The BEST episodes directed by Ayumi Nishihata
#1 - Into the Fire
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 20
Yukina explores the Efy Dolgh mothership and encounters Mirasa who gives chase, believing she’s Muetta. Yukina manages to access the Efy Dolgh data banks and learns about their plans. Kennosuke takes off in the Kuromukuro with Muetta, and Major Graham arrests Director Shirahane for the lapse in security. The Demon reveals to Sophie that the Efy Dolgh aim for planet domination, and that his planet was conquered by them. He says that the Efy Dolgh geoframes encountered on earth are only reconnaissance units and the invasion force is far more powerful. He leaves her a memory stick with data about them. Meanwhile Muetta requests retrieval in the Kuromukuro Glongur and the Efy Dolgh beam it up to their ship. She reports to the Efy Dolgh leaders and learns that they planted seeds of life on various planets, including Earth. When Kennosuke is detected on board, the Efy Dolgh accuse Muetta of being a traitor and attack her. Kennosuke, Muetta and Yukina meet and join forces, leaving the mothership in their Glongurs. As they fall towards Earth the Demon intercepts them and carries them down towards. The UN facility is notified by NORAD that the Efy Dolgh mothership is descending to the planet surface.
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#2 - Bloodshed at Kurobe
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 24
The UN forces trapped inside the bubble launch an all out attack on the Efidolg forces surrounding their mothership and the abandoned laboratory base in order to take back control of the facilities and rescue any potential survivors. The Black Relic and GAUS-1 piloted by Sophie face off against the countless robots of the enemy, while Muetta retrieves her own Medusa and confronts Mirasa over the true nature of the Efidolg.
#3 - An Invitation From an Ogre
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 19
The Cactus unit returns to the space station with Yukina whom the Efy Dolgh believe is Muetta. At the UN, Dr. Hausen reveals that Yukina and Muetta share the same DNA and concludes that Yukina was taken by mistake. The UN discuss a rescue mission, but no decision is made. While sitting alone Sophie sees some writing appear, asking if she wants to learn the truth about demons. She agrees, and when she returns home the Demon is waiting. He introduces himself as Zeringer Mundef Bischrei. He reveals little, only that he is an enemy of the Efy Dolgh. Kennosuke asks Muetta (Yukihime) if she will pilot the Kuromukuro (Black Grongul) with him. She agrees to assist him to take the Kuromukuro to the space station, but cannot guarantee his return. As they prepare to leave in the Kuromukuro, they see a recorded message from Princess Yukihime imploring her ancestors to fight the demons and protect the Washiba Clan. Muetta wonders if there are things about her past that she does not know. On the space station, Yukina escapes from captivity and realises that she's no longer on Earth.
#4 - Difficult Choices
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 15
Kennosuke is badly injured in the fight with the geoframes and is taken into the UN facility for medical treatment. Meanwhile, many civilians are leaving Tateyama because of the geoframe attacks. Kennosuke has visions of the past including Princess Yukihime and the tall masked figure conferring about him. Again, he recovers from his near fatal wounds through a rapid self-healing process. Ogino wants the Akagi and Kaya to make a cosplay video for her. The Efy Dolgh officers debate what to do about the Black Relic, but Muetta and Mirasa seek to redeem themselves and secretly depart for Earth.
#5 - Welcome to the Festival
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 13
Ken's Kuromukuro fights alongside the GAUS to drive off a giant geoframe. Meanwhile, Kayahara's plan for the Culture Fair stirs up excitement.
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#6 - A Strange, New World
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 4
Kennosuke is adjusting to the 21st century which also includes a trip to the shopping mall together with Yukina. The demons past is hidden in history and only Yukina's father did research, until he mysteriously disappeared. From these studies they hope to discover more about the demons and how their connection to Kennosuke, the only survivor of the Wasabi clan.
#7 - A Tale of Two Frogs
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 23
The student attendance to Mt. Tate high school has decreased significantly, which makes it all the more surprising when Yukina and Ken arrive accompanied by Muetta. Carlos brings up his movie idea from the time at the onsen again and announces that he completed the script.
#8 - Dream of the Ogre
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 25
The battle is over, the activation of the Hinge halted. The UN establishes new policies to recover from the alien attack while Kennosuke decides on a path to his future.
#9 - Vapor Ever Rising
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 18
The JSDF, UN, and Efy Dolgh search for Muetta. Yukina's class decide to go to Toyama Memorial hot springs at “Kenshin’s hidden residence” for the weekend. Not all end up going, only the core group of Yukina's friends. Meanwhile the wounded Muetta takes refuge at the hot springs, hoping to aid her recovery. After getting lost, Yukina and Kennosuke arrive at the same spring, where they stumble upon Muetta, and the UN takes her into custody. Just then, a Cactus unit appears, captures Yukina, and escapes back into orbit.
#10 - Tears of a Narcissus
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 22
Yukina, Kennosuke and all the others who escaped the attack on the research facility retreat to the school, which has become the new UN's HQ. The entire region is completely isolated from the rest of the world because of the barrier created by Efy Dolgh. That night, the Demon speaks to Kennosuke, Yukina and her mother, revealing to them how he met Yukina's father years ago, shortly before his death from a sudden avalanche. Meanwhile, the Efy Dolgh manage to excavate the hinge stone from the dam's excavation, using the parasited humans as slaves. The stone draws in surrounding heat, cooling the area and provoking a snow storm over Kurobe. Muetta, having finally accepted the fact that she's been cloned, and all of her memories are fake, escapes from the base. While she's searching for Muetta, Yukina collapses in the snow. When Muetta finds her, she and Yukina take refuge in an old house where they're reached by Kennosuke. Muetta reveals to them that the Efy Dolgh are planning to use the hinge stone to create a wormhole between the Earth and its homeland, to enable the main army to storm the planet and subjugate it.
#11 - A Rain of Ogres from the Sky
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 1
Yuhina Shirahane visits het mother at the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute. Here she learns of the "giant" and the "cube" unknown objects that enabled the institute and her mother to develop new technology. Suddenly fast incoming objects from the sky appear and one is headed straight for the institute.
#12 - Face-Off at Jinzu River
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Artifact, Gaus 1 and Gaus 2 mobile suits engage into battle with the "Yellow Crab" geoframe and two of his red minions. While suffering serious damage to the Artifact, Kennosuke manages to defeat the Yellow Crab. An apparently human pilot appears from the geoframes cockpit, who identifies himself as Hedo from the Frontier Reform Office. After asking Kennosuke why he betrays his own kind, the pilot activates the self-destruct sequence of his disabled geoframe.
#13 - Memories of Regret
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 8
While everyone is looking for the missing Yukina she decides to launch her own investigation into her fathers notebook, starting at the remains of the ruins of Kennosuke's clan. There she is attacked and rescued by a mysterious demon. The demons in orbit demand the artifact returned to them, however the artifact is the only "ace" the earths has against them. As a direct response another Geoframe attack is launched on Japan. With Yukina missing and Kennosuke in pursuit to find her there is no one to pilot the artifact.....
#14 - The Arrogant Captive
Kuromukuro - Season 1 - Episode 10
The captured demon pilot, named Fusnarnie, and Kennosuke are both questioned about their origins. Kennosuke tells the tale of him and the Princess fighting their last battle together in the Black Relic. However Kennosuke can't seem too recall or admit if he knows Fusnarnie from the past. Meanwhile Fusnarnie disables his guards and remotely activates the longarm "callsign Lion" Geoframe to come and get him. But on his way out he stumbles upon Yukina whom he recognizes as a wielder.....