Mawaru Penguindrum: Recommended Anime of the Season

Guess most of you may not know about this series Mawaru Penguindrum and it does not even exist on our latest TV Anime preview of the season. Guess I just missed it. But if you are following Anime bloggers, reviewers or even Japanese websites, you may get to know how the first episode of the series has just blown everyone’s mind away. It was so good that even Kinoko Nasu (奈須きのこ) from TYPE-MOON shows his appreciation in his diary.

Directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara (幾原邦彦), who is also a famous director for his past work like the classic Sailor Moon, Mawaru Penguindrum (輪るピングドラム) is a brand new series began airing on July 8, 2011, which gives us a story revolves around a Takakura family with only the three children: the younger sister Himari, brother Kamba and Shoma. The younger sister has a deadly disease which may kill her at any moment and it did in the first episode. However, Himari was revived by the force of a mysterious girl (or the penguin hat) which ultimately lead the family into a game called survive strategy.

With the same voice actor (Ryohei Kimura, 木村良平) as the male protagonist of Eden of the East, I first had a feeling that it is quite a similar series in the first place. I like his voice very much and he seems to be very good at monologue and gives me a hint that Mawaru Penguindrum can become even more attractive than Eden of the East.

Mawaru Penguindrum is a series with full of expectation and what’s even better, it has a whole two seasons, i.e. 24 episodes in total. And what’s more for sure, the mascot penguin of the series will sure blow the market away in the following months.

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