疲れた現代社会を癒す人気マスコットキャラクター「マロミ」をデザインした鷺月子は心の闇を持っていた。そして、月子に感化された人々が次々に通り魔少年バットに襲われ、市井の人々を恐怖へと陥れていく。しかし、幾人も被害者が出て、多くの目撃者がいるにもかかわらず、少年バットは一向に捕まりそうになかった。 少年バット事件を担当する刑事の猪狩慶一と馬庭光弘は、捜査を進める中で、被害者の持つ『不思議な共通項』に辿り着 く。「マロミ」の正体は、この時代に大量増発した、人々を楽しませた愉楽そのものを意味した。「マロミ」に熱中する人々は、現実との対面から目を背け、幻 の愉楽に逃げがちになって行く。そして人々のこの行動パタン自体が、「マロミ」とゆう愉楽、化け物の食料になり、やがて人々の災いを召う。
放送日: 2004-02-03
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Tsukiko Sagi, a shy character designer, is suddenly attacked by someone carrying a golden baseball bat. When a pair of detectives interrogate her, she describes the suspect as an elementary school-aged boy wearing golden inline skates and a red hat.
放送日: 2004-02-10
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Yuuichi "Icchi" Taira, a formerly popular sixth-grade schoolboy, starts being bullied at school for his red hat and golden skates which strongly resemble those of Lil' Slugger.
放送日: 2004-02-17
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Harumi Chouno, a woman with dissociative identity disorder attempts to defy her prostitute alter ego, Maria. Harumi becomes increasingly desperate when a colleague proposes. She accepts, but is terrified of Maria's existence being found out.
放送日: 2004-02-24
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Masami Hirukawa is a low-level police officer who, despite calling himself a family man, accepts bribes in the form of cash and women from a local yakuza group. However, Masami squeezes the group a bit too much, and they send their boss to deal with him.
放送日: 2004-03-09
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Ikari and Maniwa interrogate the boy known as Lil' Slugger, who turns out to be an eighth-grade student named Makoto Kozuka. Kozuka admits to the attacks, but he believes that the world around him is a medieval fantasy-style role playing game.
放送日: 2004-03-16
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Taeko, a runaway teenager, wanders through the stormy city wanting to forget about her past, as her father repeatedly calls her cellphone but she always answers coldly, saying she will "destroy everything."
放送日: 2004-03-23
上映時間: 25 min
概要: After Taeko is attacked while both Tsukiko and Kozuka have alibis, Maniwa considers the possibility of another Lil' Slugger existing and looks for connections between the victims in an attempt to pinpoint who will be next.
放送日: 2004-04-06
上映時間: 25 min
概要: The three members of an Internet suicide pact meet each other for the first time in attempt to come up with ways to commit suicide, but hope to see Lil' Slugger.
放送日: 2004-04-13
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Four housewives share gossip that they have heard about Lil' Slugger.
放送日: 2004-04-20
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Production coordinator Naoyuki Saruta fights traffic to deliver the first episode of "Mellow Maromi," an anime based on the famous character designed by Tsukiko, to the broadcasting network.
放送日: 2004-04-27
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Misae Ikari, wife of Ikari the detective, confronts Lil' Slugger when he comes for her about what humans really are and tells him about the problems he's caused.
放送日: 2004-05-11
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Maniwa engages in battle with Lil' Slugger and investigates his past. First he visits the mysterious old man at the hospital just before he dies; his last words to Maniwa are "dance with the rabbit".
放送日: 2004-05-18
上映時間: 25 min
概要: Tokyo is in ruins because of a black mass, formed by the rampaging Lil' Slugger, that envelops the town. Maniwa contacts the police chief on a screen in the cartoon world telling him what he knows; Ikari smashes the screen and is hailed a hero.
