History Anime / PompoTheCinephile

* RaisedByGrandparents: Pompo is being raised by her grandfather, legendary producer J.D. Peterzen (who bears a vague resemblance to Creator/JohnCarpenter). No reason is ever given for this.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: All the texts in the movie are in English and grammatically correct, the only mistake is Pompo's name that sometimes is rendered as "Joel" instead of "Joelle". Also, the dates on some posters being rendered in the Japanese way of numbers separated by dots.

* CreatorProvincialism: The movie does a good job of depicting the United States, however the characters are seen bowing to one another several times, and Gene's behavior at the end is a fairly standard depiction of JapaneseSpirit.

* MetaCasting: Gene and Nathalie are newcomers to the world of filmmaking and acting respectively, and their voice actors Hiroya Shimizu and Rinka Otani are novices with no other major credits on their resumes. On the opposite end of the spectrum, veteran influential voice actor Creator/AkioOhtsuka lends his voice to Martin Braddock, "the world's greatest actor".

''Pompo: The Cinephile'' (''Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san'') is a 2017 on-going online manga by Shogo Sugitani hosted on Website/{{Pixiv}} that has been turned into a 2021 anime movie by Studio CLAP.

* ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars: Pompo's mentality when producing her B-movies. Since she ''wants'' to win a prize for the OscarBait script she has just written, she wisely decides to leave the actual directing to another person: Gene.

The film's story follows J.D. "Pompo" Pomponette, a prolific producer of trashy B-movies and sexy flicks operating out of "Nyallywood", the world's film capital. She has written a script for an artistic movie, but has no intention of filming it herself given her track record. She would rather give this opportunity to Gene Fini, her longtime assistant, who is a total film buff but with no actual experience in filmmaking, after seeing how good he is at editing the trailers for her movies. Meanwhile, Nathalie Woodward, an aspiring actress with no previous experience, gives her first audition at the same time, and is going to have her debut in Pompo's movie...

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Gene editing the finished movie, represented as him cutting and slashing huge film strips with a sword with the typical anime flourish.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Pompo looks far more cartoonish than any of the other characters, what with her diminutive stature, gigantic pigtails, BlushSticker and so on. It's heavily implied that she's far older than she looks, however no in-universe reason is ever given as to why she looks and acts like that. However, if the orignal manga is to be believed, then she is [[spoiler: not actually older than she looks and is around the age of a junior high school student, as revealed in third main volume.]]

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''Pompo: The Cinephile'' (''Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san'') is a 2017 on-going online manga by Shogo Sugitani that has been turned into a 2021 anime movie by Studio CLAP. The story follows J.D. "Pompo" Pomponette, a prolific producer of trashy B-movies and sexy flicks operating out of "Nyallywood", the world's film capital. She has written a script for an artistic movie, but has no intention of filming it herself given her track record. She would rather give this opportunity to Gene Fini, her longtime assistant who is a total film buff but who has no actual experience in filmmaking, after seeing his ability in cutting the trailer for her latest schlocky film. The story follows Gene and also Nathalie Woodward, an aspiring actress with no previous experience who gave her first audition at the same time.
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* {{Mukokuseki}}: The film is set in the United States, so Braddock and most of the secondary characters are drawn as anime artists usually portray Caucasian people. On the other hand Gene, Natalie and Mystia are depicted in a more standard anime style, not to speak of Pompo's cartoonish appearance.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: All the texts in the movie are in English and grammatically correct, the only mistake is Pompo's name that sometimes is rendered as "Joel" instead of "Joelle".

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Firmly on the idealistic scale. It does not shy away in portraying the less glamorous parts of film-making like editing, problems with schedules, with the crew, lack of funding and so on, but in the end passion, hard work and love for movies win over everything [[spoiler:and even a first-time director and a first-time actress can aspire to win the best prize there is.]] However [[spoiler:the ending credits imply that the whole movie was just another fictional story made by Pompo's Peterzen Films, thus explaining the more outlandish events and coincidences.]]

* BlandNameProduct: All of the brands in Nyallywood start with the syllable "Nya" (a cat's meow), so there are the apparel line Nyanta Cruz, the soft drink Nyapsi, and so on. There's an equivalent of Apple products with a cat in place of the apple; the name is never stated but it's most likely "Nyapple".

* CreditsGag: The credits of the film end with a Peterzen Films logo, implying that the whole movie was yet another of Pompo's films.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Pompo looks far more cartoonish than any of the other characters, what with her diminutive stature, gigantic pigtails, BlushSticker and so on. It's heavily implied that she's far older than she looks, however no in-universe reason is ever given as to why she looks and acts like that.

