The BEST episodes directed by Satoshi Nishimura
#1 - Forward! Forward!
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 22
Ippo defeats Hayami via K.O. Ippo's training with Aoki and Kimura's help Ippo win the match.
#2 - Mixup
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 74
A flashback shows how Sendo joined his gym. Ippo gets knocked down two times but when he gets up the fifth round gets more brutal. The fifth round ends and after that, the sixth round begins and is just as brutal as the last round.
#3 - A Demon Inhabits the Painting
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 3
Hayuu Reiko is a student at Ushio's junior high school that is known as someone who doesn't want to live, due to the fact that she has attempted suicide multiple timees. One day, Ushio goes with Asako and others to an art exhibit of his favorite painter, and the portraits of Reiko catches his eye. Ushio eventually finds out that the Reiko in the portraits is the same Reiko that goes to his school, and asks her to be his model for his paintings. However, he finds out that death seems to follow those who try to get too close to her...
#4 - Tora Goes to Town
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 4
Ushio hears about an incident that happens at a construction site. The bodies at the site happened to have bite marks on them, so he immediately thinks Tora is behind the incident. Tora tells him that he's innocent, but Ushio goes far as to transform and won't believe him, so Tora runs off into the city. Ushio goes after him and meets an old man who says that "Gamin-sama has awoken." He then learns a shocking truth from the book that the old man is holding...
#5 - The Demon Returns
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 20
Ushio and Tora travel back in time to ancient China and encounter Hakumen no Mono. Ushio quickly realizes he's no match for Hakumen no Mono and barely makes it out alive. Jie Mei and Giryou then take the tragic necessary steps to create the Beast Spear and Ushio learns the truth about his mother.
#6 - The Destined Meeting with Ushio and Tora
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 1
Middle-school student Aotsuki Ushio lives with his temple master father, Shigure. One day, as Ushio is cleaning around the house, he finds something unspeakable in the basement.
#7 - Victory or Defeat
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 28
Ippo defeats Mashiba for Rookie King of Eastren Japan.
#8 - Runemaster Hyou
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 5
Hyou is an exorcist that lives in the world of darkness. He lost his beloved wife and daughter to a youkai that gave him a scar on his face, and continues to search for it to get revenge. What he remembers of the youkai is that it was a dark shadow that suddenly came out from behind him. Hyou then sees news footage of Tora on TV, and believes he's the youkai he had been after and heads to Japan. Eventually, he finds Tora, and...
#9 - Eater of Stones
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 2
"One day, I'll destroy you with this spear," swore Ushio, as his odd adventures with the giant youkai which he named "Tora" began. Tora was also looking for an opportunity to eat Ushio. While this bizarre combination became a thing, an old stone armor that was in one of the old school buildings of Ushio's junior high assaulted some of the students. One by one, students were being turned to stone, and then the evil spirit was now going after Ushio's childhood friends, Asako and Mayuko...
#10 - A Vow
Fighting Spirit - Season 3 - Episode 25
Kamogawa resorts to pounding a log with his bare fists as he trains to face Anderson and avenge Nekota. Anderson rediscovers his pride as a boxer and brings Miguel along as his cornerman. Everything comes down to this!
#11 - Ippo on the Beach
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 17
Ippo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach.
#12 - Legend
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 7
Ushio finds out that his mother is still alive, and seems to be hated by the youkai. Ushio can't handle this shocking truth, and goes to his father to learn more. Ushio finds out that his father had to report to his superiors that the Beast Spear had been released. Following, however, assassins are sent after Ushio and Tora. Next, Ushio's father...
#13 - Truth of Mistake
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 2
In a town suffering from drought, Vash is hired to be the bodyguard of the only man who has water in the arid desert.
#14 - Rem Saverem
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 17
In a very unorthodox episode, many explanations about the mystery surrounding Vash the Stampede are put forth. Where did he come from? Who is he? What is he fighting for?
#15 - Out of Time
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 21
Things worsen at the city in the clouds as two more Gung-Ho Guns appear, and what they're after might bring grim consequences.
#16 - Demon's Eye
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 15
Things get serious as Legato and his Gung-Ho Guns stir up trouble. Vash will have no choice but to roughen up to answer the challenge.
#17 - Fifth Moon
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 16
Vash is challenged to a duel inside an inhabited city with two of the Gung-Ho Guns. The plot thickens as Legato butts in and unleashes Vash's horrible secret.
#18 - Goodbye for Now
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 18
Two years after Vash disappeared in the ruins of the city, two years after Milly and Meryl were forced to run away from the devastating arm, two years after Vash was declared the first human act of god by the insurance company because of how unstoppable he is - a quiet town is surrounded by bounty hunters, their leader claims to be Vash the Stampede, and Wolfwood is besieged inside! All seems to be lost until a young blond man who has been living in that town for two years now, known only as Erics to it's residents, pops out to the rescue...
