Love on the Brain

#### 49 parts

**Episode 1 Untitled:** Series/season premiere. Denki and Neito notice that Hitoshi can't sleep. He's having his usual nightmares again.

Established Ships: Monoshinkami (present), LazerTricks, LambyBird, and MindSmile

Featured Song: Hayloft (SMASHUP) - Mother Mother

**Episode 2 VILLAINS & HEROES:** Aiko Shinsou wants to become a hero like her best friend, Narihana Kaminari. At home, she and her mother suffer from domestic violence. The next day, Narihana tells her that her quirk developed and she'll get homeschooled from now on. In all her sadness, Aiko develops her quirk. Note: this is the first time that it is shown/explained that Narihana and Aiko were childhood friends.

Featured Song: Fallen Down - Toby Fox

**Episode 3 Smile!:**Aiko notices that she can use her quirk when she smiles to get people to do things she wants. Yet she didn't realize that she controlled her mom to kill her dad.

Featured Song: Smile - Jimmy Durante

**Episode 4 People Who Rule the World:** Out of fear, Aiko's mom has called the police and heroes to take her daughter away. The heroes bring her to a mental facility due to her dangerous quirk.

Featured Song: We Are the People - Empire of the Sun

**Episode 5 I'm Gonna Show You:** Aiko's suffering inside the mental facility. Her mouth has been sewn into a frown, yet she still manages to control a nurse to hurt herself.

Featured Song: I'm Gonna Show You Crazy - Bebe Rexha

**Episode 6 Overwhelmed:** Young Hibiki is suffering from his quirk. He hears everyone's thoughts all at the same time and gets easily overwhelmed by it. Hibiki suddenly hears an anxious thought and follows it. He finds Aiko and quickly frees her.

Featured Song: overwhelmed - Royal & the Serpent

**Episode 7 Control:** After Aiko's escape, she gets her revenge and blows up the entire facility.

Featured Song: Control - Halsey

**Episode 8 Lost:** Hibiki finds the aftermath of the explosion and realizes his mother got killed by it. He seeks to get revenge on the girl he saved. Yet, he ends up feeling bad for Aiko and comforts her instead.

Featured Song: Snowman - Sia

**Episode 9 Welcome Home:** Before the authorities arrive, Hibiko and Aiko look for a place to hide. Aiko returns to her mom, who's about to call the police. When Aiko later sees her old friend Narihana in her neighborhood about to call the police as well, she breaks down. Hibiki takes Aiko to an abandoned haunted house that becomes their home.

Featured Song: Lovely - Billie Eilish feat Khalid

**Episode 10 New Life:**Aiko and Hibiki trick a police officer to hand over their wallet. They grow up and start helping other misjudged people with villainous quirks.

Featured Song: Mary on a Cross - Ghost

**Episode 11 Partners:** Police Officer Monoma and Pro-Hero LazerTazer corner Aiko and Hibiki, a criminal couple. Yet they manage to escape. Hibiki and Aiko hand out the stolen money to poor people with villainous quirks.

Featured Song: Partners in Crime - Set it Off feat Ash Costello

**Episode 12 Bad Guy:** Aiko and Hibiki go on another mission to steal money. Yet, this time Officer Monoma catches Hibiki and arrests him.

Featured Song: Bad Guy - Billie Eilish

**Episode 13 Sinner & Saint:** Hibiki is being investigated by Kenji and Noël. He tells them how different they are and how he'll always get mistreated. Noël feels pity for the criminal and invites him to dinner at his house.

Featured Song: Problems - Mother Mother

**Episode 14 It'll Be Okay:** Officer Monoma gives Hibiki a chance to change his path and become a police man himself. His girlfriend could get a normal job as well.

Featured Song: It'll Be Okay - Shawn Mendez

**Episode 15 Immortals:** Hibiki returns to Aiko who was already working on a rescue plan to get him out of jail. He tells her about Noël's offer to work for the police and Kimi's business. Aiko is hesitant due to her past but agrees to it nonetheless.

Featured Song: Immortals - Fall Out Boy

**Episode 16 Here for the Marbles:** The Shinsous meet Kimi for the job interview, yet Kimi mistakes them for regular customers. Aiko notices how valuable the marbles are and decides to rob the business instead.

Featured Song: Sweet Dreams (are Made of This) - Emily Browning

**Episode 17 This Could Set You Free:** Hibiki is mad at Aiko for robbing the business and wants her to return the marbles. She fights her inner child who always wanted to be a hero.

