What Makes Pop Team Epic Funny
| Pop Team Ballsy | |
 Volume ane cover featuring Popuko and Pipimi giving the finger. | |
| ポプテピピック ( Poputepipikku ) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Surreal comedy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Bkub Okawa |
| Published by | Takeshobo |
| English publisher | NA Vertical |
| Mag | Manga Life Win |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | August 29, 2014 – present |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Jun Aoki Aoi Umeki |
| Produced by | Kotaro Sudo |
| Written by | Jun Aoki Yūichirō Kido |
| Music by | Gin |
| Studio | Kamikaze Douga |
| Licensed past | NA Crunchyroll (streaming) |
| Original network | BS11 |
| English language network | Bounding main Aniplus Asia Usa Adult Swim (Toonami) |
| Original run | January 7, 2018 – nowadays |
| Episodes | fourteen |
Popular Squad Ballsy (Japanese: ポプテピピック, Hepburn: Poputepipikku ), as well known as Poptepipic , is a Japanese 4-panel surreal comedy webcomic and digital manga series written and illustrated by Bkub Okawa (alternatively romanized as "Bukubu Okawa"), which started serialization on Takeshobo's Manga Life Win website in August 2014. Takeshobo has released three volumes in Japan. The manga is licensed in North America past Vertical.
The manga chronicles the misadventures of two 14-year-quondam girls named Popuko and Pipimi, who run into a variety of both mundane and bizarre situations and respond to them in as baroque and exaggerated ways. The manga is noted for its frequent parodies of pop civilisation and its combination of surrealism, absurdity, and non-sequitur, all of which have contributed to it developing a cult following amidst both Japanese and Western audiences. An anime television series adaptation animated past Kamikaze Douga and produced by King Records premiered on BS11 on Jan vii, 2018; with the get-go season concluding on March 25, 2018, and two special episodes airing on April 1, 2019. A 2d season is fix to premiere in October 2022.
Characters [edit]
- Popuko ( ポプ子 )
- 1 of two protagonists. A choleric, short, blondish orange-haired school daughter.
| Episode | Japanese vocalism actor[4] [v] | English vocalization actor[vi] [7] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masashi Ebara, Yūji Mitsuya (original) Mami Koyama, Ryūsei Nakao (Repeat) | Christopher R. Sabat, Justin Briner | |
| 2 | Aoi Yūki, Toshio Furukawa (original) Sumire Morohoshi, Tesshō Genda (Repeat) | Trina Nishimura, Sonny Strait | |
| iii | Mikako Komatsu, Ryūsei Nakao (original) Eriko Nakamura, Sōma Saitō (Repeat) | Sarah Wiedenheft, Barry Yandell | Pop Team Ballsy Kinen |
| 4 | Yōko Hikasa, Tesshō Genda (original) Sora Tokui, Showtaro Morikubo (Echo) | Jad Saxton, Alejandro Saab | |
| 5 | Tomoko Kaneda, Yūichi Nakamura | Cherami Leigh, Eric Vale | |
| 6 | Yūko Sanpei, Hiro Shimono | Brittney Karbowski, Todd Haberkorn | |
| seven | Satomi Kōrogi, Showtaro Morikubo, Shunsuke Itakura (Team AC), Tōru Adachi (Team Air conditioning) (Pop Squad Story) | Alison Viktorin, Greg Ayres | |
| 8 | Sumire Morohoshi, Masaya Onosaka | Stephanie Sheh, Johnny Yong Bosch | |
| 9 | Eriko Nakamura, Sōma Saitō | Alexis Tipton, Justin Cook | |
| ten | Sora Tokui, Rikiya Koyama | Emily Neves, Cris George | |
| xi | Nana Mizuki, Hozumi Gōda | Wendy Powell, Sean Schemmel | |
| 12 | Mami Koyama, Shō Hayami | Mikaela Krantz, Micah Solusod | |
| xiii | Yukari Tamura, Sōichirō Hoshi (Blue Dragon), Kana Hanazawa, Kappei Yamaguchi (White Tiger), Sakiko Tamagawa, Yūki Ono (Vermilion Bird), Yumiri Hanamori, Takahiro Sakurai (Blackness Tortoise)[a] | Bryn Apprill, Bryce Papenbrook | Special |
| xiv | Mariko Kouda, Nobuo Tobita (Bluish Dragon), Emiri Katō, Tomokazu Seki (White Tiger), Junko Takeuchi, Toshihiko Seki (Vermilion Bird), Etsuko Kozakura, Hikaru Midorikawa (Blackness Tortoise)[a] | Erica Mendez, Austin Tindle | Special |
- Bob Epic Team segments: Voiced by: Shunsuke Itakura (Squad Air-conditioning) (#1 - #6, #eight - #12, #14),
Shunsuke Itakura (Squad AC), Tōru Adachi (Team AC) (#seven, #13) (Japanese); Christopher R. Sabat[6] (English) [b] - Japon Mignon segments: Fanny Bloc[b]
- Pipimi ( ピピ美 )
- The 2nd protagonist and Popuko's friend. A quick-tempered, alpine, blue-haired school girl.
