The BEST episodes of Sgt. Frog season 1
Every episode of Sgt. Frog season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Sgt. Frog season 1!
Sergeant Keroro is the Captain of the Space Invasion Forces Special Advance Team of the 58th Planet of the Gamma Storm Cloud System, sent to the planet Pekopon (aka Earth) to collect intelligence for his planet's invasion force. He is also a frog. After his ship crash-lands in the planet, he takes shelter in the Hinata household, but the two kids, Fuyuki and Natsumi, find him and take away his alien weapons. When his people discover that the Pokoponians are aware of him, Keroro is abandoned - left to fend for himself in this hostile world. But he's not alone - four other pre-invasion agents were are also lurking on Earth. It's invasion of the weird in this wacky comedy hit!
#1 - A Low Down Dirty Game!
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 1/15/2005
Kururu develops a seemingly innocent board game which shrinks Natsumi and Fuyuki and places them in the middle of the action. Landing on any rewards and penalties on the squares turns them into reality, and while Fuyuki gets sidetrips to assorted wonders of the world, Natsumi winds up executing one impossible stunt after another. The final square is revealed to trigger the Keronian invasion, but this scheme falls apart as the square before it summons Angol Mois' father, the original Destroyer of Worlds! Inspired by the sight of 556's attention-grabbing antics, Dororo asks him for help - and is fed with 556's vitriol and drive for life. Returning to the Keronian base, a pumped-up Dororo rallies his fellow soldiers, pushing them through all forms of training in order to master a new combined battle technique - but all his efforts to strengthen his own presence fall flat, as the other four promptly forget about him the moment they put their training to actual use.
#2 - Hot Spring Hilarity!
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/20/2004
After experimenting with several types of fortune-telling, Momoka learns that her romantic destiny with Fuyuki will be realised in an onsen. Thus she engineers a scheme of her own, allowing Fuyuki to 'win' an onsen trip for the whole Hinata family and one guest... problems arise when Keroro and Koyuki have their minds set on that guest ticket at the same time. While Keroro is easily dispatched with the task of solving a Rubik's Cube, Kururu forces Momoka and Koyuki to battle each other for the guest ticket, and tradition clashes with technology as Koyuki pits her ninja skills against Momoka's new robotic battlesuit! Fuyuki is late for school, while Keroro is fleeing Natsumi's wrath after breaking her mug - the two meet each other on a shortcut to school. With Mutsumi standing in for the narrator, the simple act of walking down this seldom-used lane, filled with old memories and new discoveries, turns into an evening to remember.
#3 - A Farewell To Arms, Legs, and Other Froggy Parts!
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 3/26/2005
Keroro was asked by the conductor for them to go back to Keron. Kururu then erases all the humans' memories. What will become of them?
#4 - Domo Arigato, Aki Roboto!
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 2/5/2005
Kururu proposes a formal competition to compare human and Keronian physical proficiency. Natsumi, still seething after the events of episode 17, accepts Keroro's challenge, whereupon Keroro picks Fuyuki as his opponent. Momoka's snowy mountain complex forms the backdrop as Keroro and Fuyuki go to battle in winter sports, but one unexplained phenomena after another (a freak updraft, a stray missile, a bobsled rail coming off for no reason) threaten to throw the competition into disarray. All the happenings in the first act are finally explained - Kururu's true intention was to build and test his new giant robot (which eager test pilot Hinata Aki dubs the Autumn H), without unnecessary distracions from the Hinata children and his fellow soldiers. Unfortunately Aki goes crazy with the robot's weapons, forcing Kururu to move out in the Kururu Robo to bring her in, resulting in all the unexplained phenomena from the first act.
#5 - Springtime for Hitters!
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 1/29/2005
nspired by a Japanese fairytale of the Red and Blue Oni, Keroro devices a plan to win over Natsumi. Playing the Blue Oni, a bad guy who was only doing so to bring happiness to his friends, he tries to force a romantic situation between her and Giroro. However, nothing goes to plan and the special romantic moment is shared by the Red and Green Alien instead. Deciding that it is better to be the Red Oni, Keroro is quickly pelted with soybean by Natsumi on Setsubun. Wanting revenge, he has Kururu turn her into an Oni girl via the Oni ray gun. Now all soybean products are attacking Oni Natsumi and not even Giroro can save her. Being cornered, Natsumi almost yields to Keroro until Fuyuki reveals that Natsumi is a Thunder God.
#6 - The Birthday the Earth Stood Still
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/27/2004
Natsumi's birthday rolls around this year, and Keroro has big plans for a surprise party. However, Fuyuki has doubts in this plan; not least because Natsumi told him that she thought parties were childish. So, will the party work?
#7 - Lazy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down!
