The BEST episodes of Wagnaria!! season 1
Every episode of Wagnaria!! season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wagnaria!! season 1!
The story is set in a family restaurant named Wagnaria in the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido. Souta works part-time among the restaurant's high-spirited, mysterious, yet cool staffers.
#1 - Inami, Androphobe. But You're the Scary One
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2010
Souta meets Mahiru, who suffers from Androphobia, the fear of men. The rest of the staff sets them up to share shifts in a suicidal, for Souta at least, attempt to cure Mahiru.
#2 - Kotori-chan Appears!!
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/2010
The source of Mahiru's fear of men is revealed to be a plan concocted by her father. Mahiru's father finds out that Takanashi gave her a gift for White Day and visits the restaurant to meet him. Mahiru, afraid that he has come to make her quit working there, asks Takanashi to pretend to be a girl. Takanashi mans up and wears a skirt.
#3 - Welcome to Wagnaria: Takanashi Works
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/2010
Takanashi Souta, lover of all things small, is recruited by his tiny sempai Taneshima Popura to work at the family style restaurant Wagnaria. There he meets his new co-workers and begins to learn about their many quirks.
#4 - The Truth to the Suspicion... Nazuna Works
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/6/2010
Kyouko is gone for a week on company business and in her absence Yachiyo attempts to "serve" Jun, which results in his heart being crushed even more. Later Nazuna sees Takanashi and Mahiru walking home together and bribes Kyouko to let her work at the restaurant for the day to spy on Mahiru. Mahiru eventually admits that she likes Takanashi, though Nazuna misinterprets this thinking that she was confirming that Takanashi was a masochist.
#5 - Takanashi and Inami in the So-Called “Decisive Battle” of a Date…
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/27/2010
Takanashi and Mahiru go on their "date". The staff of the restaurant fearing for Takanashi safety concoct an elaborate plan to have him cross dress so that Mahiru would think of him as a girl and not hit him. As the date comes to a close Takanashi comes to realize his true feelings for Mahiru and Mahiru receives the compliment of her life.
#6 - The Two of Them Back Then, Yachiyo and Satou. Also, Welcome to the Takanashi Family
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/13/2010
Yamada tells a scary ghost story at the end of work and Mahiru is to scared to go home where she would be by herself. Takanashi invites her over to spend the night at his house, Yamada follows them there, claiming to be too scared even though she was the one who told the story in the first place.
#7 - Souma, the Overly Invigorating Young Man
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/25/2010
Takanashi is visited at work by one his 4 sisters. Hiroomi the assistant cook attempts to blackmail the staff of Wagnaria so that he won't have to work. At the same time it becomes apparent that Satou the head cook has a thing for Yachiyo the head waitress.
#8 - A Certain Day of Flu... A Wagnaria That Is Different From Usual
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/2010
Takanashi takes the day off work to take care of his sick sister. The staff attempts to function without them and deal with Mahiru's fear of men with no male server to deal with the male customers.
#9 - Yachiyo, Kyouko, Satou... and the Returning Mr. Otou
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/2010
Yachiyo, the samurai sword-carrying waitress, reveals that she started carrying it to ward off bullies back in elementary school. At this time she encounters Kyoko who agrees to act as a bodyguard in exchange for Yachiyo's lunch. Otou Hyougo, the true restaurant manager, returns to the store after another unsuccessful search for his lost wife; his wife, who has the world's worst sense of direction, got lost years ago while out shopping.
#10 - The Melancholy of Souta, the Women of the Takanashi Family
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/9/2010
Takanashi spends some quality time with his four quirky sisters; the boss, the drunk, the writer and the manipulative. Each in their own way is reliant on Takanashi to keep their family in order. White Day has arrived and Takanashi gifts Mahiru a bag of hair pins. This is the first White Day gift she has ever received. Later he runs into her on the street worried that she might attack some random male while walking around he escorts her home. On the way they run into his eldest sister Kazue. Mahiru get flustered and admits to "assaulting" Takanashi on a regular basis.
#11 - Why!? The Night Before the Climactic Battle: Taneshima's Returned Favor
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/20/2010
Pupura finds out about Takanashis tall sisters and is upset with him for keeping these ideal women from her. As punishment she sets him up to go on a date with Mahiru. An experiment to see how much more man acclimated Mahiru has become concludes that if she can't punch Takanashi she'll kick him in the nuts.
#12 - A Well-Missed Otou, and the New Part-timer = Yamada (!?)
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2010
Otoo returns to Wagnaria once again this time bringing with him a new waitress, Yamada Aoi. Aoi tells a "tragic tale of woe" to which Takanashi responds that she is a liar. Reluctantly he ends up training Aoi in how to be a waitress. As the day progress she tries to assign the various staff members into a fake family structure.
#13 - Inami's First? Outing!
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/2010
The girls decided to take a trip to the hot springs which will be the first time for Mahiru. Takanashi concerned about the fate of the male guests at the hot springs goes as well. In the end the entire staff ends up going only to be so late that the hot spring is closed by the time they arrive.