| Episode | Japanese vocalisation actor[4] [v] | English phonation actor[6] [7] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| i | Hōchū Ōtsuka, Noriko Hidaka (original) Kotono Mitsuishi, Norio Wakamoto (Repeat) | Ian Sinclair, Colleen Clinkenbeard | |
| 2 | Ayana Taketatsu, Shigeru Chiba (original) Azusa Tadokoro, Akira Kamiya (Echo) | Brina Palencia, Mike McFarland | |
| 3 | Sumire Uesaka, Norio Wakamoto (original) Asami Imai, Kaito Ishikawa (Repeat) | Jamie Marchi, Kent Williams | Pop Team Ballsy Kinen |
| 4 | Satomi Satō, Akira Kamiya (original) Suzuko Mimori, Kōsuke Toriumi (Repeat) | Caitlin Glass, David Wald | |
| 5 | Yū Kobayashi, Tomokazu Sugita | Monica Rial, J. Michael Tatum | |
| 6 | Kaori Nazuka, Yūki Kaji | Luci Christian, Jason Liebrecht | |
| seven | Akiko Yajima, Kōsuke Toriumi, Tōru Adachi (Team Ac), Shunsuke Itakura (Team Air-conditioning) (Pop Team Story) | Stephanie Immature, Chris Rager | |
| 8 | Azusa Tadokoro, Daisuke Namikawa | Leah Clark, Robert McCollum | |
| ix | Asami Imai, Kaito Ishikawa | Kara Edwards, Jerry Jewell | |
| x | Suzuko Mimori, Wataru Takagi | Jessica Calvello, Christopher Bevins | |
| 11 | Mamiko Noto, Banjō Ginga | Cynthia Cranz, Michael Sinterniklaas | |
| 12 | Kotono Mitsuishi, Jouji Nakata | Kate Oxley, Matthew Mercer | |
| thirteen | Yui Horie, Akira Ishida (Bluish Dragon), Haruka Tomatsu, Kenichi Ogata (White Tiger), Atsuko Tanaka, Kenshō Ono (Vermilion Bird), Nao Tōyama, Jun Fukuyama (Blackness Tortoise)[a] | Elizabeth Maxwell, Josh Grelle | Special |
| 14 | Kikuko Inoue, Bin Shimada (Blue Dragon), Kaori Fukuhara, Yōsuke Akimoto (White Tiger), Rei Sakuma, Kōji Yusa (Vermilion Bird), Chisa Yokoyama, Takehito Koyasu (Black Tortoise)[a] | Amanda Lee, Patrick Seitz | Special |
- Bob Epic Team segments: Voiced by: Tōru Adachi (Squad Air conditioning) (#one - #6, #8 - #12, #14),
Tōru Adachi (Team Air conditioning), Shunsuke Itakura (Team AC) (#7, #13) (Japanese); Ian Sinclair[6] (English) [b] - Japon Mignon segments: Christine Bellier (TV serial), Kaycie Hunt (TV special)[b]
Media [edit]
Manga [edit]
Popular Squad Epic is written and illustrated by Bkub Okawa, previously known for his Touhou Projection dōjinshi. The series was serialized in Takeshobo'south Manga Life Win website between August 29, 2014[8] and November 7, 2015. The first tankōbon volume was released in impress on December seven, 2015.[ix] Okawa released the "2d season" on the Manga Life Win website between February 18, 2016 and April 30, 2017. The second book was released on June vii, 2017.[nine] A "third flavor" began on the Manga Life Win website on October ten, 2017.[10] The manga is licensed in North America by Vertical,[11] who began releasing the series in Oct 2018. A comic anthology based on the fictional Hoshiiro Girldrop manga featured in the serial was released on Jan 9, 2018.[12]
| No. | Title | Original release date | English release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pop Team Epic ポプテピピック | Dec 7, 2015[thirteen] 978-4-8019-5419-ix | October ii, 2018[fourteen] 978-i-94719-419-9 |
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| 2 | Pop Team Epic: Second Season ポプテピピック セカンドシーズン | June 7, 2017[15] 978-4-8019-5957-6 | Dec 4, 2018[16] 978-ane-94719-425-0 |
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| 3 | Pop Team Epic: Flavor Three and Four ポプテピピック Flavor THREE AND 4 | March 7, 2019[17] 978-4-8019-6549-2 | — |
