Dropped: Puni Puni Poemy (OAV)

Running time: 30 minutes
Number of episodes: 2
Vintage: 2001-03-07
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Genres: Comedy, Magical Girl, Science Fiction
Music Production: Victor Entertainment
Production: J.C. Staff, Victor Entertainment

Source: Anime News Network

The Good: Mildly funny, once or twice.
The Bad: Too forced; Low budget; The subtlety of the jokes is lost if you’re not familiar with anime culture and production.

Status: Dropped

My impressions and review:

If there is anything I have learned from Puni Puni Poemy it is that Shinichi Watanabe and Shinichiro Watanabe are two totally different directors. Totally different. It’s like night and day and I am glad I know never to confuse Shinichiro Watanabe with Shinichi Watanabe ever ever ever again.

Anyway, Puni Puni Poemy at its heart is a fast-paced “no sense” anime with tons and tons and tons of things happening at the same time. The main character is called Watanabe Poemi. However, she will constantly call her self Kobayashi which is the seiyuu’s (voice actor) real name. It’s a comedy act that doesn’t sound accidental at all but it’s there… so… yea…. Poemi speaks really fast so unless you’re keen on every word you might miss the tiny details of the “comedy” for lack of a better word. The parodies are lame and the sex jokes abound but not in any funny way… it doens’t make sense and its hardly funny at all… kind of hard to explain. I watched both the Japanese dub and the English dub and some of the more explicit words used in the English dub made the show funnier, but it was only a slight improvement.

If you’re not worried about spoilers (and you shouldn’t with this kind of show) keep reading.

So what happens in this show? Let me try to be as descriptive as possible… here it goes:

Poemi lives with her father whom she calls director and is voiced and looks like none other than the real director of the OAV, Shinichi Watanabe, also known as Nabeshin and Poemi’s mother, Kumikumi, is just Kumikumi not mother and then some stupid looking alien comes one day and “kills” Poemi’s family and she is forced to live with her best friend, Futaba-chan, and her family but they end up to be a family that is gifted with powers to save the Earth and suddenly while everyone is at school or work a giant mecha arrives and tries to destroy the Earth but Poemi and the Aasu family ditch school and work and arrive at the scene but the mecha is too strong for them, or rather, they have no offensive capabilities therefore Futaba-chan decides to use her ultimate power and sacrifice herself for the sake of the planet but then Poemi blocks the laser beam from hitting Futaba and she asks Futaba if she’s ok, but then she says “Forget that, I’m not OK!” and rolls on the floor to put out the flames on her back and then her real father appears and tells her to use the fish and she slices the fish and it turns into a magical wand and she turns into Puni Puni Poemy, a magical girl of mystical powers and some mysterious lady in space is happy and tells Poemy to use her magic wand and Poemy just throws the wand away and the wand is like “What the fuck?” but Poemy is like “I can take this one on with my bare hands!” and the wand is like “She’s talking stupid shit!” End.

Then you can take a break.

Then in episode two Puni Puni Poemy screams “continuing from the last part!” and shes running towards the giant mecha’s core, punches through levels of defenses and everyone inside is like “What the fuck?” and she ultimately destroys the mecha and now the Aasu family is back home wondering who the hell Puni Puni Poemy is and Poemi is not concerned because she still has to work hard to become a seiyuu but on the side she’s saving the world from littering, perverts, good voice actors, and other random threats and then all of a sudden the Aasu family sees Puni Puni Poemy is destroying half of the city (because most people are bad and destroying the Earth) so they go out and try to stop her then in the next scene everyone appears in a bath tub and finally everyone realizes that Puni Puni Poemy is Poemi and Kobayashi is also Poemi and Puni Puni Poemy, in other words they all mean the same thing they ask her to transform into Puni Puni Poemy and she does, and they squeeze and touch her and indeed she is “Puni Puni” and many a skinship abound and then Aasu family is kidnapped while Poemi is at a seiyuu audition and the kidnapper ends up to be K-kun, Poemi’s one true love and suddenly Poemi is pulled away from her audition unwillingly and ends up where K-kun and the Aasu family is and K-kun shows his true purpose when he has everyone in the Aasu family raped in typical Japanese “moe” fetishes such as megane-look, maid, tentacles, and more but Futaba is no where to be seen and then suddenly she’s shown because K-kun left her all for himself so that Poemi could watch while she’s tied up and he reveals himself to be an alien and of course Poemi is surprised that the love of her life is an alien but it doesn’t matter and she breaks loose and kicks K-kun’s ass with the help of the director (who wasn’t really dead!). End.

Oh and at the very end Futaba got the part to work as a seiyuu on Keroro Gunsou; too bad Poemi will never work on anything with the caliber of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Phew! If you got a headache reading those paragraphs, you might want to stay clear of the show. If you’re ok with this level of wacky-ness and don’t care about a cohesive storyline, then I guess you might enjoy it. However, it’s still a crappy anime, and even if its crappy on purpose, it’s still crappy. The parodies include Dragonball, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and generic things such as typical hentai, generic mecha, generic magical girl powers, and generic shoujo characters such as giant breasts, tiny breasts, dominatrix, kansai accent, and more.

So, in conclusion my last word is, no, don’t watch it but if you must be prepared to be disappointed. If you end up liking it, fine, it does have a vibe to it. However, if it’s your all-time favorite anime or very high on your favorites list, then something is wrong with you and I feel sorry for you.