The BEST episodes directed by Toru Kitahata

#1 - Clash

Walkure Romanze - Season 1 - Episode 10

The day of the tournament finally arrived. Takahiro decides to participate in the tournament as a beg writer, but he tries to convey his intentions to everyone, but he leaves the place due to an emergency. Misakura and his friends win the tournament with Takahiro's advice in their hearts. Meanwhile, Fiona cannot accept Lisa's change and treats her as she wins coldly. And Lisa collides again with Akane who once fought a duel to advance to the best 8 ...!

#2 - Girls' Music

Date A Live - Season 2 - Episode 6

Mana finally awakens from her battle with Kurumi. For the upcoming competition Ai, Mai, and Mii prepare a band to compete against Miku's. Origami hears from Ryōko about the usurp mission in capturing Tohka and Shido during the festival. Serving a Maid Café with the Yamai twins employed, Shido (as Shiori again) even hands out posters as the head maid when he and Miku come across and ask "her" to date her though Shiori still annoyed of Miku's arrogance. Shido then finds the bandmates were manipulated and will not perform for the concert. Fraxinus cuts the stage's power to slow things down, but Miku gets the advantage with her Astral Dress. The AST led by Jessica target the Tengu Square until Ryōko and Origami piloting the “White Licorice” interfere. Kaguya and Yuzuru as they are professional, backup Tohka and Shido to perform as best as they could regardless of outside interference.

#3 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Comparing Couples.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 1

At the Okinawa training camp, Yukimura and Himuro shared a kiss of the highest theoretical value on a bridge of the greatest mood value under the beautiful, painterly rays of the morning sun. But the amount of saliva they collected was insufficient and so retesting is required. They head to the biological sciences' Regulation of Biological Systems Department to meet with a specialist in saliva testing. There, they find an alluring woman dressed like a traditional courtesan wearing a lab coat, Suiu, and her sweetheart, Chris. When Yukimura asks Suiu and Chris to help with their experiment to "give proof of love," Chris and Suiu flaunt their overwhelming aura of love.

#4 - Malediction

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window - Season 1 - Episode 3

Mikado and Hiyakawa go to investigate a pond at a house. Their client, the woman who owns the house, has the same dream every night of a corpse floating in the pond. Mikado dives down into the pond to have a look, and there at the bottom, in the murk, he sees its core. On their way home that day, Mikado and Hiyakawa stop to eat and Hiura Erika appears before them. Erika reveals to the two of them that she is a curse peddler and a necromancer.

#5 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Analyzing Their Proof of Love.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 5

Yukimura and Himuro allow Yamamoto to turn their experiences thus far into a manga and Yamamoto collects proof of love from her readers in return. The manga becomes very popular. Yamamoto, pleased with herself, says that an anime adaptation may not be just a dream. In the meantime, Kanade, still bothered by the love she experienced back in high school, gives some hard thought to the confession she received from Shikijou. Seeing Kanade so full of anxiety over the question, "what is love anyway," Yukimura tries to give her some advice and pulls out a whiteboard where he begins to write out an equation.

#6 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Going to a Live Concert.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 4

At Kanade's suggestion, the first "Ikeda Lab Science-type Girls' Night Out" is held at a family restaurant, but Himuro and Ibarada, who are both uncomfortable around people, start talking about their experiences of being all alone. Kanade attempts to liven up the mood with some girl talk about romance, asking Himuro what she likes about Yukimura, but Himuro then pulls out some documents and begins to analyze them in a matter-of-fact manner. Later, Kosuke attends a concert and waves his penlight furiously for Aika's voice actress, Hinamori Ren. When he looks behind him, he sees Ibarada and Himuro!

#7 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Not Trying to Prove It.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 6

Yukimura is working hard on his computer, as usual, when Himuro suddenly says, "I am in love with you. Her confession greatly shakes Yukimura. Unlike the last time, Himuro states her feelings matter-of-factly. Yukimura asks, "What theory did you use to determine that you love me?" Himuro replies by taking Yukimura out on a date and begins performing experiments they've done before such as measuring heart rates, using an emotion counter, collecting saliva, and the kiss experiment.

