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Punch Line is an ecchi one-act Anime series, made by MAPPA and written by Kotaro Uchikoshi (of Goose egg Escape and Ever17 fame) for the noitaminA block line-up for Spring 2015 Anime season.

Yuta Iridatsu is not having a skilful solar day. It all started when the passenger vehicle he was on was hijacked. Thankfully, Foreign Juice, the ally of justice, appeared and managed to defeat the terrorists! But one member was hiding among the passengers and put the heroine at his mercy. Information technology is then that Yuta catches a glimpse of Strange Juice's panties... which gave him a power-up?!

Uh, okay?

He uses his new found forcefulness to throw the villain forth with himself out of the charabanc, both of them falling into the river. Strange Juice saves him and once once more, he sees her underwear, which makes him pass out. When he comes to, he finds himself at his apartment building, the Koraikan. What'south more, he'due south now a ghost! Another ethereal being, a cat-spirit named Chiranosuke, explains to him that no, he is non dead, merely simply suffering an out-of-trunk experience. The bad news is, some other ghost used this opportunity to possess Yuta's torso, locked himself up in his room and placed magic seals so that no spirit tin can enter.

... wait, what?

The ghost male child has merely one hope if he wants to reclaim his life - he must commence on an epic quest to find the Nandala Gandala - the sacred book of aboriginal Republic of india, with houses information on a secret ritual that will help him repossessing his trunk. The location of this enigmatic grimoire is... somewhere in Koraikan. Yuta goes to expect for the Nandala Gandala, which accidentally leads him to see panties of his NEET neighbour, Ito. Once over again, power wells up in him, but in panic he goes and witnesses notwithstanding some other panty shot. This one gives him a massive nosebleed... and causes a giant asteroid to crash into Globe, destroying all life on it.

... HUH?

No worries, though! Since he's a spirit at present, empty-headed things like quantum physics don't apply to him anymore. As such, he can go dorsum in time and try again, always keeping in mind to avert arousal, or he volition bring doom on the entire human race... again. Things get fifty-fifty more complicated when he finds out that his sweet idol neighbor, Mikatan Narugino, is actually Strange Juice! And on elevation of that, Koraikan'southward director, Meika Daihatsu, knows this and aids her, with includes a massive hush-hush base beneath the apartment edifice!

Okay, seriously, WHAT DA FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

And so Yuta's odyssey begins, filled with ghosts, Time Travel, super heroes, idols, terrorist organizations, world devastation and panty shots. Lots and LOTS of panty shots. And, somewhere along the mode on this comedy of cosmic proportions, maybe he'll figure out what'due south the punchline supposed to exist.

The bear witness, in all its insane glory, is licensed in Due north America by Sentai Filmworks. It can be watched on Crunchyroll. A Visual Novel version of the series that re-tells the events of and contains several clips from the anime released on the Playstation iv and Playstation Vita in mid-2018.

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This series has examples of:

