History Anime / PuniPuniPoemi

* DCupDistress: The main reason Shii wanted Poemi to live with the Aasu? Because she needed a place to rest her enormous knockers. It is later revealed that she would use Poemi's magic to make her boobs much smaller.

* FunnyAfro: Nabeshin. This is probably the reason his English dub actor was told to think of him as "a white Creator/RichardRoundtree. You know, Film/{{Shaft}}, only white."

* Creator/KotonoMitsuishi: Provides the voice of Itsue Aasu and appears [[AsHimself after Poemi says she will work hard like Mitsuishi]] on [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA]].
-->'''Poemi:''' I'm going to work hard and be in a show like [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA]]! I'm going to become like [[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi Ms. Mitsuishi]]!
-->'''[[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi Mitsuishi]]:''' I think that may be a tad bit impossible for you, Yumiko

** There's also the [[Franchise/StarWars Death Star.]] and Poemi collecting [[Manga/DragonBall Dragon Balls]] at one point to try and bring Nabeshin back to life.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The two aliens were Nabeshin and Kumi-Kumi the whole time! You know, despite the fact that the aliens were the ones who killed them in the first place!]] K {{lampshades}} the ending by screaming "What kind of corner cutting is this?!" Also, Nabeshin tells Poemi that [[spoiler:[[DecoyProtagonist Futaba was the main character of the series, not Poemi]]]]. Despite her name being the title and the focus of the whole show.

SpiritualSuccessor {{OVA}} to ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' made by the same production team. It crams ''even more'' off-the-wall surreality and self-reference than its predecessor into just two episodes, thus creating a black hole that absorbs all reason around it.

* InsertSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoM4oaeuxiE There's nothing for Poemi Watanabe today]], which kind of puts the usually blitheful heroine [[TheWoobie under a different light]].

* [[invoked]]TheUntwist: Parodied with the revelation that K is an OctopoidAlien. The show makes absolutely no attempt to hide it, and K's shock and horror over his TomatoInTheMirror realization just ends up making him look dense.

* [[invoked]]TheUntwist: Parodied with the revelation that K is an alien. The show makes absolutely no attempt to hide it, and K's shock and horror over his TomatoInTheMirror realization just ends up making him look dense.

* FunnyAfro: Nabeshin. This is probably the reason his English dub actor was told to think of him as "a white Richard Roundtree. You know, Film/{{Shaft}}, only white."

Poemi Watanabe is the adopted child of Nabeshin (the AuthorAvatar of director Wata''nabe'' ''Shin''ichi) and Kumikumi, a mountain girl who married Nabeshin at the end of ''Excel Saga.'' Poemi has simple ambitions in life; she wants the attention of her cool classmate K, and she wants to be a voice actress. Unfortunately, K [[ObliviousToLove doesn't even acknowledge]] her existence (given Poemi's MotorMouth and GenkiGirl personality, that's saying something) and she has [[NoFourthWall trouble staying in character]], as she constantly refers to herself as "Kobayashi" (the name of ''her'' real-life voice actress) and calls Nabeshin "Director".

** The picture by the description seems to be giving Poemi some serious [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena]] vibes. Though Futaba as Anthy could be [[BrainBleach considered unhealthy]].
** The opening sequence has Poemi beating the living daylights out of ''Manga/SallyTheWitch''.

* GainaxEnding: K {{lampshades}} the ending by screaming "What kind of corner cutting is this?!" Also, Nabeshin tells Poemi that [[DecoyProtagonist Futaba was the main character of the series, not Poemi]]. Despite her name being the title and the focus of the whole show.

* {{Fanservice}}: Played with -- the show's creators essentially nudge and wink at the audience whenever any fanservice occurs -- while "accidentally" obscuring the worst of it.

-->'''Mutsuki:''' Oh, you don't have to bleed over everything just to be polite.

* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Subverted, when the aliens trying to use the Net to learn about Earth [[TheInternetIsForPorn find nothing but porn]]. And they are absolutely fascinated by it.

* AuthorAvatar: Nabeshin

* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Subverted, when the aliens trying to use the Net to learn about Earth [[TheInternetIsForPorn find nothing but porn]].
** And they are absolutely fascinated by it.

-->Poemi: I'm going to work hard and be in a show like [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA]]! I'm going to become like [[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi Ms. Mitsuishi]]!
-->[[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi Mitsuishi]]: I think that may be a tad bit impossible for you, Yumiko

* AllPeriodsArePMS: When one of the Aasu sisters hears an explosion in another part of the house, she assumes that her younger sister either is having her period or has missed her period.

''Puni Puni Poemi''. When ''Excel Saga'' isn't enough.

* DVDCommentary: The ADV release came with one, touted as the "world's first 5.1 surround sound commentary". There was also a behind-the-scenes video recording the madness, with the voice actors in multiple booths and often talking over each other.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Poemi and Futaba, especially during the ending.
** ...Wait. ''Sub''text?!

-->Mutsuki: Oh, you don't have to bleed over everything just to be polite.
-->Poemi: It's just the Japanese etiquette!

* NegativeContinuity: Please ignore This show and Anime/ExcelSaga's [[MutuallyFictional official in-universe connection to each other]] when noticing that we get a continuation of [[HeroOfAnotherStory Nabeshin's adventures in latter.]] [[MindScrew It'll only create a bigger blackhole of logic]] than this show [[WidgetSeries ALREADY has.]]

* KotonoMitsuishi: Provides the voice of Itsue Aasu and appears [[AsHimself after Poemi says she will work hard like Mitsuishi]] on [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA]].
-->Poemi: I'm going to work hard and be in a show like [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA]]! I'm going to become like [[KotonoMitsuishi Ms. Mitsuishi]]!
-->[[KotonoMitsuishi Mitsuishi]]: I think that may be a tad bit impossible for you, Yumiko

* FunnyAfro: Nabeshin. This is probably the reason his English dub actor was told to think of him as "a white Richard Roundtree. You know, {{Shaft}}, only white."

->''"[[KamenRiderStronger The Heavens call, the Earth calls, the Fans call!]]\\

** The opening quote of used in this article is a parody of the same one used by Series/KamenRiderStronger.

* TakeThat: One sequence involves Poemi beating up a stereotypical ''kogal'' girl, a guy partaking in EnjoKosai, a bunch of {{Delinquent}}s, a stereotypical {{Otaku}}, and a guy playing an {{Eroge}}.

* ShowWithinAShow: ''PuniPuniPoemi'' began as ShowWithinAShow on ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', and ''Excel Saga'' is a show in ''Puni Puni Poemi''.