Puchimas! Petit iDOLM@STER discussion thread

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ぷちます! －プチ・アイドルマスター－

It's, uh, chibi Idolmaster stuff. Short episodes.

Airs... I dunno, just NND I guess.

Animation studio: Gathering

ANN Entry (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=14923)
Official Site (http://puchimas.com/index.html)


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Episode 1:

- Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan.
- So it's Idolmaster 1 AmiMami designs. Which means I go back to forgetting which is which since there's no cute Mami sidetail.
- Haha, AmiMami asks why P-san's head is a P again. He nervously changes the subject. XD

The animation is odd. I'm guessing it's some kind of flash-type-thing or similar nontraditional animation given how some of the movement looks, but it doesn't look, y'know, completely terrible like all other "flash anime". I actually rather like how the visuals turned out for this, it's damned cute, though I'm not sure it'd hold up for a 24 minute episode.

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Yeeeeep.

That sure was Puchimasu. Pretty much just like how the manga is.

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The animation is odd. I'm guessing it's some kind of flash-type-thing or similar nontraditional animation given how some of the movement looks, but it doesn't look, y'know, completely terrible like all other "flash anime". I actually rather like how the visuals turned out for this, it's damned cute, though I'm not sure it'd hold up for a 24 minute episode.

Its CG, actually. Though done with a very flat Cell-shading style.

I think it works for the sort of show Puchimasu is.

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She digs a hole anywhere, then goes to sleep.

Also: AFUU

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Err...nothing happened.

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Miki arrives!

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So I'll probably just watch in a weekly chunk on Saturdays or Sundays and post at once in the most recent ep, I guess. I didn't realize at first that this was an almost daily show.

Episode 2-4:

Yukipo is so damn cute. I loved the bit where she massage-pounds Ritsuko's shoulders.

And it would figure that Miki's biggest rival is... herself. Or, some form of herself.

Non-puchi version of Haruka is the most adorable thing in this, I think. I love how she looks, though she's not been in the main eps yet.

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Miki and Afuu bond over being scolded by Ritsu.

[Draneor]

1-6
Cute, occasionally funny, and somewhat amusing, Way too many recaps .

If someone compiled the episodes into larger blocks, cut out the recaps, and only kept one intro/ending song it would be pretty decent.

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If someone compiled the episodes into larger blocks, cut out the recaps, and only kept one intro/ending song it would be pretty decent.
They should do what Azumanga did: daily short segments, weekly full broadcast. These are a minute or two shorter than Azumanga segments, but it could still be a modest length.

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Oh yeah, episode 6.

Uhh...Yukipo is cute?

[Draneor]

Hey, how many of these are they making anyway? Would it make more sense to do weekly subthreads?

They should do what Azumanga did: daily short segments, weekly full broadcast. These are a minute or two shorter than Azumanga segments, but it could still be a modest length.
Certainly, I'd much rather have full episodes. I'd find the concept fall more enjoyable than I can at the moment. But it is what it is.

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Hey, how many of these are they making anyway? Would it make more sense to do weekly subthreads?

60 some-odd.

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Hey, how many of these are they making anyway? Would it make more sense to do weekly subthreads?

60 some-odd.
http://cal.syoboi.jp/tid/2876/time 64 total.

And huh, it looks like they are doing a weekly combined run (5 eps a pop for the most part), but the fansubbers are releasing the daily version instead.

As for subthreads, I dunno, we can do whatever. If nobody posts during the week and someone wants to post in a chunk, that's fine. If someone posts one daily, that;s fine too. This is one of those shows where it's not too much of a problem if episodes are combined, as long as the subject line for the latest subthread contains the number of the most recent episode being discussed.

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Finally Chiha appears!

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Chihya bites anyone with boing boing!

So of course she lives with Chihaya.

But she likes Ritsuko too. Even though she has Boing Boing.

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Episodes 5-10:

Ep 5
- NANO! Heh, P-san's subdued voice saying "Puchimas".
- AmiMami so casually trample on P-san's feelings.
- MikiAfu come to an understanding. But don't make Ritsuko...-san angry.

Ep 6
- Guys we dont need a 0:15 recap in a 2:15 episode that airs daily.
- ...Yukipo is adorable. And a very nice girl.
- But where is my Haruka? ;_;

Ep 7
- nfufu~ AmiMami laugh is best laugh.
- Nothing like harisen violence to jog the memory.
- Chihyaa dislikes the boinboin.
- Still no Haruka!

Ep 8
- Chihaya! She's been chosen for this missing because of her special assets. Or lack thereof.
- Haha, Kotori nosebleeds pink sparkles.
- I demand Haruka before I finish episode 10...

