Pinpin le Lapin: Attack of the Giant Red Octopus

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Pinpin le Lapin: Attack of the Giant Red Octopus
The thumbnail for... an attempt to satirize a medium.
Running Time: 9 minutes Country: France Release Date: 2002 Created by: Studio Tanuki Nicolaï "Méko" Chauvet Utku Kaplan Nicolas Flory

Pinpin le Lapin: Attack of the Giant Red Octopus (French: Pinpin le Lapin: L'attaque de poulpe rouge geant) or simply as Pinpin le Lapin (Japanese: パンパン ル・ラパン Panpan ru・Rapan) is the pilot of Bunny Maloney. However, unlike Bunny Maloney, it's more risqué. It is produced by a group of indie animators, Studio Tanuki, and was released somewhere in 2003.

Summary

A large octopus-like robot - called the Takotank - terrorizes a city to the point where even Noacak's forces can't fight back (much to the general's concerns). A scheme conducted by Doctor Debilouman, it seems he and his red, squiddy friend have it all good. The supposed heroes, Seigi-Sentai ProtecTeam thus have to pilot their giant robot Pinpinganger and save their hometown from destruction... but for the most part, ridiculousness may ensue.

Why It's Very Inappropriate for Everyone and Should Get Attacked by a Giant Red Octopus

1. As mentioned above, it contains more risqué content than its successor. It can feel on the nose for trying to be a joke on how the characters look Sanrio-esque yet can act raunchy and weird.
   • This is also the reason why Bunny Maloney contains so much inappropriate jokes for a kids show.
2. The entire pilot feels like it came out on Newgrounds in the 2000s.
3. There's an over usage of Japanese anime references.
4. Some pretty bad French voice acting (at least in the original version, since it contains an official re-dub which is miles better.)
5. The introduction of Bunny, Candy, Jean-Francois, and Stan Ookie aren't very interesting to watch as they just rotated from their sides to the front of the screen.
6. Quite effortless character designs.
7. Stan Ookie has visible testicles because of tanuki biology + folklore, which is awkward.
8. Even if the pilot doesn't care about characters to begin with, Bunny Maloney is an even bigger jerk in the pilot than he is in the series.
   • Hell, he gets so pissed, he even beats up Jean-Francois for interrupting his "activity" with Candy.
   • He also hits Candy, causing her to fly up to the sky and to never be seen again after the giant octopus hit her from annoyance.
9. Stiff and bizarre Flash animation.
10. Candy Bunny's magical girl transformation to Pinky Mimi Delalune is just stupid as she's in a very still pose fading into the next design, and it shows images and art of Sailor Moon for whatever reason; one of them includes a man cosplaying Sailor Moon, uncredited.
    • The logo's Japanese katakana (ピンキミミデラルン Pinki Mimi Derarun) is also seemingly written in MS Gothic, and it somewhat doesn’t look like a good design.
11. The characters' combat suits look lazily designed since they're just red (Bunny), pink (Candy), and blue (Jean-Francois) with white markings on the hands, feet, and Candy's scrunchie with white R (Bunny), P (Candy), and B (Jean-Francois) letters on their chests.
12. Misleading advertisement: Potchi was shown in this promotional image, yet he didn't appear in the pilot.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The beginning tries to give off old-timey blockbuster vibes with low quality music, film effects and complex machinery happening in the background, which look really good.
2. Passable fight scenes.
3. The scene where Jean-Francois is playing Dance Dance Revolution really fast is pretty funny.
4. Its successor is a major improvement and also better animated in full CGI instead of Flash.
   • Plus, the later series at least tried to stand on its own removing stuff, like the overdose of references.
   • Speaking of the Flash animation, while it aged somewhat poorly, it was somewhat revolutionary for 2002's standards.

Trivia

• The pilot is a risqué parody of anime and manga, hence why there's a lot of cameos and such to popular series and franchises (There's even an Evangelion screenshot at the beginning likely implying it's parodying Gainax's work).
• 2D and 3D animation were used to create the pilot.
• This is the only time where Bunny is seen without his combat shield on.
• Originally, the pilot was on a website called pinpinlelapin.com, but it was taken down due to unknown reasons, likely due to copyright since MoonScoop greenlit this.
• Jean-Francois and Professor Debilouman's names barely changed at all as they had Moppemond and Doctor removed respectively.
  • Bunny Maloney was named Pinpin Lelapin.
  • Candy Bunny was named Rabby Quawaille.
  • Stan Ookie was named Monsieur Tan.
• The English and Japanese subbed versions of the pilot are lost, and there has been no translation of it ever since.

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