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Season 1
Episode 1 - That's How Love Starts, Ya Know!
- Okarun just got cursed by Turbo Granny, and Momo got captured by Serpoians. Things seem particularly bleak when the Serpoians are about to sexually assault Momo. Cue her phone ringing, followed by a Turbo Granny-possessed Okarun jumping out of Momo's phone to beat the crap out of the aliens.
- Momo, in turn, awakens her psychic powers, destroys the alien ship, and holds back the curse so that Okarun can act on his own.
Episode 2 - That's a Space Alien, Ain't It?!
- Okarun figuring out how to use the Turbo Granny's curse in his favor. With it, he's able to bite off five of the Flatwoods Monster's finger in an instant.
- Momo letting the Flatwoods Monster beat her into a wall in order to create a space where Okarun can safely hide while Momo puts her grandmother's talisman back onto the arch, causing the Flatwoods Monster to immediately combust and die.
Episode 3 - It's a Granny Vs. Granny Clash!
- Momo's grandmother's introduction. So far, the audience has been led to believe that she's just a middle aged quack exorcist, but the second she runs into Turbo Granny posessing Okarun, she proceeds to unceremoniously beat the crap out of the spirit.
- Turbo and Seiko get into an awesome standoff midway through their fight, wherein the yokai stands up to her full height to tower over Seiko and glare down at her, not flinching even as the edges of the barrier burn away at her. For her part Seiko just stares up at her unperturbed.
Episode 4 - Kicking Turbo Granny's Ass
- In a desperate bid to save Momo who was captured by Turbo Granny, Okarun makes her regret her initial offer by taking a big bite at her boobs.
- The climax of the big race involves Momo and a fully empowered Okarun racing through Shono City to beat Turbo Granny and the Bound Spirit Crab. Along with the animation being beautifully drawn and fast-paced, it's set to a modern take on William Tell Overture
. - Just when it looks like Turbo Granny has the kids cornered, Momo manages to catch a train headed for Kamigoe City. Though Turbo Granny, now fused with the Bound Spirit, is able to catch up to her, Momo reveals that she wanted her to follow since she was leading her to her true destination: a train sector covered in protective charms ready to exorcise the evil spirits.Momo: You're the fastest granny around. You'd have to be to live as long as you did. I get why no one could beat you. But the winner of this race, is me.
Episode 6 - A Dangerous Woman Arrives
- When one of the boys in Okarun's class (who'd always bullied him for being a nerd) approaches him to ask about Momo, he casually mentions a rumour that Momo will sleep with anyone and asks if Okarun can introduce them. This enrages Okarun so much that he seizes the guy by the collar to demand to know who's spreading the rumour, and when the guy indignantly asks Okarun if he wants to fight, he starts to transform and forces his former tormentor to his knees while threatening him to not spread rumours about Momo. Even though he immediately snaps out of it when the guy begs for forgiveness and apologises before rushing back to his seat to hide behind his magazine, the boys in his class are likely to think twice before messing with Okarun again.
- Even better when you remember that people without spiritual power can't see anything yokai-related, including Okarun's transformed form. So from the perspective of the other boys in the class, the weedy little four-eyed otaku dweeb who's spent the whole time as the class Butt-Monkey just snapped and forced a guy more than a head taller to him down to his knees.
- When Acrobatic Silky swallows Okarun and Aira in a rage, she hangs Momo up with her hair and threatens her, promising to spare her if she calls her "Mother" in Aira's place. Momo repeatedly provokes her instead, causing the furious yokai to swallow her as well. Then Turbo Granny steps up and points out that Silky also swallowed some of her own hair along with Momo... just as fierce flames erupt from Silky's mouth as Momo uses the lighter Aira had been holding to light her hair on fire from within her stomach, setting her hair ablaze and forcing her to spit the three kids out again.
Episode 8 - I've Got This Funny Feeling
- The last moment of the episode: Aira saves Okarun by manifesting the Acrobatic Silky's powers.
Episode 9 - Merge! Serpo Dover Demon Nessie!
- The merged alien declares his intent to punch Momo to death, stating she is too dangerous to take alive. Momo, currently drowning, makes a Bring It gesture.
