The BEST episodes written by Hiroyuki Kawasaki
#1 - Bargain Property
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 6
Yakumo and Haruka investigate the haunting of an apartment rented cheaply by a university student, Date Shota. Through the realtor, they learnt that the previous tenant, Shiobara Kimiko had died of natural causes in the apartment and is now haunting it. Yakumo was able to communicate with her ghost and she requested for a letter (hidden behind the mirror in the room) to be burned. Haruku broke Kimiko's request not to read the content of the letter and saw a photo of Kimiko in it. Despite that, Kimiko was sufficiently pacified and wish Haruka well before her spirit departed.
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#2 - Sentiments That Bind ~Fate~
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 8
Yakumo and Detective Gotou are still missing. Makoto and Yuutarou contacted Haruka and discussed with Yakumo's uncle, Isshin on finding Yakumo. Haruku figured out that the ghost video was not shot at the Nanase mansion and both Makoto and Yuutarou also verified that Hoshin Yukiko was a fake. Isshin revealed that the ghost in the video is Yakumo's mother, Azusa. He related the story of how Azusa was kidnapped and held captive when she was young. She eventually escaped two weeks later and was assisted by Haruka's mother, Keiko. They continued to keep in touch and Isshin had an unopened letter from Keiko to Azusa. The letter revealed that Azusa's fiancée is Shunsuke Takeda, who is a suspect in the Nanase Family Massacre. Meanwhile, Miyuki (the woman with Yakumo's father) was seen outside Haruka's apartment and is planning to capture her to torture Yakumo further. Shunsuke Takeda also appeared to protect Haruka and had lured to the police and managed to scare Miyuki away.
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#3 - That Which Connects Spirits ~Rebirth~
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 5
Ayaka is the daughter of Dr Kinoshita who died during a typhoon and drown in the river. The doctor was also close to Dr Andou Takashi (the ghost possessing Hijikata Makoto). Gotou and Yakumo revealed that they connect Dr Kinoshita to Andou from a photo in Andou's belongings. There was also 2 keys in his belongings. One led to a locker with a bag full of money. Gotou and Yakumo managed to track the 2nd key to a storeroom near a dam. They found a missing girl Hashimoto Rimu along with belongings of 2 murdered young girls. The police believed that Dr Andou was the murderer of the 2 girls.
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#4 - Sentiments That Bind ~Light~
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 9
Ishii finally figured out the identity of Miyuki as the woman with Yakumo's father. After interviewing her tutor, Ishii and Hijikata find Detective Gotou in a secret room within the Nanase Mansion, with a little help from Takeda. After untying Detective Gotou he says that Takeda's spirit told him that Yakumo's father was going to kill Haruka in front of Yakumo. Takeda's spirit also told Haruka that Yakumo is in Nagano. She calls her mother and travels to Nagano, to the place where Yakumo's mother was raped. There she finds Yakumo tied to a chair with wounds on his chest. Haruka thinking that Yakumo was dead and starts crying and yells "Don't give up!". Yakumo was alive but weak from the drugs. They leave the house together, but Miyuki appear and tried to kill Haruka. Detective Gotou and arrive on the scene. It was revealed that that woman is actually Nanase Miyuki, the real culprit in the Nanase Quadruple Murder. Yakumo's mother's spirit appears and helps them by detaining Nanase.
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#5 - Two Mirrors: The Tragedy of V
Hell Girl - Season 2 - Episode 13
Mysterious deaths have been happening all over a town. Men with no apparent connections to one another have been found dead, stabbed with a bamboo skewer, with their hands in the "peace" symbol. Eventually, the owner of a restaurant is discovered by Ichimoku Ren to be the culprit. His wife and son were killed and his daughter put into a coma when a drunk driver crashed into their house. As the news crews filmed the report of the incident, drunken men danced in the background with their hands in the "peace" sign. The owner had only recently decided to kill them, as he learned he has terminal lung cancer and will most likely not live to see his daughter live. Too weak to kill the last one, who has seen his face and filed a police report, he uses the Hotline to Hell. Ai reveals that the penalty of sending someone to Hell does not cover other sin, such as murder. The man is willingly taken to the hospital by the police, however in a twist, Kikuri has awakened his daughter. The price he must pay for the murders is that he will spend the rest of his life in jail, unable to be with his daughter and because of this, he breaks down.
