The BEST episodes written by Jun Kumagai
#1 - Space-Time Goldfish (Part 2)
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 10
As Galilei and Hozuki put the finishing touches on their plane, he realizes that she is from the future and learns the harsh situation the world will be in the next centuries. In the next day, the duo sucessfully fly with their plane in time to reach the storm. On their way to the storm, Hozuki hears from Galileo how their encounter was important to him and that despite how much he cares for her, he is determined to send her back to the future to help her family. Hozuki then realizes that Galileo is in love with her and the letter he wrote on the sketches is to none other then herself. After Hozuki returns to her proper time, the Ferrari sisters are protected by the Black Ganymede who helps them to flee, but their escape is cut short when their ship is shot down by the Interpol who demands them to surrender.
#2 - Space-Time Goldfish (Part 1)
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 9
At the Lybian desert, the sisters find the sixth and final sketch, when Roberto appears to ambush them. However, the Galileo's fuel is depleted and they are unable to escape. Roberto demands the sisters to surrender all the sketches along the Galileo Tesoro, claiming that the one he obtained from them previously was a fake, and in the occasion, Anna reveals herself to be working under him and that she was the one who emptied the Galileo's fuel tank. However, when the Black Ganymede appears to rescue the girls, Anna betrays Roberto and reveals that the fuel was not thrown away, but stored inside the ship and urges the sisters to escape. However, both the pirates and the sisters are about to be killed when Hozuki activates the real Galileo Tesoro and time slows down arround her, before she is thrown into the past, centures before, where she has an encounter with a youngster, who is in fact her ancestor Galileo Galilei himself. After having his prototype flying machine destroyed by accident, Galilei realizes that Hozuki has fallen from the same kind of storm and shows her some other strange objects that fell from it. Hozuki then figures that those items were sucked by the Galileo Tesoro when she activated it in Russia. After Galilei reveals that the storm occurs in regular intervals, he and Hozuki join forces to create an airplane in time for the next storm and return her to her proper time.
#3 - Salt Fish
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 7
The sisters figure out that the hourglass pendant is the Galileo Tesoro that Adnimoon is after. They also figure out that Anna has connections to Adnimoon as she is revealed to be secretly working for Roberto. However she disagrees with Roberto over the way the Galileo Tesoro should be used. The next clue sends the sisters to the Caspian Sea with Adnimoon hot on their trail. Unable to engage in underwater combat, the Galileo is forced to surface. The sisters are immobilized when the Galileo is badly damaged by Roberto. Outside the Galileo, the sisters confront Roberto daring him to take the pendant, and after Hazuki is beaten up, Kazuki surrenders the Galileo Tesoro to Roberto. Despite having lost the Gailieo Tesoro, the sisters continue their search for the sketches, finding the next sketch hidden inside a nearby stone monument. The next clue leads them to Japan.
#4 - Giappone
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 8
Before looking for the sketch, the sisters visit their grandfather in Kyoto. During their visit, Hozuki stumbles upon a broken down energy converter near the house and the sisters find a photo album in Geshio's room where they learn about his past. Hozuki goes off to fix up the energy converter. Anna gets a call from Roberto and is displeased to learn that Roberto plans to kill the sisters once the remaining sketches have been found. The sisters and Anna go on a sightseeing trip around Kyoto. Hazuki splits up from the group and runs into Cicinho. Hazuki admits to Cicinho that her ideal of justice is flawed, but he tells her to stay true to herself. Hozuki activates the energy converter when the sisters return home for dinner. Seeing that the sisters have been growing more attached to her, Anna continues to question her allegiance to Roberto. On the next day, the sisters find the sketch at the grave of Yagyū Munenori in Nara.
#5 - Messier
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Ferrari family except for Hozuki, who went to rescue her pet goldfish, is captured by the police. Hozuki meets up with Anna, who is a Galileo enthusiast who does not want the inheritance, Galileo Tesoro, to fall into the wrong hands. Being pursued by the police, Anna disguises herself as Hozuki to draw the police away from her. Hozuki uses this distraction to rescue her family using a goldfish mecha. During the escape, Geshio stays behind piloting the mecha to allow the sisters to escape Hozuki's airship. Meanwhile, Sylvia is found shot in the head.
