The BEST episodes directed by Tomoharu Katsumata

#1 - The Awakening of Volcanoes

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 40

A series of explosions start to occur under the sea and General Zuril wastes no time in discovering that this is raw Uranium. Saucer beast "Boi Boi" is launched to go and get this energy as this saucer beast naturally collects Uranium. At the same time Dr. Umon is alerted by these explosions which are close to an island with a Uranium capsule.

#2 - The Traffickers Syndicate of Eternal Life (1)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 41

"Danger! The Traffickers of Eternal Life" (1/4): A certain 'Lord of Eternal Life' possesses water which guarantees life and eternal youth. He sends out dealers to every planet to sell his Elixir for a golden price. But this water needs to be taken regularly, although prices go up continuously, or else deprivation will cause death. The President of the Interstellar Government assigns Captain Future with the task to find the man responsible, and put an end to this horrible trafficking...

#3 - The Great Heroes!! Fight, Tetsuya!! Dash, Koji!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 53

#4 - Bell of Peace, Ring for the Heroes!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 56

#5 - Deathmatch!! The Last of the Great General of Darkness!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 31

#6 - For The Love Of Earth

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 73

King Vega prepares to attack Earth but Duke and company are ready to stop him with the help of Grendizer and Spazers.

#7 - Messenger from Hell!! Dark Assassin Garalia

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 2

#8 - The True Form of the Allus (3)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 39

"The Comet Kings Conspiracy" (3/4): Between Jupiter and Uranus, 22 spaceships have mysteriously vanished. What's more, there isn't any wreckage or indication of the ships' whereabouts. Captain Future and his crew go to Jupiter. They happen to cross the path of Halley's Comet which appears every 76 years or so. After establishing facts, they try to envision all possible scenario's when suddenly the ship is being pulled into the comet. Inside, they discover a whole world that keeps them prisonner...

#9 - The Vanished Spaceships (1)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 37

"The Comet Kings Conspiracy" (1/4): Between Jupiter and Uranus, 22 spaceships have mysteriously vanished. What's more, there isn't any wreckage or indication of the ships' whereabouts. Captain Future and his crew go to Jupiter. They happen to cross the path of Halley's Comet which appears every 76 years or so. After establishing facts, they try to envision all possible scenario's when suddenly the ship is being pulled into the comet. Inside, they discover a whole world that keeps them prisonner...

#10 - The Monster And The Child

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 57

Koji and Maria are on their vacation in Tokyo, they get into a fight as usual and split up.

#11 - World of Nightmares (4)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 40

"The Comet Kings Conspiracy" (4/4): Between Jupiter and Uranus, 22 spaceships have mysteriously vanished. What's more, there isn't any wreckage or indication of the ships' whereabouts. Captain Future and his crew go to Jupiter. They happen to cross the path of Halley's Comet which appears every 76 years or so. After establishing facts, they try to envision all possible scenario's when suddenly the ship is being pulled into the comet. Inside, they discover a whole world that keeps them prisonner...

#12 - The Beast

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 53

Duke Freed will go after Hikaru who is hostige on foot not using Grendizer and help her escape from the giant beast while Koji takes Grendizer back for repairs.

#13 - The Final Challenge!! Flying Fortress Mikelos!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 39

#14 - Fleed's Lovers

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 25

uke Freed's childhood friends Nayda, brainwashed by the Vegans, attempts to put a bomb on Grendizer but Duke stops her. Nayda accuses Duke of being a traitor. Koji attempts to pilot Grendizer but is almost killed.

#15 - Can't We Help?! The Terror of the Boy Braggart

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 7

#16 - Princess In Love

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 72

Princess Rubina, Duke Fleed's fiancé comes to Earth to tell Duke that his planet is no longer polluted but dies after being shoot by one of Vega's generals.

#17 - The Imposter

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 70

Maria has a nightmare about her father being hostage. She goes to the cave where she saw her father in her dream along with Koji where she learns the truth.

#18 - Stardust Spacemen (4)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 32

"Revolt on the Prison Spaceship" (4/4): On Earth, a ship is being prepared for a secret Police transport. On board, dangerous criminals who are to be taken to a faraway high security prison. Captain Future and his crew, who hear about this, decide to go on board too and escort this risky mission. In case, there is a revolt, they will be able to intervene quickly and prevent bad to happen. However, despite this, the prisoners succeed to liberate themselves...

#19 - The Civilization of the Phantom Star (4)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 28

“A Giant Dark Star Approaches!” (4/4): A giant dark star approaches the Solar System and threatens to destroy Earth. To avoid this catastrophe, a certain Professor Zarro proposes to use his technology in service of the Earthlings, in exchange for the position of President of the Solar System. Captain Future and his crew are ordered to investigate this Professor and to retrieve the greatest astronomers of the galaxy who all mysteriously vanished at the time the phenomenon was announced...

#20 - The Unknown Micro-Universe (4)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 24

“The Seven Treasures of the Solar System" (4/4): In the Museum of the Milky Way, an archeologist, who has just returned from an expedition on the planet Kerus, is studying one of the seven Secret Stones. Legend holds that, once united, the Stones will reveal the secrets of a parallel universe. When Captain Future attends a show of the Galactic Circus, he meets again his old enemy Ul Quorn, who is still alive. The two men race against each other to recover the Stones and unravel their strange secret...

