The BEST episodes written by Mitsutaka Hirota
#1 - Ring and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 2 - Episode 10
Kazuya can barely process Ruka's actions when Nagomi decides to drop another bomb on the party.
#2 - Farewell, Scarlet Bloom
Castle Town Dandelion - Season 1 - Episode 11
It's one month before the elections. We learn why Akane hates being in the public eye. Then, due to an unfortunate circumstance, the king cannot perform his duties. How will the Sakurada Royal Siblings save the day?
#3 - Summer Vacation / Online Secret / Eight of Misaki
Castle Town Dandelion - Season 1 - Episode 5
It's summer and the Sakurada Royal Family are at the beach! Haruka is doing something fishy on the internet, and Misaki is busy at school as all her clones help out in different clubs. Misaki isn't too happy about it, though.
#4 - The Pendulum Swings Both Ways: Part 2
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Season 1 - Episode 32
While searching for Action Cards, Yuya manages to use Silvio's card effects against him, before managing to use an Action Card to escape his attack. As both duelist's efforts hype up the crowd, Yuya brings out Beast-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and wins the duel.
#5 - Scarlet Bloom / Big Sister's Birthday
Castle Town Dandelion - Season 1 - Episode 9
We meet Scarlet Bloom, a masked heroine with red pigtails and who can control gravity. Who could her true identity be?! While things are ramping up for the election, it's almost Christmas Eve, which is also Aoi's birthday.
#6 - I Want To Know The Truth
Persona4 the ANIMATION - Season 1 - Episode 17
Shadow Naoto is running roughshod over Yu and the others, robbing them of their youth one by one. With blinding speed and an itchy trigger finger, the menacing shadow continues its onslaught on the group's Personas, with no end in sight.
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#7 - Our Friend Kouki's Second Betrayal
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 11
The world is beginning to make less and less sense, and only Minoa seems to notice.
#8 - Fusion Foes
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Season 1 - Episode 29
Putting aside the mystery as to why Julia considers Shay an ally, Zuzu begins her duel against Julia. After Julia summons her Gem-Knight Master Diamond, Zuzu shows the results of her training and Fusion summons Schuberta the Melodious Maestra, managing to defeat Julia's monster and banish one of her Fusion spell cards from the game. However, Julia then brings out her true ace, Gem-Knight Lady Brilliant Diamond, to destroy Melodious Maestra and putting Yuzu on the defensive. Staking her duel on Julia's pride as a Fusion user, Zuzu manages to survive Julia's attack and Fusion summons Bloom Diva the Melodious Muse, managing to stop Julia from obtaining an Action Card that would let her stop the attack and winning the duel. Afterwards, Julia gives Zuzu one of her monsters, encouraging her to win the tournament.
#9 - Mr. Mystery
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Season 1 - Episode 7
While going out to fetch some ice-cream with Ayu, Yuzu overhears some LDS students talk about how Shingo is planning to take revenge against Yuya. Wanting to pay Yuya back for saving her, Yuzu follows them to Shingo's hideout, where she challenges Shingo to a duel. Before the duel can begin, however, a mysterious masked man appears, taking Yuzu's place in the duel. After the masked man sets five spell cards, Shingo summons out Mobius the Mega Monarch to destroy them, but the masked man activates the cards from the graveyard, using them as monsters on his field. After using one of them to defend himself, the masked man uses the remaining two to perform an Xyz Summon and summon Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, using its Overlay effects to destroy Mobius, the effects of his attack proving real even outside of an Action Duel. After the masked man presses him about someone named Academia, Shingo tries to activate a trap against him but is thwarted and loses the duel. As the man removes his mask, revealing a face that looks identical to Yuya, Yuzu's bracelet mysteriously glows, during which time the man disappears. As Yuya arrives on the scene after being informed by Ayu, Yuzu wonders just who that man was.
