[b]PLOT:[/b] [align=center]Pani Poni Dash!'s central storyline revolves around Rebecca Miyamoto, class 1-C's child prodigy homeroom teacher, and the antics of class 1-C. The characters attend a high school called the Peach Moon Academy (桃月学園, Momotsuki Gakuen?) where Rebecca has taken up a job as one of the teachers after being the youngest graduate at M.I.T. and is being watched by Aliens that are in space and screw up the story every now and then. Though the story never strays from the focus of the four first year classes labeled 1-A through 1-D, the mishaps that occur in them, the teacher's lounge, and on school trips also become sources of material for topical allusions regarding satire, anime, Internet, gaming, and popular culture.[/align] [align=center][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/Pani_Poni_Dash%21.png/230px-Pani_Poni_Dash%21.png[/img][/align] MAIN CHARACTERS of class 1-C [spoiler]Rebecca Miyamoto (レベッカ　宮本, Rebekka Miyamoto?) Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English) Rebecca, also referred to as "Becky" by her class, is the homeroom teacher of class 1-C and a mathematics teacher. She was born to an American father and a Japanese mother, although she keeps her mother's last name. Rebecca enrolled at MIT at the age of nine and graduated at ten with a triple major. She then entered Peach Moon Academy at age eleven as a teacher. Normally lethargic and halfhearted, she dons a cool face to keep her genius reputation. However, when confronted with a frightening or uncomfortable situation, she immediately reverts to her childish state, weeping uncontrollably (called the "hau hau" by the students in episode 21) and often hides behind a curtain. She is extremely popular and a confidant to the students. After she gets permission to create a personal research lab in the school, she finds much to her surprise that students start coming to her with their problems, looking for counseling. Even after discovering what began this turn of events - a sign posted on the door saying to the effect Becky was offering counseling - and taking off the sign, students still come back several times in the series for help. Her room is also used as a somewhat "home base" for class 1-C beside their own classroom. In each episode, she dons a different outfit which would seem too "cute" for a teacher but usually fits the style of clothing for a girl her age. Often she is displayed as especially childish, such as wearing pajamas designed to make the wearer look like a cat. Rebecca also displays a very protective side. Examples of this include her confronting the hijacker in the field trip episode, as well as the Matango alien which had possessed Himeko. She seems perfectly willing to lay aside her own safety for the safety of her students. At one point in the manga storyline, she is temporarily dismissed by Momotsuki high school, and instead enrolls in Class 5-2 of Momotsuki elementary school, where she becomes a close friend with Nozomi Ichijou, Ichijo's younger sister, and Miyabi Inugami, Inugami's younger sister. Himeko Katagiri (片桐 姫子, Katagiri Himeko?) Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English) Himeko is a wastefully energetic girl who usually calls out "maho" ("マホ", "maho"?) - a nonsensical catchphrase that has no particular meaning. She frequently annoys the other students in her class with her antics and inability to carry a straight train of thought. Her "ahoge" (the lock of hair on her head) contains a mysterious power that gives Himeko her limitless energy and is capable of movement on its own accord. After the mushroom incident of episode 20, her ahoge shrinks and in order to appear as if nothing has changed, she wears a wig to mask it. Whenever this wig is pulled off, she again loses her energy, though it is returned once the wig is returned to her head. In the English translation, Himeko's ahoge is referred to as a cowlick. At one point in the manga storyline, Himeko is transferred to Class D after voluntarily becoming a 'free agent'. Himeko's catch-phrase is saying that a particular thing is "Omega" (for example, "Omega kawaii!" (オメガかわいい！, "Omega kawaii!"? meaning "Omega cute!")). Himeko possesses the ability to eat as much as she pleases without ever becoming fat, and is particularly fond of crabs. Out of all of the girls, Himeko is by far Becky's biggest fan, much to Becky's chagrin. Rei Tachibana (橘 玲, Tachibana Rei?) Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Carlee Gabrisch (English) Rei is a girl with a heart and appearance as cold as ice. Of the girls in class 1-C, Rei is the most mature one. Threatening bodily harm is Rei's way of enforcing order in the classroom with Himeko being her usual target. She's the one to put Becky in her place when she gets out of hand and also the one to lure Becky out from behind the curtain with candy after she's put the fear of God into her. Rei has the second highest GPA in the entire school and works four days per week at a Chinese restaurant. However, Rei is shown to have no artistic talent. Despite her apparent coldness, Rei is often the one to teach Becky important moral lessons. She has also shown herself to have a greedy streak as when during the school festival she purposely made it so their classroom was the most popular so that she could reap the profits later, something she was unable to do since all profits went to charity. Ichijo (一条, Ichijō?) Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Maggie Flecknoe (English) Ichijo is class 1-C's mysterious class representative, frequently shown drinking green tea. Her activities, at least near the beginning of the series, are normally limited to standing up, sitting down, and announcing that she's "the class representative, Ichijo". She is always calm about everything and uses honorific speech, but is prone to erratic, questionable behavior. In later episodes, she often does the seemingly impossible without ever saying more than a word or two about it, including successfully performing an effective rain prayer twice. She has a younger sister who is just as mysterious; her sister relies on drawing on a sketchpad to communicate as she is too young to converse. Aside from Ichijo and her sister, no one else is aware of the aliens keeping watch over Becky. Miyako Uehara (上原 都, Uehara Miyako?) Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Natalie Nassar (English) Miyako is known as a "study-bug", a name which she earned through her perpetual studying and which she detests, though her score is almost average. Among her class, Miyako is the one with the most realistic attitude　as she takes other people's words often very seriously. She will often get mad if she is unable to study due to the crazy antics that she often gets put into, which are also often against her will. Miyako was even handcuffed to Sayaka Suzuki in episode 16 to get her to track down Ichijo. She also has a very large and very shiny forehead which gets more extreme with each episode. It starts off with a simple sheen in the first episode; in the second episode, it becomes a blinding flash; by the third episode, others are actually able to style their hair in the reflection on her forehead. In a later episode, her forehead becomes so bright that the other characters are forced to don welding masks to be able to look at her. Also, she apparently possesses ESP. In some of the more strenuous events in the series, she always tries to keep a level head, though is not always able to accomplish this with sheer will power alone. In the manga storyline, she often studies abroad under the guidance of Becky's Professor. She is not always seen wearing glasses as she does have contact lenses as well. She explained in episode 4 of the anime that after long hours of studying, it's much easier on her eyes to wear glasses than contacts. Kurumi Momose (桃瀬 くるみ, Momose Kurumi?) Voiced by: Kana Ueda (Japanese), Melissa Davis (English) Kurumi is girl who is above average in appearance, athletics, and academics, but who nonetheless suffers from being called plain/boring all the time. If there's even a hint that somebody has called her plain/boring, she goes off to sulk alone, often in the rabbit cage with Mesousa. She has been known to fade almost completely out of existence altogether when she gets called plain/boring or ignored too much. Kurumi is a very fast sprinter, and also played varsity basketball. She is the twin sister of Shu Momose of class 1-A who is known for his cooking skills, something that she herself does not possess. Unlike in most anime and manga where the younger sister will call her brother Onii-chan (お兄ちゃん, Onii-chan?), Kurumi refers to her brother as Aniki (兄貴, Aniki?), which is a much more masculine way of addressing an older brother. It might be due to this that, due to her reactions as seen in episode 20, she has a fascination with how some girls in Japan are now using the pronoun boku (僕, boku?), meaning "I", which is usually only said by Japanese males. It is never explained why she enjoyed this so much. From episode 11 on in the anime, she is shown with her hair grown longer. Additionally, from episode 19 on, she ties her hair in twin braids. She cuts her hair back to its original length for episode 26 and it magically grows throughout its progression. In later episodes, after experiencing much of the unrealistic events in the first half of the series, she starts to see reality in a whole new light and starts little by little to accept giant fighting robots and small talking animals to be normal occurrences in everyday life. Despite this new outlook at how crazy her life really is, the others always seem to overlook her estranged claims. When not in school, she also has a part time job at a moe café though due to her not being considered moe, business is not as good as the owner would want it to be. Sayaka Suzuki (鈴木 さやか, Suzuki Sayaka?) Voiced by: Kayo Sakata (Japanese), Monica Rial (English) Sayaka, also known as "Rokugō" (6号, "Rokugō"? meaning "#6"), is a good girl who often gets taken advantage of because of her kindness, although she doesn't seem to mind. Miyuki Igarashi of class 1-A gave her the nickname Rokugō because she was the sixth girl in the school to bear the name Suzuki, though this is never explicitly explained in the anime version. Sayaka's catch-phrase is saying that something is "-of the year", (for example, "teacher of the year"). In certain episodes, Becky refers to Rokugō as "over-sized" or "big ribbon" due to her hairstyle. Mesousa (メソウサ, Mesousa?) Voiced by: Vanilla Yamazaki (Japanese), Christine Auten (English) Mesousa is a parody of the "cute mascot" type characters often seen in anime, with one huge difference: Mesousa has a severe case of depression. His lack of thumbs makes everyday tasks almost impossible, further deepening his depression. Practically useless in every way, Mesousa serves as the slapstick of the series, being blown up in one episode and having his legs broken in another, all without complaint. He also appears to be somewhat infatuated with Ichijou. His "tastiness" stat is a reference to the mascot character Menchi from the parody anime Excel Saga. Mesousa is not Becky's pet, but, rather, her companion who tries to help her in class such as getting and holding the footstool for her while she stands on it to write on the blackboard. His name derives from the combination of "meso meso," a Japanese psychomime for whimpering, and "usagi" (兎, "usagi"?), which is Japanese for "rabbit".[/spoiler] 2 super main charac: [img]http://www.animenfo.com/image/anime_1742.jpg[/img] -Rebecca Miyamoto [img]http://www.animenfo.com/anime/character/image/6593_86332.jpg[/img] -Mesousa courtesy of: AnimeNFO, Wikipedia, Anime Network