Ai-Mai-Mi

Ai-Mai-Mi
Cover of the first manga volume
あいまいみー
(Ai Mai Mī)
GenreAbsurd comedy[1]
Manga
Written byChoborau Nyopomi
Published byTakeshobo
MagazineManga Life Win
DemographicSeinen
Original runJune 2009May 2021
Volumes11
Anime television series
Directed byItsuki Imazaki
Music byFūga Hatori
StudioSeven
Original networkAT-X, TV Saitama, KBS
Original run January 3, 2013 March 28, 2013
Episodes13
Anime television series
Ai-Mai-Mi: Mousou Catastrophe
Directed byItsuki Imazaki
Music byFūga Hatori
studioCHANT
StudioSeven
Original networkAT-X, TV Saitama, KBS, tvk, Sun TV
Original run July 8, 2014 September 23, 2014
Episodes12
Anime television series
Ai-Mai-Mi: Surgical Friends
Directed byItsuki Imazaki
Music byFūga Hatori
StudioSeven
Original networkAT-X, TV Saitama, KBS, tvk, Sun TV
Original run January 3, 2017 March 21, 2017
Episodes12

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]

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Ai Mai Mi TV Anime Gets 2nd Season". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Retrieved Sep 5, 2019.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "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.