Paniponi Dash!

At first glance, Paniponi Dash will seem like a ripoff of Azumanga. Indeed, it follows the same format, though it definitely is a lot spazzier and contains tons of parodies. If you like Paniponi, you should definitely check out Azumanga. It's way funnier in my opinion, and the animation is also better. Fans of PPD would like AD.

If you liked either Azumanga Daioh or Pani Poni Dash, you might like the other. They both find themselves in new places every episode, and Pani Poni Dash particularly brings in content from all manner of places -- Pay attention, or you might miss something hilarious!

From having the same setting and random storytelling techniques to having almost the same characters, there really isn't much that differentiates these two anime. However, Paniponi Dash is a bit more random, wackier and generally funnier, but only if you already are familiar with a great deal of other anime. Thus, it would be better if you start by watching Azumanga Daioh and then switch over to Paniponi Dash than vice versa.

High school, teenagers, a 10 or 11-year-old who is very smart; Azumanga Daioh is about a group of girls attending high school and the activities of their daily lives, while PPD is about the daily life of young Becky's class. Although PPD has a lot of... abnormal occurences, it's still a great comedy just like Azumanga.

Complete and utter nonsense in your "average" high school day is all I have to say. Both skip around a bunch of high school girls (and sometimes the occassional guy) and their crazy antics with plenty of cameos and otaku references abound.

The two series shares a lot of elements, like the inclusion of a 'child prodigy' and a gallery of stereotypical characters. Both of them also include strange occurences especially in regards to some of the minor sidecharacters/animals.

Warning both contain massive lols. Both are set in a highschool and they follow the daily lifes of the various dynamic and hystarical character's. I'f you want a memorable laugh or just an amazing all around comedy anime check it out nay? O_O Oh! Neko-chan has entered my roomsuu. :3 Nyaaa she goes. Hee hee hee. *scratch*

If you like Paniponi Dash!, then you would also like Azumanga Daioh. What they mostly hav i comman is their genres: Comdey, slice of life, school life. What I like about about them being in comman or the same is that they talk about random stuff.

Throughout Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and Paniponi Dash!, there runs a common thread of in-jokes and references to popular culture, including other anime. This is part of a recent fad in anime, and other examples of this tendency include Lucky Star and Negima!?

Both anime make frequent use of blackboard writings in the background to deliver in-jokes and subtle (and not-so-subtle) digs at the characters, at other anime, and at the series creators themselves.

If you are the type of viewer who gets the jokes in one of these anime, you'll surely enjoy the other.

Pani Poni Dash and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei have a good deal in common. Both are school comedies revolving around an unusual teacher, and both have hyper-stereotyped students (and revel in it!). They're also full of all sorts of little notes, cultural references, and randomness in its truest form. Sayonara is a lot more mature/brash, but unless that's an important quality to you, be sure to try one of these if you liked the second.

Both animes have a similar crazy, hectic theme often found in SHAFT prouctions. Another point is that sayonara zetsubou sensei actually references Paniponi Dash (in the same hectic way paniponi would refrence, say, evangalion)

Both stories are in common because they are about a high school teacher, who is different than every other normal high school teacher, and is a parody of about other animes/manga and the outside world.

Making this a one way recommendation, I think people who liked the off-beat parody humour of Paniponi will adore SZS. Although the latter is a newer show, the similarity is more than a little obvious. SZS manages to take the same crazy classroom situation and pull it off with a lot more style. If you enjoyed Paniponi and enjoy slightly more mature humour too, I definitely recommend giving SZS a whirl.

The likeness between these two series isn't based on their story or content, but more on the level of crazyness in them. Having watched Ninja Nonsense and moved on to Paniponi, I get the same eyebrow raising "what's going on here?" feeling from both of them..

Both series are hysterically funny and crudely perverse which makes them both laugh out loud. While one has to do with a hopeless ninja girl, Shinobu, under the care of her perverse yellow blob of a teacher, Onsokamaru, the other has to do with an 11-year old teacher trying to suceed ih showing a crazy class of unusually gifted students how the world is run.