b to change the charge on the y electrode side to negative the area b can be addressed in the next sequence a second embodiment of the plasma display panel driving method according to the present invention is carried out based on the above described viewpoint fig1 is a view depicting a relation between a gray scale and an on state pattern in the second embodiment of the plasma display panel driving method according to the present invention as shown in fig1 in the second embodiment gray scale levels of 0 to 8 are represented by the sub frames sf 1 to sf 8 with a luminance weight of 1 for example note that in an actual plasma display apparatus the number of gray scale levels is increased by performing an error diffusion processing for example fig1 is a view for describing a driving sequence in the second embodiment of the plasma display panel driving method according to the present invention fig1 is a view depicting one example of driving waveforms in the second embodiment of the plasma display panel driving method according to the present invention as shown in fig1 and 13 in the second embodiment firstly as driving for the sub frame sf 1 reset adj and add are performed onto the area a then reset adj and add are performed onto the area b and sus is.