- Momo uses what she knows about mantis shrimp to beat the Nessie. Namely, she psychically pushes away the water around it just as it moves to hit her full force, realizing that just like a mantis shrimp, such force outside water will rip its own limbs apart. With its melee ability destroyed, Aira is able to tie it up with her hair, Okarun runs down the hair, rescues Momo, and kills the alien by ramming through it.
Episode 11 - First Love
- Okarun, Momo, and Jiji chase a possessed, naked human anatomical figure running nonstop at a high speed through the streets. The musical accompaniment to this batshit insane chase scene is a mashup of Rossini's "William Tell Overture" and Offenbach's "Infernal Galop". Kensuke Ushio named it the William Hell Overture.
Season 2
Episode 1 - Like, This Is The Legend Of The Great Snake
- After nearly getting assaulted by the Kito Family in the hot springs, Momo gives herself and the audience a gigantic dose of Catharsis Factor by demolishing the Kito Family upon meeting them again in Jiji's house. Only Naki Kito's intervention stopped Momo from turning it into a complete Curb-Stomp Battle in her favor.
Episode 2 - The Evil Eye
- Props to the Evil Eye; once it possesses Jiji, it annihilates the Death Worm and makes it look easy despite its regenerative abilities, forcing the worm to retreat.
- Just as the Evil Eye is about to finish off Momo, Okarun arrives and blocks its superpowered kick.Okarun: You're gonna get such an ass-whoopin'. No one hits Momo!
Episode 3 - You Won't Get Away With This
- The fight between Okarun and Evil Eye is both a showcase of Okarun's skill and intelligence, and beautifully animated. When Evil Eye traps him in his Cursed House, forcing him into melee range where he can't dodge, Okarun turns his Super-Speed into Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs and overwhelms him completely. This is signified by the red light of Turbo Granny's powers progressively overtaking the purple lighting of Evil Eye's.
- Momo figures out how to force the deathworm out by drowning it, where it can die in the sun.
Episode 4 - That's Like, Way Deadly
- Momo, Naki Kito, and Manjiro all fight the Evil Eye at once, and he fights them off in a beautifully animated sequence.
- When Seiko arrives, not only does she fight the Evil Eye to a standstill mostly by herself, but she traps him inside Taro's hollow body using seals she prepared earlier and some help from Majiro's incantation.
Episode 6 - We Became A Family
- When the Hayashi first arrive, they seem like absolute jokers. Then they put on a musical number that has every cast member present but Jiji (who's a little tied up at the moment) furiously headbanging, as they draw a huge crowd of spirits who are also headbanging and throwing up the horns.
- Metawise, they got prominent singers to do the vocals! Marc Hudson for English, Kishow Taniyama for Japanese.
Episode 7 - Feeling Kinda Gloomy
- When Aira accidentally spills some of her boba tea on Jiji and awakens Evil Eye, Okarun, Momo, and Seiko all have thermoses full of hot water ready and react within milliseconds. Evil Eye is just slightly quicker on the draw with his barriers and blocks the liquid, but when the others said they would protect Jiji at any cost, they meant it. In the end, Momo hits Evil Eye with hot water she hid in her mouth by spitting it on him.
Episode 8 - You Can Do It, Okarun!
- Aira manages to hold off the Tulpa's attacks while Okarun is getting his head on straight.
- Once Okarun knows what to do, he matches his tempo to the Hayashi's rock and obliterates the Tulpa's army. While he's doing that, Aira is fighting the giant constructs with Deadly Dodging.
- Okarun calls out the Evil Eye to fight him so that they can solve this problem once and for all.
Episode 9 - I Want to Rebuild the House
- Okarun and Evil Eye have a badass, beautifully animated fight, including Evil Eye unleashing storms of spirit power, Okarun blocking him hit for hit, then unleashing rapid-fire punches on his stomach, and transforming into some sort of Eldritch Abomination that barely resembles an animate shadow of a human any more.
- One blink and you'll miss it moment: In the last explosion, bits of the house go flying everywhere. Manjiro knocks aside a piece that was going to hit Seiko, and Seiko doesn't even flinch.
Episode 11 - Hey, It's a Kaiju
- As part of the extended battle with the Kaiju, Acro Aira extends half her hair to brace against a nearby building, so she can use the other half to grab a multi-story tall crane and pull the entire thing down to slam into the Kaiju.
