Takashi Shiina
Director
Psychic Squad (2008)
Season 1
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!
Released April 6, 2008
Episode 24 min
14+
Genres: Action, Animation, Anime, Anime: Shounen, Comedy
Keywords: imdb.seeing-future, imdb.fiction, imdb.abuse-played-for-laughs, imdb.child-fighting-adult, imdb.child-as-main-character, imdb.babel, imdb.crime-fighting + 19 more, imdb.pandra, imdb.title-spoken-by-character, imdb.elementary-school, imdb.magical-girl, imdb.shounen, imdb.female-protagonist, imdb.based-on-manga, imdb.children, imdb.esp, imdb.superhero, imdb.psychic, imdb.anime-animation, imdb.superhero-action, imdb.superhero-sci-fi, imdb.female-nudity, tmdb.anime, imdb.ecchi, imdb.moe, imdb.anime
Network: TV Tokyo
S1E1 - Absolutely Lovely! Their Name Is
The Children—comprising three Level 7 ten-year-old espers named Kaoru Akashi (a psychokinetic), Aoi Nogami (a teleporter), and Shiho Sannomiya (capable of psychometry)—are members of the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory (B.A.B.E.L.), though are unhappy with the woman assigned to lead them in operations. The Children are deployed to apprehend a criminal esper known as Muscle Ōkama, and while he initially gets away, they are later able to stop him from stealing a gold statue in a museum with the help of Kōichi Minamoto, who had recently been transferred to take over as the field leader of The Children.
April 6, 2008, midnight
S1E2 - Don't Worry! The Soaring Tower of BABEL
During Minamoto's orientation tour of B.A.B.E.L. headquarters, the precognition division issues an alert that there is a high probability of a fire at a certain gas station. The Children are sent to the scene and manage to stop a plane in mid-flight before it crashes into the station, saving the pilot's life. However, Kaoru forgets about the plane, and it crashes into the gas station anyway. During a medical examination, Kaoru destroys an expensive medical device to assess her psychic abilities, and during a later operation, Kaoru's powers go out of control. She uses her powers to stop her heart and regain control, and Minamoto manages to bring her back to life.
April 13, 2008, midnight
S1E3 - A Virtuous Person! Being an Esper is Tough
Minamoto moves into his new apartment, but is uninformed that the chief of B.A.B.E.L. had approved that The Children would come to live with him. He initially dislikes the notion of sharing his apartment with the girls, and gets angry at them after they uncover a yearbook from his elementary school days. The Children go into the town after he yells at them, and become hostages when an esper holds up a bank. The esper notices their limiters and tries to get them to help him since they are all espers, but they decline and help apprehend the criminal. Afterwards, Minamoto decides to let The Children stay at his apartment.
April 20, 2008, midnight
S1E4 - Beautiful Spring Scenery! Go Go Pretty Female High-School Student
Naomi Umegae, a Level 6 psychokinetic otherwise known as "Wild Cat", is having trouble controlling her powers while out in the field, and her field leader Ichirō Tanizaki asks the help of Minamoto and The Children to find out what her problem is. They secretly spy on Naomi when she goes to school so as to get some indication, but they do not find anything strange. However, Shiho gets an indication of what is wrong via her powers, and asks Kaoru and Naomi to have a psychic match where Kaoru can only attack Naomi's clothes, and Aoi gets to help Naomi with her teleportation ability. During the fight, Naomi is called out on a mission and Ichirō comes calling Naomi "his Naomi". Naomi finally gets very angry and attacks both the criminal and Ichirō for being perverted old men. Her problem with focus before was due to Ichirō trying to make Naomi into the perfect wife which she greatly resents him for.
