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The opening chapter introduces Momo Ayase and a UFO-obsessed classmate whose bet over ghosts versus aliens turns real in a single night, with a tunnel spirit and an alien abduction colliding to awaken Momo's psychic power and bind the two together.

The second chapter of Dandadan christens Takakura as 'Okarun,' then traps him and Momo in an eerie sealed space where they outwit the Flatwoods Monster before Okarun begins transforming into Turbo Granny.

Momo's grandmother arrives to burn back the Turbo Granny-possessed Okarun and seals the spirit. She later reveals the shrine smothers his curse and that Turbo Granny has bonded with a tunnel spirit, then agrees to train the pair to weaken her through a round of tag.

The fourth chapter centers on Momo's struggle to restrain Okarun's curse during training as Turbo Granny seizes his body, vows to slay everyone who has glimpsed him, and forces a confrontation at the tunnel.

The fifth chapter sends Okarun and Momo into the tunnel to face an enlarged Turbo Granny who blocks every exit. After her bats fail and Okarun loses his curse, Momo goads her into a deadly tag contest and ultimately seals her inside Okarun.

Okarun sprints Momo across Shono City to flee the Earthbound Spirit Crab, and she scalds it with onsen water, only for Turbo Granny to raise the town's possessed citizens against them.

Cornered by possessed humans, Okarun's Turbo Granny form blasts through the crowd before Turbo Granny breaks free and fuses with the spirit crab. Momo lures her into Seiko's railway exorcism trap to finish the chase.

During the crab spirit's exorcism, Momo sees lost schoolgirls drift free. Seiko reveals the tunnel was the site of girls' killings, where Turbo Granny had comforted their spirits. The three honor the dead, then feast, and the next morning Momo waits for a hopeful Okarun at school.

The ninth chapter follows Momo and Okarun through a school day of missed meetings and an accidental kiss that sours into a fight, ending as Okarun discovers his recovered genitals are still missing their balls.

A school-day chapter where Momo's friction with Okarun peaks, Aira is introduced toying with his feelings, and Momo's retaliation patches up the friendship just as Seiko detects something lurking inside Okarun.

Chapter 11 of Dandadan brings Turbo Granny back as Momo's grandmother lures the doll-bound yokai into the open. Turbo Granny admits surviving her exorcism, threatens the trio, then strikes a bargain to help track down Okarun's missing balls.

Chapter 12 of Dandadan turns from the hunt for the missing balls to Okarun's dawning crush on Momo, while Aira, having glimpsed Momo's powers, spreads a cruel rumor and pockets a golden ball she believes marks her as a savior.

Chapter 13 introduces Aira Shiratori, who takes one of Okarun's golden balls and gains spiritual sight. Convinced Momo is an enemy, she lures her into an ambush and a botched exorcism, only for the Acrobatic Silky to appear and seize Aira herself.

Chapter 14 pits Momo, Okarun, and Turbo Granny against the red-dressed yokai Acrobatic Silky, who claims to be Aira's mother and swallows the children one by one. A stray strand of Turbo Granny's hair sets up the fiery escape that finally frees them.

Momo and Okarun flee Acrobatic Silky while shielding the unconscious Aira. Momo's plan lures the yokai into tangling her own hair on the building's beams, letting Okarun hurl himself at her to win. They claim the golden ball, then Turbo Granny reveals that Aira has been dead the whole time.

Okarun confirms Aira has died from a yokai's attack, yet he and Momo fight to revive her. Acrobatic Silky offers to pour her aura into the girl, ripping out her own mouth to prove her sincerity. As the transfer begins, Momo glimpses the yokai's tragic life as a mother driven to suicide.

The seventeenth Dandadan chapter, from the Acrobatic Silky Arc. The spirit of Acrobatic Silky mistakes a young Aira for her dead daughter and becomes a yokai, but after Aira is revived and embraces the crumbling spirit as her mother, Silky finally finds peace and crosses on to a kinder world.

The eighteenth chapter of Dandadan winds down the Acrobatic Silky clash with a tense dinner, an unresolved rivalry between Momo and Aira, and a closing misunderstanding that leaves Momo stunned in the school courtyard.

Chapter 19 turns Aira's clumsy confession into a misunderstanding that sours Momo's mood, then sweeps Okarun, Aira, and Momo into Empty Space where Momo comes face to face with Nessie.

In Dandadan chapter 20, Momo dodges Nessie's water blast and seeks Okarun, while Okarun and Aira battle a crab-headed alien and the Serpo. The Serpo try to take Okarun's organs until Aira awakens Acrobatic Silky's powers.

Chapter 21 throws Aira into the Serpo fight as a second superhuman, pitting her against the crab-headed alien before the Serpo's mind powers pin both her and a naked Okarun, until Momo arrives to cancel out their psychokinesis.

In the twenty-second Dandadan chapter, Momo's reunion with the Serpo turns into a tag-team brawl as she, Okarun and Aira battle the drugged-up crab alien. Her flusters over Okarun's name keep dropping her psychokinesis, and the fight ends when Nessie surges up and drowns the whole school.

Chapter 23 of Dandadan plunges Momo, Okarun and Aira into an underwater brawl with the crab alien as Nessie rampages. Momo turns Okarun into a living speedboat to save Aira, then the last Serpo fuses with Nessie and the Dover Demon.

Momo, Okarun and Aira battle the fused Serpo Dover Demon Nessie, exploiting its mantis shrimp arms and water-dependence. Momo's psychokinesis tears the creature's limbs apart, and Okarun runs along Aira's hair to split the monster in two.

