The BEST episodes written by Shinsuke Onishi
#1 - The Rippling Fear
Yona of the Dawn - Season 1 - Episode 13
Though the Blue Dragon appears before the party, he immediately leaves. Yona tries to head deeper into the Blue Dragon's cave to speak with him again. Hak tries to stop her out of concern, but she is determined.
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#2 - The Blindfolded Dragon
Yona of the Dawn - Season 1 - Episode 12
“Listen, Blue Dragon! Your eyes are cursed. I will teach you how to control them, but you must never use them!” In their search for the Blue Dragon, Yona and her friends visit a hidden village carved from stone. Though Ki-Ja insists the Blue Dragon is there, the villagers claim there is no Blue Dragon.
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#3 - Chain of Courage
Yona of the Dawn - Season 1 - Episode 20
"Why are you always so reckless, Princess? Sometimes I wish I could tie you up..." Sensing the impending battle against Kumji, the pirates steel their resolve. Meanwhile, Yona heads into the town for reconaissance with Jeaha and happens to spot Lord Kumji. Based on the stories of the townsfolk, Jeaha determines the day of Kumji's human trafficking deal with the Kai Empire, Kouka Kingdom's neighboring country. With Jeaha's report, the pirates immediately begin working on a strategy under Captain Gigan, when Yona suddenly says the unthinkable.
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#4 - Roar
Yona of the Dawn - Season 1 - Episode 5
“The red hair of what should have been the young and weak princess appeared to be a flame consuming her...” Hak is accused of murdering King Il. In order to protect Yona and the Wind Village, he gives up his title of chief and decides to wander alone.
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#5 - The Crimson Hair
Yona of the Dawn - Season 1 - Episode 6
“I will restore Kouka Kingdom to the powerful kingdom of the previous kings. Should anyone stand in my way, even if he is a god, I will crush him underfoot!” Though Hak continues to fight off the soldiers pursuing him, a poison prevents him from fighting like his usual self.
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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 - 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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#8 - Christmas Eve
Log Horizon - Season 2 - Episode 5
A man appears in Akihabara and begins killing adventurers with powerful Royal Guard equipment. Lenessia is shocked to learn that he is one of the Land people, of the Kunie clan. Akatsuki goes to put a stop to him herself, as the West Wind Brigade scouts find him...
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#9 - A Lost Child at Dawn
Log Horizon - Season 2 - Episode 6
Akatsuki is defeated by the murderer on Christmas Eve. She awakens to find herself in bustling Shibuya station in the real world. She wanders through the city as if escaping from something, and then appears on a quiet beach. Shiroe is there.
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#10 - They Met One Day, Unexpectedly
Darker Than Black - Season 2 - Episode 9
As Suō and July ride a train through Tokyo Suō collapses from a high fever, waking up in Kiko's bedroom. Kiko and Gai decide to help Suō search Tokyo for Suō's mother, but with little success. Misaki finds a recording by Amber which instructs her to find a certain CD, which informs her that Izanami will eventually meet Izanagi, at which point Hell's Gate will open. Following the advice of Madame Orielle, Suō proceeds to an airport to find her mother. At the airport Hei appears and kidnaps one of Misaki's teammates, easily evading Mina and escaping. Suō's mother cries upon meeting Suō in the airport, believing she is her twin brother Shion. In a car Suō tries to explain that she is not Shion, but her mother dismisses this saying that Suō died 8 years ago.
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#11 - Resolve
Log Horizon - Season 1 - Episode 6
Shiroe returns to Akihaba and Marielle tells him what the town is like. The initial chaos has subsided, but the larger guilds are in control, and evil guilds are tricking new players and taking advantage of them. Shiroe is angred by this, and tells Naotsugu, Akatsuki, and Nyanta of his plan. And then he tells the Crescent Moon Alliance that he's going to clean up the city of Akihabara.
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#12 - 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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#13 - Villain in Glasses
Log Horizon - Season 1 - Episode 8
After the success of their Crescent Burger, Marielle and Henrietta meet with the members of the major crafting guilds of Elder Tale: Karashin of Shopping Street 8, Michikata of the Marine Agency ,and Roderic of the Roderic Merchant Association. They use Shiroe's plan to dangle the secret recipe of the Crescent Burger in front of them, and the talented account Henrietta opens negotiations. What she wants is...
