Idiom Explanation

Originally, the idiom would be followed by “But Is On the Side of Virtuous Ones” (～常に善人に与す). Laozi’s teaching of the Way of Heaven (the law that governs the world) is that it doesn’t favour anyone, but is on the side of good-natured people.

Beloved by Railway Enthusiasts

Designs on the recently opened food stalls have been renewed. Outside Old Geezer’s yakisoba stand, for some reason there are many stalls that look like train cars from the front. All of these are based on real railcars, so any train enthusiast will surely recognize them.

Class C’s Locker

On the left side there’s a fukusuke and Giant Salamander. Going to right, there’s a star, a turtle shell, a mushroom, and a lot of them look like from Hyper **rio Brothers.

A Plain Japanese Rice Fish

Inside the basin where Himeko goldfish and others are swimming, one single nondescript and bland Japanese rice fish has been added there. This originally appeared in the manga, as a Kurumi Japanese rice fish. Still, it’s really plain...

You Wanna Eat?

While Rei’s talking about cotton candy and popcorn, Giant Salamander is seen hold both of these in his hands. His head looks like a takoyaki too.

Gathering of Maids

There are the figures of Yuka Kitajima and Chika Satō in He Is My **ster-like clothing. Furthermore, characters who resemble the ones who appear in And Yet the Town *oves appear here too. Both are manga where girls appear dressed up as maids.

Sandwich Maid

In the TV version Kurumi is standing alone in a corner, but now she has been improved. Awesome, regardless how she’s being treated, she’s really standing out now!

Bustling Food Stalls

People related to a genius who descended into darkness, a celebrity whose trademark are sunglasses, the Buddhist monk from Uru* Yatsura and others, the staff and customers of the stalls, who each have a source of their own, seem to be coming from all over the places. On the stall at the dead center of the screen, they’re selling extremely poetic dishes, which appeared in the movie *** *** of Cookery.

Our journey starts, on this long, long steep slope

Among the waitresses of Class C, there’s this trio dressed in colourful costumes. But looking at their hairstyles, don’t they resemble girls who appeared in the game CL*NNAD?

There are breast-baring moments too! (3rd time)

A telop has been added to top left. If you look it really closer, you can see it reads “breast-baring” (ポロリもあるよ！). We don’t know just whose breasts are based for this line, but we’d love to go and see them!

Posters Also Added

Corridor has now livelier atmosphere from before. On the poster at lower right there are the letters for “PT” alongside with a picture of a pig, which all are a reference related to Sergeant Har*man, but the meaning of these words is too complicated to be written here.

At the Juice Stand

While Lord Cat is doing business in open air, Serizawa looking like an UF* Robot and Ichijou in the shape of a GER**LK come and go. There are also various stuff hanging under the parasol.

Among the Customers

Behind Becky and Himeko are the figures of characters from **** Kara Mamoru! and He Is My **ster. Since it’s a school festival, lots of different people have come. In the scenes before and after this one, the corridor is bustling with visitors from Mister ***kko, High School! Ki***gumi, the 3rd part of Certain Bizarre Adventures and many other different works.

Even More Ume**-Like

The TV version looked similar enough, but the cut of Becky’s and Himeko’s scream has been redrawn. This attention to detail is what holds “Pani Poni Dash!” in check.

Lots of Ghosts

To the insides of the Haunted House, the eye ball creature Rei brought to Japan and the figure of a famous alien have been added. On the other hand, Suzune’s thighs are now exposed, boosting up her sexiness.

Attention On Ichijou’s Little Sister

Fall Club, which handles anything that falls, has newly installed a basin in the ceiling, which can be dropped from a string that’s on the right edge. Somehow stealthily, there’s a person who’s trying to pull it.

Lost Snake

Even in front of the Film Club, there have been some additions and changes, like with posters. Kiriusa goods seems to be sold out, but are there people who really wanted it? There’s also a poster reading “Lost: Hebiko” stuck on the wall, probably Nanjo’s doing? The lost snake however, is right below the poster.

