Puni Puni Poemy

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Summary: Scraps of Excel Saga
Review: PUNI PUNI POEMY is just that unfortunately. Left over ideas, characters and designs, not to mention a few recycled ones, similar voices and an identical soundtrack. EXCEL SAGA, which I love in all of it's hyper strangeness and vulgarness promoted this show on DVD halfway through it's run and I was excited. When it finally arrived, I was disheartened. First off besides all of the remarks above, it's only 2 shows and secondly the price was too high and didn't warrant a purchase. I waited and eventaully saw it and I was glad I didn't submit to an impulse buy. It moves at the speed of a two year old with Jolt cola running through it's veins and is twice as hard to deal with as the original Excel Saga was but with more vulgarness and strangeness to offset the lack of solid jokes. The plot as mentioned before is about a weird girls attempt to become an anime voice actress and in the meantime use her super powers to save the world and in the meantime moving in with a family of sisters with their own "special" powers.

The few good jokes are funny and the disc has a great commentary running through it with the English speaking actors talking over it and even some of the wilder lines seperated from the rest of the track. If you want my advice, do what I did. Wait for an oppertunity to see it first or rent it if you can. Otherwise pass on it unless you really (read REALLY) love Excel Saga.

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Summary: CRAZY ANIME!
Review: This anime is crasy but it is still very enjoyable to watch. The theme song is very fun to listen to, and watch very closely, you may notice things you wish you hadn't (i did)and I'm not gonna tell my mom about it. Well this is a fun comedy to watch and if you liked Excel Saga,Abenobashi,or FLCL, you probably like this as well.

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Summary: Very Hilarious!!
Review: This is one DAMN good 2 episode anime. I really liked the twisted humor. Although it is sexualy oriented, I do not believe it is "meant" for boys only.
I am a girl and I loved this anime more than most anime out there...
If you do not appreciate twisted humor, then why bother watching anime in the first place?

I think this anime is worth buying!! If you like crazy anime and you are over a certain age! I'd say 16 or so... You should definately get it!!! ^_^

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Summary: God bless ADV films.
Review: This is the best anime I've seen since Excel Saga. In fact, it practically is Excel Saga. Poemy is basically just a younger Excel, voiced by the mighty Cynthia Martinez of Slayers fame. A lot of the same humor, attitude, and bit players as Excel Saga are here as well (not to mention a character that not only closely resembles Hyatt, but has the same voice). This is not a bad thing. I've been dying for another fix that only Shinichi Watanabe (aka Nabeshin) could provide. I enjoy the fact that Poemy refers to herself not only in the third person, but as her Japanese voice-actresse's name because, as Nabeshin so delicately puts it: "The bitch can't stay in character." She also refers to her father, Nabeshin, as "the director" and cheers her repeated transformation scenes because "We can reuse the art!". THAT, my friends, is anime satire! I also enjoyed Poemy's bad temper and penchant for destruction. However, if you are offended by pre-teen lesbianism, rape, S&M, graphic guttings of talking fish (don't ask), lots of cursing, or characters that never talk about anything besides their own breasts than maybe you'd better pass on this one. This anime is, as Lord Illpilazzo would say, "base and vulgar" even beyond it's predecessor. I'd only recommend this to fans of Excel Saga simply because so many of the in-jokes revolve around premises that were established in that legendary series. Newcomers to Watanabe/Nabeshin's insane (and often inane) humor will probably be confused by the rapid-fire style of self-satire that he employs. In other words, go check out Excel Saga (all of it) and then come back and I think you will be pleased with this follow-up. If you loved Excel Saga, and especially if you thought it didn't go far enough, I promise you will not be dissappointed with Puni Puni Poemy.

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Summary: God bless ADV films.
Review: This is the best anime I've seen since Excel Saga. In fact, it practically is Excel Saga. Poemy is basically just a younger Excel, voiced by the mighty Cynthia Martinez of Slayers fame. A lot of the same humor, attitude, and bit players as Excel Saga are here as well (not to mention a character that not only closely resembles Hyatt, but has the same voice). This is not a bad thing. I've been dying for another fix that only Shinichi Watanabe (aka Nabeshin) could provide. I enjoy the fact that Poemy refers to herself not only in the third person, but as her Japanese voice-actresse's name because, as Nabeshin so delicately puts it: "The bitch can't stay in character." She also refers to her father, Nabeshin, as "the director" and cheers her repeated transformation scenes because "We can reuse the art!". THAT, my friends, is anime satire! I also enjoyed Poemy's bad temper and penchant for destruction. However, if you are offended by pre-teen lesbianism, rape, S&M, graphic guttings of talking fish (don't ask), lots of cursing, or characters that never talk about anything besides their own breasts than maybe you'd better pass on this one. This anime is, as Lord Illpilazzo would say, "base and vulgar" even beyond it's predecessor. I'd only recommend this to fans of Excel Saga simply because so many of the in-jokes revolve around premises that were established in that legendary series. Newcomers to Watanabe/Nabeshin's insane (and often inane) humor will probably be confused by the rapid-fire style of self-satire that he employs. In other words, go check out Excel Saga (all of it) and then come back and I think you will be pleased with this follow-up. If you loved Excel Saga, and especially if you thought it didn't go far enough, I promise you will not be dissappointed with Puni Puni Poemy.

