"Nabeshin" is the well-known nickname of anime director, Shinichi Watanabe. Watanabe himself is notorious for inserting himself into anime using his character, Nabeshin. He is the Deus Ex Machina of Excel Saga and a main character in Puni Puni Poemi, and while he does not appear explicitly in Nerima Daikon Brothers, it is almost universally known that the "rental guy" character is one of Nabeshin's incarnations as he, like all of Nabeshin's roles, is voiced by Brett Weaver in the English dub.  Additionally, he made a brief appearance in episode 24 of Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, and he is also the narrator in "The Road to Becoming a Lady" of the same series. Nabeshin also appears in episode 32 of Hayate the Combat Butler, and has a 1-frame appearance as a mechanic in Eyeshield 21, episode 16. In SKET Dance he had an appearance in episode 8 as a dub director.

Excel Saga is a one-of-a kind work of art that can only be described as the ultimate parody of anime. From the opening credits - a rather odd spoof of Japanese pop videos - to the ending song featuring Menchi the dog singing/barking a plaintive ballad while a human interpreter translates for viewers, nothing is sacred in the world of Excel Saga. 
 
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__Shinichi Watanabe__ is a Japanese director, episode director and storyboard artist for anime, while also being a voice actor.

Shinichi is best known for his over-the-top adaption of Rikudo Koshi's [Excel Saga](https://anilist.co/anime/379/Heppoko-Jikken-Animation-Excel-Saga), in which he appears as the character Nabeshin. In addition to his appearance in Excel Saga and [Puni Puni Poemy](https://anilist.co/anime/564/Puni-PuniPoemii), his likeness has also appeared as NB in [Tenchi Muyo! GXP](https://anilist.co/anime/1133/Tenchi-Muyo-GXP), Inu-Afro in [Dotto Koni-Chan](https://anilist.co/anime/1684/Dotto-Konichan) and in small role in [Mahoromatic](https://anilist.co/anime/276/Mahoromatic). He also does an unmistakable cameo of Nabeshin, which can be seen in [Nurse Witch Komugi](https://anilist.co/anime/615/Nurse-Witch-Komugichan/), although Shinichi had nothing to do with that project. In addition he made an appearance in the show [EyeShield 21](https://anilist.co/anime/15/Eyeshield-21). More recently he made an appearance in episode 32 of [Hayate no Gotoku](https://anilist.co/anime/2026/Hayate-no-Gotoku).

Shinichi claims that the nickname Nabeshin (which is an obvious combination of "nabe" in Watanabe, and "shin" in Shinichi) came from God himself.

(Not to be confused with the director [Watanabe Shinichirou](https://anilist.co/staff/97009/Shinichirou-Watanabe), which is most known for directing Cowboy Bebop)

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César Augusto Branco Marchetti, better known simply as César Marchetti, is a Brazilian actor and voice actor.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Jesús "Soos" Alzamirano Ramirez (Gravity Falls)
- Seu Edson (Irmão do Jorel)
- Fiddlesticks, The Ancient Fear and Thresh, The Chain Warden (League of Legends)
- Orion Pax / Optimus Prime (Transformers: Prime, Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising, Transformers: Robots in Disguise [1st voice - 1st-3rd season] and Mobile Legends)
- Toby Flenderson (The Office)
- Visconde de Sabugosa (Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo)
- Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Sox (Lightyear)
- Alastor / The Radio Demon (Hazbin Hotel)
- Glossaryck (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
- Kung Lao (Mortal Kombat X, 11 & 1)
- Stumpy (Amphibia)
- Discord (2nd voice - 4th-9th season; My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
- Wilden Lightfoot (Onward)
- Dr. Cal Lightman (Lie to Me)
- Cap'n Turbot (Paw Patrol)
- Dr. Peter Tezla (Hot Wheels franchise)
- Dionysus / Mr. D (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
- Russell Lightbourne (The 100)
- Charles Xavier / Professor X (2nd voice; Wolverine and the X-Men)
- Devil Dinosaur (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur)
- Tong (Raya and the Last Dragon)
- Paul Serence (Quantum Break)
- Mr. Harry Wormwood (Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical)
- X-5 (Atomic Betty)
- Forrest Woodbush (The Good Dinosaur)
- Sir Brad Starlight (Wander Over Yonder)
- Yusef Shaana (Elite)
- Greg Dillard (The Outlaws)
- Micke Eriksson (Young Royals)
- Morris OBrian (2nd voice - 6th-7th season; 24)
- Ika Chu (Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank)
- Gregório Casal (Violetta)
- Rey Gutiérrez (Soy Luna)
- Francis Ford Coppola (The Offer)
!~