Ep 9
- Chihyaa > Gon-tan.
- Heh that sad "puchimas...". Oh Chihaya.
- I like how breasts just spontaneously jiggle when Chihyaa is near. That's a magical power.
- Awww, Chihyaa likes Ritsuko, despite the boinboin. Everyone loves Ricchan.
- "If you thought they looked the same, it's just your imagination." >_>

Ep 10
- No Haruka yet, but yaaaaaaaaay Iori!
- And Yayoi! Hell yes!
- They're adorable. And abadoned on an uninhabited island. I love how inseparable those two are.

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Iori's adorable, and Yayoi is...yeah

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HARUKASAN COMETH

Also episode 11 was randomly in HD, but then 12 was back to crappy 360p. Dammit.

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Amami Haruka~desu!

Dammit Iori, you should have killed it when you had the chance. now HARUKASAN will devour us all!

[HitokiriShadow]

Puchi-Haruka was not the scariest thing on that island. And now both are heading back to civilization.

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And now humanity is fucked. Well, I guess Yayoi is still there. Maybe she'll kill ALL of them this time.

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Episodes 11-14:

Ep 11
- Finally puchi Haruka!
- ...A lot of puchi Harukas.
- Kakka!

Ep 12
- Hahaha I love that "Puchimas!" title call. Kugyuu <3
- Bikini Yayoi is adorable.
- "What happened to them?" "Do you want to know?" o_O Yayoi is terrifying

Ep 13
- The real Haruka!
- Ahaha puchi Haruka is just named "Haruka-san". Haruka your naming sense is questionable.
- Water = multiplication.

Ep 14
- Ritsuko trying to stop the Haruka-sans was adorable.
- Poor P-san.

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Ritsuko in charge of lining up.

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Hibiki in charge of communicating

Takane in charge of Kotatsus

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Takane is Puchisexual.

SUDDENLY YAYO

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Actually 15-23 for me but I wanted to keep the subject lines going. Oh no, nine episodes behind, how will I ever possibly catch up? Oh wait.

Episode 15:
- Ritsuko...-san is really scary.
- Love!

Episode 16:
- Fuck yeah Hibikin!
- Mikimiki Nukunuku.
- Suddenly Takane!

Episode 17:
- No, girls. Takane is right. Play strip card games!
- Haha Afuu totally sold Miki out. Oh and uh, Hibiki seems totally nonplussed about those things. Maybe they're just new pets to her.
- Heh, Hibiki speaks puchi.
- So does Yayoi apparently.

Episode 18:
- It didn't take much convincing to induct Kotori into the laziness club.
- Ritsuko on the other hand...

Episode 19:
- Chihaya looks rather nice with that ponytail.
- Suddenly Takane! Again! And she omochikaeris Chihya.
- Wooooooooah there Takane, that's sexual harassment.

Episode 20:
- Yukipo grew a tail...
- ...that Takane steps on. Takane, why do you get sexually aroused by bullying puchidols? "It's a secret."
- Yay, a Yayoi puchidol!

Episode 21:
- She's been holding onto Yayo for three months...
- "Just give up. Also may I have more tea?" Takane is possibly the best character in Puchimas.

Episode 22:
- Chicchan!
- Makoto actually has a reasonable reaction to seeing a puchidol. :sd:
- Ricchan officially approves of Chicchan.

Episode 23:
- Does Afuu call Chicchan "Chicchan...-san"?
- Heh, Chicchan even scolds Kotori.

Caught up! For a few hours anyway.

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Twins!

Pi-chan!

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Episode 24:
- Futami puchis have arrived. Of course Takane is all over that.
- And a new ED! This time for Chihaya, Hibiki, Yukiho, and AmiMami.

Episode 25:
- Heh, Futami twins have really taken to Takane. She couldn't be happier.
- Though this makes keeping up her cool facade a bit hard.

Episode 26:
- Ah they have a name: Koamimami.
- And they're petty much identical to the bigger AmiMami.
- Kotori can never catch a break.
- Oh god puchi Kotori next time? Yay!

Episode 27:
- Dah puchi Kotori is adorable.
- P-san gets arrested. :sd:
- Bwhahaha Kotori wants to omochikaeri puchi Kotori. And marry her.

Episode 28:
- HAHAH Hibiki wants to take puchi Makoto home...and normal Yayoi. But can you blame her? Who wouldn't want a Yayoi or two?
- Except she has to fight Makoto for puchi Makoto...

