List of Zettai Karen Children episodes

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This is a list of episodes of the 2008 Japanese animated television series Zettai Karen Children (絶対可憐チルドレン, Zettai Karen Children^?). The anime is based on the manga of the same name, and is produced by SynergySP. It began on April 6, 2008 on TV Tokyo.^[1]

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#	Episode title	Original air date
01	"Absolute Lovely! The Name is The Children" "Zettai Karen! Sono Na wa Za Chirudoren" (絶対可憐！その名はザ・チルドレン)	April 6, 2008
The Children—comprised of 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 transfered to take over as the field leader of The Children.
02	"Don't Worry! The Soaring Tower of BABEL" "Kōchin Muyū! Baberu no Tō wa Sobietatsu" (高枕無憂！バベルの塔はそびえたつ)	April 13, 2008
Kōichi is shown around B.A.B.E.L., and during this time an alter comes from the precognition division that there will be a fire at a gas station with a high probability of coming true. The Children are sent to the scene and manage to stop a plane mid-flight before it crashes into the gas station, and also save 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 power go beyond her control. She uses her powers to stop her heart to regain control, and Kōichi manages to bring her back to life.
03	"A Virtuous Person! Being an Esper is Tough" "Akuboku Tōsen! Esupā wa Tsurai yo" (悪木盗泉！エスパーはつらいよ)	April 20, 2008
Kōichi 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, Kōichi decides to let The Children stay at his apartment.
04	"Beautiful Spring Scenery! Go Go Pretty Female High-School Student" "Ryūankamei! Ike Ike Puritī Joshikōsei" (柳暗花明！いけいけ♥プリティ女子高生)	April 27, 2008
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 Kōichi 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.
05	"Unpreparedness is your greatest enemy! You wouldn't normally enter, right?" "Yudantaiteki! Futsū Haitte Konai yo ne" (油断大敵！フツー入ってこないよね)	May 4, 2008
Kōichi realizes that The Children want to go to school, and he tries to let the chief allow them to go to school, but due to their high psychic powers, they would not be able to attend. Kōichi 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 simulate what school would be like 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.
06	"Superiority Quarrel! Before Your Classmate's Eyes...!?" "Kenka Jōtō! Kurasumeito no Me no Mae de...!?" (喧嘩上等！クラスメイトの目の前で…!?)	May 11, 2008
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. Kōichi even infiltrates the school wearing a suit which renders him invisible so as to stop Kaoru is 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 Kōichi and the other is later found out to be the chief.
07	"Very Ordinary! Restricted Children" "Heihei Bonbon! Shibarareta Chirudoren" (平々凡々！しばられたチルドレン)	May 18, 2008
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 stole the new ECM and capture The Children and Kōichi. 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 kill Kōichi which causes Kaoru to go berserk and she causes the culprit considerable pain, nearly killing him. Kōichi manages to calm her down before she goes too far.
08	"Hyōbu Kyōsuke! What, He Showed Up?" "Hyōbu Kyōsuke! A, Dechatta no?" (兵部京介！あ、出ちゃったの？)	May 25, 2008
Kyōsuke Hyōbu, a very stop esper who is eighty-years-old but appears much younger due to him psychically altering his cells, appears before The Children and appears at B.A.B.E.L. shortly which brings the chief and Kōichi to go to the maximum security prison for espers where he should be held, but due to his enormous power is not able to be contained. During this time, one of the guards help some of the espers escape, though this is merely a diversion to allow a single prisoner get away. The Children intercept, but Kaoru inadvertently blows the outer wall out, allowing the prisoner to rendezvous with a submarine. Kyōsuke appears before Kaoru and gets her to focus her powers, but this is too much for her, and her powers soon go out of control. Kyōsuke helps them with stopping Kaoru's psychic powers, though leaves soon after.
09	"Attractive Bodies! We became adults!?" "Yōshitanrei! Atashitachi ga Otona ni!?" (容姿端麗！あたしたちがオトナに!?)	June 1, 2008
The Children are annoyed that Kōichi constantly treats them like children, and Kyōsuke appears before Kōichi 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 Kōichi will react around them. The Children are dispatched during a mission and easily manage to apprehend the criminal, but afterwards they continue to torment Kōichi. 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.
10	"Danger Awaits! Hurry, BABEL 2!!" "Fuchū no Uo! Isoge Baberu 2!!" (釜中之魚！いそげバベル2!!)	June 8, 2008