The BEST episodes directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
#1 - Splitting of the Breast
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Season 1 - Episode 16
While in battle, Shinji and Unit 01 are engulfed in the spreading shadow of an Angel. As NERV fears them both lost, Shinji has a strange experience.
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#2 - Marquis de Carabas
FLCL - Season 1 - Episode 3
Naota's classmate, Eri Ninamori, is the perfect girl; she's emotionally calm, a rational thinker, and is very rich to boot. However, all is not well as she has problems of her own. Her father, the mayor of Mabase, is involved in both a sex scandal and a lawsuit with the Medical Mechanica Corporation. In addition, she has to convince Naota to take the title role he was chosen for in their class production of "Puss in Boots". She soon learns about Naota's "secret", his horns, which, this time, resemble cat ears. But, what levels will she stoop to get her way?
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#3 - FLCLimax
FLCL - Season 1 - Episode 6
Ever since Naota's Medical Mechanica came out of his head and was destroyed, it has been looming over the factory, in the form of a giant hand, causing mist to enshroud the entire city. To make matters worse, Haruko and Canti are on the run from Amarao, who attempts to find the Terminal Core before they do. Naota once again runs into Amarao who offers some strange advice. Things soon go insane as Haruko is preparing for the final battle, in which Naota is expected to unknowingly play the lead role. Though in a city as normal as Mabase, it's really nothing new to Naota; or is it?
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#4 - Brittle Bullet
FLCL - Season 1 - Episode 5
It's Naota and Haruko Vs. Kamon and Canti in a battle with airsoft guns. As this deadly fight wages on, Kamon challenges Naota to a duel! The winner is left undetermined, as some of Naota's friends interrupt the duel and talk to him about how he saved the city from the satellite the other day. This causes the power to get to his head and he begins to act manly. This disgusts Mamimi and the others. To make matters worse, another Medical Mechanica comes out to threaten the city. Will Naota handle the situation as calmly as did the last time? Or, will his over-inflated ego get in the way?
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#5 - Fooly Cooly
FLCL - Season 1 - Episode 1
Naota Nanadaba is just an ordinary boy, with an ordinary life, with ordinary people around him, living in an ordinary town... or at least he wishes that were all true! Between his eccentric father and unconventional grandfather and putting up with the advances of his older brother's teenage ex-girlfriend Mamimi, Naota isn't leading a boring life at all! To make matters worse, a pink-haired, and apparently totally insane, girl named Haruko Haruhara shows up and turns Naota's life completely upside down!! What does Haruko want from Naota? And, why is he suddenly growing a large horn on his head?!
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#6 - The Beast
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Season 1 - Episode 2
After piloting the Eva Unit 01, Shinji wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the battle. Feeling sorry for him, Misato lets him move in with her.
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#7 - Furi Kiri (Full Swing)
FLCL - Season 1 - Episode 4
After Haruko helps an amateur baseball team beat Mabase's down-on-their-luck team, the Martians, in a game, Shigekuni retaliates by drafting Canti onto the Martians. Meanwhile, Haruko and Kamon are "fooling around", and Naota isn't sure whether to be disgraced.
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#8 - Asuka Strikes!
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Season 1 - Episode 8
Shinji and his friends accompany Misato to meet Eva Unit 02 and its pilot Asuka at sea. Misato's old friend Ryoji Kaji is aboard with his own agenda.
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#9 - Fire Starter
FLCL - Season 1 - Episode 2
Naota tries to get his life back to normal, but that's easier said than done when Haruko and a TV-headed robot are living with him! Even worse, he's growing another horn!! Meanwhile, a string of fires have been occurring across town. Not coincidentally, Mamimi has become obsessed with the game "Fire Starter", as well as Naota's robot manservant, whom she calls Canti. What connection is there to the recent fires and the one that burned down the old elementary school years ago? And, why does Mamimi call her new pet, a little black kitten, "Ta-Kun", the same name she calls Naota?
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#10 - Angel Attack
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Season 1 - Episode 1
In the year 2015, an Angel returns to attack on Tokyo-3. Misato Katsuragi transports Shinji to the NERV base overseen by his estranged father, Gendo.
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#11 - Tengumushi
The Dragon Dentist - Season 1 - Episode 1
Bell finds himself resurrected aboard a dragon. He is surrounded by Dragon Dentists -- men and women tasked with protecting the dragon's teeth from cavities as it consumes the souls of its victims in a brutal war between two nations. Though Bell is an enemy to the dentists' nation, they welcome him. One of the dentists, Nonoko, takes him under her wing.
#12 - Take care of yourself
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Season 1 - Episode 26
The Human Instrumentality Project continues. Shinji must decide whether to accept a world alone, or embrace connections with others.
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#13 - Do you love me?
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Season 1 - Episode 25
The Human Instrumentality Project begins, and the souls of humanity merge. The Eva pilots confront the nature of their existence as reality dissolves.
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#14 - The Location of Happiness
His and Her Circumstances - Season 1 - Episode 12
Tsubasa has holed up at Yukino's house and refuses to go home. Tsubasa's father is remarrying and it's been hard for her to come to terms with the idea.
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#15 - The Dragon Dentist
Japan Animator Expo - Season 1 - Episode 1
A girl comes there to become a dentist of dragon. She is with other new freshman applicants, but there is no announcement from a senior as a guidance. They are confused and taken along with the senior. The only way is just to walk through freshman's path, which is dark and strange. They do not know where they are. Not knowing what to do, she is approaching to the secret of dragon, but she does not realize yet. The adventure has already begun.
#16 - I can Friday by day!
Japan Animator Expo - Season 2 - Episode 7
A diary. Purikura stickers. Blue-white 3rd Planet Administration Treaty Army. 7:00 am. Triangle situation. Camouflage pattern. The secret toasted bread. 1088th Independent Mobile Platoon. SaHa E233. Type Otsu Foreign Legion. Beast-vehicle. "Hi, guys." Campfire. Pan-galactic rare crystal Ikemeshium. Tears.