Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai • Kaya-chan isn't Scary

Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai • Kaya-chan isn't Scary - Episode 4 discussion

*Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai*, episode 4

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szalhi2026-02-01 09:56

[*Of course Kaya-Chan isn't scary.*](https://i.imgur.com/9wEUxKo.jpeg)

[Milk tooth speedrun.](https://i.imgur.com/Eo5HkpP.jpeg)

[I will never get tired of Kaya being a occult slayer.](https://i.imgur.com/l9d722P.jpeg)

Chie still has some training to go with her esper levels.

Tama47_2026-02-01 13:06

>[Milk tooth speedrun.](https://i.imgur.com/Eo5HkpP.jpeg)

Good thing she can still get her adult tooth back. Though pulling a baby tooth out prematurely still gotta hurt.

karer3is2026-02-01 22:41

It's a miracle this kindergarten is even allowed to stay open... First the entire staff ignores a warning about a creepy dude talking to kids, then they leave a girl unattended despite her displaying some pretty unusual behavior.

CrimsonGear802026-02-01 10:32

Maybe if she kicked the womb reeeeeeeeally hard…

Tama47_2026-02-01 13:11

I feel like with how powerful Kaya-chan is, she should be powerful enough to exorcise it with just a flick of her finger, had she done it in the earlier stage before the "baby" or whatever developed into such a powerful spectre.

tripleaamin2026-02-01 16:59

It is definitely a case of her being scared of doing that to her mom. The thing with Kaya is when she exorcises, she just goes at it; there is no thinking. She goes all out only. Her hesitation makes sense because it is attached to her mother.

We know when that one Specter tried to mimic her mom's form, it was a touchy subject for Kaya.

TyraniTEMPESTar2026-02-01 10:40

Oooh we finally get introduced to the mystery surrounding Kaya's mother.

Seems like her pregnant mother's been possessed and is now going to give live birth to some sorta specter or creature from the "*other side*".
I wonder if she was possessed before getting pregnant, or after the fact and what sorta ramifications that could potentially mean, giving birth to something like that?

Although, some of the scary mysteries we've seen have had some "logical" explanations.
So I wonder if Kaya's mother is unknowingly carrying a stillbirth?
It would make sense Kaya could see the dead ghost " "*growing*" " inside her, and is unable to exorcise it still within her.
And maybe all that ghostly aura consuming her mother could be linked to some sorta medical complications like an infection carrying a dead baby within her?

Looking forward to seeing this mystery play out a bit more. And what this means for Kaya and her family.

KawaiiNeko8282026-02-01 12:56

I would like to think either Kaya's mother or father is "special". I mean there is likely some explainations about how Kaya got such a powerful power. What Mob said pretty much confirmed Kaya's mother was "normal" for me, so I lean towards the theory that the father has sth about him that we don't know. The way his character portrayed in anime so far really makes me think of that

Spoon_Elemental2026-02-01 19:21

I'm guessing she's just gonna have another kid like Kaya and everybody is freaking out because of course Kaya doesn't know what she would have looked like to the spiritually sensitive while she was in the womb.

WolfWhiteFire2026-02-01 22:54

I don't think so, we have seen spirit stuff getting on her dad after sleeping with her mom and being removed by Kaya to remove the negative effects on him, and if she looked like that to the spiritually sensitive before she was born, then you wouldn't expect her to seem normal to them now, yet we haven't seen any sign of Mob seeing a monster when he looks at her, only when looking at the baby. Both of those suggest that this is probably different than Kaya.

ObvsThrowaway51202026-02-01 10:45

Kaya’s been a real busy bee this week. She exorcised a creepy ass doll, saved a kid being stalked by a spirit, and even led to said spirit finding peace.

So it’s not Kaya’s mom that’s a Lovecraftian monstrosity, it’s the baby right? Or whatever it is growing inside her. That shit was genuinely frightening. I guess you gotta have some psychic ability to sense her. I can see why Kaya hates babies….

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-02-01 13:39

> I can see why Kaya hates babies….

Love when they bring back a line like that hah.

(Less of a delay, but I liked the "Oh, you're here too!")

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:53

>Kaya’s been a real busy bee this week. She exorcised a creepy ass doll, saved a kid being stalked by a spirit, and even led to said spirit finding peace.

And she's good at jump rope!

