Penguindrum

Penguindrum, known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime television series produced by Brain's Base. It is written by Kunihiko Ikuhara and Takayo Ikami, was co-directed by Ikuhara along with Shouko Nakamura, and was broadcast in Japan from July through December 2011. A two-part compilation film titled Re:cycle of Penguindrum premiered in 2022, with the first part premiering in April and the second part premiering in July 2022. It follows the efforts of two brothers, Kanba and Shouma, as they attempt to save their sickly little sister Himari from death by cooperating with a magical penguin hat. In the process, they confront their family's dark past. Plot A terminally ill girl named Himari Takakura is miraculously saved from death by a strange spirit who resides in a penguin-shaped hat. However, in exchange for extending her life, the spirit tasks Himari's brothers, Kanba and Shoma, to seek out an elusive item known as the Penguindrum with the assistance from a trio of strange penguins. Production Penguindrum was released in 2011, and has a message about "one of the most bizarre and traumatic events in modern Japanese history", the Tokyo subway sarin attack perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo. Anime was described as a "tale of a Tokyo still picking up its pieces after this horrific turn of events". Penguindrums characters doctor Sanetoshi Watase and a schoolgirl Momoka Oginome are reflections on the terrorist doctor Ikuo Hayashi who was spotted by a schoolgirl right before the attack. Other characters, such as Shoma, Kanba and Himari Takakura are portrayed as a children of the terrorists who performed the 1995 attack; in the story "they will be forced to account for the crimes of their parents".