The BEST episodes written by Shinji Takamatsu
#1 - Cute Little Boys of Love And Youth
Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! - Season 1 - Episode 4
Long ago, two boys made wishes on a shooting star. One night in the student council room, Kusatsu thinks back on that day, and renews his oath of world domination. Meanwhile, the Earth Defense Club is holding one of its usual conversations about nothing in Kurotama Bath.
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#2 - Illuminated Ground
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 8
The cultural festival begins, though initially no one is coming to see the planetarium. After Haruko from the city planetarium arrives, she helps to bring in the people and the planetarium is well received by viewers for the rest of the day. Mihoshi thanks Saku for everything he has done for the club and is thankful that she has not caused him any trouble while he was helping the literature club. After the festival, the club members are distraught at the thought of dismantling the planetarium, but eventually take it down. The astronomy club was not able to win any prizes for the festival and thus still do not have enough money to even buy a telescope. Sayo takes the club to her family's Buddhist temple and perform a small moon festival. The astronomy club receives a video letter from the president of the astronomy club of Nogishiro High School in the same prefecture as Sōei High School inviting the club to the Autumn Stargazing Conference of the Prefectural High School Astronomy Network.
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#3 - That's Like White Snow
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 11
Saku's astronomy club participates in a winter stargazing camp with the girl from Takami Girl's School, who also participated in the Autumn Stargazing Conference. Saku, Edogawa and especially Hime do not dress warm enough, and while Saku and Edogawa brought more warmer clothes, Hime cannot dress in layers with the extra clothes she brought. After spending the first day freezing, Hime goes out at night to go to a local convenience store, but it is already closed by the time she gets there and a blizzard is blowing in. Hime tries to get back to the cabin, but quickly gets lost. The others notice she is gone, and also suspect Mihoshi went out to search for her. With Hime close to freezing to death, Mihoshi finds her and the two wait out the blizzard in a small snow cave. They find they were not far from the cabin and while they are scolded for what they did, everyone is relieved to have them back safely.
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#4 - First Star
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 2
No one besides Saku has joined the astronomy club, so recruiting tactics are still going on. Hime Makita from Saku's class is annoyed that Mihoshi and other astronomy members come to their class so often when she would rather spend some time alone with Saku. Hime met him on the bus to take the entrance exam of the school they now attend, and was thrilled to see they were put in the same class. After Hime finds out that Saku and Mihoshi are not dating, Hime joins the astronomy club, which finally becomes officially recognized. Another day, the astronomy club members go stargazing far from the city's lights.
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#5 - Together
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 10
After overhearing Mihoshi and Sōma about plans together on the weekend, Saku, Hime and Edogawa follow them around town to find out what is going on, and initially they are out on a date. They eventually follow them to the grave site of Mihoshi's father who died in a car accident and everyone pays their respects. Saku, Hime and Edogawa feel awkward around Mihoshi after this. Fumie tries to give Saku a bookmark souvenir from her school trip to Hokkaido, but her glasses are broken after Saku protects her from a stray baseball. Saku offers to walks her home and on the way they run into two members of the literature club who to take her the rest of the way. Saku gets Fumie's help to set up a shooting star viewing event at school for Mihoshi, who is overcome with emotion over it.
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#6 - The Star of Words
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 5
Fumie finds the astronomy club members sleeping in the same room after they collapsed from exhaustion the previous night, and she forbids them from taking part in club activities for one night. The next day, three guys hit on Hime and two literature club members, and Fumie tries to interfere at first, but when Saku goes to help, he trips and falls into the guy's fist. Mihoshi and Hime manage to take care of the three guys, and Saku is taken inside and cared for, though he only has a small cut. While the other astronomy club members are taking a bath, Fumie talks with Saku about the astronomy club's activities and they decide to invite the literature club members the next night to show them what the astronomy club does at night. Hime takes care of pointing out several constellations and the Milky Way, and everyone enjoys the night of stargazing.
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#7 - The Moon and Sweet Osmanthus
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 7
Despite initially going to refuse, Saku ends up agreeing to help the literature club. Mihoshi acts cheerful without him there, but is still troubled by his absence. Meanwhile, the astronomy club has their hands full with making the planetarium. Mihoshi suddenly hugs Saku one day after school and rumors spread after some athletic club members see them together with Sōma. Fumie becomes concerned that Saku has been helping the literature club too much and that he may be concerned about the rumors regarding him, Mihoshi and Sōma. Hime gives Saku a journal she compiled about the planetarium's construction. Saku feels re-energized about the astronomy club and goes back to help.
