ever plot the writers decide to put down that day. the art was great, a little "cartoony" but had nice design and color. The sound was good a fit the scenes well. The story was good thou it seemed to be hatched by some one who had way too much time on there hands or too much to drink.
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Pani Poni Dash! : One special anime with one hell of an interesting and funny setting.
Simply all it is about is that Rebecca Miyamoto ( still a child, small and a genius) starts working as a teacher for some quite individual students. It means that they all are kinda strange even Rebecca herself.
Everyone has their own funny traits and that is what is keeping the anime moving forward. Because there is actually no real plot going on. It is all about crazy, random stuff which is all mostly a parody to older animes and series. Even the characters are a parody themselves for the stereo-types.
All the characters in the anime are very lovely and well made. Everyone has their role and is playing it just fantastic and funny. There are quite a lot of characters which are all individual so I will…
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Please keep in mind, for the majority this review is going to biased due my tastes; you've read my Excel Saga review, you'll know I don't particularly like over-the-top humour/parody.
STORY: So. This really has no linear plot line. You'll be fine watching this, if you want something that's ridiculous, light-hearted and colourful. You know, a lot of hyperactive characters, monsters randomly falling from the sky, and a crap attempt at trying to insert some fan service in, /subtly/. Oh, and you know, random references from other anime, manga, and things outside of that. Instantly, we know that there has to be some sort of relation to the Negima series (same director), when we're introduced to a class full of whack-job students, taught by a child prodigy who is younger than the students. Noti…
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Pani Poni Dash is by far one of my favorite animes, because of the random things that just seem to happen to every single character of the story. Its a very good watch anime if your not in the greatest of moods, and need a good laugh. By the end of the first episode I can guarantee you will be laughing so hard your troubles will be behind you.
Storyline: (good)
The best way I can explain the storyline is in one word, Progressive. Meaning that its a progression with the school year, a well development of character progression through out the story line. Other then that there is no real story line that ties all the random episodes together, but because of the random one liners I was laughing to hard to care that I was missing a story plot.
Artwork: (great)
If you have seen Azumanga Diao…
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As far as spastic, random comedies go Pani Poni Dash! would be pretty high on anyone’s list. Frankly, I am a little bit surprised that it is only scored on the lists of a mere 3,000 MAL users. At its best, PPD is a hilarious parody with references from Gundam to Star Trek and Indiana Jones. Unfortunately, a good many of its jokes and humor will be lost of all but the most informed otaku's.
Pani Poni Dash follows the exploits of Rebecca Miyamoto, an 11 year old child prodigy who becomes a high school teacher and her freshman class and the mysterious aliens observe her from orbit. The comedy that follows is silly, random and a bit predictable. The story is pretty much nonexistent as this anime is really about just being funny. The episodes unfold in a fairly episodic fashion with little cha…
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What's it ?
Tags: school, comedy, parody.
Long long ago, I was looking for something positive, funny, sweet, instructive, in a genre of school stories, which could diversify my gray evening. Pani Poni Dash is more than suitable for this description. It was an incredibly abstract, bright and colorful, the background music is exactly suited to the video, a diverse and interesting characters. Pani Poni Dash seems simple at first, the usual comedy about the relationship of teachers and students, but later discovered the hidden facets of the plot. We can see that each character has its strengths and weaknesses. We will look for associations with already seen anime, will try to unravel all the parodies, will try to predict the development of the plot, but ... it will be impossible. Imagine the…
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This is a super funny anime. I love all of the characters quirks. Himeko is really funny the way she says maho all the time. Alien captain is awesome too especially when he tests his subordinates with the wiggly stick thingy. It's basically a high school comedy with a bunch of random stuff thrown in. It's really good and you'll probably have to watch it several times to catch all the on screen jokes and parodies that you'll miss.
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Ill get something out of the way right now. This show is weird. Its a comedy show through and through, but it goes about it in a zany odd style. So if you're not down for some weirdness then just stop reading right here, because this show is not for you.
Anywho, that said, I loved PaniPoni Dash! Its mix of colorful characters and strange gags never got old for me, and I enjoyed myself until the end. Now, lets address all the rating criteria.
Story: Its weird. And it doesnt always make the most sense, which is fine given that it lends itself perfectly to the show. But because of its craziness I had to give it a somewhat low score (since it doesnt make a whole lot of sense).
Art: PaniPoni Dash uses a rather distinct art style. It suits the show well and makes the characters even more reco…
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Pani Poni Dash is a very light hearted and hilarious slice of life comedy thats fun for the whole family to enjoy. Don't worry about that middle finger on the first episode since thats the only vulgar thing in the whole show. This style has beend done a million times over and I believe Pani Poni Dash is one of the reasons why this style of genre keeps being made over and over.
Story: (Fair)
The story is pretty simplistic but follows the basic of a classic comedic sitcom (issues that can be solved in under 30 minutes). The story evolves a classroom whose teacher just happens to be a 11-year old (age varies by episode) loli super genius from MIT. How or why she is even teaching a class of high school girls is pretty irrelevant. Rather the story and issues involved herein don't involve norm…
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Pani Poni Dash is easily one of the best comedy anime I've ever watched. The background story is interesting but the "genius girl" thing has been done before. However, Pani Poni Dash takes an approach much different from other schoolkids anime like School Rumble and even Azumanga Daioh.
Pani Poni Dash is chock full of fun parodies, cameos, and tidbits. You'd better have your finger over the pause button to read all the footnotes and references in Pani Poni Dash. The plot is very loose but present enough to give the anime a framework to works its humor off.
The art in Pani Poni Dash is very colorful, cheerful, bright, and humorous. Of the many things Pani Poni Dash parodies is the anime art, and the parody is visible in every episode. Pani Poni Dash does chibi perfectly, perhaps the bes…
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