The Kawaiifier

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The Kawaiifier
Season	1
Episode	8a
Air date	October 22, 2016
Writer	Sue Rose
Storyboard	Liesl Adams
Episode guide
Previous	Adventures in Housesitting
Next	Super Kawaii Sunday

The Kawaiifier is episode 8a of season 1 of Kuu Kuu Harajuku. It originally aired on October 22, 2016.

Summary

Love creates a device called "The Kawaiifier", just in time to celebrate the Kawaiification Festival.

Characters

Main

• G
• Angel
• Baby
• Love
• Music
• Rudie

Major

• General Nofun
• Commander Boring
• Colonel Spyke
• Tanaka Boys (Debut)
  • Teddy (debut)
  • Kingston (debut)
  • Apollo(debut)
  • Todd (debut)
  • Zuma (debut)

Plot

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The girls are seen working in their personal garden. Baby suggest they were their gardening outfits for the Kawaiification Day, but Angel immediately shoots down her idea saying overalls can't be rocked.

Love reveals her latest invention the "Kawaiifier", but the other girls are skeptical of it. Love explains how it works: the scanning mechanism isolates kawaii vibrations in a person and amplifies those characteristics. She proceeds to step in and demonstrates how it works. When she emerges her gardening clothes have turned into a cute new outfit, which the other girls fall in love with. Rudie enters the garden and mentions he got them a good gig at the Kawaiification festival. Rudie reveals it's a "Battle of the Bands" type competition. Rudie notices the Kawaiifier and asks what it is. Angel, who is now in the forefront proceeds to give a shortened explanation. Rudie believes he's already kawaii enough, but he walks into the machine anyway. He emerges with a bunny suit on which love admits there are still a few kinks to work out.

General Nofun, who is spying on Harajuku, notices the festival from his headquarters and punches the monitor, upset over the celebration of fun. He vows to destroy it: returning dreariness.

HJ5 makes it to the festival. They notice a "How Hi Kawaii" game, which the players must copy the pose on the screen and it rates their kawaii. Love mentions the game has top secret hardware, which Music adds is the reason for extra security.

Love, Music, Baby and Angel fight over whose turn it is, while G hangs back and laughs, reminding them it's not a competition. Baby finds a photo booth and beckons the other girls to come in and take a bunch of pictures (which she literally takes pictures of the photo booth). G suggests they actually go inside and take pictures and the girls argue over who goes inside first.

Back at General Nofun's headquarters, Commander Boring tells General Nofun that the girls are sending the kawaii meters through the roof. Nofun announces that they're going to the festival, exciting Boring who is reminded that they're going to ruin the fun, not have it.

Rudie takes the girls to Harajuku's largest chess board. He also mentions that the girls have to dress up in chess piece costume and play on the chess board, much to the frustration of everyone. The girls argue whose going to be king when they overhear the members of the opposing band also think the chess idea is lame. G introduces them to HJ5 while one member (Teddy) introduces them to the Tanaka Boys. After everyone is in position on the chess board, the girls try to figure out a way to get out of the costumes. Love suggest that, using the top secret hardware from the How Hi Kawaii game, they can change their costumes.

Emerging from a ballpit General Nofun and Commander Boring hatch a plan to shut off the main power. Commander Boring makes an exasperated sigh, angering Nofun who asks him what's wrong with that. Nervously, Boring tells him nothing.

Back at the festival grounds, the girls are sneaking pass Colonel Spyke's security team when the girls, once again, begin arguing which direction is the best. G has had enough and tells them they aren't going anywhere unless they work as a team. Angel tells Music to lead the way.

At the control box, General Nofun is having difficulty shutting off the power. Commander Boring notices a whack-a-mole machine and runs over to play it.

HJ5 and the Tanaka Boys, using cotton candy as an electricy conductor, are able to generate enough power for the Kawaiifier and are able to convert their chess piece outfits into stylish ones. While the girls are inside the machine, Rudie hands the Tanaka Boys his business card "just in case". When they step out of the machine with nicely kawaii-fied outfits, Rudie revokes the card. The Tanaka Boys rush towards the Kawaiifier, but before they could reach it Rudie pulls out a contract stating he and HJ5 are not responsible for any damages inflicted from using the machine. They hesitantly sign and proceed to kawaii-fy their outfits.

Love places a giant cloth over the machine, and both bands join together and start dancing. Colonel Spyke and her guards crash the party. Baby invites them to dance, but she urges they're only there to investigate for missing hardware, so she removes the cloth from the machine.

They pull General Nofun and Commander Boring out of the machine. Nofun throws the cloth on top of them and him and Boring run into Kawaiifier and come out kawaiified. They are immediately apprehended and Colonel Spyke comments everyone can go back to appreciating the festivities.

