The WORST episodes of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

Every episode of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.!

Saiki Kusuo has a wide array of superpowers at his command, including telepathy and telekinesis. This might sound awesome, but, in Kusuo's experience, superpowers are not all they're cracked up to be. He tries to live a normal life despite his annoying abilities.

Last Updated: 11/22/2024Network: TV TokyoStatus: Ended
Rematch! Rifuta vs Teruhashi + Gifts of the Magi + The Lost Hamster with a Kansai Dialect + The Transient Miniature Animal + Massage Disaster
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7.42
60 votes

#1 - Rematch! Rifuta vs Teruhashi + Gifts of the Magi + The Lost Hamster with a Kansai Dialect + The Transient Miniature Animal + Massage Disaster

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2018

Teruhashi may have knocked Rifu down, but she's not out yet. Sensing her rival likes Saiki, she goes after him. Oddly, this is exactly what Saiki wants...?

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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Here Comes the Mad Scientist + Run for It! A Battle of Wits + Please at Least Be Quiet in the Art Museum
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7.42
73 votes

#2 - Here Comes the Mad Scientist + Run for It! A Battle of Wits + Please at Least Be Quiet in the Art Museum

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/5/2016

The control device for Saiki's powers is broken. Without it, he can’t control his powers. So the Saiki family decides to go to see the creator of the device, who currently lives in London.

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Firsthand Science Fiction + 'Sup! Love Challenge + Fashion Sense out of Stock
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7.44
61 votes

#3 - Firsthand Science Fiction + 'Sup! Love Challenge + Fashion Sense out of Stock

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/2018

Saiki's parents celebrate their wedding anniversary but he ignores them. The next day, he makes a mistake that puts all of their futures in danger.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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Class Disaster + PK Academy Cultural Festival
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7.51
57 votes

#4 - Class Disaster + PK Academy Cultural Festival

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/23/2018

It's time for the cultural festival and the homeroom teacher makes the class fight it out to see who will be in charge. Teruhashi volunteers and cheats her way into having Saiki has the second on the committee. A play is suggested, which is financed by Saiko for getting the main rule until Kaido makes a mistake...

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Toritsuka's Plan to Get Popular + The PK Occult Club + The Worst Cooks + Kokomins Trial + The Disastrous ___th Episode of the Anime
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7.52
79 votes

#5 - Toritsuka's Plan to Get Popular + The PK Occult Club + The Worst Cooks + Kokomins Trial + The Disastrous ___th Episode of the Anime

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/28/2016

As usual, Toritsuka is trying to become popular with girls, and this time, it appears that he's succeeding. Saiki wonders why. On a different occasion, Saiki notices that he's being followed and lets himself get abducted.

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The Disastrous Life of Imu Rifuta + April Fools' Deceit! + Spring's Ultimate Weapon + Recycle! Trash Cleanup Competition + Cutting Through the Silence, the Ghost in the Music Room
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7.60
60 votes

#6 - The Disastrous Life of Imu Rifuta + April Fools' Deceit! + Spring's Ultimate Weapon + Recycle! Trash Cleanup Competition + Cutting Through the Silence, the Ghost in the Music Room

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2018

Cute new student Imu Rifuta's appearance has the schoolboys psyched up. But Teruhashi stands in the way of her dominance of school cuteness.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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Rebuilding the Baseball Team! + Eat Your Vegetables Too! The Yakiniku Epilogue + Dad's New Job!? + Birthday Present Demands
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7.60
58 votes

#7 - Rebuilding the Baseball Team! + Eat Your Vegetables Too! The Yakiniku Epilogue + Dad's New Job!? + Birthday Present Demands

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/25/2018

Saiki and his friends decide to follow Nendo after hearing that he is going to go help the Baseball Club, which results in one cliché after another.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
’Sup Homies!! Outsider + A Transfer Student: The First Encounters + Mr. and Mrs. Nendou Together! + Reviving Café Mami! + Guilty or Not Guilty?! A Theft Case
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7.62
81 votes

#8 - ’Sup Homies!! Outsider + A Transfer Student: The First Encounters + Mr. and Mrs. Nendou Together! + Reviving Café Mami! + Guilty or Not Guilty?! A Theft Case

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/10/2016

Aren Kuboyasu is a transfer student. It appears that Saiki is a little concerned about this new student because of his past.

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Enticing Premium Quality Coffee Jello + In Order to Avoid Misfortunes... + Teruhashi’s Biggest Trial + The Disastrous Life of the Psychic Medium Reita Toritsuka + Stop the Killer Domino Effect!
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7.64
101 votes

#9 - Enticing Premium Quality Coffee Jello + In Order to Avoid Misfortunes... + Teruhashi’s Biggest Trial + The Disastrous Life of the Psychic Medium Reita Toritsuka + Stop the Killer Domino Effect!