* ShoutOut: Pompo has a DVD of ''Film/CinemaParadiso'' in her office.

* MetaCasting: Gene and Nathalie are total newcomers to the world of filmmaking and acting respectively, and their voice actors are novices with no other major credits on their resumes. On the opposite end of the spectrum, veteran influential voice actor Creator/AkioOhtsuka lends his voice to Martin Braddock, "the world's greatest actor".

* OnlyOneName: Up-and-coming actress Mystia is only ever referred as such by everyone including the film posters. It's most likely a stage name, since everyone else has a full name.

* BlandNameProduct: All of the brands in this film start with the syllable "Nya" (a cat's meow), so there are the apparel line Nyanta Cruz, the soft drink Nyapsi, and so on. There's an equivalent of Apple products with a cat in place of the apple; the name is never stated but it's most likely "Nyapple".

* WorldsBestCharacter: Martin Braddock is all but stated to be the world's greatest actor, who retired from the scenes about a decade before the events in the story.

Pompo: The Cinephile (''Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san'') is a 2017 on-going online manga by Shogo Sugitani that has been turned into a 2021 anime movie by Studio CLAP. The story follows J.D. "Pompo" Pomponette, a prolific producer of trashy B-movies and sexy flicks operating out of "Nyallywood", the world's film capital. She has written a script for an artistic movie, but has no intention of filming it herself given her track record. She would rather give this opportunity to Gene Fini, her longtime assistant who is a total film buff but who has no actual experience in filmmaking, after seeing his ability in cutting the trailer for her latest schlocky film. The story follows Gene and also Nathalie Woodward, an aspiring actress with no previous experience who gave her first audition at the same time.

* NamesTheSame: Martin Braddock's name is most likely a homage to Creator/MarlonBrando, but there was an actual actor named [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102927/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Martin Braddock]], who however can hardly be considered the "world's best actor".

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Gene editing the movie, represented as him cutting and slashing huge film strips with a sword with the typical anime flourish.

* NonIndicativeTitle: Arguably, Pompo loves movies but Gene is more of a cinephile than she ever was, given her tastes versus his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure titles, filming techniques and so on.

* OnlyOneName: Veteran B-movie actress Mystia is only ever referred as such by everyone including the film posters. It's most likely a stage name, since everyone else has a full name.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Firmly on the idealistic scale. It does not shy away in portraying the less glamorous parts of film-making like editing, problems with schedules, with the crew, lack of funding and so on, but in the end passion, hard work and love for movies win over everything [[spoiler:and even a first-time director and a first-time actress can aspire to win the best prize there is.]] However [[spoiler:the ending credits imply that the whole movie was just another fictional story made by Pompo's Peterzen Studios, thus explaining the more outlandish events and coincidences.]]

* WorldsBestCharacter: Martin Braddock is all but stated to be the world's greatest actor, who retired from the scenes a decade before the events in the story.

Pompo: The Cinephile (''Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san'') is a 2017 on-going online manga by Shogo Sugitani that has been turned into a 2021 anime movie by Studio CLAP. The story follows J.D. "Pompo" Pomponette, a prolific producer of trashy B-movies and sexy flicks operating out of "Nyallywood", the world's film capital. She has written a script for an artistic movie, but has no intention of filming it herself given her track record. She would rather give this opportunity to Gene Fini, her longtime assistant who is a total film buff but who has no actual experience in filmmaking, after seeing his work in cutting the trailer for her latest schlocky film. The story follows Gene and also Nathalie Woodward, an aspiring actress with no previous experience who gave her first audition at the same time.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Pompo looks far more cartoonish than any of the other characters, what with her short stature, gigantic pigtails, BlushSticker and so on. It's heavily implied that she's far older than she looks, however no reason is ever given as to why she looks like that.

Pompo: The Cinephile (''Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san'') is a 2017 on-going online manga by Shogo Sugitani that has been turned into a 2021 anime movie by Studio CLAP. It is about J.D. "Pompo" Pomponette, a prolific producer of trashy B-movies and sexy flicks operating out of "Nyallywood", the world's film capital. She has written a script for an artistic movie, but has no intention of filming it herself given her track record. She would rather give this opportunity to Gene Fini, her longtime assistant who is a total film buff but who has no actual experience in filmmaking, after seeing his work in cutting the trailer for her latest schlocky film. The story follows Gene and also Natalie Wood, an aspiring actress with no previous experience who gave her first audition at the same time.

* NarrativeShapeshifting: While talking with Gene about how she dislikes films that are over-long and bloated, Pompo briefly inflates herself as if she were a balloon. Another example of how different she is from everyone else (see the trope below).