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| iv | Pop Squad Epic: Season 5 ポプテピピック Season 5 | March five, 2021[18] 978-4-8019-7228-5 | — |
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| 5 | Pop Team Epic: Season Vi ポプテピピック Season Half-dozen | December 7, 2021[19] 978-4-8019-7495-1 | — |
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| No. | Championship | Release date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Hoshiiro Girldrop Comic Anthology 星色ガールドロップ コミックアンソロジー | January 9, 2018[12] | 978-4-8019-6153-1 |
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| An anthology of comics from different artists nigh Hoshiiro Girldrop. | |||
Anime [edit]
An anime adaptation of the series was announced on April 2, 2017. It was initially teased equally an adaptation of Hoshiiro Girldrop on April Fool'due south Day 2017. The anime features blitheness by Kamikaze Douga and production past King Records,[20] and is directed by Jun Aoki and Aoi Umeki.[21] The series aired on BS11 for 12 episodes between Jan 7 and March 25, 2018, following a delay from October 2017 due to an "fault by King Records".[ix] [22] A idiot box special aired on April 1, 2019 which consists of episodes 13 and 14.[23]
Taking after its source manga, the anime takes the form of an animated parody show, featuring numerous, typically disjointed skits of varying lengths; while some of these shorts are adjusted from the original comic strips, the bulk of them are original creations. The various shorts collectively showcase a variety of animation styles, most often CGI, professional-looking second animation, and idiosyncratic animation from Team Air-conditioning ( AC部 , AC-bu ). Each half-hour episode features two about-identical 15-minute segments, each containing different voice actors and other subtle differences.
The opening theme for episodes ii-10 is "Pop Team Epic" (remixed as "Pop Team Epic (Rebroadcasting Mix)" for the rest of the series, except for the final two episodes, in Popular Team Epic Repeat) past Sumire Uesaka,[24] while the ending theme titled "Poppy Pappy 24-hour interval" is sung by Popuko (Yui Makino/Kenji Akabane (ep one-half-dozen), Hiromi Igarashi/Toshiki Masuda (ep 8–9, 11)) and Pipimi (Yui Watanabe/Shunsuke Takeuchi (ep 1-vi), Rei Matsuzaki/Wataru Hatano (ep 8–9, eleven)), with Shouta Aoi performing the theme for episode 12. The ending theme for episode ten is "Jinsei" ( 人生 , lit. life) also by the Igarashi/Matsuzaki and Masuda/Hatano duos. The opening theme for episode ane, which opened with a Hoshiiro Girldrop segment, is "Twinkling Star" by Drop Stars (Yui Ogura, Inori Minase, and Uesaka).[25] Episode 12 used the classical music pieces Night on Bald Mount and Dies Irae in its storyline. The opening theme for the first half of the special is "last sparkle" by Uesaka, while the 2nd half uses the opening theme, "Pretty candle star" by Drop Stars (Ogura, Minase, and Uesaka) in the offset role and parodied by Shunsuke Itakura and Tōru Adachi of Team AC (voicing as Korona Yuhi) in the second part. The insert song and ending theme for the kickoff one-half are "Popuko ni Sauce" ( ポプ子にソース , lit. "Sauce for Popuko") and "Fūsen Hikō" ( 風船飛行 , lit. "Balloon Flying"), respectively; both are sung past Popuko (Yuka Ozaki/Kent Ito) and Pipimi (Aya Uchida/Ryuichi Kijima). The insert song for the second one-half is "Bansaku neender", sung by the Ozaki/Uchida and Ito/Kijima duos, with Aoi singing his version of the ending theme "Fūsen Hikō", likewise every bit his own ending theme, "AOI Traveler."
