Nerima Daikon Brothers

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Synonyms: Oroshitate Musical Nerima Daikon Brothers, Dress-up Musical Nerima Daikon Brothers

Japanese: 練馬大根ブラザーズ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 10, 2006 to Mar 28, 2006

Premiered: Winter 2006

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Aniplex

Licensors: ADV Films, Funimation

Studios: Studio Hibari

Source: Original

Genre: Comedy

Theme: Music

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 7.27¹ (scored by 3,648 users)

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Ranked: #2962²

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Popularity: #6644

Members: 9,119

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In the town of Nerima, the boisterous Hideki and his stoic brother Ichiro run a daikon radish farm along with Mako, their bubbly but vain cousin. The three dream of raising the money needed to build their own concert hall, where their band—Nerima Daikon Brothers—would perform and hopefully rise to stardom. But their farm and Ichiro's host club job aren't raising money fast enough for their liking, leading them to resort to get-rich-quick schemes.

Their plans usually involve tracking down evil-doers and then stealing their ill-gotten gains. Yet, while they usually do put a stop to the villains, they always end the day no richer than before. However, neither these failures nor interference from the policewoman Yukika Karakuri can come between this trio and their dream! With help from gadgets provided by the rental shop owner Nabeshin, the Nerima Daikon Brothers get themselves into and out of all kinds of ridiculous situations through their boisterous singing and comedy.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Ichiro

Main

Morikubo, Shoutarou
Japanese

Mako

Main

Niina, Ayano
Japanese

Hideki

Main

Matsuzaki, Shigeru
Japanese

Nabeshin

Supporting

Watanabe, Shinichi
Japanese

Pandaikon

Supporting

Karakuri, Yukika

Supporting

Inoue, Marina
Japanese

Hakushon, Yuukel

Supporting

Yuuki, Hiro
Japanese

Korean Pachinko Parlor Owner

Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko
Japanese

Gokutsubushi

Supporting

Sakamoto, Chika
Japanese

Miyo

Supporting

Matsuki, Miyu
Japanese

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Watanabe, Shinichi

Director

Ebina, Yasunori

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Saito, Noriaki

Episode Director, Key Animation

Matsuura, Johei

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Opening Theme

"Ma-Ji-Ya-Ba" by Nerima Daikon Brothers

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Ending Theme

"Berima" by Nerima Daikon Brothers

Reviews

Sep 17, 2008

Splitter

Recommended

Nabeshin, most famous as the afro-sporting director of Excel Saga, thrives with material no one in their right mind would even think to create. With Nerima Daikon Brothers, he molds the story of two brothers, their cousin, and a soft... VERY soft... panda, who want nothing more but to turn their paltry daikon field into a concert dome where they can perform their music. But this is Nabeshin, so there has to be a catch, and it's a doozy... you see, Nerima Daikon Brothers is an anime musical. Singing, dancing, and lots of it.

Every episode deals with the Nerima Daikon Brothers looking for a break, ... finding corrupt rich people, and taking their money then losing it all once again. Though the episodes are formulaic, enough elements carry over and alter the story so no episode is exactly the same as the last. Ongoing jokes seldom get old.

The characters themselves, including a shadowy Nabeshin, are not so much in it to grow or learn, but to wreak havoc, and they do it in spades. Hideki is a loudmouth horndog, Ichiro is a monotonous douche, and Mako is a materialistic bitch. They're selfish, foul, and incredibly loveable. Though they are nothing more than caricatures of themselves, the whole show feels like a caricature of itself, so it works well. Even when a certain infamous pop star becomes a recurring role, it just works because at that point, you're willing to believe anything the series throws at you.

The art as zany and colorful just like the show's atmosphere. Much of the time it straddles the line between American animation and Japanese. This gives it a unique and fun look, energetic but never sloppy, that can really be appreciated after the same constant anime designs over and over for the average otaku.

Also keeping in mind this is technically a musical, the show thrives on the sound element. Dialogue turns into well-timed puns with bizarre numbers on panda sex and following inane laws. The energy and pure randomness of it really sell it though. Recurring numbers such as the money song and rental shop song are fun, catchy, and brilliantly written to keep in line with the series structure. The dub especially so.

Nerima Daikon Brothers is a show you don't have to think about when you watch. It's pure, zany fun beginning to end. Many comedy shows these days are full of more cynical, deadpan humor, but Nerima's selling point is it's cartoonish brand of comedy that is actually funny more than it is groan-worthy. For a good belly laugh, just pop this in and enjoy. It's nothing memorable, but it's a solid 12 episodes of fun.

Overall, I give Nerima Daikon Brothers an 8 out of 10.

