The BEST episodes directed by Kazuya Murata
#1 - Castaway
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet - Season 1 - Episode 1
Ensign Ledo is a Machine Caliber pilot in the Galactic Alliance of Humankind, fighting a seemingly endless war against the Hideauze out in the far reaches of the galaxy. But after an accident during the latest battle he and his robot, Chamber, end up on a mysterious planet filled with a seemingly primitive tribe of humans...
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#3 - Breakthrough
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 7
The CAAC Special Forces intercept the group to try to take Aiko back. Kurose realizes that Isazu's daughter Yuzuha is connected to the Matter.
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#4 - Tandem Mirror
Planetes - Season 1 - Episode 21
Debris Section has been assigned to the Moon for a month to help collect debris from the Tandem Mirror Drive disaster. In training as a finalist aboard the Von Braun, Hachimaki learns that one of his fellow candidates is planning to sabotage the mission.
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#5 - Truth
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 9
The team reaches the biotech research facility at Primary Point, but Isazu manages to patch in a video feed to confront Kanzaki about his intentions.
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#6 - Way
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 8
The Divers confront Aiko and Kanzaki, but they agree to continue with the mission. Isazu becomes lab director and learns about Unit One.
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#7 - Triple Threat
Steel Angel Kurumi - Season 1 - Episode 10
Kurumi finds herself fighting Nakahito's kidnappers, the Steel Angels Kaga, Tsunami, and Kaori.
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#8 - Reincarnation
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 12
At the surgical site, Yura admits his intentions changed with Aiko's decision. Kurose tries to sever the link between Yuzuha and her duplicates.
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#9 - Awakening
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 6
Kaede's showing off delays the group's progress to point K2, which they must reach before sunrise to enter Area Three. Isazu tells Kurose what he did.
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#10 - Swing High
Gunsmith Cats - Season 1 - Episode 2
With Jonathan Washington in the hands of the ATF, it looks like the gun-bust mission is nearly complete - until "The Bloody Pierce," a Russian hitwoman in a bulletproof coat, shows up and starts wiping out evidence. With a rumored mole in the ATF and good guys getting killed left and right, Bill and the Gunsmith Cats are forced to work underground. Working off of a tip they got from Washington, the Cats locate one of the gunrunners' arms storage facilities, but things take a turn for the worse when the guards spot them. Bloody Pierce captures Minnie May and Rally has to race in reckless pursuit to rescue her best friend from being carved up by the sinister Russian.
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#11 - Volition
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 10
Aiko has the chance to speak to her other self inside the Malignant Matter. Meanwhile, the human form Matter engulfs Yura, revealing Yuzuha.
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#13 - Target
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 2
Kanzaki takes Aiko to the Town, where her father's old colleague Kurose tells her the unbelievable: Her brain was transplanted into an artificial body.
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#14 - High Speed Edge
Gunsmith Cats - Season 1 - Episode 3
The good news is, Bill figures out the house where the ATF mole is. The bad news is, when he gets there, the mole is dead and the house is rigged to blow up. Meanwhile the unsuspecting Gunsmith Cats are on their way to receive a civic award from Senator Haints - where the Bloody Pierce is waiting for them, thirsty for revenge. Can Bill and the Gunsmith Cats figure out who's really behind the gun running operation before the Bloody Pierce kills them all?
#15 - Devotion
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 11
Isazu establishes a link to the Matter so he can interrogate Yura. The JSDF prepares to incinerate the entire Area despite Nanbara's objections.
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#16 - It's Not Fair
Steel Angel Kurumi - Season 1 - Episode 14
Karinka disguises herself and tries to find out Kurumi's secret.
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#17 - Contact
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 1
Two years after the mysterious Burst that killed her family, Aiko has nearly learned to walk again. But a transfer student's arrival upends her life.
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#18 - Encounter
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 4
The group clears the Gate just as the government orders an evacuation. Their first target is the Guillotine Shutter at K1, but the Matter is active.
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#19 - Memory
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 5
Inside the Area, the group rests and resupplies at the camp. Nanbara gets a ride from Kurose, but she and Isazu appear to have their own plans.
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#20 - Decision
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- - Season 1 - Episode 3
The CAAC detains Aiko and Yuya, but the Divers manage to break them out. Though the Matter is active again, the group plans to head to Primary Point.
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#21 - The Neutral Zone
Gunsmith Cats - Season 1 - Episode 1
Expert gunsmith Rally Vincent (slender, curvy, all-business brunette packin' heat) and her maniac side-kick Minnie May Hopkins (short, cute, dizzy blonde explosives nut) are happily running a gun shop and a bounty hunting operation in Chicago, when pony-tailed and hunky ATF Agent Bill Collins saunters into their lives. With a little coercion, Bill leads the Gunsmith Cats on a bullet-riddled mission to bust a ring of gunrunners by setting up a sting on smuggling under-boss Jonathan Washington.
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#22 - Mikhail
Steel Angel Kurumi - Season 1 - Episode 17
Kurumi and the gang finally arrives in Izumo, where they learn many secrets about Dr. Ayanokoji. Also, Nakahito meets a young boy...
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#23 - Avenging Angel
Steel Angel Kurumi - Season 1 - Episode 20
An angered Kurumi continues her search for Nakahito, but she runs into and fights Steel Angel Mikhail.
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#24 - How Kurumi Became a Woman
Steel Angel Kurumi - Season 1 - Episode 27
Kurumi tries to appeal to Nakahito by acting more like a mature woman.
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