Episode 29:
- Piyopiyo and Makochi. Not Gonzales. Sorry Chihaya.
- AmiMami picked the wrong puchis to tease. Or well, the wrong puchi owners...
- Aww, Chihya cheering Hibiki up.

Episode 30:
- Iori is in Egypt. Why? Because Yayoi is the alpha female and you do what she says or else. That's why.
- YAY non-puchi Yukiho!
- Uh oh. Harukasan is with them...

Episode 31:
- Harukasan ate Yukiho. o_O
- Yukiho handles these things about as well as you'd expect. Someone introduce her to Yukipo.
- Next up will be Puchi Azusa.

And oh hey we're almost half done.

[William K]

Man, this show is tough to comment on... Too many short arcs! :D

Puchi-Azusa is as ara-ara as the real one...and she teleports. The part where they meet in the street and go ara together was too cute. And then we have puchi-Iori, who is a tsundere, heh.

Looks like we only have puchi-Hibiki and puchi-Takane left to appear? I'm really curious at what a puchi-Takane would be like :D

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Episode 32:
- Yayoi continues to be scary.
- Yukiho seems to be getting along with Harukasan somehow.
- Puchi Azusa!
- Iori takes a page from Yukiho's book and buries P-san. =D

Episode 33:
- Ara! Ricchan you know you can't turn down puchidols. Takane will never allow it.
- Puchi-Azusa is like a clap-on/clap-off light for Yayoi? Except she makes it teleport.
- Heh, Haruka gets along much too well with Harukasan. :sd:
- Being Iori is suffering.

Episode 34:
- Ara ara meets puchi-ara ara!
- Hell yeah puchi-Iori!
- And she's tsundere of course. Wait, can normal Azusa teleport too? :sd:

Episode 35:
- Puchi-Iori is Io. And Miki can't help but tease her too.
- ...Well that's really convenient.
- And puchi-Azusa is Miurasan. Haruka, your naming sense leaves something to be desired.

I'm going to be sad when this is done.

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I'm really curious at what a puchi-Takane would be like :D
I'm hoping puchi-Takane will be a puchi harem master like normal Takane.

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I'm really curious at what a puchi-Takane would be like :D
I'm hoping puchi-Takane will be a puchi harem master like normal Takane.

A thousand times this.

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I'm really curious at what a puchi-Takane would be like :D
I'm hoping puchi-Takane will be a puchi harem master like normal Takane.

Puchi Takane is amazing.

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Episode 36:
- Kakka-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a
- Afuu's hair has changed. How curious!
- Makyooooooon proves her femininity to Afuu. Sort of.
- She fails. Sorry Makoto, you will always be Miki's Honey. Even puchi-Miki.

Episode 37:
- Makoto goes out on a job, leaving Afuu behind. Afuu is sad. ;_:
- Then a well-meaning Yukiho deals a triple blow to Makoto's femininity. :sd:

Episode 38:
- Yayoi has to make Harukasan lunch. Makoto is busy with Makochi. Nobody has time for poor Hibiki.
- Except SUDDENLY TAKANE.
- ...Takane controls Koami and Komami like her personal army.
- The tsukkomi required here is beyond Hibiki's levels.

Episode 39:
- Takane reveals her gift. Puchi-Hibiki! In a fish.
- Toka. Chi.
- And suddenly we're all teleporting to puchi-Hibiki's homeland via Miurasan.
- Which happens to be Brazil.
- Or not. It's Okinawa. You were off by a bit, Takane and Miurasan...

I love Takane.

Episode 40:
- "Let's try to find someone who speaks Japanese." And then came Iori!
- Iori who is trying to escape from eating supipapupu.
- Awwwwwww Hibiki and Chibiki decide to live together.
- Oh hell yes I see a puchi-Takane.

Episode 41:
- Her catchprahase is shijo. YAY TAKANE HAS A PUCHIDOL.
- And we shall call her, Takanya!
- But for some reason Takane is trying to foist her off on Chihaya. What, Takane, do you fear she'll be competition for your puchi-harem?

Episode 42:
- Ritsuko is less than happy at the multiplication of puchidols.
- Ritsuko made Takanya cry. ;_;
- AmiMami step in to offer to take care of it. That can't be good.

Episode 43:
- Haha, so it turns out AmiMami are no match for Takanya in anything. Takane dominates regardless of her form.
- ...But Chihaya might be even scarier. Also this was a puchi-less episode of Puchimas!.

Episode 44:
- Realizing Chihaya is too dangerous, AmiMami play Makochi instead.
- ...They fare pretty poorly.

New ED! Really, really adorable ED. Iori, Yayoi, Takane, Azusa.