The series was renewed for a second flavor on Dec 26, 2021, following the finale of Pop Team Epic Repeat. Information technology is set to premiere in October 2022.[26] [27]
Sentai Filmworks simulcast the series on Hidive.[28] Crunchyroll simulcast the series worldwide exterior of Asia.[29] Funimation simulcast the English language-dubbed version in English language-speaking territories as it aired;[xxx] Funimation as well caused the rights to release the anime on abode video in North America.[31] Funimation besides bundled the series to air on Adult Swim'due south Toonami programming block starting on July 1, 2018.[32] In Commonwealth of australia and New Zealand, the serial simulcast on AnimeLab.[33] Aniplus Asia simulcast the series in Southeast Asia.[i] The series became available on Netflix in February 2020 in what was originally eleven-minute episodes. It was replaced by the original half-hour format due to complaints from users.[34] A remixed rerun titled Pop Team Ballsy Repeat, which mixes upwardly the voice actors from the original run, began airing from October 9, 2021 and is being simulcast by Crunchyroll.[35] It also features re-recorded versions of the Ac-BU segments and Japanese dubs of the Japon Mignon segments. In that location are also visual differences in the Repeat version.
Marketing [edit]
The Nendoroid figures of Popuko and Pipimi, dressed as Batman Ninja 's Batman (voiced past Kōichi Yamadera) and Joker (voiced by Wataru Takagi) respectively, were displayed at the Warner Bros. booth at AnimeJapan 2018. It was suggested by Junpei Mizusaki at Kamikaze Douga; the studio animated both Pop Team Epic television series and Batman Ninja moving picture. The crossover figures were accompanied by a fifteen-second television receiver commercial, where Popuko and Pipimi (in the aforementioned costumes and beingness voiced by the movie'southward respective vox actors) re-enact a sketch from Pop Team Ballsy comics before it jumps to a Batman Ninja scene.[37] [38]
On April 26, 2018, Nihon Racing Association'due south Umabi.jp website launched the Pop Team Epic Kinen ( ポプテピ記念 , Poputepi Kinen ) entrada, where users can create a customised avatar of either Popuko or Pipimi as a virtual spectator. It as well hinted a surprise to be revealed when a number of avatars reaches 1 one thousand thousand.[39] Equally the number reached one million in late May 2018,[40] the JRA released a branded webisode on 14 June 2018.[41] Produced past Space Neko Company (which animated Pop Team Story segments and some of curt sketches in the TV serial), Mikako Komatsu and Ryusei Nakao reprised their role every bit Popuko in the first and second halves respectively, and then did Sumire Uesaka and Norio Wakamoto as Pipimi.[41] The JRA too held promotional events at Tokyo Racecourse.[39] [41]
Notes [edit]
- ^ a b c d Episodes 13 and xiv aired in iv different versions, titled Blue Dragon ( 青龍 , Seiryū ), Vermilion Bird ( 朱雀 , Suzaku ), White Tiger ( 白虎 , Byakko ), and Black Tortoise ( 玄武 , Genbu ), which each aired on dissimilar networks and streaming services and featured unlike voices.
- ^ a b c d In the Repeat version, both the Bob Epic Team and Japon Mignon segments are redubbed by the corresponding episode's primary Popuko and Pipimi voice actors.
- ^ Adult Swim lists the series as premiering on June 30, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. ET/PT, which is effectively July 1.[36]
- ^ The English language title is a contraction of "Don't call me your sister!". The Japanese title is similarly a contraction of 妹なんて呼ばないで!
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External links [edit]
- Official website
(in Japanese) - Pop Team Ballsy (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Team_Epic
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