Papa no Iu Koto wo Kikinasai! – 01

OP Sequence

OP: 「Happy Girl」 by 喜多村英梨 (Kitamura Eri)
Watch the OP!:

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Did you notice Miu was wearing gloves when she woke up?

「パパと呼ないで」 (Papa to Yobunaide)
“Don’t Call Me Papa!”

An anime that deals with strong family values and has not only Kitamura Eri and Ono Daisuke but Horie Yui as well?! Even if this show was absolute garbage (which it is not!), the voice acting talent alone would be enough to keep me interested. But if those names don’t ring a bell or you could care less about Seiyuus and just want a good story, Papakiki’s first episode delivered in both the family moments and fan-service departments — the former stemming from a conversation between Yuuta and his older sister and the latter from some impressive DD Cup size boobs.

In terms of first episodes, I was actually surprised with how much I enjoyed Papakiki. Starting with the art, something I don’t normally fret over, I loved how pretty everything looked. From the character designs to the quality of the backdrops, everything worked together and just looked right.

However, even if Papakiki had the best art in the world, it isn’t going to do any good if the story isn’t compelling enough to keep you watching — luckily Papakiki delivers on both. Honestly, I was drawn to this show the moment I saw the words “family-oriented” due to the fact that this genre tends to have a lot of genuinely heart touching moments. As petty as that may sound, I’m a sucker for an anime that can build up my emotions and toy with them however it pleases. With the promise of a good story focusing on one’s family, I’m excited that an important point about being a family was already made during this first episode. And while it may not have been a huge point, it’s a good start for something that could build into an amazingly immersive experience.

So where does that leave us for a first episode? We have college student Segawa Yuuta (Hatano Wataru) who’s trying to live it up as a college freshman but has everyone in the world competing for his attention. There’s his crush Oda Raika (Horie Yui) who has huge breasts but a strange personality, super player Nimura Kouichi (Ono Daisuke) who’s trying to get it on with every girl possible, and Sako Shuntarou (Majima Junji) the masochist who probably has a lot more dirty fetishes waiting to be revealed. At the same time, there are his three cute nieces: Sora (Uesaka Sumire), Miu (Kitamura Eri), and Hina (Igarashi Hiromi). And even though we didn’t get to see much out of Sora and Miu except for their pantsu, I couldn’t get enough of Hina. She’s just too cute.

At this point, I’m impatiently waiting for the all important announcement about something happening to our little trio’s parents. As you should already know, they will eventually move in with Yuuta and that’s probably when the show will kick it into high gear. The thing is, if you’re like me, you’re already loving this show. Can you imagine what’ll happen if it just gets even better?!

Full-Length Shots for Your Consumption: 03, 16, and 28.

 

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111 Comments

  1. Kyzel

    A series of lulz mixed with a bit of “D’aww and Hnnng”s. I like it. Oh and Hi Haruhi… err Sora. XD Thanks Takaii for covering this. I’m probably sticking to this one for ecchi instead of HS DxD.

  2. exia

    this season’s astarotte no omocha.

    • FFF

      The popularity of Lotte’s toy is very low. I wouldn’t predict, but it can have the same financial disaster if they crosses some borders.

    • Znail

      Usagi Drop is the far more similar past anime to compare with.

  3. FFF

    It’s good for lolicons who don’t have real sisters (i adapted this viewpoint from Araragi).

  4. I find it incredibly distracting that the girls look like young versions of Yuri from Angel Beats, Riko from Hidan no Aria and Ganaha Hibiki from Idolmaster.

    But still, quite entertaining.

    And Raika is awesome.

    • Riko from Hidan no Aria?
      she reminds me of Airi from Onichichi ~

      • OMG! That’s going to ruin my innocent impression of this show. lolz

      • Thundershock81

        Now I cant watch this without thinking that lol

      • Silver

        Actually if you compare Miu’s little devil personality with Riko, you can definitely see the similarity in looks and personality traits.

        However… you just have to bring up Airi… I have only seen the screenshots but now I feel guilty… you evil #$@#%!! Feel my wrath!

      • The Moondoggie

        You really have to bring that up now? D:

      • Progeusz

        There’s also Mafuyu from Kanojo^3… :>

    • The_Magus_Killer

      Segawa Yuuta kinda looks like a shorter-haired version of Kamijou Touma. Such misfortune. XD

    • belatkuro

      But Yuri looks like Haruhi, so how do you make of that?

      And I thought the youngest looks more like Mikan from To-Love-Ru
      Eh….

    • HalfDemonInuyasha

      Also can’t forget Kouta from High School of the Dead, lol.

