Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai • Kaya-chan isn't Scary - Episode 1 discussion

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*With great power, comes great responsibility, or something like that.*

"The inner machinations of her mind are an enigma."

Kaya’s a pretty adorable little badass. She’s like a little Saitama the way she’s just one punching all the ghosts and ghoulies lol. Kind of nice she’s got Chie sensei as her little sidekick of sorts.

I’m curious how she’ll save her mom from whatever monsters got a hold of her. Seems it’s something really powerful.

After watching this premier episode, I am surprised "Kaya chan Isn't Scary" received an afternoon / early evening time slot. There was definitely a certain level of convincing horror. (Although I admit I watch very few horror titles.)

Next, I am impressed by the mental fortitude / willpower possessed by Kaya-chan. Misunderstood by others but still willing to protect them without complaining nor crying. Characters with psychic powers from other titles may have broken down at a much earlier age.

Lastly, Kaya-chan needs allies! On the bright side, she now has a teacher and friend, Chie, who is willing to believe her. And a friend, Mi-chan, who thanked Kaya-chan for protecting her!

P.S. Whatever that is residing in Kaya-chan's mother's room is going to be problematic.

it's Mieruko-chan, but she's smaller and has HAD IT!

also surprise same-day dub!

She's giving me Alluka, Killua's sister from HunterxHunter vibes

Scratch that. Kaya-chan *is* scary. Cute, but scary.

Jokes aside, it was a solid episode. This will somewhat fill the void of Dark Gathering, until the second season comes out eventually.

Girl see ghosts rule of thumb,

Strength against spook is inverse proportion to their age

Highschool girl can't do shit

Elemental schooler pekemoning spooks

Kindergartener beat the hell out of them

This anime is the love child of Mieruko-chan and Dark Gathering!!!

Strongest *psychic*, physically slaps around the ghosts lol.

Fun little first episode. Glad Kaya has Chie-sensei backing her up.
Will be interesting to see if she develops or uses some psychic abilities like telekinesis or something to exorcise the ghosts.

That kindergarten must be cursed to hell with the sheer amount of paranormal beings.

Felt bed for Kaya. Girl had nothing but good intentions in protecting her classmates but always got treated as a troublemaker due to them not being able to see the malicious beings. Happy that she's got an ally in Chie-sensei, who's got the heart to trust her despite not being able to see them.

Just what the hell is inside her mother's room? Kaya could exorcise the others without any issues but not this one.

That was a great start!
I usually don't watch seasonal anime (due to pure lazyness lol) but I'll make an exception :D Kaya-chan is creepy-cute.

So, we got telepath Anya last season, then this season we get Demon Anya and Spooky Anya. Well then, adding this to the follow list

[This kid is literally Yayoi 2.0.](https://i.imgur.com/SvGoicz.png) All that's missing is her taming these spirits and using them in ghost Pokémon battles. xD

So Kaya's exorcising evil spirits to become even stronger [so she can finally exorcise the powerful evil spirit haunting her mom?](https://i.imgur.com/fX7mkv1.png) If others can't see the spirits, I wonder how her mom looks normally to her dad.

Kinda solid ep 1, will be great to have something to watch while i am waiting for Dark Gathering ss2.

It's way cuter than Dark Gathering, not necessarily to it's benefit. And the humor is more simplistic because it involves a younger child.

But hey, this should tide me over until Dark Gathering S2.

That elementary school has way too many evil ghosts in it. Who seals an evil ghost in a children book anyway ? There were so many of them. And apparently, you should not flush ghosts down the privy because it clogs them.

Apart from that, this is obviously ripping off Dark Gathering, because I cannot believe you would independently get two manga with “scary little girl with purple hair beats up evil ghosts” as the premise. But this one looks more child friendly (not that it is hard, Dark Gathering is very, well, dark), and the story is fine for now. Let’s see where this goes from here.

Same day dub?

***And there are no text overlays unless you watch in Japanese?***

Thank you, CR, the only constant you are good at is being inconsistent 🙌🏾

That quick turn-run and pose made me remember the trailer ‘Weapons’ and I still am not brave enough to see it.

Oh that boy is like Langa (Sk8 Infinity).

