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“Two contrasting high school girls engage in absurd, profanity-filled meta comedy with pop culture references.”
Pop Team Epic
ポプテピピック
7.78
1,557 rank · 13,691 readers · 460 favorites
Gag Humor
Parody
Comedy
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Synopsis
Two contrasting high school girls engage in absurd, profanity-filled meta comedy with pop culture references.
Two high school girls, the short and exceptionally quick to anger Popuko, and the tall and much more calm Pipimi, do insane things and swear like sailors in this absurdist comedy filled with references and meta humor.
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Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
8.3
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8.5
mode 6
σ 1.48
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.48 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.25
Running avg · Aug 2016 → Apr 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I've watched the anime on repeat a lot. It was one of the animes I laughed more. On 2026, the manga finally was released in Spain (the first volumen so far). Honestly, there were not any single...”
- 10 “Honestly, this manga made me laugh so much to the point that my stomach hurts, heck I have the strips saved on my phone just because of how absurd and hilarious it is. The amount of Japanese and...”
- 8 “There haven't been a single page that haven't made me laugh. Poputepipikku or Pop Team Epic, is a 4-koma, seinen gag manga that is bustling with intuitive and surreal comedy. With characters...”
Verbosity
Short · 50%
Medium · 50%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Aug 2014 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M37341 catalog