Mawaru Penguindrum
輪るピングドラム
Synopsis
For the Takakura family, destiny is an ever-spinning wheel, pointing passionately in their direction with equal tides of joy and sorrow before ticking on to the next wishmaker. With their parents gone, twin brothers Kanba and Shouma live alone with their beloved little sister Himari, whose poor health cannot decline any further. On the day Himari is given permission to temporarily leave the hospital, her brothers take her out to the aquarium to celebrate, where the family's supposed fate is brought forth with her sudden collapse. However, when Himari is inexplicably revived by a penguin hat from the aquarium's souvenir shop, the hand of fate continues to tick faithfully forward. With her miraculous recovery, though, comes a cost: there is a new entity within her body, whose condition for keeping her fate at bay sends the boys on a wild goose chase for the mysterious "Penguin Drum." In their search, the boys will have to follow the threads of fate leading from their own shocking past and into the lives of other wishmakers vying for the Penguin Drum, all hoping to land upon their chosen destiny. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Staff
Ikeda, Shinichi
Producer
Maruyama, Hiroo
Producer
Tokiwa, Midori
Producer
Ikuhara, Kunihiko
Director, Sound Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Original Creator, Series Composition
Nakamura, Shouko
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Animation Director, Setting, Key Animation
Yamada, Haru
Sound Director
Aizawa, Kagetsu
Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Animation Director
Fukushima, Toshinori
Episode Director
Gotou, Keiji
Episode Director, Storyboard, 2nd Key Animation, Key Animation, Animation Director
Hayashi, Akemi
Episode Director, Storyboard, Animation Director
Ichimura, Tetsuo
Episode Director
Kaneko, Shingo
Episode Director, Script, Storyboard
Shibata, Katsunori
Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Special Effects, Animation Director, Setting
Soutome, Kouichirou
Episode Director, Key Animation
Takeuchi, Nobuyuki
Episode Director, Storyboard, Setting, Animation Director, Production Assistant, Key Animation
Yamauchi, Shigeyasu
Episode Director, Storyboard
Yamazaki, Mitsue
Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director
Furukawa, Tomohiro
Script, Storyboard, Key Animation
Ikami, Takayo
Script, Series Composition
Matsumoto, Jun
Storyboard
Arakawa, Miho
Theme Song Performance, Inserted Song Performance
Coaltar of the Deepers
Theme Song Performance
Etou, Naoko
Theme Song Arrangement
Hashimoto, Yukari
Theme Song Arrangement, Music
Horie, Yui
Theme Song Performance
Opening & Ending Themes
Openings
- 1: "Nornir (ノルニル)" by Etsuko Yakushimaru Metro Orchestra (eps 1-14)
- 2: "Shounen yo Ware ni Kaere (少年よ我に帰れ)" by Etsuko Yakushimaru Metro Orchestra (eps 15-23)
Endings
- 1: "DEAR FUTURE" by coaltar of the deepers (eps 1-9, 11-12)
- 2: "DEAR FUTURE feat. Yui Horie" by coaltar of the deepers (eps 10)
- 3: "Haiiro no Suiyoubi (灰色の水曜日)" by Triple H (eps 13, 15, 18)
- 4: "Bad News Kuroi Yokan (Bad News 黒い予感)" by Triple H (eps 14, 17)
- 5: "Ikarechimattaze!! (イカレちまったぜ!!)" by Triple H (eps 16)
- 6: "HIDE and SEEK" by Triple H (eps 19)
- 7: "Private Girl" by Triple H (eps 20)
- 8: "Tamashii Kogashite (魂こがして)" by Triple H (eps 21)
- 9: "Asa no Kageri no Naka de (朝のかげりの中で)" by Triple H (eps 22)
- 10: "HEROES ~Eiyuutachi (HEROES ～英雄たち)" by Triple H (eps 23)