>Push me

>Someone push me

**They’re the same picture**.

Oh absolutely the fuck not, dafuq in the Shadow Realm is this?

**Welp**.

Her dad is such a cutie!

Is her mom a ghost now?

Awwwww Sensei is adorable. And Kaya is so cute.

…what happened to her mother?

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I commend anyone who works in childcare. I am not at all cut out for it, but props to yall.

Does Kaya’s mom may have mental health issues, and that’s compounded by the ghosts/phantoms? I can see it if she struggled with depression and/or anxiety, and those fears were fed on constantly until, well, this.

The dad, I am suspicious on. I hope he’s just an oblivious guy. I’d be shocked if he actually knew this whole time and simply pretended not to avoid giving any sort of power to those things. Maybe he’s also having underlying mental health issues, and that’s what has those things cling to him? 🤔

Bet Kaya could 1v1 Sukuna

Close enough, welcome back Yayoi-chan!

Who is that ominous purple-haired little girl? It's Kaya-chan (Azusa Tachibana!), who attends Hanamugi Elementary school and is always getting into trouble with the other kids. She's always telling them not to do stuff, always coming off weird, and just causing incidents. Other teachers have given up on her, but Chie-sensei (Maaya Uchida!) just won't leave her alone. But she doesn't know the full scope of Kaya-chan.

It's normal for kids to be on swings, right? Well, not when said swings seem to be deliberately pushing them so far that they might get swallowed up by spirits...luckily Kaya is there to slay any supernatural horror that appears before her as the world's strongest psychic! Her pout is also pretty powerful.

The OP is very on-point with Kaya (and Chie) dealing with supernatural problems along with a colorful cast of characters, balancing out Kaya as a child with Kaya as a supernatural slayer. She'll have fun with her friends...but when she sees a spirit haunting Chie, she'll lock in.

Chie learned an important lesson...don't undue the tape on books Kaya-chan taped up, lest you be devoured by a bad monster. Though kind of ominous ending that the oblivious principal gives the "bad" books to a used book store where they can be collected by anyone.

It's nice of Kaya to help pry off any spirits on her dad (Toshiyuki Morikawa!) and it's also nice of her to help Micchan go to the bathroom even in a toilet stall that is clearly not safe. Feels like Kaya isn't just a hardcore supernatural slayer, she's very caring and wants to have friends who rely on her. And if you trust her, she'll reward that trust by saving you.

Of course she still ends up taking the fall for the bathroom incident...but Chie comes in and takes the fall for her instead. She might not see supernatural entities on the regular, but she knows Kaya is legit and a good girl, and is willing to trust her. And things ended up okay with Micchan too.

It's nice that Kaya's dad is involved with her life down to walking her to and back from school...but what about her mom? Whatever is up with her, it's some SERIOUS supernatural horror going on. And the only thing that Kaya can't defeat, despite all her power.

The ED has Kaya all alone but together with Chie they'll run through supernatural horrors so she and her classmates can have truly happy memories together.

Kaya-chan is a bit scary

Kaya may or may not be scary, but she's 100% hilarious. The fact a kid at a daycare could pull one of the realest ["I am so done with this place"](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/ef66a7386ec8.jpg) faces ever had me dying.

Also, can't get enough of the how funky and Halloween-y the ED is.

Kaya needs to go to Jujutsu Elementary

Interesting setup, hope it isn't a monster-of-the-week show

Random Thoughts

Ah Dark Gathering...Kindergarten Edition!

With special guest star Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti!

This was a pretty good first episode, and scratches the horror itch better than Dead Accounts did. I always love East Asian ghosts...they are always more messed up then Western depictions. The stuff with Kaya's mom should be interesting to see play out.[](https://rezero.fandom.com/wiki/Petelgeuse_Roman%C3%A9e-Conti)

Great first episode. I gotta say the OP and ED songs are bangers as well

Kaya is a cutie and I hope she finds friends. Sad how she is protecting everyone and gets such a bad rep.

This is very reminiscent of Dark Gathering, but seemingly a bit lighter. Why is that preschool so infested with ghosts anyway lol? Are they all there because of Kaya?


This seems pretty good, so I will def keep watching.

