Episode 41

**Great Reversal! Invincible Canchome**(大逆転! 無敵キャンチョメ, *Daigyakuten! Muteki Kyanchome*) is the 41st episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime. This episode first aired in Japan on January 25, 2004.

## Overview

Canchome and Folgore confront and fight against Bago and Frito by their cliff side hideout. Although Canchome finds himself at an initial disadvantage in this fight, he soon learns a new spell that turns the tables against his opponent.

## Plot

Back in Japan, Kiyomaro's classmates, Yamanaka, Iwashima, and Kaneyama get called up to the front of the classroom to receive their graded tests and see they all performed poorly on it. Suzume would also end up getting called up only to see she hardly did any better than the others. Kiyomaro on the other hand has his test returned to him and is unsurprised he had earned a perfect score. What does surprise him is when he learns both Gash and Umagon had followed him to school despite him telling them not to do so. Although he tries to remove them both from the classroom, he ends up getting bit on the hand by Umagon for doing so.

Meanwhile, Canchome's battle against Bago had just begun with Canchome using his first spell, *Poruku*, to transform himself into a large minotaur-like form. This form manages to intimidate both Bago and Frito by his large size but as soon as Canchome tries to attack them, Canchome ironically ends up being the one injured as Bago's body was tougher than he thought. This leads to Frito immediately figuring out that while Canchome's spells can change his physical form it does nothing to change his actual strength. Frito follows this up by casting *Fureido* which causes Bago to breathe fire towards Canchome as his target but ends up attacking Folgore instead when he jumps in to protect Canchome.

Seeing that both Canchome and Folgore are still able to fight them, Bago attacks with *Fureido* once again but ends up missing both of them as they barely dodge it. Following this up, Bago would attack with *Rin Fureido,* a spell that creates multiple rings of fire. As Canchome looks at the oncoming attack, he's reminded of the fact he had to jump through rings of fire during his time at the circus and realizes that's exactly what he has to do now. Canchome evades Bago's attack by leaping through each of the rings successfully without getting burnt. Seeing Canchome's performance ends up surprising Folgore as he thinks about how much Canchome seemed to have changed since he last saw him. Realizing they have a chance to counterattack, Folgore uses the opportunity to cast *Koporuku*. Frito ends up temporarily losing sight of Canchome due to his shrunken size but ends up finding him again when he looks down and sees him undoing his pants. His mischief doesn't last for long however as he's easily swatted away by Frito.

Just before Frito and Bago can do anything else, Folgore casts *Poruku* once again and Canchome transforms himself into an imperfect Frito imposter. While the differences between them are blatantly obvious, Bago ends up being easily confused by the situation and struggles to identify the real one. While Canchome acts nice while pretending to be Frito, the real one ends up insulting Bago which causes Bago to attack him thinking that he was the fake. After being humiliated like this, Frito becomes enraged and casts *Bareido* which knocks back Canchome and cancels his transformation. Frito goes even further and casts one of their larger attack spells, *Gigano Bareido,* which causes Bago to expel a large beam of energy that forces Canchome and Folgore to flee the cave before they get hit by it.

Outside, Folgore urges Canchome that they need to retreat as they stand no chance against Bago and his spells. As soon as Bago and Frito appear outside, Folgore takes Canchome and runs from the battle despite Canchome's protests. However as Canchome looks back he ends up seeing Rushka approach Frito telling him to not attack Canchome anymore and to return her sheep. Frito disregards this and kicks her away from him. Canchome frees himself from Folgore and rushes back to Rushka's side as he's determined to keep fighting for her sake no matter how futile the situation. While Canchome stands his ground, his spell book begins to glow bright and Folgore discovers a new spell has appeared inside.

