Puni Puni ☆ Poemy

Puni Puni ☆ Poemy (ぷにぷに☆ぽえみぃ, Puni Puni ☆ Poemii) is an anime directed by Shinichi Watanabe who is famous for directing the well-known anime adaptation of Excel Saga which is famous for its hyperactive surreal humor, parody, and gag comedy. It's a parody of the magical girl genre and is given a mixed-to-negative reception by critics and fans for lacking the charm of Excel Saga, characters rehashing the same personalities, and over-sexualization of minors. It has been licensed by ADV in America and was promoted to be the successor to Excel Saga.

Why It's Not Suitable For Children

 * 1) The comedy is very recycled from Excel Saga's anime adaptation and unlike the anime mentioned, it lacks the charm of Excel Saga which overuses the same jokes without any substance and execution.
 * 2) The characters are rehashed from Excel Saga and lack any charm or substance that it had.
 * 3) * Poemi Watanabe is just Excel but more obnoxious and has no development and will scream and yell almost all of her dialogue as if she's trying to be a flanderized version of her.
 * 4) * Futaba Aasu is Hyatt without losing blood and doesn't feel essential to the story as her.
 * 5) It sexualized underaged characters even in a Hentai-like parody way as Poemi is 10 and the worse comes from Hitomi Aasu who is 3 years old which shows a scene of her having large breasts and even fondling them. Also, Futaba who is the same age as Poemi is kidnapped wearing bondage latex clothing which is shown in episode 2.
 * 6) The voice acting in both Japanese and English is poorly done as it mostly consists of Poemi screaming a lot of her lines and most characters in the dub sound phoned in which Excel Saga had a better dub and feels more comical and personality-filled than this.
 * 7) Most of the humor is poorly written as there are too many of Poemi being a "genki-girl" stereotype character and overuse of sex/hentai jokes, especially on minors.
 * 8) Despite its graphic content, the Australian Classification Board gave this an MA15+ which feels still very low considering the sexual humor and themes it contains.
 * 9) Most of the side characters are very underutilized as mostly the main and secondary characters are mostly focused on which defeats the purpose since there is a large amount of them and don't contribute to the humor and plot for most of the time.
 * 10) Despite being a parody of the Magical Girl genre, it doesn't use that much action or jokes that are related and instead uses surreal and hentai jokes which destroys the purpose of the targeted genre it parodies.
 * 11) While it wasn't meant to make sense, the plot is just Poemi wanting to become an actor after she fights the first episode's antagonist. In the second episode after defeating the mecha invader, she attacks the city for no reason which angers her friends though despite the trouble she caused. She was allowed to come back to the Aasu residence and her friends are now not as angry against her which makes no sense even for Excel Saga standards.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Most of the animation is decent and great looking for the most part.
 * 2) Its opening and ending themes are good the opening feels like a breather for most magical girl opening themes and kinda innovative as it sounds like the anime could've been a good parody of the genre if it didn't rehash too much and lose the charm of Excel Saga.

Trivia

 * Due to its sexual and violent scenes, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) banned Puni Puni Poemy in New Zealand. A New Zealand anime fan, Simon Brady, unsuccessfully appealed to the OFLC to change its decision, citing that the show was only rated MA15+ in Australia. However, the OFLC stated that programs were banned if the board felt that they promoted the exploitation of children or young persons for sexual purposes, extreme violence, and extreme cruelty.