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Nov 1, 2010

Colonelfancy

Mixed Feelings

I really respect Watanabe Shinichi for what he does as far as being an active face and voice in the anime community, advising fans to buy anime DVDs and manga instead of stealing them via torrent download and scanalations, but I haven't enjoyed any of his work all the way through. Excel Saga was great, but got old near the end, and I hated Poemy from minute one. Nerima Daikon Brothers is the third Nabashin related work I've seen thus far, and this one is sliightly better, but suffers from the same problems.
The comedy is pretty much what can be expected; an insane ... vault of madness with little rhyme or reason. And it works great at first. I pretty much loved all the parodies featured, even if I'm not native Japan and don't get 98% of the cultural references. The English dub is pretty damn funny, and worth checking out. I think it's Greg Ayers at his best. The songs are enjoyable, until midway through the show, then they begin recycling instrumentals and juggling mildly different lyrics.
And that's precisly the problem with Nabashin's style of humor. Aside from it being foul-mouthed and crude (which i can deal with), the show is seriously repetitious with the jokes it cycles. It became unfunny to me around episode 6 and becomes pretty mediocore from there out. The wackiness gets really predictable and I was lulled into a state of calling which song numbers were going to start before they were even cued. That style of comedy is very sketch-based, which means it's lifespan is not very long. Thankfully, it's only twelve episodes, so I found the fortitude to sit through the remaining four episodes I had on DVD for three years, hoping that the jokes I got tired of would be somewhat refreshed when I back into it. Not really so much.
The characters are pretty vibrant and off-the-wall, my favorite is easily Officer Yukika, who kept the show very enjoyable throught the end. Hideki, Mako, and Ichiro are decent, but become overbearingly annoying on a South Park level, as there's only two jokes between the three of them. The villians are episodic, but the bad guy in the very first episode was just so terrible I found it awesome. Every other villian afterward gets progressively more suggestive and borders on trying too hard to push boundries that it gets sad.
IN CLOSING: What starts out as a really fresh comedy, something that is drastically lacking in anime today, turns into a double entandre-filled, genitalia referencing, one liners and predictable, bland toilet humor that caters to this generation's Family Guy audience. In my book, only Great Teacher Onizuka and Azumanga Daioh have managed insane humor for 26 episodes or more because of clever writing, various characters to write jokes around, and a solid set of scenarios to keep you watching. Watanabe's humor work best in short bursts. For a pioneer who does a great job promoting retail purchases to keep anime a viable revolving door for entertainment, it's a shame that I really don't like his stuff. Fans and followers will love it, I prefer a tad more substance in my comedy and not flash in the pan jokes that garner shock laughter.

STORY: 6
ART: 7
SOUND: 7
CHARACTERS: 6
ENJOYMENT: 4
OVERALL SCORE: 5 out of 10

PROS: A musical comedy is rare these days, pretty good dub,
CONS: Gets old fast, humor is overall really low brow and cheap

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Aug 21, 2018

Seregosa

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

It's one of those fairly rare anime that I find to be bad enough to drop quickly... Since anime tends to be just 12-24 episodes which can be watched quickly and without having to care much(unlike, say, novels that I also often read and can take days or weeks to finish even if you read several hours a day). Feeling like dropping it in episode one, with that feeling just getting worse until I drop it at episode four... Yeah, that's just plain horrible.

First of all, the art is the only fairly good part of this anime. Not too shabby, especially not for its age. ... The sound is poor, which is an issue in an anime that relies so heavily on singing or "musicals". The characters are all unlikable, the main cast consists of one obnoxious ingrate that spends way too much money, one character that condones this because he's in love with her(which is used against him to steal his money) and who seems to be retarded in more ways than one, the last person of the main cast is a fairly soulless and quiet "pretty boy" that somehow seems to be the most intelligent, but the only reason he's somewhat likable is exactly because he's too bland to be disliked in this type of story, he's got nothing much to offer.

Every episode is full to the brim with bad singing. Seriously, they start singing and dancing every minute because of every small detail imaginable, effectively dragging a very small issue out too long and overdramatizing things. The singing isn't even done well, although I guess that's obvious when you make shoddy half-arsed songs out of everyday dialogue. When I picked this up, I imagined that there'd be 1-2 songs per episode, because that honestly seems to be the maximum possible in 20 minutes. Nah, prepare for 5-10 songs at least. It's honestly dreadful and very annoying after a few episodes whenever they start singing, because it literally brings nothing good to the anime itself. It's not as if their songs are particularly funny or good in other ways, it's just there to be there. This might've been the deciding factor to make me drop it so quickly.

That brings me to the next part, which is comedy. The comedy in this anime is... horrible. It's not good at all. At most I found a few parts to be somewhat amusing, but in the way this show rapid-fires gags every second, it's like one out of a hundred jokes is funny. The rest is just... boring and makes you question the writers sense of humor. Of course a few jokes will hit home when you try a few hundred of them. It's more like they didn't even think about what they were writing and just added every possible thing anyone in the writing team could think of. "Oh, this seems to be slightly amusing, let's add it!". The main component in the comedy here seems to be about how hyperactive they are to start dancing/singing all the time and how they exaggerate small issues to big ones. Oh, and how they blow stuff up at the end of an episode to steal money from "bad people". So, maybe you're the type who thinks it's hilarious when people do that, this could be the anime for you.

To finish thing off, let's talk a little bit about the story. To me, this was the worst part of it all. There's no story at all here and everything is way too chaotic to make sense. Mind you, I came here expecting a story-less gag/slapstick anime. I just didn't expect it to be bad to this extent. Usually you have a fairly interesting setting at least and some basic story to let things make sense. But here you have absolutely nothing and the story is one of the most boring ones I've ever seen. It's episodic and the same thing happens every chapter. They get tricked of their money or something similar and then they blow things up thanks to nabeshins alley store which provides weapons or similar stuff. The setting is just that they're three people with a daikon farm who wants to be famous singers/a famous band and wants to build a dome they can sing in, at least one of them want that while the rest seems to just hop onboard. The comedy routines got old after the first try, sorry, but that's just how it is. This setting isn't good enough to provide proper comedy. Nothing really happens or makes proper sense in this anime. It doesn't help that all the characters are lacking or annoying.

I was fairly disappointed since that afro guy's gag anime tends to be pretty amusing and well done with humor that hits home pretty often. Maybe it's the setting, cast and incessant musicals that prevents him from working his magic here. Or it could just be me who doesn't appreciate a cast like this nor when the cast starts singing badly every few seconds.

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