- Aira in general again shows what she can really do in these extended fight scenes even against a huge foe, and it is very impressive despite her also displaying the lack of ability she has to inflict much damage on armored foes regardless of the scale of her attacks, a weakness that gets addressed in the next arc.
- Not to be outdone, Momo proves again her psychic hands can grab anything, as she grabs the Kaiju's lightning and throws it back at the giant, stunning it.
- Kinta is able to almost single-handedly transform the Ayase household into a Humongous Mecha, complete with a Transformation Sequence and a theme song, to boot.
Episode 12 - Clash! Space Kaiju vs. Giant Robot!
- Evil Eye manages to toss the gargantuan Space Kaiju's foot away, knocking it off balance after it tried to step on him.
- Kinta learns to control the mecha by visualizing it as an extension of himself, allowing him to utterly trounce the Space Kaiju until it goes invisible.
- Momo manages to defeat the Space Kaiju with the help of Aira to hold the monster in place with her hair, so she can deliver the mother of all powerbombs with her psychic powers.
Manga
- Chapter 1: Ayase awakening her psychic powers and with them, destroys the Serpoian ship and holds back Turbo Granny from possessing Okarun.
- Chapter 2:
- Okarun figuring out how to use the Turbo Granny's curse in his favor. With it, he's able to bite off five of the Flatwoods Monster's finger in an instant.
- Ayase letting the Flatwoods Monster beat her into a wall in order to create a space where Okarun can safely hide while Ayase puts her grandmother's talisman back onto the arch, causing the Flatwoods Monster to immediately combust and die.
- Chapter 15: At Momo's urging, Okarun attacks on purpose for the first time in his yokai form. He proceeds to one shot Acrobatic Silky with a simple headbutt, blowing out most of a wall of the building they are in and leaving her embedded in another wall as well. Then Turbo Granny remarks that she considers this such a weak display of her power that she's insulted, implying she can hit much harder.
- Chapter 38: Most people would understandably quail or cut and run when faced with such a thing as the Mongolian death worm; even moreso when it's apparently emitting some manner of suicide-inducing vibe. Jiji and his abs don't have time for that. He hauls Okarun and Momo out of danger, keeps them both from hurting themselves, and even uses his own body as a shield to protect them. Damn.
- Chapter 43: Okarun defeating the Evil-Eye possessed Jiji who had previously dominated him in their fight.
- Chapters 44-45: Ayase using her telekinesis and her wits to lure the giant worm up to the surface so the sunlight will kill it, then using its corpse to try to stop the volcano
- Chapter 53: Jiji being told of the possibility that he could learn to use the powers of the Evil Eye for himself without going out of control.
- Chapter 61: Okarun showing the results of his training and pummeling the Evil Eye, giving the spirit no time to fight back. And to insult the Evil Eye further (as well as hide the fact he can no longer transform), Okarun calls him a weakling and refuses to fight anymore. This is all part of his plan, as he reveals. With the Evil Eye disappointed Okarun won't fight him any more, he agrees to a deal with Okarun where they fight once a week and he doesn't attack anyone else until he defeats Okarun. And thus the Evil Eye's destruction comes to an end.
- Chapter 85: Moe. Moe. Tri-beam.
- Chapter 97: The gang has launched a counter-attack against the invading space globalists. It's a rough battle, and everyone is pushed to their limits. At the sight of Shrimp and Aira getting hammered, Jiji draws on desperate inspiration to name his special ki-projecting technique and starts winding up a Kamehameha before settling on a more apropos Dragon Ball-inspired moniker. The accompanying two-page splash of destruction is glorious.The Evil Gun!!!
- Chapter 98: One of the invaders realizes how dangerous Jiji is and attempts to absorb his energy until he is nothing but a husk. Unfortunately for it, Jiji's chi is far too much for it to handle and dangerous for it to handle. Unable to release its hands, the alien unwillingly continues to absorb more of Jiji's chi until it explodes.Jiji: I've been constantly refining it. My chi. If you want it...I've got plenty!
