Minna! ESPer Dayo!

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Minna! Esper Dayo! (みんな! エスパーだよ!, Minna! Esper Dayo!) is a 2013 Japanese twelve-part science fiction comedy television miniseries adapted from the seinen manga series Minna! Esper Dayo! written and illustrated by Kiminori Wakasugi. It aired on TV Tokyo from April 12 to July 5, 2013. The show's theme song is Japanese-language song "(Where's) The Silent Majority?" by the Japanese singer-songwriter Yu Takahashi.

Plot[edit | edit source]

Yoshirō Kamogawa, a student at East Mikawa High School in Aichi Prefecture, discovers that he has psychic powers. Over the course of the series he discovers that he and his childhood friend Miyuki both have telepathic powers, Mr. Teru who operates the local Seahorse café has the power of telekinesis, senior Yōsuke Enomoto has the power of teleportation, student outcast Yabe has the power of clairvoyance, Hideo is a psychometer, Ms. Nastume and Mr. Hayashi have telekinesis, Pao can hypnotize people, and others in the town have powers as well. Yoshirō finds that many seek to use their newfound powers for perverted and trivial pursuits, but Yoshirō himself dreams of using his powers to protect his crush, the new transfer student Sae Asami who transferred in from Tokyo, and ultimately save the world. Meanwhile, a pair of ESP researchers who have been laughed out of Tokyo University visit the town to study the people with these powers and to stop them from being destroyed by evil psychics.

Episode 07[edit | edit source]

Sae Asami pretends to be interested in Yoshirō in order to gather information about her father's research. Mr. Teru's patrons are drawn away to a new café named Onkoen that is run by the hypnotist Pao and serves "Wanton Coffee", coffee spiked with an arousal-inducing substance. The girls are hypnotized into wearing skimpy Tenga Girls outfits and Professor Asami loses interest in studying psychics. Despite being aroused by the girls in their outfits, Yoshirō explains that love is more important and convinces Pao to release everyone from hypnosis.