#10 - The Pendulum Swings Both Ways: Part 1
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Season 1 - Episode 31
Yuya duels against Silvio, who brings out a new Yousen deck to cause problems for Yuya. To Yuya's surprise, Silvio brings out his own Pendulum monsters and Pendulum Summons Mayosenju Daibak, and uses its ability to return Yuya's Pendulum Cards and Monsters to his deck. Despite being backed into a corner, Yuya remains excited and pushes onward.
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#11 - The Inmates Are Stupid! The Guards Are Kind of Stupid, Too!
Nanbaka - Season 1 - Episode 2
The inmates in Cell 13; Jyugo, Uno, Niko, and Rock are spending their days escaping, creating mischief, gossiping, and sometimes, working. These troublemakers are giving a headache to supervisor of Bldg. 13, Hajime Sugoroku. Warden Hyakushiki has ordered Hajime to submit files regarding the 4 inmates. Hajime is then ordered to give a report about the 4 who are known as repeat offenders of jail-breaking. Afraid of losing his job due to the cover-up, Hajime does his best to create the new files...
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#12 - Minoa, Katharsis
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 12
Minoa is desperately looking for a way to restore the world, but with the season ending, time is running out.
#13 - Anime Club Finally Falls
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 10
Minoa approaches the principal to try to get him to bring back the Anime Club. She is locked inside the office with him, and the others scramble to help her get out.
#14 - The Anime Club: Forever Snobs
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 9
The Anime Club discovers that they can solve people’s problems by recommending inspirational anime fit for their clubs. This works out great – a little too great.
#15 - Kaikai Love Climax
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 6
The anime club is traveling to certain places in Japan that anime used for their stage (currently going to Oorai). Meanwhile, Kai is suffering from lovestruck from Miko and Minoa is trying to find her goal in the club while getting into a string of bad luck situations.
#16 - Erika, Cosplayer x Cosplayer
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 3
The student council is threatening to abolish the Anime Club. The gang heads to Akihabara to clear their minds as they try to come up with a way to save the club.
#17 - Arisu Can't Make Enough Money
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 8
Tsubaki proposes the anime club fill the auditorium or the club will be shutdown. The anime club must complete their presentation and get a full house in 2 days. Minoa and Maya find out their dad's secret (even though it's not a big deal).
#18 - Deep Dragon
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen - Season 1 - Episode 5
Orphen, Claiomh, and Majic try to get through Fenrir's Forest to get to Tafrem. However, Majic ends up lost in the forest and runs into a mysterious girl.
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#19 - Miko Quits Writing
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 7
With the culture festival coming up, the anime club decide to participate to show their progress. However when the student council rejected the anime screening, they decided to do anime shorts which actually is harder than it looks.
#20 - Forest Maiden
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen - Season 1 - Episode 6
After Orphen is attacked by the Deep Dragon, he wakes up in a cell unsure of where he is or who he is for a moment. A girl then appears before him, and offers to heal his wounds and eventually, his memories return.
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#21 - Beibei, Don't Go
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 5
Summer has arrived and the anime club head to comiket, while there they meet Yang Beibei, a Chinese girl studying Japanese who tells them that anime is popular in China aswell.
#22 - Anime-Gataris, Assemble!
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 2
The new Anime Club is in search of new members. The odds are good, but the goods are a little bit odd -- perhaps in a good way.
#23 - Club Room Go Boom!
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 4
Arisu explains to Minoa about anime prodution and business. In order to to prove their club is productive, the club is asked by the Drama Club to help with the costumes for their play. However Erika hits a roadblock when designing the costumes.
#24 - Gather in My Forest, Wolves
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen - Season 1 - Episode 7
Orphen tries to stop MacDougal from going into the Dragon's sanctuary. The Deep Dragon attacks the village for attempting to go into the Dragon's sanctuary and Orphen tries to save the villagers.
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#25 - His Own Angel and Devil
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen - Season 2 - Episode 2
Orphen and his friends unexpectedly end up seeing the "Demon King" play after heading down into the underground theater.
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#26 - Another Idiot Has Come!!
