S01E01 Ringing the Bell of Destiny
Three siblings, ShÅma, Kanba and Himari Takakura are living together, despite the fact Himari was given only a few months to live by the doctor. The three visit an aquarium to see the penguins, where...
Penguindrum
Let's initiate the survival strategy.
S01E04: Descension of a Princess
As Ringo gets help from Himari preparing lunch for a 'date' with Tabuki at the park, Kamba tasks ShÅma to go with her and look through her bag for her diary, believing it may be related to the Penguindrum. When they reach the park, they encounter a runaway skunk who runs off after squirting Ringo in stink. After changing clothes, Ringo and ShÅma meet up with Tabuki, who brings along the woman Ringo saw him with, an actress named Yuri Tokikago. Come lunchtime, Ringo's prepared lunch gets eaten by crows, leaving her in the shadow of Yuri's picnic. In order to fulfil a 'first kiss' note in her diary, Ringo plans to jump into the pond and have Tabuki save her. However, the skunk appears again and knocks her in, forcing ShÅma to save her instead and use CPR on her, though Ringo believes Tabuki to be the one who did it. Later that evening, a girl that Kamba met up with earlier is pushed down the escalator of a train station, completing the description in Ringo's diary.
Overview
A terminally ill girl named Himari Takakura is miraculously saved from death by a strange spirit who resides in a penguin-shaped hat. However, in exchange for extending her life, the spirit tasks Himari's brothers, Kanba and ShÅma, to seek out an elusive item known as the Penguin Drum with assistance from a trio of strange penguins.
Episodes
S01E02 Risky Survival Strategy
The Penguin Spirit appears again and tells ShÅma and Kamba to board a train and find a girl named Ringo Oginome who may possess the Penguindrum. With Ringo attending a girl's school, ShÅma and Kamba...
S01E03 Then Devour Me Currageously
As Ringo contemplates making a special curry for Tabuki, ShÅma and Kamba, having been reminded about Himari's fate if they don't cooperate, break into Ringo's house to search for the Penguindrum. After just managing to...
S01E04 Descension of a Princess
As Ringo gets help from Himari preparing lunch for a 'date' with Tabuki at the park, Kamba tasks ShÅma to go with her and look through her bag for her diary, believing it may be...
S01E05 This is What Drives Me
Asami Kuho, the girl who was pushed down the escalator, is questioned by a woman named Natsume, who then fires a red ball at her head, causing her to remember nothing about the incident. Kamba...
S01E06 You and I are Bound by M
Kamba goes to see Asami only to find she has forgotten all about him. He tries getting some information out of two other girls, but they are attacked by Natsume's red balls, causing them to...
S01E07 The Eggchanting Girl
Tabuki invites Ringo to see one of Yuri's plays with him, followed by dinner, where Yuri invites her and Shoma to a party. At the party, Yuri announces that she and Tabuki are engaged, but...
S01E08 Even if Your Love is a Lie, I...
Ringo attempts to make a move on Tabuki only to find he is not there as his roof had a leak. The next day, Tabuki tells Shoma that he is moving in with Yuri, which...
S01E09 Frozen World
Himari has a strange dream in which she meets a man named Sanetoshi, who shows her various books containing her memories. In elementary school, she formed a group called Triple-H with her best friends, Hibari...
S01E10 Because I Love Him
Shoma wakes up in hospital with supposedly minor injuries, keeping quiet about what happened between him and Ringo from his siblings. As Ringo explains what happened to her diary to him, Natsume disguises herself as...
S01E11 You Have Finally Realized It
Kanba goes to confront Natsume about the memory-erasing balls and why she desires the diary, unaware that she only has half of it. Meanwhile, Ringo is still determined to complete Project M with or without...
S01E12 The Wheel That Spins Us Round
Kanba goes home and is called by Sanetoshi claiming that Himari will die once more. Shoma goes into detail of what happened 16 years ago, as Shoma and Kanba's parents were high ranking members of...
S01E13 Our Crime & Punishment
Sanetoshi offers Kanba a special medicine to revive Himari, though mentions there will be a steep price in return. Kanba recalls three years ago when he and Shoma learned about their parents being criminals. Later,...
S01E14 Princess of Lies
Yuri, after breaking off an affair with one of her co-stars, feels a longing for a certain someone. Meanwhile, Shoma is ignoring Ringo, feeling she will never be able to forgive him for what his...
S01E15 Saving the World
Yuri holds Ringo into her room that coincidentally is next to a room Shoma is staying with a classmate on a field trip. Shoma rushes to rescue her after figuring this but he trips and...
S01E16 Uncrushable Man
After realizing that she was tricked by Yuri, Masako reminisces about her grandfather, a powerful business tycoon who expelled her father claiming that he was not strong enough to be allowed a place in the...
S01E17 The Unforgiven
The Takakura siblings are enjoying Takoyaki together and happy with the news that Himari will soon be released from hospital when the magic hat posesses Himari again for another Survival Strategy meeting with her brothers...
S01E18 So Please be There for Me
Tabuki reminisces about how he injured his own hands in despair of being relenquished by her mother as she only cared about his younger brother who was a much better pianist than him. After Tabuki...
S01E19 My Soulmate
After the incident at the construction site, Tabuki quit his job and leaves Yuri, while Kanba is praised by his parents for protecting Himari, claiming that once their true objective is reached, they will become...
S01E20 Thank You for Choosing Me
Masako decides to leave the Takakuras alone, still not accepting the 'family' they have. As Himari has another conversation with Sanetoshi, Shouma confesses to Ringo that Himari is not actually his blood sister. Years ago,...
S01E21 The Door of Fate We Choose
Ringo is approached by a journalist asking about the Takakura siblings, but she avoids him and warns Himari about him. Later that night, Himari, who was told by the same journalist about how Kanba have...
S01E22 Beautiful Casket
Ringo stumbles on two girls dressed suspiciously standing before the Takakuras' house and finds that they are actually Himari's childhood friends Hibari and Hikari from the Double-H idol duo. They ask her to give Himari...
S01E23 The Destination of Fate
On the day of the terrorist attack, 16 years before, Sanetoshi is contronted by Momoka who was determined to stop him and while her spirit ends up split in two with each half becoming the...
S01E24 I Love You
Shouma tries to dissuade Kanba with no success while Ringo also boards the train, claiming she had learned from the present she got from Himari's friends the secret spell contained into the now lost diary....
Cast
Subaru Kimura
Kanba Takakura (voice)
Ryohei Kimura
Shoma Takakura (voice)
Miho Arakawa
Himari Takakura (voice)
Marie Miyake
Ringo Oginome (voice)
Akira Ishida
Keiju Tabuki (voice)
Mamiko Noto
Yuri Tokikago (voice)
Yui Horie
Masako Natsume (voice)
