Space Globalists Arc

This is the seventh story arc of Dandadan and the seventh within the Kintama Hunt Saga, spanning Volumes 9 through 14 and chapters seventy-four to one hundred twenty. It is one of the longest and most consequential arcs of the saga, escalating the alien conflict to a full-scale invasion and introducing the series' strongest yokai.

Two threats land on Momo at once. After trespassing into the ruins of Reiko Kashima, the slit-mouthed woman considered the strongest yokai alive, Momo is cursed and hunted every night past ten o'clock. At the same time the Kur, alien globalists piloting cross-dimensional exosuits, ambush every member of the group in turn, steal Okarun's golden ball, and reveal that Bamora may be why Earth became a target. A defective Serpo named Rokuro defects to help the Family, exposing how Serpo clones overwrite one another and dumping a wealth of intel on alien technology.

Bamora's past surfaces when Momo reads her aura: she is a Sumerian refugee who fled the Kur's invasion of her homeworld, raised by an old woman named Banga. The kaiju she pilots and the golden ball turn out to be products of her people's forced sacrifice. As the Kur prepare to warp their main force using captured energy, the group hides in the jammed basement of the ruined Nagi Hospital. Momo unlocks the Power of Words, naming her dimension-piercing beam, while Jiji's ki training and Kinta's perfected mecha let them stand against the alien commander Hastur.

The main Kur fleet reaches Earth and Empty Space starts tearing open, but Reiko Kashima single-handedly closes the invasion with her mirror and strength, swayed by the sight of Momo and Okarun defending each other, then abandons her ruins for good. The episode confirms Okarun's theory that yokai are what keep aliens from conquering the planet. The Serpo recover data and resolve to return, while the looming presence of Saint-Germain, whom Turbo Granny furiously dubs the Hyper Geezer, sets up future conflict and his infiltration of the school.