April 27, 2008, midnight
S1E5 - Unpreparedness is Your Greatest Enemy! You Wouldn't Normally Enter
Minamoto realizes that The Children want to go to school and tries to get the chief's endorsement thereof only to learn that their school attendance is precluded by their high psychic powers. Minamoto spends an entire night formulating a mission for them to go to school, and shows it to the chief who likes the proposition. During a simulation to emulate the school classroom for them, Kaoru gets angry when one of the robotic children starts talking bad about espers and she uses her powers. Afterwards, the robots start to go berserk and it is suspected that the Normal People, an anti-esper organization, is controlling them. The robots are soon stopped, but one of the Normal People almost gets away with data showing Kaoru's earlier outburst in the classroom simulation.
May 4, 2008, midnight
S1E6 - Superiority Quarrel! In Front of Your Classmate's Eyes...!?
The Children finally get to attend their first day of school, and during this time B.A.B.E.L. is keeping a close watch on their actions. Minamoto even infiltrates the school wearing a suit which renders him invisible so as to stop Kaoru if she goes too far and uses her powers against someone. One of their classmates notices the limiters on Kaoru, Aoi, and Shiho, and shows them that she too is an esper and wears a limiter. A boy named Tōno in their class dislikes espers and picks a fight with Kaoru, and an eraser flies and hits him in the head at this time, which makes him think it was Kaoru using her powers even though she did no such thing. Later, during physical education class, Tōno challenges Kaoru to a game of dodge ball, but if she uses her powers, he will never acknowledge espers. During the match, Tōno realizes that it was not Kaoru who threw the eraser before, and suspects that there are some invisible people around, which are in fact Minamoto and the other is later found out
May 11, 2008, midnight
S1E7 - Very Ordinary! Restricted Children
A new Esper Counter Measure (ECM) device which can block psychic abilities is tested on The Children without them knowing, and Kaoru injures her hand because of it, and gets very angry at the chief. Later, The Children fall into a trap set up by the Normal People who has stolen the new ECM and capture The Children and Minamoto. They torture him to tell him the password into B.A.B.E.L.'s computer mainframe, but he does not tell until they bring in Kaoru with the threat that she will get hurt. However, the password he tells them deletes all the files they attempted to access, and activates a temporary Esper Counter Counter Measure (ECCM) device which gives The Children back their powers for a short time. After the battery in the laptop runs out, one of the Normal People almost kills Minamoto which causes Kaoru to go berserk and cause the culprit considerable pain, nearly killing him. Minamoto manages to calm her down before she goes too far.
May 18, 2008, midnight
S1E8 - Hyōbu Kyōsuke! What, He Showed Up?
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. Ky
May 25, 2008, midnight
S1E9 - Attractive Bodies! We Are Adults!?
The Children are annoyed that Minamoto constantly treats them like children, and Kyōsuke appears before Minamoto to hypnotize him into perceiving The Children as adults to test him to see if he would be sexually attracted to them. This tires him out quickly, but Kyōsuke later shows up and tells The Children about the situation which entice them to see how Minamoto will react around them. The Children are dispatched during a mission and easily manage to apprehend the criminal, but afterwards they continue to torment Minamoto. This causes him to snap and he yells at them for how they are acting which makes them cry. The hypnotism wears off after this, and he reconciles with them.
June 1, 2008, midnight
S1E10 - Danger Awaits! Hurry, BABEL 2!!
The Children get called away as they are going to school on a mission to save a sunken ship named the Namikazemaru. They use a special submarine named B.A.B.E.L. 2 to teleport into the ship, and find that there were many stowaways among the survivors. Aoi transports all of them back to B.A.B.E.L. 2, but since it has nearly reached its capacity, Aoi transports herself back, which leaves Minamoto with Kaoru while the survivors are unloaded back at B.A.B.E.L. headquarters. Kyōsuke's hypnotism activates once again when he calls Kaoru a kid, much to his shock. Kyōsuke appears before them and informs Minamoto that Kaoru has lost a lot of body heat due to retaining the psychic barrier to keep the ship from imploding. Kyōsuke tries to make Minamoto submit to him, therefore letting him cast a near-permanent form of hypnosis on him, but Minamoto resists long enough for Aoi and Shiho to come back and save them. It is later discovered that Kyōsuke's hypnosis on Minamoto has completely disappeared.
