The BEST episodes directed by Shinpei Ezaki
#1 - The Tiger of Kai Dies at Midaigawa!
Sengoku Basara - Season 1 - Episode 9
Oda’s army is on the move in the south, while his most lethal assassins strike the opposition leaders of the east. As Takeda and Uesugi fight for their lives, many loyal to the alliance meet their demise.
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#2 - Demon Hunting
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 22
Ernst takes over as the True Cross' newest leader and appoints Yukio as the new Paladin. Armed with special weapons that drain the blood of the demons killed with them, the exorcists take part in a widespread crusade to erase all demons from Assiah. Rin and his friends start questioning why the order decided to take such extreme measures, but Yukio is determined to accomplish his task as Ernst claims that it is all part of their plan to destroy Gehenna, and with the Demon world vanquished, both he and his brother would become completely human again. However, Ernst's real objective is revealed when he uses Rin as a human sacrifice to bring Satan to the Human World, using Yukio's body as a vessel.
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#3 - Temptation
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 17
Easily breaking through all defenses, Amaimon reaches the room where Rin is being held and Mephisto convinces the Grigori to agree with his plan. Using the reforged Demon-Slaying Blade brought by his classmates, Rin defeats Amaimon and the Grigori decides that he has six months to pass the Exorcist authorization exam, thus he begins a special training to learn to control his flames. Despite they helped Rin by having his sword fixed, some of his classmates still has some mixed feelings about him after learning of his connection with Satan, the most awkward of them being Konekomaru, who is approached by a dark presence attracted by his fear.
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#4 - The Lost Christmas
Guilty Crown - Season 1 - Episode 12
Shuichiro teleports to the crystal tower but not before giving Segai the information he wants as thanks for his service. Meanwhile, Shu finally recognize who Gai is but he tells Shu to rescue Inori before the youngster, who Gai calls "Death", teleports away. As Shu follows them through a portal, "Death" tells Shu he still doesn't remember his past and causes him to remember.
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#5 - First Battle: The Struggle for Trost (1)
Attack on Titan - Season 1 - Episode 5
Five years have passed since the fall of Wall Maria and Eren faces off against the Colossal Titan after it appears out of nowhere once again, and knocks a strategic hole in the gate of Wall Rose. As Titans swarm the city, the newly graduated Cadets are called in to fight a brutal battle that won't be without casualties.
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#6 - Exodus
Guilty Crown - Season 1 - Episode 17
As the blockade gets closer to the school , causing fear amongst the students, Shu become more ruthless to maintain order. Yahiro warns him the students will hate him if he continues acting like this, but Shu insists it's necessary or they might end up dying like Hare. Arisa, traumatized after being attacked by Inori, is contacted by an unknown individual (later to be revealed as Segai), who convinces her to turn the students against Shu. Arisa seduces Hirohide and convinces him to secretly spread a rumor to the students that they will die if their Voids are destroyed and Shu is keeping it a secret, creating greater resentment against him.
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#7 - I Can Hear His Heartbeat: The Struggle for Trost (4)
Attack on Titan - Season 1 - Episode 8
Armin comes up with a risky plan that pits Titan against Titan as the abandoned cadets attempt to take back their headquarters. Getting into the building might be possible, but getting out alive and refueled will mean facing more of the giants.
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#8 - Strike
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 3
After school, a luxury car pulls up next to Tohru. The door opens to reveal Kyohma. He offers Tohru a ride to the laboratory and then uses the time to ask Tohru his true intention for opening the case.
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#9 - Sing My Pleasure – I Love You
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 6
“I humbly accept. I look forward to a long-lasting relationship.” Using a termination program given to them by Dr. Saeki, Vivy and Matsumoto use it to shut down the activity of Metal Float. However, this causes the AI that governs the island to go completely out of control, and it engages in battle with Toak when they try to attack the island. With “AIs attacking humans” now a fait accompli, Vivi rescues the members of Toak, and heads to the center of the island to prevent further havoc by the AI.