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#8 - Pleased to Meet You
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 6
The new semester starts and on the bus to school Saku notices a tall man also getting off at the school. During the welcome back ceremony, the man that Saku saw earlier is introduced as a new teacher named Nozomu Sōma who is in charge of Saku's class and world history. Mihoshi calls him "Sō-nii" in front of everyone and rumors abound as to what their relationship is. Later, Sōma becomes the astronomy club's adviser and he explains to the others how Mihoshi's father was his professor at college and also the club adviser for their astronomy club. Sōma wants the club to do a planetarium for the upcoming cultural festival and they get in the top three in a popularity contest in exhibits, the club will get more funding. Saku becomes annoyed at Mihoshi's and Sōma's relationship and is approached by Fumie to help with the literature club.
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#9 - High School Astronomy Network
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 9
Mihoshi and the other members are excited about the Autumn Stargazing Conference, and are surprised at the size of Nogishiro High School along with the number of members in their astronomy club. After the sun sets, everyone splits into groups and the process is explained by Nogishiro's astronomy club president Ayumi Ōmi; each group is free to stargaze until the moon sets, upon which each group will begin counting visible stars in a patch of sky to measure the overall brightness of the sky. Ayumi asks Saku to help on patrol around the school and they come across Hime and a second-year named Musa after she overreacts and thought he was trying to assault her. Afterwards, everyone goes back to the roof now that the moon has has set, and Ayumi confesses to Saku that her astronomy club actually only has nine members in it and mostly everyone else is from other clubs. Takeyasu Roma does a narration of the autumn sky myth which everyone loves. Ayumi later confronts Roma and reminds him that they were once members of the same astronomy club at Goshima Science Museum.
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#10 - Starry Sky Loop
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 12
The astronomy club members wake up late the next morning and first spend some time warming up in the outdoor baths. Ayumi Ōmi notices Roma stressing over studying for university entrance exams, and takes him to buy a study book and then have dinner at a fancy restaurant. The astronomy club members wait until the moon sets on the third night and spend their final night in the mountains stargazing and taking photos. The members use some eyepieces Mihoshi brought to find Saturn, which is an entrancing sight for everyone. The following spring, Mihoshi has succeeded as club president after Roma graduated and entered into university with Ayumi. Everyone puts in more effort this year for recruiting members, since they are now one member short, and are again in danger of getting disbanded.
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#11 - Planetarium
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 3
Mihoshi has been bothering Saku too much lately so he takes a break from the club and goes to the library where he meets the student council president Fumie Kotozuka by chance. After talking with her, Saku realizes Mihoshi is merely expressing her feelings honestly like she always has and Saku agrees to accompany her with stargazing. However, the rainy season begins causing Mihoshi to get very depressed over the cloudy skies. With Saku's suggestion, the astronomy club goes to the planetarium and are shown the summer constellations. After the rain ends, Mihoshi wants the club to go on a summer stargazing camp.
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#12 - After School / Skirts / Ghost Stories / Female Companion / Literary Girl
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 1
In this episode, see high school boys role play how to get a girlfriend, wear their sister's clothes, tell scary stories, block another boy's relationship with a girl, and act cool down by the river.
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#13 - Welcome to the Astronomy Club!
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 1
After having moved away several years earlier, Saku Ōyagi returns to his hometown to begin his high school life. Saku has always enjoyed simply staying home and reading books, but his childhood friend Mihoshi Akeno used to forcibly take him outside to take part in various activities. On their last day together, Mihoshi fell out of a tree, causing Saku to go to the hospital with a broken arm, and since then Saku has never wanted to see Mihoshi again. However on his first day at high school, he meets Mihoshi as she is trying to recruit members into the astronomy club. Saku attempts to avoid her as well he can, but after Saku realizes that the reason Mihoshi did not see him off years ago was because she too was in the hospital, Saku makes up with Mihoshi, and joins the astronomy club.
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#14 - Demons / Lies / UFO Catchers / Store Employees / Assertiveness / Getting Hit On / Frankfurter / ...
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 12
In this episode, see high school boys lie, play a crane game, get help from a store clerk, comment on the relationships of others, save a girl from the advances of strangers, enjoy a hot dog, and graduate from high school.
