Popee the Performer

***Popee the Performer*** (Japanese: ポピーザぱフォーマー *Popī za pa fōmā*) is a Japanese CGI anime series of Japanese 3D anime shorts created by the husband-and-wife team, Ryuji and Wakako Masuda. It broadcasted and aired on the all-anime satellite television channel Kids Station from 2000 to 2001.

## Plot

The show centers around the bizarre and surreal adventures of Popee, a 17-year-old apprentice rabbit-like circus clown who lives in an empty circus located in the middle of the desert along with his pet wolf that wears a mask, Kedamono, his father Papi, and the rest of the residents. – Anime Expo 1999

## Season 1

Popee The Performer - S1E01 - Magic (HD - 13+)Popee The Performer - S1E02 - Limbo (HD - 13+)Popee The Performer - S1E03 - Acrobatics (HD - 13+)Popee The Performer - S1E04 - Knife Thrower (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E05 - Fire Breather (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E06 - Pantomime (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E07 - Karate Show (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E08 - Fire Ring (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E09 - Mimic (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E10 - Gunman (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E11 - Swallower (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E12 - Escape Show (HD)Popee The Performer - S1E13 - Dance (HD)
## Season 2

Popee The Performer - S2E01 - Great Magic (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E02 - Mirage (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E03 - Stop The Gun (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E04 - Poison (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E05 - Elephant (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E06 - Dream (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E07 - Hypnotism (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E08 - Super Strength (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E09 - Prediction (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E10 - Ghost (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E11 - Medicine (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E12 - Samurai (HD)Popee The Performer - S2E13 - Monocycle (HD)
## Season 3

Popee The Performer - S3E01 - Knife Game (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E02 - Alien (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E03 - Dark Side (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E04 - Vs God (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E05 - Sleep (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E06 - In The Mind (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E07 - Mirror (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E08 - Opening (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E09 - My Car (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E10 - Eraser (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E11 - Loneliness (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E12 - Time (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E13 - Face (HD)Popee The Performer - S3E14 - Goodbye 2002 (HD)
## Goofs/Errors

* Despite being aimed at children, the anime has a lot of blood, gore, murder of the characters, and other NSFW & NSFL stuff going on. This is likely because Japan has different views on what is acceptable and what is NOT acceptable for a young audience, "Swallower" being a good example of this.
* It's also yet another "kids" show with the "It's made for kids" excuse, (Already discussed on WIIS:1)
* The character designs look like Toy Story rejects and generic porcelain dolls, mostly China dolls.
* Low-budget CGI animation (*in which they weren't going for high-quality animation but for telling stories instead*) with movements that are way too robotic and unnatural and look like something out of an old PSOne/Nintendo 64 video game, even for 2000 standards.
* Unfitting sound effects.
* Annoyingly, frustratingly, horribly composed, and sung "catchy" theme/ending song that will be stuck in your head at once when you hear it because of how repetitive it is. Also, why is the show called Popee the Performer when the song is saying "Popee the Clown"?! The rest of the soundtrack is also at times creepy, very weird, and psychedelic.
* Most of the characters (especially Popee himself) are unlikable and mean-spirited in this show.

* Popee is always envious, just because Kedamono and Papi do better than him, so he just attempts to kill them with either knives or bombs with scary-looking woman faces that are full of nightmare fuel.
* Papi is more of a weirdly perverted, lustful, pedophilic, sadistic, and incestuous father figure than a proper one.

* The episode plots are too nonsensical and unwise, even for a slapstick.
* It got a manga series, which are absolutely filler-infested chapters that once even had a story where Popee **shot a bazooka missile in Papi's butt.**

## Trivia

* Some of the episode plots can be interesting and enjoyable.
* With that said, there are *some* funny moments.
* Kedamono is the only funny and likable character, despite being the monkey's butt.

* His constantly changing face masks are a very clever and consistent detail.

* Some good episodes, such as Face and Loneliness, the former of which was a decent finale for the series.
* Surprisingly good pacing.