The BEST episodes written by Ryota Yamaguchi
#1 - Act of Kindness
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 15
Rin and his classmates succeed at the task gave to them by their teachers, but the camp is attacked by Amaimon, who holds Shiemi hostage to force Rin to fight. Having no option but to go full force against Amaimon, Rin is forced to reveal his secret by exposing his true form in front of his friends. With the other Exwires fleeing astonished after learning the truth about him, Rin easily overpowers Amaimon, but loses control of his flames and goes on a rampage. The Demon-Slaying Blade is cracked in the process.
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#2 - Truth
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 23
Ernst's plan to destroy Gehenna backfires when Satan reveals to Yukio the truth behind his and his brother's origin before taking posession of his body.
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#3 - Stop, Time!
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 25
Rin, Yukio, Shura and Arthur join forces to bring down the Gehenna Gate with no success. Meanwhile, demons keep coming through it and giving a hard time to the other Exorcists until the Esquires come with a plan to open a gate to Vatican, where is already daytime, and reflect the sunlight there to the Academy where is nightime to weaken the monsters protecting the Gehenna Gate. Rin and Yukio manage to seize these opportunity and when both unlock their demonic powers together, they fly through the gate and destroy it. One month later, things return to normal at the Academy and the Okumura twins return to the cave where they were given birth and pay a visit to their mother's grave. After visiting their mother's grave, they meet an "evil spirit" in a highway. Rin appears from a highway cave with Kuro. The evil spirit then attacks Rin and Yukio. Rin destroys the evil spirit's first body and then the spirit takes control over a truck. Yukio shoots at the truck, Rin tell hims that there is somebody in the truck. Yukio says its just a dead corpse, but Rin believes the driver is still alive and that it's an Exorcist's job to protect people and defend against demons. He tells Yukio and Shura to find its weak point and charges after the monster.
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#4 - Satan's Spawn
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 24
Rin and his companions manage to flee from Satan who starts destroying the True Cross Academy with his flames. Knowing that Satan still stands beside the Gate because Rin has the power to destroy it, Shura comes up with a plan to distract him to give Rin an opening to do it, while the other students help evacuate the school. Their plan fails when Shiemi intervenes trying to dissuade Yukio with no success, but Rin manages to have his brother regain conscience and expel Satan from his body. However, the gate keeps getting stronger and it will not be long for Gehenna and Assiah to merge into one single realm.
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#5 - Demon Hunting
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 22
Ernst takes over as the True Cross' newest leader and appoints Yukio as the new Paladin. Armed with special weapons that drain the blood of the demons killed with them, the exorcists take part in a widespread crusade to erase all demons from Assiah. Rin and his friends start questioning why the order decided to take such extreme measures, but Yukio is determined to accomplish his task as Ernst claims that it is all part of their plan to destroy Gehenna, and with the Demon world vanquished, both he and his brother would become completely human again. However, Ernst's real objective is revealed when he uses Rin as a human sacrifice to bring Satan to the Human World, using Yukio's body as a vessel.
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#6 - The Wager
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 16
Shiemi manages to calm down Rin, who is captured by Arthur Auguste Angel, the current paladin, and taken to the True Cross Order Headquarters in the Vatican along Shura and Mephisto Pheles. Meanwhile, Rin's classmates become astonished when Yukio reveals to them that he and his brother are sons of Satan, but offer their help regardless, and they set for Kyoto looking for the descendant of the swordsmith who forged the Demon-Slaying Blade to have it fixed. Before the Order's upper echelons, Mephisto states that his reason for keeping Rin alive is to have him confront Satan, and just when he is trying to convince them to agree to his plan, an enraged Amaimon breaks in, eager to confront Rin once more.
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#7 - Secret Garden
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 21
Shiemi in the Exorcist Shop finds a woman lying unconscious in their garden. Meanwhile, Yukio meets an old man on a train, who claims to be his grandfather, and reveals the truth about their Mother who was burnt alive by the Vatican proclaiming her to be a witch. He takes Yukio to a secret anti-demon Dragoon Laboratory and suggests Yukio to join him now that Shiro is dead and Mephisto has been arrested. Prof. Neuhaus is being interrogated in the Academy's Great Cell by Shura where he tells everyone(including Rin) that his wife,(Masked Man) Michelle, is nothing but a corpse with a certain demon in her body, intending to kill Satan but she was not resurrected from death by him. Rin finds out the woman in the garden to be Neuhaus' wife but Shiemi stops him from killing her. Paladin Angel appears in the garden to kill the demon but confronts Rin. Later, Michelle dies protecting Rin from the Order.