June 8, 2008, midnight
S1E11 - Hot Springs! Shining Eyes in the Steam
The Chief decides to give the main B.A.B.E.L. staff a company vacation at an outside onsen retreat in the mountains, and everything is running smoothly until Minamoto starts suspecting two foreigners due to suspicious circumstances after the chief's and Ichirō's yukata go missing. Minamoto and Shūji tail the blond man with sunglasses, while The Children secretly follow the foreign woman. The woman restrains Aoi and Shiho and incites a fight with Kaoru that ends after Minamoto interferes. The blond man reveals that he and the woman are special espers from Comerica, and are here to capture internationally-wanted criminal espers. Following this, the criminals are revealed, and the children help in their capture. The members of B.A.B.E.L. spend the rest of their vacation in leisure.
June 15, 2008, midnight
S1E12 - The Long Road Ahead! Teleporting Japan's Future!!
Minamoto is given a very important mission together with Aoi to take something in a briefcase to the prime minister of Japan, though he is currently about to attend a conference in another country. Aoi gets in a fight with Kaoru and Shiho before they leave since she thinks they do most of the work on their missions. During the mission, Minamoto and Aoi get captured and thrown in a holding cell due to the actions of a government spy intending to interfere with their mission. Minamoto extracts a portable Esper Counter Counter-Measure to allow Aoi to teleport them out and continue with the mission. Minamoto stays behind to apprehend the spy who has escaped in a plane and caught up with Aoi. The spy fires homing missiles at Aoi who turns them against him, destroying his plane and leading to him being apprehended. Upon delivery of the package, Aoi finds out that inside the briefcase is a pillow since the prime minister cannot get to sleep unless using this pillow, which angers Aoi. Aoi late
June 22, 2008, midnight
S1E13 - Family Disruption? Operation Paradise!!
The Children are given an assignment to write up a composition on their families. Kaoru's family consists of her mother and older sister who are both popular in the media. When Kaoru arrives at her mother's and sister's, her family is not there, though some overzealous fans of Kaoru's mother and sister try to come in which causes Kaoru to destroy her family's home with her psychic powers. Members from B.A.B.E.L. help them move into a new home, though Kaoru's mother and sister constantly try to get closer to Minamoto. Kaoru confronts them, saying that they are too afraid of her to even scold her and runs off. Minamoto, Aoi, and Shiho go after her and find Kaoru talking with Kyōsuke about joining with him if she wants to in the future. Minamoto gets word that Kaoru's family has been abducted and B.A.B.E.L. mobilizes, tracing the abductors to a warehouse by the coast. When The Children arrive, they find a crowd of fans wanting to take pictures of Kaoru's mother and sister, though they sta
June 29, 2008, midnight
S1E14 - Have a Sharp Mind!? The Children are Bumbling/Master Detectives
Accosted by a trio of thugs one night, a young man makes a life decision to wield his newly-discovered Level 3 telekinesis as the vigilante Masked Justice by occluding the trachea of his quarry. Frightened for her normal development being disrupted by the psychometric police work being asked of her, Minamoto seethes with resentment as he watches Shiho in action and intercedes. The National Police Agency director arrives with the perspective that age is not an excuse against a citizen being obligated to assist in criminal investigations. The revelation that Shiho is the daughter of the Director marginalized for the moment to subside, Minamoto quickly departs with Shiho after making it clear that there better be a logical rationale for ordering Shiho's psychometry wielded in policework before he cooperates. Not being able to see anything insightful with her psychometry during Detective Uchida's initial tour through Maked Justice's journey, Shiho eventually reasons that Masked Justice act
July 6, 2008, midnight
S1E15 - Rock-ribbed Law! Don't Escape!!