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Episode 45:
- AmiMami vs Chihaya and Chicchan!
- AmiMami are no match.

Episode 46:
- Swimsuit episode!
- Chihaya is serious.
- Yayoi is cute.
- Miki is asleep.
- Yukiho is in a hole.
- Haruka is sexy.
- Haha Haruka's face when she rejects P-san. Chibiki goooo!

Episode 47:
- Round 1, puchidols.
- Yayo does her best!
- ...But Chibiki wins. No surprise there.
- All these scantily clad girls excite Kotori.

Episode 48:
- Oh. a second group. Everyone will be getting involved.
- Makoto/Makochi.
- Kotori/Piyopiyo. Nosebleed.
- Iori/Io. Too cute.
- AmiMami/Takanya team?
- Takane/Koami/Komami team?
- Heh, P-san, I think you just need to go home for today.

Episode 49:
- As usual, nobody is a match for Takane/Takanya no matter the form we're talking about... but ramen is still her weakness.
- So awww, it's Makochi carrying Io to the goal.
- Ritsuko sets aside the rules because cute is justice.

Episode 50:
- Unsurprisingly, the competition ends in Kakapocalypose.
- But Yayo wins!

Episode 51:
- Due to an KoamiKomami prank and some impossible physics, Chibiki and Yayo are entangled in each others' hair.
- But god listening to them "talk" is adorable.

Episode 52:
- "When Chibiki cries, she summons animals." Uh. Those are sure some animals.
- I'm guessing a giant chicken flying out of the office windows isn't something Kotori expected...

Episode 53:
- Suddenly puchidols raining from the sky.
- Hibiki makes a heroic save.
- With the help of a multi-headed serpent...

Episode 54:
- Harukasan multiplied again. It's Ritsuko's job to get them back!
- With some help fro Miurasan.
- ...Even Harukasans have to be scared of Ritcuko.
- Well unless they're riding an army of pandas, apparently.

[William K]

Episode 55 & 56 :
Ritsuko's Haruka-san hunt continues with the help of Miura-san and Chibiki also chips in with the loan of a crocodile. Be afraid of cowgirl Ritsuko
So, the reason that P-san sent Ritsuko around the world is that they preparing a surprise party to thank her for all her hard work... Errr, there's something wrong with the logic there

Episode 57 :
A day in the life of Yukipo... Dawwww, that was way too cute... I need an animated gif of her quadruple somersault and landing

Episode 58 :
Ami and Mami decides to play scare the sleeping puchi-dols. Poor Yukipo goes into drill mode. Afuu doesn't wake up at all... and never wake someone who flies like Piyo-piyo

Episode 59 :
More pranks by the Futami twins. They really need help identifying easy targets, though. They get wrestled by Mako-chi and slimed on by Haruka-san. Taka-nya sleeps upside down and is probably a ninja. Scaring Chibiki... this isn't going to end well.

One more week left. Gonna miss this when they're done

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Episode 55:
- That's one big kakka.
- And it ate Ritsuko...
- From the land of curry to the land of westerns. Ritsuko on a horse with a lasso!
- Ritsuko has caught them all, kakamon.

Episode 56:
- In order to thank Ritsuko for working so hard, they had to make her work way too hard.
- She is not amused.

Episode 57:
- In this episode, Yukipo is frickin adorable.
- But Yukiho is still cuter.

Episode 58:
- Aaha, AmiMami scare Yukipo awake and she drill-shovels into the office a floor below. Ooops.
- Heh none of that went quite as they intended.

Episode 59:
- Waking up Makochi is dangerous.
- Waking up Harukasan is more dangerous.
- Waking up Takanya is even more dangerous.
- Waking up Chibiki is even even more more dangerous.
- Maybe you should find a new game, AmiMami.

Episode 60:
- The Puchidols get their revenge. =D

Episode 61:
- Chihya has learned to use a phone. The Puchidols are evolving.
- But she hasn't evolved a GPS.
- Chihya and Takanya working together. This could take a while. I think they got their sense of direction from Azusa.
- 40 minutes left!

Episode 62:
- For only ¥10, Yayo will deliver any Puchidol you desire!
- Miurasan petting Chihya is so cute.
- 30 minutes left!

Episode 63:
- But now suddenly 10 minutes.
- And then 5 after a Takanya diversion.
- They make it in time!
- "Chihya realizes she could have just taken the train in the first place." Heh.
- One more...

Episode 64:
- The Puchidols are gone! ;_:
- Ohh... hanami. I was all like "the hell is a haname?"
- Awwwwwwww that was adorable.

And yet another show finished. That was a lot of fun.