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Paniponi Dash!

Also known as Pani Poni Dash!.

Studio: Shaft , Square Enix , Starchild Records , Funimation , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

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".



Tags: School , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Teacher , Meta , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Aliens , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Robots , Anachronism , Twins , Kuudere , Card Battle , Gods

Pon no Michi

Also known as Pon no Michi.

Studio: OLM , Kodansha , DMM.com , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Good Smile Company , Myrica Music , SUPA LOVE , OLM , SANKYO , Yostar , AQUA ARIS , Bit grooove promotion
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The anime is set in Hiroshima Prefecture's Onomichi City, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha was kicked out of her house. Without a place to play with her friends, she learns that the mahjong parlor that her father used to run is now vacant. She fixes the mahjong parlor and turns it into a place where she and her friends can have fun, cook, have tea, and sometimes play mahjong.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Mahjong , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Food , Advertisement , Board Game , CGI

Paniponi Dash!: Danjite Okonaeba Kishin mo Kore wo Saku

Also known as Pani Poni Dash!: Danjite Okonaeba Kishin mo Kore wo Saku.

Studio: Shaft
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Paniponi Dash! special included in the DVD-Box.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Meta , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Kuudere , Female Protagonist , Twins

Lucky☆Star OVA

Also known as Lucky☆Star OVA.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Kadokawa Shoten , Movic , Bandai Entertainment , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The OVA features six separate stories revolving around the cast, some of which border on the bizarre; one of which is an MMORPG environment being played by Konata, Kagami, Tsukasa, and Nanako Kuroi, and another in which Kagami has a "suggestive" dream about Konata.


Tags: Female Protagonist , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Meta , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Otaku Culture , School , Virtual World , Video Games , Magic , Volleyball , Twins , Kuudere , Vocal Synth , Shounen

Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Studio: Seven Arcs , DMM music , Kodansha , DMM pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Bit grooove promotion , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: The anime premiered on Netflix on Sep 25, 2021 in Japan. The TV broadcast started on Oct 2, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , School , Educational , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Transgender , Urban , Bisexual , Time Skip , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Femboy , Nudity

Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan

Also known as My Deer Friend Nokotan.

Studio: Twin Engine , WIT STUDIO , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Koshi Torako has everyone fooled. Her classmates see her as the perfect honor student, unaware of her secret delinquent past. But her new picturesque school life is thrown into chaos when she bumps into Shikanoko Noko, a girl with antlers! Mayhem seems to follow this strange doe-eyed girl. Who, or what, is she?



Note: Each episode streamed 4 days early on some streaming services. The original TV broadcast started on June 7th, 2024.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Animals , Slapstick , School Club , Meta , Female Protagonist , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Satire , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Tsundere , CGI , Unrequited Love , Monster Girl , Delinquents , Shounen , Anthropomorphism , Chibi , Horticulture , Gods , Yandere , Agriculture , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes , Time Loop