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The Best Episodes of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1

Every episode of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 7 - Reign of the Small King + Frolic! Silent Night + Noisy New Year's
    8.0/10(285 votes)

    S1:E7

    Kusuo isn't a fan of cats or dogs because his telepathy and X-ray vision let him see animals as they really are. Then he meets a cat in a tight spot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 5 - Escape Using an Invincible Suit of Camouflage! + Get Fired Up! PK Academy Sports Day + Don’t Catch Fire! Safety Drill!
    7.9/10(300 votes)

    S1:E5

    Kusuo changes his routine so that he can get home from school in time to watch anime. His worried friends, meanwhile, are searching all over for him.

    Director:Warurou Suzuki
    Writer:Hiroko Kanasugi

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  3. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 8 - The Scariest! Mr. Matsuzaki + Chocolate Festival + Absolutely the Worst! Nendou’s Father + Totally Trusting! Kurumi Saiki + Telepathy Silencer
    7.9/10(261 votes)

    S1:E8

    Kusuo "overhears" his classmates planning to steal a confiscated item back from a terrifying teacher and has to decide whether or not to rat them out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 23 - The Heir to a Conglomerate Makes His Appearance + Tsundere Grandpa Returns! + Holding a Halloween Party + The Saiko Family's Unbeatable Financial Power
    7.8/10(207 votes)

    S1:E23

    Transfer student Metori Saiko joins the class, but his haughty attitude is as big as his family's fortune. Kusuo wonders if he has an ulterior motive.

    Director:Shinpei Nagai
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 19 - Hurray! Tsundere Grandpa + Hip, Hip, Hurray! Tsundere Grandpa + Welcome to the Farthest Amusement Park! + See You Again! Saying Goodbye to the Grandparents + Congratulations on the Video Game Release! Kunio Saitou's Horror Stories
    7.7/10(217 votes)

    S1:E19

    Kusuo and his family visit his mother's parents, the very kind Kumi and the very forbidding Kumagoro, whose bark is much worse than his bite.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 20 - Toritsuka's Plan to Get Popular + The PK Occult Club + The Worst Cooks + Kokomins Trial + The Disastrous ___th Episode of the Anime
    7.7/10(213 votes)

    S1:E20

    Kusuo overhears girls gossiping about their crushes on Reita, whose band made a big splash at the school festival, possibly for a sinister reason.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 24 - Talent Blossoms?! Melancholy of a Popular Magician + An Exercise in Runaway Delusion + Break-time Disaster + Crushed! Surprise Party
    7.7/10(200 votes)

    S1:E24

    Kusuo receives an invitation to a magic show featuring Chono and Michael, whose powers have apparently grown prodigiously.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 1 - The Disastrous Life of a Psychic + The Worst of the Worst?! Riki Nendou + Shun Kaidou, AKA The Jet-Black Wings + Intelligent and Beautiful! Kokomi Teruhashi
    7.6/10(410 votes)

    S1:E1

    Kusuo Saiki thought he could have an easy life despite his psychic abilities, but his sophomore year of high school quickly proves him wrong.

    Director:Makoto Sokuza
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  9. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 2 - Hot-Blooded! Dodgeball! + Reach Him! Sign of Love + Saiki Family Home Renovation?! Drastic Makeover!! + Deceive! Mind Control
    7.6/10(348 votes)

    S1:E2

    Kusuo inadvertently makes a brilliant dodgeball play in gym class, putting him on a collision course with his athletic classmates Kineshi and Riki.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 3 - A Genius Magician?! Uryoku Chouno + Second Encounter (on TV)! Uryoku Chouno + How Shady! Dark Reunion! + Beachside Summer Story + A New School Term Starts! The Melancholy of Nendou
    7.6/10(315 votes)

    S1:E3

    Kusuo's extrasensory perception makes him unable to enjoy famous illusionist Uryoku Chono's show. Annoyed, Chono dares him to display his own magic.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 6 - Enticing Premium Quality Coffee Jello + In Order to Avoid Misfortunes... + Teruhashi’s Biggest Trial + The Disastrous Life of the Psychic Medium Reita Toritsuka + Stop the Killer Domino Effect!
    7.6/10(275 votes)

    S1:E6

    Kusuo heads to the grocery store to buy dessert and has to decide which coffee jelly will give him the most satisfaction. Luckily, he has ESP!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 21 - Here Comes the Mad Scientist + Run for It! A Battle of Wits + Please at Least Be Quiet in the Art Museum
    7.6/10(206 votes)