Featured Song: Meant to Be Yours - Ryan McCartan (Heathers)

**Episode 18 BACKSTABBER:** Aiko returns the marbles until she hears two voices talking about villainous quirks. When she recognizes her old best friend, Narihana, she snaps and controls Kimi to attack her as revenge for betraying her in the past.

Featured Song: BACKSTABBER - Kesha

**Episode 19 Just a Poor Boy:** Aiko confesses to Hibiki that she attacked the business and why she did it. Kenji and Noël find their wives injured and want to find out who is responsible.

Featured Song: Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Darling Edit)

**Episode 20 2 Birds:** Kenji and Noël desperately search for the two criminals for the next two years. Narihana is still in a coma following the incident in Episode 18. Aiko feels bad for holding Hibiki back from a better life and controls him to leave for his own sake.

Featured Song: 2 Birds - Regina Spektor

**Episode 21 I Hear a Sound:** Hibiki tries to break Aiko's control to warn her about something. Kenji and Noël have found their location and look for them at the haunted house.

Featured Song: You Can't Hide - Ck9c, Elizabeth Ann

**Episode 22 SHOWDOWN:** Kenji and Noël confront Aiko and Hibiki about the attack. When Aiko admits that she did it, Kenji snaps and wants to arrest her. After Kenji turns blind from his quirk, he tries to reach Noël's taser gun to tase Aiko. Yet he accidentally takes the real gun and shoots instead.

Featured Song: Ready to Die - Andrew WK

**Episode 23 The Accident:** Hibiki jumps in front of Aiko when the gun goes off and dies. In all her devastation, Aiko controls Kenji, forcing him to kill Noël with his own quirk.

Featured Song: Choking on Flowers - Fox Academy

**Episode 24 THAT'S LIFE:** Kenji suffers from PTSD and depression after Noël's death, while Kimi tries to continue her business. Aiko is devastated about Hibiki's death. Aiko researches and finds out more information regarding Kimi and Cécile's quirks. She surprises Kimi by arriving at her home with her estranged daughter as her hostage and a mysterious package.

Featured Song: That's Life - Frank Sinatra

**Episode 25 OH HIBIKI:** Picking up right where we left off, Aiko has kidnapped Cécile and now holds her hostage with Kimi. She wants them to clone her dead boyfriend, Hibiki. Out of rage, she destroys Kimi's precious marbles.

Featured Song: Oh Ana - Mother Mother

**Episode 26 A LIFE FOR A LIFE:** Cécile explains to Aiko how her quirk works. She needs a long future lifespan to copy from to add to another. They end up using Aiko and Hibiki's baby marble to copy the future life span from to add it all to Hibiki's age he was when he died.

Featured Song: Criminal - Sarah Paulson

**Episode 27 NEWBIKI:** Cécile uses Aiko's marble to add the future lifespan to Hibiki's marble. He gets successfully cloned and aged up.

Featured Song: Middle of the Night - Elley Duhé

**Episode 28 Welcome Home, Hibiki:** Aiko turns Hibiki into his "old" self and explains to him that they live in an abandoned house (not haunted house). He doesn't understand her. She also lies that he has lost his old memories due to a quirk accident.

Featured Song: Who Is She? - I Monster

**Episode 29 How to Hibiki:** Hibiki gets educated about everything he needs to know. He learns how Hibiki used to be. It's a hard process.

Featured Songs: Big Bang Theory Theme and Coffee - Jack Stauber (Darling Mashup)

**Episode 30 Our Love Story:** Hibiki gets taught about his and Aiko's love story. He learns how they robbed banks for their misfits.

Featured Song: Fairytale - Alexander Rybak

**Episode 31 Our Mission:** Hibiki goes to his first mission with Aiko and learns how draining Aiko's quirk can be. He wants to take over and make it easier for her. So, he kills the people from the bank to get the money.

Featured Song: Southern Nights - Glen Campbell

**Episode 32 Better than My Old Self:** Newbiki is tired of feeling like the side character of the missions and wants to become better than his old self. He wants to take the lead.

Featured Song: It's Alright - Mother Mother

**Episode 33 My Eyes:** Aiko doesn't want Hibiki to kill anymore. It's not like him, but the New Hibiki (Newbiki) sees the world differently...and not in a good way.

Featured Song: My Eyes - Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day (Dr. Horrible)

**Episode 34 Take the Lead:** Newbiki becomes more and more obsessed with the idea of killing and uses manipulation to convince Aiko to let him take the lead. He wants the two to be feared and become the greatest criminals.