New Trespasser

The circling battle of film format continues inside Film Club, but in addition to the cyborg warriors who have been there since the TV series, characters from FL*L are suddenly trespassing the scene.

Itou-san From Other Schools

At the corridor scene in front of Class C, nearly all the mob characters have changed into Itou-sans. Moreover, the uniforms they each wear have been carefully made different.

2,940,545,060 Yen

Characters have been changed into to a chibi’d game style. Furthermore, the screen displays the sales revenue.

Concluding the School Festival

Sitting in their seats in Class C, people like another character from the manga that was referenced before, a high school girl, who loves to do criminal investigation with science, from a certain court game, and a wandering hero have been mixed all together.

Concluding the School Festival 2

And looking from another perspective, people from Magic ****’s Club, Kyūkyoku Chōjin *, Rai*bowman and such can be seen here.

Coordinator's Eye with Kyouko Kametani

”I wanted to try how she looks like while wearing a down vest”. The entire outfit is in light colours, giving out a refreshing atmosphere. Her pink skirt is also cute.

Coordinator's Eye with Kyouko Kametani

”Theme is that simple is best”. The height of the costume is slightly longer in the back than in front, which is one example of the design being carefully thought out down to the smallest details.

Coordinator's Eye with Kyouko Kametani

”The theme was ”maid”, so the highlight is the ribbon that was made to look like cat ears”. The expanded skirt makes her very pretty.

After one week it’s Momotsuki Academy’s School Festival. Class C is going to put out a school festival booth, and considering how many of them sell simple stuff they randomly bought from other stores, this means they don’t attract customers by selling items in higher prices than in retail, nor will they make profit by selling their items below cost. It all comes down in gaining profit and keeping the costs down. In order to achieve that, we’re using self-rising flours to make cakes and expired coffee. Then there’ll be waitresses dressed as maids attracting and serving all those foolish boys. Now, let’s make money and earn as much as we can on that day!

Akiko Ifuku

(Planning Co-operation)

Both Takayama-san, who was enthusiastically encouraged by the Director to change his name to be written in katakana “Katsuhiko Takayama” (高山カツヒコ) or “Gattsuhiko Takayama” (高山ガッツヒコ) for some reason during the Episode 17 Scenario Meeting, and Uetake-san, who was the only one who understood the reference to the commercial “The result is soda” starring Atsuno Izumi (which limits the joke to those in their 30s and up?) that was mentioned in relation to Mesousa’s line “Here’s the result”, watched and started imitating the original voices when working on Film Club’s movie references scene, and I thought to myself “what a couple of weirdos”.

At first, Ichijou Ondo in C part was going to play up to the first halfway of the second verse, but the Director said jokingly (or seriously?) that he wouldn’t use the song unless it had three verses, and so the third verse was born. (On the broadcast, the song was not cut off even in the second verse, but in the middle of the first verse...)

Mammoth, you have an udon noodle coming out of your nose

The rival who was met at a juvenile jail and was struggling to lose weight, protagonist’s colleague Mammoth, would lose to the pain of losing weight and night after night skip the gym to go eat udon. The rival didn’t even drink boiled water.

GAME KING nominated for Golden Lion at the Ven*ce Film Festival

Refers to a legendary film where two big names, a man and a woman, admired by the Famicom kids, face off in a shooting game to decide who’ll be the winner. Despite “Taka***** Meijin” being mentioned in a telop after this one, he doesn’t appear in the aforementioned movie.

The rabbit that jumps is the real rabbit!

(跳ばねえウサギは、タグのウサギだ!!)

In a certain Ghib** anime movie starring a cool pig, there appears the famous line “A pig’s gotta fly”. Regardless of whether she can jump or not, Mesousa really doesn’t look like your typical rabbit. But she’s treated worse than an ordinary rabbit.