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#8 - Mask
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 20
Rin and Yukio find that their friends from the monastery where they were raised where attacked by a masked individual who covered their entire bodies with an seemingly indestructible spider web. While pursuing the culprit, whose objective is to attack anyone related to the son of Satan to make him suffer, Yukio stumbles into Neuhaus who flees without further explanation. Despite having his sword sealed by the web, Rin insists to go after the masked one but is held back by Yukio and Shura, until he gets word that his Suguro, Renzo and Konekomaru are being attacked too and rushes to help them. By managing to control his flames properly, Rin defeats the attacker, who flees thanks to Neuhaus who reveals her to be his wife, and safely releases his friends.
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#9 - A Fun Camping Trip
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 14
The first semester has ended, signaling the start of summer vacation for True Cross Academy students. But there’s no rest in sight for Rin and the other Esquires: first they must take part in a 3-day drill to prepare them for actual combat, under the guise of a camping trip out in the forest.
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#10 - Gale
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 18
Rin and Kamiki are attacked by an unknown enemy and Mephisto Pheles orders the Exwires to check the barriers protecting the school looking for any breach. The enemy is revealed to be a demon who took advantage of Konekomaru's fears to infiltrate the Academy. Meanwhile, Shura locates a hidden door leading to a suspicious abandoned lab. When Konekomaru's heart succumbs to the demon, his friends rush to help him, and Rin manages to slay the monster and save his life. Ashamed of causing so much trouble, Konekomaru decides to leave the Academy and return home, but Rin and the rest of his friends reach him before he departs and convince him to stay.
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#11 - Temptation
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 17
Easily breaking through all defenses, Amaimon reaches the room where Rin is being held and Mephisto convinces the Grigori to agree with his plan. Using the reforged Demon-Slaying Blade brought by his classmates, Rin defeats Amaimon and the Grigori decides that he has six months to pass the Exorcist authorization exam, thus he begins a special training to learn to control his flames. Despite they helped Rin by having his sword fixed, some of his classmates still has some mixed feelings about him after learning of his connection with Satan, the most awkward of them being Konekomaru, who is approached by a dark presence attracted by his fear.
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#12 - An Ordinary Day
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 19
The Exwires learn that Kamiki's birthday is coming and they decide to make a surprise party to her. Despite all their efforts to make the party a secret, Kamiki ends up figuring the truth and claims that it should also be dedicated to those whose birthday already passed too. In the end, the party becomes a celebration to everyone's friendship.
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#13 - Gehenna Gate
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 2
Fujimoto and his companions try their best to protect Rin from the demons who are after him, but he ends up posessed by Satan, the most powerful of the demons and Rin's father. Seeing his guardian taking his own life to protect him fron Satan, Rin decides to fight back by unlocking his demonic powers, even knowing that by doing it he would not be a human anymore.
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#14 - A Boy from the Cursed Temple
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 5
Having Shiemi as a new classmate, Rin's total disregard for classes brings forth the anger of another classmate of his, Ryuji Suguro, aka "Bon". After learning of Bon's story, Rin finds that they have more in common than he would like to admit.
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#15 - Residents of the Land of Eternity! The Pumpkin Pirates!
One Piece - Season 8 - Episode 10
Inside the mist, Luffy and his group discover a large ship graveyard. Luffy salvages a chest filled with gold and jewels from one of the shipwrecks, but a distant voice tells him to return the treasure and leave the mist. Usopp believes the voices to be ghosts, but they actually originate from a group of children who call themselves the Pumpkin Pirates. In his youth, Henzo was a member of this group, and they are the reason for his research. He spent his life in search of a means to rescue them from the Rainbow Mist. Only a short time earlier from their point of view, but fifty years earlier from Henzo's perspective, a group of pirates, led by a Captain Whetton, attacked the children's town. When Whetton came after the children, they tried to escape by stealing the pirates' ship. During the fight, Whetton smashed the ship's helm, and Henzo jumped overboard, taking Whetton with him, while the other children sailed into the mist.