- Chapter 105: Despite being critically injured, Vamola's adoptive mother, Banga, makes a titanic entrance in the stolen kaiju suit that resembles the Sumerians' god and keeps fighting to defend Vamola. When the broken and enslaved Sumerian men begin praying to their god for salvation, she castigates them, both for failing to protect their planet and for thinking only about saving themselves instead of young Vamola who had been trying to free them. She rages at them to get furious, to fight against the invaders who butchered their families and destroyed their homes. Even if they have to use their bare hands and teeth, they need to fight to protect Vamola, Sumer's last child and most precious treasure. Banga's speech ignites a fire in the broken Sumerians and they all charge into battle despite being almost naked and unarmed, laying down their lives to carve a path to freedom for Vamola.
- Chapter 108: After being down for the count a few chapters ago, Jiji and Aira get back up to continue their fight against their opponents. Despite their second wind, they still have a hard time fighting, and none of their attacks can harm the aliens. It is then when Okarun arrives and tells them what Granny Seiko and Turbo Granny taught him, applying Spiral Power into their attacks.
- Taking his advice, Jiji remembers one of Seiko's lesson and applies Spiral Power into his Evil Gun, which allows him to add some of Evil Eye's power into him. The added power strengthens his Evil Gun, allowing him to overwhelm not one, but two aliens' own beam attacks.
- Even after finding a way to bypass its electric barrier, Aira is still unable to break through Takonoka Ru Patcho's exosuit until she uses Spiral Power. Turning her hair into a massive drill, she breaks through the alien's otherwise unbreakable armor. And with Jiji reminding her to name her attacks, she pierces both the exosuit and its pilot.
Aira: Pirouette Noble Drill! - Chapter 109: Away from Jiji and Aira, Mr. Mantis Shrimp's fight with the mantis suit alien continues near the river. Mr. Mantis Shrimp dives into the river and, in clear boxer fashion, taunts his foe to follow him. Undeterred, the alien transforms into its water form, which it boasts to be a hundred times stronger, and attacks Mr. Mantis Shrimp with terrifying speed. It then pins him to a wall and injects poison in him, prompting Mr. Mantis Shrimp to counterattack. This is all part of Mr. Mantis Shrimp's plan, rope-a-dope. Now that his enemy is within punching range, he transforms into his Dover Demon Strong Style Twenty-Four form. Combine that with the fact that he is underwater, his power has increased 240 times. With a single Jet Punch, he blows his opponent away into oblivion. He then leaves the water, ejecting the poison from his body, and walks away while his opponent explodes.
- Chapter 111: Momo and Vamola are suffering from a Curb-Stomp Battle, up until Okarun finally arrives and speed-blitzes almost every Kur in the vicinity and saving Momo. Immediately following this, Aira, Mr. Mantis Shrimp, and Evil Eye show up, leading to a badass Team Shot of the crew ready to beat the Kur into a pulp.
- Chapter 113: The Space Globalist leader is able to carve space to become nearly untouchable. Taking inspiration from a previous fight with their soldiers that strikes from a different dimension, Momo deliberately leaps into his carving space attack to blast him open from within, followed by Okarun darting into his remains to rescue Momo and clean up the mess.
- Chapter 115-116: Kinta, having taken a nanomachine from the house premises to repurpose into a bike, makes a cool entrance (complete with Akira homage!) and then transforms the bike into a personal jet to try and save Vamola. When that gets shot down, he catches Vamola mid-fall, and with all his might, reshapes the house rubble (which is all nanomachines) into a sleek Humongous Mecha ready to throw down with Vamola's supersized slaughter suit. He then makes the first move by using Tokyo Tower as a weapon to whack the Kaiju suit away. Hastur attempts to emulate him by using the taller Skytower, but Kinta easily breaks it. Despite this, Hastur barely suffers any damage and easily breaks the Great Kinta into pieces and crushes the cockpit, where Kinta and Vamola are, in its hand. Unbeknownst to Hastur, the duo has escaped the cockpit and sneaks behind its arm to create a massive jetpack. Remembering Momo's advice on how to deal with a Kaiju, the duo sends Hastur hundreds of meters into the air, then slams him back to the ground, powerbomb-style.