#6 - Galileo Tesoro
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 6
In the past, Roberto was the son of a caring father. However, his father was killed when his house was bombed, leading to Roberto to adopt his ruthless personality. Back in the present, Hazuki becomes ill and the sisters stop at a hospital in Russia for treatment. There, they encounter Roberto, Cicinho, and the crew of the Black Ganymede, with the parties fighting over how the limited resources of the hospital should be allocated. The pirates tell Hozuki that they were orphaned and that being a pirate gave them a reason to live. Roberto goes on a massacre killing the pirates until Hozuki intervenes, causing an explosion that leaves the hospital exposed to the frigid air and causing her pendant to activate to break up the fight. Roberto was about to kill Cicinho and a few remaining pirates, but runs out of bullets. Hazuki is given some medicine from the hospital and recovers from the illness.
#7 - Goldfish Life
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 3
Geshio and Sylvia are alive, but Sylvia has amnesia and is in custody of Adnimoon. On board the airship built by Hozuki named the Galileo, Hazuki learns that the attackers are Messier, an organization that does Adnimoon's dirty work. Kazuki breaks down feeling the jealousy of her younger sister's talent. The sisters learn that they are wanted fugitives by the Italian police and are attacked by Roberto, demanding that they hand over Galileo Tesoro. Anna finds one of Galileo's sketches and Kazuki wants to hand it to Roberto to gain their safety and return home. However, Hazuki and Hozuki convince her not to. The sisters are saved by Cicinho, who attacks Roberto's airship allowing the sisters to escape. Hozuki examines the sketch and figures out that the next clue deals with music.
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#8 - Constellation Dreams
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 5
The next clue leads the sisters to the a cathedral Netherlands in a village that is the home of the Blue Hawks, a band of thieves with a grudge against Adnimoon for abandoning them. They initially act hostile until Hazuki lectured them about lawbreaking. Hozuki meets up with Theo, a young boy from the band aspiring to become an inventor. Theo shows Hazuki a telescope that he built to give to Karen, his childhood friend, and then gives him the sketch. However, Ludger, the leader of the Blue Hawks, sells out the band to Adnimoon in order to escape, and warns Theo and Hozuki that the village is about to be bombed. Instead of escaping, Theo goes back to the hideout to get Karen, who became too injured to walk in the attack retrieving the telescope. Hozuki attempts to rescue the Blue Hawks, but her request gets overridden and the Galileo escapes moments before the hideout was bombed, killing the members of the Blue Hawks.
#9 - Galileo DNA
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 1
Hozuki Ferrari is pursued by unknown individuals at the same time that her two older sisters, Kazuki and Hazuki, are attacked by strangers. Although they have no idea why they would become targets, the police decide the situation demands that they guard the Ferrari family home. There, the Ferraris encounter unexpected guests...
#10 - Snow Gift
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 4
The clue leads the sisters to Germany for the next sketch, as well as a chance to resupply. Upon arriving in Germany, a strange man named Herman Hans asks the sisters to help him. Hazuki and Hozuki go shopping and are pursued by Black Ganymede. During the pursuit, Hozuki injures herself after falling from the roof of a building. Hazuki and Kozuki ask Hans, the creator of the Micro-Doctor medical gadget, to help Hozuki. With the pirates still in pursuit, Hazuki persuades Cicinho to not attack the Galileo, while Kazuki quickly learns how to pilot the Galileo, and Cicinho retreats. Following the attack, Hozuki recovers and obtains the sketch, which Hans had been using as a placemat.
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#11 - The Fairies' Time Management (2)
Humanity Has Declined - Season 1 - Episode 8
The fairies will stop at nothing to get more sweets. Their insistence affects more than just the mediator.
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#12 - The Fairies' Homecoming (2)
Humanity Has Declined - Season 1 - Episode 6
Pion joins the team along with their companion Oyage. When pursued, the group lands in an underground castle where danger strikes yet again.
#13 - The Fairies' Homecoming (1)
Humanity Has Declined - Season 1 - Episode 5
The mediator learns that fairies are leaving to avoid electromagnetic waves generated by an electric-powered festival. Later, the mediator and her assistant find themselves once again trapped.
#14 - The Fairies' Time Management (1)
Humanity Has Declined - Season 1 - Episode 7
Something strange is happening with the mediator as she encounters someone who looks just like her! What is happening, and what do sweets have to do with it?
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#15 - Episode 11
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 11
Yakumo was listening to Yotaro's rakugo on the porch with Konatsu when he suddenly found himself lost on a scaffolding of candles. There, he met the Second Generation Sukeroku once more, who told him that he had arrived at the Sanzu River. Sukeroku then guides him on a journey through the land of the dead. On the way, return to their childhoods and young adulthoods, talk to each other about Miyokichi and Konatsu, and look back on their lives as they were. And then Miyokichi appears...
