Good Luck Girl!
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Native: | 貧乏神が! |
| Romaji: | Binbougami ga! |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Jul 5, 2012 [12 years 6 months ago] |
| Ended: | Sep 27, 2012 [12 years 4 months ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | MAL ANIDB ANN ANILIST |
Sakura Ichiko leads a blissful life due to her bountiful store of happiness energy — gained by sapping that energy from other people. To restore the balance, the Binbougami (Poverty God) Binbada Momiji attempts to eliminate her. * Based on the manga by Sukeno Yoshiaki, serialised in Jump Square since July 2008.
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Episode 1: Are You Sure You Haven't Confused Being a God of Flat-Brokeness with Being a God of Flat-Chestedness?
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-07-05
A God of Poverty named Momiji is sent down to earth to greet a spoiled high-school girl named Ichiko Sakura, who has had good fortune all her life. Momiji explains that Ichiko has an abnormally high level of good fortune, and is also sucking up fortune from those near her. Momoji attempts to take some of Ichiko's fortune and make her a normal girl, but Ichiko manages to fight her off. The nexy day, however, Ichiko's butler, Suwano, has a heart attack and is left in a critical condition as a result of Ichiko taking his fortune over the years he served her. Ichiko agrees to let Momiji suck some good fortune out of her, but then she runs off with it and releases it at the hospital, saving Suwano's life. Afterwards, Ichiko decides to sack Suwano from his position so he can live his own life without being at risk. A week later, Ichiko's fortune levels soon return, as does Momiji.
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Episode 2: This, Indeed, Has the "The Battle Between God and Girl Now Begins" Feel To It
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-07-12
In order to get closer to Ichiko, Momiji transfers into her class, much to Ichiko's displeasure. As Momiji continues to bother her, Ichiko meets Bobby, a perverted travelling priest with the ability to detect fortune energy, giving her an item called the Soumin Shourai, allowing her to manifest her good fortune into various creatures. Momoji responds by manifesting her own monsters out of her misfortune, but they turn out to be useless and she is soundly beaten.
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Episode 3: Taking Orders from You Kinda Ticks Me Off!!! What Do You Mean, Kinda?!!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-07-19
Figuring she needs a boyfriend, Ichiko takes an interest in her sleepy classmate, Keita Tsuwabuki. Upon finding and returning his ID card, Ichiko is invited by Keita to have dinner with his siblings, who are quite poor as their parents had left them. Keita soon takes a strong dislike to Ichiko when she rejects his ideal that being together is more important than money. The next day, Ichiko tries to make up with Keita's brother Ryūta by buying him a super rare trading card. However, he ends up dropping the card down a sewer and gets trapped in there whilst attempting to retrieve it just as a typhoon starts to settle in. As Ichiko is told by Keita how he doesn't want to be in anyone's debt, Momiji makes her aware of the danger Ryūta is in, prompting her to go and save him. As Ryūta gets swept into the river, Ichiko dives in after him, using a device given to her by Momiji to use her fortune to rescue him. Afterwards, Keita and Ryūta give their thanks to Ichiko, who feels a warmth in her heart.
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Episode 4: He Shrank, Didn't He?!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-07-26
Momiji ends up summoning the masochistic dog god, Momou Inugami, and has him transform into a puppy so he can get close to Ichiko and attempt to steal her fortune. However, Momou finds that getting the fortune off of Ichiko isn't as easy as it looks. As Momou observes Ichiko's behaviour, she notices her personality is different when reading letters from Suwano. That night, as Momou activates a Misfortune Item to spread misfortune, the box containing Suwano's letters falls from the top of the desk, and is thrown away by the cleaners the next day. When Ichiko learns of this, she goes to the trash dump and spends the entire night searching for the box, much to Momou's surprise. Against his better judgement, Momou finds the box for Ichiko. As Momou deduces that Ichiko may not be such a bad person after all, his cover is blown when he reverts to human form, prompting a swift punishment from Ichiko.
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Episode 5: Which One of Us Is Flat-Chested, Again? Hm? Hm?! Hm!!?
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-08-02
When Ichiko opens a treasure box that turns her back into a child, she is powerless against Momiji, and runs away. She meets up with Mika Tsuwabuki, and talks her way into hiding out with Mika's family until she can find a way to return herself to normal.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 6: Open Your Eye-es!!!!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-08-09
After seeing Tsuwabuki's brothers and sisters in tears over his absence, Ichiko sets out to find him with the help of Momo'o. Seeing how happy theTsuwabuki home life is, Ichiko grows troubled at the realization that something is missing in her own life.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 7: Is This That So-Called Boy-Raised-As-a-Girl Pattern?
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-08-16
When mistaken for a shoplifter, Ichiko shifts suspicion onto the nearby karate freak Ranmaru Rindo to get away. Soon after, Ranmaru transfers in to Ichiko's class, and vows to get back at her. Is Ranmaru's karate a match for Ichiko's happiness energy?
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 8: Call Me By My Name
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-08-23
Ranmaru is invited to a welcoming party by the other girls, but when she tries to invite Ichiko along, she refuses. Despite Ranmaru's attempts at friendship. Ichiko keeps pushing her away. What is it that prevents Ichiko from making friends with others?
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 9: "Eh?! You Said, 'After All This'?!" & "There's No Way That Happens After Just Two Minutes!!!!"
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-08-30
The high school boys and the girls are forced to play mixed doubles tennis in gym class, and Ichiko and Momiji square off against each other. Ichiko decides to learn to cook for herself, with surprising results. Momiji challenges Ichiko to a cook-off.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 10: It's Like Secretly Mixing Pumpkin into a Stew in Order to Feed It to a Child Who Hates Pumpkin
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-09-06
Ichiko takes in a pet kitten that was left outside her apartment. She meets Ibuki, a bathroom god, who also delivers a warning to her about hoarding happiness energy. When Momiji kidnaps the kitten, Ichiko must square off with her to get her pet back.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 11: ...Who Are You?!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-09-13
When Momiji has a guest over that befouls the bathtub, Ichiko must look for other facilities. She resigns herself to going to a bathhouse, where she and Ranmaru meet Tsuwabuki and his siblings. Bobby and Momo'o also arrive for some good clean, dirty fun
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 12: Sometime, Call Me By My Name
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-09-20
Momiji surprises everyone by acting differently, and even draws her male classmates' attention away from Ichiko. Momiji claims that when a poverty god bathes in the human realm, they lose their poverty god powers. Ichiko, however, believes otherwise.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 13: You Already Have the Answer to That
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2012-09-27
Ichiko saves Momiji from being returned to her original self, and together with Ranmaru, the three of them run away from Momo'o and Kumagai. Their flight causes Ichiko to rexamine her relationship with Momiji, and come to terms with what she wants.
Source: crunchyroll
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