Mayonaka Punch

Masaki's career on NewTube ends abruptly when the Harikiri Sisters decide to kick her out of their group during a livestream. With her bad reputation, Masaki has a slim chance of returning to popularity with a solo channel and she is plagued by comments of hate.

Masaki soon meets Live, a vampire who just woke up from her slumber in which she dreamed of Masaki and developed an obsession with her. Believing this discovery will be the next internet sensation, Masaki forms a pact with Live: in exchange for Masaki's blood, Live will help her reach the milestone of a million subscribers.

Now, with the other vampires in Live's house on board with Masaki's ambitious plan, she and Live work together to film videos and restore her to career glory.

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Sonoue, Masaki Main

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Live Main

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Yuki Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Fuu Supporting

Youmiya, Hina Japanese

Ichiko Supporting

Itou, Yuina Japanese

Tokage Supporting

Ueda, Hitomi Japanese

Sonoue, Sakura Supporting

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Lonely Ooedo Girl Supporting

Omigawa, Chiaki Japanese

Juwachan Supporting

Iwase, Shuuhei Japanese

Minister of Daifuku Supporting

Sasuke Japanese

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Tsuji, Mitsuhito Producer

Matsuda, Taiyou Producer

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Sep 23, 2024

Marinate1016

Recommended

PA works had a busy summer season with 3 anime originals. Mayopan was the best of the bunch. Lesbian vampires, emotional storytelling, loveable characters and some of the funniest moments this season, this was a blast with very few if any flaws. It starts off as a silly gag comedy about a vampire wanting to drink a disgraced YouTuber’s blood and develops into really heartwarming story about overcoming grief and loss and moving forward in the face of adversity. Don’t let the comedy fool you, there’s a really good story in this one that I think puts it among the best recent PA works anime.

As ... a content creator Mayopan struck a cord with me because in an era where people can be “cancelled” for damn near anything, seeing a YouTuber go thru that and have to pick herself back up was interesting. Masaki isn’t alone though, she’s joined by an ensemble cast of some of the most colourful literally and figuratively characters you’ll see in anime. The best part of this show for me was slowly seeing Mayopan come together as a YouTube group and family, breaking down everyone’s walls and being vulnerable. With one another. I find the idea of being a long lived being that’s never really *lived* before quite interesting. Recently we’ve seen that with Frieren. Making connections with people is what life is all about even if they’re only temporary we are social beings and need to be in communion with others. So when shows like Mayopan give us emotional backstories about characters being lonely and just wanting to be accepted or follow their dreams and then they finally meet people who help them with that, it gets me right in the feels.

Like I said, it’s a comedy show, but unlike something like Nokotan it doesn’t rely on gags. I found myself laughing at how lovingly stupid the characters were at times, the jokes and Live’s obsession with Masaki. Every episode was really just a wacky and fun time and I think the writers perfectly balanced the comedy with some seriously heartwarming stuff.

The show looks awesome too. Out of the 3 shows PA did this season, I think this had the best team behind it and it shows. Art is gorgeous, animation is solid and there’s even a BTS video that Paolo from Tokyo did showing the in depth production process. A lot of love went into this and I appreciate it. My only wish is that PA do more with the IP in terms of a multimedia franchise or something with livestreams of the characters, but I doubt that happens.

Mayopan’s a good fun watch with a perfect mix of story and laughs. YouTube is a difficult nut to crack, but this is one of the best representations of content creation I’ve seen in the medium. All the ins and outs from script writing, camera placement, editing, coming up with ideas for videos and promotion. Yea, the Yuri bait is annoying because PA never commit to it, but I’ll allow it on this occasion because of how good it was.

Mayopan gets 10 out of 10

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Oct 14, 2024

Aechgal

Mixed Feelings

Overall, Mayonaka Punch is a fun watch, but it's nothing extraordinary. The story itself is pretty simple, and the real highlight lies in its comedic moments, which focus on the quirky personalities of the characters. While the drama doesn’t add much depth, it also doesn’t detract from the experience.

One of the standout elements is the opening, which is really catchy and sets a great tone. As for the ending, it wraps things up in a way that makes the journey worthwhile. Its a simple but kinda fun ride, a ride that is focused on this very troubled girl called Masaki, who now fear the simple ... act of showing up in the camera.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 9, 2024

MaiDeNaBysS

Not Recommended

Pointless filler anime with no plot and carboard ideas of characters.
It baited marketing itself as similar to the Call of the Night, even ripping off that vampire's outfit, but those aspects were shallow at best and immediately dropped as a bait and switch.
Blue haired Fu bizarrely has roughly the same appearance + behavior and lack of character as Grey from Black Clover, even the same VA phoning it in by just copying herself I think. Deja vu.
Even the details of the punch drama that started the story are never actually explored/explained.
The vampire vtuber aspect gets immediately cut because that would've been more interesting and resolved ... the filler plot in 2 episodes, so instead they start grinding out boring slop to pad the runtime for the rest of the season. The 1million subscribers goal is just a mcguffin excuse for filler vtuber mass-produced SoL slop blindly promoting quantity over quality with zero self-awareness to make any commentary on the subject... because clearly the kind of people making this slop anime are self-inserting hard.
The ending was really dumb.
I can't think of any redeeming qualities to this serialized vtuber brainrot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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