Mawaru-Penguindrum (Spinning-Penguindrum) is a Summer 2011 Anime First directed and co-written by Kunihiko Ikuhara, famous for his work on Revolutionary Girl Utena, and animated by Studio Brains Base. It has character designs by the manga author Lily Hoshino (Otome Youkai Zakuro), and the original series has also spawned a series of novels (written by Ikuhara and Kei Takahashi) that are being released alongside the anime. Yeah. This show is weird.