Pani Poni Dash!
| Pani Poni | |
Cover of the first manga volume featuring lead character Rebecca Miyamoto
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| ぱにぽに | |
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| Genre | Parody, Slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hekiru Hikawa |
| Published by | Square Enix |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly GFantasy |
| Original run | November 2000 – October 2011 |
| Volumes | 17 |
| Anime television series | |
| Pani Poni Dash! | |
| Directed by | Shin Ōnuma |
| Studio | Gansis Shaft |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | July 3, 2005 – December 25, 2005 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Original video animation | |
| Pani Poni Dash! | |
| Directed by | Akiyuki Shinbo |
| Studio | Shaft |
| Released | April 15, 2009 |
Pani Poni (ぱにぽに?), also known by the title of its anime adaptation, Pani Poni Dash! (ぱにぽにだっしゅ! Pani Poni Dasshu!?), is a Japanese manga series by Hekiru Hikawa that uses parody, 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 G Fantasy between the November 2000 and October 2011 issues, and the chapters are collected in 17 tankōbon volumes.
A 26-episode anime TV series adaptation aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between July 3 and December 25, 2005 with its title renamed as Pani Poni Dash!. The anime is licensed by Funimation in North America. There have also been several drama CDs created based on the TV series and manga. A special OVA was released with a DVD box set containing the anime series on April 15, 2009 in Japan.
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 Peach Moon Academy (桃月学園 Momotsuki Gakuen?) where Rebecca has taken up a job as one of the teachers after being the youngest graduate at M.I.T. 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 topical allusions regarding satire, anime, Internet, gaming, and popular culture.
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