Summer vacation ends, another transfer student enters Kusuo’s class. His name is Touma Akechi and he rambles way too much. Kusuo senses he knows him but does not understand when or how. He believes he is imagining things but decides not to get involved with him. Later at lunch, Aren and Shun decide to sit with Touma since he is alone but Kusuo does not join them. Touma continues to keep rambling on, Kusuo listening to their conversation, and ends up annoying Aren. Touma tells Aren he has no intentions to annoy him since he knows he is delinquent, surprising Kusuo and Aren. Touma tells him all subtle things that lead him to this conclusion as well as how in his former school he was called a “psychic.” Kusuo unknowingly has a memory of his own past, believing he just somehow saw Touma’s past. Touma then informs them that psychic abilities are real, Kusuo starts to realize who Touma is, and that is when Touma talks directly to him asking him if he knows what happened on a specific day. Touma informs Kusuo he used to be called Touma Asumi, they were classmates 10 years prior, and asks him if he is a psychic. [154] Kusuo uses his play dumb face, making Touma laugh as Kusuo used it on him in the past. Touma goes on that he will find clues and have evidence of Kusuo being a psychic. Kusuo walks away, and is surprised that Touma still remembers everything. He then has a memory of Takashi, wanting to bully him too, and gets angered. Touma goes to meet everyone, Kusuo keeps a watch on him, but it leads to Touma not finding anything but he will not give up. [155]

Kusuo was born on August 16th by completely normal parents, housewife Kurumi Saiki and manga editor Kuniharu Saiki. He is raised by them alongside with his older brother, Kusuke Saiki. Chiyo has gained an enormous amount of weight, so Saiki tries to help by implanting Kaido's voice to motivate her.He is scared of bugs and Riki because he can't read their minds; insects being too small and Riki being too stupid. He appears to have inherited his fear of bugs from his father.

In summer vacation, he helps build a secret base with Shun, Aren and Riki but faints once a bug gets into his face. [151] Days later, Kusuo’s birthday arrives, and he gets a box of coffee jelly only to find it was a trap by Kusuke. Kusuke left a flashdrive in the box and informed Kusuo he will let a firework go off, revealing his secret, unless he does some tasks. Kusuo goes around town doing the tasks, only to finish one minute late. The fireworks turned out to greet Kusuo a happy birthday and Kusuke gave him a year's supply of coffee jelly, which he greatly accepted. [152] After that, Kusuo takes care of Yuuta and takes him to the zoo. [153] To Shun) "He should really choose his friends more wisely. This is just some advice from a friend."Kusuke threatens to publicize Kusuo's secret unless Kusuo can run around the city to solve a series of puzzles and collect a bunch of cards. Kusuo takes Yuta to the zoo and telepathically talks with the animals. Kusuo listens in on his dad's visit to his favorite manga artist's workplace and watches him critique an aspiring new manga artist's work. Shun worries that his little brother Toki's idolizing him would be shattered when he meets with Kusuo and Riki. Jealous of Makoto's interactions with Kusuo, Kokomi tries several radical makeovers in her hairstyle and personality. Around after the summer holidays, he meets Reita Toritsuka, a fellow psychic who can see ghosts. [67] Reita transfers to his school, albeit is in a different class, and after some events he formally meets Reita’s spiritual guardian, Riki Takeuchi, Riki’s dead father who acts like his son. [68]

Loo, Egan (October 11, 2019). "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Anime's New Series Unveils Title, Cast, Staff, Global Winter Debut on Netflix". Anime News Network . Retrieved October 11, 2019. To Nendou) "What a truly terrifying man you are, Nendou Riki. I'd prefer to kill you before you can kill me." Kusuo's grandparents are lost on their way to visit. Kusuo is about to retrieve them, but then his grandfather meets Kokomi, while his grandmother meets Makoto. Both girls give a good impression to the grandparents as potential girlfriends. The temple staff put Reita Toritsuka on a three-day fast in which he cannot eat food, play video games, or read porn. Reita asks Saiki to help bring such things to him, but Saiki uses this chance to reform Reita. For Valentine's Day, Chiyo prepares homemade chocolate and a love note for Shun, but Nendo eats the chocolate. Shun reads the love note and, after thinking it's from another student, later interprets it as a secret message from Chiyo saying they should be sworn friends. However, when he miscommunicates this to Chiyo and leads her to believe that they are a couple. The Newspaper Club try to smear Kokomi by catching her being splashed on by a puddle. A flash anime series based on the manga began release on Jump Live from August 4, 2013, featuring the same voice cast as an earlier Comic adaptation. [16] No.50号 ★11月21日(月)発売予定★. shonenjump.com (in Japanese). Shueisha. Archived from the original on November 18, 2011 . Retrieved June 19, 2020.Sato (September 5, 2016). "Saiki Kusuo no Psy-nan's 3DS Game Releases In Japan On November 10, 2016". Siliconera . Retrieved April 16, 2018. More time passes by. Kusuo ends up visiting Aren’s house, with Riki and Shun, and ends up meeting Aren’s father. [188] Additional time goes by. On Christmas, Kusuo hides at a park to avoid everyone, hoping to have a quiet day. That plan fails as he unknowingly makes it where Shun, Riki and Kokomi would want to go to his house and celebrate together. [114] On New Year’s Day, he decides to stay home to watch TV, only to find many people he knows are on a program in different channels. [115] Once school starts again, Kusuo goes to a sweets shop as his female form, only to run into Kokomi, Chiyo and Chisato. After Kokomi, unknowingly, nearly confesses to him and makes the content in his school bag fall, they start to believe his female form is his little sister. [116] Kusuo later on finds a hamster that is lost and they find out that his owner replaced her. [117] He ends up finding her a new home with Riki, who gives her the name Koriki No. 2, after the hamster from his youth. [118] He also ends up visiting Metori’s house a couple of times with Shun, Riki and Aren. [119]