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PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER! (パンチパンチフォーエバー) is an online animated web-series created by speedoru along with Japanese voice-acting group RASH A1M, Episode 1 was released on July 15th, 2023. It is supposedly an obscure long-running anime that was never officially localized in the West, but is really an Affectionate Parody of 1990s Shōnen Fighting Series, unique amongst them in that it goes the extra mile to be voiced in authentic Japanese and then subtitled in English (in the style of '90s Fan Subs at that).

The series follows Gogo Matsumoto, a happy-go-lucky 11-year-old martial arts prodigy living with her mother, Mama; her older Half-Demon sister, Nono; and her pet frog, Coolfrog. Gogo—supported by her family—enters the Infinite Tournament, a contest set up by the Akumugai Demons who now rule Earth, in hopes of receiving a single wish from the demons' leader, Emperor Koro.

The series can be viewed on YouTube from Speedoru's Channel and consecutively watched from the series' Playlist, or alternatively on Newgrounds where every episode is uploaded simultaneously alongside YouTube. For episode-specific tropes, please consult their various recap pages.

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• Action Mom: The intro to the show depicts Mama wearing a wrestler outfit doing a back body drop on a demon. It's revealed she was a competitor in the tournament many years ago, and was skilled enough to catch the attention of Emperor Koro.
  • Episode 3 has her (in the same outfit, no less) and Gogo facing off against a pair of demon wrestlers.
• Animesque: Although the show is a western-animated series created by speedoru, in-universe it's an obscure '90s anime and every other respect it tries to imitate being as such as closely as possible, including having Underlighting and having the characters be voiced in authentic Japanese by real Japanese voice actors (the English subtitles are instead a Fan Sub of dubious quality).
• Apocalypse How: As the intro to the first episode shows, Earth collided with the Akumugai Realm 200 years prior to the series, which allowed the Akumugai Demons to rapidly take over Earth and set up the Infinite Tournament.
• Archnemesis Dad: Safe to say, Nono is not interested in Emperor Koro's half-baked attempts at acting like a father. Especially when he needs to be corrected on her gender.
• Art-Style Dissonance: The series is drawn in a cutesy style similar to a 90s anime, which is what they're parodying, but the actual content is a bit more mature, especially Gogo's first gory match in the tournament.
• Atop a Mountain of Corpses: Gogo is seen on this in the intro. Emperor Koro looks on frustratedly while Mama is beaming with pride.
• Bland-Name Product:
  • The first episode is sponsored by "SNEPIS", an obvious corruption of Pepsi with a similar logo. The segment is accompanied by an animation of Gogo aggressively slurping SNEPIS through a giant straw while giving a thumbs-up.
  • The mini-TV that Mama, Nono and Geison watch Gogo and Geiko's fight on is called an "Assio".
  • You'd have to be eagle-eyed to see it, but the obvious SNES analogue that the Matsumotos have is made by "NiN10doh!".
  • Fart Biter II is a video game produced by Brapcom.
  • In traditional corporate Japanese fashion, the Matsumoto family enjoys a traditional Christmas meal of a full spread "FCK" chicken, fries, and Snepis cola.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: invoked Parodied with the series' official merchandise, which not only has intentional evocations of English spelling errors made when transliterating Japanese but also features an entire t-shirt designed to look like a poorly-made bootleg someone hastily scrapped together the translation for in five minutes.
  Gogo wonderful fighting adventure 1991! Fight a battle in a cute show unless feeling foolish. Can't kill me! CARTOON!
• Conspicuously Light Patch: In "My Little Slasher", when hiding from her opponent Geiko in the woods, Gogo comments how she could be hiding behind any one of the many trees in front of her as the scene shows a lightly drawn tree and bush that stand out heavily from the background... only for Geiko to attack from the detailed bush next to it.
• Couch Gag: Each episode begins with a quick word from that episode's (fictional) sponsor accompanied by a short animation of Gogo using it.
• Deliberate VHS Quality: The series is presented in this fashion, including being entirely in a 4:3 aspect ratio. However the effect doesn't stand out much aside from the brief fast forwarding and skipping commercials.
• Disability Immunity: Downplayed. Yubisake Nabe of the Nabe twins often pokes people in the eyes by extending his middle fingers. However, Gogo having glasses means her eyes cannot be poked, so she's immune to this move.
• Duel to the Death: Infinite Tournament matches are not (necessarily) to the death, but there is no penalty incurred for killing your opponent and it doesn't seem like too many Akumugai Demons are keen on sparing humans' lives anyway, so for all intents and purposes every fight is a death match, at least for the human side.
• Eye Catch: In the style of 90s anime, each episode has two uniquely-designed eye catches before and after the skipped-over ad break.