• Adaptational Alternate Catastrophe: The Visual Novel and the Anime have different endings, although this was less considering of adaptational differences and more to encourage fans to watch both. In the anime, Yuta/Pine refuses to allow Guriko to return to Mikatan/Chiyoko'southward body to die in her place, and does and then himself; the rest of the cast mourn him in the ending, and Rabura speaks to his spirit. In the VN, he does allow this, Guriko dies in Mikatan/Chiyoko's place, and Chiyoko and Yuta/Pine terminate up back in their original body, with Yuta/Pine taking the identify of Strange Juice as a secret hero - as he now has the powers of a W, but the face of a wanted terrorist.
• All Cloth Unravels: Mikatan accidentally pulls a string out of Meika's sweater while riding off to fight crime. This leaves her only in her underwear, which an already angry Yuta sees. Smash.
• An Offer You Can't Turn down: The Qmay leader makes an offering to Yuta and Mikatan to join his group, where their survival would exist ensured, and Mikatan's condition could be cured. Unfortunately this too means the other residents of Koraikan, along with the rest of humanity, would take to exist sacrificed in the process.
• Apocalypse Cult: The Qmay Group intends to take an asteroid wipe out humanity except for their own grouping, as they see ordinary humans as imperfect and therefore non worth saving.
• Barehanded Bract Block: A variation of this occurs in episode 12, when Chiyoko stops Guriko'southward katana from killing Pine by using her wristband.
• Beehive Barrier: The spirit barrier preventing Yuta inbound his own room takes shape equally a field of hexagons.
• Bifauxnen: Despite looking similar a boy, Yuta is actually physically a girl. More specifically, Yuta is the soul of a male child who ended up in the trunk of daughter following a "Freaky Fri" Flip a decade ago.
• Big Damn Heroes: Done a few times in episode eleven.
• Bittersweet Ending: The Qmay Group and its leader are defeated and the meteor heading toward Globe is destroyed, but Chiyoko sacrifices herself to terminate Yuta and Guriko from fighting and Guriko switches bodies with her and returns Mikatan to Chiyoko'due south body just before Chiyoko succumbs to her side effects and Guriko passes away in hers. The serial ends 49 days subsequently when the Spirit Yuta heads back in fourth dimension to accomplish a bright future...that may just be the one he came from.
• Broken Bird: Ito tells Mikatan about why she became a shut-in during episode 5. She tells her that a teacher took her home once because it was getting late. Unfortunately a popular girl at school who liked the teacher saw that, and immediately went about ruining Ito's reputation at schoolhouse. The other girls would trash her schoolbooks, steal her vesture, and at 1 betoken threw mucilage in her hair, and cutting it short. She refused to tell anyone about the bullying, thinking it either wouldn't matter, or would make things even worse.
• Edifice of Adventure: The Koraikan apartment building.
• The Cameo: Iori Minase from The Idolmaster appears with the group of idols in the video that Yuta is watching in the epilogue.
• Cast From Hitpoints: The super-mode that various characters can do, such as Mikatan turning into Strange Juice, has a cost. It releases natural limiters the torso produces, allowing a person to become incredibly strong and fast. Unfortunately if they utilise information technology too much, this also takes its price on the body since information technology tin can't withstand repeated usage of said power. In episode 11, Meika warns Mikatan that if she uses this power fifty-fifty ane more time, information technology may finish upward killing her. Episode 12 confirms it, when she uses it to stop Chiyoko from killing Pine.
• Cliffhanger: Episode xi ends on one, with the US war machine firing a large salvo of rockets at the Koraikan house earlier the credits roll.
  • Which becomes a Bewilderment Copout in the next: Meika had an energy shield ready for that possibility all along.
• Colony Drop: An asteroid is predicted to hit Earth, and pretty much kills anybody. Played for Laughs initially subsequently Yuta suffers a Nose Bleed, but episode 6 reveals this has happened repeatedly in the by, and Kenji Miyazawa, aka a future Yuta, has been trying to forbid this from happening.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Pretty much any time the heroes confront off confronting a solitary opponent, they accept a tough fourth dimension. Simply when they're faced with a big group, this trope comes into play and they accept them out quite easily, such every bit in episodes 11 and 12.
• Cool Bicycle: Foreign Juice has a huge assortment of badass motorcycles.
• Credits Running Sequence: Yuta in the opening, and Mikatan in the ending.
• Brutal Mercy: What Pine does to Guriko in episode 12. The latter offered to transfer his body dorsum to him, and die in her original body beingness occupied by Chiyoko/Mikatan. But Yuta refuses, saying he's going to make her live and repent for her sins in his body, and switches his soul with Chiyoko, thus allowing her to live at the cost of dying in her body.
• Despair Event Horizon: Yuta nearly loses all promise after failing to stop the Qmay from launching missiles at the asteroid in episode 10 and begins to write U-turn in the book to pass to a after Yuta, much like he saw in episode vi. He and then decides Screw Destiny, and attempts to modify it anyway.
