Nerima Daikon Brothers

They must avoid both an overzealous policewoman who has caught on to their money-making schemes and the desires of powerful people who want to take over the daikon field.

The show parodies many famous people and institutions in Japan including Junichiro Koizumi and his political followers; Michael Jackson; the fortune teller Kazuko Hosoki, Star Wars, Host club entertainers among many others.

Until recently, anime television series did not make overt jokes about the current news topics like homosexual love, consumer credit, or the success of Korean artists in Japan such as Bae Yong-joon.

Nerima Daikon Brothers features overt sexual gags such as in the first episode where a male casting director fondles Ichiro's crotch as he sits there and moans.

Nabeo Donabesawa[9] Donabenabe Yūkel Hakushon[10] Prime Minister Oizumi[11] The show's producers used both veteran and up-in-coming voice actors to fill in the guest roles for each weekly episode who were usually the characters who swindled the Brothers out of money.

Shortly thereafter troops, tanks, aircraft, and even ships begin swarming the (inland) ward forcing the city to privatize.

Later he uses a bad pun on the word privatize (民営化, mineika): Everyone in agreement will experience the pleasant feeling of a good mood!

In order to defeat those who had voted against the measure, Koizumi employed "a star-studded cast of female candidates..., now ubiquitously referred to in the national media as Koizumi's assassins (shikoku), [whose] mission [was] to take out the prime minister's political enemies in the old boys' network that long held sway over the LDP.

"[12] Finally there is the term, "Koizumi children", the "83 new LDP Diet members... [who are] basically a cult of personality, these rookies need a manual to know what to say to the media, and applauded ecstatically during the prime minister's 26 Sep policy speech.

A live-action music video was produced with the three main voice actors performing the introduction song "Ma Ji Ya Ba" for which a single was released.

It was supposed to feature a young venture company president as the target character who tried to acquire the daikon field.

However, the ratings began to dive as the series got repetitive due to the reuse of songs in every episode and the quality of the animation declining.

A parody of a famous Koizumi press photo.
Shishiro – a character marketed by Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party .
The three main voice actors perform in the music video of Ma·Ji·Ya·Ba