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Summary: God bless ADV films.
Review: This is the best anime since Excel Saga. In fact, IT IS EXCEL SAGA! Poemy is really just a younger Excel, voiced by the mighty Cynthia Martinez of Slayers fame. A lot of the same humor, attitude, and bit players as Excel Saga are here as well (not to mention a character that not only closely resembles Hyatt, but has the same voice). This is not a bad thing; I've been dying for another fix that only Shinichi Watanabe (who refers to himself in an episode as GDW: Great Director Watanabe) could provide. I enjoy the fact that Poemy refers to herself not only in the third person, but as her Japanese voice-actresses' name because, as Nabeshin so delicately puts it: "The bitch can't stay in character." She also refers to her father, Nabeshin, as "the director" and cheers her repeated transformation scenes because "We can reuse the art!". Genius! I also enjoyed Poemy's bad temper and penchant for destruction. However, if you are offended by pre-teen lesbianism, rape, S&M, graphic guttings of talking fish (don't ask), repeated cursing, or characters that never talk about anything besides their own breasts than maybe you'd better pass on this one. This anime is, as Lord Illpilazzo would say, "base and vulgar".

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Summary: Nabeshin parodies... parodies?
Review: While this is billed as a "sequel" to Excel Saga, the truth is, the only characters in Puni Puni Poemi (the correct spelling of the title) that came over from Excel Saga were Nabeshin (Director Shinichi Watanabe's alter ego) and his wife Kumi Kumi who had a small role in the series. It parodies magical girl anime (see the opening scene with a battle between Magical Girls), hero teams, anime porn and other things.

The main problem is that they quickly run out of things to parody, and turn to poor taste (they push the limits of the 17+ rating imposed by ADV). By the time of the second episode, they really have nothing much to make fun of except the anime industry itself. It probably would have been more sucessful as a 45 minute single episode than as 2 30 minute episodes.

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Summary: Mind Numbing injection of insanity...
Review: Ye all be warned, this is not your run-of-the-mill anime. Right from the opening prologue, it's firing off spoof after spoof until your mind is fried, and that's just before making it through the opening credits. It is essential that you have a somewhat clear base background knowledge of general anime, all six disks of Excel Saga, and a strong stomach at times. It spoofs anything and everything it can get its hands on for the segments, and dumps it all into you so fast you have to watch it over just to catch it. Inside jokes abound for Excel fans. Graphics are well done, and are what an anime SHOULD be... Music is reused Excel Saga BGMS, and the plot... What plot? Exactly. Just imagine this as the ENTIRE 26 episode season of EXCEL SAGA, compressed and distilled into an hour of insanity, and injected directly into your brain. If you can get past these prerequisits, and can handle downright VULGER humor, then you're ready to take on this madcap satire. And if you can handle it, you should be laughing yourself sick. If your mind isn't numb after this, check yourself into a psychiatrist.
"If this anime doesn't offend you somehow, we haven't done our job." -From the back of the box...

Rating:
Summary: Mind Numbing injection of insanity...
Review: Ye all be warned, this is not your run-of-the-mill anime. Right from the opening prologue, it's firing off spoof after spoof until your mind is fried, and that's just before making it through the opening credits. It is essential that you have a somewhat clear base background knowledge of general anime, all six disks of Excel Saga, and a strong stomach at times. It spoofs anything and everything it can get its hands on for the segments, and dumps it all into you so fast you have to watch it over just to catch it. Inside jokes abound for Excel fans. Graphics are well done, and are what an anime SHOULD be... Music is reused Excel Saga BGMS, and the plot... What plot? Exactly. Just imagine this as the ENTIRE 26 episode season of EXCEL SAGA, compressed and distilled into an hour of insanity, and injected directly into your brain. If you can get past these prerequisits, and can handle downright VULGER humor, then you're ready to take on this madcap satire. And if you can handle it, you should be laughing yourself sick. If your mind isn't numb after this, check yourself into a psychiatrist.
"If this anime doesn't offend you somehow, we haven't done our job." -From the back of the box...