Nanbaka - Season 1 - Episode 3
Jyugo and the gang are killing time teasing the new guard, Seitarou. One day, a new inmate is sent to Cell 13. Inmate Number 99, Tsukumo. He looks and acts like a ninja! Uno, Niko, and Rock are excited to see the real thing. But as a Japanese, Jyugo does not believe him. To convince Jyugo that he’s a true ninja, Tsukumo challenges Jyugo to see who can escape from prison.
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#27 - Minoa, Anime Rookie!
Anime-Gataris - Season 1 - Episode 1
First-year high school student Asagaya Minoa is not much of an anime nerd, but there is a show that she watched as a child, but can't remember the name of. Kamiigusa Arisu, the well-to-do resident anime otaku of her class, might be able to help.
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#28 - Say My Will, Demon King
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen - Season 2 - Episode 1
Orphen, Majic, and Claiomh continue their journey to Kimluck when they stumble upon an eerie theater that wasn't on their map.
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#29 - Quiz Quagmire: Part 2
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Season 1 - Episode 20
The next stage turns out to be a quick-fire quiz cart ride, which leaves Eita with more life points and Yuya with less. However, Yuya remains optimistic thanks to the interest shown by the crowd and brings out his Pendulum Monsters, though is once again halted by Eita's quiz effects. As Yuya is seemingly pushed into a corner, he manages to use a wrong answer to an Action Trap against Eita, dealing a large amount of damage, before using his Pendulum Monsters and traps to win the duel.
#30 - Idiots with Numbers!
Nanbaka - Season 1 - Episode 1
This is “Nanba Prison,” the large impregnable prison somewhere in the territorial waters of Japan. On this night, 4 inmates recklessly attempt to escape from the world’s best prison guards and security. Jyugo, who wears mysterious shackles. Uno, a self-proclaimed ladies’ man. Niko, an otaku who’s prone to illness. Rock, a foodie gang member. Can the inmates of Building 13, Cell 13 pass security and reach outside of prison in one piece?
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#31 - Night and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 2 - Episode 4
Kazuya has barely dealt with the aftermath of Mami's visit when he gets another aggressive visitor!
#32 - A Cons Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Season 2 - Episode 28
The first match of the second round is Zuzu vs. Sergey. Zuzu faces off against her opponent, aiming for the same goal as Yuya. As she tries to convey the message of the Interdimensional War through her Duel, Sergey seems to be inviting Zuzu to attack him, inflicting more and more damage upon himself. Seeing all this, Zuzu attempts to stop the Duel, but...
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#33 - Challengers Assemble
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Season 1 - Episode 27
On the day of the Paradise Championship, Yuya briefly reminisces about his father before Yoko encourages to join up with the others, including Gong who managed to qualify himself, becoming surprised to see Shay among the LID competitors. During the opening ceremony, Yuya is chosen to give the opening statement, which he uses to express his desire to become a pro duelist and make more people love duels. With their first opponents announced, Yuya is to face against Silvio, Yuzu against Julia, and Sora against Shay. In the Junior Championship, Frederick defeats his first opponent, while Ally is set to fight against a strange child seen accompanying Declan.
#34 - Quiz Quagmire: Part 1
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Season 1 - Episode 19
Yuya faces his next opponent, quiz expert Eita Kyuando, in a quiz-based Action Duel. Being bad at quizzes himself, Yuya struggles with the field's Action Cards, which all require questions that need to be answered correctly in order to be used. As Eita keeps gaining life points and Yuya keeps losing them, things worsen when Eita activates an Action Card, bringing the quiz field to a new stage.
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#35 - Provisional Girlfriend and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 7
While Kazuya desperately tries to get Ruka to promise she won't reveal his secret, she tells him her own.
#36 - Gohei Mochi and a Grand Adventure
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 7
Oh no! Dad is sick! Tsumugi wants to get him something to make him feel better, and she's willing to brave fierce sharks, dark caves, and giant dogs to make her way to Kotori's house. But what will dad do when he wakes up and finds her gone? And what can Kotori do with this batch of rice she just burnt?
