Episode 104

**Rival Idol. The Spark of Love. Suzume’s Victory??** (*ライバルはアイドル 恋の火花 鈴芽の勝利??,Raibaru ha Aidoru Koi no Hibana Suzume no Shōri??*) is the 104th episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime and first aired in Japan on April 24, 2005. While this episode features some moments originally adapted from the Konjiki no Gash!! Manga, this episode is mostly filler.

## Overview

Kiyomaro, Gash, and Umagon learn that Sunbeam is moving into their neighborhood and decide that they want to bring him a housewarming gift. Suzume is invited by Kiyomaro to join the group in shopping for a gift and ends up meeting Megumi, who decides to come along for the trip as well. Seeing how well Kiyomaro and Megumi get along, Suzume becomes jealous and tries to compete for Kiyomaro’s attention through a myriad of means.

## Plot

At breakfast, Kiyomaro, Gash, and Umagon read a letter sent from Sunbeam and learn that he is moving close by to them. Hearing this Hana tells them that they should bring him a housewarming gift and suggests that they bring Suzume to help cook a meal for him. Kiyomaro is unsure of Suzume’s cooking skills, but Suzume is nevertheless invited along with everyone on their shopping trip. As Suzume gets ready for her day, she interprets this invitation from Kiyomaro as a date and meets up with him under this assumption. Before the group starts walking around the department store, Gash requests that they all wait a little longer outside as he was waiting for someone. Gash’s guest is soon revealed to be Tio, who was also accompanied by Megumi.

Suzume is star struck upon recognizing Megumi but her feelings toward her eventually turns to jealousy when she sees how friendly Megumi and Kiyomaro are with each other. During their shopping trip, Gash, Tio, and Umagon express interest in being able to pick out a gift for Sunbeam. Kiyomaro then decides that he’ll allow each of them to pick something and they’ll choose whoever’s gift is the best at the end. When Suzume overhears Kiyomaro ask Megumi for her help in this, Suzume immediately volunteers to help then challenges Megumi by stating she won’t lose to her. Intrigued by this, Megumi decides then that she’ll join this competition.

As everyone looks around for things, Suzume shows Kiyomaro a lie detector and insists that he use it as she asks him various questions. Kiyomaro reluctantly goes along with this and he is then interrogated for answers about his relationship with Megumi. For each time Kiyomaro responds “no” to questions asking if he is good friends with her, the lie detector goes off, causing Suzume to become progressively more distressed and paranoid. Megumi herself contributes to this by asking a question to Kiyomaro that suggests that they share a secret that Suzume is unaware of. By the end of their trip, Kiyomaro asks everyone what they had chosen as their potential gifts. Looking at everyone’s choices, Kiyomaro himself struggles to figure out what they should give to Sunbeam as he feels that neither one of anyone’s suggestions make suitable housewarming gifts for him.

At his apartment, Sunbeam is given Suzume’s lie detector as they were obligated to buy it after she had opened the box for it. Sunbeam tries to reassure everyone he appreciates the gift and their sentiments but this was revealed to be a lie as he says this while using it. Megumi however suggests that they can help tidy things in his apartment by helping him unpack. While the majority of the group gets to work on this for the sake of helping Sunbeam, Suzume uses this as an opportunity to try and impress Kiyomaro. Despite her best efforts, Suzume ends up causing more trouble than good as she messes up many different tasks while also trying to prevent Kiyomaro and Megumi from being close together. By the end of the day though, the group manages to help Sunbeam put away and organize his belongings and he thanks them for their help. After spending some time chatting with everyone, Sunbeam offers to treat everyone to a meal to show his gratitude. Megumi instead suggests that she could cook a meal for everyone and Kiyomaro chimes in with his positive opinion of Megumi’s cooking. Overhearing this, Suzume interrupts to insist that she will be able to show everyone her good qualities by being the one who cooks instead.

While Suzume is working away in the kitchen, Kiyomaro, Megumi, and Sunbeam pay attention to an unusual news broadcast on television that covers a story about a mysterious structure that suddenly appeared in the Resuka mountain range. The newscaster covering the story goes on to explain that this gigantic structure had also strangely disappeared a short time after its discovery as well. Hearing about this, the three of them silently figure out for themselves that this phenomena has some connection to demons, although they are not sure yet just how. Before they could think about this any further, Suzume comes in to serve everyone the meal she had cooked. Everyone eagerly takes their first bite of it seeing how appetizing it appeared to be but to Suzume’s dismay, everyone reacts in disgust as this was the worst meal they ever had.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Hana Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Umagon
* Suzume Mizuno
* Tio
* Megumi Oumi
* Kafka Sunbeam

### Locations

* Mochinoki City
	+ Takamine Residence

## Manga & Anime Differences

* In the manga, Megumi wears a jacket and a long dress. In the anime, instead of a dress, she wears a long sleeve top and pants.
* While this episode is mostly faithful to the manga chapter it is based on, Suzume’s jealousy and obsession with Kiyomaro and Megumi’s relationship is more exaggerated in the anime than the manga. Many scenes that portray this are mostly filler.
* Scenes that show Kiyomaro’s group helping Sunbeam organize and unpack is entirely filler and does not appear in the manga.

## Trivia

* This is the final episode of the anime that receives an English dub.