>So it’s not Kaya’s mom that’s a Lovecraftian monstrosity, it’s the baby right? Or whatever it is growing inside her. That shit was genuinely frightening. I guess you gotta have some psychic ability to sense her. I can see why Kaya hates babies….

It seems like the baby is playing host to the specter and in the process has wholly possessed Kaya's mom in the process. That's why Kaya sees her mom in its entirety as both that horrifying face in her moms' belly and also an empty hole where her moms' head would be.

Konabrah8082026-02-01 14:57

I thought Kaya’s mom had mental illness, stayed in bed due to depression and a badass ghost possessing her, didn’t expect a possessed fetus😭.

Flare_Knight2026-02-01 20:11

That's such a dark and perfect way for them to handle things. Why can't Kaya handle this threat? Because it's shielded. Her mother is a living wall and thus Kaya can't get direct contact with the specter. I guess in theory can wait for it to be born and find a chance to strike...but I mean that's all kinds of difficult. If the child is a human, whether being born will make it too powerful for Kaya, if it could survive being exorcised since it's basically been possessed from before birth, and whether Kaya will get into unbelievable trouble over...assaulting her newborn sibling.

Yeah...no wonder she dropped that hating babies line earlier.

PrimaryAde92026-02-02 00:23

Damn she just like yayoi's mom but alive,smaller and got a dark secret

shewy922026-02-02 01:06

>I guess you gotta have some psychic ability to sense her.

Yea, that was explicitly stated at the end after the credits.

toadfan642026-02-02 07:15

The visual at the end with the baby gave me Earthbound vibes

Burnouts3s32026-02-01 10:48

"Stupid baby."

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:56

Kaya actually having kind of legitimate reasons to resent and not want her little sibling lol.

OtherwiseProgrammer92026-02-02 04:12

She must want to whack him so much

thisisdropd2026-02-01 10:53

So Kaya saw her mother as a full spectre while Mob saw a hybrid instead. Wonder which vision was more accurate? There could be arguments for either side. Kaya had greater power so it's possible she's more credible but on the other hand her mother didn't act like a possessed being at all. Having said that while she didn't seem to be possessed, her baby being one might have some influence on her.

Tama47_2026-02-01 13:08

What I don't understand is why Chie-sensei can sometimes see spectre and other times not.

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-02-01 13:46

With Mob-dude, they hint at people having a varying level of occult powers, and with the little girl chased by the monster, there's also the idea that people can see them when they're directly targetted.

So Chie might be able to see *something*, but only when they're going after her, or at least somewhat involved with her!

ThatOneRedditor69102026-02-01 14:00

It's too powerful, I suppose. I only theorize that she can see the weaker ones if anything.

tripleaamin2026-02-01 16:53

Chie only really saw it that one time. Normal people like her can only see if they are targeted. Like the swimming pool incident with the kid last week.

Flare_Knight2026-02-01 20:26

All of them are accurate in a sense. Kaya's powers are so strong that the specter blankets her vision of her mother. Which reflects how absurdly strong that thing must be. Chie can't sense anything so only sees the human shell. Mob being in the middle gets the best view of the whole. "Best" being a relative thing here.

The only mercy I suppose is that the mother seems unaffected mentally. She's clearly affected physically and in terms of stamina. But I can't imagine having a specter possessed baby inside of her will do anything good for Kaya's mother in the long term...

Axros2026-02-01 23:45

> Kaya's powers are so strong that the specter blankets her vision of her mother. Which reflects how absurdly strong that thing must be.

Kaya just suffers from that issue in general. She didn't see the girl either because specter was infront of her, and only became aware of her when the girl spoke up. Mob's vision is "better" in that sense since he can see both, but as a result he can't just 1-hit them like Kaya can.

Though what is notable is that Kaya can't even *hear* her mother.

Korkez112026-02-01 11:16

If I had a nickel for every horror anime where protagonists are girls with violet hair who fight ghosts and whose mothers are pregnant with evil entities I would've had two nickels.

Tama47_2026-02-01 13:02

[https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkGathering/comments/1kxpiif/so\_whats\_the\_deal\_with\_the\_pregnancybirth\_motif/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkGathering/comments/1kxpiif/so_whats_the_deal_with_the_pregnancybirth_motif/)

Yes

BosuW2026-02-01 22:29

Nah but the fetus ghost arc in _Dark Gathering_ was something else that shit was crazy. Can't believe Eiko bounced back from that one.