TL note: This text along with the rest of this one chalkboard's scribbles were for some reason removed from the DVD release. The line was translated by gg/Oyasumi.

The appropriate soil to use against you has been decided!

In the TV anime based on a massively popular RPG that some people abbreviate to “FiFan”, this is a line from the hero character. Even though the word “soil” appears early on, it’s for some reason kept as a mystery until the middle of the story.

DH Yoshiko

Players from the professional baseball team that won the Japanese championship for the first time in 31 years in 2005 appear in their parent company’s commercial. Its content was about the team cheering up an office lady called Yoshiko, who was exhausted from working. This commercial is alright because it’s about gum, but if it had been about a bento box, the team might’ve been cursed.

Go without hesitation. You will understand once you get there

Originally from a poem composed by Ikkyū Sōjun, when he was still called Ikkyū-san, it is a retirement message left by a former pro wrestler known for his “Da!” performance and “Genki desu ka?”, making it famous. By the way, this one slap from this person costs 100,000 yen.

I'm not an amateur. I'm a specialist

From a light novel series that has been adapted to an anime several times. When the heroine said above the lines of “There’s no way an amateur could do that!”, the protagonist, a professional soldier, responded by saying the following.

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Himeko Katagiri (Maid clothes)

Looking her this way, Himeko doesn’t look all that stupid. The shape of aprons is delicately different between all five maids.

Rei Tachibana (Maid clothes)

She taking her glasses off makes her change so much that’s she’s unrecognisable. Her hair got a boost up too.

Miyako Uehara (Maid clothes)

Somehow, only she has a tight skirt out of all five others. For that reason, she looks like she works part-time at a store somewhere.

Kurumi Momose (Maid clothes)

Kurumi, who has been called as plain over and over again, is desperately make herself stand out with over-the-knee socks. Which are pretty noticeable?

No. 6 (Maid clothes)

Twin-tailed hairstyle in maid clothes look really great on No. 6.

Ichijou (Maid clothes?)

Rather than a maid, Ichijou has the atmosphere of Kaseifu wa mita! But instead of being the maid, she’s the prime culprit of the incident.

Ichijou Festival

The show follows the law of “Every cardboard box appearing on stage must be mikan boxes”.

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Suzune Shiratori (Vampire)

The costume is for the Haunted House, but no matter how you look at her, a high school student with breasts like those is not fair.

Otome Akiyama (Demon)

It’s for the Haunter House, but... she looks like she’s just cosplaying a demon.

Misao Nanjo (Guide clothes)

She’s a guide for “Jungle zoo old-fashioned candies and café where you can play with animals”, but no matter how you look at her, she’s pretty loose.

Akane Serizawa (Mecha Pigeon)

Serizawa with the style of Thunder*ird 2. Was she flying during the entire school festival?

Yankee (Android)

He’s mostly with his natural face, but he’s still pretty scary enough.

Igarashi-sensei (Casual clothes)

Both casual clothes from the week before school festival and on the day of school festival.

Tsurugi Inugami (Working clothes)

Working clothes from Jungle zoo old-fashioned candies and café where you can play with animals.

Look Back to Episode 17

In relation to The Way of Writing Pani Poni Dash! interview

Shinbo It’s where Ichijou Festival appears for the first time, right?

Kanemaki Did the story of Kino****ya Bunzaemon’s fukujinzuke really happen? I feel like it’s something that has nothing to do with Kino****ya Bunzaemon.

Takayama It’s real, I have a memory of reading about it somewhere.

Shinbo I think that’s not right. Is it a mistake on Takayama-san’s part?

Uetake I feel like he mixed it up with someone else’s story.

Kanemaki Please check it up and write it down to me~. That’s when I’ll believe it.

Takayama Somehow that’s something that Rei would say.

Kanemaki Apologise to Rei (laughs).

Takayama Yeah, I’m sorry (laughs).