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 3/5/2005
Springtime rolls in at last, and a form of seasonal laziness begins to affect all people - which inspires Keroro's latest scheme, to channel the energies of the world's laziest lifeforms and use it against the people of Earth. Kururu creates a reactor chamber to house this 'Keron March Energy', and a successful test with 556 as the subject is run, but things go horribly wrong when Kururu opens the reactor to let out 556... and all the Keron March Energy at the same time... Keron March Energy spreads rapidly throughout the city, and it's up to Fuyuki, protected from the ominous fog by his diving suit from episode 20, to put a stop to this. Making his way through the underground base, Fuyuki uncovers one cryptic clue after another, and finally locates Keroro - trapped by the now self-aware Keron March Energy (bearing a strange resemblance to Ayanami Rei of Neon Genesis Evangelion), which threatens to bring about the end of the world with March Impact.
#8 - Lose The Boss!
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/28/2004
Just as a complacent Keroro is happy being unchallenged in his position as the leader, a flying arrow message is shot from HQ: "Tamama is captain." Keroro and the others are speechless at first, but following orders, Tamama becomes captain. Power corrupts Tamama and he soon turns into a monstrous tyrant by banishing anyone who disagrees with him, even his most beloved Gunsou-san. What will now happen to Keroro?
#9 - A Frog in Winter
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 12/4/2004
Winter looms and temperatures take a dive - Keroro is introduced to Fuyu-Shogun, the General of Winter, which is really just a term given to the cold air currents originating from Siberia, but Keroro visualises Fuyu-Shogun as something resembling Demon Emperor Arago from Yoroiden Samurai Troopers. When the simple act of stepping out the front door proves too much for Keroro, he decides to go through endurance training to combat the cold front, and subjecting the Hinata children to the blizzard simulation against their will only shows them to be far more resourceful than Keroro was. When Tamama tells Momoka about the blizzard simulation and the accidents that followed, Momoka offers to let the Keroro platoon continue training on her private snowy mountain resort - with the real intention of getting closer to Fuyuki, as usual. While the Keroro platoon starts trekking up the hazardous snowy mountains, Momoka puts her own plan into motion, activating the mountain resort's snow generators - but Kururu chooses to activate his private satellite's weather manipulation function at the same time, and the mountain resort is plunged into an artificial ice age.
#10 - How to Succeed In Pekopon-Conquering Without Really Trying!
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 3/12/2005
Kururu passes on to his platoonmates his new 'life policy' - do something you don't normally do. After seeing Natsumi and Fuyuki react to Kururu's revised behavior with gratitude, the other Keronians take to this new attitude with great zeal - Keroro in particular gets the wrong idea and winds up doing a lot of needless and ultimately annoying things. Even his personal attempt at triggering the Pekopon Invasion goes awry when his congenital ineptitude gets the better of him. March 14 is White Day, the day that boys who received Valentine's Day chocolates (re. ep 45) get to give something back, and Momoka gets a box of cookies from Fuyuki, which she proceeds to display in her private vault (the cookies that is). However Momoka is looking forward to something more - the perfect date with Fuyuki. Paul enlists the Nishizawa Peach Group's vast resources to create the Super Version Simulator, a virtual reality chamber to determine every possible outcome of Momoka's date with Fuyuki, taking into account every possible situation, down to possible interference from practically every other character in the show... save for one...
#11 - Let The Games Impend!
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/25/2004
The show shifts its focus back to Japanese culture this week, as we witness the autumn School Sports Meet - yet another thing Fuyuki has been dreading all year (see episode 17). Natsumi on the other hand is excited about running in the three-legged race with her mother Aki - until she learns that work commitments have held up Aki yet again. Keroro schemes to win Natsumi's gratitude by infiltraiting the sports meet with Giroro and stalling the events until Aki can make it, while Tamama and Dororo head to Aki's office and attempt to speed up her work - but both efforts seem doomed to failure, forcing Giroro to act on his own.
#12 - Actor Schmactor!
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/16/2004
It's time for the school drama club's annual production. Natsumi's two recurring classmates Yayoi and Satsuki beg her to help them in their stage production of Peter Pan, and while Koyuki relishes the idea of performing alongside Natsumi, it turns out that stage acting is one of the few things Natsumi is completely hopeless at. Keroro offers his assistance yet again, subjecting Natsumi to all forms of stage training - but just as she gets her act together, the sight of Saburo in the audience watching her performance reduces her to the same hopeless state she began in. Keroro intervenes in full view of the audience, and rapidly escalating chaos ensues. Also in the audience was one of the three new characters debuting - the Kissho Academy Newspaper Club aka KGS. It turns out that they have been carrying out their own investigations on every one of the Keroro platoon's school infiltration shenanigans, down to Fuyuki's connection to these alien invaders, and they plan to break into the Hinata household to search for evidence - but Keroro, now grounded and barred from Gunpla-shopping after being spotted by the KGS in public, has every intention of taking the battle to them.
