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 - 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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#3 - 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.
#4 - Peace Soul! Let's Rock!
Bakumatsu Rock - Season 1 - Episode 1
The period is what would come to be later known as the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. Kyoto overflows with the "Heaven's Song" sung by Shinsengumi top idols, and the people sing praises of the Tokugawa shogunate's Song of Peaceful world.
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#5 - 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.
#6 - 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?
#7 - Pork Soup and Restaurant Lights
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 2
Kouhei is worried about meeting with Kotori, his student. Is it okay for him to be meeting with an individual student outside of class? But Tsumugi is too young to know or care about the rules of the adult world, and what's more, Kotori has the promise of pork soup to tempt them both.
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#8 - 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?
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#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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?
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
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#14 - 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.
#15 - Ultra Soul! The Dawn of Rock!
Bakumatsu Rock - Season 1 - Episode 12
Edo is enveloped in a miasma. Tokugawa Yoshinobu finally reveals himself. Yoshinobu confesses he only wanted to see the Ultra Soul to relieve his boredom and cause Ii trouble for saying everything he did was for Yoshinobu while only giving attention to the Tokugawa shogunate. In his desperation, Yoshinobu begins destroying the city of Edo using the power of Heaven's Song.
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#16 - 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).
#17 - 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.
#18 - A Gyoza Party with Friends
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 6
Tsumugi wants to throw a party: a gyoza party! And a party means that she can invite all her friends, everyone she knows at daycare, and Kotori, and Shinobu, and even Yagi! But she's just a little girl, and doesn't know that you have to get permission from Kotori's mom before you can hold a party at Kotori's house. How can Kouhei resolve this sticky situation? And what's the best way to make gyoza, anyway?
#19 - 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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#20 - A Spirit's Awakening
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles - Season 1 - Episode 10
Rio returns home to the village of the People of the Spirits. The next day, he wakes to find an unknown, beautiful, naked girl beside him...?! Latifa and the others peek into the room and chaos ensues, but it turns out that the girl is Rio's bond spirit. As she doesn't have a name, Rio gives her one-Aishia. Dryas, a spirit of great trees, appears after sensing the presence of a powerful spirit. At her urging, Rio and Aishia agree to fight in order to determine her combat capabilities.
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#21 - Return of the Hero-King, Inglis
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 1
An ancient king is reincarnated countless years after his death so that he can truly master the blade.
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#22 - 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.
#23 - 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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#24 - Royal Academy
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles - Season 1 - Episode 2
As a reward for saving the kidnapped Princess Flora, Rio has been enrolled in the primary school branch of the Beltrum Royal Academy. However, the students at the academy are mostly the children of royalty and the nobility, and they do not welcome the orphaned Rio. With so many scornful gazes turned toward him, there is one person who worries for him—Celia, a girl of twelve who is nonetheless, at her young age, the lecturer in charge of the primary school. As Rio cannot read, Professor Celia begins privately tutoring him after school.
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#25 - 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!
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#26 - 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.
#27 - Encounter With the Hyral Menas
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 2
Inglis comes to learn more about the strange world around her, and how it differs from her own time.
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#28 - The Town Ruled by the Highlander
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 4
Inglis makes a new friend after a complex battle involving the leader of the Bloodchain Brigade.
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#29 - Festival Night
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles - Season 1 - Episode 6
It's been over a year since Rio began living in the village, and now the day of the Grand Spirit Festival has arrived. With the blessing of the great tree spirit Dryas, Rio is recognized as a sworn friend to the People of the Spirits. That night, while everyone is having fun and feasting, Rio tells Latifa that he intends to leave the village. Unable to accept it, Latifa runs off into the forest. Meanwhile, an airborne intruder is detected and the warriors of the village go to investigate suspicious od reactions. What they discover is a huge flight of wyverns headed straight for the village.
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#30 - 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.
#31 - Top Idol! Rampage at a Concert!
Bakumatsu Rock - Season 1 - Episode 2
Ryoma, Takasugi, and Katsura begin playing together as a band. Not only are they completely unpopular, but in a city where all music other than Heaven's Song is prohibited, they lose more and more places where they are free to sing their rock. Completely stumped, they go to a Shinsengumi concert for ideas.
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#32 - 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?
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#33 - Okonomiyaki Filled With Affection
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 12
It's the one-year anniversary of Tsumugi's mother's death, and she and Kouhei go to the countryside to attend the funeral. On the night after they get back, Kouhei is too tired to cook, so they go to an okonomiyaki restaraunt. But Tsumugi throws a fit when she finds out it's not what she thought. Kotori offers to make her real okonomiyaki to make her feel better. This time the whole gang drops in, even Kotori's mom!
#34 - The Order to Protect Ripple
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 8
The students of the academy set up teams to protect Ripple from the magicite beasts she's unwittingly summoning.
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#35 - 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.
#36 - 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?
#37 - Butt-Kicking Squire
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 11
The plan to save Ripple proceeds as Inglis meets a powerful foe.
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#38 - Setting Out for the Capital
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 3
Inglis leaves her home and sets out for the capital to begin the next stage of her life.
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#39 - 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.
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#40 - 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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#41 - The Hyral Menas's Disease
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 7
Ripple is very sick, and it looks like the Highland is responsible...
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#42 - A Day Off and Special Doughnuts
Sweetness & Lightning - Season 1 - Episode 5
Tsumugi has a problem: she finds doughnuts difficult. Are they a snack? Are they a meal? She finds the answer when Kotori and her father make homemade doughnuts, a feat she didn't even know was possible. But can Kouhei handle frying foods without burning them?
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#43 - 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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#44 - The Plan to Attack a Highlander
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 10
A new Highlander emissary comes, and the Bloodchain Brigade wants him dead.
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#45 - Royal Knights' Academy
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 5
Inglis begins her new life at the Knights' Academy.
#46 - 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?
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#47 - 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.
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#48 - 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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#49 - Labyrinth of Trials
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Season 1 - Episode 6
The party is selected to take a special test that will push them to their mental limits.
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#50 - 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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