History Anime / DiGiCharat1999

* DoYouWantToHaggle: PlayedForLaughs in Episode 3. When Minataku asks how much the trading cards he wants are, Usada, Dejiko, and Puchiko offer the prices of 5,000 dollars, 10,000 dollars, and 30 million dollars. When he says that's too expensive, Usada and Dejiko quickly offer them for free, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers while Puchiko ups the price to 60 billion.]]

Despite its short run, it would leave its mark since this was not the last time we saw these iterations of the characters as a [[Anime/DiGiCharatSpecials series of specials]], and [[TheMovie a movie]] would be released that also took place in the same continuity. As well, in 2022 an anime called ''Reiwa no Di Gi Charat'' would be released and would act as a continuation of this series

* DoYouWantToHaggle: PlayedForLaughs in Episode 3. When Minataku asks how much the trading cards he wants are, Usada, Dejiko, and Puchiko offer the prices of 5,000 dollars, 10,000 dollars, and 30 million dollars. When he says that’s too expensive, Usada and Dejiko quickly offer them for free, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers while Puchiko ups the price to 60 billion.]]
* DropInCharacter: Rabi~en~Rose, Murataku, and Minataku all show up in Dejiko’s room in Episode 13. Gema lampshades that they have no real reason to be here or have been headed here.

** Dejiko averted CallingYourAttacks when using her Laser EyeBeam the first few times. It wouldn’t be until the end of Episode 4 when she’d start doing it. As well, the beams were sometimes portrayed as being red rather than yellow.

* LostFoodGrievance: Episode 4 has Dejiko blast Usada out of the sky after she ruins her and Puchiko’s picnic by purposely blasting dirt everywhere with her rabbit ears while flying.
* MillenniumBug: The subtitles for the show’s opening mention [=Y2K=].

* TrashTheSet: The last episode of the original series has Gamers being destroyed due to Dejiko’s explosive cake.

* WhatTheHellHero: Somewhat inverted in the first episode. Dejiko gets pissed at Gema for telling Mr. Manager that he shouldn’t give the group the room for free.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Minataku is only able to deal with exorcisms related to shijimi clams. Thus he is of no use when Puchiko gets possessed by a snail.

* MoreDakka: Rabi~en~Rose’s plan to take down the monster in Episode 12 is by blasting it with all manner of firearms. However, it vaporizes her with its BreathWeapon before she gets the chance to fire at it.
* MusicalEpisode: Episode 15 has Dejiko, Puchiko, and Rabi~en~Rose singing a song called “Party Night”.

* NotHelpingYourCase: In order to get everyone to stop thinking she’s guilty, Dejiko offers everyone some Di Gi Charat candy in exchange for belief that she’s innocent. Gema quickly points out that this is bribery, which is also illegal. Subverted in that this actually helps Dejiko prove her innocence by summing out the impostor Dejiko.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Takurou Minagawa and Takurou Kimura share the same first name. This is rarely an issue however as they are usually known by their nicknames of Murataku and Minataku.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The two Takurous usually go by “Murataku” and “Minataku”, with the former also going by Mr. Longhair sometimes as well.
* ParentalAbandonment: Rabi's parents leave her to head for America, so she can have a "difficult, penniless childhood until you [Rabi] make your debut as a great idol." They also give her a pair of dice which she'll need to help her become an idol. How exactly, is anybody's guess

* TheCatCameBack: Henna Ikimono, a yellow bear creature. When the trio returns to Gamers he is still there in a box that says to take him for free, where he stays for the rest of the series.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Rabi~en~Rose is a lot more antagonistic to Dejiko and is actually the instigator of conflict in several episodes, including her debut in Episode 2. While she and Dejiko would continue to have a rocky relationship in later entries, Dejiko became the one to instigate conflict almost exclusively, including the specials that came later.

* HowDoesIShotWeb: Episode 8 has Puchiko attempting to learn how to properly use her eye beams.

* LostFoodGreivance: Episode 4 has Dejiko blast Usada out of the sky after she ruins her and Puchiko’s picnic by purposely blasting dirt everywhere with her rabbit ears while flying.

