Pani Poni Dash!

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Pani Poni Dash! (ぱにぽにだっしゅ! Pani Poni Dasshu!?) is a Japanese series that utilizes parody, frequently referencing Japanese 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. Pani Poni Dash!, though with the original name simply as Pani Poni, first began as a manga series by Japanese mangaka Hekiru Hikawa which was first serialized in the Japanese manga magazine G Fantasy, published by Square Enix, in November 2000. Currently, there have been nine separate volumes released. Later, the series was adapted into a television anime series which aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between July 3, 2005 and December 25, 2005. The anime has since been licensed in the United States by ADV Films though the manga remains unlicensed. There have also been several drama CDs created based on the series. Much of this series' humour relies on numerous parodies and references to other manga, films, or TV shows, including The Exorcist, Gundam, Super Mario Bros., and Vampire Hunter D, a good deal of which needs to be freeze-framed to catch. The series also contains many jokes and references about the Japanese culture and language, making the series possibly quite unfriendly to foreign viewers. Japanese Internet culture, such as on the infamous Japanese message board 2ch, is another pillar of Pani Poni Dash!'s humour, with many references to Japanese emoticons. At some stages in the series a character's facial featur

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