#16 - An Inevitable Melee! Wetton's Schemes and the Rainbow Tower!
One Piece - Season 8 - Episode 12
Lapanui accuses Henzo of being Whetton's lapdog and says that in the past, Henzo would have never allowed that to happen. Usopp tells Lapanui that Henzo had endured the same insults from the townspeople yet still tried to rescue the children. Then, for no apparent reason, Luffy slingshots himself and Lapanui to another part of the mist. At the harbor, Nami ties a long lifeline, prepared by Henzo, to a boat and enters the Rainbow Mist. Once inside, Ian, who convinced one of the children to release him, steals the boat and escapes. He reaches Whetton and describes to him the mist's treasures. Whetton orders his men to invade the mist. The town's large tower falls into the water, creating a bridge from the island into the mist, and Whetton and his men cross it to attack.
#17 - And So, the Legend Begins! To the Other Side of the Rainbow!
One Piece - Season 8 - Episode 13
Luffy and Lapanui are outside the mist and use the newly created bridge to re-enter it. There, Luffy fights Whetton and, as it becomes clear that he cannot defeat Luffy face-to-face, Whetton detonates the tower, trapping everyone else inside and Whetton's abandoned men join forces with Luffy's group. An exit appears in the distance and they row toward it, but it closes too fast for them to reach it. Hoping to generate enough wind to blow the Straw Hats' ship clear of the mist, Lapanui stays behind to destroy the navy ship's armory. The other children follow him, promising to meet Henzo again. The explosion they cause successfully blows the Straw Hats' ship outside the mist. There, a group of navy ships, led by an aged Lapanui, arrives and confiscates the Rainbow Mist's treasures from Whetton and takes him and his men into custody.
#18 - Thoughts of Home! The Pirate Graveyard of No Escape!
One Piece - Season 8 - Episode 11
After entering the Rainbow Mist, the children followed the orders of Ian, the only pirate left on the ship. He mistreated them and they eventually locked him up in the brig of the wreck of a navy ship. Luffy and his group try to escape the mist, but they soon realize that they need help. The Straw Hats persuade one of the children to lead them to the Pumpkin Pirates' hiding place so they can ask them for a way out. Usopp prepares a steaming meal, which causes most of the children to like the Straw Hats; however, their leader, Lapanui, remains suspicious and unwilling to help. Henzo's snail-o-phone rings and the son of Whetton wants Henzo to investigate the mist, not knowing that the professor is already inside the mist. When Lapanui hears Whetton's name, he loses what little he trust has for Henzo.
#19 - Brothers
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 3
As part of his training to become an Exorcist, Rin gets himself enrolled at the True Cross Academy. On his first day of classes, Rin becomes shocked to know that his twin brother Yukio is already an Exorcist and will be one of his teachers.
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#20 - Confessions
Great Teacher Onizuka - Season 1 - Episode 41
Eikichi orders his class to walk through a derelict hotel as a test of nerves. Anko and Noboru make it past Eikichi's test, but when confronted by four local hooligans, Anko stands up for Noboru against the bullies and confesses her feelings towards him.
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#21 - The Phantom Chef
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 6
Rin and Yukio find that the responsible for their meals at the dormitory was Ukoback, a cooking familiar appointed by Mephisto Pheles to aid them. They also learn how Ukoback can be troublesome when he gets angry.
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#22 - Proof
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 13
Shura Kirigakure, a high level Exorcist and former apprentice of Father Shiro was acting as one of Rin's classmates tasked to investigate his connection with Satan. With orders to kill him if it were proven true, she is divided between fulfill her obligations and follow Shiro's request to look after Rin in his place if something would happen with him. Her doubts are cleared when she confronts Rin and finds that Shiro was actually raising him like a son instead of a weapon.
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#23 - The Corpse That Wanders the Night: Shirotabi
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 9
Satsuki's school pet keeper, Mio, brings a rabbit, Shirotabi, back to life through a black magic ritual. The spell works, but with a terrifying side-effect...