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:55

Not to mention having an older orange-haired "assistant."

NekoCatSidhe2026-02-01 12:04

So this time we got the “creepy possessed doll” trope and the “demonic pregnancy” trope. At least Kaya’s mother seems normal, it is just that something is wrong with the baby.

Hopefully it just means they have to wait for the birth before Kaya can exorcise the ghost to save her sibling, but that might be a bit optimistic given how badly for the mother that trope tends to go in horror stories.

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-02-01 13:43

> At least Kaya’s mother seems normal, it is just that something is wrong with the baby.

Crazy how to Kaya (and those with minor powers) she's an eldritch abomination, but to the father/everyone else 'She's just a little tired because she's pregnant'!

[](#spooked)

NekoCatSidhe2026-02-01 13:45

At least Kaya seems to know it is the baby that is possessed (“stupid baby”).

Fit-Acanthaceae-62872026-02-02 07:30

I'm curious if it's the baby possessed or if it's still born and it's the baby's spirit

Flare_Knight2026-02-01 20:15

So many loaded questions here. Will that thing being born make it too powerful to handle? Clearly it was smart enough to use Kaya's mother as a human shield for itself. Heck, can the baby survive being exorcised in the first place? It's been possessed from it's weakest moments before even birth. And geeze, whether her mother can survive giving birth to that is hard to gauge as well.

That's a good way to counter Kaya. Her incredible powers can't deal with what she can't touch. And because she's so powerful she can't even see her mother under that nightmare.

diacewrb2026-02-01 12:14

This show and Gachiakuta have a very different view on reusing objects.

Mirror Universe Mero is still around, but not causing trouble. Maybe the other staff and kids prefer her, just like with Mirror Universe Cartman.

SeijunMichi2026-02-01 13:08

>Mirror Universe Mero is still around, but not causing trouble. Maybe the other staff and kids prefer her, just like with Mirror Universe Cartman.

It would be interesting if Mirror Universe Mero-sensei turns out to be a genuinely good person outside of her willingness to trade places with the real Mero-sensei to escape the Mirror Universe. No ulterior motives, no hidden personalities, just someone who is a positive influence to everyone around her despite not being human.

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:56

And it doesn't seem like she's trying to turn other kids into their mirror doppelgangers as far as we can see.

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:58

Yeah, I was kind of surprised to see her there with the other teachers like it was perfectly normal. I guess we're never getting the original back!

BornfromDarkness2026-02-01 19:46

“I see this as a absolute win”

Flare_Knight2026-02-01 20:19

I'm just going to perpetually feel sorry for OG Mero. Having your very existence stolen and having no one notice or even being happier to have you gone...that's rough.

BosuW2026-02-01 22:30

> This show and Gachiakuta have a very different view on reusing objects.

Hmmm do they? It depends on if it was cared for or treated like trash the moment it wasn't shiny new

XRotNRollX2026-02-02 07:43

> Mirror Universe Mero is still around, but not causing trouble.

At this point, I think the real Mero-sensei is just an asshole, so the mirror one is nice.

GinoWithaQuestion2026-02-01 12:15

Oh man. What a good pay off. I always find the mystery surrounding Kaya's family interesting since the 1st episode. I knew she wasn't abused, because there were no indications of such. But the question of what's hiding in her mother's bedroom haunts me to this episode.

I like how her mother's pregnancy sort of play into the "antichrist" movie trope with the potential demon/monster baby.

The "A" plot of the story is pretty nice too. My favourite one would be the lost girl who couldn't come home. That reveal at the end at the drain will definitely terrorize her forever. Poor kid.

So far, this has been a very engaging and fun show. Definitely passed the 3 episode rule for me and I can't wait to reach the ending of the season.

raveno192026-02-01 12:34

There must be something happen with the family tree, may be in old gen, or something shady happened it hard to believe Kaya's parents is normal people but suddenly they have 2 children. One with super powerful psychic power, one is demonic one.

NationalStrategy2026-02-01 12:55

Pregnancy is already scary and stressful as is, now we have worry about the baby being possessed by cursed entity.

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:55

Also considering how the entity is crying within Kaya's moms' belly, like the creature that was chasing after the little girl, I would not be surprised if it had a tragic backstory before it possessed the moms' fetus.