#13 - No More Mr. Nice Frogs!
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 3/19/2005
After doing some digging around in his tent, Giroro comes across a DVD of the Keroro Platoon's press conference before they left for Earth. While watching, he realizes just how far the Keroro Platoon has fallen from their original duties. The Keroro Platoon decides to go back to its old ways and take over the Hinata house. But how can they get past Natsumi Hinata, the demonlord of the house? Or will a serious fever take her down for them? An irregular fever causes Natsumi to go bedridden, with the Platoon fearing for her life. Giroro's love for Natsumi gets the best of him once more as he battles with a Space Cerberus.
#14 - Frogs and Dolls!
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 2/26/2005
The story begins with Natsumi inviting Koyuki to spend Hinamatsuri, the Japanese Girls' Festival, at the Hinata household. Keroro intervenes once again, hoping to 'spice up' the traditional festival in his own way, and Kururu unveils his newest invention - Kururuko, a magical girl style Pekopon suit, its perfect human likeness spoiled by Kururu's attempt at a girly voice from inside it. Kururuko then proceeds to send the humans into a holographic realm, introducing them to Hinamatsuri, Outer Space style. Debuting in this episode is Dance Man, the white-suited afro-coifed singer of the Afro Gunso closing theme... and Dasonu Maso, his alien bootleg version. The story begins when Keroro tricks Natsumi with what appears to be a Dance Man concert ticket, but ripping off the counterfoil summons Dasonu Maso from deep space, and Natsumi is subjected to the truths of Dasonu Maso as well as the threat of her very own afro....
#15 - One Potato, Two Potato, Sweet Potato, Amore
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/18/2004
As part of a galactically-broadcast Candid Camera-esque program, Keroro plays a prank on Giroro, with the help of a Pekopon suit modelled after Natsumi, with Sumomo at the controls. Hilarity ensues as Giroro distracts himself from faux-Natsumi's advances with physical training and weapons maintenance - causing an exasperated Sumomo to attack Giroro, and incurring the wrath of the real Natsumi when she sees her own towel-clad self leaping across town. When she opts to stop them on her own, Kururu gives her his latest invention - the Natsumi battlesuit. Natsumi finds herself stuck with Kururu's battlesuit, which has a tendency to activate when anyone nearby utters something even remotely sounding like the attack command. When the invade command kicks in, the battlesuit AI takes over Natsumi completely, causing her to destroy anything the Keroro platoon sends after her. Giroro is forced to confront her as well, and Kururu gives him the battlesuit deacivation code... "Natsumi, my love. Kiss me tender and hold me tight, forever!"
#16 - V for Valentinedetta!
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 2/12/2005
It's the day before Valentine's day, and Keroro, inspired by the sales of chocolate on this occasion, plans on cashing in by manufacturing and selling traditional ikinari dango or sweet potato snacks, as a substitute for traditional Valentine's Day chocolate. Unfortunately, all the marketing and promotional power of the Keroro platoon fail to overturn international tradition, and Keroro is left with stacks and stacks of ikinari dango that will haunt him for many episodes to come. Valentine's Day arrives at last, and whether it be chocolate handmade from store-bought ingredients or coca flown from Ghana by the Nishizawa Peach Group, Natsumi and Momoka are on a sacred mission to give their chocolates to the men in their lives (Saburo and Fuyuki respectively), but each has her own obstacles to overcome - Natsumi's own nerves get the better of her at each turn, and Momoka watches helpless as Fuyuki receives Valentine's Day chocolate from other girls (Fuyuki himself has a different sort of problem, in the form of the combined jealousy of the menfolk of Kisshou Gakuen.)
#17 - War of the World's Cup! / Friend Him Like Beckham
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 1/22/2005
Inspired by watching World Cup soccer on TV, Keroro plans on pitting the superior Keronian forces against the best Earth has to offer - on the soccer field. Answering this challenge on the planet's behalf is Paul Japan, a team of top soccer players handpicked by Paul to defend the pride of soccer as a human sport. Tamama makes friends with a boy he sees practicing his soccer moves everyday. He joins the boy in his daily routine, and even teaches him his trademark Jealousy Ball, adapted for soccer into the Jealousy Shoot - which destroys the boy's old soccer ball by accident. Fortunately the vast resources of the Nishizawa Peach Group fix the ball exactly as it was. Eventually, the boy learns to shed his defensive mindset and play better than he ever could, and Tamama has someone he can truly call a friend.
#18 - The Dark Momoka Saga!