  5. many people complaining about its slow pace
    while I find it as a perfect building up

  6. raidragon

    I love this show so much^^….I actually prefer this one compared to Nisemonogatari due to its beauty in portraying family life and HNGGGGGGGGG moment (Same reason why I prefer Clannad AS compared to Code Geass R2)

    Btw talking about Airi…Definitely gonna watch that if I have some sinister thought toward MiuXD

  7. Taiakun

    …yo yo yo…I want to see the 2nd epi already…yo yo yo…

    Just off topic, it’s a good thing that Rena from Higurashi ain’t here, or this will happen to Hina => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghLTQwSwmc0

    Oda Raika is, in my books anyway, one of the most interesting female characters of this season…

    • I totally agree with your opinion on Raika. She’s got huge busts plus an odd emotionless personality that brings out a cutesy feel to it. A very unique package indeed.

    • Quervo

      yo yo yo… T_T

      I want to be spanked by Raika-sama too T_T

    • Good grief. Now I can’t get the ‘yo yo yo’ off my mind.

  8. I’m doing my best to avoid the “lolicon/pedo” state….but man it’s effing hard 🙁

    • Sparvid

      but man it’s effing hard

      So you failed at avoiding it?

    • You can’t win against Hina. It’s damn near impossible.

      • Da5id

        Hey Takaii, how come your posts aren’t blue anymore?

      • Takaii

        I was responding to comments from work and couldn’t login 🙁

    • Yeah it’s hard 🙁
      Just hearing her voice is ….hngggg
      I want to adopt her..hina and ushio will be a good team

      • The Moondoggie

        Heh, I’m with you, but I’m actually holding up pretty well. XD

        Yup Hina. You are just too damn cute. She was so cute blowing the trumpet I felt like I want her to blow my trumpe-*shot*

  9. c2710

    Sako shuntaro looks like one of the characters from high school of the dead!!!!

  10. bullrogg

    been waiting for this; can’t wait for more. ^_^

  11. Daniell

    Ahhhhh I can tell this will be one of my favs this season!

  12. Mash

    I hope this show sticks more to the family theme instead of cheesy fanservice. I dunno why but watching this show makes me want to play The Sims. lol

    • I’ll play too, if only the sims in the sims look like cute anime characters from this show.

    • Silver

      Well from what I read, it definitely maintains the family theme PLUS the fanservice. Nothing wrong with that!

  13. ryuuzaki

    japan really love incest huh?

    • Spinarakk

      I don’t see any incest?
      Unless you consider entertaining your 3 year old niece incest…

    • huh
      incest? where?
      what are you babbling about?

    • Mash

      ryuuzaki, the two older children are not blood related with the main character. Also, he is going for his senpai and is more like a father figure to the three girls. Its not incest.

    • LoL

      There are various mangas about this story, wich is a light novel. Each one tells the story from different character views (the general point of view, yuuta’s, miu’s, sora’s and hina’s), and in the one related only to yuuta and his campus life, he has feelings for raika, so sry for you, no incest at sight. Try again.

    • kurochan

      I’m sure YOU are the one that love incest, I don’t see any incest here, your imagination sure runs wild. And the one he like is Raika, and he doesn’t even love the other 3 girls in a romantic way.

    • I guess what you mean is ” I want to see an incest here”

      Well sorry to disappoint you :/

    • ryuuzaki

      oh. sorry i got lost with the story. my bad

    • lotus

      you mean when it was implied that one of the nieces is in love w/ the uncle?

  14. HungryKoala

    I know I do too.

  15. Masaka

    Has anyone noticed the trend of young cutesy characters being called Hina in anime recently?

  16. Dokupe

    It makes me wanna go “Pedobear” mode. :<

  17. Thundershock81

    Good show, going to be one of my favourite of the season I can tell. These types of anime always end up a winner in my books.

    ……..oh and I didnt know Airi had a sister? \(^_^)/

  18. Kinny Riddle

    So what are the chances of character designer and famed (hentai) doujinshi artist Nakajima Yuka publishing his own doujins for this series? (Ragnarok Online fans would have heard of his “DL Action” series. I’ll say no more as this is supposed to be a “for all ages” website)

    Then again, it’s probably unlikely, I have yet to see Kobuichi publish any doujins for Hidan no Aria and Kore wa Zombie desu ka, or even the famed tonytaka for the Shining Wind game series, suggesting they’re bound by their contracts for obvious copyright reasons. (Still, it’d be pretty cool if they were allowed to)

    • boingman

      Well, damn, I just found Nakajima Yuu’s danbooru section. How the hell am I supposed to have pure thoughts about this series, after having seen his/her illustrations of other series? 😀

      • I am always Digital Lovers’s fan far before he/she make ilustration for Papakiki
        and I still able to watch Papakiki with pure tought
        Different story if the illustrator is Oyster or Fatalpulse

  19. Kinny Riddle

    While Kitamura Eri, Ono Daisuke and Hocchan were all instantly recognizable, I nearly failed to recognize Majima Junji as the voice behind the “creepy otaku”-like Shuntarou.

