Line #11 Anime/ParappaTheRapper


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ThemeSong Love together, love together, we're livin' on the floor.]]'']]
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4	''[=PaRappa=] the Rapper'' is a 2001-2002 anime based off the Platform/{{PlayStation}} game [[VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper of the same name]]; it was meant as a tie-in for the second game in the series. The anime ran for a total of 30 episodes (with the final 2 episodes being combined into a 1-hour special).
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6	[=PaRappa=] is an anthropomorphic teenage dog with a passion for hip-hop. He's in love with an anthropomorphic flower named Sunny Funny. [=PaRappa=] also likes to spend his time with his friends PJ Berri and Katy Kat.
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8	The anime is a SliceOfLife work that expands upon the games and features several original characters. It, however, de-emphasises the rapping; [=PaRappa=] only raps once in the entire series (in the 30th and final episode, in fact).
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10	Another anime would later start airing in 2016 titled ''Anime/PJBerriNoMoguMoguMunyaMunya'', which was made to celebrate the original game's 20th anniversary and the 15th anniversary of this anime.
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12	!!This anime provides examples of:
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14	* AdaptationalLateAppearance:
15	** Chop Chop Master Onion is notably the mentor for the first stage of the original game, but in this continuity doesn't appear until the 13th episode.
16	** Prince Fleaswallow was the mentor for the third stage of the original game, but here doesn't show up until the 23rd of 30 episodes.
17	* AdaptedOut: Oddly enough, some of the characters that appear in the very game series this anime was promoting, [[SpinOff Lammy]], [[KillerRabbit Ma-San]], and [[RichBitch Joe Chin]], do not appear at all here.
18	* AlliterativeFamily: [=PaRappa=] and Pinto are siblings whose names begin with "p".
19	* AmateurFilmMakingPlot: The 24th episode has [=PaRappa=] and friends attempt to make a movie starring Chop Chop Master Onion after he had been tricked into assisting in one of Groober and Gaster's plans with the lie that they were making a movie about him.
20	* ArtifactTitle: There is very little rapping in this show.
21	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever:
22	** In episode 25, PJ gets infected by a virus that causes him to grow every time he eats, making him grow into a giant the size of a tree by the end of the episode.
23	** In what's revealed to be Parappa's imagination, PJ walks through the city, taller than all of it, eating buildings. Parappa and his friends watch as PJ blasts off into space, somehow becoming big enough to start eating all the planets. Then the dream ends.
24	* AudienceShift: The game is for all-ages, but it was especially aimed at teenagers. Rodney Greenblat had wanted the anime to be aimed at teens but he was vetoed because Creator/{{Sony}} wanted a MerchandiseDriven anime aimed at children.
25	* BalloonBelly:
26	** [=PaRappa=] gets a bloated stomach in episode four after eating his school lunch.
27	** [=PaRappa=] and PJ are shown with big round bellies after eating at a restaurant in the eleventh episode.
28	* BananaPeel: The 28th episode has the witch slip on a banana peel and accidentally free [=PaRappa=] from his cage.
29	* BirthdayEpisode: The 20th episode revolves around Matt's birthday.
30	* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: The 17th episode features an homage to ''The Birth of Venus'' where Katy Kat poses like Venus while wearing a wedding dress she designed and standing in the palm of a giant fake hand.
31	* CanonForeigner: The anime contains several original characters including [=PaRappa=]'s sister Pinto, Gaster, and Groober. Matt and Paula Fox, who are introduced in the first episode and quickly join the main fold of friends, are also original to the anime continuity.
32	* ChristmasEpisode: The 28th episode has [=PaRappa=] work up the courage to ask Sunny to dance with him at the Christmas party, then having to retrieve Sunny's heart when it gets stolen by a witch.
33	* DaydreamSurprise: A recurring gag in this series.
34	** The fifth episode has a scene where [=PaRappa=] successfully reels in a gigantic fish and Sunny Funny, Paula and Katy swoon over him for it, afterwards it turns out [=PaRappa=] hadn't yet caught anything and was only imagining what he expected to happen.
35	** In the sixth episode, [=PaRappa=] appears to karate chop a tall pile of metal plates and impress Sunny in the process, but this is once again just [=PaRappa=] imagining what he expects to happen.
36	** The eighth episode has a scene of [=PaRappa=], Sunny, PJ, Paula, Matt, Katy and their hippo teacher traveling to another planet and dancing with some aliens, which turns out to be a fantasy [=PaRappa=] is having while the teacher is approaching where he, Matt and PJ are building their rocket.
37	* ElectionDayEpisode: The 14th episode has Matt and Paula run for class president.
38	* FantasticVoyagePlot: In the 25th episode ("Did You Say You Didn't Sleep?!"), [=PaRappa=]'s friend PJ gets infected by a virus, which causes him to grow into [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a giant]] every time he eats. This causes [=PaRappa=] and his friends to get absorbed into his body and get rid of the virus in order to turn him back to normal.
39	* FatAndSkinny: Gaster and Groober are respectively skinny and fat.