SYZekrom2026-02-01 12:59

Her pouty face is adorable

> Aka-chan nante,

You ever heard a more foreboding line?

HER SKIPPING ROPE IS ADORABLE

Well that explains things. It's not the mother that's the problem, it's the baby. Which is why the ghostly face was that low on her silhouette.

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:50

I love the little moments that emphasize that Kaya really is just a kid, albeit with strong supernatural powers and a good sense of responsibility to protect others, who is basically being put in an impossible situation within her own family.

NationalStrategy2026-02-01 13:11

Here's my solution, we need to bring in a Jujutsu Sorcerer Obstetrician.

ThatOneRedditor69102026-02-01 13:59

I second this

NationalStrategy2026-02-01 14:10

Good, luckily I have a friend that specializes in curse pregnancies, and he’s part of the Zenin Clan, so you know he’s legit. Let me give him a call.

📞 **calling friend**

That’s weird, he usually picks up, he must be busy with something else right now; hopefully I can get in touch with him soon.

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:49

Hand Shoko two packs of cigs and I'm sure she'd try her best.

asap_munem2026-02-01 17:56

Kaya’s mom is basically kenjaku

LeonKevlar2026-02-01 13:20

So it looks like your average person [can see Kaya's mom normally](https://i.imgur.com/IohPukZ.png), but anyone who has a strong supernatural sense sees her [as a terrifying Specter.](https://i.imgur.com/lslGWol.png) What I did not expect [is Kaya's mom carrying a Specter baby.](https://i.imgur.com/s0IPV7T.png) And since it's inside her, Kaya can't do anything about it. That explains why she doesn't like babies. How is she even gonna exorcise that thing? >_<

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:57

Will Kaya have to punch her pregnant mom in the stomach?

In all seriousness though, the only thing more unsettling than the fact that no one other than Kaya (and to an extent Mob) can see the eldritch horror her mother has become is the fact that as far as we can tell Kaya can't even hear her mom any more. It's all just monstrous gurgling, while to everyone else she sounds like a sweet Mamiko Noto MILF.

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-02-01 13:32

[*Or are you?*](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/1721dbac0f98.png)

After the previous episode, I wouldn't trust anything anymore!

[](#spooked)

[The fact that they know there is "something", but even Kaya-chan can't deal with... Scary!](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/e0afca5306d7.png)

[Her little creepy inquisitive stares are so good hah.](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/30bca496c18b.png)

[This line... When you realize what she meant with the first line hah.](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/f8ee816ac943.png)

[](#terror)

[Damn. Little girl was "Has been found safe", but this one is just "Has been found"...](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/56b4f08a0fd9.png)

[](#emptyinside)

[**NOPE!** Just burn ~~it~~ ~~the toy box~~ ~~the school~~ the city](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/07674db1425b.png)

[I would strongly advice against that!](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/4d5def075e65.png)

[Good lord.](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/a0fe3cddb061.png)

Somehow I never thought about the fact that... To them, she would look perfectly normal.

Somehow it makes it even scarier.

[](#panic)

[SISTER?](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/656cbb01d39a.png)

[NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE what sort of Antichrist is she about to give birth to?](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/56c6eb22e071.png)

[Oh come on, Sensei! You know Kaya's legit at this point!](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/d61f104eef9f.png)

Thankfully she came around quickly, but yeah, if she acts like that about something/someone, you know there's a reason!

[Oh damn. So it's not even the mother... It's the child. Maybe I wasn't just kidding about the Antichrist.](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/e2a9fe3642ba.png)

[](#flustered)

Well, I suppose it explains why Kaya can't do anything about it;

Some people were speculating that she was 'training' to become powerful enough to deal with the mom/thing... But it's not really that, she simply can't kill the thing while it's inside her mom....

Question is, will she be able to kill the thing when it's possessing the child (without, you know, killing the child)?

FarCritical2026-02-01 13:50

The imagery's been varying levels of spooky but [possessed Nacchi and her tooth](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/0b7fd36d20f2.jpg) was just plain freaky.

For a moment there I thought Chie had gotten used to seeing ghosts and was just not being judgemental about Kaya's mother lol

Nikushin2026-02-01 13:55

Normally I don't see horror anime as that scary, but this episode of kaya-chan isn't scary genuinely scared me (both with the puppet and the mother).

tripleaamin2026-02-01 16:50

Honestly, for the anime medium, I feel there should be a psychological factor to the horror. The thing with Kaya's mom is scary because if her baby is a specter, what does it actually mean?