- Chapter 127: In order to properly exorcise the ghost of class president Rin Sawaki's deceased childhood best friend, Mai, the gang and the Hayashi performers have put together a symbolic recreation of the fateful last drive which tragically cut that young life short. Mounted atop an appropriately garish parade float propelled by a squadron of burly men hoping to get a date with Seiko, they are collectively pursued through void space by hostile spirits taking the form of a school building with an angry face note and animated statuary of the Japanese equivalent of Johnny Appleseed
. The Hayashi vocalist takes a chunk of masonry to the dome, laying him out cold and weakening the float's defenses. At Seiko's prompting to use her emotions—loss, betrayal, regret, hope, sorrow, anger, all of them—Rin picks up the fallen mic and belts out a performance that knocks their attackers back. When Mai's spirit later joins in after regaining her memories and reconciling with Rin, the swarm of angry ghosts are blasted to bits.- Also, the sheer insanity of the ongoing chase throughout the city streets cannot be understated, at some points blatantly referencing Mad Max: Fury Road to underscore the sheer high-octane vehicular carnage.
- Chapter 147: The official English chapter's title; "It's a Megabrawl." While leading an army of goons to lay siege to a castle inside the haunted board game diorama, Momo and Zuma have run afoul of some heavy-weight fantasy beasties. Elephant toads! Griffons! Dragons! As their NPC forces are burned, crushed, and blasted, the situation is looking grim—right up until the entire Renjaku High student body and Zuma's gang come charging in to run the ones. Fire Emblem-style class matchups don't mean crap when you can throw down like the cast of Crows... and it turns out the gang in question did pay attention to those too.Momo: Oh no. Delinquent mages!
- Chapter 162: After causing a significant amount of misery for the past arc and longer, Fairy-Tale Card gets shredded by a Combination Attack from Rokuro's scanner gun/cannon, Zuma's umbrella blast, Saint Germain's sword, and Okarun's flying kick. Extra points: Okarun pulled that off after already using his two full power transformations for the day. His motivation? His girl is waiting for him, guess.Okarun: If it's for Momo-chan I can go All-Out!
- Likewise, a half-dead Zuma gets back up with the help of Bega and summons one last umbrella despite his own limit. The Fairy-Tale Card thinks luck is on its side and attempts to possess Zuma again to escape the fight, only for Zuma to resist it this time. The yokai tries to remind Zuma of his hatred for his mother, but Zuma shuts him up, having finally remembered his mother's love and sacrifice.
- Jiji and Evil Eye vs Enenra:
- Chapter 204: Evil Eye makes the first move by throwing a ninja at Enenra, which harmlessly passes through him. This temporary distraction allows Evil Eye to save Seiko, who was earlier defeated by Enenra. After putting her aside and covering her body with his jacket, Evil Eye goes on the offense, but like with Seiko in the previous chapter, his attacks phase through Enera. Since normal attacks won't work on their opponent, Evil Eye reluctantly switches to Jiji. Enenra casually dismisses Jiji because he's physically weaker in this form and doubts he can make any difference, until he is blasted by an Evil Gun.
- Chapter 205: Now knowing that there is an attack that can hurt him, Enenra goes in for the kill, only for Jiji to quickly switch to Evil Eye, whose powers increase their body's defense, to take the damage, and once there is an opening, they switch again to use the Evil Gun. Enenra figures out their tactic and quickly goes for a rapid attack, not giving them any chance to switch. What he didn't expect is for Jiji and Evil Eye to make a form of fusion in order to use both their powers simultaneously.
- Chapter 206: Enera decides to change tactics and turns into smoke in order to attack Jiji/Evil Eye from the inside of their body. Remembering Seiko's advice from a few chapters ago, Jiji applies the Evil Gun on ''himself'', pushing Enenra out of his body. After another Evil Gun, Jiji/Evil Eye grabs hold of Enenra, preventing him from dissipating again. What follows is Jiji allowing Evil Eye to take control and giving the Red Baron a Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that would make Jotaro Kujo proud.
Anime
- One for Science Saru, the team behind the anime. Every time Okarun transforms into his possessed form, the animation used to show him shifting is incredibly intricate and smooth. When most anime hide transformations behind stock footage, a hard cut, or a bright light, seeing one in real-time, with different animation each time, is nothing short of a marvel.
