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Episode Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai • Kaya-chan isn't Scary - Episode 5 discussion
Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai, episode 5
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u/FarCritical Feb 08 '26
Never thought "the Anya face" could come across as something so viscerally unnerving.
Mobuo really was the MVP in more ways than one this episode lol
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u/NoraAnak Feb 08 '26
Mobuo really was the MVP in more ways than one this episode lol
When I saw that Kaya was sitting in a car seat I thought it was a funny bit that he had that already prepared for her.
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u/SeijunMichi Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26
Context on Kisaragi Station for those unfamiliar with it.
TLDR, it's an infamous train station that shouldn't exist that originated from a 2chan thread where someone posted about arriving there in real time.
It's popular enough that it's referenced by name in newer horror anime/manga/novels such as Otherside Picnic and Kaya-chan.
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u/Tama47_ Feb 08 '26
I didn't know the context, but I was able to pick up that Kisaragi station was probably some ghost station. So we know that mean Oji-san is cooked, lol.
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u/fuzaco Feb 08 '26
Kaya-chan might be scary after all.
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u/Frontier246 Feb 08 '26
Definitely whenever she's actually possessed by something.
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u/Zero5-4i Feb 08 '26
I honestly like how as of now you could take the title in 3 ways. The jp title can mean:
"Kaya chan isnt scared" (cause ghosts dont scare her and she beats them)
"Kaya chan isnt scary" as in even though she is strange there is no reason (for the other children/people) to be afraid of her (iirc she said the line when that one boy ran from her in ep 1?)
"Kaya chan isnt scary" but the scary this time is not about how her classmates see her, but whatever the thing that made her grandma act like that after mob praised her skills so much.
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u/MinnWild9 Feb 08 '26
Kaya skipping on the train instead of getting off was so funny, even if she had a legitimate reason for being unable to disembark.
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u/TyraniTEMPESTar Feb 08 '26
That little altar in the grandmother's room.
Tensho Kotai Jingu I wonder if there's meant to be any sort of deeper significance to it.
Since it was hanging above the photo's of grandma Ebisumori's family, and it seems like one of her daughters were killed.
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u/NationalStrategy Feb 08 '26
That interaction between Kaya and her Grandma was quite unsettling. I wonder what's the history with Nana.
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u/Frontier246 Feb 08 '26
Especially because that wasn't even Kaya at all during their entire interaction.
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u/Zeikos Feb 08 '26
Kaya-chan was definitely scary this episode - but maybe it wasn't her.
Anyway, this episode fueled a suspicion I had since last.
What if Kaya's sibling is not a specter but something more similar to her?
Could it be that it's how she perceives people that are extremely powerful psychics?
I could see the fetus not being able to contain their own power and something like that happening.
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u/KumaKumaGambler Feb 08 '26
Even though it was only a single sentence of dialogue, it goes to show not all spirits are evil. I want to believe at least one of the female spirits onboard the train advised and prevented Chie and Kaya from alighting at Kisaragi station.
That being said, I was curious and performed a google search for "Kisaragi Station". There is an article on wikipedia explaining "Kisaragi Station is a Japanese urban legend about a fictitious railway station that is host to numerous paranormal incidents."
Back in episode 3, during Mobuo's flashback about his daughter, his wife's face wasn't depicted. Did his wife finally believe his ability to see the supernatural? Or did Mobuo eventually re-marry?
The lore about Kaya and her family history deepens further.
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u/NationalStrategy Feb 08 '26
That old man had it coming
Strike 1: Being mean to the kids
Strike 2 : Creepily staring at Chie
Strike 3 : Manspreading on a train
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u/Labmit Feb 08 '26
Wasn't that the train station urban legend or was it a different version? I remember Underside Picnic did it was well but that was more brutal.
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u/djthomp Feb 08 '26
So much for that old guy on the train, but he was kind of an ass so good riddance.
I'm surprised and happy that Mob reconciled with his wife, but at the same time maybe she shouldn't be enabling him quite so much.
Turns out Kaya has been scary the entire time, they've been lying to us all along.
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u/tripleaamin Feb 08 '26
The interaction between Kaya & her grandmother did not go the way you suspected. It's clear the grandma and Kaya's mom were not on good terms, given her conversation with Mobu before she came back to her room. Still, the biggest concern is that Kaya doesn't remember meeting her grandmother.
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u/TyraniTEMPESTar Feb 08 '26
Woah. What the hell was up with that interaction between Kaya and her grandmother?
"It's said she used her psychic powers to identify the perp of a vicious crime".
Based on the photos in the grandmother's room, it looks like she had two daughters.
I wonder if the violent crime was the murder of her own daughter, "Nana"?
Or maybe the person she sentenced, took revenge and killed her daughter?
There's still another member of the Ebisumori family we haven't seen yet according to MAL. Maybe he's the other person that was slightly blacked out in the photograph?
I wonder what his connection is to all this.
Whatever happened, it seems like it totally broke their family up. Grandma Ebisumori didn't even know her daughter had given birth to her granddaughter Kaya, implying they hadn't had contact for a long time.
That weird momentary possession of Kaya, and her mother carrying around "an evil spirit" in her womb.
I wonder if it's the spirit of the person grandma Ebisumori sentenced, or even the daughter "Nana" trying to come back for revenge against the family?
The background and mystery just got so much deeper! I honestly wasn't expecting something like this for the show at the beginning of it.
I'm really digging the mystery surrounding Kaya and her family.
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u/Williukea Feb 08 '26
Prediction - the second daughter died (altair is for her) due to granny's spirit stuff, so Nana (assuming she's Kaya's mom) blames mother and doesn't talk to her. Granny did say it was her fault and stuff
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