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#10 - Leukocytes
Guilty Crown - Season 1 - Episode 6
Gai survives the attack but reveals that his team and the mercenaries were killed by the Leukocyte blast. At the outskirts of Tsukigase Dam, Gai briefs the Undertakers that their mission is to attack the Dam where the Leukocyte control system is located but due to the Leukocyte's security system, he will have Shu use Kenji's Void to disable it. Shu doesn't want to take part of the operation as he's afraid of the people who will die if he fails until Inori goes to talk to him. Meanwhile at Tsukigase Dam, Major Segai informs the Anti Bodies director Shuichiro Keido that his men are prepared for the Undertakers attack including Daryl, who wants revenge against the Undertakers for stealing his Steiner. As Gai gets another blood transfusion in a room alone, he confesses to what he assumes is Inori that he regrets of the lives who died for him and it was difficult to act as their fearless leader until he realizes the other person was in fact Shu due to Inori. Shu admits he never wanted to see this side of Gai and agrees to join the operation. As the Undertakers distract the GHQ forces guarding the dam, Shu, Gai, and Kenji sneak into the Leukocyte control system with Inori defending them. As Gai and Shu hacks the control system with Tsugumi's help via Funell, Segai sends Daryl to stop them which Gai battles and disables Daryl's Endlave. However, Daryl damages the control system, sending one of the Leukocyte's crashing to the dam. In order to stop it, Gai makes a deal with Segai that he will stop the crashing satellite using Shu's transmitter, revealing it is actually a targeting beacon for the Leukocytes, in exchange that he destroys all records of Shu's involvement with the Undertakers. Realizing Gai is sacrificing himself to destroy the falling satellite, Shu, with Inori's encouragement, combines Kenji's and Inori's Voids to destroy not only the falling satellite but also the one still in space. With the operation over, Shu finally accepts Gai and the Undertakers while S
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#11 - Retraction
Guilty Crown - Season 1 - Episode 10
Since his failure to save Jun, Shu is suffering traumatic memories of the Apocalypse Virus and hallucinating seeing people being infected which cost the Undertakers a mission to stop a convoy. Unwilling to join them anymore, Gai kicks Shu out the Undertakers. Retuning home, Shu finds Inori leaving but not before giving him her new song but he slaps it after getting another panic attack. Depressed, at school Shu ask Hare if he can be close to her but she slaps him as she isn't his replacement for Inori and he isn't the Shu that she loves and knows. Meanwhile, Major General Yan has put Shuichiro under house arrest for stealing the Apocalypse Virus meteorite and plans to have it transported overseas which Gai and Undertakers plan to attack the plane transporting the cargo and retrieve it. However, unknown to both the GHQ and the Undertakers, Seiga and the Anti Bodies have other plans and start vaccinating themselves. As Gai and his team get inside the transport plane, they find it empty and realize too late it is a trap. Seiga activates a genetic resonance broadcast at Tokyo Tower which causes the meteorite to spread the virus all over Tokyo and causing chaos. With both the GHQ and the Undertakers in disarray due to the virus, the Anti Bodies attack both of them and rescue Shuichiro from his confinement which Shuichiro watches the chaos from GHQ Headquarters and declares he will finish what he started 10 years ago.
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#12 - Ensemble for Polaris – Our Promise
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 4
“I’m bringing this child safely back to earth no matter what.” Estella, an AI that works at space hotel Sunrise, is suspected of attempting to make the hotel crash into Earth. However, as Vivy interacts with Estella and gets to know her better, she begins to see a difference between the information given to her by Matsumoto about Estella. Meanwhile, someone takes control over the Sunrise hotel much quicker than what Matsumoto predicted. Amidst the confusion, Vivy investigates the cause of the situation in order to save the passengers and Momoka’s younger sister, Yuzuka.
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#13 - A Diary
Guilty Crown - Season 1 - Episode 20
Mana has almost taken control of Inori's body and Gai tells his father, Shuichiro, that the Apocalypse will be coming and announces it to the world that the Leukocyte will destroy Earth on December 25th. The remnants of the Undertakers and the Kuhouin Group escape Japan on a ship along with the students of Tennouzu where Shibungi, who was released by Gai, gives Shu a journal by his father which reveals the Apocalypse virus history. In 2013, Shuichiro was a Professor researching on Genomic Resonance and befriended Shu's father Kurosu, who the latter was interested in the former's work. In 2017, Kurosu meet his future first wife, Saeko Shijou, a fellow colleague whom he marries after she became pregnant with their first child, Mana. But in 2022, a meteorite crashes on Earth and was discovered by Mana and Saeko. Shuichiro and Shu discovered a virus inside the meteorite which reacts when the Genomic Resonance was used.
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#14 - Time Protector
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 4
Tohru returns to the Management District, upset to see a comrade fall before his eyes. He’s blaming himself for the outcome, when a communication from the Timekeepers arrives and all eligible people are again summoned to fight...