The Japan Prime Minister detecting the treachery of Colonel J.D. Grisham prompts him to summon B.A.B.E.L. with the exhortation to apprehend the Comerican renegade. Sakaki sets off by car while the Wild Cat and Doubleface teams set off by helicopter to pique the Colonel's interest and instigate something for the B.A.B.E.L. Precognition Department to detect. Even after all she has seen and endured with Kaoru, Mary still cannot believe that Kaoru is a Level 7 telekinetic. The rivalry is set aside for the moment when the Colonel is detected at a dam. En route to the scene, Minamoto explains that the objective is to illuminate and apprehend all the defectors (the Colonel as well as the adversary agents) while Kyōsuke sees this event as entertainment and heads out to watch. After several hours of waiting, Shiho decides to approach the Colonel to discern his intention only to find that the Colonel's Level 7 telepathy affords the ability to wield any nearby esper powers to his advantage and ha
July 13, 2008, midnight
S1E16 - Gentleman's Agreement! The Memory of the Far-off Days...
While Colonel Grisham reminisces about his former military days in which his bomber was destroyed by an esper soldier, B.A.B.E.L. uses its nocturnal layover in a nearby motor hotel to process the previous confrontation for clues as to how to do better next time. Kaoru and Mary's rivalry flaring up again is only extinguished by Ken's cacophonous recital of Colonel Grisham's back story of his recuperation expedited by no small margin at the hands of a young Japanese girl named Saya, prompting Minamoto to investigate the epilogue. The decision to only use telekinesis in the ensuing confrontation is complicated by the Colonel having telepathically predicted the assault and wielding the telekinesis to double the detrimental effect. Angered about the Colonel's mammary depiction, Kaoru and Mary's combined telekinesis starts to drain away the reservoir to reveal an abandoned city. As Naomi accelerates the process with her telekinesis, Minamoto explains that Colonel Grisham's defection is a mir
July 20, 2008, midnight
S1E17 - Jungle Law! I'll Eat You♪
After being shown a video of the level 4 metamorph Hatsune and the Level 4 metempsychosist Akira being directed through a B.A.B.E.L. candidacy test which they did not quite pass, Minamoto is charged with helping to polish Hatsune and Akira into induction as B.A.B.E.L. Special Espers. Unfortunately, Minamoto devotes so much to this assignment that he frequently overappraises Hatsune's inhibitions with regard and proximity to food and begins to neglect his esper charges who jealously accuse him of abandoning them. After Hatsune is refined to avoid capitulation to her hunger for an hour, it is decided that Hatsune and Akira be wielded against Kaoru, Shiho, and Aoi at their natural Level 7 potency designation in a sort of flag football/scavenger hunt exercise. When he and Taizō decide to play hardball, Hatsune makes a frantic flight with Minamoto as her payload after developing the fallacious and feral notion to claim him for herself. Forrtunately, Kaoru signaling her mortal intentions aga
July 27, 2008, midnight
S1E18 - Deep Love Detection! Crisis of the Children Dissolution!
During the prelude to the school day one morning, Kaoru's despondency at discovering a love letter from a girl at her grade level intensifies when Shiho and Aoi find their shoe lockers full of love letters from various anonymous suitors. Unfortunately, Shiho and Aoi being invited into a weekend outing prompts an anxious and overprotective Taizō to engage in research on Shiho and Aoi's infatuated suitors and to expect the worst of them as he orders illegal surveillance established. Finding that they have left early in the morning for their euphoric diurnal engagements, Kaoru reminisces back five years ago when she met Shiho and Aoi after arriving at B.A.B.E.L. and sets to spying on her teammates frightened of her special esper team disbanding. Minamoto finds Kaoru sulking and decides to engage her in a one-on-one euphoric diurnal engagement. Minamoto's protests of hauling a large payload of purchased items of dubious necessity and utility gives way to seeing the B.A.B.E.L. One helicopte
Aug. 3, 2008, midnight
S1E19 - Runaway Angel! It Cannot Happen to My Naomi...!