Poemi Watanabe (a.k.a. Kobayashi) is a 10-year-old girl with aspirations of being a famous voice actress. Unfortunately, her school grades are bad and her voice acting is even worse. But when a mysterious alien kills her parents and wreaks havoc all over Tokyo, Poemi grabs a talking fish, skins it into a wand and becomes the magical girl Puni Puni Poemi to save the day.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Ungrar, the King of Viruses, has escaped from his prison cell in Vaccine World. Maya, the Goddess of Vaccine World sends Mugimaru down to Earth to find a human to accept the powers of Vaccine World and become the Magical Nurse. He finds the best (and the only willing) person for the job when he meets Komugi Nakahara. Komugi is a playful, lazy, and easily distracted (typical) teenager whose dream is to become a cosplay idol. Balancing her career with the Kiri-Pro Promotion Company and her new job battling Ungrar's loyal henchman, the Magical Maid Koyori, Komugi delights audiences in this parody anime series. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Takano Kyohei, Oda Takenaga, Toyama Yukinojo, and Morii Ranmaru are going to rent a house to go to school for free on the condition that they make the girl of the house a "lady". However, Nakahara Sunako, the girl living there, is gloomy, weird, and horror movie maniac. She has a trauma of when she was told she was ugly by the boy whom she loved when she was in junior high school. She doesn't like beautiful things and gets a nosebleed when she looks at something beautiful. 
(Source: AnimeNfo)

Hideki, leader of the Nerima Daikon Brothers, has a dream to build a dome in his hometown of Nerima to hold a concert for his band. Together with his cousin, Mako (whom he has a crush on), Ichiro, and Pandaikon (a panda he found in his yard that resembles a daikon), they strive to make money any way they can, and in the process, rid the world of evil-doers and steal their money in the process. With help from a rental guy, Nabeshin, who rents them outrageous items that always seem to help them defeat the bad guys, the Nerima Daikon Brothers sing their way to victory but always manage to lose the money they stole in the end. Even under the investigation of Inspector Karakuri, they never fail to fight for justice the Nerima-Daikon way.

Hayate Ayasaki's life wasn't great, but when he loses the job he used to support his good-for-nothing family, and his deadbeat parents sell him to the Yakuza for cash, it really hits rock bottom! Faced with having to pay off the huge debt before he's converted into black market organ parts, a desperate Hayate decides to kidnap oddball heiress Nagi Sanzenin for ransom... but when even that goes wrong and he accidentally ends up rescuing Nagi from other kidnappers, it turns out that Hayate is the bodyguard that Nagi has been looking for! So now he's the Sanzenin family's butler, and… maybe… it might be the start of a potential romantic relationship… assuming Hayate can survive the on-the-job training, of course. 
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

In a world where ESP is common, only three people have them at the highest possible level. Those three are the special ESP team, The Children. The Children work for BABEL, a special ESPer organization committed to stopping crimes before they happen. Kouichi Minamoto is assigned to watch over them, and he'll need to, because three superpowered ten-year-olds are a problem on their own. 
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Yuuri Mito is a typical, normal Japanese teenager. He goes to school, works on people's motorcycles and performs exorcisms. Okay, that last part's a little bit unusual, but his family lives in a shrine and they do that sort of thing. Still, you would think he'd know enough to be careful with an ancient relic he finds in the woods, especially when a mysterious goddess appears and tells him to leave it alone. Unfortunately, despite Mito's best efforts, the seal gets broken anyway and a number of dangerous "tayuti" that it held in stasis get loose. This is bad. Mito also ends up with a beautiful goddess girl who decides that she's going to marry him. This might not be so bad. if he wasn't already caught up in the middle of a war between the entities he's released. The flesh may be weak but the spirit's more than willing to compensate. 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Junpei Kousaka is a second-year high school student who despises cats and has an allergy to them. It just so happens that his high school crush is Kaede Mizuno, a girl who adores cats. One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately beans the local neko-jizou-sama (guardian deity of cats). He finds he can now understand what cats are saying, including his family's own ill-tempered cat, Nyamusas. However, if he does not grant 100 wishes from cats, he will turn into a cat himself.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

At Kaimei High School, the Living Assistance Club (aka the Sket Brigade) was organized to help students with problems big or small. Most of the time, though, they hang out in their club room, bored, with only a few trivial problems floating in every once in a while. In spite of this, they still throw all their energy into solving these worries. 
(Source: Crunchyroll)