Reiwa no Di Gi Charat - Recommendations

• TV (28 eps x 3 min)
• 2022 - 2023

The year is 20XX... A time when every household owns cute maid robots known as OrderMaids. Average grade-schooler Bondo dreams of having his very own robot. But what he got was... Unable to compute!!! Life is gonna get a whole lot weirder when Roboco, the most powerful clumsy maid ever created, shows up at his door!

• TV (26 eps x 11 min)
• 2003 - 2004

At Cromartie High, it’s tough being a delinquent -- a fact that do-gooder Takashi Kamiyama intimately understands. When he’s not engaging in contests of strength and rival gang wars, Kamiyama can also be found submitting punny jokes and planning his own rise to fame within the delinquents’ ranks, and that’s just the beginning! With friends like robotic Mechazawa, a giant gorilla, a hairy man from the 80s named Freddie and a clan of delinquents with mohawks that flow in the wind, how can anyone not enjoy high school?

• TV (48 eps)
• 2002 - 2003

Panyo Panyo is a prequel to the Di Gi Charat television series/OVAs, taking place when Dejiko and Puchiko are young(er) girls. Bored with the dreariness of their castle on Planet Di Gi Charat, they escape to the town to do what they want to do the most -- help others be happy! Much of the trademark randomness of the Di Gi Charat saga has been replaced in Panyo Panyo with syrupy sweetness and super-cute animation.

• OVA (4 eps)
• 2001

On her way home, Puchiko fails to reach the signal on a bus driven by Mr. Violence and ends up stranded in America! When Dejiko receives a letter informing her that Puchiko is in the USA she immediately goes to get her, destroying the store in the process. Once the pair is finally reunited, Dejiko and Puchiko’s trouble continues as they have to suffer the company of their crazy and annoying Number One Fan as he follows their every move. Then, upon her return to Japan, Dejiko finds that with Gamers being rebuilt, life is rather dull. Luckily, she soon finds something else to occupy her time and decides to enter a rock contest to win her dream prize: a ten-year supply of nattou.

• OVA (4 eps)
• 2001

Dejiko’s feud with Piyoko continues when one day she finds the Black Gema Gema gang eating dinner in her closet! As if that weren’t bad enough they then take over the entire room in an attempt to gain a small victory over the princess of the Di Gi Charat planet. Of course even when they aren’t fighting Piyoko and her gang, life is never quiet for Dejiko and company, especially when Puchiko decides to go to preschool and Dejiko comes down with a bad case of the bizarre Di Gi Charat illness. However, despite the insanity, even the Gamers gang know how to kick back, relax and watch the sakura trees in full blossom – that is, once Dejiko has used her Laser Eye Beam to secure the perfect spot!

• OVA (4 eps)
• 2000

While out on an errand for Gamers' store manager, Dejiko is blissfully unaware of the spaceship that lands nearby, and the strange girl that grabs onto her tail and follows her back to the shop. When they get back to Gamers, the girl reveals herself to be Pyoko – the leader of the Black Gema Gema Group that tried to invade the Di Gi Charat planet. However, after the Black Gema Gema failed in their mission they were forced to return home to Planet Analogue, where they lived in poverty. Now Pyoko has come up with the perfect moneymaking scheme; she’s going to kidnap Dejiko and hold her for ransom! Although she refuses to be kidnapped, Pyoko will do anything to get her revenge on Dejiko, even if it includes opening up a rival store right across the street...

• TV (52 eps)
• 2003 - 2004

Di Gi Charat Nyo is an alternate universe to the Di Gi Charat franchise. Dejiko and Puchiko arrive at Earth for the first time, and arrange to stay with an aspiring toy store owner. Many of the old gang are back, in different roles/characters, such as Rabi-en-Rose, and others. One thing is for sure -- it still has the same quirky randomness that goes along with the name Di Gi Charat!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2001

Back on Earth, Dejiko is feeling a little homesick, and decides to take a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Planet Di Gi Charat along with Puchiko, Gema-Gema, and stowaway Rabi-en-Rose. But along the way, Pyoko and the Black Gema-Gema gang are determined to sabotage their fun!

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2001

After facing numerous defeats by Dejiko and her eye-beam, Piyoko and the Black Gema Gema gang decide that a new strategy is needed. Piyoko also has a mouth-rocket attack, but since it takes longer to shout out the name of this attack Dejiko's always hits first. And so (after a lot of planning, equating and messing around) the gang members think up new ways to improve the attack, from talking faster to treating the mouth with more respect. But will any of these ideas work when Dejiko arrives on the scene?

• DVD Special (2 eps)
• 2001