Line #55 Manga/DashKappei


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3	''Dash Kappei'' is a manga/anime created by Noboru Rokuda, first serialized in ''[[Magazine/ShonenSunday Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' from 1979 to 1982 and later adapted into a 65-episode anime in 1981 by Creator/TatsunokoProduction, broadcast on Creator/FujiTelevision. It’s one of the first parodies of the sports manga genre from the 80's, and one of the most internationally popular.
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5	The story is about a very short but incredibly athletic student named Kappei Sakamoto. Despite his stature, he decides to join the basketball team of his school and quickly becomes the star player and admired by everyone, including Akane, a pretty GirlNextDoor and Kappei’s love interest. Perhaps, one of Kappei’s most notable quirks is his obsession with girls and their panties, preferably white.
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7	The anime, which achieved a fair level of popularity in Europe, is also known as ''Gigi la Trottola'' in the Italian Dub and ''Chicho Terremoto'' in the Spanish dub.
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9	!!This series provides examples of:
10	* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The anime had 65 episodes released over the course of a little more than a year.
11	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Early episodes have a GonkyFemme with OpaqueNerdGlasses who is this to Kappei.
12	* TheAce: Kappei isn’t talented just at basketball, he actually excels at every sport he tries.
13	* AlliterativeName: '''A'''ki '''A'''kane. Also applies in the Italian dub, where her given name is changed to Anna but "Akane" becomes her family name.
14	* ArtShift: As a RunningGag, Kappei sometimes changes from a short guy into a tall, handsome boy one whenever he's having a "cool" or "romantic" scene and then back in a matter of seconds.
15	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Akane in episode 57, when she gets brainwashed by Kappei's rival and begins slapping Kappei around for (to Kappei) no apparent reason.
16	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite all his silly antics, facial expressions, and short stature, Kappei is the most clever and skilled player of the team and always comes up with strategies that surprisingly work.
17	* CrazyJealousGuy:
18	** Both Kappei and Seiichiro every time that someone is interested in Akane.
19	** Weaponized in the Kappei's first basketball match when he flirt with Akane and her boyfriend Daika snap.
20	* DeconstructiveParody: Dash Kappei is one of the first parodies of the [[GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga Sports manga]] genre, especially the seriousness of the 70s' works.
21	* DisguisedInDrag:
22	** An entire subplot has Kappei disguised like an old lady in order to fool the Fencing Club.
23	** In one of the first episodes Kappei does this to help some female members of the tennis and gymnastics school club.
24	* DistractedByTheSexy: Kappei is easily distracted by every cute girl (and their panties). During the basketball tournament an opposing team use their cheerleaders to take advantage of this and Kappei does a special training for overcome his weakness.
25	* DubNameChange: Everyone in both Italian and Spanish dubs. It was TheEighties after all. However when the manga was released in Italy, it used all the original Japanese names.
26	* EvilOldFolks: Kappei's grandfather, a terrible DrillSergeantNasty. His training was so dangerous for the young Kappei that his parents are forced to send the kid to the city and lie to his grandpa, saying that Kappei was dead. When his grandpa discovers the truth, he goes to the city and starts to train an opposing basketball team. He finally gives up when Kappei defeats him and his team.
27	* {{Fanservice}}: The show has many {{Panty Shot}}s and some {{Lingerie Scene}}s.
28	* FarmBoy: Kappei when he lived with his parents in their farm in USA.
29	* {{Fetish}}: Kappei has a fetish for white female underwear. For him it's like the ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s spinach.
30	* FunnyAnimal: Seiichiro, Akane's dog, who can walk and speak like a human being, although only Kappei can understand his speech.
31	* HairTriggerTemper: Kaori Natsu, the basketball team's hot-tempered coach. Though she tries to be a proper young lady and is on the hunt for a boyfriend, she loses patience easily (especially with Kappei) and is well known for her grotesque and humorous facial expressions when angered.
32	* HitchhikersLeg: During the trip (of the basketball team) in USA, Miss Kaori try this, but she fails. Howewer in the following episode her panties achieve better results on some bikers (because one of them is similar to Kappei).
33	* HotTeacher: Miss Kaori Natsu. She is a very beautiful woman and Kappei joins in the basketball club after seeing her white panties.
34	* IdiotHero: Kappei acts like one, although he's [[BunnyEarsLawyer brilliant in his own way.]]
35	* ImagineSpot: Kappei and Seiichiro. Every times their fantasies concern a romantic relathionship with Akane.
36	* InterspeciesRomance: Seiichiro is enamored of Akane and dreams of marrying her (despite the fact that she is human and he a dog) and, resenting Kappei's muscling his way into her life, becomes Kappei's sworn enemy. [[spoiler: In the last episode he is hooked with a cat.]]
37	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kappei is an obnoxious pervert and an AttentionWhore, but he has his good qualities and cares about [[NiceGirl Akane]].
38	* KavorkaMan: Kappei is popular with girls despite being an overly goofy, perverted and rather obnoxious ''midget'' who likes to lift girls’ skirts to see their panties. Justified in his case because he’s a star athlete.