I'm very happy with Chie-sensei's voice. Good work with the ghost voiceovers as well. Solid production, hopefully they get to /that/ chapter soon.

Its Dark Gathering but a little more wholesome and cute

too bad the don't use US stall design. Then they hey could have just crawled out under the wall.

Was a bit surprised with the music at the end. Then I checked and its Kohta Yamamoto doing the music.

Interesting start, and I’m really glad that the demons of whatever actually look scary enough.

Though it does make me wonder if the manga is a 4-koma? It was a bunch of smaller instances instead of a longer adventure. For now anyway.

Surprised there’s no comments yet on a pretty fucking dark thing… if we accept books infecting other books bit: books infect other books + Taking it to a fucking bookstore = free real estate

Cue those that would buy these books aka for children…

All I’m saying is fire is a amazing invention

So this Yayoi from dark gathering but kindergarten. Ok, Yayoi was already kindergarten sized.

While the production on this isn't the best, I still enjoyed it! I teach neurodivergent children around Kaya's age and it feels like there's a metaphor to be had here for being an undiagnosed child not believed about her struggles and why she does what she does.

LET'S GHOOOOOOOOST

Lowkey these are some dogshit childhood educators

Not once in any scenes so far have they ever tried to ask why Kaya is doing any of the things she's doing. How do you expect to get a rowdy kid to stop doing something without asking that?

Ok there we go, finally some teacher asking Kaya why she did something. Though honestly in this case it barely makes sense to, how do you assume a child managed to break a bathroom door down or cause the water to splash up like that, I would more so be asking what happened and how

Kaya and Yayoi should team up to solo fiction tbh

Man that glitch/flicker effect is super annoying, even if the story were better I don't think i'd continue watching because of it

Glad Chie-san caught on and chose to guard the guardian. Kaya-chan needs all the help she can get. 

What if you were employed at the world’s most inexplicably haunted kindergarten and your only salvation was a psychic toddler? This is the question this show dedicates itself to answering.

Genuinely, why the hell is this place so riddled with ghosts? Is the rift between worlds extra weak there? Did people use to make human sacrifices at the spot? Does it just have bad vibes?

Great, the curse has broken containment. Alert, haunted books are being released to the unsuspecting public! Please beware of anything that whispers in your ear in bookstores.

Long term problem, the evil spirit that’s maybe possessing her mom. I’m sure that will be a doozy to deal with later down the line.

Ghost punch toddler and scapegoat teacher teaming up in this brand new exorcism horror-comedy that you didn’t know you wanted.

Adorable

This show has a horror from the depths of hell and I am very about this now. Kick some ass, Kaya

See, this is why you don't build kindergartens on a site of a former morgue or whatever god-forsaken thing happened there. That's far too much haunting for a kindergarten. They need to consecrate the land and then use it for something that can better use the malignant energy, like a supplements company.

So you're telling me that psychics and ghosts aren't well known or established to the public in this universe? I call bullshit.

The constant flickering is rough on the eyes, shame that they are leaning on it so hard.

This was a decent intro episode, if a little repetitive. The ghost haunting Kaya's mother was the most interesting part. Am interested to see the extent of her powers as she easily 1-shot all the ghosts. Which leads to the question of why she just didn't do that instead of getting in trouble?

Also the bathroom scene was a bit odd. The other stalls were occupied, so why didn't the other girl ask the kids in there to hurry up? And didn't they hear her calling for help or at least come out when the door was smashed down?

Definitely different. Tho, I feel kinda bad for Kaya-chan.
I mean like simply wow. Will keep watching tho.

This one didn't hit for me, the below average production values and generic ghost designs really don't elevate the ''scary'' atmosphere at all, so the whole premise kind of falls flat in it's execution. I can tell this plot is going to be pretty formulaic and get old fast.

I don't see much of a reason to watch this over something like Dark Gathering or Meiruko-Chan that do it far better...

I like it so far. But man the “glitching” effect during the haunting scenes is annoying. I hope they tone it down going forward. It’s awful.

Pretty intrigued after that last scene, but I really wish they would turn down the frequency of the static effects whenever something paranormal is happening. It's really excessive imo.