Kappa Mikey

Amateur American actor Mikey Simon wins a contest that makes him the newest start of LilyMu, a popular Japanese anime show. He leaps head first into his new celebrity life and almost burns himself out before the first episode.

A showboating Mikey destroys Qzu's beloved 500 year old bonsai tree. Mikey and the gang must replace the tree before Ozu returns from his vacation to the airport or Lily (their boss in loco) figures out what is going on.

Unable to find an apartment of his own, Mikey must move in with an unwilling Lily and an ecstatic Mitsuki. Guano begins to lose his grip on reality as production delays continue to plague him.

Mikey gets carried away at the opening of the new Kappa Mikey video game, causing a riot in which his fans carry away every available copy. Mikey and Gonard's quest for the game leads them into a sticky situation where Gonard is kidnapped by pirates. Lily and Mitsuki find themselves taken in by Suave Mikey, a charming young man whom they mistake for the real Mikey.

Mikey panics when he gets a pimple, and to keep it from becoming public, he trades a photo of him for embarrassing photos of his castmates, but confesses it all in the end. In the subplot, Lily tries to beat Socky in Tokyo Trend's top 50 Beautiful People List.

Because he doesn't fit in the LilyMu battle wagon or Lily's car, and feeling left out by his friends lately, a stubborn Mikey wanders off and falls in with a biker gang called The Chums. This is bad, because the rest of the gang is at the birthday party of their biggest sponsor's son- and he wants to see Mikey most of all.

LilyMu has a prop on loan from the government: a hi-tech invisibility jacket. Naturally, Mikey goes and fools with it, leading to its theft by a 'one-armed-man'. Mikey is framed, convicted, and nearly goes to jail - but, he escapes from the officer holding him, and finds himself on the lam. In order to clear his name, he must catch the man who stole the coat and prove himself innocent.

Excited to finally figure out Tokyo's complicated recycling system Mikey goes overboard and throws out Mitsuki's beloved photo album. His only hope is to recreate the album exactly as it was before Mitsuki finds out. Gonard and Lily are thrown into a sham celebrity relationship to stir up publicity, a plan that gets complicated when Guano makes it a love triangle.

Unable to lift props like the others Mikey is keen to get in shape so he and Guano go to the gym, where gets a new rival in the shape of a Yokozuna whom he accidentally challenges. Mikey and Guano get trained by a janitor who makes them do his job, among other things. Mikey beats the Yokozuna by tickling him, but once he does, he becomes Yokozuna, and everyone he encounters wants to challenge him!

Mikey receives his first pay check from LilyMu Studios (after the initial shock that he is paid for acting), so he's naturally eager to spend it. He ends up buying off a younger crowd of fans by promising them to pay for merchandise in his likeness from Tatami Megastore. However, the owner of Tatami Megastore, Mr. Tatami, informs him he owes 20 million in yen for the toys the fans bought

Ozu puts the cast of LilyMu in charge of watching one of his prized items only to come back and find it missing. Now it's up to Mikey and the gang to tell their side of the story of what really happened, only to make matters worse than what they really are.

Mikey adopts a lost kitten named Kello to gain popularity, but instead the cat gains more popularity than the entire LilyMu franchise. After the platform that Kello the kitten was on from above comes crashing down, he gets injured, Ozu blames the LilyMu team (except Guano) and fires them. They then hire the Cat Burglar from the The Fugi-Kid to steal the kitten.

Guano is tired of the LilyMu cast ignoring him. Mikey doesn't even listen to him when he tells him not to go to the secret floor in LilyMu Towers. When they get to the floor, they meet a mad scientist who made all the monster movies. But after going back to retrieve an item for Mikey, Guano gets confined to the secret floor.

Mikey is devastated when the actor who played his childhood hero, Captain Impressive, is reduced to performing at an embarrassing "Dum Dum Show" at the Tatami Megastore. Afraid he will wind up with the same fate if he doesn't change his image, Mikey reinvents himself as a bad boy.

Ozu's cool, irresponsible brother Brozu visits the set. He announces that because he was born first he owns 51% of the show and will be running things for a while. When he fires Ozu and makes Mikey the produced, Mikey's friends must cope with Brozu's unusual management style.

The gang discovers unused musical instruments in the soundbooth and decides to form the LilyMu band! The catch: they are all terrible at it. While they are practicing at Mikey's apartment, Ozu, from the hallway, mistakes the ringtone on Mikey's cell phone for the real thing (them playing the instruments). Immediately seeing the money rolling in, Ozu spends millions.

Guano gets a bad case of writer's block, so to fill airtime, Ozu puts his cast on a Real World style reality show. The never ending scrutiny of the cameras pushes Mikey and the cast to take drastic measures to escape from the show.

When a reporter from Cleveland visits the set to do a story on Mikey, Mikey lies about his friends to make himself sound more important. When his parents read the story and announce that they're coming to visit, Mikey must get his friends to play along with all his outrageous lies.

Ozu announces the LilyMu show will be shown internationally. The first country they release it outside of Japan is Buttstonia, where it has been edited to the point of being ridiculous. They get paid though, unfortunately, it is in the nation's currency which can't be exchanged into other currency, making it completely worthless everywhere else.

After Mikey sells a LilyMu prop, he has to find a replacement for them to finish a shoot. He finds a sword stuck in a rock called "The Dragon's Spike". When he shows off its powers, his friends (except Mitsuki) start hanging out with him just to enjoy the sword's magic, and they start to fight over his friendship.

Mikey begins hanging out with the Kappa Mikey Superfans to boost his ego but he runs into trouble when they can't tell fantasy from reality and kidnap him to protect him from the evil Gonard. Gonard and Lily force Guano to use his subliminal advertising to make people give them free gifts.

When Mikey discovers a book on good pranking, he immediately pulls "innocent" pranks on the rest of the cast. Lily and Mikey hear that the soundstage is haunted by the Phantom of the Soundstage, who is Ozu's janitor by day, and whose soul purpose is to punish anyone who dare pull a prank. Lily is fed up with Mikey's pranks, so she aligns herself to the Phantom to get revenge.

Nobody remembers that it is Mikey's birthday, so to cheer him up, the gang throws a surprise party for him, but to no avail (which Lily relishes). Ozu, who realizes that Mikey doesn't have a father figure in Japan, proposes that he be his son for a weekend, and they go on a boating trip that immediately goes awry, stranding them in the middle of an ocean.

Mitsuki is discovered to have led a life of espionage before her days on LilyMu when a mysterious stranger (who, in possible reference to Get Smart's Agent 13, is stuck in a mailbox suit) tries to convince her to return to her past life. Now they come back to finish the plan, but it means putting Mikey in the thick of danger as well.