The premise is absurd, a pig collecting magical underwear with his cat friend, but the show commits to it with the kind of deadpan sincerity that makes nonsense feel like adventure. Each pair of underwear is a new world with its own logic, and Panpaka moves through them the way a real adventurer would move through a real quest. It's a short that understands the joy of ridiculous specificity, where the joke is never "underwear is funny" but "look at this completely earnest mermaid underwear arc."
Panpaka is a determined young piglet with one goal: tracking down wonderful underwear. His cat friend Pu-nyan joins him on the hunt, and together the pair push past one obstacle after another to reach rare and special pairs, from a mermaid's underwear to a kung-fu style pair. This third season of the short-format comedy picks up after Panpaka Pants W-O-New! and brings more goofy adventures built around the odd quest.