• Diabolus ex Machina: If Yuta gets aroused too much, a shooting star appears out of nowhere and annihilates all life on Earth.
• Downer Ending: The end of episode vi, correct before Yuta goes back in fourth dimension again. Dialogue in episode seven reveals this has happened several billion times now.
• Drop the Hammer: Kenji Miyazawa uses one in episode 11 to fight some law officers with.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The residents of Koraikan really have to work to prevent the destruction of Earth thanks to the Qmay group. Subverted in that Yuta ends upward dying in the process, though it'southward implied his future version may survive yet another time leap.
• 11th-Hour Superpower: Rabura performs an exorcism on the possessed colonel in episode 12 to gratis him from the Qmay's influence, and stop him from killing Ito, Meika, and kidnapping Muhi. Up until this bespeak she never seemed to have any actual powers except when Yuta possessed her.
• The End of the Earth equally We Know It: What happens if the asteroid hits Globe:
  • Played for Laughs when Yuta gets aroused twice in a row.
  • Played straight in episode 6, when Kenji/Future Yuta reveals to Yuta that this has happened many times in the past earlier, and was alert him to try and change the future to prevent the asteroid from hitting.
• Fanservice: Plenty of information technology, mostly in the form of, you lot guessed it, panty shots. To be fair, the show is pretty casual nigh it.
• Flashback: Most of Yuta's interactions with the other residents is shown this fashion, since as a ghost, he can't really talk to them.
• Foreshadowing: During the opening, the male and female symbols on a bathroom sign start attacking Yuta for no seemingly discernible reason earlier other sign characters join in. Afterwards on in the series, we discover out that Yuta is physically female, but spiritually male as a upshot of being placed in another body during a "Freaky Friday" Flip.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: 9 years before the story started, Pine, Guriko and Chiyoko accidentally did a 3-way body bandy. Chiyoko'due south spirit entered Guriko'due south trunk, which resulted in Mikatan. Pine'southward spirit entered Chiyoko's body, which resulted in Yuta. Guriko's spirit presumably entered Pine'due south torso, the whereabouts of whom is currently unknown... Until episode 9, when information technology's revealed Guriko became the leader of the Qmay group, and thus the Big Bad...
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the catastrophe credits of episode 12, in that location is a scene of Mikatan performing on a phase, followed by Meika auspicious from the audience. Logically, it might be Chiyoko using Face Maker to impersonate herself, but notwithstanding... Information technology'due south an unexpected advent of a Posthumous Character.
• Freudian Alibi: In episode 12, Guriko tells Pino about why he was so hellbent on destroying humanity via the asteroid impact due to the brutal experiments they performed on him throughout the years, and the loneliness he suffered due to being separated from him and Chiyoko.
• Gender Bender Angst: Yuta switched bodies with a daughter ten years ago. He hates it and still lives equally a boy.
• Gilligan Cut: In episode 8, Yuta is asked to sing karaoke. He refuses to initially, but the next scene shows him doing but that.
• Grand Theft Me: Someone, or something, stole Yuta's body, kickstarting the plot.
• Gratuitous English:
  • The "Cheermancy" song in episode 2.
  • The Qmay cult leader in episode 3 speaks in broken English as well.
• Ground Hog Day Loop: Implied from dialogue in episode 6, when Yuta is told about the incoming asteroid impact, and going back in time to forestall information technology. In the next episode, some Wham Line dialogue reveals that he has failed over six billion times.
• Hacker Cave: Meika's secret base. Her Hollywood Hacking appears to consist of assembling 3D objects from oddly-shaped parts.
• Healing Cistron: Muhi is capable of this, as he gets cut by Turtle Man, but to then recover moments later on.
• Helping Would Be Killstealing: Yuta attempts to alter events that occurred after returning to his body, just he's stopped by Chiranosuke, stating that said events take to occur so the women can form a strong bail with each other. Otherwise they won't cooperate with each other, and thus ensure that the Qmay'southward plans to destroy humanity succeeds.
• High-Pressure Emotion: Mikatan in episode 6 after Rabura suggests she hook upwardly with Yuta. Meika and so reveals Yuta is actually a daughter.
• Hikikomori: Ito is 1, implied to be the result of bullying.
• Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: Ito ends up piloting Meika'southward mecha to fight confronting the US Army in episode 11.
• Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Despite all the random elements in the plot, ane tin't escape the feeling that they're the function of a bigger, if wacky, picture. As it's by the aforementioned writer of the Goose egg Escape and Infinity series, we cannot expect anything less.
• Kill 'Em All: The Qmay's ultimate goal is to accept the asteroid impact Earth, which would gradually kill off all non-Qmay people. Yuta intends to stop this although co-ordinate to Chiranosuke, he's failed this several billion times already.
