This is the kind of show you get when you don't have any ideas, but need to make a show. Excel Saga was a success back in the day and had a pretty devoted fanbase for the time, so the studio decided to go ahead and make Puni Puni Poemy an actual anime. It existed in later episodes of Excel Saga as a project someone was working on, and the studio thought it would be fun to make this into an actual show. The thing is, it's kind of obvious the show didn't have a whole lot of direction.
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On one hand, you would think this show would be very uninteresting to talk about, and if you only saw the show you would be right. It's two episodes of so-so shock value humor and some anime references without all the bizarre creativity and strange genius of Excel Saga. However, if you managed to get a hold of a physical copy back in the day, you have access to a pamphlet titled 'The Sad Story of How Puni Puni Poemy Was Born'. It comes with the note 'This story is roughly half fictional'. So to a degree, you need to take your best guess as to what happened, but you get a comically exaggerated rendition of what happened behind the scenes of this show.
And reading this, really explains what was going on here. The very short version, without having a strong idea of what they wanted to do with this show yet rushed to get people together to make it. They went into this show with a lot of vague ideas and figured they had the talent to tie it together to make a fun and hilarious show. The problem is by the time they realized there was too much, it was pretty much too late to salvage. Considering this write-up, it seems obvious the people behind the show realized this, and it is full of a lot of shots being fired at pretty much everyone involved in the production. That said, it is all in good fun, and I don't think anyone walked away with hard feelings as a result of this.
A lot of highlights were all the shots fired and the director, Nabeshin. “Producer Kitayama made a call to Nabeshin, a.k.a Director Shinichi Watanabe. This was where the mistake started”, “To put it positively, he was a go-by-the-feel-of-it type. To put it negatively, he had an irresponsible personality.”
Something I never would have realized was going on without this pamphlet was a weird quirk about Poemy. When I first watched it she referred to herself in the third person, not as Poemi, but as Kobayashi. I wish the US dub changed that name because the joke was that Poemi wanted to be a voice actor but sucked at it, so they had the actual voice acting voicing the character referring to herself in the third person, and the Japanese VA was Kobayashi. To translate that joke over, I think the Dub should have referred to herself as Cynthia, the English VA, but I digress.
In the end, the production was such a mess they weren't able to continue production past the initial two episodes. A look behind the production was the best part of this show, which is otherwise worth a one-time watch for some of the shock humor, but it's not good enough to warrant a second watch.
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