The BEST episodes directed by Toshiyuki Kato
#1 - The Nijimura Brothers, Part 3
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 5
Josuke and Koichi defeat Keicho. They go further into the Nijimura house, in order to destroy the bow and arrow to make sure there will be no more victims. However, they end up hearing strange noises in the dark room they happen upon. As soon as Josuke tries to jump into the room, a monster-like hand grabs Koichi's leg...
#2 - Emperor and Hanged Man, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 2 - Episode 11
In an effort to save Polnareff, Avdol is injured by the enemy. Then J. Geil's Stand, Hanged Man attacks.
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#3 - Yoshikage Kira Just Wants to Live Quietly, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 22
Yoshikage Kira was the killer hiding in Morioh and is also a Stand user. Shigechi finds out this secret, so Kira tries to dispose of him, but Shigechi fights back with Harvest. However, because of Kira's Stand, Killer Queen, he suffers a mortal wound and loses. Shigechi manages to get away from Kira and tries to find Josuke so he can tell him about Kira and be fixed by Crazy Diamond.
#4 - Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 14
Speedwagon brings statued remains of Santana to the headquarters of his foundation in Washington, D.C., where it is shown Santana is still alive, but his scientists are able to keep him dormant through the use of ultraviolet light.
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#5 - Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 9
Koichi can't handle living in captivity any longer and tries to plan his escape. While talking to Yukako, Koichi finds out that there's a payphone nearby, and has Echoes go find it. He tries to contact Josuke and Okuyasu, but Yukako already figured out what he was planning. Koichi loses hope. Yukako then goes to the phone to order some ingredients but then something unexpected happens...
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#6 - DIO's World, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 2 - Episode 46
The group tries to identify DIO's Stand.
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#7 - Yoshikage Kira Just Wants to Live Quietly, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 21
As Yoshikage walked through the town at lunchtime, declined the offer to eat lunch with his female coworkers, and heads to a bakery to buy lunch. While enjoying his lunch outdoors, Shigechi walks by and accidentally takes Kira's sandwich bag by mistake, thinking it was his own. Realizing this, Kira quickly goes after Shigechi, because the contents of that bag definitely did not contain a sandwich...
#8 - Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 14
Koichi and Hazamada find out that the famous manga artist, Rohan Kishibe, who draws "Pink Dark Boy," lives in Morioh and they go to his house to get an autograph. Not only did Rohan promise them autographs, but invited them inside to see his work space, and the boys are thrilled. Though Koichi gradually becomes frightened when he sees just how far Rohan will go to achieve reality...
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#9 - Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 12
In order to defeat Red Hot Chili Pepper, who intends on killing Joseph Joestar, Josuke and the others head to the harbor. Jotaro believes that Red Hot Chili Pepper will try to get to Joseph's boat with something that requires a battery, so he leaves Josuke and Koichi at the harbor, telling them to attack the user if he shows himself. As Josuke is dealing with his conflicting feelings towards Joseph, the very confident user of Red Hot Chili Pepper shows himself.
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#10 - Rohan Kishibe's Adventure
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 17
Koichi and Rohan discover a bizarre sight. Before them lies an alley that's not listed on any map. They decide to go down the alley and find only empty houses that are also not listed on the map. While wandering they realize that no matter which way they turn, they keep ending back where they started. Rohan believes that they're under a Stand's attack, but...
#11 - Caesar: A Lonely Youth
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 20
Lisa Lisa tells JoJo of Caesar's childhood, in which he took to crime at a young age after being abandoned by his debt-ridden father, Mario.
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#12 - The Faraway Journey, Farewell Friends
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 2 - Episode 48
The final battle!
#13 - The Man Who Became a God
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 26
JoJo's victory, along with his arm, is cut short when Kars manages to survive the volcano by forming a shield of air bubbles to protect him from its deadly lava.
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#14 - Emperor and Hanged Man, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 2 - Episode 10
The group travels to India. In a restaurant Polnareff is attacked by a mysterious Stand that is inside a mirror.
#15 - Sheer Heart Attack, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 24
Koichi manages to survive because Echoes Act 3 made Sheer Heart Attack heavy, but then the murderer, Yoshikage Kira shows up! Feeling intense anger against the murderer, Koichi fights Kira with Act 3, but doesn't stand a chance. Kira is infuriated by the fact that Koichi made a fool of him in public, and lets loose on him, but...