#19 - Hang Fire
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 19
News of Vash's reappearance reach the Bernardelli Insurance Company. Meryl and Milly go on the road to search for the Humanoid Typhoon while he steps into a bloody dispute between two families.
#20 - Flying Ship
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 20
Vash takes the nearest "ride" to a city in the clouds, a relic from the times of old, to meet up with his old friends. Wolfwood follows him and joins him in the friendly visit, but there's also another who followed them both...
#21 - Sin
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 24
As Vash ventures on he finally confronts Legato, who proves that the winner in not necessarily the last man standing.
#22 - Sea of the Ayakashi
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 6
On a beach trip, Ushio encounters a little boy who seems determined to ruin everyone else's fun. Meanwhile, Tora encounters a gigantic ayakashi that seeks to devour humans and yokai alike.
#23 - Promise to Meet Again
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 8
Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.
#24 - Alternative
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 22
Many people have been disappearing, whole towns even, and people are getting paranoid. Vash, Wolfwood and the girls are stuck outside and can't come in because the guards are too afraid to let them. They find shelter in an orphanage of sorts, and when trouble starts, a surprising adversary helps Wolfwood see the error in his ways.
#25 - Live Through
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 25
Vash has suffered enough for an eternity. As decision-making time approaches, the town's people decide to lynch him and he may not try to stop them.
#26 - Under the Sky So Blue
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 26
Vash confronts his brother Knives in a big climax, and all of the remaining questions about their pasts are answered.
#27 - Peace Maker
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 3
Vash is forced to befriend a drunk as a city comes under attack by bandits whose leader claims he is Vash the Stampede.
#28 - The $$60,000,000,000.00 Man
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 1
There are many rumors circulating about Vash the Stampede, but few people have actually seen him. Confusion follows as a couple of bounty hunters and two insurance girls separately try to find the real Vash, but only one of the bounty hunters guesses right. The other bounty hunter and the two girls think the first bounty hunter is Vash and even more confusion comes. In the end, the girls can't believe that the real Vash is who he actually is, because he's too nice and silly to match up with the rumors about "Vash the Stampede."
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#29 - And Between the Wasteland and Sky
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 8
The adventure on the speeding sand-steamer continues as Vash reveals another aspect in his personality and his young friend is faced with the dilemma of speaking up to a grown-up.
#30 - Little Arcadia
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 14
In this almost completely Vash free episode, the two insurance girls need to help an old farmer save his beautiful grove from a gang who wants to take it away from him, in which the farmer's son is a member.
#31 - B.D.N.
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 7
Vash is joined with a young boy whom he's forced to take under his wings when the steamer comes under attack.
#32 - Love & Peace
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 4
Vash is stuck between a rock and a hard place as he accidentally waltzes into a live robbery scene with his headphones on, unable to hear the police officers yelling at him to stay away. The plot thickens, though, as the robbery is revealed to be of the more personal sort...
#33 - Murder Machine
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 9
A simple bus trip across the dunes goes wrong when mechanical spiders threaten the passengers. Vash meets a traveling priest who seems more than meets the eye.
#34 - Hard Puncher
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 5
An entire town has gone rampage searching for the $$60 billion head of Vash The Stampede in the hopes of hunting him for the reward. The humanoid typhoon will have to make a choice, will he reveal what he's really made of?
#35 - Lost July
Trigun - Season 1 - Episode 6
After the town's folk gather enough money for a repair crew to be called for to repair their power plant, Vash is hired as a body guard for the head engineer - an attractive woman who seems to have a particular interest in the gunslinger. An interest which might be accidentally mistaken to be affection.
#36 - Traces of Intense Battles
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 31
A recap of the boxing matches that have taken place thus far.
#39 - The Opening Bell of the Rematch
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 6
Ippo and Miyata face off in a rematch.
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#40 - C Class License
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 9
Ippo takes the License Test and meets Mashiba.
#41 - Debut Match!
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 10
Ippo and his opponent Yusuke train for Ippo's debut match.
#43 - Becoming a Bully's Buddy
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 12
Ippo fights and wins his second match via K.O.,After the fight he was befriended by Umezawa, his former bully.
#44 - The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 13
Ippo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tournament.
#45 - Test of Endurance
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 15
Ippo defeats Jason via K.O. after a tough match.
#46 - Anticipating a Fierce Fight
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 16
Ippo watches the fight videos of Kobashi and Hayami, his future opponents.
#47 - To Enemy Ground
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 30
Ippo learns how to heal his right fist and gets ready for the All Japan but something happens his powerful right punches!
#48 - Throw Your Right!
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 32
Ippo is still having trouble with his right fist but his match with Sendo begins.
#49 - The First Step
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 1
Ippo is a high school student who works full time at his mother's fishing though. Because of this, he gets bullied on by the kids at his school. That's when his life turns around, when a professional boxer happens to be jogging along the way, and introduces Ippo to the world of boxing.
