S1E08: PPP Live
| Episode 8 - PPP Live | |||
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| ぺぱぷらいぶ (PePaPu Raibu) | |||
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| Air Date | February 28, 2017
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| Introductions | Emperor Penguin, Margay
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| Previous | Episode 7 - Japari Library
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| Next | Episode 9 - Snowy Mountains Area | ||
PPP Live (Japanese: ぺぱぷらいぶ; Hepburn: PePaPu Raibu) is the eighth episode of the Kemono Friends anime series. It introduces the five members of the 3rd generation of Penguins Performance Project (Royal Penguin (Princess), Emperor Penguin (Emperor), Gentoo Penguin (Gean), Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Iwabee) and Humboldt Penguin (Hululu) as well as Margay.
Summary
Reaching the Waterfront Area, Lucky explains that the area is home to many aquatic animals and features many waterside plants and geographic features. When Kaban asks about whether the PPP Concert is held there, Serval immediately notices a crowd of Friends and replies "It must be!".
Both Kaban and Serval gaze in awe when they see the stage of the concert, which Kaban implies it's built by the Professor Northern White-Faced Owl and her assistant Eurasian Eagle-Owl. The trio of Kaban, Serval and Lucky soon end up in the large crowd of Friends gathering to watch the concert, and Serval notes that PPP is very popular among the Friends. Lucky soon notices another Lucky Beast, as does Kaban who exclaims about the existence of another Lucky. Serval immediately points out that there are many Lucky Beasts and takes two Japari Buns from the other Lucky Beast before noting that it is unusual to see more than one Lucky Beast in the same place. Mildly confused by such remark, Kaban asks Lucky about it, who clarifies that there is an exception due to the concert. Serval finds watching the concert in the crowd challenging, so she and Kaban turn to a tree for better viewing.
Meanwhile, Princess is preparing backstage and taking deep breathes to relax herself. The scene cuts back to Kaban and Serval, who have managed to climb the tree, and Serval notes that Kaban has become pretty good at climbing trees. While the duo are enjoying the view of the stage, Serval hears another Friend, who is introduced as Margay. Both Serval and Margay were shocked by each other's presence when they notice each other. Margay then begins to show just how strong her love to PPP is by revealing that she came to see the 3rd Generation PPP's debut, how she cannot miss it and how she is glad of being born in the right time to be able to witness this event. Serval wonders why she didn't get a closer spot, to which she replies that seeing all the audience enriches the experience. She then proceeds to get progressively more excited by the event while explaining that the 3rd Gen. PPP will be officially unveiled soon while their debut concert held a week afterwards will be announced. While commenting on how the tickets were sold out almost immediately, she notices the PPP platinum ticket Kaban and Serval obtained from the previous episode and becomes extremely shocked.
The crowd of audience begin shouting, marking the unveiling of 3rd Gen of penguin idol group which known as PPP. Among all the audience, Margay is especially excited about it. Royal Penguin (Princess), Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Iwabi), Gentoo Penguin (Gean), Humboldt Penguin (Hululu), Emperor Penguin (Koutei) introduces themselves one by one, although Gean misses the cue and Hululu mistakenly says her nickname first before telling which penguin she is. Nevertheless the unveiling is a huge success and the crowd applauded. As the penguins return to the backstage, however, Iwabi starts freaking out while Gean, feeling sorry for her mistake, wished they can follow the rhythm better. Princess tries to comfort them by telling them to have fun and follow Koutei's lead but it turns out she has passed out from the nervousness.
PPP reminiscence their past about forming legendary Penguin idol club about one year ago because the first and second Penguin idol generation were famous across the park before they continue practicing. Princess lectures Gean to memorize all the choreography, Hululu to pick up the pace because she is too slow, Iwabi not to rush and synchronize with the others, and above all everyone too stiff. Koutei lost her confident and think Princess more suited to be the leader than her but Princess tell Koutei to be more confident. Serval suddenly came and showed special PPP platinum ticket, PPP recognize her as friend of Konoha and introduced themselves to Serval. Kaban bring Margay into the room but she get nervous and as soon she meet the entire PPP members, she passed out with nosebleed.