#8 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Taking a Nap.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 3

Even after Professor Ikeda recommends that Ibarada proceed on a doctoral course, she can't make up her mind about what she wants to do. But after experiencing a little of Professor Ikeda's deep love for strength training, she strives to complete some sit ups, an activity she isn't used to doing, on the sofa. As she does, Kosuke looks on in fascination. Meanwhile, Himuro has caught a cold due to the changing of the seasons. Worried for her, Yukimura goes to her apartment to check on her, but the flush and heat of her fever has given her a coquettish appearance that sends Yukimura's heart racing. At that very moment, Kanade shows up and Himuro promptly hides Yukimura under her comforter.

#9 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Looking for a New Theory.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 2

Though Yukimura and Himuro went as far as to kiss for the experiment, they were soundly beaten by Chris and Suiu's oxytocin levels in their saliva. Panicked, Yukimura suggests that they conduct control experiments. However, in the midst of the Yukimura/Suiu pairing, Suiu's seductive manner ends up causing Yukimura to ogle her charms. Seeing that, Himuro runs another experiment with Yukimura, but ends up sulking. The two end up having a lover's quarrel. Yukimura's behavior causes Chris to look down at him coldly and say, "As a man, you are a failure."

#10 - Erina's First...

Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!! - Season 1 - Episode 8

Student council responsibilities, school work, and Twin Tails activities are taking their toll on Erina, and when her mother pushes her to straighten up, Erina pushes back. When Mikoto is unavailable, Soji must secretly escort Erina on a shopping trip.

#11 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Having a Campus Festival.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 10

When Himuro finds out that Yukimura spends time alone in a room with a high school girl for his part-time home tutoring job, she becomes intensely worried that he might be ogling his student. That student, Haru, isn't good at studying. Her average score on her end of term exams was 38 points. When Yukimura personally witnesses Haru's father disparaging her as a failure, he... Later, the Mutsumi Festival begins and twin sister cosplayers who are brimming with youthful energy arrive at the Ikeda Lab's cosplay experience.

#12 - Twin-Tails Forever

Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!! - Season 1 - Episode 12

#13 - This is a High-Rise Invasion

High-Rise Invasion - Season 1 - Episode 12

Archangel destroys everything in his path in the name of justice. Mayuko and the others stand in his way, but who will die, and who will prevail?

#14 - The Feelings That Must Be Conveyed

Comet Lucifer - Season 1 - Episode 9

Sogo, Felia and Moura go on ahead of the group, but get ambushed by government forces near the Altar of Abyss. Meanwhile, Do Mon infiltrates the Bureau in order to meet with a certain person.

#15 - The Ruins of Disposal

Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells - Season 1 - Episode 2

Touka rediscovers his cruelty as he kills monsters in the Ruins of Disposal. He means to escape and exact his revenge on the Goddess Vicius, but to get there, he’ll have to face the grotesque monster that’s killed so many before him—the Soul Eater.

#16 - Earth Is a Twin-Tail World

Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!! - Season 1 - Episode 1

Soji Mitsuka loves the twin-tail hairstyle. Following his first day of high school, he and his childhood friend Aika Tsube are enlisted by a mysterious woman named Twoearle to fight an evil force that threatens twin-tails worldwide!

#17 - I Won't Give in to This World

High-Rise Invasion - Season 1 - Episode 4

Sniper Mask looks to help a scared Kuon. Yuri and Mayuko head toward Rika, but the saw-wielding Chef Mask has other plans for them.

#18 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Preparing for a Campus Festival.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 9

The Ikeda Lab is, as is traditional, doing something for the university's Mutsumi Festival, an event which draws many people from off-campus. Yukimura proposes conducting a large-scale experiment on the importance of appearance for romance. He has readied a large number of cosplay costumes to rent out to visitors who will then participate in an attractiveness rating. In order to emphasize how important appearance is, Yukimura projects a series of images of Himuro in cosplay on the screen, including Himuro in a nurse's uniform, a maid's uniform, and a black cat style outfit?!