#21 - The Reaper Mechanical Beast Deathma’s Fierce Attack

Mazinger Z - Season 1 - Episode 35

#22 - The Phantoms of the Transparent Planet (4)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 20

“Crisis on the Transparent Planet” (4/4): One of the most dangerous criminals of the universe escapes from a galactic high security prison. His name is Ul Quorn, an extraordinarily intelligent man, and also son of the murderer of Captain Future’s parents. Future vows to capture him. He learns that Ul Quorn discovered a parallel universe in which he can travel thanks to a unique spaceship made by a scientist who is now passed away. Not knowing where to search his enemy, Future and his crew travel to the planet Ariel where the scientist worked...

#23 - The Resurrected Planet (4)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 16

“Beyond the Shining Stars!" (4/4): The tiny planet Laguna is being evacuated because oxygen is running out and reaching a critical level. More planets are facing the same. To solve this difficult problem, Captain Future goes on a quest to seek the Birthplace of Matter, an instrument which can create and control all types of matter. Future asks Simon to modify the Comet for long-distance travel to Sagittarius Constellation where, according to legend, the Birthplace of Matter is kept...

#24 - Mach Mechanical Beast Jinrai

Mazinger Z - Season 1 - Episode 24

#25 - Suicide Mission!! The Mycenaean Strike Force Invades!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 20

#26 - Snow, Take the Color of the Blood of Youth!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 19

#27 - Dark Trap! The Docking Battle Beast!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 18

#28 - Archduke Gorgon Dies on the Volcanic Island!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 22

#29 - The Bewitching New Commander, Marquis Janus!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 23

#30 - Deathmatch!! Stake Your Life on This Blow!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 24

#31 - Rise!! Young Prince of Mycenae!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 16

#32 - Overthrow Imminent!! Save the Institute!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 14

#33 - Calamity!! Fly, Venus A

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 25

#34 - Tetsuya!! Crawl Your Way Out from Hell's Darkness!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 17

#35 - Hard Fight!! Dr. Kabuto Versus the Great General of Darkness!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 13

#36 - The Day when the Sun will Stop

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 11

The Vegans plan is to bring Grendizer to the shadow of the moon during the eclipse because Grendizer's systems will shut down temporarily under it and then destroy it.

#37 - The Edges of the Abyss

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 26

Dr. Umon sends Koji and Hayashi on a mission in outer space to build a satellite station. At the same time, the Space Science Centre is surrounded by a huge Minifo saucer squadron.

#38 - The Legendary Father!! Dr. Kabuto's Secret!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 26

#39 - An Order Given in Rage!! The Emperor of Darkness Shows Himself!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 21

#40 - The Lynx of Outer-Space

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 56

Dr. Umon launches a satellite into space to track Vegan movements on Earth.

#41 - Raging Bull Bisonia Strikes Back

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 12

#42 - Wake up, Shiro!! How a Loveless Battle Ends!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 11

#43 - Tetsuya Tsurugi Goes to Hell

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 6

#44 - Genesis of the Solar System (3)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 7

”Lost World” (3/4): During a flight-training in the asteroid-belt between Mars and Jupiter, Captain Future and his Crew receive a strange message of an old man asking for help, explaining his home planet Katain is facing imminent destruction. The Futuremen build a time-machine around their spaceship Comet and fly off into an unknown past in search for the lost planet Katain...

#45 - The Law of the Keeper (3)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 15

“Beyond the Shining Stars!" (3/4): The tiny planet Laguna is being evacuated because oxygen is running out and reaching a critical level. More planets are facing the same. To solve this difficult problem, Captain Future goes on a quest to seek the Birthplace of Matter, an instrument which can create and control all types of matter. Future asks Simon to modify the Comet for long-distance travel to Sagittarius Constellation where, according to legend, the Birthplace of Matter is kept...

#46 - Escape!! Janus's Lava Trap!!

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 28

#47 - Burn!! The Suicidal Counterattack of Rage

Great Mazinger - Season 1 - Episode 27

#48 - The Pitfall of Death

UFO Robot Grendizer - Season 1 - Episode 5

Koji, Hikaro, Goro and Bunta are taken in hostage. Actarus interrupts his siesta to free them.

#49 - The Howling of the Glacier (2)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 26

“A Giant Dark Star Approaches!” (2/4): A giant dark star approaches the Solar System and threatens to destroy Earth. To avoid this catastrophe, a certain Professor Zarro proposes to use his technology in service of the Earthlings, in exchange for the position of President of the Solar System. Captain Future and his crew are ordered to investigate this Professor and to retrieve the greatest astronomers of the galaxy who all mysteriously vanished at the time the phenomenon was announced...

#50 - Illusion of Life and Death (3)

Captain Future - Season 1 - Episode 43

"Danger! The Traffickers of Eternal Life" (3/4): A certain 'Lord of Eternal Life' possesses water which guarantees life and eternal youth. He sends out dealers to every planet to sell his Elixir for a golden price. But this water needs to be taken regularly, although prices go up continuously, or else deprivation will cause death. The President of the Interstellar Government assigns Captain Future with the task to find the man responsible, and put an end to this horrible trafficking...