The girls agree they all learned a valuable lesson, which Rudie interrupts and puts his own spin on it. He flicks on the lights and HJ5 and the Tanaka Boys dance.

Quotes

• Angel: This just goes to show, with the right attitude you can kawaii-fy anything!

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• Love: In fact, I think we all learned a valuable lesson about the importance of-

  Rudie: Of trusting in the judgement of your manager and doing whatever he asks you to do in the future. And with those final thoughts in mind, let's party!

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• Rudie: Best manager ever. Nailed it!

Trivia

• This is the second episode where General Nofun appears on a title card.
• This is the sixth episode where Baby appears on a title card.
• This is the first episode where Love appears on a title card.
• How Hi Kawaii is based on test of strength games commonly seen at carnivals.
• General No-Fun full name is General Ira S. No-Fun.

G: I love working in the garden.

Baby: Mmm, fruits and veggies. Yum-alicious.

Love: Totally. Food tastes so much better when you design and cross-pollinate the crops yourself.

Music: Even these hats aren't as annoying as I thought they'd be.

Baby: Can we wear our gardening clothes to the Kawaiification Day festival?

Angel: Yeah, no. Kawaiification Day is a celebration of kawaii, which equals cute and cool. And it's a simple fact of fashion. Overalls can't be rocked. I've tried. Can't be done.

Love: Wanna bet? Meet my latest invention, the Kawaiifier.

G: Cool. So what does it do?

Love: It's quite simple, actually. The scanning mechanism performs a spectral analysis of the subject, isolates all desirable kawaii vibrations, and uses that data to externally amplify and expound those oscillations.

G: Ah, uh-huh. So what does it do?

Love: [Sigh] You walk into the Kawaiifier and come out super kawaii-fied! So, who wants to go first?

HJ5: Um...

Love: Oh, come on, guys. I know my can opener invention had that one teeny tiny little glitch, but you all still trust me, right?

G: Love, it's not that we don't trust you. It's just that...

Music: We don't. We definitely don't.

Love: Fine. Watch and learn.

G: On the count of three, run!

Angel: Three!

[Zap]

HJ5: [Gasp]

Angel: Who knew? Overalls can be rocked!

Rudie: Ladies, what if I told you that your manager extraordinaire just booked you a gig at today's Harajuku Kawaiification Festival?

Music: Well, my head is telling me to be suspicious...

Angel: But our hearts are telling us to...

HJ5: [Cheer]

Baby: Is it true? Do we really have a gig at the festival?

Rudie: Not just a gig, a battle of the bands! Hello, what's this?

Love: The Kawaiifier!

Angel: In scientific terms, it scans your something or other, and blah, blah, blah, more big words, to totally amplify your kawaii-ness!

Rudie: Hm. I'm already very kawaii.

HJ5: [Giggles]

Rudie: [Groan]

Love: Still have a few kinks to work out.

General NoFun: Kawiification Day stinks! Look at them, having fun at the festival. And so much colour! But I, General Ira S. Nofun, will find a way to ban fun and restore dreariness.

Angel: How Hi Kawaii! I love this!

Rudie: How do you play?

G: First, you stand here. Then the monitor shows you a kawaii pose, and you have to try to copy it.

Love: The scanning technology is based on classified top-secret hardware.

Music: Which explains Colonel Spyke and all the extra security.

Angel: But the machine reads your pose and judges how kawaii it is.

Baby: The higher your kawaii rainbow, the louder it rings the bell.

Angel: I hope I don't break it.

Music: Let me show you how it's done.

Baby: Oh, me next, me next.

Love: Back it up. My kawaii coefficient is off the charts.

G: Girls, it's not a contest.

Baby: Ooh, a photo booth. Let's take pictures.

G: Uh, Baby, maybe we should try, you know, getting into the photo booth.

Baby: Ah. Okay, that sounds fun too.

Angel: Me first!

Music: No, me!

HJ5: [Cheers]

Commander BoRing: Sir, those girls are sending the kawaii levels through the roof!

General NoFun: HJ5! I should have known! Commander Boring, follow me. We're going to the Harajuku Kawaiification Day Festival!

Commander BoRing: Oh, yay! I've always wanted to go.

General NoFun: We're not going to have fun. We're going to spoil the fun!

Commander BoRing: I mean... yes, sir. Of course, sir. To spoil the fun, sir.

Rudie: Ladies, here we are!

Music: Here? Here where?

Rudie: You just so happen to be standing on Harajuku's largest chessboard!

G: I have a feeling I'm gonna be sorry I asked this. But why?

Rudie: Because you guys are gonna wear those chess piece costumes and play on the board. Cool, huh?

HJ5: What? Rudie!

G: So this battle of the bands is a game of chess?

Love: We came here to play our music, not play chess, even though it's my favorite game and I find it both intellectually stimulating and gratifying.