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/15/2016

Saiki is faced with a dilemma that requires careful deliberation. When it comes to coffee jello, which is more important, quantity or quality? Saiki’s classmates have been talking about the House of Fortune-Telling that recently opened up. Although Kaidou says fortune-telling is stupid, he goes to check it out. Nendou is taking Saiki and Kaidou to a ramen shop that he heard was good. On their way, they run into Teruhashi and she asks to join them. Being a psychic medium from birth, Toritsuka can see ghosts. Unfortunately, he wants to use these powers for his own guilty pleasures... Saiki wakes up and immediately realizes that his powers are gone. He rejoices now that he’s free from the curse of his psychic powers.

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Chisato Mera's Reunion + An Abnormality with Silent Cyborg + The Ultimate Spot Claimers + Preface to the Final Episode
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7.66
53 votes

#10 - Chisato Mera's Reunion + An Abnormality with Silent Cyborg + The Ultimate Spot Claimers + Preface to the Final Episode

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/11/2018

Saiki and Aiura visit Mera, who's working new jobs to save up enough money to visit her dad in Puerto Rico. But Mera soon divines a surprise.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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Which Idea Will Be Picked?! School Festival Planning + Sing! Reita’s Recital! + PK Academy School Festival
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7.67
87 votes

#11 - Which Idea Will Be Picked?! School Festival Planning + Sing! Reita’s Recital! + PK Academy School Festival

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/17/2016

It’s time for PK Academy’s school festival. Hairo wants his class to make fifty thousand paper cranes as their attraction, but not even his enthusiasm is enough to get them on board for that.

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Reignited! Physical Fitness Test! + Little Love Story + The Latest Crappy Game! Olfana’s Story + Welcome Home! Mama + The Best Way of Confessing Love?! Spirit-Summoning Technique
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7.67
90 votes

#12 - Reignited! Physical Fitness Test! + Little Love Story + The Latest Crappy Game! Olfana’s Story + Welcome Home! Mama + The Best Way of Confessing Love?! Spirit-Summoning Technique

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/12/2016

It’s time for the physical fitness test in Saiki’s PE class. Hairo is even more fired up than usual since he’s got a powerful rival now. When the cat Saiki previously saved starts coming to his house and meowing every day, Saiki comes up with a plan to get rid of him. Saiki does not play popular video games because he telepathically overhears spoilers. So he's decided to play “Olfana’s Story,” a crappy game that no one else is interested in playing. On their way home, Saiki, Kaidou and Nendou run into Kaidou’s mother. Seeing her son’s friends, she asks him to invite them over to their house for some tea. Toritsuka likes one of his classmates, Yoriko Itano. When Saiki refuses to help him hook up with her, Toritsuka gives it a shot on his own using his new spiritualism ability.

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The Disastrous Life of a Psychic + The Worst of the Worst?! Riki Nendou + Shun Kaidou, AKA The Jet-Black Wings + Intelligent and Beautiful! Kokomi Teruhashi
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7.67
143 votes

#13 - The Disastrous Life of a Psychic + The Worst of the Worst?! Riki Nendou + Shun Kaidou, AKA The Jet-Black Wings + Intelligent and Beautiful! Kokomi Teruhashi

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2016

Kusuo Saiki was born with supernatural powers. Thanks to his laid-back parents, he lived a fairly normal life. However, it turns out that having supernatural powers isn’t really all it’s cracked up to be. Although Kusuo’s parents are currently fighting each other, he tries to stay out of it since he thinks that it is a problem that they need to work out for themselves. Kusuo’s telepathic abilities allow him to read the thoughts of everyone around him. Everyone, that is, except for one particular individual... Shun Kaidou is another one of Kusuo’s classmates at PK Academy. He claims to have special powers and believes that there are dark forces at work that have evil plans for humanity. Kokomi Teruhashi is the quintessential pretty girl, leaving all the guys awestruck by her beauty and her sweet-as-honey personality. However, her attempt to bless Kusuo with her presence leads to some unexpected results.