#16 - Shigechi's Harvest, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 18
As Josuke was worrying about not having any money, a tiny little Stand holding a 1-yen coin appeared in front of him. A surprised Josuke follows it and encounters a new Stand user name Shigekiyo Yangu (Shigechi)! Josuke is moved by the fact that Shigechi uses his Stand, Harvest, to pick up all of the forgotten coins around the town and figures out an even better idea using Harvest...
#17 - DIO's Curse
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 2 - Episode 3
Jotaro is able to defeat Kakyoin. He takes the wounded Kakyoin back to his house, hoping to get some information about DIO.
#18 - Death Thirteen, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 2 - Episode 19
Kakyoin is dreaming and dreams about being in a strange amusement park, where he encounters the Death tarot card. While in the dream, he witnesses Death cut down a dog. Kakyoin wakes up screaming, but can't remember what his bad dream was about.
#19 - The Nijimura Brothers, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 3
Angelo's Stand ability was brought forth by the mysterious bow and arrow, and apparently they're also connected to Dio. After defeating Angelo, Jotaro thought that the danger had left the city, and tries to find the whereabouts of the bow and arrow. A few days later, Koichi is walking home with Josuke, and they pass a house that should be empty...
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#20 - The Nijimura Brothers, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 4
In order to save Koichi, Josuke goes further into the Nijimura household. Suddenly, he's attacked from many tiny beams of light. Josuke manages to dodge the attack, but it hits Okuyasu right in the face. Josuke tells Okuyasu that he'll heal his wounds if he tells him what the identity of his brother's Stand is. Okuyasu says he has no itention of telling him, and Josuke does something surprising...
#21 - Koichi Hirose (Echoes)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 6
Riding his bike to school, Koichi accidentally runs over a bag that was in the road that had a cat inside. Koichi is instantly overwhelmed by what happend. Then suddenly, a man named Tamami Kobayashi appears. Despite it being an accident, he demands money from Koichi, saying that he'll use it to bury the cat. Koichi can't process what's going on, but Tamami keeps pushing that he can't just leave after what happened. Koichi is filled with guilt, and then suddenly, a giant lock pops out of his chest...
#22 - Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 7
Josuke and Koichi hear from Tamami that a high school student named Hazamada might also be a Stand user, so the two go to the school and investigate. Josuke checks inside Hazamada's locker, and finds a strange wooden doll inside, but nothing else out of the ordinary. However, as Josuke is inspecting the doll, it suddenly turns into Josuke, and attacks him and Koichi...
#23 - We Picked Up Something Crazy!
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 13
Josuke and the others successfully capture Akira Otoishi and safely retrieve the bow and arrow. Peace is back in Morioh, but Josuke still faces a big problem... He still can't seem to get closer to his father he just met, Joseph. He agrees to let Joseph look upon his mother from a distance and they head toward his house, but Joseph accidentally gets onto the wrong bus. He manages to catch up to Joseph, but then Joseph tells him that there's a Stand user nearby...
#24 - Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 15
Koichi suddenly arrives at Rohan's house. Koichi carefully goes inside and finds Rohan drawing manga at an incredible speed. Apparently he can't stop himself from drawing after reading about Koichi's experiences. Rohan attempts to tear another page from Koichi by using Heaven's Door, when someone unexpected shows up at his door...
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#25 - Sheer Heart Attack, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 23
Jotaro and Koichi try to track down the owner of the button and run into the murderer, Yoshikage Kira and his Stand, Killer Queen's bomb, Sheer Heart Attack at Centipede Shoes. Koichi wants to go after Kira, but Jotaro tells him not to. However, Koichi isn't satisfied with Jotaro's decision and decides to act on his own, right when Sheer Heart Attack attacks again..
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#26 - Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 10
Josuke and Okuyasu visit a brand new Italian restaurant in Morioh. Rather than customers choosing items from a menu, the chef, Tonio, decides what the customer will eat after he looks at them. Tonio wants Okuyasu to feel better, and first, offers him water. Okuyasu is moved at how wonderful it tastes. He's actually moved to tears at how delicious the water is, but then starts showing even weirder symptoms...
