The BEST episodes directed by Satoshi Kuwabara

#1 - Girlfriend, Girlfriend

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 12

Nagisa had insisted on supporting Saki on the hot spring vacation, but when Saki confronts her about it, she begins to speak her mind.

#2 - Adachi Question

Adachi and Shimamura - Season 1 - Episode 2

Shimamura meets a little astronaut named Yashiro. Shimamura and Adachi also decide to attend class for once and Adachi starts questioning how she actually feels about Shimamura.

#3 - The Tsun's Dere Gets Outed

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 9

Saki tells Naoya that Rika’s apparent crush on him is only the result of her being in heat. She insists that this is a real thing, and Naoya buys it.

#4 - A Third One!?

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 5

Rika, who’s outed as a popular MeTuber, insists on dating Naoya. When he rejects her, she decides to try to live at his home along with the other two.

#5 - Girlfriend and Girlfriend

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 4

Saki returns to Naoya’s place and plays some games with Nagisa, who is utterly horrible at it. They notice that a gaming MeTuber seems to have the same uniform that they do.

#6 - Hot Spring Tropes

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 11

Nagisa spends her time on vacation with Rika to try to keep Shino from finding out that dating both her and Saki.

#7 - Obviously in Love

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 8

Rika comes to hang out in Naoya and Saki’s classroom, causing sparks to fly between her and Saki.

#8 - Even If That Isn't the Right Way

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 1

Mukai Naoya is in a relationship with Saki Saki, but another girl, Mizuse Nagisa, asks him out. He makes the unthinkable decision of asking them if they would be up for both dating him at the same time.

#9 - Tsun Is Dere

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 6

Rika starts her not-so-laid-back solo camping life in Naoya’s yard. Naoya and his girlfriends decide that enough is enough, and try to have her camping gear taken away.

#10 - Ambulance, Get a Move On, You Cod!, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 5

Ever since Hotaru stopped coming to Shikada Dagashi, Kokonotsu has been feeling down. On top of that, Yo tells him that the shop is in financial trouble.

#11 - Can't Wait for the Hot Springs

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 10

As a way to clear the air after Rika kisses Naoya, he, Saki and Nagisa decide to go on vacation at a hot spring.

#12 - How Nagisa Feels

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 2

Naoya, Saki and Nagisa are now living together. Keen to learn more about Saki and Naoya, Nagisa gets into her phone and looks through her browser history.

#13 - A Place for Three

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 3

Naoya, Saki and Nagisa search all around school for a place where they can eat lunch in peace, without anyone finding out that they are in a relationship.

#14 - Demon Lord Army

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 6

Diablo resolves to return to Zircon Tower at once after learning the city was under attack by the Demon Lord Army. Meanwhile the desert becomes a battlefield as Laminitus and her soldiers wage battle against the Demon Lord Army's Commander, Varakness. Laminitus struggles against the overwhelming might of the Fallen, and just as the final blow is about to be dealt to her, Diablo appears with a flash.

#15 - Black Dragon Clash

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 5

After rescuing Horn, Diablo learns of Horn's secret. Meanwhile, Shera, Rem, and Lumachina make progress through the dungeon and reach the twelfth underground floor. When Rem opens the door, they find the man pursuing Lumachina - Gewalt. To make things worse, a Large Black Dragon appears with a terrifying blast of wind!

#16 - Pretend God

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 10

The magic weapon, Europa, God of Destruction, appears from underground and attacks, damaging Diablo. Since its attacks aren’t magic, he can’t reflect them with his Demon Lord’s Ring, and Europe’s barrier keeps his attacks from reaching it. “There’s something I want you to do.”—Diablo seeks Lumachina’s aid while barely avoiding the weapon’s attacks, and…

#17 - Baseball Board Game Gum, Pop Pop Boat, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 2

On the day a typhoon is approaching, Saya, To, and Hotaru gather at Kokonotsu's house. As the wind and rain get stronger, Kokonotsu suggests that they spend the night there.

#18 - Convenience Store, Job Magazine, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 6

Kokonotsu, To and Saya go check out the new convenience store. There, they meet the store’s manager, who begins to see Kokonotsu as his rival.

#19 - Internets, Super Ball, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 9

After talking to the convenience store manager, Kokonotsu decides to create a website for Shikada Dagashi. On a different occasion, Hajime tries to cover up the fact that she forgot to order a product.

#20 - Monjiro Squid, Manga Manuscript, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 10

After setting up the shop's website, Shikada Dagashi receives its first delivery order. Later on, Kokonotsu decides to bring his manga to an on-site manga review event.

