With a premise as absurd as an ancient Chinese military tactician reincarnating 1,800 years into the future to support a Japanese singer in Tokyo, there's expectedly a lot of laughs to be had.
Episode 1
- When the freshly-reincarnated Kongming walks out of the alley he wakes up in, he finds himself in modern-day Tokyo, Japan, in the middle of a Halloween costume party in Shibuya. His immediate conclusion is that he's wound up in Hell.
- A pair of partygoers notice Kongming and gush over his "costume" and how in-character he is, unaware that he is in fact the real Kongming. They then make him drink some alcohol, which Kongming takes as one of Hell's punishments since it burns his throat, before dragging him off to go clubbing, which Kongming also accepts as another punishment.
- Greatly impressed by Eiko's singing, Kongming introduces himself to her, but since he still thinks he's dead (as well as a little inebriated), he weirds her out by asking her to lead him further into Hell so he could command an army of corpses and spirits. Eiko can only tell him to not drink too much before quickly leaving to help out elsewhere in the club.
- When Eiko finds a piss-drunk Kongming passed out on the street the next morning, he's cursing Sima Yi in his sleep.
- In Eiko's apartment, Kongming expresses shock and wonderment over various mundane modern objects, believing Eiko's smartphone is a bizarre kind of book or that her mirror was a form of sorcery. He then gets caught up to speed on modern times - after asking Eiko questions for four hours straight, with her finally having enough by the time Kongming touches on blockchains.
- This includes Kongming trying to use a strange gizmo which he puts in his mouth and which Eiko admits she doesn't even know what it is.
- On Kongming's job application to work at the BB Lounge, you can see he's written down that he was born in the second century in China.
- Eiko is understandably completely at a loss when Kongming and Kobayashi suddenly start discussing Ma Su from the Three Kingdoms, and mistakenly interprets his name as "muscle" at first.
- Kongming questions why the song in the club was slower than it was when he first came there, and Eiko tells him about BPM and how the crowd gets more pumped the higher it is. He likens this to onlookers getting more excited when his old comrade Zhang Fei was chugging booze, and then Kobayashi runs up to them to excitedly ask if they were talking about the Three Kingdoms.
- Eiko expresses some worry for Kongming since it's his first day as a bartender. These worries turn out to be unfounded when she sees Kongming juggle a load of drinks and bills without breaking a sweat. He even serves up a fuzzy navel to a customer before he finishes asking for one.
Episode 2
- Eiko comically agonizing over her low follower count, since her obscurity would mean there's no way she'd get to perform in big-ticket music festivals.
- Kongming refuses to stop his eccentric behavior when heading to a concert with Eiko, still wearing his usual attire and holding onto his trademark feather fan, as well as commenting on the prospective military applications of a stamp the staff put on his hand.
- Kongming's sudden, supremely smug expression when declaring Mia's strategy of using Eiko to be ill-concieved, which a concerned Eiko comments on.
- After the credits, there's Eiko's absolutely stunned expression due to her rapidly-increasing follower count, where she's blankly staring into space while her phone keeps buzzing from the notifications.
Episode 3
- Eiko's comically happy grin and giggles as she looks at her improved follower count.
- Kongming reveals that he'd gotten Eiko a spot at an upcoming music festival, using a well-edited video of her Ladies' Ready Night performance created by one of her fans. When Kobayashi asks how Kongming paid him, he simply replies that the payment was a picture of Eiko, making Kobayashi cry foul for fan exploitation and Eiko angrily asking when Kongming took that picture.
- On Takeshita street, Kongming passes a girl wearing a traditional Chinese dress, and excitedly runs up to her and ask if she too had been reincarnated like he was, startling the poor girl. Not helping matters is Kobayashi running up to try and vouch for him, followed by an exasperated Eiko having to drag the two away from her.
- After using the strategem of "creating something from nothing" to steal Jet Jacket's audience and make Eiko's performance a smashing success, Kongming says that there are still some finishing touches to add, shocking an already-stunned Kobayashi with how elaborate his planning is. Said "finishing touches" turn out to just be some free drinks for Eiko's new fans.
- An angered Jet Jacket confronting Kongming has some laughs.
- Kongming deliberately and unconvincingly lies that he has no idea what Jet Jacket is on about when they accuse him of tricking them, all while giving them an extremely smug smile.
- Kongming reaches into his sleeve, making Jet Jacket's lead singer think he's about to resort to violence - except it just turns out to be a drink in a bear-shaped bottle.
- Kongming tries to convince him to drink it, claiming it will soothe his throat, and he understandably refuses. One of his bandmates, however, asks for a sip - and it causes him to fall to the ground in disgust, though he just as quickly recovers to claim that it actually works. The other bandmate also takes a sip, and his face similarly contorts from the terrible taste before he confirms his throat feels amazing.
- When Kobayashi later asks Kongming why he treated Jet Jacket with such courtesy despite them being rivals, Kongming notes that it was still important to appreciate adversaries, though he then grimly notes that if the present wasn't so peaceful, he would have had to kill them and line their heads up on stage.