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#24 - A Flock of Plovers
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 7
Eager to make new friendships, Shiemi asks her classmate Izumo Kamiki to be her friend and she pretends to agree, but Rin soon realizes Izumo is just taking advantage of Shiemi's kindness instead. Later, the students are reunited at the old dormitory to take part in the Exwire exam, where a demon attacks Izumo and her friend Paku by surprise and it's up to Rin and Shiemi to protect them.
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#25 - The Garden of Amahara
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 4
Yukio sets out to the school's Exorcist-only shop to stock on some supplies along with Rin. There they find that the owner's daughter, Shiemi Moriyama, is being afflicted by a demon that dwells in her family's garden and, to save her life, they confront it by themselves.
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#26 - Memories
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 9
Mephisto Pheles reveals to the students that the ghoul attack was actually part of the Esquire exam and how they dealt with the threat will count as part of their evaluation. Yukio confronts Neuhaus about his reasons to force Rin to use his demonic powers during the exam and he claims that all he did was under Mephisto's orders. However, it does not take much for Yukio to realize Neuhaus' real intentions.
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#27 - A Game of Tag
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 12
The Exwires are tasked to look for the ghost of a child that is haunting Mephisto Pheles' amusement park. Rin and Shiemi manage to find the ghost first, but Shiemi ends up chasing it by herself while Amaimon, a higher demon and another son of Satan, steals Rin's sword and forces Rin to fight with him. Mean while another exorcist comes to defend him, and it is reveal to be an old friend of Rin's brother.
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#28 - The Life-Taking Ghost Photo: The Railroad Crossing of Evil
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 14
Momoko falls ill after visiting a haunted railroad crossing with Leo.
#29 - The Talking Mary Doll: The Shadows of Horror
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 11
Satsuki is stalked by a ghost called "Mary" which resembles a beautiful European-looking doll, asking her if she wants to play with her.
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#30 - Now a Certain Man was Sick
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 8
Still troubled after her friend Paku decides to leave the Exorcist lessons, Kamiki gets involved in a fight with Bon and the entire class end up punished by Yukio. Just after Yukio leaves for a mission, the students are attacked by another ghoul and while trying to help the others, Rin learns that the monster was sent by one of his teachers who wanted to confirm that he is the son of Satan.
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#31 - The Devil Resides in Human Souls
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 1
Rin Okumura is a teenager with a natural gift to get himself in trouble. Despite that he tries his best to meet the expectations of his twin brother Yukio and Priest Shiro Fujimoto, who acts as their guardian, until he finally learns about the dark secret behind his origin.
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#32 - Black Cat
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 10
Blacky went beserk when she heard the Father Shiro died and kept telling the exorcists that they were all lying about his death though only Rin could understand her (He said it may because they are both demons). When Yukio was about to use the item that Father Shiro gave him before if ever this scenario happens, Rin told him to let him calm Blacky down. In the end, Blacky accepted the fact that Father Shiro died and Rin and Yukio found out that the item that Father Shiro gave Yukio was actually his catnip wine.
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#33 - Terror at Bloodstained Lake: The Ghost in the Snow
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 17
Satsuki and her friends decide to visit her cousin, Miyuki, only to learn from Yuki, who claims to be Miyuki's younger cousin, that Miyuki died in a snowstorm and is now haunting the family cabin.
#34 - Legend Of The Rainbow Mist! Old Man Henzo Of Luluka Island!
One Piece - Season 8 - Episode 9
After escaping from another fleet of navy ships, the Straw Hats drop anchor outside a town with a huge tower. After they set foot on land, an official demands that they pay a harbor tax. The Straw Hats meet a scientist named Henzo, who asks them if they have seen what he calls the "Rainbow Mist." The other citizens of the town dislike Henzo because they have to pay high taxes to fund for his research. While shopping with Nami and Chopper, Sanji has a violent encounter with a tax collector, who is wearing an electric battle suit. A large, unmanned galley appears in the harbor, in the same condition that Henzo saw it fifty years ago. Henzo, Luffy, Robin, and Usopp aboard it. Further out at sea, a rainbow-colored mist appears and the group uses the Straw Hats' ship to enter it.