• Killed Off for Real: Zigzagged. Ito is expressionless at the starting time of episode 5, only Yuta travels back in time to prevent her from going to the identify where she was going to die. He manages to prevent that death from playing out, but the killer is still out there.
• Limited Animation: Non the anime, but the VN adaptation of all things is very, very cheaply fabricated. Plenty of the blitheness is pretty low quality, and the game significantly suffers Going Through the Motions due to the very short animation loops. Information technology'south all the more jarring compared to the scenes taken from the anime, which are 2D as opposed to 3D and expect fantastic compared to the rest of it.
• Magic Brakes: When Rabura tries to stop the charabanc during the opening scene of episode one.
• Magic Enhancement: Cinnamon, of all things, enhances ghost powers.
• Meaningful Proper name: All of the bandage.
  • Iridatsu Yuta - Yuutai ridatsu. "Yuutai" ways "ethereal body", "ridatsu" means "withdrawal", then his name refers to how his spirit and body are separated.
  • Daihatsu Meika - dai hatsumeika. "Dai" tin can mean "great" and "hatsumeika" ways "inventor", put them together, you get "great inventor".
  • Hikiotani Ito - hiki ota NEET. This one is pretty self-explanatory, as she'southward an hikikomori, a otaku and a NEET.
  • Chichibu Rabura - chichi burabura. "Chichi" is one style to say "boobs", and "burabura" is an Japanese onomatopoeia "walking aimlessly". This reflects how she has the largest breasts out of the cast and doesn't actually know what to do with her life.
  • Chiranosuke - chira no suke. "chira" means "glimpse/peek", and "sukebe" translates to "lecher", so basically he is a lecher who peeks.
  • Narugino Mikatan is a bit more elaborate. It'southward a play on "seigi no mikata", with translates to "ally of justice", based on the alternative reading of the character 成 (read equally "Naru" in the name, while also having the reading "Sei").
    • It also sounds similar to "Mikan", meaning mandarin orange.
  • Even Muhi. Muhi in Japanese would be spelled "ムヒ". A foreign proper name indeed, but not so strange for a deport; the Japanese word for bear, kuma, is written as 熊. Fifty-fifty if yous tin't sympathise or read kanji, you can encounter that the messages ム and ヒ are in there!
• Meganekko: Both shut-in geek Ito and genius girl Meika always accept cute spectacles on. Having two main characters beingness meganekko in such a pocket-size cast is actually pretty rare!
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
  • Strange Juice tends to do this when fighting.
  • Several characters are subjected to this past Turtle Homo.
  • Kenji Miyazawa does this to Turtle Homo in episode 6.
• Nobody Can Dice: turned Up to Eleven in the final episode. In spite of Ito having machine-gunned soldiers, guided armed forces missiles to hitting their firers, smashed helicopters into each other and diddled up tanks, it'south later stated that no-one in the army was killed in the battle!
• Nosebleed: Yuta will splurt a massive blood fountain if he'south angry two times in a row. May count every bit a Deadly Nosebleed, since it'due south speedily followed by the asteroid colliding with Globe. It doesn't actually cause the asteroid to striking Earth then much as it causes his ghost course to break down and thus he fails to finish it happening, resulting in some other failed timeline.
• Not-And so-Phony Psychic: Rabura Chichibu is a phony psychic that doesn't believe in spirits and whatnot... but she's the only one that tin can be then hands possessed by his Yuta. She also performs a epic exorcism to bewitch Tsubouchi's spirit from the United states Army colonel's trunk in episode 12.
• Panty Shot: Shown from fourth dimension to time. Yuta besides catches a glimpse of them, which for some reason spells trouble if he gets angry twice in a row.
• Parody: Yuta's situation involving panties is pulled direct out of a Visual Novel with Dating Sim elements. The twist is that any class of Fanservice apace leads to a Bad Catastrophe...merely Yuta can hit the Reset Button much similar how a actor can reload from their last salvage.
  • Mikatan/Strange Juice is a parody of Kamen Riders and Magical Girls. See Transformation Sequence.
• Phlebotinum Analogy: Chiranosuke explanation on to why Yuta tin can't travel back in fourth dimension to before the charabanc hijack using breasts every bit analogies. Yuta is not amused.
• Pocket Protector: Kenji Miyazawa gets shot accidentally by Turtle Human in episode 5. Only afterwards gaining a Heroic Second Wind due to seeing Mikatan's panties, he shows back upwardly on the roof of the apartment. Turns out he was wearing a large metal plate in his suit, which stopped the bullets from penetrating his body.
• Poor Communication Kills: Rabura was drowning her sadness away, because her client called her a fraud exorcist. Meika was trying to cheer her upwardly using a motivational program called "Cheermancy"... which consists of a weird vocal and trip the light fantastic toe in a pigeon mask. The trouble is that, in Japanese, "Cheermancy" sounds exactly like "Necromancy". So rather than feeling cheered up, Rabura thinks that Meika is making fun of her, and Meika thinks Rabura is bitchy for no good reason.
