Black boots, a white mask, and a wooden bat

Golden inline skates, a baseball cap, and a bent golden bat

A yellow raincoat, a bicycle, and a crowbar

A school uniform, a satchel, and a silver bat

Victims can never recall Lil' Slugger's face, but three details always survive in their memories. What are they?

Akio Kawazu, the reporter tailing Tsukiko

Who becomes the second victim of Lil' Slugger?

Her boss expects a character even more successful than Maromi.

She has been accused of stealing Maromi's design.

She must finish the Maromi anime storyboards by morning.

She is being transferred out of the design department.

What pressure is crushing Tsukiko Sagi at work before the first attack?

He was caught carrying a metal bat to school.

He was seen leaving the scene of the Kawazu attack.

His red hat and golden skates look like Lil' Slugger's.

He failed to show up for the student council debate.

Why do Yuuichi "Icchi" Taira's classmates turn on him?

What are Icchi and Shougo Ushiyama competing for?

Who actually shows up to Icchi's birthday party?

What is the name of Harumi Chouno's second personality?

Through messages left on an answering machine

How do Harumi and her other personality communicate with each other?

Her fiance finds the bag before she can leave.

She switches to Maria at the dump and takes them back.

Lil' Slugger attacks her on the way there.

Icchi finds them and returns them to her.

What happens when Harumi tries to throw away Maria's work clothes?

A bank manager embezzling from client accounts

A police officer taking bribes from a yakuza group

A construction foreman skimming from payroll

What is Masami Hirukawa's job, and the secret he is hiding?

He burns him on the forehead with his cigarette.

How does the yakuza boss Makabe make his threat clear to Hirukawa?

He steals evidence from the police lockup.

He puts on a mask and robs local families in their homes.

He sells the yakuza's location to a rival gang.

What does Hirukawa do in desperation to raise the money?

Lil' Slugger speaks to him before striking.

He chases his attacker down and arrests him.

How is Hirukawa's encounter with Lil' Slugger unlike every other victim's?

Who is the boy arrested as Lil' Slugger?

Liberating them from a villain named Gohma

Leveling up so he can return to his own world

In Kozuka's delusion, what does he believe he is doing when he attacks people?

He plays along as a minstrel recording heroic deeds.

He brings a video game console into the room.

How does Maniwa get Kozuka to narrate the full chronology of the attacks?

When pressed, which attacks does Kozuka admit are actually his?

Security camera footage from the bus stop

What evidence do the detectives use to show Tsukiko's attack was self-inflicted?

What does Taeko find in the recycle bin of her father's computer?

What does Taeko say to her father at her hospital bedside after the attack?

He escapes during a transfer to juvenile detention.

He confesses to every attack, then recants.

He is found dead in his cell at Lil' Slugger's feet.

What happens to Kozuka while he is being held in police custody?

Maniwa finds that nearly every victim felt cornered by life. Which victim struck him as having no worries at all?

Kamome is a police officer working undercover

When Fuyubachi and Zebra finally meet their online companion Kamome in person, what shocks them?

He laughs and skates circles around them.

How does Lil' Slugger react when the trio spots him at the bathhouse and runs toward him?

What detail makes Fuyubachi realize what has already happened to the three of them?

In one of the housewives' rumors, an expectant mother has an ultrasound. What does it reveal?

Storyboarding the second episode alone at the studio

Driving the first episode's tape to the TV network

Fleeing the police after the deaths of the staff

Waiting to pitch a new series to Tsukiko's firm

What is Naoyuki Saruta doing on the night Lil' Slugger finally catches him?

She did not trust the hospital's doctors.

Her doctors told her the odds were hopeless.

Her husband, now a security guard, could not afford it.

She wanted the money to go toward Ikari's retirement.

Why did Misae Ikari turn down the operation that could have helped her?

She strikes him with her husband's old police baton.

She tells him humans are not as weak as he thinks.

She convinces him to strike her so the curse will end.

She recites the old man's equation aloud.

How does Misae ultimately drive Lil' Slugger off?

She drowned in a flooded drain during a storm.

She ran into traffic when Tsukiko let go of the leash.

In the truth Maniwa finally uncovers, how did the real Maromi die?

Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent follows a string of attacks by a boy on golden skates with a bent golden bat, and the cornered people of Tokyo who feel strangely relieved once he finds them. How well do you know Paranoia Agent? Test your Paranoia Agent knowledge here on TriviaCreator!