The show doesn't have the production values of Hikaru, but it is directed pretty well. The whole creepy vibe of the home visit because we saw it from the perspective of Kaya and not Chie-sensei.

BornfromDarkness2026-02-01 19:50

Pure horrors for this medium doesn’t fit, now psychological ones tho? Perfect

ThatOneRedditor69102026-02-01 14:01

That Poor Little Girl is traumatized by seeing an old man's corpse stuffed in something.

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:51

It was one thing to have to escape a supernatural monster hunting you, but remembering it's the dead corpse you saw seems to have traumatized her even more.

OtherwiseProgrammer92026-02-02 04:17

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man".

"I love young people"

seejsee2026-02-01 14:13

No wonder Kaya couldnt do anything about the situation in her home. Its not that shes not powerful enough, but her usual approach wont work.

The father definitely has a strong backstory that led to all these. Hes voiced by Best Papa after all.

Cant wait for next week and seeing how this develops.

Gaming_Truckie2026-02-01 14:15

Wow that poor 8 year old, finding the body of the old man and being terrorised by his ghost.

Mel-sensei's apron logo is still reversed! I'm guessing that issue is going to be resolved later.

So we finally find out what's wrong with Kaya's mum, she's pregnant with what appears to be a spector/demon baby. No wonder Kaya is a 'problem' for her mother if all she sees is that spector and not her mother.

It will be interesting to see what happens with this plot.

Frontier2462026-02-01 14:49

What timing that Mob would tell Chie about something weird going on at Kaya's place...when she has to actually visit said house for a home visit.

A missing girl? As luck would have it, Kaya and her dad run into her! But this poor girl can't go home...she's trying to escape a specter chasing after her. Thankfully Kaya follows her and slays the thing with a Kaya Chop, but tragically it seems like it was the specter of the missing old man they were looking for and who the girl chanced upon seeing his dead body when she was playing. His desperation and sadness at his fate turned him into a specter and caused him to go after the girl who had seen him...and she'll probably be traumatized for life.

You knew the moment that the preschool got dolls, that there would be a creepy, possessed, doll story and poor Nacchi ends up the victim. She didn't even want to see the dolls with her friends when the teacher told them not to, and next thing she knows she's latching onto a clearly unhinged baby doll that's slowly transforming her into itself...from ripped clothes, cut hair, and even ripping her tooth out.

Credit to her friends for trying to save her, and getting the doll away from her so Kaya can Kaya Smash it and free Nacchi! Let this be a lesson, never pick up cursed dolls or try to skirt around the teachers' rules.

Well, this home visit is already off to a great start with Chie in a pantsuit and Kaya looking so happy jumping rope! Up until the point where we see Kaya's mother who is, apparently, an eldritch abomination incapable of human speech. At least to Kaya, to Chie she's just a normal, friendly, mom she can easily get along with. Kaya is once again left feeling alone against this massive threat in her life.

Chie doesn't think she has any juicy details to deliver to Mob, but he can see just how cursed Kaya's mom is...AND SHE'S PREGNANT. In fact the baby developing in her belly is the host to the specter that's controlling her, and it's utterly impossible for Kaya to do anything about it. What's going to happen to the mom? What's going to happen whenever she gives birth? No wonder Kaya has mixed feelings about babies, even if that is her little sibling, it supernaturally stole her mother from her.

pepitors2026-02-01 14:56

In the spanish subs, they said that the missing kid was an 8yo at 95cm tall, isn't that super short?, my kid is 110 at 6yo and she's like among the shortest of her grade. Either japanese people are super short or whoever wrote this doesn't know how big are kids. Or was something lost in translation?

Williukea2026-02-01 20:55

When the girl hides behind Kaya after dad finds them, you can see that she and Kaya are almost same height, despite 3? year old age difference

KumaKumaGambler2026-02-01 15:15

I don't like to see Kaya scared and helpless. Kaya has been saving her classmates and the people around her. Hopefully, this time round, Chie and Mobuo will be the ones saving Kaya and her mum.

djthomp2026-02-01 15:30

Sorry Kaya, you're probably gonna have to kill that baby. Even if it's kinda sorta your younger sibling.