#21 - The Moon and Determination, Determination and Friends

Adachi and Shimamura - Season 1 - Episode 11

Adachi decides that she does want to spend time with Shimamura and builds up the courage to approach her again.

#22 - Determination to Kill

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 11

After what happened with Kady, Saybil and the gang learn that further assaults against the village are coming. Everyone does what they can to prepare for the battle ahead.

#23 - Homerun Bar, Fireworks Festival, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 4

Kokonotsu and the gang decide to go to the fireworks festival. When Saya asks him to call Hotaru, he finds her at the shop choosing a Homerun Bar with a very serious face.

#24 - Love That Embraces the Holy Mother: Marigold

Adachi and Shimamura - Season 1 - Episode 9

Valentine's Day finally arrives and Adachi and Shimamura hang out as promised. But this time, it's actually Shimamura that has a surprise in store for Adachi.

#25 - Corrupt Ritual

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 3

Lumachina realizes that Battuta is conducting a large scale curse, threatening the lives of others, but he puts her and Rem to sleep. The two later awaken in an underground space where believers are conducting the ritual. After Horn tells them of Lumachina and Rem's capture, Diablo and Shera take action to rescue them!

#26 - I Decide Who's Worthy

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 5

Saybil and Professor Los are face to face with the witch who took over the field program village, but Professor Los has had her magic staff stolen from her, and Saybil still can't control his magic. Can they find a way to defeat the witch so Saybil and the gang can begin the field program and avoid expulsion?

#27 - Hajime Owari, Chocoball, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 7

A woman walks into Shikada Dagashi after seeing the help-wanted flyer that Kokonotsu put out on the shop's door and asks him to hire her.

#28 - I'm Back, Welcome Back, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 12

After a surprise reunion with Hotaru at a train station, Kokonotsu asks her why she suddenly disappeared without saying anything to him.

#29 - Snack Time

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 10

Kudo attemtps to break through Kady's ignorance and show him that witches aren't evil. Saybil has finally begun to refine his magical talents and embarks on experiments of his own. Hort continues to work on her feelings about letting the Tyrant live.

#30 - The Remedial Student and the Witch of the Staff

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 1

Saybil is a remedial student studying magic at the Royal Academy. Strangely, he has no memory of his life before the academy. What's worse, his grades are so bad that the other students think he'll be expelled. But if he flunks out, he'll lose his memories of the academy, too. In order to hold on to the only life he can remember, he sets out on a dangerous journey with the Dawn Witch Loux Krystas as his school-appointed escort. Can he find a way to succeed where he has always failed before?

#31 - Head Paladin

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 2

Diablo and the others leave Faltra and arrive at Zircon Tower. There they meet an adventurer, Horn, who talks to Diablo about a new dungeon that has appeared - a dungeon that Diablo suspects is the one he created. Meanwhile, Lumachina gets into an argument with a man claiming to belong to the Paladin Brigade who kicked aside a woman carrying her baby...

#32 - Beyond the Steam

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 3

Having escaped the Tyrant, Saybil and the gang resume their journey to the witch village. Along the way, the bonds between them deepen as they learn more about each other. Their travels take them to a large city, where the gang decides to visit a large, luxurious bathing facility.

#33 - Playing Ping-Pong in Our Uniforms

Adachi and Shimamura - Season 1 - Episode 1

Adachi and Shimamura happened to meet each other on the second floor of the gymnasium as they were skipping class. Eventually, they started seeing each other more and started playing ping-pong together.

#34 - The Beginning of the Adventure

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 12

#35 - Beigoma, Reminiscence, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 3

While Kokonotsu and To are trying to figure out how to play with beigoma, Hotaru shows up with her beigoma to battle with them.

#36 - The Girlfriends' Challenge

Girlfriend, Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 7

Saki realizes Rika is serious about Naoya, and begins frantically looking for ways to keep her from joining their relationship.

#37 - Personal Domain

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 4

Diablo and the others were heading to the dungeon to obtain the hidden treasure that can cure the Death Knell Disease when Laminitus and her army surrounds them and attacks. Their party manages to reach the entrance to the dungeon, but there are now six marks on Lumachina's body, and it's said the victims of the Death Knell Disease will die once there are nine marks...

#38 - Storm the Church

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 9

Diablo and the others are locked up in the sanctuary by Vishos and kept apart from Lumachina. Meanwhile, Horn managed to escape, but she's torn between her desire to flee all by herself and her desire to help her friends. That's when Babalon, the Level Up Goddess that resides within the Holy Grail, appears before Horn.

