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 - Victory or Defeat
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 28
Ippo defeats Mashiba for Rookie King of Eastren Japan.
#4 - Ippo on the Beach
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 17
Ippo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach.
#5 - 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!
#6 - 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.
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#7 - 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...
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#8 - 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...
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#9 - 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...
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#11 - 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...
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#12 - 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...
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#13 - 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.
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#14 - Hiyou Pursuit~Successor
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 14
Ushio and Tora finally get to Hokkaido where they run into a girl named Hinowa, who says she is one of the rightful successors of the the Beast Spear. Meanwhile, Hakumen no Mono sends youkai called Hiyou to kill Ushio and get a hold of the spear. Ushio and Tora encounter a young man on a motorcycle. As soon as Ushio walks away and heads toward the bus to the final destination, the young man attacks Tora.
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#15 - Going Down the Road to the Touno Youkai Battle ~Part Two~
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 13
As the Youkai show no signs of giving up the chase, Ushio is forced to run around the forest.
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#16 - The Demon That Turns Back Time
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 19
Ushio regains his senses and heads into the cave at Kamuikotan. When in the cave, they encounter a monster who can turn back time and he sends them back to ancient China where the Beast Spear was first made.
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#20 - Promise to Meet Again
Fighting Spirit - Season 1 - Episode 8
Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.
#22 - TATARI BREAKER
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 26
Hakumen's impending arrival causes a monster disaster, and also adversely affects the people involved.
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#23 - 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...
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#24 - Going Down the Road to the Touno Youkai Battle ~Part One~
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 12
Ushio and Tora leave Touno and head to Hokkaido once again, but they're attacked repeatedly on the way by Youkai.
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#26 - Crossing of the Pursuit~Successor
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 15
Tora manages to defeat Nagare and then heads to reunite with Ushio, but the bus he was on was taken over by Hiyou. Nagare helps him stop the bus and get the people to safety, but then they encounter even more bikers. One of the members ask for help finding her brother, who is another chosen successor to the Beast Spear.
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#29 - Eternal Solitude
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 23
The truth about Kirio and the Elzaar Scythe is revealed, and Ushio and Tora settle things with Kirio and Towako once and for all.
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#31 - Transformation
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 16
Ushio and Tora travel inside Moritsuna's body with the help of Izuna to help rid him of the hiyous.
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#32 - Mirror of a Single Blow
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 11
Ushio was getting ready for the rest of his journey at the house of the Kamaitachi. He was ready to welcoe a quiet night, however he sees a silent vision of Asako screaming in their pond. They then go see someone who the Kamaitachi siblings say can help him understand what's going on...
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#33 - Great Summoning~Destruction of the Beast Spear
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 22
As Ushio becomes depressed due to his inability to save Mikado Hizaki, Tora tried to fire him up by verbally insulting and fighting him, but leaves once it is proved useless. Kirio comes to steal the Beast Spear from Ushio along with a few supporters and snatches it from Ushio using the red cloth. When Nagare arrives to warn Ushio, he is joined by Tora in the search of Kirio. Hinowa joins Ushio in the search of the Spear. The group arrive at a facility and find the diary of Kyōra, the creator of the Elzaar Scythe. They come to know of a woman named Towako (who is the one who took the red cloth and acts as Kirio's mother) who helped him greatly in achieving success in his researches in creating the Elzaar Scythe, Kuin and even Kirio.
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#34 - H.A.M.M.R~The H.A.M.M.R Institute
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 25
Another morning fighting with Tora followed by going to school with Asako. However, an organization named HAMMR breaks the usual cycle. The three mad scientists of HAMMR kidnap Ushio and Asako and Tora go after them in an attempt to save him.
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#35 - 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.
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#36 - Crazed Wind
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 9
Ushio and Tora head for Sendai City. However, suddenly, Ushio's screams rattle the city. He realizes that the money that his father had given him for the trip is missing. At the moment of despair, they run into two Kamaitachi siblings, Raishin and Kagari, who ask a request. They take Ushio and Tora to a house in the mountains, where they are asked an unbellievable request.
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#37 - The House With the Child
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 10
While in the countryside, Ushio and Tora meet a girl named Takatori Saya. She is part of a clan of white-haired women who are part of the Takatori family that have a duty to appease a spirit named Omamori-sama who brings the family prosperity. She tells Ushio and Tora about Omamori-sama, and how there is saying that once the Omamori-sama picks a house to live in, it will be rewarded with prosperity. However, once she leaves, there will be chaos and poverty. Omamori-sama's true identity is...
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#39 - The Fourth: Kirio
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 21
Kirio pays a visit to Ushio to take the Beast Spear from him. But they are interrupted when Kuragi, an insect like yōkai, who is avatar of Hakumen no Mono attacks the Kōhamei Sect headquarters, unstoppable by any. Ushio and Kirio are taken there by Shigure where Ushio meets Mikado Hizaki. Later, as Ushio falls after failing to defeat Kuragi, Mikado Hizaki freezes the monster and Kirio finishes it off. Mikado Hizaki dies after exhausting her powers. Afterwards, we see Kirio telling his mother how he finished the monster himself, and that no one believes him when he says that they don't need the Beast Spear to defeat Hakumen no Mono. She gives him the Beast Spear's red cloth and tells him that if no one believes, it is ok to break the spear to show them so.
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#40 - 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.
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#41 - Revival~And Finally...
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 18
The girls keep working on trying to turn Ushio back to normal. Meanwhile, the hiyou horde heads toward Ushio and the Beast Spear to destroy them both once and for all.
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#43 - The Fools Gather at the Banquet
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 24
Mayuko is invited to a strange dinner party and Tora eats crab gyoza burgers.
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#44 - To Kamuikotan
Ushio and Tora (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 17
After saving Moritsuna Satoru from the hiyou, Ushio pays the price for using so much of the Beast Spear's power. He loses control of his body and heads to Kamuikotan. Meanwhile, all of the girls in his life get an unexpected visitor telling them she needs their help to save Ushio's life...
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#45 - 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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#47 - 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.
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#48 - 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...
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