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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：Mousou Dairinin / Paranoia Agent
Official name：妄想代理人
Chinese name：妄想代理人
Premiered：February 2, 2004
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Fantasy / Suspense / Story / R(L) / Source original
Original author：今敏
Director：今敏
Scenario：水上清資 / 吉野智美
Storyboard：佐々木守 / 鶴岡耕次郎 / 浜崎博嗣 / 三原三千夫 / 今敏
Co-director：平尾隆之 / 鶴岡耕次郎 / 島崎奈々子 / うつのみや理 / 浜崎博嗣
Studios：MADHOUSE
Producers：WOWOW
Family：Paranoia Agent
Rating：16+

Mousou Dairinin

Mousou Dairinin is about a social phenomenon in Musashino, Tokyo caused by a juvenile serial assailant named Lil' Slugger (Shounen Bat, or Bat Boy in the original Japanese version). The plot relays between a large cast of people affected in some way by the phenomenon; usually Shounen Bat's victims or the detectives assigned to apprehend him.

As each character becomes the focus of the story, details are revealed about their secret lives and the truth about Shounen Bat.

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Feb 2, 2004

EP1 - Enter Lil' Slugger

Tsukiko Sagi, a shy character designer, is suddenly attacked by someone carrying a golden baseball bat. When a pair of detectives interrogate her, she describes the suspect as an elementary school-aged boy wearing golden inline skates and a red hat.
Feb 9, 2004

EP2 - The Golden Shoes

Yuuichi Icchi Taira, a formerly popular sixth-grade schoolboy, starts being bullied at school for his red hat and golden skates which strongly resemble those of Lil' Slugger.
Feb 16, 2004

EP3 - Double Lips

Harumi Chouno, a woman with dissociative identity disorder attempts to defy her prostitute alter ego, Maria. Harumi becomes increasingly desperate when a colleague proposes. She accepts, but is terrified of Maria's existence being found out.
Feb 23, 2004

EP4 - A Man's Path

Masami Hirukawa is a low-level police officer who, despite calling himself a family man, accepts bribes in the form of cash and women from a local yakuza group. However, Masami squeezes the group a bit too much, and they send their boss to deal with him.
Mar 2, 2004

EP5 - The Holy Warrior

Ikari and Maniwa interrogate the boy known as Lil' Slugger, who turns out to be an eighth-grade student named Makoto Kozuka. Kozuka admits to the attacks, but he believes that the world around him is a medieval fantasy-style role playing game.
Mar 9, 2004

EP6 - Fear of a Direct Hit

Taeko, a runaway teenager, wanders through the stormy city wanting to forget about her past, as her father repeatedly calls her cellphone but she always answers coldly, saying she will destroy everything.
Mar 16, 2004

EP7 - MHz

After Taeko is attacked while both Tsukiko and Kozuka have alibis, Maniwa considers the possibility of another Lil' Slugger existing and looks for connections between the victims in an attempt to pinpoint who will be next.
Mar 23, 2004

EP8 - Happy Family Planning

The three members of an Internet suicide pact meet each other for the first time in attempt to come up with ways to commit suicide, but hope to see Lil' Slugger.
Mar 30, 2004

EP9 - ETC

Four housewives share gossip that they have heard about Lil' Slugger.
Apr 6, 2004

EP10 - Mellow Maromi

Production coordinator Naoyuki Saruta fights traffic to deliver the first episode of Mellow Maromi, an anime based on the famous character designed by Tsukiko, to the broadcasting network.
Apr 13, 2004

EP11 - No Entry

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.
Apr 20, 2004

EP12 - Radar Man

Maniwa engages in battle with Lil' Slugger and investigates his past. First he visits the mysterious old man at the hospital just before he dies; his last words to Maniwa are dance with the rabbit .
Apr 27, 2004

EP13 - The Final Episode

Tokyo is in ruins because of a black mass, formed by the rampaging Lil' Slugger, that envelops the town. Maniwa contacts the police chief on a screen in the cartoon world telling him what he knows; Ikari smashes the screen and is hailed a hero.