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#16 - Episode 12
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 12
Fifteen years have passed since that fateful day. Yotaro and Konatsu's children are growing up: Shinnosuke is a futatsume, and Koyuki has entered high school. Those who made their lives from rakugo, those who gave their lives to rakugo... aspects of their checkered pasts carry on to the next generation. What feelings lie in the hearts of those who inherit the names Kikuhiko, Sukeroku, and Yakumo, as they face their rakugo?
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#17 - Episode 4
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 4
As far as Shinnosuke is concerned, Yotaro is his beloved father, and now that he's become a popular storyteller, Yotaro is even appearing on TV shows. After he performs "Jugemu" on a children's program, all the kids begin reciting it. Meanwhile, he's also getting steady work at the theater, while Konatsu plays shamisen in the wings. Higuchi is overjoyed to see it to see Yotaro satisfy so many people, but his desire to create new rakugo works hasn't changed. That's when he decides to entreat Yakumo for aid.
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#18 - Galileo Judge
Galilei Donna - Season 1 - Episode 11
The sisters are brought back to Tuscany in preparation for their trial. Their lawyer, a frail old man, gives the sisters the sketches and the pendant claiming that some woman found them. At the trial, Adnimoon presents their case for convicting the sisters for their crimes of hiding the Galileo Tesoro, building weapons of mass destruction, and causing large-scale damage. Hazuki counters with evidence that Adnimoon was secretly building weapons themselves, but the evidence is dismissed after Adnimoon argues that it has no relevance to the case. Adnimoon brings in their final witness, Sylvia, who condemns the sisters and blames herself for being a poor mother. However, Geshio shows up and Sylvia presents damning evidence against Adnimoon to the judge, telling everybody that she faked her amnesia to learn Adnimoon's secrets. Adnimoon is convicted, and the CEO Francesco is shot by Roberto. Hozuki examines the sketches and learns how to produce the Galileo Tesoro from them. Anna shows up telling everyone that she found the sketches and the pendant, and the lawyer reveals himself as Cicinho, who takes the pendant and flees. The sisters search for the seventh sketch despite not knowing whether or not it exists, and they find it inside the globe at the ruins of their home. The sketch is a drawing of Hozuki during her time with Galileo. The Ferrari family heads to Japan to meet up with the sisters' grandfather in the Galileo.
#19 - Episode 10
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 10
The Uchikutei caught fire after the performance, and Yakumo, who was alone there, was badly burned. Though he has managed to survive, his comeback will be more difficult now. And that isn't the only disaster: Tokyo's last remaining rakugo theater has burned down. A dark cloud hangs over rakugo's future, but rakugo can continue as long as the people still exist. Yotaro believes this, and begins to work on behalf of the future of rakugo. And a big change comes over Konatsu, as well...
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#20 - Episode 7
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 7
Yakumo finally awakens a week later. But the light inside him has faded, and when he speaks next, he declares that he won't do rakugo anymore. He also quits as president of the Rakugo Association, and gives Matsuda more free time. Why would Yakumo, whose life is bound to rakugo, want to stop doing it? Meanwhile, in search of a film taken of the previous Sukeroku, Higuchi takes Yotaro and Matsuda to Shikoku. There, they learn a truth about the two old storytellers...
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#21 - Episode 5
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 5
Hearing Yakumo's "Inokori" blasts the doubt from Yotaro's mind, and spurs his sudden rise to fame. Now, he himself is to perform that story in two months' time at a family show with Yakumo. Yakumo claims that he sees none of Yotaro himself in his rakugo, and that the character of Saheiji will be the key to unlocking his own "ego." Will Saheiji finally allow Yotaro to find his own rakugo?
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#22 - Episode 9
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 9
As eras change, one thing remains rock solid. To Yotaro, that's Yakumo. After being inspired by the "Shinigami" he heard from him in prison, he decided he'd follow him anywhere. Those straightforward words lead Yakumo to talk about rakugo and his own death. Yotaro insists that if he wants to die in the theater, he needs to do rakugo again, and invites him to perform at the prison with him. Though Yakumo hesitates at first, he eventually decides to try doing rakugo for the sake of others.
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#23 - Episode 6
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 6
While performing "Hangon-ko," Yakumo passed out and dreamed of being in a hall of candles, being strangled by the Second Generation Sukeroku. Yotaro's voice brings him back to consciousness, but he won't be getting back on stage. Yotaro was about to get on the ambulance taking Yakumo away, when he heard the voices of the people looking forward to his performance. "I gotta do rakugo." Left behind in the theater, Yotaro steels himself to get up on the stage. His performance? Inokori.