#37 - Tsumugi and the Long-Awaited Hamburg Steak
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 3
Tsumugi gets into a fight at daycare, and it spoils her mood for good cooking. Even the long-awaited Hamburg steak isn't enough to rouse her from her gloom. Can Kotori and Kouhei come up with a way to cheer her up so she can enjoy her meal? And will she find out how much her daddy really loves her?
#38 - Squid and Taro Stew That's Still Yummy Tomorrow
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 8
Kouhei wants to do something nice for his daughter. When his first idea is shot down, he decides to make her one of mommy's old dishes instead. Tsumugi choses squid and taro stew, a dish for grown-ups! Kouhei masters the art of chopping up a squid and peeling a taro, as Tsumugi attains enlightenment by looking into the squid's eyes.
#39 - Our Family's At-Home Curry
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 9
It's sleepover night at the preschool! The class is making curry, just like you'd make at home. But Tsumugi's "at-home curry" is different than usual. It's got raisins! Kouhei decides to make Tsumugi the special keema curry that her mother used to make. But how will Tsumugi react to this memory of her mother?
#40 - Rent-a-Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 1
Jilted and heartbroken, 20-year-old Kinoshita Kazuya turns to Diamond, a Rent-A-Girlfriend app that leads him to a fateful encounter with Mizuhara Chizuru, one of the talents on offer.
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#41 - Ex-Girlfriend and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 2
Immediately after deciding not to rely on pretend dating anymore, Kazuya is hit with a triple whammy of reveals: Chizuru not only goes to his college but lives next door to him, and his grandmother is coming to visit and wants to see her.
#42 - Beach and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 3
Kazuya barely has time to deal with the fallout of the situation in the pub before the gang heads off on a short trip to Izu, where they run into someone unexpected.
#43 - Uniforms and Pot Rice
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 1
Kouhei is a single dad living with his daughter, Tsumugi. He's busy and doesn't know how to cook, so he feeds her nothing but frozen foods and lunches from the convenience store. But when a chance encounter with a student of his gives him the opportunity to feed her a home-cooked meal, he leaps at it.
#44 - Hated Vegetables and Bits in Gratin
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 4
Tsumugi is like many young kids: she hates her veggies. Particularly those nasty green peppers! Is it possible for a child to like green peppers? Kouhei and Kotori decide to try and find out by making a delicious and tempting "roll-y" gratin that smothers those wicked peppers with cheese!
#45 - Summer Vacation, Kitty, and Aji
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 10
Tsumugi has decided that she's a cat! When Kouhei gets an ice chest full of yummy fish, she's more than excited to watch him make them! But to make namerou, or as Kotori calls it, "fish hamburg steak" you have to be able to filet the fish, and Kouhei doesn't know how! To make matters worse, neither does anyone else! Can he turn to the internet for help?
#46 - Friend and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 4
Mami's plan comes to a head as Kazuya decides to set the story straight, to mixed reactions.
#47 - Lies and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 9
Ruka is hellbent on knowing the full story behind Kazuya and Chizuru's relationship, and once she does she decides to take action.
#48 - Confession and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 1 - Episode 12
Chizuru and Mami go on an awkward rental date unaware that Kazuya has seen them together. How can Chizuru handle this situation?
#49 - Dream and Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend - Season 2 - Episode 1
As Mizuhara looks set to quit the rental girlfriend business, Kazuya goes to watch a play, one that could be pivotal to their relationship.
#50 - A Play and Sweet Potato Crêpes
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 11
It's the week of the play, and Tsumugi wants to be Mr. Galigali, the fluffy mascot of her favorite TV show. But trouble breaks out when her friends want her to be a magical girl. When Kouhei tries to cheer her up with talk of delicious sweet potato crepes, she snaps! "Daddy! All you ever talk about is food!" Can dad show that he really loves her? Will Kotori get to eat her sweet potato crepes? And will Mr. Galigali be able to help save the world in the school play?