Paniponi Dash 1

Series: Paniponi Dash V1: Lethal Lesson is tentatively a show about a brilliant teacher that takes her degree from MIT and moves to Japan in order to teach at a run of the mill high school. The catch (you knew there'd be a catch, right?) is that the teacher is an 11 year old girl and while she may indeed be very intelligent, she has all the emotional instability of a female (err, an eleven year old girl) in a class filled with an odd assortment of nutcases. Her name is Rebecca "Becky" Miyamato and she has an American father and Japanese mother (neither of whom is in the first volume of the series) but has long blonde hair with pink highlights, big eyes, and the usual mannerisms expected of a gal her age. Her class is populated by a cheerleader type (Himeko Katagiri), a cold bully (Rei Tachibana), a book worm (Miyako Uehara), the classroom president (Miss Ichijo), and a number of other stereotypes found in anime. The creative concept came from a four framed manga comic in the Gekkan G Fantasy Series as published by Square Enix (hence the multitude of references to their videogames in the show) but the animating of the panel art into an actual anime series required a lot of conceptual manipulation.