PaniPoni

Name: PaniPoni
Rating: 7.2

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Manga7.2289 votes17 volumes · 240 chaptersFinished

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Synopsis

Rebecca Miyamoto is a child genius with a PhD from Columbia University, and she is starting as a high school teacher. The students love to tease her from day one, and she doesn't behave much better. Now we follow this class as they strive to get better grades and cope with their new teacher

Published

Oct 18, 2000 to Sep 17, 2011

Authors

Hikawa, Hekiru

External links

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MAL rank: #6579
Members (MAL): 1,597
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Main characters

Ichijou209 fan favorites
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Blood Type: B Zodiac Sign: Scorpio The class representative of 1-C, Ichijou is easily the most surreal character in the surreal world of Pani Poni. She is inexplicably capable of breaking all physical laws in order to make a joke. Her power is used equally for good and for fun: sometimes she'll be the savior of the class, while at other times she only manages to exacerbate the situation. She is able to carry her youngest sister around in her pocket. Ichijou is quite muted, using short sentences to express herself; she is also a master of the non sequitur. The class brushes off most of her odd behavior and abilities, simply chiming, "Don't worry, about it. It's Ichijou." She is one of two characters aware of the aliens observing the class.
Rebecca Miyamoto154 fan favorites
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Blood Type: B Zodiac Sign: Taurus Rebecca, also referred to as "Becky" by her class, is the homeroom teacher of class 1-C and a mathematics teacher. She was born to an American father and a Japanese mother, although she keeps her mother's last name. Rebecca enrolled at MIT at the age of nine and graduated at ten with a triple major. She then entered Peach Moon Academy at age eleven as a teacher. Normally lethargic and halfhearted, she dons a cool face to keep her genius reputation. However, when confronted with a frightening or uncomfortable situation, she immediately reverts to her childish state, weeping uncontrollably (called the "hau hau" by the students in episode 21) and often hides behind a curtain. She is extremely popular and a confidante to the students.
Himeko Katagiri143 fan favorites
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Blood Type: B Zodiac Sign: Leo Himeko is a wastefully energetic girl who often shouts "maho" ("マホ") - a nonsensical catchphrase that perhaps references the word "aho" ("あほ), meaning "idiot" or "fool." She frequently annoys the other students in her class with her antics and inability to carry a straight train of thought. Her "ahoge" (the lock of hair on her head) contains a mysterious power that gives Himeko her limitless energy and is capable of movement on its own accord. After the mushroom incident of episode 20, her ahoge shrinks and in order to appear as if nothing has changed, she wears a wig to mask it. Whenever this wig is pulled off, she again loses her energy, though it is returned once the wig is returned to her head. In the English translation, Himeko's ahoge is referred to as a cowlick.
Rei Tachibana34 fan favorites
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Blood Type: B Zodiac Sign: Aquarius. Rei is a girl with a heart and appearance as cold as ice. Of the girls in class 1-C, Rei is the most mature one. Threatening bodily harm is Rei's way of enforcing order in the classroom with Himeko being her usual target. She's the one to put Becky in her place when she gets out of hand and also the one to lure Becky out from behind the curtain with candy after she's put the fear of God into her. Rei has the second highest GPA in the entire school and works four days per week at a Chinese restaurant. Despite her apparent coldness, Rei is often the one to teach Becky important moral lessons. She has also shown herself to have a greedy streak as when during the school festival she purposely made it so their classroom was the most popular so that she could reap the profits later, something she was unable to do since all profits went to charity. -Wikipedia
Kurumi Momose12 fan favorites
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Blood Type: A Zodiac Sign: Libra Birthday: October 13 Kurumi is a girl who is above average in appearance, athletics, and academics, but who nonetheless suffers from being called plain/boring all the time. If there's even a hint that somebody has called her plain/boring, she goes off to sulk alone, often in the rabbit cage with Mesousa. She has been known to fade almost completely out of existence altogether when she gets called plain/boring or ignored too much. Kurumi is a very fast sprinter, and also played varsity basketball. She is the younger twin sister of Shuu Momose of class 1-A who is known for his cooking skills, something that she herself does not possess. Unlike in most anime and manga where the younger sister will call her brother Onii-chan (お兄ちゃん), Kurumi refers to her brother as Aniki (兄貴), which is a much more masculine way of addressing an older brother. It might be due to this that, due to her reactions as seen in episode 20, she has a fascination with how some girls in Japan are now using the pronoun boku (僕), meaning "I", which is usually only said by Japanese males. It is never explained why she enjoyed this so much. From episode 11 on in the anime, she is shown with her hair grown longer. Additionally, from episode 19 on, she ties her hair in twin braids. She cuts her hair back to its original length for episode 26 and it magically grows throughout its progression. In later episodes, after experiencing much of the unrealistic events in the first half of the series, she starts to see reality in a whole new light and starts little by little to accept giant fighting robots and small talking animals to be normal occurrences in everyday life. Despite this new outlook at how crazy her life really is, the others always seem to overlook her estranged claims. When not in school, she also has a part time job at a moe café though due to her not being considered moe, business is not as good as the owner would want it to be. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sayaka Suzuki10 fan favorites
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Blood Type: A Zodiac Sign: Pisces Sayaka, also known as "Rokugou" (6号, meaning "#6"), is a good girl who often gets taken advantage of because of her kindness, although she doesn't seem to mind. Miyuki Igarashi of class 1-A gave her the nickname Rokugou because she was the sixth girl in the school to bear the name Suzuki, though this is never explicitly explained in the anime version. Sayaka's catch-phrase is saying that something is "-of the year" (for example, "teacher of the year"). In certain episodes, Becky refers to Rokugou as "over-sized" or "big ribbon" due to her hairstyle. (Source: Wikipedia)
Miyako Uehara5 fan favorites
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Blood Type: AB Zodiac Sign: Capricorn Miyako is known as "Study-Bug", a name which she earned through her perpetual studying and which she detests, though her score is almost average. She will often get mad if she is unable to study due to the crazy antics that she often gets put into, which are also often against her will. Miyako was even handcuffed to Sayaka Suzuki in episode 16 to get her to track down Ichijou. She has a bizarre trait which caused others to create yet another nickname for her, Deko, which stands for "convex surface", because she has a very large and very shiny forehead which gets more extreme with each episode, It starts off with a simple sheen in the first episode; in the second episode, it becomes a blinding flash; by the third episode, others are actually able to style their hair in the reflection on her forehead. In a later episode, her forehead becomes so bright that the other characters are forced to don welding masks to be able to look at her. Also, she apparently possesses ESP. In some of the more strenuous events in the series, she always tries to keep a level head, though is not always able to accomplish this with sheer will power alone. She is not always seen wearing glasses as she does have contact lenses as well. She explained in episode 4 of the anime that after long hours of studying, it's much easier on her eyes to wear glasses than contacts. -Wikipedia