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* VomitDiscretionShot: Downplayed; we see Divine Tree-laced cookie vomit flowing into the sink without being treated to the sight of Teru sticking his fingers down his throat (in the manga) once he understands how the brainwashing works. We do get a shot of Teru rinsing his mouth out in rather graphic fashion, though.

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* VomitDiscretionShot: Downplayed; we see Divine Tree-laced cookie vomit flowing into the sink without being treated to the sight of Teru [[AdaptationDeviation sticking his fingers down his throat (in the manga) throat]] once he understands how the brainwashing works. We do get a shot of Teru rinsing his mouth out in rather graphic fashion, though.
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''Shinju Ichi ~Kyōsō Tōjō~''\\

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''Shinju Ichi ~Kyōsō Tōjō~''\\
~Kyousou Toujou~''\\
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神樹1 ~教祖登場~\\

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神樹1 ~教祖登場~\\〜教祖登場〜\\
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* {{Brainwashed}}: Mob's friends and allies are brainwashed into worshipping the Divine Tree after ingesting food made from it. Tome has lost interest in [=UFOs=] entirely in favor of the Tree. Mezato no longer believes that Mob is responsible for the Tree's existence; she alludes to a meeting to settle the founder question prior to the live stream.

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* {{Brainwashed}}: Mob's friends and allies are brainwashed into worshipping the Divine Tree after ingesting food made from it. Tome has lost interest in [=UFOs=] entirely in favor of the Tree. Tree, while Mezato no longer believes that Mob is responsible for the Tree's existence; she alludes to a meeting to settle the founder question prior to the live stream.



** Over the credits, Dimple magnanimously shares credit for founding the religion with Mob as the child advances on the Tree. The townspeople lavish adoration on him, but aside from his [[HitPoints explosion counter]] percentage jumping up a few notches, the boy ''is patently uninterested''.

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** Over the credits, Dimple magnanimously shares credit for founding the religion with Mob as the child advances on the Tree. The townspeople lavish adoration on him, but aside from his [[HitPoints explosion counter]] percentage jumping up a few notches, the boy ''is patently uninterested''.unmoved'' by it.
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The next day, Mob calls out to Mezato before school: What happened to their plans yesterday? She ''forgot'', and apologizes for dragging him into all this Psycho Helmet nonsense... Tome also somehow forgot her plans with him, and announces a new purpose for the Telepathy Club, to the other members' dismay. Mob reviews the founder audition footage with Reigen, who shares his hypothesis about the source of the plant roots disintegrating all these buildings: The Divine Tree. It must be uprooted. After all, both of them bear some responsibility for its presence.

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The next day, Mob calls out to Mezato before school: What what happened to their plans yesterday? She ''forgot'', and apologizes for dragging him into all this Psycho Helmet nonsense... Tome also somehow forgot her plans with him, somehow... forgot? and announces a new purpose for the Telepathy Club, to the other members' dismay. Mob reviews the founder audition footage with Reigen, who shares his hypothesis about the source of the plant roots disintegrating all these buildings: The Divine Tree. It must be uprooted. After all, both of them bear some responsibility for its presence.



Mob is now certain he's being watched. It's clear that he and Reigen will need some help for Reigen's plan; they enlist Ritsu, but the younger Kageyama succumbs after eating some Divine Tree candy. He leads the two straight into a meeting of Psycho Helmet Faith adherents, who gently implore them to reconsider. They run for the hills, but somehow every other soul they encounter already knows what they're planning... and Reigen has been turned too. Mob has had enough of being gaslit by ''an entire city'' and sets off, now entirely on his own, to make things right.

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Mob is now certain he's being watched. It's clear that he and Reigen will need some help for Reigen's plan; they enlist Ritsu, but the younger Kageyama succumbs after eating some Divine Tree candy. He leads the two straight into a meeting of Psycho Helmet Faith adherents, who gently implore them to reconsider. They run for the hills, but somehow every other soul they encounter already knows what they're planning... and Reigen has been turned too. Mob has had enough of being gaslit gaslighted by ''an entire city'' and sets off, now entirely on his own, to make things right.