Angel: You're honestly telling us that we have to spend the rest of the festival standing around in drab, two-tone costumes?

Rudie: Of course not! You'll be in one-tone costumes. The other band is wearing white, so black for you. Come on, how bad could it be?

Baby: How come Angel gets to be king?

Angel: Because I'm king of kawaii.

Baby: I should be king of kawaii.

Music: If I'm not king, I'm out.

G: It's not a competition.

Angel: What kind of manager would book a gig where their band has to...

Manager: Dress up as chess pieces and stand on a giant chess board. Pretty cool, huh?

Kingston: Um, no. We play music, not chess.

G: Hi, we're HJ5. I'm G. This is Love, Angel, Music, and Baby.

Teddy: Oh, hey. We're the Tanaka Boys. I'm Teddy. Meet Kingston, Apollo, Todd, and the little guy on the end, he's Zuma.

Baby: [Giggles]

G: So, what do we do now?

Love: Typically, a game begins with White advancing upon two squares to set up a classic...

Music: She means, what do we do about having to be here?

Angel: And having to wear these! The king's the most important piece, but this is the most unflattering, most unkawaii costume ever!

Baby: Wish we could kawaii-fy them.

Love: Why didn't I think of that? We can build a Kawaiifier right here! Baby, you're a genius!

Baby: I am?

Love: I've got the software. All we need are the input and output devices.

Music: Oh, really? That's all?

Love: We can use the image capturing sensors in the photo booth. We just need the scanner from the How Hi Kawaii game. We can borrow it.

Music: But how do we even get near it? Spyke's watching it like a hawk.

G: Even if we could, how would we get that stuff all the way over here?

Angel: I have an idea. Follow me!

[Crowd playing]

General NoFun: Bright colors, the sounds of laughter. Commander BoRing, this is one party that needs pooping.

Commander BoRing: And you're just the pooper to do it, sir. What's the plan?

General NoFun: First, we find the control box and cut the power.

Commander BoRing: [Exasperated sigh]

General NoFun: Then we... What? What's wrong with cutting the power?

Commander BoRing: Nothing, sir. Tried and true, yes, sir. Cutting the power. An oldie, but a goodie for sure, sir.

General NoFun: Let's see how cute and fun this place is after we've pulled the plug.

Angel: This way!

Love: I've calculated a shorter route.

Music: Nuh-uh. Fewer crowds over there.

G: Enough! We're not going anywhere unless we pull together.

Angel: You're right. Music, lead the way!

Music: Watch your backs and your heads.

General NoFun: There! How about that one?

Commander BoRing: No, sir. Still on, sir.

General NoFun: Okay, now, what about now?

Commander BoRing: Nothing, sir.

General NoFun: There! I'm pretty sure that one should...

Commander BoRing: Still on, sir.

General NoFun: Well, anything?

Commander BoRing: Nothing, sir. Sorry, sir.

General NoFun: There must be another breaker box around here.

Love: Thanks, Baby. Cotton candy is a superconductor.

Baby: A super delicious superconductor.

Love: All set. Who wants to go first now?

Music: King of Kawaii goes first, Your Highness.

Angel: [Laughs] Let's get Kawaii-fied!

Rudie: My card, just in case.

G: Check it out! Kawaii chess!

Teddy: Our turn, here we go.

Rudie: Neither HJ5 nor their management are responsible for any harm and or damages inflicted by the Kawaiifier, whether they be physical, emotional, or just plain embarrassing. Sign here, initial there, thumbprint here.

G: Okay, everybody, let's play!

[Siren]

Colonel Spyke: It looks like the fun and games are just getting started.

Baby: They are. Come dance, it'll be fun.

Colonel Spyke: We're not here for fun. We're here to locate some missing top-secret hardware and to apprehend, arrest, charge, prosecute, indict, convict, and incarcerate the person or persons who are responsible. General NoFun and Commander BoRing. Party's over.

General NoFun: I thought this was a fuse box.

Commander BoRing: Can I just get one more? My eyes were shut on that last one.

General NoFun: Quick, follow me, in here.

Music: Hmm, this should be interesting.

General NoFun: [Growls] Ohh!

Colonel Spyke: Thank you for your cooperation, citizens. You may now continue with the festivities.

Music: The Kawaiifier to the rescue!

Angel: Love, you're a hero!

Love: Thanks, but I couldn't have done it without you and the Tanaka Boys.

Todd: So... Guess this gig turned out to be not so bad, huh?

G: Yeah, it's actually pretty cool.

Angel: It just goes to show. With the right attitude, you can kawaii-fy anything.

Love: In fact, I think we all learned a valuable lesson about the importance of...

Rudie: Of trusting in the judgment of your manager and doing whatever he asks you to do in the future. And with those final thoughts in mind, let's party!

[Dance music]

Rudie: Best manager ever! Nailed it!