• Power Perversion Potential: Yuta's ghostly status allows him to easily pass through walls and peek on the female residents of the Koraikan...but see Can't Have Sex, Ever.
• Pun-Based Championship: Punchline'southward Japanese title is "Panchirain". In Japanese, "panchira" means panty flash, while the word as a whole is pretty shut to "pantyline".
• Punched Across the Room: Happens to various characters throughout the prove.
• Running Gag: Whenever Chiranosuke looks upwards something online, his offset site is commonly something irrelevant to the plot, such every bit two cats having sex activity. After a while Yuta lampshades this and asks if the cat doing that on purpose.
• Sequel Hook: The anime ends with the Spirit Yuta saying farewell to the others before he goes back in time to receive a brighter futurity. Or alternatively he ends the Stable Time Loop past going to the first timeline and possessing his torso at that place.
• Shipper on Deck: Rabura for Mikatan and Yuta in episode half-dozen.
• Spirit Counselor: Chiranosuke, adjoining on Exposition Fairy territory.
• Stable Time Loop: 1 estimation of the catastrophe. The "surviving" ghost Yuta, the one native to the last timeline, goes back in fourth dimension to possess his by torso. It's suggested he goes back to the first timeline, thereby completing the loop.
  • The story lampshades 1 particular Bootstrap Paradox: Who really designed Meika?
• The Stinger: One happens at the end of episode 6. Yuta travels back to the past once more, after being told by his future self that he's washed this many times already, and failed each and every time. He re-enters his body which is beingness looked over by Strange Juice.
• Switching P.O.V.: The first half-dozen episodes are seen from Yuta'due south point of view as a spirit. From that point on, he returns to his torso, and things are shown again, this fourth dimension from his POV while in his body. His spirit form can also be seen attempting to reclaim the trunk every bit he did in the before episodes.
• Super Mode:
  • Both Yuta and Strange Juice have 1 that enhances their physical abilities.
  • Turtle Man shows he tin can as well do it as seen in episode half-dozen.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The United states military launches a barrage of arms, bullets, and rockets at the Koraikan apartment at the end of episode 11 in order to cease Meika from destroying the asteroid. They fail due to Meika activating some Deflector Shields.
  • Why exercise they want to stop her? Well, apart from Qmay's machinations, it's considering her method of destroying it is to hack multiple armed forces systems to fire every nuclear missile in the world at it in the hope of breaking information technology apart.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Technically it's a hammer and a rifle, but both Kenji and Foreign Juice do this in episode 11. In the latter's case, she did it considering she ran out of ammo.
• Tonight, Someone Dies: Judging from what happens in The Stinger for Episode 4, it appears that Ito volition dice, consummate with a shot of her dying wide open. Episode v is titled "Ito Dies".
• Transformation Sequence: Mikatan changes into Foreign Juice in a flashy, Magical Girl-fashion... then we are shown how information technology actually looks like. Its non half as glorious every bit it seems like. It doesn't even transform her - it simply drops down her super hero costume from a subconscious compartment. Which she notwithstanding has to put on herself.
• Widget Series: Very much and then, and it won't let you forget it!
• Wham Episode: Episode 6. The guy in the gas mask is Ito's teacher, and he's a total Yandere. Merely he was as well possessed by the Large Bad, who wanted the conduct's Healing Factor body. The asteroid is coming downwards to Earth and cypher tin end it. Masked superhero Kenji Miyazawa is the guy possessing Yuta'south torso and his true identity is Yuta's time to come self. He claims that this timeline is doomed and that this has happened many times before. He tasks Yuta to possess his past cocky and set everything. Oh, and Yuta's biologically female person.
  • Episode nine. Gliese is Guriko who is the leader of the Q-May group.
• Why Did Information technology Have to Exist Snakes?: Mikatan is terrified by turtles.
• Xanatos Gambit: The Qmay grouping attempts to stay i step ahead of Yuta and his friends to ensure the asteroid hits Earth and wipes out ordinary humans. Even when the Koraikan residents seemingly defeat one plan, the Qmay group simply uses another tactic, such as calling in the US Ground forces after Yuta and the others defeat a local police forcefulness to purchase fourth dimension for Meika to hack plenty armed services servers to launch missiles at the asteroid.
• You Tin't Fight Fate:
  • Yuta attempts to foreclose Ito's death in episode 5, and at first successfully manages to get Mikatan to stop Ito from going to the shrine. Unfortunately the killer then kidnaps Muhi and still attempts to kill her after she doesn't show up. Yuta's try to warn Rabura and Meika about it ends up with Meika getting shot, along with Kenji Miyazawa.
  • Yuta is faced with this again after attempting to forestall the asteroid from striking. Unfortunately the Qmay group attempts to stay one step ahead to ensure everyone aside from their group is wiped out.

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