Featured Song: Counting Stars - OneRepublic

**Episode 35 HITOSHI:** Aiko and Hibiki's marble gets fully developed and a baby is born. Aiko starts to love him the moment he grabs her hand.

Featured Song: You'll Be in My Heart - Phil Collins

**Episode 36 MONSTER:** Aiko wants to get some baby stuff for Hitoshi. When it's Newbiki's turn to watch him, he wants to kill him. Aiko catches him and stabs him with scissors. The reason for his murder plans is to be the only one getting Aiko's attention. He is jealous of the baby.

Featured Song: Monster - Skillet

**Episode 37 Never Getting Rid of Me:** Aiko wants to escape the house with her son. Yet, since Newbiki can read her mind, he can easily track her location. He catches her before she can escape.

Featured Song: Never Ever Getting Rid of Me - Christopher Fitzgerald (Waitress)

**Episode 38 You're Mine:** Newbiki returned Aiko back home and still wants to kill Hitoshi. Aiko tells him she wants to keep the boy for crimes due to his future quirk. She tells Newbiki that she only loves him and actually hates the baby.

Featured Song: We Belong Together - Ritchie Valens

**Episode 39 JOKE'S ON YOU:** Aiko tries one more time to leave the house, but the doors are locked. Newbiki takes her on missions again. She tries to get help from strangers but is caught by Newbiki. She gets locked in the basement with Hitoshi, where she gets flashbacks from her past.

Featured Song: Joke's On You - Charlotte Lawrence

**Episode 40 ENEMY:** Hitoshi and Aiko work for Newbiki. They go on missions together. Newbiki wants Hitoshi's quirk to develop so that he can use him for missions.

Featured Song: Enemy - Imagine Dragons

**Episode 41 LOVE KILLER:** Aiko continues to act like she hates Hitoshi, but secretly loves him and wants him to escape on his own. Yet, Tiny Toshi is too attached to his mother and stays.

Featured Song: Killer - The Ready Set

**Episode 42 SHOW YOUR QUIRK:** Newbiki wants to see if Hitoshi's quirk has developed already. He provokes him to the point that his mind control quirk activates. In his rage, Hitoshi wants to kill Newbiki for all he's done to his mother. Aiko doesn't want him to be a murderer like her so she stops him. Newbiki breaks free of Hitoshi's control and wants to kill Hitoshi for good this time. Aiko convinces him to let her kill Hitoshi herself.

Featured Song: Show and Tell - Melanie Martinez

**Episode 43 Come With Mommy:** Aiko only has one hour to kill Hitoshi before Newbiki does it himself. Aiko does what she has to.

Featured Song: Devil Doesn't Bargain - Alec Benjamin

**Episode 44 DRIFT AWAY:** Aiko uses her quirk to let Hitoshi cover his eyes. She leaves him so he is forced to stay away from her.

Featured Song: Drift Away - Trillian

**Episode 45 Stay Away:** Hitoshi chases after his mother and finds her, thinking it was just a mistake. Aiko has to use violence to keep Hitoshi away in order to save his life.

Featured Song: The End of the World - Skeeter Davis

**Episode 46 NEWBIKI VS AIKO:** Aiko finally returns home, alone. She tries to kill Newbiki herself.

Featured Song: Hayloft II - Mother Mother

**Episode 47 AIKO VS NEWBIKI:** Aiko tries to kill Newbiki but gets flashbacks of the Hibiki she loved so much. When Newbiki wants to kill her, she kills him after all.

Featured Song: Hayloft II - Mother Mother

**Episode 48 Lost & Found:** While Aiko is taking care of business at home, Hitoshi is left alone in the cold. After following a bird, he finds...his favorite hero! Eraserhead escorts Hitoshi to a safe place. It's revealed that his deceased biological father Hibiki was the one guiding his son from the afterlife.

Featured Song: Snowman - Sia

**Episode 49 Goodbye, Hitoshi:** Series finale. When Aiko goes to get Hitoshi back, she sees him and Eraserhead. She realizes it's for the best to let him go. Aiko is a wanted criminal and would always be on the run with her son. She couldn't let that happen for his future and his dream of being a hero. Returning home, Aiko imagines a world with her real Hibiki and their son, Hitoshi. At the end: Hitoshi is all grown up and holding his own marble baby.

Featured Song: Slipping Through My Fingers - Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia)

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