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#15 - Doubles
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 7
Iori and the others dream about going diving at a beautiful location after seeing an article on Miyakojima in a magazine. However, Tokita and Kotobuki decide the club is going to join a tennis doubles match! They explain that they're joining the match to get everyone to build trust with their diving buddy, but the real reason is to get back at the tennis club and take away their prize money!
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#16 - Fathers / Literary Girl 4 / Conflict / Kick the Can / Chitchat / Love Letters / Distance / Annoyance / Conflict
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 11
In this episode, see high school boys bond with their father, get caught in an awkward situation, compete with each other, ruin their friend's stuff, engage in small talk, get a love letter, get their souls crushed by a girl, and get annoyed.
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#17 - Until Dawn
At the Mercy of the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 4
The president of the astronomy club organizes the stargazing camp, but before they go, Hime becomes agitated that Mihoshi is all over Saku, and she yells out asking what she thinks of him. Mihoshi replies that she loves him, but follows it up saying that she loves everyone else too. After they arrive near a lake in norther Japan, they find the literature club also came for a camp, and while they get to stay in a large resort-type building, the astronomy club members are left to stay in a run down place. Mihoshi cleans it up and the members take a nap so as to wake up at night for stargazing. Saku and Hime are still concerned about what happened earlier, but they later clear it up between each other. The astronomy club spends the entire night stargazing and watch the sunrise.
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#18 - Otori
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 12
For the last half of their trip, the Peek-A-Boo members arrive in Miyakojima. Everyone goes for a serious dive into the majestic sea with the exception of Iori, who couldn't obtain his license. Everything is magical with the stunning coral reef, colorful fishes and sea turtles, until the members engage in PaB-style Otori (a drinking custom of Miyakojima), which turns things into a living hell...
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#19 - The Male Beauty Pageant
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 4
The Izu Spring Festival has begun! The members of Peek-a-Boo run an okonomiyaki stall with Iori, Kohei, Chisa, and Azusa helping out. Iori finds himself in a complicated situation when a misunderstanding with Azusa occurs and a rivalry with the tennis club Tinkerbell begins. When Chisa gets nervous and freezes up during the women's beauty pageant, Iori and Kohei think of a plan to cheer her on.
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#20 - Men's Cocktails
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 8
The members of the diving team start working part-time jobs to pay for their trip to Okinawa. However, Iori and Kohei end up spending all their earnings on drinking. Meanwhile, Kotobuki is working hard as a bartender, and his boss lets Iori and Kohei try it out too. However, these two idiots don't know how to make cocktails, and end up creating some dangerous new drinks!
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#21 - Too Late
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 5
Iori and Kohei attend class in their underwear like normal, but everyone glares at them with a bloodthirsty look in their eyes! It's because they heard that Iori and Chisa are dating! Sensing their lives are in danger, Iori and Kohei offer to setup a mixer. They ask Azusa to introduce her friends, but she brings Aina Yoshiwara, the "Cakey" girl from the Izu Spring Festival!
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#22 - Gags / Indoor Adventures / Older Brothers / As We Are / Careers / Mitsuo / High School Girl Power
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 7
In this episode, see high school boys entertain each other with gags, LARP at home, try to ignore the girl who is embarrassing herself, take a questionnaire, and talk about how dumb their friend is.
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#23 - You Have the Wrong Idea
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 11
"You might be the only one who can't pass the license test," Nanaka says to Iori, pointing out what he's bad at. To avoid being made fun of by Kohei and Nanaka, he practices secretly. Yet, while practice, all he thinks of is how to poison them at dinner. He avoids being pairs with Kohei and Aina and gets Chisa to promise to help him with practice. But, these interactions cause misunderstandings...
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#24 - Morning Journey / Convex Mirror Girl / Friendship Power / Literary Girl 2 / Traditional Events / The Time of Childhood / Ghost Stories 2 / The Daily Life of a Lady
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 2
In this episode, see high school boys LARP on the way home from school, work at a pizza place, prove their friendship and camaraderie, mistake people for someone else, talk to their principal, relive their childhood, and tell more scary stories.
#25 - Arrival in Okinawa
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Peek-a-Boo members arrive in Okinawa! After checking out their gorgeous vacation home, the group decides to head to the beach. In order to make sure the guys don't try to get naked, they decide to go to a popular beach with lots of visitors, where they have some wild fun on a banana boat. However, Iori loses their banana boat contest and ends up having to sleep in Nanaka and Azusa's room!