39	* {{Keet}}: In addition to being [[TinySchoolboy very small]], Kappei is rather energetic and lively. Emphasized by the titles in the foreign dubs, ''Gigi la Trottola'' and ''Chicho Terremoto'' (trottola = "spinning top" and terremoto = "earthquake").
40	* TheKlan: The end of the Fencing Club arc introduced a group of masked people (called KKK) that hate Kappei and start to use very type of adversary to defeat him (a beast-man, an hypnotist, a robot, etc..). [[spoiler: Turn out that they were his team of basketball (including some ex-opponents) and all was a SecretTestOfCharacter.]]
41	* LadyKillerInLove: Kappei when it comes to Akane, as he genuinely loves her.
42	* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler: In the final arc, this happens to every male character of the Seirin team (aside from Kappei's sidekick). This includes Kyoshiro, who starts a TeacherStudentRomance with Miss Kaori. Even the dog Seiichiro finally gives up his feelings for Akane and falls in love with a cat.]]
43	* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Kyoshiro, a member of the basketball team that is very tall and handsome, with blond hair and blue eyes. Weaponized by Kappei when the basketball team face a strong and all-female team.
44	* LovableSexManiac: Kappei. He is a pervert who lifts skirt and has an obsession for white panties, but also a really funny character.
45	* MarilynManeuver: When it's not Kappei to lift skirts, the wind (natural or artificial) will blow up.
46	* ModestyTowel: Once Akane is kidnapped [[ItMakesSenseInContext by a robot]] while she was bathing and is used as DamselInDistress for Kappei wearing just a towel. Kappei uses the same towel to defeat the robot.
47	* MrExposition: Seiichiro often appears in brief entr'actes to explain the rules of whatever sport Kappei happens to be playing at that time.
48	* NaiveEverygirl: Akane.
49	* NiceGirl: Akane. She befriends Kappei and is a strong believer in his talents, and though she initially finds him rather strange, soon develops feelings for him.
50	* OpposingSportsTeam: Several during the "basketball" arc.
51	* ThePeepingTom: Kappei. In the first episode he is introduced while peeping into the locker room of the girls.
52	* {{Poltergeist}}: An opposing basketball team has as secet weapon the ghost of the coach's grandma that causes incidents during every match. Howewer, Kappei befriends the ghost that turns out to be GoodAllAlong.
53	* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Akane and Miss Kaori. They are the main source of panty shot (especially Akane) in the show.
54	* TheRival:
55	** Akane’s dog Seiichiro, who competes with Kappei for Akane’s love.
56	** Daika, Akane's ex-boyfriend and a member of a rival basketball team. Akane broke up with him because of his violent temper, and now he wants to discredit Kappei and win her back.
57	* ShoutOut: Many.
58	** A scene has Kappei and Seiichiro becoming [[Anime/NeoHumanCasshern Casshern and his dog Flender]].
59	** The coach of a opposing team dress like [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]].
60	** Serika of the Ping-Pong club uses the same (and infamous) spring-loaded harness from ''[[Creator/IkkiKajiwara Kyojin no Hoshi]]''.
61	** As quoted above, white panties are like the ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s spinach for Kappei and in a scene, a tired Kappei becomes Popeye after seeing Akane's panties get her strength back.
62	** An episode has Kappei dressed as Oscar from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles''.
63	** Episode 18 has multiple reference to sci-fi, from ''Franchise/StarWars'' to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
64	** The entire plot of episode 46, during the trip in Usa, is a big parody of ''Theatre/WestSideStory''.
65	* {{Sexophone}}: A saxophone starts playing in the anime when Kappei sees Miss Kaori for the first time in the series.
66	* SpoiledBrat: The School President's son. He is identical to Kappei (the only differences are that he likes pink panties and is not an [[TheAce Ace]]) and very spoiled. The School President also forces the basketball team to include him in a match because he is a ill boy. Not that Kappei cares, obviously.
67	* TalkingAnimal: Akane’s talking dog Seiichiro, though only Kappei can understand him.
68	* {{Telepathy}}: In the finals, the basketball team faces an entire team of guys with these powers. Indeed, they are less athletic than other teams, but with their powers can anticipate opponent's movements. But when the former decides to defend of the latter thinking on non basketball-related stuff and their captain tries to read Kappei's mind, [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead ends up being insane.]]
69	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Akane is much taller than Kappei. Ironically, her JerkJock ex-boyfriend was a ''giant''.
70	* TinySchoolboy: Kappei who plays basketball despite standing at less than one metre tall.
71	* ToiletHumor: A lot. Many gags were disgusting, like game strategies involving excessive sweating or nose boogers.
72	* TrainingFromHell:
73	** How Kappei became so good at sports, because in his childhood he was trained by a DrillSergeantNasty of an abusive grandfather.
74	** Parodied when the basketball team, before the finals, is kidnapped by the old school president. He wants to train the team using a sort of DeathCourse. They immediately call him "mad" and try to escape.

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