Dandadan's second arc, and the second within the Kintama Hunt Saga, sends Momo and Okarun chasing his stolen kintama after Turbo Granny scattered them. Their hunt drags in Aira, a vain classmate, plus a sorrowful yokai who mistakes the girl for her lost child.
The fourth story arc of Dandadan and of the Kintama Hunt Saga. Momo is asked to exorcise the spirit haunting her childhood friend Jiji's home, but the job uncovers a village built on generations of human sacrifice, a monstrous worm, and the vengeful Evil Eye.
Dandadan's ninth arc and the close of the Kintama Hunt Saga, also called the Cursed Trunk Arc. Chasing Okarun's second kintama, Momo is pulled into a cursed diorama where she teams with a tormented delinquent, Unji, to clear a lethal board game engineered by a freed yokai.
The fifth story arc of Dandadan and of the Kintama Hunt Saga. Honoring Jiji's plea to spare the Evil Eye sealed inside him, the Family watches over him, but after the yokai nearly kills Momo, Okarun trains under Turbo Granny to grow strong enough to fight it.
The sixth story arc of Dandadan and of the Kintama Hunt Saga. A rumored golden sphere in an apartment complex turns out to be an invisible kaiju, forcing Momo, Okarun, and their classmate Kinta to build a mecha from their own house to fight it.
Kintama Hunt Saga opens the Dandadan manga by throwing together a girl who swears by ghosts and a boy obsessed with aliens. Their petty dare over which occult force is real backfires badly, costing the boy a stolen body part and launching a sprawling hunt across the paranormal world.
Dandadan's tenth arc and the opening of the Ultimate Yokai Saga. Shrunk after escaping Danmara, Momo searches for a cure while knife-wielding agents, secretly directed by a hidden Orchestrator collecting powers, hunt her and her friends across the school.
Onbusuman Arc centers on class rep Rin Sawaki, who turns out to have found one of Okarun's lost kintama and is now crushed under the weight of a clinging child spirit. Helping her means confronting buried guilt over a friend's death while a mysterious new teacher slips into the school.
Serpo Arc brings the gray-alien Serpo back to campus, this time hunting Okarun and Aira for their borrowed yokai powers. A misunderstanding over Aira leaves Momo too angry to fight well, so the trio must patch up their friction while battling a monstrous fusion in a flooded Empty Space.
Dandadan's twelfth arc and the third of the Ultimate Yokai Saga. In Shimane, Seiko's group is baited into a trap by two Serpo-aligned aliens out to steal their powers, even as the clock runs down on the ritual that can restore Momo, Unji, and Daiki with the Uchide-no-Kozuchi.
Six Curses Arc returns Momo home with amnesia, her every paranormal memory and her bond with Okarun erased. As he tries to rebuild their relationship from scratch, the Family stays hunted for the powers Vlad needs to complete his transformation into the Ultimate Yokai.
Space Globalists Arc pits the Family against the Kur, squid-like alien invaders racing to summon their main fleet to Earth. While fending off a coordinated assault, Momo is stalked nightly by the fearsome yokai Reiko Kashima, and suspicion falls on Bamora as the reason the planet was targeted.
Turbo Granny Arc is where Dandadan begins, springing from a schoolyard wager about whether ghosts or aliens are real. The bet leaves Momo with awakened psychic powers and saddles Okarun with a curse, forcing the new pair to take on a speed-obsessed spirit to set him free.
Typhoon Human Arc unfolds aboard a flight to Shimane, where Momo and Jiji are cornered by their old enemies the Kito Family. A storm-spirit UMA threatens to drag the plane down, leaving the two warring sides no option but to fight side by side to survive the descent.
Ultimate Yokai Saga is the second major arc cluster of the Dandadan manga, beginning once Okarun's body has been made whole again. Fresh dangers gather around Momo as a powerful schemer from the Black Paladins moves to strip the group of their abilities for his own evolution.
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