| Ai-Mai-Mi | |
 Cover of the first manga volume | |
| あいまいみー (Ai Mai Mī) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Absurd comedy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Choborau Nyopomi |
| Published by | Takeshobo |
| Magazine | Manga Life Win |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | June 2009 – May 2021 |
| Volumes | 11 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Itsuki Imazaki |
| Music by | Fūga Hatori |
| Studio | Seven |
| Original network | AT-X, TV Saitama, KBS |
| Original run | January 3, 2013 – March 28, 2013 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Ai-Mai-Mi: Mousou Catastrophe | |
| Directed by | Itsuki Imazaki |
| Music by | Fūga Hatori studioCHANT |
| Studio | Seven |
| Original network | AT-X, TV Saitama, KBS, tvk, Sun TV |
| Original run | July 8, 2014 – September 23, 2014 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Anime television series | |
| Ai-Mai-Mi: Surgical Friends | |
| Directed by | Itsuki Imazaki |
| Music by | Fūga Hatori |
| Studio | Seven |
| Original network | AT-X, TV Saitama, KBS, tvk, Sun TV |
| Original run | January 3, 2017 – March 21, 2017 |
| Episodes | 12 |
Ai-Mai-Mi (あいまいみー, Ai Mai Mī) is a Japanese yonkoma online manga series written and illustrated by Choborau Nyopomi. It has been adapted into an anime television series.[2] A second season was announced on the anime's website in the beginning of April.[3] A third season was announced in November 2016 and premiered in January 2017.[4][5]
The story follows the lives of the girls Ai, Mai, Mi and Ponoka-senpai, who together form the "Manga Club" where they fight against alien invaders, face fierce rivals and do all sorts of crazy things when they are not drawing manga.
Ponoka-senpai's shell-shocked reaction to a forex market crash from volume 2 of the manga and episode 9 of the anime became an internet meme called "The face of the people who sank all their money into the FX" (FXで有り金全部溶かす人の顔). In 2014, DMM FX, the world's second largest forex company by trading volume at the time, had a collaboration with Ai Mai Mi where new users could receive T-shirts with Ponoka's glassy expression on them.[6]
- ^ Loveridge, Lynzee (November 18, 2012). "Yuka Ōtsubo, Aya Uchida, Maaya Uchida Lead Ai Mai Mi Cast". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
Ai Kayano, Tenshin's Mukai also star in absurd comedy of girls' school manga club
- ^ "Ai Mai Mi 4-Panel Comedy Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. 2012-11-02. Archived from the original on 2019-05-29. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Ai Mai Mi TV Anime Gets 2nd Season". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Retrieved Sep 5, 2019.
- ^ "Ai Mai Mi Anime Gets 3rd Season". Anime News Network. November 6, 2016. Archived from the original on December 6, 2018. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ^ "Ai Mai Mi Anime Season 3's Staff, Cast, January TV Premiere, Visual Revealed". Anime News Network. November 6, 2016. Archived from the original on May 20, 2019. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ^ "DMMFXとあいまいみーが不穏なコラボ… あの顔のTシャツが貰えるぞ" Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, KAI-YOU.net. 2014-08-11.