Out of Empty Space, Momo, Okarun, and Aira flee the hallway in their underwear. Aira tells Momo that her Acrobatic Silky abilities surfaced mid-fight, and Okarun warns aliens may now target her. Alone, Okarun admits he was secretly training to impress Momo.

The twenty-sixth Dandadan chapter has Aira confess to her classmates that she invented the rumors about Momo, then storm off. Outside, the exhausted Dover Demon collapses, and the group nurses him at the Ayase house until he weeps and swears never to hurt them again.

Chapter twenty-seven of Dandadan sees the Dover Demon explain his outlaw work funding his son's transfusions. Okarun offers his kintama, but Seiko instead identifies the alien's milk-like blood and sends him home with a cow. Later, Momo reunites with her first crush, Jiji.

In Dandadan's twenty-eighth chapter, Jiji moves into the Ayase home, unsettling Okarun and prompting Aira to vow she will stop Momo. Jiji reveals he can now see spirits and recounts the haunting that broke his parents, leading Seiko to hand Momo the exorcism.

First Love is the twenty-ninth Dandadan chapter, opening with Jiji's transfer into Momo's class and the jealousy it stirs in Okarun, before an animated lab doll bolts past carrying a mysterious golden orb.

In the thirtieth Dandadan chapter, the trio chases the fleeing anatomical doll across rooftops, only to discover its frantic dash is driven by love, a revelation that stirs feelings in Okarun.

The thirty-first Dandadan chapter settles Hana into the Ayase home, sets up a weekend trip to cleanse Jiji's cursed house, and follows Taro's devoted nightly visits to his love.

On the train to Jiji's village, Okarun grows jealous of Momo's bond with Jiji yet warms to him over cryptid talk. The trio reaches the hot-spring village and climbs to the Enjoji home, where Momo senses nothing wrong, unaware the Kito Family is watching from the trees.

In the thirty-third Dandadan chapter, Momo soaks at the hot spring while Okarun and Jiji bicker over their feelings for her, then stumble onto a hidden talisman-filled room.

While the boys guard the hidden room, a group of women arrives at the door. At the mixed bath, the Kito men corner a dizzy Momo until the collapsing spring saves her, with Turbo Granny revealed to have stowed away. Turbo Granny then warns that Jiji's house is steeped in blood.

The Kito Family landlords confront Jiji and Okarun, with Naki waving a shotgun while testing the boys' story. At the Tsuchinoko shrine, Momo learns the legend of past human sacrifices, then heads home to discover the battered, motionless boys on the floor.

Momo fights off the Kito Family but is knocked into the hidden room, where the matriarch explains the house is an altar and the clan has long fed humans to the Tsuchinoko. Realizing Jiji's parents were sacrifices, Momo feels herself sinking into the warped floor.

The thirty-seventh installment plunges the cast into the monster's subterranean den, where the supposed Great Snake turns out to be a colossal Mongolian Death Worm that gulps down the very family trying to worship it.

The thirty-eighth Dandadan chapter reveals the worm's psychic waves drive its victims to suicide, leaving Jiji to restrain his friends and shield them until the Evil Eye appears.

The thirty-ninth chapter unveils the tragic origin of the Evil Eye, a vengeful spirit born from a child the Kito clan condemned as a sacrifice, whose deadly gaze now stalls the Tsuchinoko's own suicidal power.

The fortieth chapter sees Jiji come to pity the Evil Eye and unknowingly strike a bargain with him, surrendering his body to the vengeful spirit, who promptly turns on the Tsuchinoko and swears to exterminate all of mankind.

The forty-first chapter pits the possessed Jiji against the group as the Evil Eye flaunts his power, forging a cursed house from the grudges of the dead to repel the Tsuchinoko, before Okarun steps in to defend Momo.

Chapter 42 of Dandadan has Okarun launch Momo to safety so he can hold off the Evil Eye himself. Stuck without a way back down, Momo recalls a childhood lesson from Jiji and decides to set the cursed house ablaze.

The forty-third chapter centers on Okarun's brutal fight with the Evil Eye, who traps him in the Cursed House to beat him down, only for Okarun to rally with squat-powered punches that flatten the spirit before he faints.

The forty-fourth chapter cuts between Okarun getting ensnared in the worm's phlegm while saving Turbo Granny and Momo on the surface, who lures the creature into sunlight and smashes its hiding place with a thrown fire truck.

The forty-fifth chapter closes the creature fight as the Tsuchinoko dries out and dies, after which Momo reinterprets the village prophecy and turns the worm's carcass into a massive hose to spray water onto the erupting volcano.

In Dandadan's forty-sixth chapter, Momo battles to chill the molten rock as the Kito clan blocks her, only for a shrine priest to step in and admit he trains under Seiko. The Evil Eye soon storms back to batter the serpent corpse and the family.

The forty-seventh chapter sees Momo, Manjiro, and the Kito head overpowered by the Evil Eye until the Dover Demon swoops in to shield Momo. Seiko and Taro then glide down from the craft, join the brawl, and trap the spirit inside the anatomical doll.

Dandadan's forty-eighth chapter has Chiquitita pilot the craft to cool the lava while Seiko scolds then praises Manjiro. Momo races to the ruined Enjoji house, cracks open a magma rock, and finds Okarun and Turbo Granny alive inside, embracing him in relief.

In the forty-ninth chapter, Momo, Seiko, and Manjiro fail to exorcise the Evil Eye from Jiji. Over dinner with Aira and the Dover Demon, plans form to hire the Hayashi Performers, and Seiko deduces that cold liquids summon the spirit while hot ones restore Jiji.

The fiftieth Dandadan chapter lays out the rules for managing the newborn Evil Eye, sends the Dover Demon home, and ends with Naki Kito vowing payback on Momo.