#6 - Two Mirrors: Rampage to Hell
Hell Girl - Season 2 - Episode 5
Yamada Leon, is constantly bullying Oi-chan. So Oi-chan sought a contract with Ai but he changed his mind after learning about the consequences. Leon falls in love with a high school girl named Miyahara Izumi. He plans to confess his love for her and leave the gang he is in. However, Leon's gang leader refuses to let him leave the gang. After Leon overhears Oi-chan talking about the Hell Girl, he made Oi-chan show him the Hotline to Hell. Leon's gang leader tries to kidnap Izumi to stop Leon from confessing to her. However, as he kidnaps Izumi, Leon sends him to hell. After continuing to bully Oi-chan, Leon steals his wallet and plans to finally confess to Izumi once again. While he's speeding down the street, he crashes and goes almost immediately to Hell.
#7 - Three Vessels: Street Corner of Malice
Hell Girl - Season 3 - Episode 14
Convenience store worker Tsuzuki Kinya offers to take care of Kashiwagi Hidemi after she misses the last train home. As they are walking together, someone takes a picture of them and posts it online. Because Tsuzuki looks like a delinquent the people around Kashiwagi become suspicious. Kashiwagi will send the person who uploaded the picture to Hell for giving her a bad reputation.
#8 - Three Vessels: Snow, Moon, Flowers
Hell Girl - Season 3 - Episode 19
Kaori has a sister who is the product of her father's affair with another woman. When the love child shows up and demands to be made part of the family, Kaori's friend discovers that she also has plans to murder Kaori for her share of inheritance.
#9 - Three Vessels: The Rotten Fruit
Hell Girl - Season 3 - Episode 3
Aspiring singers at the same talent agency, Jun bullied Masako until she gave up on her dream. After Jun becomes a pop idol, Masako demands that Jun support her own debut as a singer. Jun refuses. Enraged, Masako accesses the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Hone Onna as doll.
#10 - Beyond Despair ~Animosity~
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 12
Haruka and Yakumo saw the ghost of the little girl over Isshin and followed it to the room of Mamiya Yoshiko, the little girl in the wheelchair that Isshin met in the hospital. Yakumo found out that Yoshiko is the daughter of the Prof Sakakibara, the attending doctor on the night that Isshin was attacked. He found further proof that Prof Sakakibara was the actual attacker of his uncle (from the damaged mirror that he side swiped when he was rushing back to the temple). His motivation for attacking Isshin was so that his organ could be harvested (Isshin is a registered organ donor) and used to save his daughter. Yakumo managed to corner Sakaibara on the hospital heli-pad. Gotou, Ishii, Haruka, Nao and Makoto arrives shortly after.
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#11 - Beyond Despair ~The Omen~
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 10
Haruka and Yakumo accompany Haruka's mother to the train station. She tells them that she will send them something, but they did not hear what as the train door was already closing as she was telling them. Hijikata Makoto is then shown talking to a doctor at a hospital. The doctor tells her of a ghost appearing and asking patients when they will die. Hijikata promises to relay this case to and expert she knows (Yakumo) and begins to leave running into Saitou Isshin and Nao. Isshin tells her that he is there to consult a doctor because of frequent headaches. While he is there he meets a young girl in a wheelchair and they discuss what happens after death. After comforting her he asks her to become friends with Nao. Meanwhile, the hunt for the culprit of the murder case of Quadruple Nanase, Miyuki Nanase, ends with her being captured by the police. While in jail she believes that Yakumo's father will come and give her freedom, once again (as he did when she was young).
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#12 - Beyond Despair ~Assassin's Blade~
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 11
Gotou and Ishii rushed to the shrine to protect Isshin; but he knocked Gotou out before confronting Yakumo's father on his own. He was subsequently stabbed, apparently by Yakumo's father. Meanwhile, Haruka and Yakumo proceeded to the hospital to investigate the ghost of the girl. They encountered her apologizing to the patient she has previously confronted. Haruka and Yakumo eventually learnt of Isshin's injuries. Due to the extensive lost of blood, he was declared brain dead by the doctor. Gotou took Nao back to his house to be looked after by his wife. Ishii has deduced and forensic evidence suggest that Yakumo's father may be a spirit but one who is able to interact with the physical world. He possessed Miyuki so that she could be sent to the hospital.