    Seeing as it's their best option, Folgore casts their third spell, *Dikaporuku,* which appears to have greatly increased Canchome's size. His new appearance intimidates both Bago and Frito causing them to retaliate by using *Gigano Bareido.* While their attack appeared to have landed on Canchome, he discovers that the attack did not affect him at all which convinces him to believe this spell had made him invincible. As he boasts about his new power, Frito casts a barrage of spells towards Canchome only to see that they all fail to do anything to him. Folgore figures out the reason behind this was due to the fact that the large Canchome was only a projection of the real one and every one of Bago's spells had simply passed through the projection while the real one was right in front of them still. With Bago and Frito distracted and their spell power low, Folgore seizes the opportunity to make his move in taking away their spell book.

Seeing Folgore try and rush towards them, Frito uses his remaining energy to cast *Fureido* to create a wall of fire to stop him. Folgore doesn't stop however and he dives right into the flames and comes out on the other side unharmed and determined to get the job done. Unexpectedly for him, they decide to change targets and Frito orders Bago to take Rushka hostage as she's by herself now. Canchome arrives just in time to protect Rushka but ends up being grazed from behind from Bago's claws as he jumps in to protect her. Frito gets distracted by this sight and Folgore finally ends up taking the book away from him and tosses it into the fire that was created by their spell and Bago soon disappears along with his book. Rushka's sheep were soon retrieved from the cave and as they waited for the full herd of sheep to come out, Folgore reflected on the bravery Canchome had demonstrated during the battle.

The next day, Canchome informs the ringleader of the circus he was leaving that day. He asks Lily about Rushka's whereabouts only to hear from her that she was too sad to say goodbye to him. While outside, Folgore asks Canchome if he could show him some of the tricks he was able to do while in the circus and the ringleader encourages him to make one last performance using one of the circus balls. Canchome initially doubts himself as he remembers he was never able to perform perfectly before but Folgore convinces him to try anyhow. Canchome struggles a bit but ends up balancing himself perfectly on the ball and earns a round of applause from everyone in his audience. When Canchome turns around he sees that Rushka was there to witness his performance and claps for him just like she had said she would and the two of them share a hug. Rushka cries thinking that she's going to be all alone again but Canchome makes a promise to her saying he'll come to her side whenever she needs him because he is a big brother to her. Their time together would come to a close and both he and Folgore would soon head off.

Folgore and Canchome head to the nearest harbor where Folgore would purchase tickets for their trip back to Milan. While doing that, Folgore ends up getting swarmed by some of his female fans and Canchome is left on his own to wait for him while he is busy. While looking around, he spots an unattended box of candy on a nearby boat and boards it to claim the candy. Unexpectedly, the boarding platform he used was soon removed and the boat began to move. Canchome calls out to Folgore for help as he realizes he was now stuck on a boat that was set to travel to the South Pole. Folgore watches helplessly as Canchome disappears further from sight and is left to figure out how he'll get him out of the new mess he got himself in.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Hidetoshi Nakata
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Mamoru Iwashima
* Hiroshi Yamanaka
* Takeshi Kaneyama
* Suzume Mizuno
* Gash Bell
* Umagon
* Bago
* Frito
* Parco Folgore
* Canchome
* Rushka
* Lily

### Locations

* Japan
	+ Mochinoki City
		- Mochinoki Middle School
* Europe
	+ Spain

### Spells by Appearance

* Poruku
* Fureido (Debut)
* Rin Fureido (Debut)
* Koporuku
* Bareido (Debut)
* Gigano Bireido (Debut)
* Dikaporuku (Debut)

## Manga & Anime Differences

* All appearances Kiyomaro, Gash, Umagon, Suzume, Yamanaka, Iwashima, Kaneyma, and the homeroom teacher in have in this episode is entirely filler as none of them have any involvement during these same events in the manga.

## Censorship & Other Localization Differences

* Details such as blood from injuries are cleaned up from characters in the VIZ localization but other things such as scratches and clothing tears are usually left alone. Minor bleeding seen on Folgore and Frito would be cleaned up in the VIZ localization.
* A scene that originally depicted Frito being punched across the face by Bago was censored over with a bright flashing screen
* Underwear was edited onto Folgore for multiple scenes after he had the back of his pants burned from diving into fire.