#27 - Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 20
Yukako, who was depressed because Koichi wouldn't look her way, sees a mysterious shop one day called Salon Cinderella. Unlike other salons, apparently this was a salon that created faces to bring people fortune. The esthetician, Aya Tsuji, gives Yukako a face that allows her to encounter love. Yukako goes out and immediately runs into Koichi, and he seems different than usual. Yukako had never felt happier in her life, but the effects only lasted 30 minutes...
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#28 - Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 8
Koichi is asked out by another student in his grade named Yukako Yamagishi. At first, he couldn't hide his joy from being asked out, but quickly has second thoughts when she suddenly loses her temper with him. The next day, she knitted him a sweater, made him lunch, and did other things for him that makes Koichi start to wonder about her. Yukako's obssession worsens, and she does the unthinkable.
#29 - Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 11
Red Hot Chili Pepper shows himself in front of Josuke. He seems to be more powerful than Jotaro, and is able to travel anywhere where electricity flows. Jotaro summons Josuke, Okuyasu, and Koichi and tells them that a certain someone is heading toward Morioh...
#30 - The Past, Irrationality, and a Pipe's Smoke
Armed Librarians: Book of Bantorra - Season 1 - Episode 12
Mattalast reminisces about the first time he met Hamyutz and how they went from trying to kill each other to becoming lovers. He also remembers their mission together to capture the traitor Hiza, when he was order to eliminate Hamyutz by the then Acting- Director, Fhotona.
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#31 - A Betrayal, A Cup, and a Meandering Path
Armed Librarians: Book of Bantorra - Season 1 - Episode 5
Following the theft of Ylucklucu and Volken's apparent betrayal everyone at Bantorra begins to question his motives and his character. Mirepoch has been particularly affected by her friend's actions and seeks solace in the books of the lower libraries. Meanwhile, Norotei is dispatched to recover Lumion's book which has gone missing from the Toatt Mine.
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#32 - Shigechi's Harvest, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 19
Josuke and the others head to the bank with their lottery ticket, but the bank is suspicious if that ticket really belongs to them. Josuke insists that they bought the ticket, but they find out that someeone else's name and phone number are written on the back of the ticket, and the bank clerk decides to call the number. Seeing that they can't get out of this situation, Josuke takes action...
#33 - "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 2 - Episode 26
The group's encounter with "Geb" and "The Fool" continues.
#34 - A Letter from the Past
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 2
Seven years later in 1888, JoJo and Dio are supposedly getting along, though JoJo is still fearful of Dio. Meanwhile, Dio plots to liberate the Joestar family of their fortune.
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#35 - Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 2
Josuke spots the terrible and violent villain Angelo's Stand, and tells Jotaro about that incident. Jotaro figures it's a Stand that can somehow enter people, so he warns Josuke to not eat or drink anything until he can get to him. Right when he's told that, Josuke witnesses the Stand go into his mother, and then does the unthinkable.
#36 - Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 1
April 1999. Jotaro Kujo arrives to Morioh City in search of someone named Higashikata, and ends up running into a young man surrounded by delinquents. Jotaro then finds out that his name is Josuke Higashikata, and was exactly the person he was looking for.
#37 - Let's Go Hunting!
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 16
Josuke suddenly gets invited to go hunting by Jotaro. The purpose of this hunting trip was to hunt down the rat that gained Stand abilities after Akira Otoishi shot it with the bow and arrow. As they trace the rat to a drainage canal, they see a clump of fourteen rat corpses fused together. They realize it's probably the work of the rat that they're after and follow it to a farm, and...
#38 - Atom Heart Father
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 25
Josuke and the others head to the house that Yoshikage Kira used to live to try to find some clues on him. Kira had very few unique characteristics, but Jotaro comes to the conclusion that he hid all of his potential on purpose so he wouldn't stand out. They also find jars of nail clippings as well as their data in the room. Josuke is rather creeped out by this. Suddenly, the hear the Polaroid camera on the desk suddenly take a picture...
#39 - The Prediction of the Bureau of Medicin
Hiiro no Kakera ~ The Tamayori Princess Saga - Season 1 - Episode 8
Tamaki decides to have Ashiya's assistance, much to the Guardians' disapproval. When looking through the archives, Tamaki hears a voice that may be of help. Mahiro reveals a secret about Logos that he hid from everyone for her grandmother's sake.
