Episode 91

**Follow Naomi!!** (*ナオミちゃんを追跡せよ!!,Naomi-chan wo Tsuiseki seyo!!*) is the 91st episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime and first aired in Japan on January 23, 2005. This episode is entirely filler and is not based on any chapters from the Konjiki no Gash!! Manga.

## Overview

Gash discovers that something had happened to the park when he sees it in decay and ruin. Gash then suspects that Naomi must have been the one responsible for this as he sees her flee from the scene of it to head to the department store. Gash, along with Tio and Umagon, would then try to follow her around the store to piece together what she could be plotting next.

## Plot

As routine at this point for Kiyomaro, he struggles to leave for school without Gash trying to come along with him. Kiyomaro reminds Gash that he could spend the day at the park instead but Gash refuses as he is only reminded of Naomi at the mention of it. After some time, Kiyomaro shakes Gash off of him and he promptly heads to school without him. Gash is then left to stay at home feeling bored as there was nothing for him to do. His curiosity is piqued when he sees Hana about to leave and he asks her where she is going. Hana tells Gash that she was on her way to buy something to prepare for dinner that night. Interested, Gash asks Hana if he could help buy groceries instead. Hana allows him to do this and gives Gash her coin purse and a small note on what to get. After securing these items, Gash quickly heads off with Umagon who decides to come along with him.

Just as Gash and Umagon were looking forward to their day running errands for Hana, they accidentally find themselves at the park instead. Gash becomes especially nervous as he knows Naomi would be there expecting him. When the two investigate the park however, they see it is in a dilapidated state with nobody around. As they walk deeper into the park, one of the local kids would approach Gash. When Gash tries to speak with them, the only answer he receives is being told it was Gash’s fault that the park was like this. Gash becomes confused hearing this but wasn’t able to think any further about it as Naomi would suddenly appear out of some bushes in her toy car driving off in a hurry. After seeing Naomi, Gash suspects that the current state of the park must be her doing and that she could be plotting something sinister. Determined to find out what she’s up to, Gash and Umagon begin chasing after her.

Elsewhere in town, Tio walks around looking for something to do after being kicked out from interrupting a scene from one of Megumi’s film shootings. It wouldn’t be long until she sees Gash and Umagon quietly following Naomi downtown and Tio decides she wants to follow them too. Following Naomi takes Gash and Umagon to the Mochinoki Department Store where the two of them would remain in hiding as they watch Naomi do some shopping. As they watch, Tio approaches the two of them from behind and scares them as a joke. Their screams catch Naomi’s attention but she does not figure out yet that they were there following her. After settling down, Tio learns about Gash’s suspicion that Naomi was plotting to take over the local park and that they’re there to see what she was up to. Figuring this would be a good way to kill time, Tio decides to join Gash and Umagon in their quest to uncover Naomi’s plot.

As they follow Naomi around the shopping center, they witness her make various questionable and suspicious purchases which further fuels their belief that she’s up to something nefarious. At some point, they would make enough noise to catch Naomi’s attention but Naomi had already figured that they were following her for some time. Despite this, Naomi decides to continue playing along with them for a little while longer. When Naomi finally decides she has had enough of them, she makes a call to the department store’s security to report Gash, Umagon, and Tio as lost children. This then leads to various security personnel chasing after the three of them in order to bring them to the department store’s lost child center. As the three of them frantically run from being caught, Naomi continues making the rest of her purchases in peace. After having all of her goods brought out to her car, she drives off and expresses in elation that everything she has in store for Gash will be ready to present to him soon.

Meanwhile, Gash, Umagon, and Tio manage to successfully get away from security after disguising themselves. Luckily for them, Kiyomaro and Megumi would find them in the store and take them all back home. As Gash walks home with Umagon and Kiyomaro, Gash finds himself unable to head back with them as he’s still bothered believing that the state of the park was his fault and that he needs to face Naomi there before he could return home. At the park, Gash is at a standoff with Naomi, who expresses how upset she was over the fact Gash had been gone for some time due to overseas travel. She then wastes no time finally revealing all the strange purchases she acquired that day to torture Gash in cruel and unusual ways while Gash has little to no ability to defend himself against it all. Some time passes, and as Gash starts walking home after recovering from this torment, he sees that the park’s playground is clean and spotless. He then sees Naomi nearby wiping her hands clean and he figures out she was the one who did this. When speaking with her, Naomi only vaguely tells him to come to the park again the next day if he wants to have a chance to win against her before she quickly drives off again. The episode would then end as it shows Gash returning home having completely forgotten about the dinner he was supposed to get earlier that day.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Gash Bell
* Praying Mantis Joe
* Naomi
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Mamoru Iwashima
* Hiroshi Yamanaka
* Takeshi Kaneyama
* Umagon
* Hana Takamine
* Kafka Sunbeam
* Megumi Oumi
* Tio
* Wife
* Suzume Mizuno

### Locations

* Mochinoki City
	+ Takamine Residence
		- Kiyomaro’s Room
	+ Children’s Park

## Trivia

* Makoto Raiku can be seen next to Naomi during a scene where they’re both sitting on a massage chair.
* This episode contains a few references to Raiku’s Grief Warrior Hero Babān one-shot, which was one of Raiku’s early works prior to Konjiki no Gash!!. In one scene, Raiku in the episode wears a sweater featuring the face of the main character of this one-shot. In another, Wife can be seen looking at the costume for this character as well.