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'''Kimodameshi''', usually translated as "test of courage," is a game similar to going to an amusement park [[Haunted House]]. Pairs of teenagers (frequently couples, but sometimes it's [[Not a Date]]) negotiate a course at night that's set up to be as scary as possible; the path usually leads past carefully-designed eerie scenes, out of which an actor in a ghost costume will occasionally leap to increase the shock factor. It basically identical to [[Defanged Horrors|PG-rated]] American-style haunted houses - and, like haunted houses worldwide, it's a chance to give teenagers an excuse to [[Security Cling|cling]] to each other.

''Kimodameshi'' is primarily a Japanese cultural artifact; it differs from a Western [[Scare Dare]] game in that the ''kimodameshi'' is more organized, and works like an ''ad hoc'' adolescent [[Rite of Passage]].

* Happens in episode 3.1 of ''[[Shinryaku!Squid Ika MusumeGirl]]'', mostly as an effort by Eiko to scare Ika-chanSquid Girl, who wasn't raised in human society and has no idea why the whole ordeal was supposed to be scary. After getting separated from the group, Squid Girl then accidentally freaks out the human characters when she activates her glow-in-the-dark mode and chases after them, wondering why they keep running from her. When actual ghosts appear around her and escort her back to safety, she never realizes what they are, instead musing that not all humans are bad.