The BEST episodes directed by Tomohiko Itou
#2 - Spiral
Erased - Season 1 - Episode 8
Instead of going home, Kayo has spent the last few days in a disused school bus while being supported by Satoru and the others. Only Sachiko and Yashiro begin to realize that something is going on when they observe changes in Satoru’s behavior.
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#4 - Flashing Before My Eyes
Erased - Season 1 - Episode 1
Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling manga artist who works at a pizza parlor. Ever since he was a kid, he has been holding himself responsible for a kidnapping incident. Finally, the time has come for the truth from his past to be revealed…
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#10 - Getaway
Erased - Season 1 - Episode 5
It turns out that Kayo, absent from school, has disappeared after all. Satoru is tormenting himself with the thought that he should have been able to do something more. On top of that, Aya Nakanishi from the nearby elementary school has vanished too!
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#13 - Hachiken Runs Away
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 5
The boys take heed of a certain special event to be held at night and come with a plan to slip past curfew to get a glimpse of it. Having no idea about what is it or why his classmates are so pumped up with it, Hachiken ends up dragged along in their scheme.
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#14 - Run Towards The Future, Hachiken!
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 11
The bacon Hachiken prepared with Pork-Bowl's meat becomes a fad among the students and it does not take long for it to run out. As Komaba plays in the local Baseball team aiming for the nationals, his friends come to the stadium to cheer for him and Hachiken realizes that six months has passed since he enrolled in Ezono and unlike his friends, he still has not decided what path he should take in life.
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#15 - Welcome to Ezono!
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 1
Hachiken begins at a new school. A city boy, he gives little indication of why he transferred to the agricultural school where other students are driven to work as farmers or in the industry. He learns something new about eggs.
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#16 - Hachiken Stays With the Mikages
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 6
Hachiken learns that the dorms will be closed for summer vacation but refusing to return home, he accepts Mikage's offer to work at her family's farm. However, once realizing that he has not warned his parents about it, he looks for a place with cellphone signal until he gets lost and is rescued by Komaba.
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#17 - Hachiken Meets Pork-Bowl
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 3
With most of the students on leave at Golden Week, Hachiken, Aki and their classmate Ichiro Komaba watch a Ban'ei horse race together, and despite the horse bred at Aki's farm do not win, she gets some relief learning that he gets well placed enough to have a chance of not being killed for livestock. After returning to the school, he pities a piglet that is the weakest and smallest among its siblings and decides to take care of it, just to later know that it will be sent to the slaughterhouse in three months.
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#18 - Hachiken Makes Pizza
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 4
While on cleaning duty, Hachiken stumbles on an abandoned oven and his classmates convince him to make pizza with it, as most of them never ate one before. As Hachiken and his friends gather the necessary supplies throughout the campus, a teacher from his old school and Sapporo drops at Ezo to check on him.
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#19 - Hachiken Hesitates Over Pork Bowl
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 9
Back from summer break, Hachiken learns that Pork-Bowl has not grown as much as its peers and takes extra measures to ensure that it gains weight faster, even knowing that this will make things even more painful for him when the time comes to part with it.
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#20 - Hachiken Goes to Giga Farm
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 7
Hachiken and Mikage take a break from work and pay a visit to Giga Farm, a huge industrial farm that belongs to their classmate Tamako Inada's family. In the occasion, Hachiken learns about the rather harsh reality of the animals living there and realizes Mikage's worries about her family's expectations for her future.
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#21 - Hachiken Says Goodbye to Pork Bowl
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 10
The time has come for Pork-Bowl to be sent to the slaughterhouse and Hachiken decides to make use of the money he earned during summer vacation to buy all its meat. After the meat is delivered to him, Hachiken's friends come with several ideas about what to do with it.
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#22 - Hachiken Rides a Horse
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 2
Getting used to his new environment, Hachiken must enroll at one of the school clubs according to the curriculum, and encouraged by his classmate Aki Mikage, he ends up joining her at the equestrian club. However, he spends the day doing menial tasks like cleaning the stables and just when he is starting to regret his decision, he is invited to experience the joy of riding a horse for the first time.
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#23 - Hachiken Makes a Huge Mistake
Silver Spoon - Season 1 - Episode 8
Hachiken's older brother Shingo pays a visit at the Mikage farm to check on him, much to his young brother's chagrin. Just as his part-time job is about to finish, Hachiken's carelesness lead to a huge prejudice to the farm and willing to take responsibility for it, refuses to be paid for his work, but he is convinced by the Mikages to accept as they consider that all the help he provided them during these three weeks were worth it despite what happened.
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