    S1:E21

    After Kusuo takes a direct hit from a baseball to his head walking past the field, he realizes one of the control devices on his head is missing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 22 - Summer Break! The Occult Club Training Camp + The Tennis Club Training Camp + Clinical Testing Job + License Training Camp + A Date with Teruhashi
    7.6/10(211 votes)

    S1:E22

    Summer vacation approaches. Kusuo can hardly wait for some peace and quiet! However, his calendar quickly fills up with one annoyance after another.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 4 - Please Make Me Your Apprentice! + Psychic Medium in the Class Next Door + Kineshi Hairo, in Search of Lumber + Home Alone Disaster + Crisis in Three-Month Relationship
    7.5/10(299 votes)

    S1:E4

    Young medium Reita Toritsuka, who can see ghosts, asks Kusuo to take him on as a student in ESP, but Reita's motivations are anything but noble.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 14 - ’Sup Homies!! Outsider + A Transfer Student: The First Encounters + Mr. and Mrs. Nendou Together! + Reviving Café Mami! + Guilty or Not Guilty?! A Theft Case
    7.5/10(224 votes)

    S1:E14

    Bespectacled transfer student Aren Kuboyasu decides to use his new surroundings as an opportunity to distance himself from his delinquent past.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 15 - Which Idea Will Be Picked?! School Festival Planning + Sing! Reita’s Recital! + PK Academy School Festival
    7.5/10(224 votes)

    S1:E15

    The school festival draws near, and Kusuo's classmate Kineshi has a terrible idea: folding 50,000 paper cranes. Everyone else is opposed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 18 - Teruhashi's Second Visit to the Saiki Residence + It's a Piece of Cake! The Straw Millionaire + Transformation! Super Size + He Should Repeat the Grade + Max Excitement! Karaoke Party
    7.5/10(217 votes)

    S1:E18

    Kokomi drops by the Saiki household to get a cooking lesson from Kurumi, but Yuta is extremely suspicious of her, and Kusuo is in over his head.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 11 - Jump! Cyborg Cider-Man No. 2 + Industry-Leading, Top-Ranking Company?! Father’s Job + Cider-Man No. 2 vs. The Lemonade Fiend + Kusuo Saiki’s Holiday + Kusuo Saiki’s Woman Troubles
    7.4/10(245 votes)

    S1:E11

    No good deed goes unpunished, as Kusuo learns when he retrieves a child named Yuta's balloon with his ESP and Yuta decides he's secretly a superhero.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 12 - Okinawa School Trip (Part 1)
    7.4/10(237 votes)

    S1:E12

    As a teleporter, Kusuo doesn't share his classmates' excitement about their class trip. He gets caught up in schemes about trip groups regardless.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 17 - Kaidou's Suspicion + No Intervention Needed?! Nendou vs. Kaidou + The Worst Part-Timer + Fierce Run! Runners Psi!
    7.4/10(216 votes)

    S1:E17

    On his way to school, Shun encounters Aren in the middle of the street. He's stumbled into a revenge plot, but it may be too late to escape.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 10 - Reignited! Physical Fitness Test! + Little Love Story + The Latest Crappy Game! Olfana’s Story + Welcome Home! Mama + The Best Way of Confessing Love?! Spirit-Summoning Technique
    7.3/10(250 votes)

    S1:E10

    The day of the sports test in gym class is not Kusuo's favorite. But it's paradise for Kineshi and Riki, who may have finally found worthy opponents.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 16 - The Perfect Pretty Girl vs. the Super Stubborn Guy + Psychic Santa Claus + Let’s Go Buy the Latest Electronics! + New Year’s Cycle
    7.3/10(215 votes)

    S1:E16

    Kokomi's brother asks Kusuo for a favor about filming in their neighborhood. The next day at school, Kokomi invites him on a date as an apology.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 9 - The Superstar Returns! + Cast the Die! An Upset in the Finals + Second Encounter (for Real This Time)! Uryoku Chouno + Mera’s Money Situation
    7.2/10(255 votes)

    S1:E9

    Kokomi worries that Kusuo will think she's dating the idol Toru Mugami. When Kusuo's mom becomes Mugami's newest fan, things get complicated.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 1 Episode 13 - Okinawa School Trip (Part 2)
    7.1/10(231 votes)

    S1:E13

    Kusuo wakes up at the beach to find that the hotel he was supposed to stay at has disappeared. An old sunken ship suddenly appears out of nowhere.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Reign of the Small King + Frolic! Silent Night + Noisy New Year's" is the best rated episode of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. season 1. It scored 8.0/10 from 285 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on August 22, 2016. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Escape Using an Invincible Suit of Camouflage! + Get Fired Up! PK Academy Sports Day + Don’t Catch Fire! Safety Drill!".