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#24 - Episode 8
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 8
Triggered by Yakumo's desire to quit, everyone is trying to find ways to preserve rakugo and Yakumo's own style of it. Higuchi has also been collecting documents about Yakumo to preserve his journey, but Yakumo himself is sour about the idea. Faced with the limits of his physical body, Yakumo is trying to turn his back on the rakugo that once enchanted people.
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#25 - Episode 1
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 1
After ten years' apprenticeship to the eight generation Yakumo, Yotaro has finally achieved the rank of shin'uchi and taken on the name "Sukeroku," after his master's fellow student and Konatsu's father. Things appear to be smooth sailing at first, but complications soon arise. Between rakugo's fading legacy and Yotaro's concerns about single mother Konatsu, can the third generation Sukeroku bear up under the burden he has taken on?
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#26 - Episode 3
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 3
Consumed by concerns over not finding his own rakugo, as well as harboring doubts about the relationship between Konatsu and a local gang boss, Yotaro lets off steam by performing the rant from "Daiku Shirabe." Higuchi joins him, idly wondering why the carpenter goes off on the rant. Yotaro confesses he never thought about it before. Soon after, Yotaro hears that the gang boss is visiting the restaurant where Konatsu works, and decides to come along...
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#27 - Fall in Love! Asagaya
Aquarion - Season 3 - Episode 19
Love is in the air in Asagaya! The members of the verbalism club pair up for a couples challenge - but Akira and Maia don't quite know how a couple should act. Will they win the tickets, the crowns… or perhaps, something far greater?
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#29 - Reach Them! My True Voice
Aquarion - Season 3 - Episode 10
When the Verbalism Club puts on a stage play, Kokone finally gets to live her acting dream - but on opening day, she can barely say her lines. She must find her voice quickly, as a powerful new M.J.B.K. threatens to silence her permanently!
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#31 - Pierce It! The Insect Part
Aquarion - Season 3 - Episode 8
In the shadow of his popular comedian older brother, Tsutomu slaves away like a worker ant to make his online comedy videos. But when the world is suddenly bitten by the bug of mad ambition, Tsutomu's off-beat comedy may be the only cure!
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#32 - I'm Gonna Kill You Too
Ajin - Season 1 - Episode 6
Sato suspects that something is different about Kei and when Sato starts to kill helpless surgeons, Kei objects and kills Sato. In the Ajin research centre, Ikuya Ogura tries to explain the Black Ghosts and Yu Tosaki insists that Izumi Shimomura stay by his side to protect him. Sato hunts Kei to kill him permanently, but Kei decides to help the surgeons escape and act as a decoy. He attacks Sato, but fails and as Sato is about to kill Kei, Kei’s Black Ghost appears and kills Sato. As Kei and the remaining surgeon try to escape the installation, Sato again catches them, so Kei calls his on his Black Ghost but so does Sato. The Black Ghosts attack each other, and neither wins, but the distraction enables Kei to escape to the nearby river.
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#33 - Episode 2
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 2 - Episode 2
A magazine has exposed Yotaro's past as a former convict and member of the yakuza, plunging the rakugo world into scandal and sullying Yotaro's name. Although he continues performing as if nothing has happened, his growing desperation is coming out in his performance. He loses TV appearances, and the customers in the theaters have begun to turn on him, as well. But Yotaro's insecurities seem to come from more than just the scandal...
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#34 - I'm Getting Sick of This
Ajin - Season 2 - Episode 1
Kai and Ko are on the run when Kei decided they need an ally, Tosaki. By threatening Tosaki's girlfriend, who is in a coma, he brings them reluctantly into his circle. Meanwhile, Sato has announced plans for this second wave of assassinations.
#35 - Have You Ever Seen a Black Ghost?
Ajin - Season 1 - Episode 4
Izumi Shimomura recovers and is revealed to be an Ajin. She uses her own Black Ghost to attack the one sent by Koji Tanaka that killed her. The Black Ghosts battle each other, with the one controlled by Izumi Shimomura eventually defeating the one controlled by Koji Tanaka. However Sato abducts Eriko during the battle and tells her that he wants to help Kei. Kei decides that he should try to contact other Ajin who may be in hiding, but Sato contacts him first and they agree to meet. Kei leaves while Kaito is sleeping and meets Sato, but before Kei can decide whether to trust Sato, he is shot by a tranquilizer dart. Sato decides that Kei inexperienced and must be 'educated'.