PPP practicing again and Margay noticed all of their quirks, they all surprised that Margay can mimic their voices. Koutei asked Margay whether she know all of their predecessors and she know all of them then cheering the current PPP to be like them too then they continue practicing again. PPP took a peek on their audience and noticed that they have lots of audiences, Princess give advice to the other 4 Penguins. Margay is very impressed and say that they are strong together than back when the idol group used to have 4 members. PPP, Kaban, and Serval are surprised about what she just said, Margay tell them that the first Penguin idol group had 4 members, the second Penguin idol group had 3 members, and the current one has 5 members. Koutei, Hululu, Gean, and Iwabi always thought the original Penguin idol group always had 5 members. Princess suddenly get upset and leave, Margay is apologizing to them but they tell her not to apologize. Koutei, Hululu, Gean, and Iwabi walk to the livestage while Kaban and Serval chasing Princess. Princess is sitting at pier and she is depressed because there is no Royal Penguin in all previous Penguin idol group. Kaban tell Princess that she already worked so hard ever since the group was formed then Serval drag Princess to the livestage. Koutei, Hululu, Gean, and Iwabi are talking with each others on stage to their audiences while Kaban, Serval, and Princess are watching them from the tree. Princess think that they are doing fine without her then Koutei, Hululu, Gean, and Iwabi are talking about Princess about how helpful is she and in order to surpassing their predecessor, they need her. The audiences become very frustated and about to leave the concert, Margay mimicking Princess voice as cue for her to return to her group, Serval pushed her off from the tree then Princess walk to the livestage while lectures her teammates as well then the concert started.
After the concert ended, Margay is idolizing about Princess. Princess give thanks to everyone and ask Margay to become their manager. Margay suggest for the next concert they will do it near ocean and should incorporate swimming into the performance. Iwabi tell Serval that the whole park is surrounded by the ocean, Kaban asked PPP about where is human, Princess say that they were last seen in harbor long time ago then Kaban and Serval decided go to harbor as their destination. Arai and Fennec are passing at plains area, Lion, Moose, Japanese Black Bear, and Shoebill are playing ball. Lion ask Arai to kick the ball but she tripped and Fennec is the one who kick the ball and it went straight into Moose's team goal gate but Moose get upset and saying that it against the rules. Arai talking to them about Kaban being hat thief but everyone including Fennec disagree with her.
Major Events
- Discovery of the Waterfront
- Kaban, Serval and Margay sits on 3rd Generation PPP's rehearsal
- 3rd Generation PPP performs live in the PPP Comeback Concert
- Margay becomes manager of PPP
- The last humans in park are seen in harbor long time ago.
Animal Talk Segments
Casts
Major Characters
- Kaban
- Serval
- Lucky
- Arai-san
- Fennec Fox
- Royal Penguin
- Emperor Penguin
- Gentoo Penguin
- Southern Rockhopper Penguin
- Humboldt Penguin
Minor Characters
Background Characters
- Red Kangaroo
- Sika Deer
- Hippopotamus Gorgops
- Lesser Panda
- Kodiak Bear
- Black Leopard
- Black Jaguar
- Bergman's Bear
- Crunchyroll-Hime
- Bearded Seal
- Bush Hyrax
- Puma
- Ezo Brown Bear
- Australian Devil
- Leopard
- Giant Panda
- Jinmengyo
- Atlantic Puffin
- Maltese Tiger
- Axolotl
- Polar Bear
- Golden Tiger
Trivia
- The fox-themed mascot of anime streaming service Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll-Hime, appears as a cameo during the episode. Crunchyroll was a production partner on the 2017 Kemono Friends anime and airs the series outside of Japan on their site with subtitles.