#19 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Going on a Group Date.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 7

After worrying long and hard over what to do about Shikijou's invitation to go hang out together, Kanade decides to try going on the date with him. When Himuro hears about it she leans forward excitedly to congratulate Kanade on finding someone she might fall in love with. Himuro is also eager to observe and analyze Kanade's date from afar in order to put it to good use in her own research. As she's thinking about this, Yukimura arrives and proclaims that he has devised a new standard unit for the measurement of favorable feeling, the Kanade love power. Then, Kanade's date becomes a double date!

#20 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Getting Married.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 11

At the Mutsumi Festival, Kosuke and the others debate the relationship between wearing wedding dresses and the age at which a person gets married. Yamamoto, with her thirties closing in on her and also due to pressure from her parents, relentlessly proposes marriage to Kosuke. After outrunning Yamamoto, Kosuke turns to look back and finds Ibarada standing there wearing a wedding dress. When a child asks, "Aren't you getting married?" Ibarada and Kosuke reply by... Meanwhile, Kanade, who had been looking around the Mutsumi Festival with Shikijou, coldly turns away from Yukimura and tells Shikijou that she doesn't know him.

#21 - Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried Confessing Their Feelings to Their Juniors.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 8

Kosuke enjoyed his date with his beloved Aika. They did things like shop for clothes and watch a movie. In the midst of his fun, Kosuke watched Kanade, her date, and a lot of other couples up close. He ends up being made aware he was the only one playing with dolls, and the feeling makes him scream and cry. Meanwhile, Kanade is still in shock from the words Shikijou said to her on their date: "You didn't seem normal." Seeing this, Yukimura asks Kanade for the definition of "normal," and declares that living with an obsession about being "normal" is a truly stupid way to live.

#22 - Mistaken Friend

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 3

The Hitotose Troupe was finally formed, with the goal of someday performing in the famous theater Suzuran. Then the school term begins, and Hinako tries to introduce herself to her class, but as usual her nerves take over and she freezes up like a scarecrow again. As Hinako is feeling down, Chiaki shows up and hands her a flyer that the school's new theater society is handing out to recruit new members. Hinako is excited that theater has returned to the school, but then a classmate, Nakajima Yua, appears and demands to know Hinako's connection to Chiaki...

#23 - Scarecrow Heroine

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 4

It's been about a month since the start of the school year, and the theater society is practicing as always when Hinako notices child in the room. Kuina comments that the child has been showing up for a few days. None of the other members seem to mind that there's a child among them; in fact, they all seem to be practicing harder than usual. Since the child is next to Chiaki, Hinako and Kuina wonder if she's a theater troupe relation, or perhaps even Chiaki's daughter. Finally, Yua can't stand to listen anymore and straightens them out.

#24 - A Kind Girl Who Isn't Kind

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 5

Ruriko, the theater club advisor who's just returned from a theater trip in Europe, tells the club members that the script she wrote to demonstrate everything she learned in her travels will be the play they perform at the upcoming culture festival. She's chosen Hinako to play the heroine, but Hinako messes up everything she tries to do. Yua, who feels she's lost the leading role to a complete theater newbie, expresses her displeasure in no uncertain terms, but as she watches Hinako trying her hardest, she finds her opinions changing.

#25 - Maids, Ghosts, and the Stage of Dreams

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 6

Hinako's intense training under the exasperated Yua comes to an end, and the theater society is busy with wardrobe fittings for the culture festival that starts the next day. Mayuki helps with the costume fitting, and Hinako, Yua, Kuina, and all the other members begin to look more and more glamorous. While in their costumes, they end up doing an impromptu dress rehearsal, and Hinako is thrilled when she makes it through without messing up any lines for the first time. Yua reminds her that the actual performance is yet to come, and soon enough, the day of the culture festival arrives.

#26 - We'll Have a Training Camp

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 9

One day, Hinako returns from school to find a letter from her mother. In it, her mother says she'd be visiting Tokyo to see Hinako acting. But Hinako is worried that she'll get nervous and freeze up like a scarecrow if she knows her mother is watching, not to mention she hasn't appeared on a stage since the culture festival. She even gets embarrassed just being seen working at the Hitotose coffee shop. Then she finds out about a stamp rally event planned in the shopping district, and she suggests having their troupe perform at Hitotose for it.