    Guess I’m more used to hearing Majima voicing cool hunks than fat pervs, lol

    • I get you. For half a second, I thought that the fat guy would have a pretty sexy voice, something that would have blown my mind.

      I was terribly, terribly, wrong.

    • Zhinvu

      Now that just beats all. I only found out it was Hocchan and Ryuji’s VA after you mentioned it. Looks like Minorin and Ryuji got close after all…just not in the way anybody expected.

  20. joeshen

    How do you feel about the buildup up the episode? I ask since it did kind of jump around and have more of a “live action drama” feel to it more than anything; yet in the end it barely scratched the surface on anything.

    You know that I’m watching this because of you Takaii [literally] (we’ll forget completely that I’m the big Kitamura Eri and Horie Yui fan for a second here) and that now that I know how the story goes, I feel that you’ve drawn me into another time suck where my Tuesday nights no longer exist for actually studying but to deduce every little nuance.

    Curses.

  21. Pera

    I didn’t plan watching this, but I ended up downloading this when it came out.
    It really suprised me how much I enjoyed this, and it reminded me a lot of Aishiteruze Baby! Which I just loved.
    I really hope this anime provides many aaaaawwwhhh moments like in Aishiteruze Baby did.

  22. chaos

    What genre is this show?!

    If you mix family with erotic, don’t you get incest? And you’re niece is still legal in Japan, right?

    • The Moondoggie

      There’s a way around that. If you read the LN or the manga, you should know that.

    • Mash

      Geez, how many times do I have to say this? This show’s main genre is family. There maybe a few fan service shots but the rest is about him being a father figure to the three girls.

    • Takaii

      I couldn’t decide if they were F’s or D’s since the angle of the shot probably makes them look a bit larger than they are D:

  23. The Moondoggie

    The anime did not disappoint!

    I have been reading the LN and the manga so I know the feel of the story and as far as it goes, the anime has the same feel.

    And there is no incest in the story. The only girl related to the protagonist would be the loli-Hibiki(lolz).

    And to all who would recognize the name Nakajima Yuka of the “DL Action” doujin fame, I advise you to forget for a moment that he was a doujin artist.

    And so: Papa no Iu Koto wo kikinasai! Episode 1 score: 8.5/10

    • Zhinvu

      Really thanks for the head up that this is incest free. I also want to view this as a family themed anime that’s gonna show how beautiful family is. Well of course having cuties like Raika around is a bonus too.

      • Serapita

        And that will be what you will get from this anime. It is a story-driven anime about family with just a teeny little bit of fan service here and there.

  24. Whee

    TOO CUTE FFFFFFF-
    great first ep 🙂

  25. Animesetsuna

    This episode…

    Funny, Funny, Funny. Ah…. I can’t believe this anime is so funny. I can’t stop laughing watching this episode. Good recommend to watch this anime.

  26. Zhinvu

    “Honestly, I was drawn to this show the moment I saw the words ‘family-oriented’ due to the fact that this genre tends to have a lot of genuinely heart touching moments.”

    I like how you think there Takaii. This is why I also place Clannad After Story in very high regards for its focus on family and the Lucky Star episode with Konata’s mother. And yes Hina is innocently cute and adorable. You’re not the only one who went d’awwwwww. Oda Raika also looks like a character that’s gonna be remembered years to come from that first impression. I don’t know why but Raika reminded me loosely of Shijou Takane, if Takane’s mysteriousness went up a notch.

    • Takaii

      I’m glad you agree with me (:
      And yes, that scene in Lucky Star was amazing wasn’t it?

      • Zhinvu

        It was. The impact was stronger too as I didn’t expect it from Lucky Star.

  27. Gambler

    Great start. This is my sugar fix for the next 3 months.

    • Takaii

      Her hair is awfully long for her age as well.

  28. tess

    Okay, this is funny and adorable at points but doesn’t anyone else think it’s creepy that they turn that middle niece into a sexual object?? she is way too young….

  29. Sei

    Since only Hina is related to the main character, and she’s obviously too young (for something that gets an anime, at least) isn’t it obvious there won’t be incest?

    • Takaii

      The term incest is used fairly loosely these days, with inter-family relationships riding a really thin line.