• Eye Glasses: The entire Matsumoto family wears glasses, Nono isn't shown wearing hers in the first episode but does indeed have them. Even Emperor Koro, who is heavily hinted to be Nono's father, puts on a pair in the first episode.
• Eyelid Pull Taunt: One of the looped animations on the TV screen that plays during the end credits is of Nono fulling her eyelid down at the camera repeatedly.
• Family Theme Naming: The Matsumoto family all have four letter names. Mama, Nono, Gogo and Papa. While only being Nono's father and not directly being a part of the family, Koro's name still fits in this naming theme.
• Fan Sub: The series' English subtitles are provided by one in-universe. Unusually, the first episode mostly averts common tropes associated with them (Spice Up the Subtitles, Too Long; Didn't Dub, etc^note Although there are a few minor examples, such as when Emperor Koro says "Ganbare!" and a translator's note appears explaining that it means "good luck", or when one of the demons says "WHY THE FUCK DID I BRING THIS"), although the end of the "VHS tape" of the first episode has a fake copyright screen with deliberately bad spelling and over-the-top threats of violence against internet pirates.
  Copyright Line: Subbed by: xX_geocitiesSUBCREW95_Xx WE own the copyrites to thiws SUB so if anyone reposts this on anywhere that isnt outr official geocities page then F*CK YOU!!!!!!!! -DarkGod87
• Fictional Currency: Mention is made of Akumugai Earth using "New Zen" as its money ("Zen" being a common fictional currency in Japanese media)
• Fun with Subtitles: The series has the subtitles frequently be used for jokes about the quality of Fan Sub translations:
  • When Gogo says "Maji de?" which means "Really?" or "Seriously?" and the subtitles translate it to "Forreal homeboy?".
  • The ending of Episode 1 also includes a gag where the fictional subber says they own the "copyrites" to the subs and "Fuck You!!!!!" to anyone who reposts anywhere that isn't their official site.
• Gladiator Games: While the Infinite Tournament is a legitimate competition, it is deliberately set up in a way that causes it to have a high human casualty rate because the Akumugai Demons who set it up want to watch the humans competing in it die horrifically as entertainment. This sometimes results in very lopsided matches like a giant crocodile demon fighting an otherwise normal little girl, and the officials don't really care about enforcing a fair playing field if, say, a demon competitor uses a loophole to bring his entire baseball team with him into a match.
• Gold Digger: Mika, the "arm candy" Emperor Koro promises the Nabe Brothers for beating Mama, is only interested in the pair when she thinks they're going to be rich. When they (inevitably) lose to the Matsumotos, she goes over to Yubisake Nabe's broken body and crassly announces she's leaving him now that he's a penniless nobody.
• Gratuitous English:
  • In "My Little Slasher", Mama answers with the word "Yes". Thanks to Fun with Subtitles, the subtitle says "Hai".
  • When The Nabe Brothers lose to the Matsumotos, Mika goes over to Yubisake and loudly curses him out in heavily accented English.
    Mika: FACKIN BOOLSHEET, MADAFAKA! YOU PIECE OF SHIIET!
• Half-Human Hybrid: Nono is Half-Demon, though only appears as one form at a time until she sneezes. It's rather blatantly hinted that Emperor Koro is her father, though these obvious hints fly right over Gogo's head.
• Head Pet: Coolfrog usually sits on Gogo's head or shoulders, though they are removed when Gogo fights in the tournament and when Nono hits Gogo.
• Idiot Hero: Gogo isn't a smart kid, though she makes up for it with her fighting prowess.
• Indecisive Parody: The series flip-flops (sometimes within the same scene) between being a wacky Zany Cartoon parody of '90s Fighting Series and just outright being an (albeit highly comedic and silly) shōnen anime.
• Irregular Series: Episodes release very sporadically with no schedule between them, in large part due to it being a very small and hands-on indie production. The first three episodes were released about a year apart from each other.
• Joke of the Butt:
  • Gogo's pet frog Coolfrog has prominent buttocks whenever viewed from the back.
  • Whenever Nono transforms into her human form, she leaves a hole in her pants where her tail stuck through, exposing her ass cheeks. Whenever Gogo points this out, she immediately transforms back.
  • Shirisaku Nabe from Episode 3 uses his stretchy ass cheeks for combat.
• Kayfabe: There is a third layer to the series' storytelling, as the pretense of it being uploaded online is that PPF is a real if highly obscure '90s anime Speedo is digitizing and putting on the internet after finding a huge cache of bootleg VHS tapes of the series in his dad's basement. Obviously in real life, it's just a present-day web series with a highly intentionally Retraux styling.
