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13. Final Episode

August 20, 2005

A dark formless flow that Maniwa identifies as Lil' Slugger starts to overrun Tokyo as a result of Maromi's disappearance. Meanwhile in Ikari's world, Ikari comfortable hangs about his world with Tsukiko tagging along. With the help of the old man, Misae appears and says goodbye to Keiichi as she fades away. Ikari realizes that the world he is in isn't real and tears it apart as the building blocks of the world turn out to be Maromi dolls. Back in their dilapidated world, Lil' Slugger appears as Maniwa appears with his new weapon, hoping to destroy Lil' Slugger before this manifestation of paranoia swamps the entire country...

12. Radar Man

August 13, 2005

Ever since he learned of how Lil' Slugger feeds on paranoia, Maniwa has engaged in the same crusade described in "The Holy Warrior," only for Maniwa, Lil' Slugger is his adversary. His world blurs between reality and delusion. After a failed attempt at defeating Lil' Slugger (who changed into an abnormal form), Maniwa turns to the old man for help. His dying words, and some insight from Misae, who he sees after hearing her over the radio, lead him on a strange journey to the origins of Maromi and Lil' Slugger. In the meantime, Maromi leads Tsukiko to Ikari's world. And then, just as Maromi fever reaches its peak, figures, images, and merchandise of Maromi suddenly disappear as some of the victims of Lil' Slugger fall back into their state of paranoia.

11. Entry Forbidden

August 6, 2005

Misae Ikari, wife of Ikari the detective, confronts Lil' Slugger when he comes for her about what humans really are and tells him about the problems he's caused.

10. Mellow Maromi

July 30, 2005

Maromi is getting her very own anime! However, the staff begins to fall behind as the deadline approaches. In the midst of this is bumbling Saruta Naoyki, the Production Manager. Things get even worse as, one by one, members of the production staff end up in the hospital (or the morgue), apparently courtesy of Lil' Slugger. Ultimately, it falls to Saruta to deliver the finished pilot episode to the TV station before airtime. There's just one problem: Lil' Slugger's after him, too!

9. ETC

July 23, 2005

After hearing of the incident in the previous episode, several women share rumors related to Lil' Slugger, most of which is farfetched. However, one of the women is having a hard time understanding the truth behind the rumors and impressing the other women. Returning to her apartment, she discovers that her husband has been attacked by Lil' Slugger. She tries to get the story out of him as he begs her to call an ambulance and slowly dies. Each of the ten Lil' Slugger rumors is a mini-story. In chronological order, they are named IQ, LDK, EBM, OH, HR, TKO, UMA, SOS, HH. The framing episode (ETC) comprises the tenth and final mini-story.

8. Happy Family Planning

July 16, 2005

Fuyubachi (Winter Bee), an old man, Zebra, a young man, and Kamome (Seagull), a cute 11-year old girl, seek different ways of committing suicide. After a big adventure going from Tokyo to the countryside, they encounter Lil' Slugger at a hot spring.

7. MHz

July 9, 2005

Ikari and Maniwa are receive word of Taeko's attack from the previous episode. Masami is devastated by Taeko's amnesia as Ikari looks from the sideline since it happened in a different district. Ikari and Maniwa interrogate Kozuka again to make him confess that he is merely a copycat. They manage to get out of him that he only attacked Usshi and Hirukawa but Ikari tries to get a full confession. However, Maniwa soon discovers another connection between the victims; they all were under some kind of stress and were relieved after the attack. But, he soon figures out that Taeko was also emotionally stressed and finds out that Taeko was attacked about the same time that Tsukiko fainted, meaning that Lil' Slugger can be nowhere and everywhere and that he feeds on paranoia. He tells Ikari but gives him an application for leave and tells him to take a break. However, Maniwa still pushes and soon realizes that the next target is Kozuka.

6. Fear of a Direct Hit

July 2, 2005

Ikari and Maniwa find the old homeless woman while a typhoon is about to make landfall. There they discover something from the old women that that turns the whole case around. Meanwhile, Taeko is reminiscing over her life. We learn that she was poor when growing up and was really attached to her father, Masami Hirukawa (the police officer from A Man's Path). However, not that surprisingly but quite disturbing, Taeko discovers a dirty little secret while leaving her father a present. This explains why she is wandering around the city despite the typhoon warnings. At the police station, Ikari and Maniwa are questioning Tsukiko again and try to make her tell what realy happened that night. As for poor Taeko, she is about to throw herself into a torrent of rushing water when she sees herself in the torrent. She realizes that it was the old lady who gets swept down stream. Taeko collapses and weeps as her father desperately calls her. Suddenly, Lil' Slugger appears and hits Taeko while Tsukiko collapses and falls to the floor.

5. The Holy Warrior

June 25, 2005

Ikari and Maniwa interrogate Lil' Slugger who turns out to be in the eight grade. Still, he admits to the attacks. However, he confuses his realities and believes that the world around him is a medieval-style RPG while his journey is to defeat the evil Gouma who posses other people to fight. Ikari and Maniwa follows Lil' Slugger through his "journey" and see that it does coincide with all of the attacks -- all except for Tsukiko Sagi. However, Lil' Slugger points the detectives to where the old lady is who may posses the truth.

4. A Man's Path

June 18, 2005

After these strings of attacks by Lil' Slugger, it turns out that each victim has some sort of relationship with previous victim. Masami Hirukawa is a police officer in the same district where the Lil' Slugger attacks have been happening. Despite calling himself a family man, he accepts bribes in the form of cash and prostitutes (apparently, Maria was one of his favorites) from the local yakuza group. Using the money, he builds a house for his family. However, Masami becomes too greedy and the yakuza sends Makabe to get the money back with interest. Masami ends up stealing money from people but always ends up short of Makabe's demands who just adds more to the list. In a drunken slur, Masami wants this all to end and ends up being clocked by Lil' Slugger and goes down, or so he thinks.

3. Double Lips

June 11, 2005

Haromi Chrono, Yuichi's tutor in the last episode, has a different side named Maria. Maria isn't like her at all. She's a prostitute and lives for the thrill of the moment. Soon she's getting married thinking she's finally free of Maria, only to have her takign over again and dragging her into the streets where she becomes the next victim of Lil' Slugger

2. The Golden Shoes

June 4, 2005

Yuichi (Ichi) was the most popular kid in school and is running for class president. A rumor goes through school that he's the street attacker Lil' Slugger and he thinks its his opponent in the eletion. His paranoia grows and soon they're walking home together until he gets attacked. Yuichi sees Lil' Slugger and chases after him, but to no avail. Soon..Yuichi becomes a victim himself.

1. Enter Lil' Slugger

May 28, 2005

Tsukiko Sagi is the creator of the popular Maromi. But with all that success meant jealousy from her co-workers. One night, she was walking home, then a boy with a metal baseball bat hitsh er over the head. Then a sleezey reporter wants to get a story on it, but he becomes a victim himself as 2 detectives look into the case.

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