Kinta's Imagination

A kaiju is closing in, and Okarun pitches an idea to Momo, the Evil Eye, Aira, and classmate Kinta Sakata. Since the Ayase home is built from nanoskin, he wants to mold that material into a weapon. His live demonstration backfires badly, the warped structure nearly flattening everyone gathered there. Kinta then volunteers, sure that years of science fiction fandom make him the better visualizer, and he reshapes the building into a mechanical Buddha, each pilot tucked into a private cockpit. The outcome disappoints him, since it differs from his mental picture, and Momo confesses that her own image of a towering Buddha shaped the machine. Even so, the thrill of climbing aboard a mech wins him over, and he dubs it the Great Kinta Bodhisattva, Zeta Version, eager for battle. The catch arrives when Momo asks how anyone is supposed to make it walk.

First Okarun pictures the entire residence as a unified sheet of nanoskin and fails to shape it. Drawing on his love of science fiction, Kinta then wills a towering robot into existence, and each member of the group is seated at a personal control panel ahead of the clash.

The moment the kaiju charges, everyone realizes not one of them understands how to operate the giant machine.

Set during the Kaiju Arc under the Kintama Hunt Saga, this installment introduces the Great Kinta mech. It opens Volume 9 and reached the screen as anime Episode 23.