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A Genius Magician?! Uryoku Chouno + Second Encounter (on TV)! Uryoku Chouno + How Shady! Dark Reunion! + Beachside Summer Story + A New School Term Starts! The Melancholy of Nendou
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7.67
116 votes

#14 - A Genius Magician?! Uryoku Chouno + Second Encounter (on TV)! Uryoku Chouno + How Shady! Dark Reunion! + Beachside Summer Story + A New School Term Starts! The Melancholy of Nendou

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/25/2016

While Saiki is walking through the park, he comes across a magician performing a magic show. Unfortunately for the magician, it’s hard to surprise a psychic who can literally see through his illusions... Saiki likes to watch TV because he can avoid reading the minds of the people on the TV, and thus is able to experience surprise and excitement like ordinary people. He experiences one such surprise when he sees Uryoku Chouno appear on TV. Kaidou is summoned by a mysterious individual who belongs to a group trying to destroy Dark Reunion. He says that they need Kaidou’s help and tries to enlist Kaidou into the group. Saiki’s day at home is interrupted when Nendou finds his house and asks him to go with him to the beach. Due to his mom’s “persuasion,” he ends up going, but then... On the first day of the new school term, Saiki and Kaidou notice that Nendou is acting strange. Wanting to know what’s up with him, they decide to follow him after school.

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Preventing a Scam! + The Saiki Family Reunion! + The Rural Mad Scientist + PK Academy Psykickers Assemble!
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7.69
64 votes

#15 - Preventing a Scam! + The Saiki Family Reunion! + The Rural Mad Scientist + PK Academy Psykickers Assemble!

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/21/2018

Saiki's grandfather Kumagoro gets a suspicious call asking for money and quickly realizes it's a scam. He asks Saiki for help with revenge.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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Restarting! Everyday Life, “As Usual” + Another Christmas Challenge! + First Experiences of the Year Are Important + Courtside Love Game + Dessert Buffet Disaster
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7.71
70 votes

#16 - Restarting! Everyday Life, “As Usual” + Another Christmas Challenge! + First Experiences of the Year Are Important + Courtside Love Game + Dessert Buffet Disaster

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2018

One week after the events of last season, psychic Kusuo Saiki hopes to return to his normal life. Except, life is very far from normal, as always.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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Escape Using an Invincible Suit of Camouflage! + Get Fired Up! PK Academy Sports Day + Don’t Catch Fire! Safety Drill!
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7.73
103 votes

#17 - Escape Using an Invincible Suit of Camouflage! + Get Fired Up! PK Academy Sports Day + Don’t Catch Fire! Safety Drill!

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/8/2016

It’s four o’clock. Saiki wants to leave school right away so that he can catch a TV show. As he tries to leave school, though, he realizes that people are looking for him and now he needs to figure out how to get out of school without being noticed. Today is PK Academy’s Sports Day and of course Hairo is fired up to win it! After a failed attempt at trying to get out of attending, Saiki must now try to once again perform perfectly mediocre in order not to call attention to his abilities. After Nendou pulls out one of Saiki’s “hairclips,” Saiki suddenly collapses and falls unconscious. At that moment, around the world, strange events begin occurring. After the tug of war event, Class 3 is still behind the other classes. In order to win first place, they’ll have to earn a lot of points in the remaining two events, the beanbag toss and interclass relay. Saiki’s school is having an evacuation drill today. Students are expected to follow the instructions and evacuate the building; however, they seem more preoccupied with the mnemonic they learned instead.

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Please Make Me Your Apprentice! + Psychic Medium in the Class Next Door + Kineshi Hairo, in Search of Lumber + Home Alone Disaster + Crisis in Three-Month Relationship
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7.75
102 votes

#18 - Please Make Me Your Apprentice! + Psychic Medium in the Class Next Door + Kineshi Hairo, in Search of Lumber + Home Alone Disaster + Crisis in Three-Month Relationship

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/1/2016

Saiki receives a letter from someone claiming to know that he’s a psychic and wishing to be his apprentice. This person also claims to have special abilities of their own. Saiki hears his classmates talking about a new student in the class next to theirs. Of course, that student turns out to be Reita Toritsuka, the psychic medium that wishes to be his apprentice. After school, Hairo asks Saiki to help him finish up making the entry gate for the school’s Sports Day. However, they discover that the arch and pedestal are broken and Hairo won’t rest until it has been fixed. Saiki’s parents leave for a wedding, and now Saiki’s got the house all to himself. Noticing how messy the house is, he starts to clean up, only to discover something truly terrifying. Saiki gets worried when he notices that Chiyo Yumehara has been eyeing him again. When he learns that things aren’t going well between her and her boyfriend Takeru, he decides to help mend their relationship.