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#15 - Refrain – My Mission
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 12
“…What does the heart mean to you?” “Our aim is to annihilate all of humanity.” Based on the calculations of the Archive, the integrated AI database, humanity is now on the brink of extinction. As the countdown to human extinction begins, Vivy and Matsumoto decide to join forces with their archenemy, Toak, in order to plan a strategy to break into Arayashiki, the core of the Archive. However, Matsumoto notices a possible solution which he presents to Vivy, after she is contacted by the Archive.
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#16 - The Defeated: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission (6)
Attack on Titan - Season 1 - Episode 22
The Female Titan has captured Eren after ripping him out of his Titan body, but Mikasa and Captain Levi give chase. Elsewhere, the Recon Corps begins preparations for the journey back home to the Wall with their numerous dead in tow.
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#17 - Vivy Score – Singing From My Heart
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 10
“I fulfilled my promise, Diva.” It has been five years since Vivy has returned and Diva has disappeared. Vivy is being exhibited at the AI museum, and is faced with her defect of being unable to sing. When Matsumoto appears before her again, she finds hope in taking part in the Singularity Project, but he informs her that the project has been completed.
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#18 - Can't Look into His Eyes Yet: Eve of the Counterattack (1)
Attack on Titan - Season 1 - Episode 14
A special military tribunal will decide Eren’s fate. The Military Police calls for his execution while the Recon Corps argues that he is a powerful resource for humankind, and Mikasa is put on the spot when asked about the events of the Trost mission.
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#19 - Harmony of One's Heart – My Mission, Your Future
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 9
“Hey, can you hear me? Don’t you think this song I’m singing sounds beautiful?” The ugly truth behind the tragedy that has befallen Ophelia, is that her support AI, Antonio, has taken over her body. With his identity blown, Antonio attacks Matsumoto in order to hide Ophelia’s truth. Kakitani captures Diva and confesses his hatred for AIs while forcibly trying to awaken Vivy who is inside of her. Will Diva and Matsumoto be able to safely fix the Singularity Point…?
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#20 - Revelation: Two Histories
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 5
After a fierce battle, both Tohrus arrive at the spot specified by Timekeepers. In the middle of a gunfight there, they’re suddenly told to stop fighting. The door at the end of the passageway opens, and they find an unexpected individual awaiting them.
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#21 - Fluorite Eye's Song
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 13
“…My mission is to bring happiness to everyone with my singing.” Vivy was the first AI to write a song with her own will. As the first AI to utilize her own creativity and being the AI that has had the most contact with humans in the one hundred-year journey, the Archive entrusts Vivy with a choice that will determine the survival of humanity. Vivy is almost crushed by the weight of this responsibility, but after being urged on by Matsumoto, who has been her partner for the last one hundred years, and seeing Dr. Matsumoto’s risk his life for everyone, she executes the Singularity Project in order to save humanity. Using this last chance, will she be able to fulfill her mission of bringing happiness to everyone with her singing?
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#22 - Wavering Scarlet Flower – Loyalty that Brings Sorrow!
Sengoku Basara - Season 1 - Episode 4
The alliance is gathering strength; former rivals are united in the march to war against Oda. Unfortunately, the plan could be doomed without the cooperation and troops of Azai Nagamasa - Oda’s brother-in-law.
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#23 - Quarter Note – The Beginning of the One Hundred-Year Journey
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 2
“Your one hundred-year journey starts here.” One of the causes of the war between AI and humans that will happen one hundred years later, is the death of a politician named Aikawa. The anti-AI terrorist group “Toak” tries to assault Assemblyman Aikawa, but Vivi and Matsumoto take action to prevent this tragedy from happening. However, Vivy has no way of retaliating against the relentless attack of the terrorists since she was created to be a singer, and they find themselves backed into a corner…
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#24 - World's End Modulation – April 11, 2161
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 11
After awakening from her long slumber in the museum, Vivy witnesses a horrific scene where humans are being massacred by AI. The war between humans and AI has broken out, and amidst the confusion, Vivy meets up with Matsumoto. They recognize that the Singularity Project has been a failure, so they search for Dr. Matsumoto, who was the architect behind the one hundred-year journey, in order to resolve the situation.
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#25 - Sing My Pleasure – To Make You Smile
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 5
“I want to protect your smile, because you love AIs.” After the Sunrise incident, the audiences for Vivy’s stage performances grow day by day. Matsumoto appears once again in front of Vivy and informs her that AI technology is advancing quicker than what was recorded in history. In order to stop this, he states that their new mission will be to shut down the unmanned plant on the ocean, Metal Float. Matsumoto and Vivy rush to meet the researcher who helped to build this plant.