Disgusted with both the now unconscious weaponry smugglers and one incidence of lecherous affection too many, Naomi abruptly flies off into the night against Ichirō's protests. Back at B.A.B.E.L. Headquarters, a very anguished Ichirō shares a collection of photographs that he has taken of Naomi. After the sentiment of him having dubious ethics subsides for the moment, Ichirō shows some recent photographs that show Naomi confronting a boy and of her shoplifting. Despite the feeling of deja vu, Kaoru, Shiho and Aoi realize that Ichirō is sincerely worried about Naomi; at Minamoto's behest, Akira begins the investigation by metempsychotically possessing a hamster and searching through the Kuretake B.A.B.E.L. Girls' Dormitory to find Naomi's room—the journey thereof being quite an adventure. Minamoto and Sakaki continue to watch Naomi conduct herself through a normal school day to find nothing of interest until Naomi (after dressing the part) sets course toward a biker bar to ask the gang
Aug. 10, 2008, midnight
S1E20 - Super Beast Caricature! Sometimes Come to Be a Beast...
Interrupted from reveling at the full moon by his growling stomach, Momotarō decides to seek some sunflower seeds and becomes infatuated with a female squirrel prior to transporting his payload. Unfortunately, Momotarō loses his balance and unwisely tries to save the seeds—the penalty of which is induction into the slipstream of a passing truck and being electrocuted. Several hours later, Kaoru discovers the unconscious Momotarō during the return trip home from school and immediately decides to nurse him back to health at home—a decision that Shiho and Aoi are not entirely thrilled with. During his metempsychotic possession of a bird, Akira spotting an abandoned laboratory in the forest prompts Minamoto to call a recess and investigate. Meanwhile, after Kaoru cautiously attempts to feed Momotarō (who snaps awake to angrily chomp her finger not understanding her intentions), Shiho psychometrically discovers that Momotarō has no memory. Kashiwagi's arrival to keep an eye on the girls com
Aug. 17, 2008, midnight
S1E21 - Jack-of-All-Trades And Master Of None! Why Was He Angry!?
Kyōsuke interrupts Momotarō's revelry of eating seeds under the full moon and reflecting on Kaoru's kindness to advise of a rendezvous engagement at which he is given information regarding the B.A.B.E.L. Special Espers and ancillary personnel. Unfortunately, the ill-gotten intelligence does not include information on Oboro Kashiwagi who is busy pacifying a group of government officials frustrated at the massive expenditures B.A.B.E.L. is incurring from its work with some herbal tea. As he resolves to learning about Kashiwagi's private life, Takashi Kugutsu's evacuation is precluded by Kaoru who blackmails him into constructing a life-sized doll of Kashiwagi before lusting after the original article. Kashiwagi sternly reprimands Kaoru for her criminal voyeurism before approaching Minamoto for help in illuminating the voyeur. Unfortunately, Minamoto's investigation has the downside of being easily detected and it is not long before Taizō bellows his ethical perspective. As a circus confr
Aug. 24, 2008, midnight
S1E22 - The Environment that Surrounds the Person is Important to Bring Up the Person! Minamoto Gunned Down!?
As he is being charged the apprehension of Dr. Sakaki, Minamoto thinks back to his early days with the psychometric physician and decides to investigate the matter for the real culpable. As Minamoto attempts to convince Taizō against wielding Shiho's psychometry in the investigation, Dr. Sakaki is allowing his libido to get the better of him as he examines a patient—and would have succeeded if not for Minamoto's timely arrival with the affirmation of his participation in the upcoming euphoric nocturnal engagement. After a week of accompanying Dr. Sakaki on his nocturnal playboy adventures, Minamoto finds no sign of impending treachery—nor an avenue for proving it. Frustrated at their leader's obfuscation to their legitimate inquiries, Shiho tries using her psychometry but is foiled by an active device that guards against telepathy and psychometry. As the girls summon Naomi as well as Natsuko and Hotaru to act as a deus ex machina, Kugutsu even gets into the act by creating a life-size
Aug. 31, 2008, midnight
S1E23 - All at Once! Be Robbed...!