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A Totally Bad News Transfer Student Appears! + Escape the Aural Sight! + The Circumstances of Delicate Children + Another Time Leap Challenge! + The Disastrous Life of Kokomi Teruhashi
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7.75
59 votes

#19 - A Totally Bad News Transfer Student Appears! + Escape the Aural Sight! + The Circumstances of Delicate Children + Another Time Leap Challenge! + The Disastrous Life of Kokomi Teruhashi

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/2018

Sexy student Mikoto Aiura transfers in and impresses everyone with her fortunetelling. Saiki realizes she may be the real deal and thus his rival.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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Teruhashi's Second Visit to the Saiki Residence + It's a Piece of Cake! The Straw Millionaire + Transformation! Super Size + He Should Repeat the Grade + Max Excitement! Karaoke Party
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7.77
82 votes

#20 - Teruhashi's Second Visit to the Saiki Residence + It's a Piece of Cake! The Straw Millionaire + Transformation! Super Size + He Should Repeat the Grade + Max Excitement! Karaoke Party

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/14/2016

On the pretense of taking cooking lessons from Saiki's mother, Teruhashi visits Saiki's house only to find herself in a difficult situation. On a different occasion, Saiki's class holds a karaoke party in order to make good memories together.

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The Superstar Returns! + Cast the Die! An Upset in the Finals + Second Encounter (for Real This Time)! Uryoku Chouno + Mera’s Money Situation
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7.78
101 votes

#21 - The Superstar Returns! + Cast the Die! An Upset in the Finals + Second Encounter (for Real This Time)! Uryoku Chouno + Mera’s Money Situation

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/5/2016

Toru Mugami, the movie star Teruhashi was with at the theater, comes to see Saiki. He says that he wants to discuss something concerning Teruhashi. Students at PK Academy are taking final exams. Nendou is told that he’ll have to repeat Year 2 if he flunks three or more subjects, but he says he’s got a secret plan for passing his tests. After taking off the germanium ring, Saiki immediately begins hearing depressing thoughts from a familiar voice... Saiki somehow ends up being Chouno’s assistant in his magic show. The time finally comes to perform the body-cutting trick, but can Saiki make it a success? PK Academy forbids their students from working. However, one of Saiki’s classmates, Chisato Mera, works at a café he likes to visit, and asks him not to tell anyone about it.

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Impersonation via Hypnosis + High Expectations on the New, Fully Functional Mascot + This Year's the Last Time! New Year's Eve + Silent New Year's
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7.81
70 votes

#22 - Impersonation via Hypnosis + High Expectations on the New, Fully Functional Mascot + This Year's the Last Time! New Year's Eve + Silent New Year's

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/30/2018

After accidentally turning Nendo and Kaido into stone, Saiki comes up with a plan to hypnotically substitute them with other friends. Hilarity ensues.

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A Strong Declaration of Friendship + The Best Wing Girl!? + The Adventures of Riki Jr. No. 2, Small and Smart + The Disastrous Life of Hiroshi Satou + Trim a Bit off the Sides
star
7.82
66 votes

#23 - A Strong Declaration of Friendship + The Best Wing Girl!? + The Adventures of Riki Jr. No. 2, Small and Smart + The Disastrous Life of Hiroshi Satou + Trim a Bit off the Sides

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/4/2018

The Sky Barracuda ship is finally complete. The team is ready to take off but soon realize they are lacking something very important and necessary.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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Jump! Cyborg Cider-Man No. 2 + Industry-Leading, Top-Ranking Company?! Father’s Job + Cider-Man No. 2 vs. The Lemonade Fiend + Kusuo Saiki’s Holiday + Kusuo Saiki’s Woman Troubles
star
7.85
87 votes

#24 - Jump! Cyborg Cider-Man No. 2 + Industry-Leading, Top-Ranking Company?! Father’s Job + Cider-Man No. 2 vs. The Lemonade Fiend + Kusuo Saiki’s Holiday + Kusuo Saiki’s Woman Troubles

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/19/2016

When Saiki sees a boy’s balloon flying away, he uses his psychic powers to jump high and get it back for him. The boy thinks that Saiki is his favorite hero, Cider-man No. 2, and starts following him. When Kuniharu is late for work, he asks Saiki to teleport him to his office. After being bribed with a coffee jello, Saiki teleports him to work. Once there, Saiki ends up going to the office with Kuniharu to check the place out. Just when Saiki thinks that he can have a quiet, relaxing day, his neighbor Yuuta stops by and wants to watch the Cider-man Blu-ray with him. There’s a festival going on, and Saiki goes to check it out. He tries to keep a low profile as usual, but his telepathy isn’t of much use to him because of the huge crowd. Teruhashi and Yumehara run into each other at a cafe and decide to sit together and talk. Then the subject of who they like comes up...

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Midwinter Disaster + The Saiko Conglomerate Home Visit + Come On Over to Saiko Land! + Invincible Disaster Prevention Measures + Congratulations on Your Graduation!
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7.85
68 votes

#25 - Midwinter Disaster + The Saiko Conglomerate Home Visit + Come On Over to Saiko Land! + Invincible Disaster Prevention Measures + Congratulations on Your Graduation!

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2018

Saiki and his friends brave the bitter cold to go to school but it's freezing inside. Just as things look really bad, a warmhearted savior arrives.

Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai
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