The BEST episodes written by Pierre Sugiura
#1 - Annoying
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 2
A week after coming to the island, Handa is trying to focus on improving his calligraphy. However, he keeps getting interrupted by Naru and her friends, including middle-school girls Miwa and Tama, who want their old base back!
#2 - Buddhist Chanting and Dancing
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 8
It's Naru's birthday, and Handa wants to present her with a new rhinoceros beetle. However, Kenta not only refuses to help him catch one, but also declares a battle to get Naru the best bug! Later, Handa is invited along for a visit to the Kotoishi family gravesite, but finds the local Obon customs unusually cheerful.
#3 - Let's Go Together
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 10
After Handa submits his "Star" calligraphy despite some trepidation, he gets roped into helping to build a stone wall and then into taking the girls to the summer festival. Meanwhile, Kawafuji gets the exhibition hall director to agree to welcome Handa back to Tokyo. How will he bid farewell to the kind islanders who've taught him so much?
#4 - I am in Tokyo
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 11
Handa has returned to Tokyo, to show his new "STAR" calligraphy to the gallery director he had punched and ask for forgiveness. However, Handa doesn't feel quite right about the work, and ends up smearing it before the director can. Could some inspiration from his time at the island help him create an even better work before the deadline?
#5 - Cheerful Child
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 1
Handsome young master calligrapher Handa Seishuu has been exiled to a far-western island for punching a critic. He plans to focus on his writing in solitude, but rambunctious little Naru won't leave him alone...
#6 - The Opposite
Kumamiko - Girl Meets Bear - Season 1 - Episode 5
One of the kids in the village is put in a cell with Natsu as punishment for being naughty. Later, Natsu tells Machi how important it is to sense the mood in order to maintain a good relationship with others.
#7 - Time for Bear and Girl to Part
Kumamiko - Girl Meets Bear - Season 1 - Episode 1
Fourteen-year-old Machi Amayadori is sick and tired of life in her "boring" mountain village, but can a girl raised by a bear make it in the big city?
#8 - Commercial
Kumamiko - Girl Meets Bear - Season 1 - Episode 9
Kumade Village’s residents decide to create a commercial and broadcast it on TV as a village revitalization project. Yoshio has already discussed it with a TV station, so all they have to do now is shoot a commercial...
#9 - Village Treasure
Kumamiko - Girl Meets Bear - Season 1 - Episode 4
Yoshio asks Machi if she can survive without Natsu. Offended by Yoshio’s question, she starts listing the things she can do by herself. On a different occasion, she is harassed by a punk and cries to Natsu for help.
#10 - Village of Vanguards
Kumamiko - Girl Meets Bear - Season 1 - Episode 6
As part of the Kumade Village revitalization plan, Machi is asked to go check out a bookstore that is said to be very popular among young people.
#11 - Decision
Kumamiko - Girl Meets Bear - Season 1 - Episode 12
Machi has gone missing after making a blunder during the idol contest rehearsal. Yoshio and Hibiki look all over for her, but she’s nowhere to be found, and the time for her to appear on the stage is fast approaching.
#12 - Glad You're Back
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 12
With his calligraphy exhibition entry finished, Handa wants to return to the island and the people he cares about there. Unfortunately, his mom is dead set against it. How will he convince her to let him go?
#13 - Almost Got Badly Hurt
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 9
It's only two weeks until the Naruka Exhibition. Handa waits for inspiration as he deals with a broken bath heater and various scuffles with the kids. Unfortunately, not long after inspiration falls, so does Handa...
#14 - A High-Grade Fish
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 7
To make up for the turmoil of the previous two days, the village kids and Handa treat his guests to a fun day of fishing before bidding them farewell.
#15 - Guys From Tokyo
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 6
Handa's only friend, Kawafuji, arrives with a kid named Kanzaki Kousuke in tow, but their trip to Handa's house ends up being very roundabout. Why does Kousuke want to meet Handa so badly, and why did Kawafuji agree to bring him?
#16 - Going Swimming at the Beach
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 5
After the job from Miwa's dad breaks his artist's block, Handa's ready to get writing! But some distractions come up, in the form of the girls demanding penmanship help, a day taking the kids to the beach, and Naru's Grampa's addictive pickled daikon...
#17 - Island Dads
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 4
After his computer and cell phone break, Handa's only link to the outside world is the phone at the general store. He decides to focus on his entry for the upcoming Naruka Institute competition, but hits a wall. Can a job from Miwa's gangsterish dad help him break through it?
#18 - Mochi Thrown in Celebration
Barakamon - Season 1 - Episode 3
Tama hides a deep, dark secret, and meeting Handa may have led her to reveal it. Is it too late for her to save her reputation? Meanwhile, Handa is suffering his own angst after not placing first in a calligraphy competition. Maybe a friendly mochi-picking session with the villagers will cheer him up...