#36 - Shatter! The One I Must Strike Down
Aquarion - Season 3 - Episode 17
There can be no salvation if there is no threat, no enemy. A dangerous M.J.B.K. turns friend against friend - and, lost in his obsessive desire to become a savior, Akira Kaibuki might be willing to make an enemy of the world itself…
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#39 - Why is This Happening? Why Me...
Ajin - Season 1 - Episode 2
Kaito takes Kei Nagai into the hills on his motorcycle. While stopping for fuel, Kei is recognised by two criminals in a van who have just abducted a schoolgirl. The criminals follow them and when the boys stop by the side of the road, the criminals attack. The leader pins down Kei and chokes him to death to see if he revives. As Kei loses consciousness a mummified figure or "Black Ghost." materialises nearby. Kei comes back to life and screams again, immobilizing everyone. Kaito recovers first and they flee again on the motorcycle, pursued shortly thereafter by the criminals, who are in turn followed by the Black Ghost. Meanwhile Yu Tosaki orders tranqilizer guns for the police as the best way to stop Ajin. Kaito and Kei manage to cross a railway line, but as the criminals cross the tracks behind them, the Black Ghost immobilizes the driver, and their van is destroyed by an oncoming train. The Black Ghost is heard repeating Kei’s words.
#40 - They Start to Decay as Soon as They're Created
Ajin - Season 1 - Episode 10
Ogura starts telling what he knows about Ajin and Black Ghosts or IBMs (Invisible Black Matter). For example: IBMs have individual characteristics and are unstable; last only about 10 minutes; can be generated only 1-2 times per day; are difficult to control in the rain. Kei keeps Ko locked up and continues to try to understand how the Black Ghost behaves, for example he found that it does the opposite of what he tells it to do. Kei is seen in the woods by a local who becomes suspicious. To allay the fears of the local officials, Kei appeals personally to them to accept him into the village. Sokabe reports that Tosaki is acting under his own authority and suspects that he has Ogura, but the minister decides to take no action and continue to monitor him. Sato's group prepare for their attack on the Grant Pharmaceuticals company.
#41 - Take it Back, Our Summer
Aquarion - Season 3 - Episode 5
The girls of Shirobaco take a trip to the beach, but the rise of a new M.J.B.K. tosses their plans out in the cold! Can Akira, Tsutomu, and Hayato save the day, or will they be forced to live in a dull, passionless world without swimsuits?!
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#42 - Light Up! Your Strength
Aquarion - Season 3 - Episode 6
Feeling guilty for risking the lives of her young squadron, Sakurako moves to infiltrate Nesta herself, only to find herself face to face with Subete. She soon learns that her past ties to the shadowy organization may not be fully severed.
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#43 - Launch
Gatchaman Crowds - Season 2 - Episode 3
Tsubasa arrives in Tokyo with Gelsadra, where they are promptly enlisted to appear as guests in the popular Millione Show. There, they make a favorable impression, and they're soon familiarization themselves with their new teammates in the Gatchaman HQ, Tachikawa CAGE. However, Suzuki Rizumu, the VAPE leader, is about to make his move...
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#44 - Halo Effect
Gatchaman Crowds - Season 2 - Episode 5
The prime minister elections have finally begun. While Sugayama's predicted to win by a landslide, Gelsadra uses his powers to discern what the people want. What he promises his supporters is enough to create a rift even among the Gatchamen.
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#45 - Seeds
Gatchaman Crowds - Season 2 - Episode 10
Rizumu's ideal world slowly starts coming to fruition. The small opportunity presents itself, and is magnified, causing chaos to spread quickly. However, Gelsadra, who is in the middle of all of this, believes he is just doing what the people want and smiles, despite some terrible things that have occurred. Meanwhile, Tsubasa who had seperated herself from the Gatchaman and Gelsadra goes back home to Nagaoka to face Yuru-jii and herself...
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#47 - Opt-out
Gatchaman Crowds - Season 2 - Episode 9
The general public has come to accept the Kuu-samas into society, and they seem to be helping with Gelsadra's wishes to help everyone become one. However, in order to make everyone become one, the Kuu-samas take the next step. The Gatchaman try to warn the public about the Kuu-samas and their actions, but they find out now that this has been set into motion, it's not easily stopped. The Gatchaman now consider Gelsadra and the Kuu-samas dangerous, which ends up making them unfavorable to the general public that loves both Gelsadra and the Kuu-samas...
#50 - Howl! An Honest Beaten Dog
Aquarion - Season 3 - Episode 18
In politics, show business, and even everyday life, people choose comforting lies over harsh realities. When a new M.J.B.K. threatens to smother the truth completely, Hayato Kujyo's unflinching honesty may be the world's last defense.
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