Episode 4
- Tsuyoshi Kondo's rather eccentric means of talking, where his secretary will speak in his place right down to replicating his accent and speech patterns.
- Eiko's fan is shown creating positive posts about Eiko on social media for extra engagement.
- Eiko balks when learning about the "100,000 Likes for the Right to Appear" project, noting that her best post on social media was just a picture of some cats for about 1,400 likes.
- After Eiko chooses to try for Summer Sonia and take on the project, a pleased Kondo suddenly speaks instead of his secretary, with some Gratuitous English to boot, requiring a confused Kobayashi to get a translation from Kongming.
- When a concerned Kobayashi asks Eiko how she plans on getting the likes, she happily professes that Kongming will surely come up with a plan - only for Kongming to say it will be tough. Cue Eiko comically falling to her knees and breaking down in a panic, complete with a Big "NO!" in English and Toccata and Fugue in D minor playing in the background, all while a concerned Kobayashi is standing next to her.
- Eiko asks Kongming what he's up to, and he launches into a long spiel over some recent astrology and fortune-telling, confusing her.
- Kongming's manly handshake with a friend of his in Roppongi, who is a foreigner that speaks in English only.
- At a club, Kongming reveals he'd bought a ridiculous pair of glasses to party in, Eiko is vehemently opposed to him wearing.
- Eiko's fan can be seen in the crowd while Eiko is calling out to Kongming, who quickly darts out of view before she can see him.
Episode 5
- As Kongming continues to work towards recruiting a rapper, Eiko and Kobayashi wonder what they'll be like, with equally ridiculous results.
- Eiko envisions a hulking, brutish soldier straight out of the Three Kingdoms that starts destroying the BB Lounge with a gigantic mic-shaped mace, causing her to tell a confused Kobayashi to reinforce the furniture in a panic.
- Kobayashi, meanwhile, wishes that Kongming's rapper will be a Three Kingdoms geek like him, and imagines himself rapping together with him about it.
- Sekitoba beats a punk who was harrassing Kabe into submission with a few kicks. When Kabe tells him that he doesn't want to rap anymore, he kicks the punk again for no reason, who gives a Big "WHY?!" in pain.
- Said punk's girlfriend also has no idea what's going on, and reacts to everything with Dull Surprise, forcing her boyfriend to explain everything from who Kabe and Sekitoba are to what Sekitoba is doing when he starts freestyling. She even takes a picture of her boyfriend's battered face for no reason.
- One of the rap disks in Kabe's apartment is 3Pac's Butter Days, complete with the album cover showing the rapper from the back instead of the front.
- Kabe, who just wants to avoid any more trouble that day, heads to the laundromat. Inside is Kongming in a tracksuit since his usual garb is getting washed, who a dismayed Kabe thinks is going to be the most troublesome person he'll meet that day.
- Kabe, who's reading a Three Kingdoms manga while waiting for his laundry, immediately catches onto who Kongming is (or at least dressing up as) due to his hat and beard. Kabe desperately tries not to take another look at him since he knows it won't end well, but his curiosity gets the better of him, and he exclaims he really is Kongming when seeing him use his trademark fan.
- Kabe is understandably confused when Kongming regales him with the tale of King Wen not disturbing Tai Gong Wan when he was fishing.
- The visuals of Kongming's rap/sutra verse to Kabe.
- The rap/sutra is even funnier to those who have a moderate understanding of Kongming's history, as this is the man who once killed Wang Lang with nothing but his words, so of course Kongming would be able to spit absolute fire.
- The absolutely absurd sight of Kongming perched on a throne with a ridiculous golden statue with his goofy party glasses on and fan in hand, before spitting some Gratuitous English.
Episode 6
- In a flashback to his high school days, Kabe is listening to some music through his headphones, when two girls come up to him and ask what he's listening to. Poor Kabe completely freaks out, and all he can manage to say is that he's listening to sounds, weirding the girls out.
- Eiko struggles to work the pulley that lifts the curtain on Kongming's ridiculous throne, and she can only breathlessly ask where he found the thing.
- Eiko's general behavior during Kongming and Kabe's rap battle, especially when she gives Sekitoba mean looks for saying her tactician doesn't stand a chance.
- Kabe brings up Ma Su during one of his turns, and Eiko once again is completely confused, thinking he's saying "horse meat".note
- Sekitoba, who looks like an intimadating and crude thug, clearly and easily explains an ancient Chinese poem that Kongming uses in his last verse, surprising Eiko.
- Kongming says that he doesn't plan on going home since he wants to stay with Eiko, causing the girl to make an incredibly flustered face.
- After Kabe wins, Kongming agrees to grant him a wish as per the terms of their initial deal. Kabe thinks for a moment, and then asks for 100 million yen, which horrifies Eiko and Kobayashi, and they freak out even more when Kongming seems to actually be willing to go through with it.
- Kongming's utter shamelessness when "humbly" asking Kabe to join them again when he orchestrated everything from Eiko's set list to secretly giving him medicine in order to entice Kabe to return to rapping and convince him to team up with Eiko.
- Eiko panicking when Kongming's plan for her is to be heard across the world.
- Kobayashi calls Kabe a "general" after he agrees to join them.