40	* FilmFelons: The 24th episode has Gaster and Groober dupe Chop Chop Master Onion into helping them in robbing a bank by pretending to be filmmakers interested in making a movie starring Chop Chop Master Onion. Fortunately, [=PaRappa=] and friends thwart the pair before anything serious happens.
41	* GuiltByAssociationGag: In the thirteenth episode, Chop Chop Master Onion makes Paula and Matt assist the rest of the gang in cleaning up his dojo even though it was [=PaRappa=], PJ and Sunny's fault the dojo was left filthy and Paula and Matt had just met Chop Chop Master Onion.
42	* InstitutionalApparel: The 29th episode features an ImagineSpot where [=PaRappa=] and Matt are behind bars and wearing striped prison uniforms.
43	* InterspeciesRomance:
44	** [=PaRappa=], a dog, is in love with Sunny Funny, a flower.
45	** The fifth episode has romance between a goblin named Ee-Rey and a flower named Princess Niisa, who looks like Sunny Funny but with blue petals.
46	** The seventh episode has Chief Puddle, a dalmatian, pursue a relationship with Anne Marie Tambourine, a rabbit.
47	* IWasQuiteALooker: In the second episode, Katy's boring neighbor Dorothy rambles on about this to whoever is willing to listen. Nobody believes her story of being a popular dancer until Katy finds some old posters in a decaying theater of her when she was a dancer.
48	* LanternJawOfJustice: The 24th episode features three policemen with prominent chins.
49	* LovesMyAlterEgo: Paula falls in love with the deejay at Club Fun in the fourth episode, unaware that it's actually [=PJ=]. She's scandalized when she finds out they are one in the same, even though she could have asked almost anyone and they would have told her.
50	* MartialArtsForMundanePurposes: In the 13th episode, Paula learns the Kiliman-gyro Chop from Chop Chop Master Onion and uses it to peel oranges.
51	* MistakenForGay: In the ninth episode, Gaster and Groober try to sneak into the dance party to steal valuables, but are denied admittance when they are mistaken for a gay couple. This leads to them making through by having Groober DisguisedInDrag.
52	* MistakenForRomance: The 26th episode has the rest of the gang think that Katy Kat is determined to ensure the ice hockey team win their final game because she is in love with Bob G, but it turns out in the end that she only wanted Bob G's jacket due to liking the design.
53	* MisterSeahorse: The 30th and final episode has the characters {{mistaken\|ForPregnant}}ly [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext believe]] that [=PaRappa=] is pregnant when PJ takes a stethoscope to [=PaRappa=]'s hat full of bird eggs and states that he detects something will be born. Cue ImagineSpot of [=PaRappa=]'s head bursting open to give birth to a bunch of mini-[=PaRappas=].
54	* MusicGenreDissonance: The anime is about a hip-hop loving FunnyAnimal dog, but the first intro is funk and the second is Rhythm and Blues.
55	* OnionTears: In the fifth episode, the Great King chops onions to make everyone in the two warring kingdoms cry.
56	* PinkGirlBlueBoy: The 17th episode features a wedding between rabbits where the bride is pink and the groom is blue.
57	* PokeThePoodle: Gaster begins the series at least mildly criminal by stealing [=PaRappa=]'s bike and a box of garage sale money, but quickly devolves into criminal acts like tearing posters and ''picking coins up off of the ground.''
58	* PottyEmergency: Parappa briefly has to pee in “It’s My Fault”, having to leave Boxy Boy (though he records a message on him, as asked) behind while he goes to the bathroom and starting the episode’s conflict.
59	* PottyFailure: In the seventh episode, Mr. Tambourine forbids his daughter Anne Marie from dating firefighter Chief Puddle because just seeing firefighters causes him to wet himself.
60	* ScaryStingingSwarm: The 18th episode ends with Groober and Gaster chased by bees.
61	* SceneryCensor: The 30th and final episode uses an example that doesn't involve nudity where the top of [=PaRappa=]'s head is obscured by PJ's hand and a tree branch before his hat is returned.
62	* ShamefulShrinking: The third episode has the kids' teacher shrink while overhearing his students' complaints about how ineffectual he is at educating them.
63	* SpiceUpTheSubtitles: The English fansub on [=DefendPTR=]'s channel adds swearing and harshens the dialogue compared to the original Japanese version, which was intended for children, infamously resulting in moments such as Katy calling Paula a bitch in Episode 1 and several instances where the characters call people they disapprove of "bastards".
64	* ToiletHumour:
65	** In the 14th episode, two boys are shown at the urinals when we see everyone listening to Katy Kat over the school's intercom.
66	** The 18th episode has a scene where [=PaRappa=] imagines various scenarios where he is startled by discovering bronze statues of Groober and Gaster in unexpected places, one of which has him discovering bronze statues in the bathroom right as he's gotten off the toilet.
67	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The tenth episode introduces a baseball player named Schmidt who ''really'' likes eating bananas.
68	* WorkOffTheDebt: In the eleventh episode, [=PaRappa=], PJ and Matt are made to wash dishes when they can't pay for the food they ordered, only to get kicked out of the restaurant when they break all the dishes they washed.

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