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#26 - Underwater
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 2
After a cutthroat battle with Kohei Imamura, a handsome otaku from school, Iori ends up joining the Peek-a-Boo diving club. Iori arrives home worn out from the day, but perks up when he hears about a party with a women's college. However, his cousin Nanaka won't allow him to stay out three nights in a row, so Iori tries to show her he's an independent man to get her to let him go.
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#27 - Dubbing / Seniority / The Savior / Old Friends / The Biography of a Hero / Literary Girl 3 / Resentment
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 5
In this episode, see high school boys dub girls on the street, get picked on by older girls, pretend to get beaten up, catch up with old friends, remember childhood memories, and try to act cool.
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#28 - Limits / Consequences / Winter / Run / Mochi Soup / Ground / Bikes / Cooking / Schools / Women Who Left a Scar
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 10
In this episode, see high school boys hold it for as long as possible, have a bad day, prepare for winter, run from a girl, choke on food, slip on the pavement, ride a bicycle, cook for their sister, and hang out at school.
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#29 - Older Brothers and Sisters / Drop-Kicks / The End of Summer / Glasses / The Daily Lives of the Student Council / Panties / Wiring / Archdemon
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 9
In this episode, see high school boys deal with their sibling dating their friend's sibling, visit their grandmother, break a younger girl's heart, lose their glasses, solve issues with the student council, prove points, and atone for misdeeds.
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#30 - Motoharu's Sister / Mitsuo's Worries / Manga / Balconies / Convenience Store / Towers / Cakes / Horoscopes / 100 / Ramen / Skirts
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 8
In this episode, see high school boys converse with their sister, console their friend, critique their friend's fan comic, talk to the girl across the balcony, go to the convenience store, help a girl, eat cake, discuss horoscopes, and deal with bugs.
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#31 - Deep Blue
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 1
When Iori Kitahara heads off to college, he decides to live at his uncle's dive shop in Izu. Iori is looking forward to experiencing college life, but ends up running into a group of tough guys playing strip rock-paper-scissors. Iori gets dragged into the diving club's crazy shenanigans and ends up spending his first day in college wearing nothing but a pair of underwear.
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#32 - The Holy Night / The New Semester / Little Sister's Troubles / Ringo's Troubles / Motoharu's Troubles / The Sure-Kill Shot / The Past
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 6
In this episode, see high school boys get chased by their friend's sister, hang out on the first day of a new term, secretly back up a friend's sister, console a girl, look for lost puppies, and try out their new super moves.
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#33 - First Buddy
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 6
Inori and Kohei get through their exams by cheating. Meanwhile, PaB throws a welcome party for Aina, their new member. Aina was looking forward to getting a new start to college life, but discovers that no one in the club is normal! Nevertheless, the club members are serious about diving and have the new members learn basic hand signals and dive in pairs. However, Iori gets paired up with Chisa.
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#34 - Truth or Dare
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 9
Iori tries to setup another mixer for his friends, and wants to ask Chisa to introduce her friends so they can all play truth or dare. Nanaka and Azusa also get involved, and they all begin a vicious game of attack and defense! However, Iori doesn't have enough money for their trip. Iori and the gang head to a diving shop to buy diving gear, but find out there's still a lot they don't know.
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#35 - Eavesdropping / The Cultural Festival / Counselling / Humour
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 4
In this episode, see high school boys eavesdrop on their friends, plan and execute a school festival, and get advice from a girl.
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#36 - Summer Plans / The Beach House / Hot Spring Balls / The Radio DJ / Summer Memories / The Train to School / Uniform and Boyfriend
Daily Lives of High School Boys - Season 1 - Episode 3
In this episode, see high school boys make plans for summer, go to the beach, play table tennis, pretend to host a radio talk show, create great summer memories, and become obsessed with a girl.
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#37 - A New World
Grand Blue Dreaming - Season 1 - Episode 3
Iori and Kohei don wetsuits and head to the sea! Although Iori used to be afraid of the water, he starts becoming more interested. But diving equipment is expensive! Tokita and Kotobuki decide to hold a men's beauty pageant for the Izu Spring Festival in May. The guys want to avoid being paraded around on stage, so they try to get Chisa to participate in a women's beauty pageant.
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#38 - 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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