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ese anime

Anime

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 series by Studio Hibari

Studio Hibari

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. It premiered on TV Tokyo

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 on April 6, 2008. A manga version is also serialized in Kerokero Ace

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. It is also released in America in subbed form from December 2008 on Crunchyroll

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 as Web Ghost PiPoPa.

A spin-off game entitled was also released for the Nintendo DS.

Pipopa is an onomatopoeia of computer beeps.

Overview

The story is about a boy, Yūta Akikawa, who is afraid of computers. His family moves to Kamimai City, a technologically advanced city, where his mother works. The same day, he is transported into the Net World, meeting three Web Ghosts known at Pit, Pot, and Pat.

Characters

Yūta is a school boy who is afraid of computers, but is fond of astronomy. One day, he was sucked inside his cellphone where he met Pit, Pot and Pat. As his adventure continues, he protects the Web Word along with PiPoPa.

Hikaru is the first person that Yūta met in Kamimai City. She is the one who mostly shows Yūta how things go around in Kamimai. They became classmates in school. Eventually, Hikaru managed to get Yuta to allow her to go to the Web World. Her Web Ghost is Ecolon.

Pit is a show-offy net ghost who can transform into a car, a plane, a UFO, a stamper (under the right conditions) and various other things. Pit, along with Pot and Pat hate to be called PiPoPa, but Pit is the one who hates it most.

Pot is a net ghost who always likes to eat. He also has the most affection towards girls. He has been helpful on many occasions, and claims he can also shift his hands into a stamper similar to Pit. However, it is unknown if the effect can be replicated.

Pat is the computer freak in the group, calculating many things. He is the one that finds the "virus core" in Web Monsters.

Project Siren is a top secret project hidden inside the Dream Future facility in Kamimai. She escapes and becomes friends with the PiPoPa trio. It is later known that she is not the original, and there was one before her.

Mamoru is one of the best friends of Yūta. He taught him the basics of computers, and he is a computer programming expert. It is later revealed that Divine Forest was Mamoru, in a sense.

Kazushige is a bully at school and one of Yūta's classmates. He has a crush on Hikaru and Sayaka plus he also becomes frustrated when Yūta gets close to either of them. Kazushige eventually catches and Yuta going to the Web World. He is also "Dynagon", a poet that Hikaru adores. Kazushige's Web Ghosts are Bit, Bot, and Bat.

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Kazushige's friends and underlings.

Web Venus is a very mysterious web ghost who frequently appears near Pit, Pot and Pat. Apparently, she defends peace in the Web World but works only by herself. Web Venus is actually Sayaka, using an avatar achieved by a web diving machine,

A photographer, Kenta is Yūta's father.

A programmer at Dream Future Japan, Yūko is Yūta's mother.

Juzo is Hikaru's grandfather and is very protective of her granddaughter. He also specializes in the internet. He rejects the ideas of Dream Future. It is also notable that he is addicted to pudding.

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BiBoBa has been the mortal rivals of PiPoPa, although they team up later.

Kazama is the president of the Dream Future Japanese branch.

Sakamoto works under Kazama as time manager. She remains faithful to Kazama even after he was fired.

A no-good man, Hirame worked as a chief in Dream Future. After Kazama was fired, he was assigned as the president.

She is a friend of Hikaru. In one episode, Hikaru and Yūta help her set-up the website for Karin's inn.

A seemingly poor person looking for a permanent job. He seems to be a bit computer literate. Undercover, he is a member of the internet police.

An ecology focused net ghost. She is the net ghost of Hikaru's favorite website.

A Russian transfer student. She can speak Russian and some Japanese. By the end of the series she can say more Japanese than she did at the beginning. She is also Web Venus,achieved through a web diving machine.

Sayaka's mother who looks like Web Venus. She was a former assistant at Dream Future and a friend of Juzo in research.

• The Dream Future Big Four

  A special division in Dream Future made purely of data.

  • The head of the American branch, Ash specializes in throwing cards.

  • The head of the Asian branch, Langa is able to hypnotize.

  • The head of the European branch.

  • The head of the North African branch.

The founder of Dream Future and grandfather of Mamoru. After a mysterious accident, Doctor Forest went ill and was sent to the hospital and has never woken up since.

A person who forcibly became the leader of the Dream Future Big Four. He has the ability to turn web ghosts into web monsters.

Theme songs

Opening songs

1. by Atsuko Bungo (episodes 2-4)
2. "Get On Up" by Sugimoto Shimai (5-26)
3. by COON (27-50)

Ending songs

1. by COON (1-26)
2. by Sugimoto Shimai (27-50)