      Luckily, from what the LN readers have been saying, Papakiki doesn’t really enter that realm (:

  30. Raidou

    milf spotted! too bad she’ll most likely disappear for the rest of the series…

  31. Kanade

    Hmm, it started off differently from the LN though I like it.

    The question is, will the show follow the LN and stick with heartwarming family-oriented drama or will it ruin it by going off the track and focusing on ecchi/moe stuff?

    Let’s hope the show won’t turn out to be a latter.

  32. BROOKLYN otaku

    HA! dude, incest is stopping NO ONE from watching these show’s LOLOLOLOLO! HAHAHAHAAH!! funny!!

    • The Moondoggie

      Like we have been saying: there is no incest.

      • chaos

        Lies…

        This show has plenty of panty shots, boobs rubbing, and seeing lolicon almost naked. Don’t say there is no hint of incest. Yeah, I am sure a family show display all that. How come I never saw any pant shots or close-up of boobs rubbing on the disney channel?!

        Lies, all lies… O_o

      • The Moondoggie

        Then it’s pedophilia and not incest LOLZ. If the elder sister gets to legal age then it’s OK. It can’t be incest because they’re not blood related.

      • @chaos
        seeing lolicon almost naked
        ^
        LOLWUT!?
        I doubt you even know what incest is

      • Zz

        @chaos
        Your stupidity amazes me. The closest thing to lolicon you’d see in this show would be the youngest girl, but given how young she is supposed to be I doubt there’ll be any fanservice involving her (thanks god).

      • The Moondoggie

        @Zz: Well… At least chaos is just a lolicon and not a complete predator. And I don’t think he likes inse- Oh wait…

    • haseo0408

      Legally speaking is statutory rape not pedophilia.

  33. loli_pop

    just looking at hina makes me wanna have my own kid sooner cus she’s so cute

  34. Animesetsuna

    About Yuuta, nothing to describe because he is a main character of the story.

    About Sora, she does look like Suzumiya Haruhi based on the design, and her VA is really alike of Haruhi VA. Does Sora in love with Yuuta.

    About Miu, she does look like Maho Misawa from RKB. I have nothing to describe about her.

    About Hina, she is so cute especially her voice. Some people feel like wanna adopt Hina.

    About Raika, I do feel weird about her. She is a weirdo to me. But Kouichi mentioned that she was a weirdo and no boys get near her.

    About Kouichi, to me, he is really a playboy. lol

    About Sako, he is really masochist. lol
    Yuuta, don’t you forget, they called you uncle and it’s impossible for them to call you brother, Oi-tan.

  35. Karis

    I highly doubt that Yuka Nakajima(Aka; D.L. Action) will ever make doujins out of this series, since she is working on this as well.

  36. Suppa Tenko

    I like this show, but here are a few things to point out.

    Hina seems a tad older than being 3, more like 5 years old based on body size.
    Also in comparison to her sisters, her size changes going from thigh height to above waist height.

    • Chuam

      Yeah, they all seem older than what they really are. To me Hina looks 5, Miu looks 13-14 (I can’t believe she’s 10) and Sora looks 15-16.

  37. lotus

    Man, at least shut the dang door rather than stare at her as she’s frozen in bra and panties.
    Just sayin’.. lol

  38. The_Magus_Killer

    When I listen to the anime’s OP sung by Eri Kitamura, it feels like I’m listening to Miki Sayaka from Madoka Magica. Haha.

  39. haseo0408

    Family is the most important thing in the universe, if you don´t have a family you have nothing at love. I´m already loving this show because it centers in a subject that modern society has abandon quiet a lot. I really like the art of the show and the different personalities of the trio, Sora strikes me as the tsundere girl in love with Yuuta, Miu has little devil written all over her and finally Hina is just one little angel; Yuuta got an adorable familly but being a single parent still in college, but that´s going to be a wild and fun ride.

  40. Right, she’s called ‘Hina’. All this time I’ve been calling her ‘Loli Hibiki’.

  41. hoiut

    A question that’s been on my mind, the answer to which is likely to have already been inferred by those perceptive watchers: How old are these girls?

    Seriously, how old are they? Hina is 3 (and is adorable). But Sora? I mean, she has boobs and is shown at school with a gaggle of gawking girls. Miu looks a bit younger…

    Middle school? High school? Couldn’t be elementary school…could it?

    • Sora is middle schooler
      Miu is grade schooler

    • l.kostas

      Sora is 14 years old. Miu is 10 years old.

  42. Mitsuba

    omg i love lolis

  43. Chris Hansen

    Why don’t you have a seat over there…

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