Episode
TIGER & BUNNY: Many a True Word is Spoken in Jest
Overview
Kotetsu reluctantly participates in a documentary about Barnaby, and they're both forced into action when they learn a bomb has been planted.
Details
- Series
- TIGER & BUNNY
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2011-04-17
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Many a True Word is Spoken in Jest is Episode 3 in TIGER & BUNNY of TIGER & BUNNY. It aired on 2011-04-17. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 2: A Good Beginning Makes a Good Ending.
Kotetsu and Barnaby are paired up, but their differing methods prevent them from working as a team, leading to danger for Kotetsu's daughter.
Episode 4: Fear is Often Greater Than the Danger
Ice-wielding superhero Blue Rose decides to leave the world of "Hero TV" to go back to her old life as a teenage girl named Karina who loves to sing.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: All's Well That Ends Well
Aging superhero Kotetsu, known as Wild Tiger, worries that he may lose his job on the show "Hero TV" when his sponsor company changes hands.
Episode 5: Go for Broke!
Kotetsu holds a big surprise birthday party for Barnaby with the other heroes; an expensive diamond known as the "Tears of Hercules" is stolen.
Episode 6: Fire is a Good Servant But a Bad Master
Fire Emblem is suspected of murder after criminals arrested by Barnaby are found burned to death by peculiar blue flames in their prison cell.
Episode 7: The Wolf Knows What the Foul Beast Thinks
Kotetsu criticizes Barnaby for allowing a NEXT to kill the culprit they were chasing; Barnaby reveals his search for the clue to his parents' killer.
Episode 8: There is Always a Next Time
Stern Bild doesn't have capital punishment, but Lunatic's act of killing criminals begins to win support of the people, who praise him as an antihero.
Episode 9: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child
Kotetsu is assigned to baby-sit an infant, who takes a liking to a tomboy named Dragon Kid. The next day, Dragon Kid and the baby go missing.
Episode 10: The Calm Before the Storm
Barnaby has finally tracked down the whereabouts of his parents' killer; Kotetsu runs into trouble on the way to visiting his daughter.
Episode 11: The Die is Cast
Ouroboros demands the release of the man Barnaby was investigating, and then starts attacking the structural columns supporting Stern Bild.
Episode 12: Take Heed of the Snake in the Grass
Jake challenges each of the heroes to fights, stating that he will surrender if he loses but will destroy a column supporting the city if he wins.
Episode 13: Confidence is a Plant of Slow Growth
After the other heroes fail to defeat Jake, Barnaby steps forward to protect Stern Bild and its people -- and to get revenge for his parents' death.