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#40 - The Goddess (Neptune) of Planeptune
Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation - Season 1 - Episode 1
After long years of war, peace has finally come to Gamindustri. As usual, though, the goddess of Planeptune is a little TOO peaceful--gaming is so much more fun than running a country! With the Console Wars over, will the next war be Neptune vs. inertia?!
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#41 - The Tamayori Princess
Hiiro no Kakera ~ The Tamayori Princess Saga - Season 1 - Episode 1
It's the time of year when the trees turn red. Tamaki Ugaya, an ordinary high school student, goes to live with her grandmother in the Ugaya Family home while her parents are overseas for work. Tamaki arrives at Kifumura village, surrounded by nature. Her childhood memories guide her towards her grandmother's house but she is immediately attacked by monsters. The one who saves her is the surly boy, Takuma Onizaki
#42 - The Successor
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 7
The encounter against Tarukus comes to an end. Poco's family is in grave danger. JoJo meets Dire, Straizo, and Tonpetty.
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#43 - Anubis, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 2 - Episode 29
The encounter with the Stand "Anubis" continues.
#44 - Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid Is Coming!
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 26
Yoshihiro successfully steals the bow and arrow from Josuke and the others and is on the run to try to find other people to make into potential Stand users to protect his son, Yoshikage. He tells the arrow to choose someone, and shoots them. Meanwhile, Rohan was at Morioh Station taking pictures of various men going to work, trying to locate Yoshikage. He tells Joseph that he wants to find him before Kira tries to kill off his new family. Then suddenly, a boy walks up to him and challenges him to janken (rock-paper-scissors).
#45 - I'm an Alien
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 27
Kira had been living as Kosaku Kawajiri ever since he stole his face, but he starts to realize just how hard it is to live controlling his urge to kill. Kira sees a woman pass by and he wants to show her his true self and strangle her slender neck. He tries to hold in his urges, but when he sees Shinobu's neck, and loses control... Meanwhile, Josuke and Okuyasu encounter a strange person in the middle of a crop circle...
#46 - Highway Star, Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 28
Rohan has a feeling that Josuke is cheating at cee-lo, and cuts off his own pinky. If he is unable to figure out Josuke's trick in the next round, he says he will pay him 2 million yen to have him use Crazy Diamond to fix his finger. But if Rohan does figure it out, he says he'll take Josuke's pinky instead. He even calls Tamami to act as a mediator, having him use his Stand ability so Josuke can't play fairly the next round, either.
#47 - Highway Star, Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 29
Jotaro tries to track down the mysterious foot print Stand's user. He manages to outrun the Stand with a motorcycle, and thinks to call Koichi and ask him to find the user by using Echoes. Meanwhile, the mysterious Stand keeps chasing Jotaro. Jotaro manages to get his hands on a cellphone and manages to call Koichi, but then he realizes that the ocean is right in front of him...
#48 - Cats Love Yoshikage Kira
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 30
Kawajiri hears from Shinobu that there is a British Blue cat in the basement with a hole in its neck. Kawajiri wonders if it was shot with the arrow, and goes down to check, however all he finds is a dead cat. Shinobu, frightened by the cat, started to swing around a broom frantically and knocks over a glass bottle. Some of the glass fragments pieced the cat, killing it. Kawajiri buries the cat in their yard, but the next day, a strange plant grew in the place where the cat was buried...
#49 - July 15th (Thursday), Part 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 31
Yoshihiro looks for his missing son, Yoshikage Kira, when he spots Kosaku Kawajiri. He is convinced that he is his son, Yoshikage, and tries to get close, but the he spots Hayato taking video of him. Seeing that Rohan and Jotaro are also looking for Yoshikage, Yoshihiro fears that they'll find him, so he takes action. Meanwhile, Josuke and Okuyasu are walking to school and find a pair of binoculars on the road, which happens to be Mikitaka. He asks them to look up at an unused pylon through the binoculars and they find a man living up there!
#50 - July 15th (Thursday), Part 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 32
In order to get estimates for the fire damage and restoration costs to Rohan's house, the architect, Masazo Kinoto comes by. Rohan invites him into his house, but Rohan can't help but wonder about Kinoto's odd obsession... Meanwhile, in order to save Mikitaka, who was trapped inside the pylon, Josuke fights Kanedaichi one more time. But Kanedaichi knows everything about the pylon, and has no problem dodging all of Josuke's attacks...