#27 - From One Year to the Next

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 11

One day in winter, as Christmas approaches, Mayuki wonders if the Hitotose girls can't put on some kind of event to draw customers to the coffee shop. Chiaki suggests that the troupe put on another play on Christmas Eve, and the girls quickly grow excited for their second public performance. Many ideas are shared, but they decide that since it'll be taking place on Christmas Eve, their play should be a Christmas story... and with that, the preparations begin.

#28 - I Tried to Prove that You Are Fine Just as You Are.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It - Season 2 - Episode 12

After Kanade rejects his confession of love, Shikijou presses her for a reason, grabbing her arm and saying, "This isn't normal. This isn't like you." Kanade throws him by reflex, then Shikijou flies into a rage and turns a stun gun on her! When Kanade slowly regains consciousness, she finds herself in a dimly lit abandoned warehouse where a group of delinquents are chatting and laughing. Kanade's hands and feet are tied with rope, so she can't move. Shikijou moves closer to her saying, "Kanade-san, you aren't normal right now. We have to reform you."

#29 - Trying Too Hard

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 8

Hinako's first summer break as a high school student has begun. She's helping out at the used bookstore for that very reason, but when a customer comes in, her nervousness peaks and she freezes up like a scarecrow. When Chiaki and Mayuki return from an outing, Hinako takes a break to have tea with them, and then Yua pops in to lend Hinako some DVDs with her favorite small troupe performances as well as acting lessons. Hinako can't help but smile at Yua's kindness. The next day, as she's helping out at the coffee shop, Hinako collapses while serving a customer...

#30 - My Talent Is Being a Scarecrow

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 1

Sakuragi Hinako is a girl who freezes up like a scarecrow when in front of people. Because animals love her, she often worked as an actual scarecrow at her old home in the country, but now she's she decided to attend Fujimiya High School, which has a theater club she wants to join, in hopes of getting better at talking to people. So she left the countryside to move into Hitotose Manor in Tokyo, where she met its unusual but lovable residents, Kuina and Mayuki.

#31 - The Lost Swimsuit

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 7

It's midsummer, and as the sun's rays grow stronger, the days grow so hot that they seem to burn the girls' skin. Hinako starts to worry when she sees Kuina plastered to her desk in deference to the heat. When Kuina asks why it's so hot, Hinako's answer is a profoundly simple "Because it's summer." Kuina has to accept that answer... but then she rises from her seat as if some great idea has struck her. She says that hot summer days like these make her want to visit the ocean, and suggests that all the Hitotose girls and Yua-chan make a trip to the ocean together.

#32 - It Begins Here

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 2

Chiaki, the landlady of Hitotose Manor, gave Hinako the suggestion to start up a new theater troupe. While Hinako is busy worrying about whether she's actually capable of starting her own troupe, Chiaki asks her why she wants to go into theater, so she explains why she wanted to join the theater club. After hearing her reason, Chiaki tells her there's no plan yet for the Fujimiya High theater club to return, so maybe it would be best to start a new troupe. As they're discussing what sorts of productions they could put on, Kuina suggests making use of Hinako's popularity with animals by using real animals in their act...

#33 - Pa-Pa-Parade

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 10

Kuina has completed the script for the Hitotose Troupe's first performance and is handing out copies to the other members. Chiaki's reaction after reading through it is positive, and everyone is happy to have all the details of the story in place. Mayuki is especially happy to finally have a chance to plan out everyone's costumes, and she immediately buys costumes for all the members to try. But then she learns that the "dress parade" normally happens after rehearsals have progressed to a certain point. Chiaki explains why it's too early to think about costumes, but Mayuki insists that they try them on...

#34 - The Place We Longed to Reach

Hinako Note - Season 1 - Episode 12

Hinako is too cold to fall asleep, so she heads downstairs for a warm drink and notices a tasty smell coming from the coffee shop. Curiously, she peeks into the dark kitchen... and sees Mayuki stirring something in a large pot, chanting Chiaki's name like some sort of spell. Hinako timidly speaks up, and Mayuki's reaction makes it appear that she's hiding something. Unable to bring herself to question this strange behavior further, Hinako tells Kuina about what she saw.