One day Anpanman finds a big cloud over the sea, home to the School for Witches. One of the students, Lyrica, makes friends with Anpanman and leaves to join his gang. One night Baikinman and Dokinchan ...

The 'dastardly opponent' usually (always?) being Baikinman and his sidekick Dokkinchan, and the 'oppression' being stuff like trying to get a taste of the Anpanman crowd's picnic to which they haven't ...