#35 - Godland Skypiea! The Angels Of the Cloud Beach
One Piece - Season 9 - Episode 11
As the crew arrives in Skypiea, they're greeted by Conis and her pet, Suu. Both she and her father start explaining how the life in Skypiea is and how the different Dials work.
#36 - The Soul Stealing Mirror: Utsushimi
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 7
A rumor about mysterious occurrences concerning mirrors begins to float around. It is said that victims of the mirrors begin to act very strange. One by one, strange things begin to happen to people.
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#37 - Uprising of the Navigator! For the Unyielding Dream!
One Piece - Season 8 - Episode 2
While fishing with Chopper and Usopp, Luffy fishes an ammonite-shaped vehicle out of the sea. The pirates debate if it is edible, but to their surprise, its side opens and a traveling salesman emerges. He offers them obscure items and tries to sell a pile of paper to Nami. However, before he can settle the deal, the salesman realizes that he is on a pirate ship and flees in panic, abandoning his merchandise. With the paper, Nami can finally begin drawing the map of the world that she has dreamed about making since her childhood. However, because the rest of the crew is causing mischief, she has trouble completing her work and has to restart twice before finishing her map of Reverse Mountain.
#38 - Matters of the Heart
Great Teacher Onizuka - Season 1 - Episode 40
Following her ordeal, Anko is conflicted over the new emotions that she feels for Noboru. To teach Anko to be true to her heart, Eikichi plans a special nighttime lesson for the class.
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#39 - The Nurse Who Announces Death: A Mother's Feelings
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 12
A mysterious nurse-like figure appears before Keiichirou and starts haunting him, although Satsuki refuses to believe him.
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#40 - Akane of the Broadcasting Room: Voice of the Dead
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 18
Satsuki's teacher asks her to take up the job of school announcer. While doing her task, Satsuki realizes that the broadcast room is haunted by the ghost.
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#41 - Demon of the Deep Seas
Blue Exorcist - Season 1 - Episode 11
Rin and his classmates Izumo and Shima are sent for their first mission as Exwires to a coast town aflicted by the presence of a Kraken. Izumo stumbles upon a boy whose father set to face the Kraken six months before and is still missing. The boy plans to enact his revenge against the creature as he believes it killed his father, but he and the Exwires find out what really happened when they encounter it, much to their surprise.
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#42 - Honky Tonk Women
Cowboy Bebop - Season 1 - Episode 2
A night at the casino lands Spike and Jet in hot water when they cross paths with Faye Valentine, a stunning con artist wanted by the law – and the bad guys.
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#43 - The Devil's Spell: Ritual of Darkness
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 15
Satsuki and three of her friends are taught and compelled into performing a black magic ritual that can grant their wishes, by their classmate Shinobu.
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#44 - The Bloody School Sports Festival: Datto
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 5
Satsuki decides to help Keiichirou boost his self-confidence by suggesting he enter the school's sports festival. While training, Keiichirou befriends a mysterious young boy.
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#45 - The Apartment That Eats People: Nest of Evil Spirits
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 16
While Satsuki's father falls ill with a mysterious fever after working on a building's demolition, she and her friends are lured to an abandoned building by a mysterious woman.
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#46 - The Tunnel With No Exit: Anamaneki
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 10
The town is haunted by the ghost of a taxi driver who died in a car accident in the cursed tunnel Anamaneki. Hajime decides to visit the tunnel for a class assignment.
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#47 - Requiem from the Dead: Elise
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 4
Satsuki helps a teacher take some boxes into the old school house's music room. She ends up alone and hears "Fur Elise". She finds out that if she hears the song four times, she will die.
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#48 - The Demon Hand That Tears Through Doors: A Night of Tragedy
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 6
The children of the town are attacked by a spirit, which leaves them shaking in fear for days, while their parents are not home.
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Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 19
The entire school is possessed and drawn into the old schoolhouse, all to lure Satsuki and the gang into a trap. Lord Ohma has awoken, and seeks vengeance upon Satsuki for her family's past attempts to seal him. In this final confrontation, who will emerge?
#50 - The Painting That Swallows People: Da Vinci
Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 13
Satsuki accidentally revives an evil spirit known as "Da Vinci" by painting a picture of the old school house and winning an art contest.