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#13 - The Forbidden Room
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 1
After visiting an abandoned building, one of Haruka Ozawa's friends appears to be possessed by a spirit, and another commits suicide. In desperation she turns to Yakumo Saitou, a lackadaisical college student who is rumored to have supernatural abilities. Born with one red eye through which he can communicate with the dead, he agrees to solve Haruka's mystery, for a fee. Haruka remains skeptical, until Yakumo conveys a message to her from her dead twin sister. Yakumo begins to investigate and asks for some help from a detective he knows, Gotou Kazutoshi, who then becomes involved in the case when Yakumo uncovers that the hauntings are actually the result of a serial killer. The killer fearing being discovered kidnaps Haruka and sets fire to the building to cover up his crimes. Yakumo figures out where Haruka is taken to with help from her deceased sister and comes just in time to save Haruka. However the culprit escapes and sets fire to the building. Yakumo and Haruka escape the fire, and the killer is arrested by Gotou.
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#14 - The Curse of the White Fox
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 2
During the night, two constructors begin fixing a new building near a temple for their boss President Irie, when they see a ghost. The scene returns to Haruka coming to see Saitou to bring him her possessed friend Miki. Saitou tells the spirits on her body that the killer is dead, the spirits leave and Miki regains her conscience. After that they go on the bus together Saitou leaves first going back to the university and Haruka leaves for her part-time job. There Haruka serves President Irie and his friend Kunimatsu. She hears about the Fox curse that has been haunting the building/temple from Kunimatsu. After work she goes to the building and to her surprise meets Saitou's uncle and his home which is a temple. She continues to stay and also meets Irie. Irie was picking up a wooden block that had words written on it from his dead lover. There they hear a little girl laughing and the lights breaking which causes Saitou to save Haruka. Saitou was there to investigate the haunting and deduced they were man-made. Kunimatsu, who was in a shed near them, engineered the hauntings to stop Irie from moving the shrine. Irie tells Saitou and Haruka about his love and how he wants to meet her again. Saitou tells him that she had been waiting there for him all along. Suddenly the fox curse appears and turns out to be his lover. Together they meet and everything is solved.
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#15 - Sentiments That Bind ~The Trap~
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 7
Detective Gotou enlisted the help of Yakumo to investigate a supposedly ghost video taken at Nanase Mansion, where 4 members of the Nanase family was murdered 15 years ago. The video was obtained by Hijikata Makoto and filmed by a scriptwriter Hoshin Yukiko. Yakumo went off and investigate on his own after watching the video. While interviewing Hoshin, Gotou noticed that she resembles the woman seen with Yakumo's father but was unsure of his observation. Gotou and Yuutarou investigated the Nanase Mansion where Gotou was attacked by Miyuki Nanase (the same woman with Yakumo's father). Miyuki was apparently kidnapped on the day of the Nanase family massacre but has remained missing since. Yakumo tracked down the place where the ghost video was filmed and was also attacked by Miyuki, who claimed to be bringing the darkness to him and wants to destroy him.
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#16 - That Which Connects Spirits ~Possession~
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 4
After stopping to help a man lying in the street, Hijikata Makoto (a reporter and daughter of the chief of police), is possessed by the man's spirit once he passes away. The next day Haruka is asked by a girl to investigate the death of a schoolgirl named Ayaka. While Yakumo is asked by Gotou to investigate the possession of Hijikata as a plea from the chief. While investigating the death of the schoolgirl Ayaka, Haruka saw the ghost of the schoolgirl and fell into the river while trying to communicate with the soul. She was saved by 2 policemen and taken to a clinic to recover. Coincidentally, Gotou and Yakumo were also at the clinic to ask Dr Kinoshita some questions about their investigation.
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#17 - The Tunnel's Darkness
Psychic Detective Yakumo - Season 1 - Episode 3
Yakumo takes up a case regarding the death of a school boy and, Haruka tells him of an experience she had when a co-worker was driving her home through a tunnel. Yakumo begins to believe he can only see spirits but nothing more, and so he cannot help them all the time. Yakumo also considers the lives of people around him (especially Haruka's) that he is endangering.
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#18 - First Trip to the Forest
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 2
Ronja grows to be a lively ten-year-old and is given permission to go into the forest.
#19 - Fear in the Forest
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 3
During her first visit to the forest, Ronja takes in new sights and faces danger.
#20 - Born in the Storm
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 1
Lightning strikes the fort, and Ronja is born
#21 - Steal:01 The Name is Mouse
Mouse - Season 1 - Episode 1
For four hundred years, a family of thieves has plagued the world with a series of handicraft thefts. Under the motto of there is nothing you cannot steal, no matter the risk, now, under the name of MØUSE, which has passed from generation to generation, it is the turn of the twelfth successor: Muon Sorata to continue with the family trade together with the help of his three beautiful apprentices.
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#31 - The Vow to be Brother and Sister
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 10
Ronja struggles to free herself before heavy snowfall comes.