#39 - Big Katsu, Peperoncino, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 1

When Kokonotsu whispers a certain word, it summons Hotaru. On a different occasion, Hotaru suddenly shows up at Café Endo to satisfy Saya's wish.

#40 - Head Priest

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 1

Diablo, Shera, and Rem head out to the plains to test out new magic. While using said Flight Magic, Diablo spots the light of magic energy rising up from deep within the forest, so he makes haste towards its source. However, his spell gives out half way, and he goes plummeting down! When he lands, he finds the Head Priest, Lumachina under attack from the Paladin, Gewalt.

#41 - Pursuing the Respective Leads

Atom: The Beginning - Season 1 - Episode 3

A multipurpose private detective investigating in lab 7's junkyard is caught by A106, Ran and Ummataro who brand him as suspicious and inquire about his intentions while Hiroshi returns with Motoko turns out Motoko and detective (who identifies were Kensaku Han) are acquaintances. Han tells them that he is searching for a robot pet named Malon which has a huge reward; Motoko pipes in that if Han wants to find the pet he should hire boys as campus is very large, difficult to warfare and exclusive to students, Ummataro agrees to the offer finding it as it was a good opportunity to test A106's new sensors, Han reprehends by saying that robots aren't qualified for such jobs causing a spat with Ummataro to which both make a bet. Hiroshi, Motoko and Han search around campus employing old fashioned legwork Motoko asks him about the person who made the request to which Han explains the man might have had strong emotional attachment to the pet, while searching Motoko bumps into an old man who lost his way around. Meanwhile Ummataro and Ran use A106's sensors to search for devices using old network technology used by the pet to communicate during which the come across the same old and find a similar pet in his bag, the man turns out to the client; both teams put two and two together to discover only one hit was remaining at the construction site where A106 finds Malon returning it to its owner.

#42 - Little Demon Lord

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - Season 2 - Episode 7

Lumachina asks Diablo to accompany her to the royal capital, so he decides to stop by Faltra City on the way. Diablo's group is worried about Klem and Edelgard after such a long time apart, and Sylvie informs them that they're at a bakery. Apparently the Fallen, Edelgard, had started a part-time job. Curious, Diablo and the others go to investigate...

#43 - Isosceles Triangle

Adachi and Shimamura - Season 1 - Episode 3

Shimamura worries about Adachi when she doesn't come to school the next day after she abruptly left her house. The two girls go out together on the weekend and an unlikely guest joins them.

#44 - Friends and Love, Love and Cherry Blossoms

Adachi and Shimamura - Season 1 - Episode 12

Adachi seems very adamant about wanting to spend the night at Shimamura's house.

#45 - Don't Call Me a Traitor

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 2

As Kudo struggles to escape a professional witch hunter, Professor Los races to rescue him. Unbeknownst to her, Saybil and Hort are not far behind. Can Kudo hold out long enough for his rescuers to find him? And how did the witch hunter know about the students' journey?

#46 - Adachi's Question

Adachi and Shimamura - Season 1 - Episode 5

Adachi tries to ask Shimamura if she'd like to hang out on Christmas, but has a very hard time getting the words out. Meanwhile, Shimamura wonders why Adachi's been acting so weird lately.

#47 - I'm Not Afraid to Die

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 4

Now that Saybil and the gang have reached their destination, they can begin their studies in the field program. Or so they thought. It turns out that the beastfallen mercenary in the forest is the least of their problems. Can they find a solution, or will they have to risk being expelled from the Academy?

#48 - High School Girls on Holiday

Adachi and Shimamura - Season 1 - Episode 4

Shimamura just happens to run into Adachi's mom at the gym and they have an awkward encounter. Later on, Shimamura invites Adachi to karaoke with Hino and Nagafuji.

#49 - Roll Candy, High Eight Chocolate, and...

Dagashi Kashi - Season 2 - Episode 8

After coming across a woman seeing off Kokonotsu in the morning in front of his shop, Saya cannot stop thinking about it all day long and decides to check out this woman.

#50 - Knowledge of Ignorance

The Dawn of the Witch - Season 1 - Episode 6

Saybil and the gang have finally begun their field program activities. However, Saybil's focus on supporting Hort and Kudo has caused him to isolate himself and neglect honing his magical talents. Professor Los hatches a plan to get Saybil to venture beyond his shop and interact with the world he knows so little about.