* {{Brainwashed}}: Mob's friends and allies are brainwashed into worshipping the Divine Tree after ingesting food made from it. Tome has lost interest in [=UFOs=] entirely in favor of the Tree. Mezato's memories immediately before and after the founder audition have actually been ''altered''; there was no meeting to settle the founder question prior to the live stream.
* EyeScream: In his own bid to take down the Divine Tree, Teru [[DeathByAThousandCuts hurls pointed chunks of it at Dimple, lacerating his flesh]]. A fairly large one pierces his ''eye''.

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* {{Brainwashed}}: Mob's friends and allies are brainwashed into worshipping the Divine Tree after ingesting food made from it. Tome has lost interest in [=UFOs=] entirely in favor of the Tree. Mezato's memories immediately before and after Mezato no longer believes that Mob is responsible for the founder audition have actually been ''altered''; there was no Tree's existence; she alludes to a meeting to settle the founder question prior to the live stream.
* EyeScream: In his own bid to take down the Divine Tree, Teru [[DeathByAThousandCuts hurls pointed sharpened chunks of it at Dimple, lacerating his flesh]]. A fairly large one pierces his ''eye''.
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Minegishi has also realized that something is wrong: many of the plants in the florist's shop where they work are ''dying''. When their unconcerned boss sends them on a break, they connect the strange plant death and the aggressive roots to the Tree, elects to take matters into their own hands, and collapses on the pavement, severely weakened... where the proprietor finds them a beat later.

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Minegishi has also realized that something is wrong: many of the plants in the florist's shop where they work are ''dying''. When their unconcerned boss sends them on a break, they connect the strange plant death and the aggressive roots to the Tree, elects elect to take matters into their own hands, and collapses collapse on the pavement, severely weakened... where the proprietor finds them a beat later.
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Minegishi has also realized that something is wrong: many of the plants in the florist's shop where he works are ''dying''. When his unconcerned boss sends him on a break, he connects the strange plant death and the aggressive roots to the Tree, elects to take matters into his own hands, and collapses on the pavement, severely weakened... where the proprietor finds him a beat later.

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Minegishi has also realized that something is wrong: many of the plants in the florist's shop where he works they work are ''dying''. When his their unconcerned boss sends him them on a break, he connects they connect the strange plant death and the aggressive roots to the Tree, elects to take matters into his their own hands, and collapses on the pavement, severely weakened... where the proprietor finds him them a beat later.



** Minegishi's eyes fill the screen as he mentally connects the dying plants in and around the florist's shop, the rapidly-spreading roots breaking the concrete, and the Divine Tree.

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** Minegishi's eyes fill the screen as he they mentally connects connect the dying plants in and around the florist's shop, the rapidly-spreading roots breaking the concrete, and the Divine Tree.
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!Divine Tree, 1\\
~The Founder Appears~

[-'''Japanese Title:'''-]\\
神樹1 ~教祖登場~\\
''Shinju Ichi ~Kyōsō Tōjō~''\\

[-'''Original Air Date:'''-]\\
26 October 2022\\\

The next day, Mob calls out to Mezato before school: What happened to their plans yesterday? She ''forgot'', and apologizes for dragging him into all this Psycho Helmet nonsense... Tome also somehow forgot her plans with him, and announces a new purpose for the Telepathy Club, to the other members' dismay. Mob reviews the founder audition footage with Reigen, who shares his hypothesis about the source of the plant roots disintegrating all these buildings: The Divine Tree. It must be uprooted. After all, both of them bear some responsibility for its presence.

