50 Fun Facts About The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

Which wobbly dessert is the favorite snack of Kusuo Saiki, the sweet-toothed psychic of the anime?

Coffee jelly tops his list of sweets, so it stings when he buys an expensive one and then sacrifices it to help a kid find a lost baseball.

Which of Kusuo Saiki's powers do his green glasses hold back whenever he looks at another person?

Turning people to stone is what his bare gaze does, so the lenses stay on. When he loses them at the school festival, a classmate ends up as a statue he has to hide.

Which classmate's mind is the only one Kusuo Saiki cannot read, simply because he is so dim?

Riki Nendo cannot be predicted, which is why the mohawked giant unnerves a boy who hears everyone else coming. He still calls Kusuo his best buddy.

Which creatures terrify the mighty Kusuo Saiki because their minds are a blank to him?

Cockroaches are too simple for him to read, so they can ambush him like nothing else. Even after he gives up his powers in the finale, the sight of one bug makes him smash a window.

Which grand alias does Kusuo Saiki's classmate Shun Kaido use in his imagined secret war on evil?

The Jet-Black Wings is the name he gives himself, a hero hiding in plain sight from a world-ruling conspiracy. In reality he tires quickly, fears water and has no sense of direction.

What do the two antennae on Kusuo Saiki's head, which people mistake for hair ornaments, really do?

They keep his powers in check, and it matters: when a classmate pulls one out, Kusuo passes out and the whole world is threatened with catastrophe.

Kusuo Saiki rewinds time to stop which disaster, leaving classmates the same height as last year?

A volcanic eruption is the threat, from a supervolcano at Oshimai. In the Conclusion special he and two fellow psychics try to stop it for good, and at first they fail.

In the Saiki K. anime, what usually surrounds the self-proclaimed beauty Kokomi Teruhashi?

A golden glow follows her everywhere, a visual joke about a girl so adored that even chance bends her way. Privately she loves the attention her modest act earns.

Kusuo Saiki once rewrote reality so unusual hair colors would seem normal; what color is his own?

Pink hair was his from birth, and thanks to his tinkering nobody finds it odd, any more than one classmate's purple or another's bright red.

Why does Kusuo Saiki wear a ring that blocks his mind-reading when he goes to the cinema?

To avoid spoilers is the whole plan: with other minds silenced he can finally watch a film without knowing the ending. It gets awkward when he ends up seated beside Kokomi Teruhashi.

Until the anime's Conclusion special, how does Kusuo Saiki talk to people instead of speaking aloud?

Telepathy lets him talk without ever opening his mouth. In the finale his friends beg him for the truth and he answers them aloud, speaking for the first time.

What is the name of the high school where Kusuo Saiki tries to pass as a perfectly average student?

PK Academy is where he keeps his grades and sports results deliberately average, because attention has brought him nothing but misery.

In the Saiki K. series, what does Shun Kaido call the evil organization he believes rules the world?

Dark Reunion exists only in his head, part of the fantasy that makes him the resident chunibyo. His strict mother worries far more about his schoolwork.

What kind of animal is Amp, the arrogant stray Kusuo Saiki frees from between two buildings?

A cat, and an ungrateful one: Kusuo refuses to help until he asks politely. Amp then keeps turning up at the house, although Kusuo's mother Kurumi is allergic.

Which manga magazine, also the launchpad of Haikyu!! in 2012, serialized the Saiki K. series?

Weekly Shōnen Jump ran it from May 2012 to February 2018, after a string of one-shot chapters had tested the idea. The 281 chapters fill 26 volumes.

Which streaming service released the six-episode sequel The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened?

Netflix brought back the Japanese cast and crew for six new episodes in December 2019, a year after the TV run had ended with a special.

What name does Kusuo Saiki give the girl he turns himself into with his transformation power?

Kusuko is the name he picks for his female form, one of several disguises: he can also turn himself into animals when a problem calls for it.

Near the end of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., who gives Kusuo the device that removes his powers?

His older brother Kusuke, a genius inventor, offers it after losing one last contest between them. Kusuo uses it, yet his abilities return because his body has adapted to them.

Where does Kusuo Saiki's class fly on the school trip where Shun Kaido shows off the local dialect?

Okinawa fills a run of episodes, from trouble on the flight to Kusuo's race to try a limited-edition sweet before the trip ends.

Which school role does Kineshi Hairo, the hot-blooded sports fanatic in Kusuo Saiki's circle, hold?

Class representative suits him: Kusuo notes that as hard as he pushes others, he is even harder on himself, which is why classmates trust him.

Which genuine psychic gift does Kusuo Saiki's schoolmate Reita Toritsuka mostly use to chase girls?

Seeing ghosts is a real gift, which makes him one of the few outside the family who learn Kusuo's secret. He later lets spirits possess his body to borrow their charm.

Kusuke Saiki, the genius inventor who left Japan at 14, pursues a doctorate at which university?

Cambridge took him in after he moved to England as a teenager. For all his brilliance he has never beaten Kusuo at anything, so he built a gadget that hides his own thoughts.

Which job does Kuniharu Saiki, the father who grovels to his bosses, hold at a publishing company?

Manga editor is his title at a publisher drawn as a knock-off of Shueisha. He sucks up to his employers so much that he has acquired a taste for licking shoes.

Which after-school group does Chiyo Yumehara join to be near Shun Kaido in the Saiki K. series?

Occult Club membership follows her crush there. Reita Toritsuka had founded it, and Kaido has no idea that she thinks the two of them are dating.

Chisato Mera, Kusuo Saiki's classmate with several part-time jobs, is forever shown craving what?

Free food sends her into a binge whenever it appears, since she works constantly to make ends meet. One of her jobs is at a café where Kusuo is a regular.

