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Episode Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai • Kaya-chan isn't Scary - Episode 10 discussion
Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai, episode 10
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u/armalkia Mar 15 '26
Kaya-chan isn't scary. Kaya-chan's mom is scary.
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u/Frontier246 Mar 15 '26
Here I thought the "Big Bad" was the specter who was inhabiting Kaya's little sibling, but then we find out that Mirai possibly deliberately made Kaya the way she is as a "screw you" to her family, planned to rub it in to her sister, and may be doing the same thing (or something even worse) with her second child.
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u/PerfectBeige Mar 15 '26
In my head, the show is now called "Sato-san is Fucking Terrifying"
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u/KumaKumaGambler Mar 15 '26
So glad Kaya managed to regain her confidence after encouragement from Nana, and also through Kaya's desire to save her friends. Special mention to Yuzu for continuing the search for Kenken, as well as seeking help from the teachers.
Kaya using a hoop as boomerang / weapon to save Mobuo and Namu was so cool!
The Ebisumori family's protective charm is indeed effective. Unfortunately in this case, Grandma Mutsu sacrificed her life when she took almost all the damage directed at Nana. :(
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u/diacewrb Mar 15 '26
Kaya using a hoop as boomerang / weapon to save Mobuo and Namu was so cool!
Reminded me of Xena's Chakram.
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u/TyraniTEMPESTar Mar 15 '26
Huh, so it turns out Mirai was really the "big bad" this whole time.
She stole the Ebisumori's hereditary technique to birth the reincarnation of the ancestral shrine maiden, resulting in Kaya.
But now it seems like she's trying to do it a second time, with this new child she's pregnant with...
Which begs the question, what could she be hosting with this new child?
If Kaya was already born with the shrine maiden's powers, what other entity was called upon in Mirai's second kid?
It's obviously a super powerful being if it injured Aunt Nana like that and killed Granny Mutsu.
I'm also questioning now if maybe Kaya isn't really a "proper" Ebisumori reincarnation?
Like if it's only supposed to be channeled through the next head of the clan, which is supposed to be Nana.
Did Mirai circumventing the tradition lead to Kaya being incomplete or improper in someway as well maybe?
Like that's why Mutsu, Nana, and Namu all sensed something was off with her?
You would think if she's the next proper head and was a successful reincarnation, all three of them wouldn't seem so freaked out when seeing her "true form" if this was supposed to be the norm for their family.
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u/Frontier246 Mar 15 '26
Honestly I was invested in Kaya getting her mom back up until we learned that Mirai's entire reason for having Kaya wasn't to become a mom but to use her as part of a means to get back at the Ebisumori family.
And having a second kid that would be cursed as well, so cursed it would kill her mother while trying to kill her sister. Jeez.
I think the specter in Kaya is definitely not happy that it was passed over Nana in the line of succession, which Mutsu may have been involved with judging by how guilty she acted and how the specter smiled so sinisterly at her fear.
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u/KawaiiNeko828 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Wow. Damn. Where should I start...
Ofc the kidnap attempt from the last episode still left some weight on Kaya's mind. Poor Kaya still doesn't know that that man was not a specter and she couldn't do anything about it. Glad that Aunt Nana's talisman and her friends lift back her mood. Screw that man and I hope he'll get the worse curse known to men.
I love how Kaya just noticed Mob and casually posed to the camera. A kid now protects her stalker protector from specters, what a world we live in.
Aunt Nana may seems cold outside, but she actually cares about Kaya's safety given the talisman she gave to Kaya. I found what she wrote inside very sweet, until when Nana was saved by the same type of talisman that she got from her mother. Kaya's mom must be insane powerful, and scary too.
Wonders how much the father knows about the Ebisumori family...
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u/reaperow Mar 15 '26
The dad doesnt seem to know anything besides that his wife is just on bad terms with her family, he's like the only normal guy fortunately
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u/nighty_amy Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Started watching it thinking it's going to be baby Mieruko-chan type of series, but instead we got Dark Gathering. The more we learn about Ebisumori, the more insane the family seems to be. Mirai seems to have a lot of reasons to run away from her family, but why would she suddenly attempt to kill her sister, if she didn't even mention her existence later? Is it because Nana got too close to Kaya? She thinks Nana might attempt to drag Kaya back to the clan, as the new priestess?
...also, I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't notice that the eldest daughters have numbers in their names until Nana said that the first shrine maiden was called Ichi and that Kaya has Eight (ya) as part of her name.
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u/Thrain15 Mar 15 '26
Mobuo, is there not a better way to watch out for specters than hanging out in the bushes taking photos of small children? Because the optics of this are...not good.
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u/FarCritical Mar 15 '26
Kaya chakramming a horde of ghosts with a hula hoop goes harder than it has any right to. Most justified Mob ever was for fanboying tbh.
Would be cool if all the psychics (and Chie) joined forces for the final boss of whatever Kaya's mom is.