Psycho Helmet faithful have gotten even more intrusive in their efforts to feed the very substance of the enormous broccoli to the city's people: candies, desserts, even ''croquettes'', handed out at every turn. The student council, at member Makihara's insistence, will be instituting a daily prayer session; Ritsu and Tokugawa are the only dissenters. Someone has graciously given Teru a box of homemade cookies made from the Tree. On first taste, he realizes something is very wrong and immediately leaves to confront what- or whomever is in the Broccoli himself...

Minegishi has also realized that something is wrong: many of the plants in the florist's shop where he works are ''dying''. When his unconcerned boss sends him on a break, he connects the strange plant death and the aggressive roots to the Tree, elects to take matters into his own hands, and collapses on the pavement, severely weakened... where the proprietor finds him a beat later.

Mob is now certain he's being watched. It's clear that he and Reigen will need some help for Reigen's plan; they enlist Ritsu, but the younger Kageyama succumbs after eating some Divine Tree candy. He leads the two straight into a meeting of Psycho Helmet Faith adherents, who gently implore them to reconsider. They run for the hills, but somehow every other soul they encounter already knows what they're planning... and Reigen has been turned too. Mob has had enough of being gaslit by ''an entire city'' and sets off, now entirely on his own, to make things right.

!!Tropes appearing in this episode include:
* {{Brainwashed}}: Mob's friends and allies are brainwashed into worshipping the Divine Tree after ingesting food made from it. Tome has lost interest in [=UFOs=] entirely in favor of the Tree. Mezato's memories immediately before and after the founder audition have actually been ''altered''; there was no meeting to settle the founder question prior to the live stream.
* EyeScream: In his own bid to take down the Divine Tree, Teru [[DeathByAThousandCuts hurls pointed chunks of it at Dimple, lacerating his flesh]]. A fairly large one pierces his ''eye''.
* ExtremeCloseUp: This episode contains a great many of these for maximum claustrophobic tension. Some examples:
** Minegishi's eyes fill the screen as he mentally connects the dying plants in and around the florist's shop, the rapidly-spreading roots breaking the concrete, and the Divine Tree.
** Multiple shots of Mob's horrified eyes and Reigen's face as they evade brainwashed citizens.
** Mob clutching his chest as it sinks in that even his ''shishou'' has been turned against him. The camera focuses on his hand gripping his gakuran and his mouth, twisting in distress.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Implied; Dimple's newfound strength is due to the vast number of Psycho Helmet congregants. As their prayer strengthens the Tree, Dimple taps into the accumulated energy. Without their prayer, Dimple is an ordinary 'high-level evil spirit'.
* HiveMind: One room of followers is alerted to Reigen's Operation Divine Weed Killer... and all other citizens touched by the leaves of the Tree know, too. They point accusing fingers from benches and watch Mob and Reigen from around corners, in order to shame the duo into standing down.
* StealingTheCredit: Zigzagged and downplayed.
** As the Psycho Helmet Faith arose from Mob's floating Dimple's followers out of harm's way while taking the spirit out, Mob has the most legitimate claim to it, but his ambivalence about ''leading a cult'' and his AcquiredSituationalNarcissism from the previous episode convince Dimple to seize the title of founder for his own aims.
** Over the credits, Dimple magnanimously shares credit for founding the religion with Mob as the child advances on the Tree. The townspeople lavish adoration on him, but aside from his [[HitPoints explosion counter]] percentage jumping up a few notches, the boy ''is patently uninterested''.
* SpitefulSpit: Teru to Dimple, as an aside, right before he promises to obliterate the spirit for good.
* StealthHiBye: Reigen gets carried away lecturing Mob on the importance of the Divine Tree to people's happiness... and doesn't notice that the boy is no longer standing before him until he opens his eyes.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Downplayed; we see Divine Tree-laced cookie vomit flowing into the sink without being treated to the sight of Teru sticking his fingers down his throat (in the manga) once he understands how the brainwashing works. We do get a shot of Teru rinsing his mouth out in rather graphic fashion, though.
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