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  • Chapter 1- Ayase awakening her psychic powers and with them, destroys the Serpoian's ship and holds back the curse afflicting Okarun.

  • Chapter 2-
    • Okarun figuring out how to use the Turbo Granny's curse in his favor. With it, he's able to bite off five of the Flatwoods Monster's finger in an instant.
    • Ayase letting the Flatwoods Monster beat her into a wall in order to create a space where Okarun can safely hide while Ayase puts her grandmother's talisman back onto the arch, causing the Flatwoods Monster to immediately combust and die.

  • Chapter 38- Most people would understandably quail or cut and run when faced with such a thing as the Mongolian death worm; even moreso when it's apparently emitting some manner of suicide-inducing vibe. Jiji and his abs don't have time for that. He hauls Okarun and Momo out of danger, keeps them both from hurting themselves, and even uses his own body as a shield to protect them. Damn.

  • Chapter 43- Okarun defeating the Evil-Eye possessed Jiji who had previously dominated him in their fight.

  • Chapters 44-45- Ayase using her telekinesis and her wits to lure the giant worm up to the surface so the sunlight will kill it, then using its corpse to try to stop the volcano.

  • Chapter 53- Jiji being told of the possibility that he could learn to use the powers of the Evil Eye for himself without going out of control.

  • Chapter 61- Okarun showing the results of his training and pummeling the Evil Eye, giving the spirit no time to fight back. And to insult the Evil Eye further (as well as hide the fact he can no longer transform), Okarun calls him a weakling and refuses to fight anymore. This is all part of his plan, as he reveals. With the Evil Eye disappointed Okarun won't fight him any more, he agrees to a deal with Okarun where they fight once a week and he doesn't attack anyone else until he defeats Okarun. And thus the Evil Eye's destruction comes to an end.

  • Chapter 85- Moe. Moe. Tri-beam.

  • Chapter 97- The gang has launched a counter-attack against the invading space globalists. It's a rough battle, and everyone is pushed to their limits. At the sight of Shrimp and Aira getting hammered, Jiji draws on desperate inspiration to name his special ki-projecting technique and starts winding up a Kamehameha before settling on a more apropos Dragon Ball-inspired moniker:
    The Evil Gun!!!
    • The accompanying two-page splash of destruction is glorious.

  • Chapter 113- The Space Globalist leader is able to carve space to become nearly untouchable. Taking inspiration from a previous fight with their soldiers that strikes from a different dimension, Momo deliberately leaps into his carving space attack to blast him open from within, followed by Okarun darting into his remains to rescue Momo and clean up the mess.

  • Chapter 115- Kinta, having taken a nanomachine from the house premises to repurpose into a bike, makes a cool entrance and then transforms the bike into a personal jet to try and save Vamola. When that gets shot down, he catches Vamola mid-fall, and with all his might, reshapes the house rubble (which is all nanomachines) into a sleek Humongous Mecha ready to throw down with Vamola's supersized slaughter suit.

  • Chapter 127- In order to properly exorcise the ghost of class president Rin Sawaki's deceased childhood best friend, Mai, the gang and the Hayashi performers have put together a symbolic recreation of the fateful last drive which tragically cut that young life short. Mounted atop an appropriately garish parade float propelled by a squadron of burly men hoping to get a date with Seiko, they are collectively pursued through void space by hostile spirits taking the form of a school building with an angry face note  and animated statuary of the Japanese equivalent of Johnny Appleseed. The Hayashi vocalist takes a chunk of masonry to the dome, laying him out cold and weakening the float's defenses. At Seiko's prompting to use her emotions—loss, betrayal, regret, hope, sorrow, anger, all of them—Rin picks up the fallen mic and belts out a performance that knocks their attackers back. When Mai's spirit later joins in after regaining her memories and reconciling with Rin, the swarm of angry ghosts are blasted to bits.
    • Also, the sheer insanity of the ongoing chase throughout the city streets cannot be understated, at some points blatantly referencing Mad Max: Fury Road to underscore the sheer high-octane vehicular carnage.

  • Chapter 147- Official English chapter title, "It's a Megabrawl." While leading an army of goons to lay siege to a castle inside the haunted board game diorama, Momo and Zuma have run afoul of some heavy-weight fantasy beasties. Elephant toads! Griffons! Dragons! As their NPC forces are burned, crushed, and blasted, the situation is looking grim—right up until the entire Renjaku High student body and Zuma's gang come charging in to run the ones. Fire Emblem style class matchups don't mean crap when you can throw down like the cast of Crows.
    Momo: Oh no. Delinquent mages!

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