Which past does the transfer student Aren Kuboyasu try to hide after joining Kusuo Saiki's school?

Leading a delinquent gang ran in the family, since both his parents were delinquents too. He acts calm now, but bullying or rudeness still makes him snap.

What does Uryoku Chono do for a living, sometimes leaning on Kusuo Saiki's powers to pull it off?

Street magician is his second career: he took it up after losing a job at a publishing company. He performs with a partner called Michael, and his real name is Kōta Nakanishi.

Makoto Teruhashi, the fiercely protective sibling of Kokomi, is famous in Saiki K. for what?

Acting made him a top teen star under the stage name Toru Mugami. He loathes seeing Kusuo anywhere near his sister and turns up at the house to warn him off.

When Kusuo Saiki teleports an object to himself, what must he send back in its place?

Something of equal value has to take the object's place, which turns every grab into a trade. Moving himself has a catch too: a wait of three minutes between trips.

What instantly breaks Kusuo Saiki's invisibility before its ten-minute limit has run out?

Being touched makes him visible at once, which turns a simple walk home past his classmates into an obstacle course. Reita Toritsuka can see him regardless.

What does Kusuo Saiki wear to stop his psychometry reading the history of every object around him?

Gloves keep his bare skin off objects, because one brush downloads everything that ever happened to them. A borrowed library book once showed him its previous owners' love story.

What must Kusuo Saiki do with his eyes before clairvoyance lets him watch people who are far away?

Cross them: the power to view anyone anywhere comes with a silly face attached, one of many small catches on his abilities.

Which fortune-telling transfer student reads auras but finds Kusuo Saiki's too intense to make out?

Mikoto Aiura came looking for a soulmate glimpsed in a vision, who turned out to be Kusuo. He reveals his powers to her to save a classmate, and she keeps the secret.

Which fast-talking transfer student has suspected Kusuo Saiki's secret since elementary school?

Touma Akechi was bullied as a child and noticed how often Kusuo quietly rescued him. He can ramble for minutes without a pause, and Kusuo finally admits the truth to him.

Which utterly average schoolmate, a Baseball Club member, does Kusuo Saiki admire and want to copy?

Satou is average in looks, grades and behaviour and never stands out, which is everything Kusuo wants for himself. Kusuo watches over him and sets out to befriend him.

Which voice actor, also heard as Levi in Attack on Titan, plays Kusuo Saiki in the Japanese anime?

Hiroshi Kamiya voices Kusuo's deadpan inner monologue. He and Daisuke Ono, who plays one of Kusuo's classmates, also host the radio show Dear Girl: Stories together.

Which voice actor both sang the first opening theme of the Saiki K. anime and plays Reita Toritsuka?

Natsuki Hanae sang the opening for the first half of season one, then returned to sing a later ending theme. He is better known as Tanjiro in Demon Slayer.

Which animation studio, also the maker of Toradora! and Food Wars!, produced the Saiki K. anime?

J.C.Staff produced it with Egg Firm, and the studio and director Hiroaki Sakurai stayed on for every later season and special.

Which manga artist created the Saiki K. series, testing it in one-shot chapters from 2010?

Shūichi Asō wrote and drew it himself, and after the magazine run ended he added a short burst of four-panel strips and two farewell one-shots.

Which actor, later the star of Alice in Borderland, played Kusuo Saiki in the 2017 live-action film?

Kento Yamazaki took the title role, with Ryo Yoshizawa as the daydreaming Shun Kaido. The film earned about 8.6 million US dollars at the Japanese box office.

Which company simulcast the first season of the Saiki K. anime and released its English dub in 2016?

Funimation streamed episodes as they aired in Japan and had a dub out within five weeks of the premiere. Its North American licence has since expired.

Which Greek letter replaces the sound sai in the Japanese title of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.?

Psi stands where the word sainan, meaning disaster, would normally begin, and the same swap turns up in many of the episode names.

Kusuo Saiki's grandfather Kumagoro dotes on his daughter but cannot stand which family member?

His son-in-law, Kusuo's father Kuniharu, gets beaten up or sent off on errands whenever they meet. The old man is a classic tsundere, gruff outside and soft inside, who wants to know his grandson better.

Yuta, the five-year-old who moves in next door, takes Kusuo Saiki for which superhero?

Cyborg Cider-man is the boy's favorite hero, and he fixed on the idea after watching Kusuo use his powers to fetch a lost balloon.

Which voice actress, also Darkness in KonoSuba, plays Kokomi Teruhashi in the Saiki K. anime?

Ai Kayano voices the girl every boy falls for, and in season two she joined two castmates to sing one of the ending themes as a trio.

Which former idol singer played Kokomi Teruhashi in the live-action film of Saiki K.?

Kanna Hashimoto had spent six years in the idol group Rev. from DVL, which disbanded in the year the film came out. A fan photo that went viral in 2013 had made her nationally famous.

How did TV Tokyo first air season one of the Saiki K. anime, before bundling it into compilations?

As short weekday segments, one each morning and 120 in all. Each week's five were then stitched together, which is where the 24-episode version of the season comes from.

Who voiced Kusuo Saiki in the first English dub, before Kyle McCarley took over for Reawakened?

Jerry Jewell, also the English voice of Kyo Sohma in Fruits Basket, led the 2016 dub. The 2019 sequel was recorded with a completely replaced English cast.

Koichi Yamadera and Rie Tanaka voice Kusuo Saiki's grandparents; what were they to each other then?

A married couple in real life, they played husband and wife in the anime too. They had wed in 2012 and announced their divorce in August 2018, months before the Conclusion special.

Which Akihabara idol group performed the first ending theme and two later themes for Saiki K.?

Dempagumi.inc sang the first ending, took over the opening halfway through season one and came back for season two.