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#26 - Elegy Dedicated With Love – My One and Only Beloved Partner
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 8
“Nothing is more important than singing an amazing song…that will allow me to fulfill my life’s mission.” Diva is astonished when she hears from Matsumoto that Vivy’s mission is to prevent a war between humanity and AIs. He also explains to Diva that his current aim is to stop Ophelia from taking her own life. Ophelia is a songstress AI who just finished an incredible performance during rehearsal. As a principle, AIs are forbidden from self-destruction, so Diva approaches Ophelia to prevent her from committing suicide.
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#27 - My Code – To Make Everyone Happy With My Singing
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 1
“My mission is to bring happiness to everyone with my singing.” Vivy was created as the world’s first autonomous humanoid AI and works at the NiaLand theme park. Her mission is “to make everyone happy with her singing.” While she is singing on stage, she comes into contact with an AI that calls himself Matsumoto. Amidst her confusion, he asks for her help to rewrite history together, in order to stop the war between AI and humans that will happen one hundred years later.
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#28 - A Tender Moon Tempo – A Pleasant Chat with the Stars
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 3
“Relax and enjoy a pleasant conversation with the stars.” After the incident with Assemblyman Aikawa, more people start coming to see Vivy perform on stage. One day, Matsumoto appears before Vivy again, and urges her to get on board the Sunrise space hotel with him. While they travel to outer space, Vivy is conflicted by the gap between what she must do and her true mission.
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#29 - Galaxy Anthem – To Make Everyone Happy With My Singing
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Season 1 - Episode 7
“I’ll perform perfectly as usual. To bring happiness to everyone with my singing.” Diva’s daily performances on the main stage are sold out, and she has cemented her position as the indisputable AI songstress of NiaLand. She is invited to perform at the Zodiac Signs Festival, which will feature AI singers from around the world, but is pulled into a precarious situation during the rehearsal. At that moment, a cube-shaped AI that she has never seen before appears in front of her and…
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#30 - Resolve - An Ending World
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 2
Tohru and Kyoka escape their crisis and return home with help from Remy Odhner. Tohru passes out in transit and wakes up in a strange institute. He is brought to Brian Odhner, who was waiting to reveal to Tohru the truth of the world…
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#31 - Open Hostilities: My Other Self
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 1
One morning in 2115, in the 17th Far East Imperial City Management District, Tohru Kazasumi wakes from a strange dream. After school that day, he is returning home with his classmate Kyoka when they see the mysterious girl from his dream by the roadside.
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#32 - The Other World
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Timekeepers' power sends Tohru to an unfamiliar alley. Waking up to children's voices, he sees the Kyoka who fights for Frontier S. He’s led to the hideout of Team Bastian, where Kyoka tells Tohru about the harsh reality those in Frontier S must face.
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#33 - At the End of Time
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 11
Faced with the final battle, both sides head into the battlefield once more to protect the futures of their worlds. In the 2015 Shibuya that has the giant Energy Cube, the fierce all-out war begins.
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#34 - Reuniting A Bitter Dream
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 7
In the culmination of recent events, a giant sandstorm has developed and Tohru is swallowed up by it. While inside, he finds his resolve to fight tested as he is again confronted by the Timekeepers.
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#35 - Our Future
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 12
Because the Frontier S Tohru cannot believe the eradication of the Timekeepers leads to true salvation for both futures, he challenges the 17th Tohru for one last battle. The ultimate showdown begins, with the two futures at stake.
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#36 - Battlefield The Price of Bloodshed
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 8
The sandstorm continues to rampage with Remy at its center. It attacks indiscriminately, leaving both sides overwhelmed by its power. Just then, something is observed coming through the wall of sand...
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#37 - Sudden Turn: The Price of Arrogance
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 9
After being warned of an emergency, Tohru undergoes a forced return to the present. He faints as a result and wakes up in the lab, only to find Brian Odhner waiting for him. As Tohru attempts to grasp the situation, Brian introduces him to someone...
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#38 - The Destination of Emotions
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 10
Tohru and Kyoka are reunited with Kumi and Lyudmila’s help, and escape from the laboratory to a safehouse. Finally having a moment to rest, Tohru falls asleep and begins to dream about the mysterious young girl’s past.
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