• Long-Runners: invoked Parodied; as mentioned in the description of the first episode and some supplementary material, the series supposedly has 62,737 episodes, all of which have been released on VHS. As you may have noticed, this is a comedically impossibly high number: Assuming the show aired one episode per day starting in 1991, it would only have aired about a sixth of the show's entire library right up to the time the show started coming out in real life.
• Luke, You Are My Father: Episode 3 kicks off with Emperor Koro breaking into the Matsumoto home and trying to woo back Mama. She's not interested, but not just because she's happily re-married; she points to Nono and berates him for not caring for his biological child.
• Made of Iron: Gogo, usually played for slapstick, but she can easily withstand otherwise lethal attacks with barely even a scratch. This includes getting shot in the face with a gun. She also easily withstands a strike from Akuagai Ogre's bat, the same weapon shortly after easily kills three of his teammates by accident.
• Medium Blending: Live action segments are sometimes included, such as the brief commercial segment and when "The Emperor of Japan" is shown. A 3D animation of a low polygonal character also appears on Nono's computer.
• No Export for You: In-universe, PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER! never received an official English localization (dub or sub) of any kind, so the series' English subtitles instead have to rely on a bootleg Fan Sub of dubious quality that makes some questionable translation decisions now and then (though out-of-universe, these are intentional Fun with Subtitles jokes).
• Our Demons Are Different: The main foes and organizers of the tournament are the Akumugai Demons, who are creatures that come in all shapes and sizes. Their leader, Emperor Koro, is a Big Red Devil, but there is no single default appearance for them and they range from animalistic monsters to Monstrous Humanoids. They originated from the "Akumugai Realm", which collided with Earth 200 years ago and allowed them to take over Earth.
• Painting the Medium: Flashbacks to the past are rendered as unfinished storyboards, used to represent that they describe memories of things that once happened rather than vivid recollections of the present day.
• Parody Product Placement: Each episode begins with a fake sponsor as a Couch Gag, along with many of the advertisements in the background of the tournament being parodies or self-inserts by the creator.
• Retraux: The series is deliberately styled like a 90's anime show, complete with underlighting, effects that emulate a VHS recording and yellow subtitles akin to fansubs of that period.
• Shout-Out:
  • Nono transforms when splashed with cold water or sneezes.
  • Geison is clearly based on Jason Voorhees.
  • After Geiko is defeated and Mama asks if she is going to be okay, her father Geison lists off a bunch of ways he's been hurt that are exactly the same things that have happened to Jason Vorhees (the character he's transparently based on) in the Friday the 13th series.
    Geison: You know, I've been drowned, stabbed, impaled, set on fire, drowned while sent on fire, launched into space, and exploded with a bomb.
  • When Geiko is knocked prone, she gets back up in one fluid motion not unlike Michael Myers (or The Undertaker).
  • At the start of the third episode, it's mentioned one of the reasons that PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER! never got an official localization is that it caused seizures. This is blatant reference to infamous "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode of Pokemon, which was never localized for the same reason.
  • The Demon Wrestling Federation sizzle reel in Episode 3 shows multiple human and demon wrestlers reminiscent of actual wrestlers including Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, Dwayne Johnson and Animal of The Road Warriors.
  • Stock footage of Gappa the Triphibian Monster is used to illustrate a flashback to an incident at Tokyo Bay.
• Splitting Pants: Nono's tail tears a hole in the seat of her pants, so when she turns into her human form, her bare butt can be seen, something Gogo points out.
• The Thunderdome: The main venue of the Infinite Tournament is Death Island Arena, a huge stadium that can hold thousands of spectators. "Toothless Aggression" also takes place inside Ryougo Arena, a smaller venue that the DWF uses for its presentations.
• Tournament Arc: The bread and butter of the story is Gogo joining the Infinite Tournament in order to have her wish granted. The Tournament itself appears to run on Mortal Kombat rules, where official matches can take place anywhere on Death Island and not just the designated tournament arena as long as a referee is observing them.
• Vanity Plate: From episode 2 onward, the series has a retro custom vanity plate for Newgrounds resembling one from The '90s that appears before the start of each episode.
• Wanted a Son Instead: Implied; Emperor Koro refers to Nono as a 'young man' the first time he sees her, only to correct himself after putting on glasses.
• Would Hurt a Child: The Infinite Tournament seems to have no age requirement, and the demons in this world have no problem with graphically maiming and killing any kids who challenge them. Considering the tournament is obviously meant to be a blood sport for the demons' enjoyment and a way to flaunt their superiority to humans, that's not particularly surprising.
• X-Ray Sparks: The opening sequence has a brief part where Nono gets her skeleton revealed via electrocution.

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