Mousou Dairinin

The infamous Shounen Bat is terrorizing the residents of Musashino City. Flying around on his rollerblades and beating people down with a golden baseball bat, the assailant seems impossible to catch—much less understand. His first victim, the well-known yet timid character designer Tsukiko Sagi, is suspected of orchestrating the attacks. Believed only by her anthropomorphic pink stuffed animal, Maromi, Tsukiko is just one of Shounen Bat's many victims.

As Shounen Bat continues his relentless assault on the town, detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa begin to investigate the identity of the attacker. However, more and more people fall victim to the notorious golden bat, and news of the assailant begins circulating around the town. Paranoia starts to set in as chilling rumors spread amongst adults and children alike.

Will the two detectives be able to unravel the truth behind Shounen Bat, or will the paranoia get to them first?

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Shounen Bat Main

Sakaguchi, Daisuke Japanese

Sagi, Tsukiko Main

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

Ikari, Keiichi Main

Iizuka, Shouzou Japanese

Maniwa, Mitsuhiro Main

Seki, Toshihiko Japanese

Maromi Supporting

Momoi, Haruko Japanese

Chono, Harumi Supporting

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Old Man Supporting

Saikachi, Ryuuji Japanese

Ikari, Misae Supporting

Komiya, Kazue Japanese

Taira, Yuichi Supporting

Yamaguchi, Mayumi Japanese

Kamome Supporting

Tominaga, Miina Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Gotou, Hideki Producer

Tanaka, Shinsaku Assistant Producer

Kon, Satoshi Director, Storyboard, Original Creator

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Dec 31, 2024

Taameli

Recommended

I have no idea what I just watched.

Absolute cinema.

A friend recommended me this show a while ago and I was not interested at first, but holyyy after I started watching it I could not stop. Very unique execution, many moments that got me questioning what was fake and what was real. Truly a unique experience and very unsettling one at that. Highly recommend watching if you are a fan of psychological themed shows.

I especially like Satoshi Kon’s more down-to-earth art style. I have almost watched all of Satoshi Kon’s works and I can say that this is definitely one of my ... favorites.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 8, 2024

sanander

Mixed Feelings

Is it worth a watch? Definitely. Is it good? Maybe.

This is one of those shows that start off strong and then fail to keep up along the way. Frankly, it's a mix of brilliant episodes and episodes that waste your time. In the middle of its runtime you will see actual filler episodes that do not connect to the main story in anything other than featuring Shounen Bat, the poster boy of the show, one of those episodes is even openly framed as a collection of fictitious rumors that bear no resemblance to reality. Personally, I do not feel that a 13 episode show ... can afford to pad its numbers with filler in good conscience, but you may have a different opinion.

Looking at the plot itself, it's unsatisfactory at best. It ends up feeling as if the entire journey between episodes 1 and 13 focused on all the wrong things. Sure, it was supposed to be misleading at many points, but in the very end the show only confused itself. What it identifies as its main antagonistic forces ends up being superficially inflated. Suddenly, it's everybody's problem when there is nothing to actually support it being so.

Reading this over, it feels like a 'Not Recommended' review, but I leave it at 'Mixed' because the good parts of this series indeed rattle your brain and are very enjoyable, the art is pleasant and the opening is top-notch.
Go for this if you think you like weird anime. Or don't, because it's not going to be weird enough and you're not going to lose too much.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 13, 2025

MaiDeNaBysS

Not Recommended

A poorly written story of filler character drama to convey the very basic concept of escapism.
Meanwhile, the memetic concept of Lil-Slugger and Maromi is maybe only in people's heads but also maybe real, while completely overlooking that the entire conflict of the entire story affecting the entirety of the city gets resolved immediately after fmc arbitrarily faces her trauma instead of resorting to escapism immediately after being confronted with it, and this one act immediately solves the entire memetic problem for everyone else, completely destroying the argument that it isn't a real entity.
Pointless 2D character plotlines that go nowhere and haphazardly thrown in ideas and ... plot contrivances because it's just so cool that random old man is a plot contrivance doing math for no reason and random otaku exists and their dolls are maybe an autonomous ai program plot contrivance to have the police assistant to save the day and then become like the old man doing math for no reason and trust me the author says, this story is very deep because it pointlessly started with the empty ending scene of random escapism-inducing society stuff.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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