Nerima Daikon Brothers
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Cover artwork from the DVD release of Nerima Daikon Brothers
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おろしたてミュージカル 練馬大根ブラザーズ (Oroshitate Myūjikaru Nerima Daikon Burazāzu) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Musical |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Takamitsu Kondō |
| Published by | Jive |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Comic Rush |
| Original run | December 2004 – May 2005 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Shinichi Watanabe |
| Produced by | Seiji Mitsunobu Masatoshi Fujimoto |
| Written by | Yoshio Urasawa |
| Music by | F☆CK |
| Studio | Studio Hibari |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | January 9, 2006 – March 27, 2006 |
| Episodes | 12 |
Nerima Daikon Brothers (おろしたてミュージカル 練馬大根ブラザーズ Oroshitate Myūjikaru Nerima Daikon Burazāzu?, lit. Dress-up Musical Nerima Daikon Brothers) is a manga and 12 episode comedy anime series that follows the adventures of two brothers (and their cousin) Hideki, Ichiro, and Mako who form the band, "Nerima Daikon Brothers."
The show uses a musical comedy format, with the characters often breaking out in song to show their emotions or go through a montage scene. The melodies of the songs are sometimes recycled episode after episode with different lyrics substituted for the particular situation. The musical comedy format is rare in Japanese animation and the show's style is influenced by musicals such as The Blues Brothers and Kollywood musicals such as Muthu.
The show was originally licensed by ADV for $124,800 and the first volume was released on DVD in December 2006. In 2008, the show became one of the ADV titles transferred to Funimation Entertainment.
The trio lives on a stage constructed in Hideki's daikon patch in the Nerima ward of Tokyo. They dream of building a concert dome on the site and performing their musical act to sold-out crowds. They must avoid both an overzealous policewoman who has caught on to their money-making schemes and the desires of powerful people who want to take over the daikon field. The characters are aided in their adventures by the show's director, Shinichi Watanabe, who injects himself (in the form of his Nabeshin character from Excel Saga) into the story as a rental shop owner.
The show parodies many famous people and institutions in Japan including Junichiro Koizumi and his political followers; Michael Jackson; the fortune teller Kazuko Hosoki, Star Wars, Host club entertainers among many others. Until recently, anime TV series did not make overt jokes about the current news topics like homosexual love, consumer credit, or the success of Korean artists in Japan such as Bae Yong-joon. Nerima Daikon Brothers features overt sexual gags such as in the first episode where a male casting director fondles Ichiro's crotch as he sits there and moans.
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