Pop Team Epic

Pop Team Epic
Volume 1 cover featuring Popuko (left) and Pipimi giving the finger.
ポプテピピック
(Poputepipikku)
GenreSurreal comedy[1]
Manga
Written byBkub Okawa
Published byTakeshobo
English publisher
MagazineManga Life Win
DemographicSeinen
Original runAugust 29, 2014 – present
Volumes7
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Jun Aoki
  • Aoi Umeki (season 1)
Produced byKotaro Sudo
Written by
  • Jun Aoki
  • Yūichirō Kido (season 1)
Music byGin (BUSTED ROSE)
Studio
  • Kamikaze Douga[a]
  • Space Neko Company[b] (season 2)
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, BS11, AT-X, Tochigi TV, RCC, MBS, Nippon TV, HTB
English network
Original run January 7, 2018 December 18, 2022
Episodes26 (List of episodes)
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Pop Team Epic (Japanese: ポプテピピック, Hepburn: Poputepipikku) is a Japanese four-panel surreal comedy webcomic and digital manga series written and illustrated by Bkub Okawa (alternatively romanized as "Bukubu Okawa"), which started serialization on Takeshobo's Manga Life Win website in August 2014. Takeshobo has released seven volumes in Japan. The manga is licensed in North America by Vertical.

The manga chronicles the misadventures of two 14-year-old girls named Popuko and Pipimi, who encounter a variety of both mundane and bizarre situations and respond to them in equally bizarre and exaggerated ways. The manga is noted for its frequent parodies of pop culture and its combination of surrealism, absurdity, and non-sequitur, all of which have contributed to it developing a cult following among both Japanese and Western audiences. An anime television series adaptation animated by Kamikaze Douga and produced by King Records[c] aired on Tokyo MX and other channels from January 7, 2018 to December 18, 2022 for two seasons. The first season concluded on March 25, 2018, and two special episodes aired on April 1, 2019. The second season was co-produced by Space Neko Company[b] and premiered on October 2, 2022.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference aniplus was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Pop Team Epic". AsianCrush. Digital Media Rights. July 7, 2017.
  3. ^ "Pop Team Epic". Midnight Pulp. Digital Media Rights. July 7, 2017.


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