The Adventures of Mini-Goddess, The Gan-Chan Files

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Episode 1: Let’s Tell Your Fortune
Gan-chan the rat wants a female companion. To help him, Urd arrives with a crystal ball and offers to act as a match-maker. However, Urd’s choices are all inanimate objects. She finally settles on a kettle as the perfect match, and Gan-chan marries Mrs. Kettle. Urd gives the kettle a voice-over and legs during the honeymoon, but Gan-chan insists on Mrs. Kettle having her own voice. However, once Mrs. Kettle can speak for herself, she declares that she has fallen for another kettle and elopes, leaving Gan-chan single again.

Episode 2: Secret Treasure in the Attic, Part I
While Gan-chan, Urd, and Skuld laze around, a rat falls through the ceiling and mutters about a treasure before losing consciousness. They become excited and decide to hunt for the treasure. Skuld builds mechas and they begin exploring the attic. However, their search is interrupted when they are attacked by a large rat.

Episoe 3: Secret Treasure in the Attic, Part II
The three goddesses battle the rat, but their attacks are ineffective, partly due to the poor mecha design. They try to escape, but the rat calls in reinforcements and blocks their path. The gang straps a piece of cheese to Gan-chan’s mecha and he distracts the rat gang. Urd and Skuld find the treasure, but are disappointed to find it is only a gold-painted windup Buddha statue.

Episoe 4: Let’s Fly in the Sky
When Gan-chan expresses a wish to ‘fly like the birds’, Skuld and Urd build for him a series of increasingly complex flying machines, paralleling the history of flight. The devices begin with Urd’s attempt to build Icarus’ wings, followed by Skuld’s construction of the Montgolfier brothers’ balloon, Otto Lilienthal’s glider, Samuel Langley’s (unsuccessful) Aerodrome and, ultimately, the Bell X-1, as Belldandy narrates. However, Gan-chan is still unsatisfied and wishes to travel to space.

Episoe 5: Let’s Fly into Space
Gan-chan is launched into space by Urd and Skuld in a Saturn-style rocket. He orbits Earth before performing a Moon landing, parodying Neil Armstrong’s famous line by saying ‘One small step for rat, one giant step for ratkind.’ He plants a flag and takes a Moon rock before returning to his spaceship. Urd and Skuld convince him to fly into deep space, but they leave him when Belldandy announces that dinner is ready, leaving Gan-chan alone in deep space.

Episoe 6: Slimming Down! Go!
Having gained excessive weight, Gan-chan is unable to fit into his hole in the wall. Skuld and Urd help him slim down. Skuld tries several inventions, including Mr. Sauna, Mr. Icy Bath, and Mr. 4000 Years, but they all fail. Urd gives Gan-chan a pill that causes him to exercise. He exercises furiously and collapses, exhausted, after crossing the entire globe. However, they discover the next morning that Gan-chan ate gluttonously after this exercise and regained the weight.

Episoe 7: Gabira, the Giant Monster – The Birth
After eating a moldy cake, Gan-chan becomes ill. Urd and Skuld attempt to cure him using potions and inventions; they give him salt, exercise pills, silica gel, and a vacuum, but no method cures Gan-chan. Urd appears to solve the problem, but discovers that a side effect of the ‘cure’ has turned Gan-chan into a mini-Godzilla named Gabira.

Episoe 8: Gabira – The Final Battle
Gan-chan, in the form of Gabira, enters the kitchen. Urd self-multiplies to form an army, and Urd and Skuld set up multiple lines of defense to defeat Gabira. Using toy tanks, they slow down Gabira but fail to stop him. When the goddesses retreat to their final line of defense and play rock music, the mold is disgusted by Gan-chan’s lack of rhythm when he attempts to dance. The stereo overloads. Keiichi finally destroys Gabira by exposing him to sunlight.

Episoe 9: For Whom the Bell Tolls – The Mysterious Can of Food
The goddesses and Gan-chan find a can containing a vile-looking green slime that tastes delicious. The origin of this strange food comes as a surprise—a mysterious vending machine that has appeared at the temple. When they enter the temple, Skuld, Urd and Gan-chan surprise the operators, who eject them from the machine, transform it into a spaceship, and rapidly depart.

Episoe 10: ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls – The Secret of the Diamond
Gan-chan is having a bad day. Urd notices Gan-chan’s ring has a diamond and asks if she can have it. Gan-chan’s bad luck immediately transfers to Urd, leading her to conclude that the ring is cursed. They try to place a spiritual barrier on the ring, but it fails to materialize. The gang attempts to exorcise the spirit in the ring, but a black cat emerges, gives them a business card, takes the ring, and leaves.

Episoe 11: Gabira – The Strike Back
Gan-chan has a relapse transformation into the monstrous Gabira. Using the earlier strategy, Urd and Skuld bathe him in sunlight. Unfortunately, it makes Gabira even stronger. Nearly out of ideas, Skuld unleashes a golden mecha version of Gabira. The two grapple but later become friends, reconciling their differences and leaving the temple grounds.

Episoe 12: Let’s Play Baseball
Urd and Skuld argue about who is better at baseball. They duplicate themselves to form teams. Gan-chan and Belldandy emcee to a crowd of fake fans during the game. During extra innings, Urd and Skuld begin to play in ridiculous fashions; at one point, they mimic the tornado pitch of the Tasmanian Devil. Urd later disappears for her ‘ultimate pitch,’ and the others do the same, leaving the stadium deserted.