Every one of these incidents seems to be a tragedy both for the people and the specters involved, definitely a Japan to not live in. Isekai me right out of there.

Frontier2462026-02-01 18:17

It's kind of sad how this situation has basically forced Kaya to reject or hate her little sibling because it's been possessed by an abomination also possessing their mom.

Individual_River_3622026-02-01 16:09

It’s giving stillbirth which is concerning because if the ghostie is mimicking a healthy baby on scans at the hospital is it possible for the expired baby to be possessed and genuinely grow like a demon child ?

Upendraks2026-02-01 16:39

Another Urusei Yatsura reference huh.

VritraReiRei2026-02-02 02:22

Which one?

Upendraks2026-02-02 02:27

That old man's ghost says "Kurai yo, semai yo, kowai yo!", just like Mendo.

SA0902026-02-01 16:46

This series just knows when to throw a gut punch, damn. So, her family’s case isn’t one where she won’t win if she fought, but more so that she just can’t. Very interesting and I can’t wait to see how Chie-sensei and Mob help her out with it.

tripleaamin2026-02-01 17:15

[I love Kaya's pure innocence at times.](https://i.imgur.com/Dj3b9Y0.png) It really feels like she is a kindergartner.

Big reveal in this episode regarding the mother. You can wonder why Kaya can view why she hates babies in the doll part of the episode. Speaking of that episode, that part felt pretty uncomfortable, especially when the girl pulled her own tooth out.

Also in the first episode, the specter is the man who died and who wanted to go home. Though curious why it went after the girl. That section of the episode dealt with the lost child encounter that is scary and the specter preventing the girl from going home. Very much aligns with how it can be difficult to find a child when they are missing. At least Kaya was around to help.

AnxietyPretend52152026-02-01 18:13

Damn, that home visit genuinely had me unsettled.

I thought the teacher could see it and was feigning ignorance out of like survival instinct.

But the way they played it out was very solid. Kaya Chan isn't scary 100% a solid sleeper show.

Muzzy-chan2026-02-01 18:24

Damn, that's quite scary in a way 🫤 No wonder she doesn't like baby.

Hmm, anyway, looking forward to the next episode!

Megadragon8982026-02-01 19:08

It was really terrifying how we learned the mystery of Kaya mom. When did the entity even possessed the baby to begin with? How did it happened?

I wonder though does that mean that the baby soul is being overwritten by the entity or did the entity possessed the infant before a soul was there? Would the infant be a normal child or a sort of half ghost hybrid ? It’s scary just thining about it

Queue_Jumping_Quack2026-02-01 19:36

Wow, Kaya's father is kinda useless, losing sight both the other girl and Kaya in an instant...

And now another person has got possessed... and wow this is suddenly darker and actually creepy. Lucky for her that's a milk tooth but still... Poor Nacchi! They are lucky Kaya's there.

Speaking of people possessed, that one teacher from earlier episode likely still is, her soul trapped in the mirror.

As revealed by Mob, it is Kaya's house that is the bad house. We only see her mother's spirit form as Kaya sees her, while sensei and dad happily chat away. Poor Kaya, Medalist is not the only series this season that has me feeling alternately sorry and triumphant for little kids.

And what a reveal at the end... Kaya mentioning she doesn't like babies takes on a new sense of dread now. So it is the baby, not the mom... yikes. I feel like the series is now really amoing up the stakes.

BornfromDarkness2026-02-01 19:41

Well then… old guy ghost just wanted to go back home, how did he fall over the railing tf

>.> the self inflicting bit was getting pretty uncomfortable, surprised it only took whacking the doll

Kaya can only see the possession and not her mother anymore, well that’s a different horror then usual

… oh….

So what’s japans stance on abortions?

BornfromDarkness2026-02-01 19:44

Yeetus the fetus

Flare_Knight2026-02-01 20:08

The story is good at tackling some dark scenarios. I do feel for that girl at the start. Getting chased down by some scary entity would...mess you up. But equally sad is how things got there. She wasn't randomly targeted. But instead she found that body. I don't know if she tried to ignore it and then was stalked by the ghost or if it happened right after she found it. But from her actions I'd think it was the former.

That place has some awful luck. Just constant spiritual attacks. Although maybe it's not luck? That the toys were brought in by the head of the daycare right after she committed spiritual terrorism by inflicting curse books on a book store...the idea that she might be evil is growing more realistic. Lot easier for all these cursed objects to end up in that place if the person in charge is behind it all.