** Dejiko averted CallingYourAttacks when using her {{EyeBeam}}s the first few times. It wouldn’t be until the end of Episode 4 when she’d start doing it. As well, they were sometimes portrayed as being red rather than yellow.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the anime that came later this one can be viewed as rather odd seeing how it places great emphasis on gags and subversive otaku-based humor, which later entries would ditch [[note]] However it should be noted that this entry is actually closer to what the franchise is based around [[/note]]. As well, it is rather short being only 16 episodes that were three minutes each, with the next series, ''[[Anime/PanyoPanyoDiGiCharat Panyo Panyo]]'', bumping the runtime to five minutes and having 48 episodes total.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In Episode 13, when Abarenbou introduces himself, Dejiko asks him to repeat his name due to being unable to hear him over the loud rock music playing.

Despite its short run, it would leave its mark since this was not the last time we saw these iterations of the characters as a series of specials, and [[TheMovie a movie]] would be released that also took place in the same continuity. As well, in 2022 an anime called ''Reiwa no Di Gi Charat'' would be released and would act as a continuation of this series

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Creator/SentaiFilmworks' release of the specials has some examples of this:
** Piyoko's full name is spelled "Pyocolat Analog III" instead the official "Pyocola Analogue III"
** Rik, Coo & Ky's names are spelled "Riku, Kuu and Kai" rather than their official spellings, in addition to this Ky's last name is spelled "Schwarzer" instead of "Schweitzer" like it is officially
** Rodoyan's name is rendered as "Rod Young".

* EarlyBirdCameo
** Rabi~en~Rose appears at the end of the first episode laughing behind a wall, and telling the audience that the best is yet to come at the end of the episode.
** Takeshi and Yoshimi appear in Episode 5 as customers at the Gamers store, with them being properly introduced the episode after.

* BuyOrGetLost: Happens twice in episode 3. When Minitaku sees some customers leave without buying anything, they proudly cheer about being useless customers, Dejiko blasts them with her eye beams. Later, when Minitaku wants to leave the store after being spooked by it, Dejiko is not happy and threatens him with Usada quickly telling her to knock it off.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Minitaku is only able to deal with exorcisms related to shijimi clams. Thus he is of no use when Puchiko gets possessed by a snail.

* DoYouWantToHaggle: PlayedForLaughs in Episode 3. When Minitaku asks how much the trading cards he wants are, Usada, Dejiko, and Puchiko offer the prices of 5,000 dollars, 10,000 dollars, and 30 million dollars. When he says that’s too expensive, Usada and Dejiko quickly offer them for free, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers while Puchiko ups the price to 60 billion.]]
* DropInCharacter: Rabi~en~Rose, Murataku, and Minitaku all show up in Dejiko’s room in Episode 13. Gema lampshades that they have no real reason to be here or have been headed here.

* LastSecondJokeProblem: Episode 13 has Puchiko get possessed by a snail at the end of the episode. And Minitaku is unable to help as he only knows how to exorcise clams.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Episode 3 has Dejiko, Puchiko, and Rabi~en~Rose freak out Minitaku and accidentally confirm his suspicions that Gamers is a spooky store.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The two Takurous usually go by “Murataku” and “Minitaku”, with the former also going by Mr. Longhair sometimes as well.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The two Takorous usually go by “Murataku” and “Minitaku”, with the former also going by Mr. Longhair sometimes as well.

** Episode 7 has Gema correctly guessing that Dejiko plans to make a naughty doujinshi with the two Takorous which royally pisses her off.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat

* LastSecondJokeProblem: Episode 13 has Puchiko get possessed by a snail at the end of the episode. And Minitaku is unable to help as he only knows how to exercise clams.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the anime that came later this one can be viewed as rather odd seeing how it places great emphasis on subversive otaku-based humor, which the later entries would ditch [[note]] However it should be noted that this entry is actually closer to what the franchise is based around [[/note]]. As well, it is rather short being only 16 episodes that were three minutes each, with the next series, Panyo Panyo, bumping the runtime to five minutes and having 48 episodes total.

''Di Gi Charat'' is anime that ran for 16 episodes over the course of December 1999 on [[Creator/TokyoBroadcastingSystem TBS]]. The show is a GagSeries with each episode only being about 3 minutes long, not counting the intro or credits. It was the first anime based on the Anime/DiGiCharat franchise, and it certainly would not be its last.

Di Gi Charat is anime that ran for 16 episodes over the course of December 1999 on [[Creator/TokyoBroadcastingSystem TBS]]. The show is a GagSeries with each episode only being about 3 minutes long, not counting the intro or credits. It was the first anime based on the Anime/DiGiCharat franchise, and it certainly would not be its last.