History Literature / Anpanman

** 956b "Dokinchan and Cheese Fondue-san" has Dokinchan and Horrorman hanging out with Cheese Fondue-san after the former got into an argeument with Baikinman. Anpanman does not interact with them.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: There's some episode that focus on the villians that they don't interact with Anpanman at all.
** 815a "Baikinman and Baikincastle" has Baikinman trying to clean Baikin Castle with a robot he invented to help clean the mess up, only for the robot to go haywire. Anpanman's plot is just him delivering goods or helping children.
** 956b "Dokinchan and Cheese Fondue-san" has Dokinchan and Horrorman hanging out with Cheese Fondue-san after the former got into an argeument with Baikinman. Anpanman does not interact with them.

* Kokinchan (コキンちゃん): Dokinchan's little sister, an AnnoyingYoungerSibling who drops in on occasion to inconvenience both the heroes and villains alike. She drives Dokinchan out of her skull, mostly because she has the same personality defects, yet manages to get on the good side of Shokupanman thanks to being an actual child (rather than merely childish) with ''relatively'' innocent intentions. She mostly wants to have fun, and is friends with the children of Anpanman's neighborhood, but nevertheless manages to cause or get into some kind of trouble. Her tears, [[CryCute genuine]] or [[DeliberatelyCuteChild otherwise]], cause other people to cry as well.

* VagueAge: Due to how the series is aimed at preschoolers, quite a bit of the chracters don't have exact ages. Characters that use the title "sensei", "ojisan", "obasan" and "san" are easy to figure out that they're adults, but there's some characters that might not use the term correctly that it makes the ages hard to track down.

Not to be confused with [[{{Manga/OnePunchMan}} WanPanMan]] (although he ''was'' the inspiration for him).

* CryingARiver: In one episode, Baikinman and Dokinchan cry so much, that they're tears flooded they're lair and cause waterfalls.

* SameContentDifferentRating: The ''Anpanman'' franchise is a G-rated franchise in Japan, but the English dub of ''Apple Boy and Everyone's Hope'' is rated PG on Tubi.

* CoolCar: Jam Ojisan's ride, which has his face on it, includes a bakery inside. It also can turn into a boat or a zeppelin and can be used as a weapon. (The "nose" on the front can be launched back and forth)

* CryingARiver: In one episode, Baikinman and Dokinchan cry so much, that they're tears flooded they're lair. They were even waterfalls!

** In the very earliest story (published in TheSixties), "Anpanman" was actually just a regular human with a normal head who delivers anpan to people in need. Even in the first canonical installment in 1973, Anpanman's sole mission is to rescue starving people and give them a bite to eat (out of his head), with Uncle Jam in a supporting role (to bake new heads). The second book (from 1975) refines the premise and adds the notion of Anpanman rescuing people from danger and not necessarily hunger. Most of the core cast is introduced in the monthly manga (particularly around 1978-80 or so), but the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, along with the kind of adventures that make up the bread-and-butter of the anime, weren't really part of the picture until the 25-volume "Anpanman Mini-Books" series from 1983-84. Since then, though, the juggernaut has been unstoppable.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: This show is the Guinness world record holder for the highest number of characters in an animated franchise. It has over 2,000 characters. And don't think it has one-timer nobodies. Every character has a personality, has different relationships, and appears in the show more than twice. They all have their own jobs, hobbies and characteristics. That makes the world really lively. [[http://tokyo5.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/anpanman-full1.jpg Here is a small list to give you an idea.]]

* BiggerBad: The [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-Foot Whatevers]] fought at the climaxes of the movies in both a figurative and literal sense, as they're both absolutely massive in size and have powers that make what Baikinman can do look like child's play.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Invoked regarding the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-Foot Whatevers]] Anpanman fights at the climaxes of the movies, being overpowered, unreasonable creatures that want nothing but to lay waste to the world. Since Anpanman ''must'' kill them, the writers make them either [[FlatCharacter blank slates]] or [[HateSink pieces of shit]], so the viewers won't question Anpanman's morals: they're either [[EmptyShell soulless husks that have no personality]], or [[HateSink utter assholes that have no redeemable traits]], so you won't really care if they die or not.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Invoked regarding the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-Foot Whatevers]] Anpanman fights at the climaxes of the movies, being overpowered, unreasonable creatures that want nothing but to lay waste to the world. Since Anpanman ''must'' kill them, the writers make them either [[FlatCharacter blank slates]] or [[CompleteMonster pieces of shit]], so the viewers won't question Anpanman's morals: they're either [[EmptyShell soulless husks that have no personality]], or [[HateSink utter assholes that have no redeemable traits]], so you won't really care if they die or not.

