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Paranoia Agent ("Mousou Dairinin") is a 13-episode anime series that features a mysterious boy with a golden bat on inline rollerskates, directed by Satoshi Kon.

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Paranoia Agent is a 13-episode anime TV series, directed by Satoshi Kon, that features a mysterious boy with a golden bat on inline rollerskates. There is also a novel version written by Satoshi Kon and Yuichi Umezu. The original TV anime run was from February to May 2004, at which point the novel was released.

The story follows detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa as they investigate the mysterious boy with the golden bat.

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Why does everything suddenly change at the end of episode 8, "Happy Family Planning", of "Paranoia Agent"?

All throughout episode 8 of Paranoia Agent, "Happy Family Planning", we see the main characters for that episode trying to kill themselves and failing in slapstick-y fashion, over and over. Then the oldest of the three, Fuyubachi, starts to take a…
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What is Shounen Bat?

Who or what is Shounen Bat? Does Shounen Bat exist in the mind? Or does he exists in reality to relieve the pain of the people who are cornered by reality? It became unclear to me who or what Shounen Bat was after the copycat died.
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