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/10/2004
In a freak lightening accident, the violent aggressive Momoka is spun out of the usually sweet and docile one. The spiked hair Momoka using the vulgar male pronoun "ore" takes over the base and forms the new "Momoka Platoon" and starts the invasion of earth. Defeated, the inept Keroro goes into hibernation. Just as the violent Momoka is ready to push the button to launch the missile, the docile Momoka arrives in time to stop her other self from destroying Earth. They agrees to join back together in one body and will one day declare their love for Fuyuki. Keroro, revived, offers to join them through synchronized swimming. After a wonderful performance, a complete Momoka emerges from the pool. However, another complete form also emerges—the Keroro-Giroro combination.
#19 - Das Snow Boot
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/9/2004
The platoon, having never experienced snow, joins the humans in a snowball fight. To make the game more interesting, they designate hostages and a time limit to capture the enemy flag and free their comrade. Paul and Giroro get caught up in the game while everyone else has moved onto building snow creatures. The narrator's reading of the script upon introducing Kururu makes him want to prove how much of a bad ass jerk he really is. For each victim, he devices a unique plan. All attempts to reason with him fails, even threats of violence. However, it's Mois' pure and innocent heart that finally cracks the depressing jerk. He can't stand her shiny innocent eyes.
#20 - We Don't Needs No Education!
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 1/8/2005
It's the first episode of the new year - and the Keroro platoon's New Year celebrations involve subjecting Giroro to different forms of abuse for some reason. While discussing new year resolutions, Angol Mois is reluctant to reveal hers, until a reaction in her alien physiology, triggered by Keroro's suspiciously glowing 'red bean soup', causes her to go completely berserk. The Keroro platoon receive some mail from well-wishers at home, the Keronian children - and at least one reminder from Keron high command, ordering Keroro to submit a large amount of overdue homework immediately. With the help of his loyal troops, Keroro overcomes every possible distraction and completes the homework on time... but one last obstacle looms on the horizon...
#21 - Ghost in the Cell!
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 2/19/2005
Spooky happenings take place in the Hinata household, and Natsumi is first to point fingers at Keroro - but Keroro's air-tight alibi leaves everyone puzzled. This somehow leads to bigger unexplained manifestations, and finding the logical explanations for them leads to one final manifestation, as the Hinata house ghost is sick and tired of everyone forgetting her existence by simply explaining it away. A ghost with a grievance is a powerful thing indeed, as the house ghost spirits Natsumi and Keroro away, and her long and painful history is revealed at last - as a child, she found a kappa (an amphibious Japanese demon), befriended it, and was deemed a heretic and locked in a vault by her fellow villagers for it...
#22 - Lost in Transportation
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/30/2004
A restless Keroro hops on his new space motorbike KRR-SP and takes off... His bike breaks down and strands him in the middle of nowhere. Cold, hungry and lonely, Keroro wants to go home, but can't. He doesn't even know where he is, except in the mountains. It's now up to Natsumi to go out and bring her stupid frog back home.
#23 - Some Like It Scorching And Miserable!
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/21/2004
Keroro engineers some falsified invasion footage to send to Keron high command (and make some quick cash on the side) but a sudden city-wide power outage leaves this newest scheme in ruins, as Kururu conveniently forgot to save his progress. Also feeling the heat (literally) is Natsumi, without air-conditioning to beat the rising summer temperatures. Koyuki leaps to the rescue with some traditional summer rituals of her own, while Keroro's backup plan for the next power outage is less than successful. Aki's car trouble has passed, resulting in a brief glimpse at her unique driving skills as the Hinata family (and three Keronians stowing away in the boot) take another field trip, to the countryside this time. Giroro runs off to do some survival training in the forest; Keroro joins Fuyuki for a round of baseball, but gets chased into the forest by a huge dog; Tamama engages a seemingly normal rhinoceros beetle in a martial arts duel; and we meet Grandmother Hinata, who not only learns about the Keronians on her own, but secretly lends them a hand.
#24 - Extreme Makeover: Momoka Edition
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/23/2004
We meet Taruru, one of Tamama's martial arts students, who lands on Earth to visit his number one idol Tamama - who's been secretly feeding a pile of hogwash to the boys back home, embellishing his own image while deflating everyone else around him (except Keroro). Only after Taruru leaves do the three remaining Keronians, the Hinata children, Paul and Momoka gather around Tamama and exact some overdue justice. Momoka hatches a plan to make herself more physically attractive to Fuyuki, and Tamama enlists Keroro's assistance in this matter. A large number of Kururu's inventions get showcased here (and tested on Giroro, with painful results), but just as Momoka loses all hope, she chances upon something new - Hinata Aki DNA Pills, which prove a little too effective... and not just on Momoka...
#25 - The Clone Wars (The Unsucky Version)!
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/4/2004
Keroro steals the Kero Ball from Fuyuki's room, and accidentally clones hundreds of himself, all just as lazy as the original. Kururu's attempt to rectify this situation turns them into mindless drones under Keroro's control, but just as this new power starts corrupting him, Kururu discovers that the malfunctioning Kero Ball may pose a bigger threat to Keroro himself.