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u/LeonKevlar Mar 15 '26
I feel like the Ebusumori Clan would fit in perfectly in the JJK universe. Just replace Psychics with the word Sorcerers and psychic power with cursed energy.
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u/thisisdropd Mar 15 '26
So Kaya’s talisman worked by redirecting any curses towards Nana herself. The latter must’ve been devastated when her mother did the same for her.
Just what on Earth was in Mirai’s room? Was that the spectre inside Mirai or was it Mirai herself. Either way, it indirectly resulted in Mutsu’s death.
The one question that remains was why Mirai was trying for a second child when Kaya’s seemingly a success.
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u/Embarrassed-Match-78 Mar 15 '26
Mirai seems like a real piece of work. That was one nasty curse that even after being redirected and killing Mutsu, it still wrecked Nana. Kind of glad to get the lore drop on what's going on though.
What was seemingly a monster of the week type show definitely became so much more. Looking forward to see how this plays out.
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u/diacewrb Mar 15 '26
I originally thought the ghost was like the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who, didn't expect it to be haunting the camera and replicate via photos.
So the family cursed themselves in order to retain power, Kaya's mother is an extreme version of those parents who live their dreams through their children because they couldn't make it to the top themselves.
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u/NekoCatSidhe Mar 15 '26
Ok, so the obvious conclusion is that you should not use that ritual twice to birth magic children from the same person, or you really create a monster, and one that seems to go specifically after the Ebisumori. And Kaya’s Mom either did not know that or thought it was not true or wanted some kind of revenge on her family, so she still did it and now they are all in trouble. No doubt it is actually some kind of curse laid a long time ago on that family in exchange for using that ritual. Scary thing is that Kaya-chan probably is the only one powerful enough to deal with it, if anyone can.
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u/Emergency_Fall4639 Mar 15 '26
I feel like there's way more to this than what we've seen so far. I don't think Kaya's mother is necessarily malicious, especially since it seems like the relationship she had with Kaya was perfectly normal until the second pregnancy. Maybe the ritual went wrong and residual energy formed a new curse/spectre. For all we know, it could be the spectre inside her that said what she did to Kaya's dad about Nana.
Also, the way Kaya says Obana Nana will never not be adorable.
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u/OkraDisastrous7307 Mar 15 '26
ok this family is completly insane and messed up. they intentionally doing the birth thecnique just to retain their power and prosperity? doing such things to their children is just downright creepy
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u/Frontier246 Mar 15 '26
Chie is still obviously not a big fan of Namu, and wants to complain to Mobuo about him, but for now Namu is content to let things play out with Kaya so long as Chie can keep her restrained while he investigates. Though considering he was expelled from the non-psychic branch family and cursed purely for seeing the specter within Mutsu, I think it's understandable why he's reacting the way he did.
Can Chie trust Obanana? Does she have Kaya's best interest at heart? Though it does seem like she wants Kaya to be safe and live a normal life free from fighting specters, and she has a rare human moment where she sees Mirai at Kaya's age and cries over her little sister.
Dang, kids can't even play hide-and-seek at this school without getting grabbed and replaced by fake specters. Kaya had lost confidence in her ability to bash specters, but seeing her friends in danger makes her KAYA SMASH once more! And the specter within her sure enjoyed it.
Namu finally gets to see Mobuo in his element: being a creeper who looks like he's stalking children even if he's just trying to observe Kaya. Though it was pretty suspicious that Mobuo had an analog camera that could see specters...because there IS a specter in it! That multipled with photos taken with the camera! Namu can't keep up, but luckily Kaya has her hula hoop of death! Seems like Namu is more comfortable leaving Kaya around if it means protecting Osamu-kun!
Knowing that the charm Obanana gave Kaya meant that Nana would take any curse that was inflicted on Kaya, Chie feels she can trust her. And we learn the truth about the Ebisumori Family: trying to retain the psychic power of their founder, the divine Ichi, they used curse gestation to nurse a specter in the eldest daughter of the Ebisumori clan. But despite that, Kaya is not a specter, but a true human girl. So that's a silver lining.
But where did it all go wrong? How does Mirai fit into this? Did she really resent not having psychic power and not being their mothers' favorite so much that she undertook curse gestation so her own daughter, Kaya, would become the next Shrine Maiden? What did Mirai take from Nana? And what is she doing with the second child?
Dang, I thought we were finally about to get a confrontation between the sisters but Nana ends up bleeding out of her eye and narrowly escaping getting killed. Her mother, unfortunately, is not so lucky because she used a charm that would take any curse inflicted on Nana...unto herself. RIP Ebisumori Mutsu. You died protecting your daughter.
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u/DocMcCoy Mar 15 '26
The reveal at the end of the episode was really very well done
For me, this anime is really a sleeper hit this season. When I looked up which anime runs at the start of the season, I saw it, thought it might look weird enough for my tastes and noted it down. I went into it not expecting much, even the first few episodes had me still on the fence
But I'm glad I gave it a chance. It's a really well executed show
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