#32 - The Call of Spring
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 26
The robbers return to robbing, and Noddle-Pete tells Ronja a fascinating secret.
#33 - To Be Done in Secret
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 11
Ronja falls ill and can't help but worry about Birk.
#34 - The Whistler Underground
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 12
Determined to see Birk, Ronja works hard to try and clear the rubble that's plugged an underground passage.
#35 - Wretched Robbers
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 13
Lovis orders all the robbers to wash their dirty bodies in the snow.
#36 - Splendid Spring
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 14
Spring returns to the forest, and Ronja and Birk meet two wild horses.
#37 - Hearing the Whistler
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 4
While practicing not being frightened, Ronja is chased. Later, at Hell's Gap, she sees something unexpected.
#38 - Endless Fighting (1)
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 15
The conflict between Mattis and Borka intensifies, and Ronja faces a horrible sight.
#39 - Is the Moon Out?
After War Gundam X - Season 1 - Episode 1
In a small market town, two con artists are claiming to be newtype soldiers from the war, saying that they are needed and the people should hire them. A man in the audience taunts them by saying that they are just looking for a job. Before the men can defend themselves, a lone mobile suit attacks the town.
#40 - Endless Fighting (2)
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 16
Ronja decides upon a daring act that will change everything.
#41 - I Will Give You Power
After War Gundam X - Season 1 - Episode 2
Garrod fights Witz and Roybea. He realizes he is outnumbered so he bluffs that the gundam has a special weapon. After being astounded that they are fighting a kid, Witz and Roybea attack. Garrod is told that stupid bluffs like that don't work, and that lying is bad. Garrod then hides and puts Tiffa into the Gundam X's hand, saying not to fire or she'll die from it. He escapes and Jamil stops the pilots from chasing the Gundam X in Tiffa's interests.
#42 - Enemy in the Fort
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 5
Ronja learns that Birk is the son of Borka, her father's longtime adversary.
#43 - Moving Out
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 17
Ronja returns to the forest and makes a bold decision.
#44 - My Steed Is Vicious
After War Gundam X - Season 1 - Episode 3
The Frieden has approached Garrod, he tries to fire upon it with the satellite cannon but realizes it takes too long to charge for him to be able to shoot. Jamil runs out on top of the ship and fires a magnetic grappling gun at the Gundam X. Garrod flies back but Jamil already has the gun attached and is pulled to the gundam. Jamil opens the cockpit and the gundam automatically stops flying back. Jamil takes the gundam back to the Frieden after telling Garrod he has no right to have the gundam or Tiffa.
#45 - This Operation Is a Race Against the Clock!
After War Gundam X - Season 1 - Episode 4
In the hallway, Garrod stops Witz and Roybea, telling them they must not leave. Witz says he'll be in pain if he doesn't move. Garrod tries to stop them and is kneed in the stomach. From the floor he grabs Witz's ankle, begging, Witz then kicks him in the face. Garrod wipes away the blood and stares at the two in disgust. Witz is confused by the look, and Roybea explains why Garrod acted the way he did with a theory on kids. When questioned if he supports him, Roybea says no because adults can't do that.
#46 - Something in the Cave
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 18
Ronja and Birk hear something moving around inside the cave.
#47 - You Pull the Trigger
After War Gundam X - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Freeden dodges to the side, only taking a little damage on the side of the main engine. The other Vultures send out mobile suits to provide cover for the Freeden. Shagia sends Olba off and easily destroys several vulture mobile suits. Garrod tries to take the GX, but Jamil stops him. He asks Garrod why he is going to help, and Garrod says it is natural because he wants to help Tiffa. Jamil gives him the control unit and lets him go out to battle the ""mysterious gundam."" Jamil tells Kid that Garrod is better than him, because of his cockpit phobia.
#48 - The Lost Knife
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 19
Ronja and Birk have a big argument, sending Ronja from the cave in tears.
#49 - It's Offensive
After War Gundam X - Season 1 - Episode 6
A group of vultures takes parts from an old abandoned reactor and run away as the temperature rises, escaping to a safe distance before it explodes. The leader is Ennil El. Zacotte Dackonot approaches Ennil, congratulating her on her job for the day. He then shows her pictures of the Gundam X and Garrod. Her interest is sparked in him when she learns that he used to hunt mobile suits all by himself, she says she'll join the job and secretively gazes at the picture of Garrod.
#50 - With the Wild Horses
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 20
Ronja and Birk tend to a wounded mare, and try to tame Villain and Savage.