Panda! Go, Panda!: The Rainy-Day Circus
The adventures are continued in another short film from the same staff, Panda! Go, Panda!: The Rainy-Day Circus (パンダ・コパンダ 雨降りサーカスの巻). In this episode, Mimiko and the pandas meet a ringmaster and one of his cronies, who were searching for something in their home. Mimiko is overjoyed, thinking that they are burglars, but they are quickly scared off by the family, and run away in fear. The family soon sit down to eat, but Panny finds his food has been eaten. In a way similar to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Panny finds what the ringmaster was looking for: a tiger cub named Tiny (Tora-chan).
After getting spooked by Tiny, Panny (along with the entire household) befriends the tiger. The next day, Mimiko goes to ask around town, to see if anyone knows where Tiny is from, only to lose both Panny and Tiny when Tiny goes to see his real mother. Mimiko is invited to the local circus, which is exactly the same one owned by the ringmaster that had tried to break in the night before, by a few of her friends. She gladly accepts the offer.
At the circus, Tiny shows Panny his balancing act. Panny tries to emulate the act, but ends up getting chased by the local circus performers and the ringmaster. To make matters worse, Panny crashes straight into the tiger cage, where Tiny's unhappy mother waits. Mimiko slips into the circus after someone yells that Panny is in trouble and runs into Tiny's mother. They swap the cubs (respectively, Panny to Mimiko and Tiny to his mother) and become quick friends. The ringmaster gives Mimiko and her family tickets to the show, but on the way home, a nasty storm breaks out. Overnight, it floods most of the land around Mimiko's hometown.
A frantic cry of help from Tiny (in the form of a makeshift bottled message) sends Mimiko and her family in a search for him. They learn from the ringmaster that the circus train is carrying all the animals, and it is stuck in the middle of nowhere. Mimiko and her family go to free the animals, which they succeed in doing, but unintentionally cause the train to start (due to the playful antics of Panny and Tiny). The train goes off the rails, and ends up in a collision course with the mayor's house, but PapaPanda stops the train, and Mimiko and her family become heroes. The film concludes with Mimiko and her panda family enjoying a day at the circus and later marching at home in a line while blowing brass horns (PapaPanda plays a tuba, Mimiko plays a French horn and Panny plays a trumpet that was broken earlier and somehow fixed later on).
