Psychic Squad — Season 1, Episode 8: Hyōbu Kyōsuke! What, He Showed Up?
Animation, Comedy • 24 min • 2 seasons, 51 episodes • ★ 6.1/10
Episode synopsis
Kyōsuke Hyōbu, a very strong eighty-year-old esper that appears much younger due to him psychically altering his cells, briefly appears before The Children and at B.A.B.E.L. which brings the chief and Minamoto to go to the maximum security prison for espers where he should be, but is not able to be contained because of his enormous power. During this time, one of the guards helps some of the esper criminals to escape—a mere diversion to allow a single prisoner (the actual ringleader) to get away. In her excitement during the battle, Kaoru tries to overpower the prisoner with a telekinetic blast that ends up breaching a reinforced outer wall and making it easier for the prisoner to rendezvous with a submarine. Kyōsuke appears before Kaoru to guide her through focusing her powers. With the submarine destroyed and the ringleader, along with the other fugitives, subdued, there is little comfort when Kyōsuke's instruction proves overwhelming for Kaoru whose powers soon go out of control. Kyōsuke departs during all of these events but not before contributing to stopping Kaoru's psychic powers by guiding Minamoto and his crew to his cell which is lined with ESP Counter Measure generators.
About Psychic Squad
They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's minds and read the pasts of inanimate objects like a book; and Aoi, the most collected and rational of the three, who has the ability to teleport herself and the others at will. So what to do with these potential psychic monsters in the making? Enter B.A.B.E.L., the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory, where hopefully "The Children" and others like them can become part of the answer to an increasing wave of psychic evolution. It's a win-win solution... Unless you're Koichi Minamoto, the overworked young man stuck with the unenviable task of field commanding a team of three pre-teen girls!
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Absolutely Lovely! Their Name Is
- E2Don't Worry! The Soaring Tower of BABEL
- E3A Virtuous Person! Being an Esper is Tough
- E4Beautiful Spring Scenery! Go Go Pretty Female High-School Student
- E5Unpreparedness is Your Greatest Enemy! You Wouldn't Normally Enter
- E6Superiority Quarrel! In Front of Your Classmate's Eyes...!?
- E7Very Ordinary! Restricted Children
- E9Attractive Bodies! We Are Adults!?
- E10Danger Awaits! Hurry, BABEL 2!!
- E11Hot Springs! Shining Eyes in the Steam
- E12The Long Road Ahead! Teleporting Japan's Future!!
- E13Family Disruption? Operation Paradise!!