Episode 54

**Park Fight! Gash VS Kiyomaro!?** (*公園ファイト! ガッシュVS清麿!?!,Kōen Faito! Gasshu tai Kiyomaro!?*) is the 54th episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime. This episode first aired in Japan on April 25, 2004. While this episode features some moments originally adapted from the Konjiki no Gash!! Manga, this episode is mostly filler.

## Overview

After the demons from one thousand years ago had been freed from their stone tablets, Patie joins forces with Zofis in order to use them in her plan to seek revenge against Gash. Meanwhile, Gash, Kiyomaro, and their friends spend the day playing various games with each other at the park.

## Plot

With the revival of the Demons from a Thousand Years Ago from the previous battle to decide king, both Patie and Lord share great anticipation in being able to make use of them for their own personal goals. Patie is especially anxious to return to Japan to enact her plan for revenge against Gash Bell right away and Lord allows her to do so by offering her various demons to assist her. With powerful demons on her side, Patie feels confident that she’ll be able to effortlessly eliminate Gash.

Somewhere else at the same time, Baransha and Garza find themselves in a troublesome situation in a battle against an ancient demon and they recognize that something about them feels different than other demons they had faced. While fighting this demon, Baransha senses a strong feeling of anger from them and thinks to herself that it is as though that fighting was their way of venting this. Before Baransha has an opportunity to fight back, another team attacks her. She and Garza would then look to see that they are now completely surrounded by multiple teams who were all working together under Byonko's command. Not long after, Baransha’s spell book was then destroyed in a single attack.

At the park, Gash runs around the park acting as a bullet train with Kiyomaro being forcefully dragged along with him. While their game of playing train is amusing for Gash, Kiyomaro is not able to enjoy it as much as he is. Despite him wanting them to stop, Gash informs Kiyomaro that they still have to get to their final destination together and Kiyomaro is once again dragged along for the ride. Meanwhile deep in a mountainous area, Sherie and Brago trek along a rocky path before Sherie briefly stops to look out onto the horizon as she had suddenly sensed something. Sherie disregards this and continues walking once Brago comments on her having stopped for a bit. Just as they continue, Brago suddenly senses something along the horizon as well but likewise shrugs this feeling off just like Sherie.

After some time, Gash and Kiyomaro finally reach their destination in the middle of an open field in the park. Before Gash is able to drag Kiyomaro off again to the sand pit, Kiyomaro complains to Gash about his discomfort at having been physically dragged by him as he was playing as a train. When Gash apologizes to him and tells him how happy he was just to have been able to have the whole day to play with him, Kiyomaro’s mood changes and decides he’ll continue to spend the day with Gash as it was clear it had meant alot to him but suggests they play something else that’s not as rough on him. Just as they finish talking, Suzume and Umagon meet up with them mainly to deliver a lunch that Kiyomaro’s mother had made. But with all of them there, Gash suggests that they should all play together and Kiyomaro proposes they play a game of kan keri, which is a Japanese version of the game Kick the Can.

As the group tries to set up the game, it becomes evident to Kiyomaro that Gash, Suzume, and Umagon aren’t fully familiar with the rules of the game. The first thing the group does in order to get started is to decide who would be “it”. They face numerous challenges in doing this mainly due to Umagon but Gash would end up being the one who would be “it” for the first game. While Gash counts to 20, the rest of the group would each run to find a suitable hiding place. When Gash finishes counting, he leaves the spot where the can is and starts searching for everyone. While searching, he would unexpectedly find Wife in the middle of some bushes speaking on one of many phones around her neck. He would end up involving her in the game by racing her back to the can and beating her to it. Soon after, Gash also chases after  Kaneyama and  Iwashima who also happened to be at the park and manages to beat them to the can as well. When Gash stops to think who’s left in the game, Kiyomaro appears and expresses his confusion about Wife, Kaneyama, and Iwashima having suddenly joined the game. Not long after this, Suzume and Umagon appear and run towards the can but Gash, having been right by the can, steps on it to call them both out. With their first game finished, the group attempts to convince Wife to be the next person who would be “it” since she was the first person captured but she protests as she does not want to. Luckily for everyone, Kiyomaro volunteers for this role and their game would continue with Kiyomaro being the next person to try and capture everyone.

After Kiyomaro finishes counting and starts to walk away from the can, Wife would be the first one who would try and race Kiyomaro to the can. Before she gets there, she stops in place when she hears her spouse coming over with a TV to test out the six meter distance the remotes on Wife’s neck is able to be used at. Just as Kiyomaro calls Wife out on the can, both Kaneyama and Iwashima try charging towards him from separate directions. Ironically, they forget that with Kiyomaro still on the can, he’s able to call them both out of the game. When Kiyomaro leaves the area of the can to find Gash, Suzume, and Umagon, Suzume and Umagon make their way together to the can and Kiyomaro chases after them. Just as it appeared that Suzume was about to kick the can, Kiyomaro manages to trick Suzume and Umagon into being frozen in place so that he can get to the can and call them both out. Gash would now be the last one in the game and it was up to Kiyomaro to find him. When Gash finally emerges from the bushes to run for the can, he and Kiyomaro race each other neck and neck towards the can. Unexpectedly for Gash, Naomi suddenly appears in her toy car and manages to beat him to the can thus winning the game for everyone else.

With the game concluded, everyone at the park would all sit together and enjoy the lunch prepared by Kiyomaro’s mother. As they eat, Gash expresses to Kiyomaro how much fun he had that day being able to play with everyone and how happy he was able to spend that time with them. Gash ends his sentiments by saying he had wished that feeling of happiness would last forever and Kiyomaro couldn’t agree more with that. As everyone else begins to leave and Gash and Kiyomaro spend the rest of the day building a sand castle together, Kiyomaro thinks to himself about the feeling of happiness that was achieved that day by simply enjoying the moments spent together with friends. Just as he wonders if this feeling would last forever, he would soon get his answer when Patie finally appears before them announcing her return to settle the score with them.

When Kiyomaro questions her about wanting to fight them again so soon, Patie simply responds that she had come there with her group of demons from a thousand years ago to destroy their book for her. The episode then concludes showing the aforementioned demons descending from the sky to battle Gash and Kiyomaro, and Kiyomaro wishing that the happiness that they had would have lasted a little bit longer.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Patie
* Zofis
* Coco
* Erujo
* Borubora
* Dogmos
* Badios
* Baransha
* Garza
* Ibaris
* Kyle Pikal
* Seiu Ou
* Babiru
* Kalura
* Marlene Yanez
* Denshin
* Zorge Herstein
* Byonko
* Gash Bell
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Sherie Belmondo
* Brago
* Umagon
* Suzume Mizuno
* Wife
* Takeshi Kaneyama
* Mamoru Iwashima
* Hidetoshi Nakata
* Naomi
* Tia

### Locations

* Mochinoki City
	+ Children's Park

## Spells by Appearance

* Gigano Gadoruku
* Gigano Dezuru (Debut)
* Gigano Bireido (Debut)

## Manga & Anime Differences

* All appearances Coco, Sherie, Brago, Umagon, Suzume, Wife, Kaneyama, Iwashima, the homeroom teacher, Naomi, and Tia have in this episode is entirely filler and they have no involvement during these events in the manga.
* While in the anime Kiyomaro and Gash spend their time at the park with numerous friends, in the manga, they only spend that time with each other.
	+ They also do not play kick the can since this was a game intended for a group of people.

## Censorship & Other Localization Differences

* A minor nosebleed seen on Kiyomaro in a few scenes was edited out.
* A scene focusing on Wife’s chest was removed.
* A closeup shot of the front of Patie’s underwear was removed.