Ohhhh man...the tooth thing. Just nope...nope...Credit to her friends for doing their part in helping her. But to be fair...they were at fault in the first place by playing with those toys when they weren't supposed to. The reluctant one ended up paying the highest price here. The clothes...eh whatever. Thankfully she didn't lose much hair either. But the tooth...sure hope it wasn't a permanent one.

Chie kind of hit a low point in this episode. I get scary stuff is scary. But shouldn't she be remotely worried for Kaya if there's something dangerous in her house? Especially because if it's still there then clearly Kaya can't handle it? At no point does she show concern for Kaya herself. She's falling behind Mob in terms of the useful adults around Kaya category. Just seemed completely focused on herself. Which is a bit sad since Kaya was quite cheerful and happy to see her. Which shows how much trust Chie has earned in Kaya's eyes. And yet she couldn't remotely tell how distressed Kaya was. Just yucking it up with Kaya's parents and then cheerfully leaving afterwards. Honestly this episode makes me feel like I overrated how useful an ally Chie really is or can be for Kaya. I get she can't see the supernatural. But for someone who talked about hearing what Kaya had to say...she completely ignored what she had to say about her mother. It's a bit annoying having her constantly get angry with or insult Mob when he's actually got his eye on the ball. At this point the only thing useful advantage she brings is her job letting her be near Kaya without problems.

Kaya's situation is so much worse than I thought. It'd be one thing if things were obviously awful with her to the degree that her father and others could tell. But instead no one can tell. Kaya's able to see and hear the level of awful that's attached to her mother and can't do anything about it. Just living in a nightmare where no one understands her and every sound that comes from her mother is just pure awful. Of course I do feel for her mother as well. She's clearly possessed by something that's deteriorating her physical well-being and her daughter is at best distant and at worst is terrified of her. And of course the huge horror here is that is appears like her unborn child is the cause. Which yeah...if the issue is inside of her mother's womb...what the heck can Kaya do about that? No one's going to open her mother up so Kaya can punch her insides!

I don't even want to wrap my head around could happen if that thing is actually born into the world! They really gave Kaya the Superman dilemma. This entity normally wouldn't be too much for Kaya to handle. But her mother is basically a living shield. Kaya can normally smash or punch whatever needed. But smacking her mother wouldn't do much since she's not making contact with the actual host. And heck...even trying would be a bit difficult since no one's going to let Kaya start swinging at a pregnant woman...

gnome-cop2026-02-01 20:11

This show keeps inventing new forms of hitherto unconsidered nightmare fuel and I don’t know how I feel about it.

The doll is creepy, I don’t want to think about what would have happened if it was allowed to keep going on for longer. Btw, wasn’t there three pairs of eyes and mouths or did all of them belong to the one spirit?

But “I don’t like babies” is a good few steps beyond just creepy into true dread territory. I don’t know how the spirit ended up in there but that’s the sort of thing that scars a kid for life.

Williukea2026-02-01 21:20

The "black spirits" were just the kids about to do mischief and look at the toys they weren't allowed to

gnome-cop2026-02-01 21:23

Okay, I’m dumb I guess. Thanks for answering.

Williukea2026-02-01 21:38

It's understandable, I also thought they were spirits at first

Ordinary-Aerie-74242026-02-01 21:58

What another great episode and so much to discuss about kayas mom I don't even know where to begin 😱
Something I've caught from watching the English Dub and a reaction on YouTube that was the sub version, the Dub gets the translation slightly wrong both times in Dub kaya says "stupid baby" in the sub she says "I don't like babies"

PrimaryAde92026-02-02 00:24

Her mom is like yayoi's mom from dark gathering but alive,way smaller and got a dark family secret

MagDorito2026-02-02 02:17

Well that's fucked up. There's a spirit in her house but she has to live with it because it's her possessed unborn sibling that she can't exorcise? Jesus

ExistingLibrarian7232026-02-02 06:09

Was anyone able to make out what Kya’s mom was saying after being asked what she was like at homeduring the home visit? I got this much.

“She often takes the initiative to do what she ****** very dependable. If anything is **** her father ****”

“ most of the time she only acts ****** become very *********** that’s our Kya”

I couldn’t make out what she said after that but I think I might have heard the word “issue”