As Kyōsuke is assembling a group of espers with the sentiment that zero hour is nigh and points to Kaoru as their long term ruler, Minamoto's frustration at Kugutsu's recalcitrance to B.A.B.E.L. exhortations that he explain himself almost explodes into violence. In an attempt to acknowledge his hard work and inhibit him burning himself out, Dr. Sakaki brings over pizza and directs that Kaoru and her teammates greet Minamoto in swimsuit and aprons so that they can sit in the hot tub together. Unfortunately, Minamoto is not amused and his affirmation that three beasts are his maximum limit prompts a telekinetic objection from Kaoru and an austere reproach that the girls have tried to maintain the apartment in their leader's absence -- even working together to make a salad. A high-level shogi game of sentiments and events within B.A.B.E.L. and the mysterious organization P.A.N.D.R.A. is set in motion as Kyōsuke's discourse prompts a young teleporter named Mio (who rejects the prospect of
Sept. 7, 2008, midnight
S1E24 - Professional Homemaker! Washed up...!
While Kaoru is leading her teammates and Dr. Sakaki on her mad dash into the night, Mio is nursing her grudge against Kaoru as she and her assistant are transporting Minamoto whose endeavors to encourage some conversation and understand the situation prompt Mio to tape his mouth shut and take away his limiter-release phone before warning that evacuation/importation will mean his life. Having psychometrically read the the poorly-drawn map Mio left behind and determining the perpetrators' hideout, Dr. Sakaki continues on alone after leaving the girls to take a nap. Minamoto recovers himself enough to get an idea of Mio's residential circumstances before guiding Mio through proper nutrition and hygiene. Sakaki's arrival prompts a battle with Mio's assistant whose fighting becomes fiercer as his background and Mio's back story inspiring the advent of P.A.N.D.R.A. are revealed. Kaoru confronting Minamoto's affection for Mio (who is wearing a new outfit that Minamoto gave her) instigates ano
Sept. 14, 2008, midnight
S1E25 - A prayer for Smooth Birth! Hello baby!
As he is directing his crew to locate Kyousuke and the P.A.N.D.R.A. gang along with several other espers that have gone missing, Taizou explains his dream of B.A.B.E.L. conclusively demonstrating to the world that euphoric and tolerant coexistence between espers and normal people is a vital possibility and declares his resolve of allowing nothing to derail it. Momotarou anxiously wondering about Kaoru's arrival and Kyousuke sipping his tea knowing that he will eventually have his volition complied set aside for the moment, Akie and Yoshimi are pointing to their work as an excuse for not making the effort to spend time with Kaoru as she awaits them in a restaurant and becomes despondent after she returns home that night. An awkward encounter with her classmate Chisato wondering about the collaborative and frequent school arrive/absence and an equally awkward explanation attempt that almost reveals about B.A.B.E.L. and its purpose later, Shiho's collision with a despondent parturient dur
Sept. 21, 2008, midnight
S1E26 - Change the prediction, the future is surprising!
A mission to defuse a bomb hidden in a Ferris wheel demonstrating the inherent limitation of precognition and influencing the future (Aoi successfully evacuating all the passengers while the inattentive Kaoru allows the Wheel to fall in the water and the frenzied news coverage thereof) gives way to The Children being charged a new assignment: prevent the prediction of a level 7 precognitor who has predicted his own death. After being conscripted into water-skiing with his esper charges, Taizou explains to Minamoto that this precognitor's predictions are never wrong —- and hence can never be prevented. Much to everybody's surprise, the level 7 precognitor is a manufactured wartime esper -- much like Momotarou. After explaining the circumstances of his death in a resigned cavalier manner, the precognitor Lieutenant Ikyuugo states a prediction solely for Minamoto to be prevented at all costs -- a mortal confrontation with an adult Kaoru in battle in the ruins of a war-time city. Minamoto
Sept. 28, 2008, midnight
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