* BiggerBad: The [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the movies in both a figurative and literal sence, as they're often entities that're absolutely massive in size and have powers that make what Baikinman can do look like child's play.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Invoked regarding the [[BigBad Big Bads]] Anpanman fights at the climaxes of the movies, being superpowered [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-Foot Whatevers]] that want nothing but to lay waste to the world. Since Anpanman ''must'' kill them, the writers make them either [[FlatCharacter blank slates]] or [[CompleteMonster pieces of shit]], so the viewers won't question Anpanman's morals: they're either [[EmptyShell soulless husks that have no personality]], or [[HateSink utter assholes that have no redeemable traits]], so you won't really care if they die or not.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Invoked regarding the [[BigBad Big Bads]] Anpanman fights at the climaxes of the movies, they're all just superpowered [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-Foot Whatevers]] laying waste to the world. Since Anpanman ''must'' kill them, the writers make them either [[FlatCharacter blank slates]] or [[CompleteMonster utter assholes]], so the viewers won't question Anpanman's morals: they're either [[EmptyShell soulless husks that can't feel pain and has no personality]], or [[HateSink pieces of shit with no redeemable traits whatsoever]], so you won't feel bad for them.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Invoked regarding the [[BigBad Big Bads]] Anpanman fights at the climaxes of the movies, as they're all just superpowered [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-Foot Whatevers]] that want nothing but to wreak havoc. Since Anpanman ''must'' kill them, lest they lay waste to the world, the movie writers make them either [[FlatCharacter blank slates]] or [[CompleteMonster utter assholes]]: the BigBad is either a soulless entity with no feelings or personality, or a {{Jerkass}} with no redeemable traits whatsoever, so the viewers will neither feel bad for them when Anpanman kills them, nor question Anpanman's morals when he chooses to kill them.

* BigBad: Baikinman, he's occasionally usurped by beings who're far more malicious than him, but even then he's usually the one who creates and unleashes them upon the world.
* BigBadEnsemble: Baikinman and whomever the MonsterOfTheWeek is...that is until said monster turns on him and decides to ruin his day, too.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Every movie has one, to the point where it's obvious they exist just so Anpanman has something fight and kill to end the movie off with a bang. Some of them aren't even sentient, being either robots of Baikinman's powered by the movie's {{MacGuffin}}, or mindless monsters unleashed by the movie's {{MacGuffin}}.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Every movie has one, to the point where it's obvious they exist just so Anpanman has something fight and kill to end the movie off with a bang. Some of them aren't even sentient, being either robots under Baikinman's control powered by the movie's {{MacGuffin}}, or monsters unleashed by the movie's {{MacGuffin}} that act purely on instinct.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Every movie has one, to the point where it's obvious they exists just so Anpanman has something fight and kill to end the movie off with a bang. Some of them aren't even sentient, being either robots under Baikinman's control powered by the movie's {{MacGuffin}}, or monsters unleashed by the movie's {{MacGuffin}} that act purely on instinct.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Every movie has one; an essentially blank entity that's immensely powerful and mindlessly wreaking havoc, serving more or less as a "final obstacle" for Anpanman to break through than an actual villain, let alone a character.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The [[BigBad Big Bads]] Anpanman at the climaxes of the movies are the only creatures he outright kills, as they're either machines of Baikinman's that have broken free of his control and are wreaking havoc, or a non-sentient being that only knows how to destroy. Since Anpanman has to kill said robot/monster to save the day, the writers try to make them as blank or as deplorable as possible; the robot/monster in question's either a soulless entity that has no feelings or personality, or does have feelings and a personality, but has no redeemable traits to them, so you won't feel bad it has to die.