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#14 - A Lazy, Cowardly Princess
Log Horizon - Season 1 - Episode 17
The lords of the Free Cities of Eastal begin an emergency conference to discuss the goblin invasion. The protectors of the land people, the Izumo Knights, are missing, and they'll have to depend on the adventurers.
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#15 - God is In His Heaven...
Darker Than Black - Season 1 - Episode 23
Eric Nishijima is using a particle accelerator to wipe out the contractors. Amber gathers numerous contractors to destroy the accelerator, and dolls to be used for some other unknown reason. Nijishima is related to the Syndicate as he places a phone call to eliminate Hei and his team. Amber sends a message to Hei via Wei, telling him to meet her in the Gate. Hei agrees and thus Huang, Mao, and Yin, agree to assist Hei to infiltrate Hell's Gate with Wei's guidance.
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#16 - The Skylarks Take Flight
Log Horizon - Season 2 - Episode 21
Operation "Red Night" is canceled and the kids come home to a joyous reunion. They've gotten their magic bags and succeeded in their quest. But a strange man is going around Akihabara asking all the girls to marry him.
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#17 - 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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#18 - The Doll Sings in the Winter Wind
Darker Than Black - Season 2 - Episode 7
Misaki and Genma meet at the abandoned National Observatory, the former being warned that communications between her and the rest of the world are being tapped by the MIAC. Hei and the others escape from Sapporo under a heavy police lockdown by seeking assistance from the underworld. However, Hei is later duped when their contact gets away with kidnapping July. A Russian agent named Ilya Sokolov encounters Suō and uses his Contractor powers to help him detain her, Mao and July after killing their contact. Hei later comes to their rescue and kills Ilya, despite nearly being overpowered by Ilya's powers. The four later were able to arrive at the Sendai Shinkansen station, boarding it while Repnin of the FSB watches them from his cabin.
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#19 - Twinkling Sun on a Summer Day
Darker Than Black - Season 2 - Episode 8
Suō recalls a summer day in Vladivostok before the series when she played with Tanya by a pool. Meanwhile, Hei is intercepted by Repnin's men in the train hallway and Suō is confronted by Tanya. Repnin offers Hei a job with the FSB after inviting him to eat. During this time, Hei and Misaki are told simultaneously that Izanami has the ability to cause contractors to commit suicide. Hei refuses Repnin's offer and attacks him, while Tanya summons a swarm of insects to stop the train and escape with Suō. Outside the train, Hei and Suō face off against the FSB force on their own, defeating them. Unknown to Suō, Tanya was killed by Suō's brother Shion from a nearby rooftop. As Tanya floats in the stagnant pool, Suō ponders that she can never return to the innocent summer days she remembers. Suō later heads off to Tokyo with Mao and July on their own without Hei to guide them.
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#20 - 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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#21 - Attack
Log Horizon - Season 1 - Episode 15
Touya and Minori and the rest of the players in the training camp are hitting a wall with the way they fight. And Minori's suggestion is that they introduce themselves to one another!
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#22 - Chaos
Log Horizon - Season 1 - Episode 24
Akihabara is amazingly busy since the Scales Festival began. There are many land people in town, causing accidents, spreading rumors, and starting couples' fights, and even Shiroe can't deal with them. An influential noble named Marves arrives from Minami to see Laynessia. Laynessia tries her best to deal with him, but he gets closer and closer to her...
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#23 - Birthday Song
Log Horizon - Season 2 - Episode 20
A Minami plot was behind the massive wyvern attack on Saphir. To stop the plot, Nyanta attacks the train carrying the Minami general alone. But he's faced with the sorcerer he defeated long ago, the man who trapped Serara in the far north, Londark.
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#24 - Abjection
Gatchaman Crowds - Season 1 - Episode 7
Rui decides to face against Katze using the might of Crowds, but becomes overwhelmed when Katze uses his Gatchaman power. As Jou arrives on the scene to fight Katze, Sugane hears from Rui about the power he had received from him. With Jou becoming easily defeated by Katze, Hajime and Utsutsu arrive on the scene with help from Paiman's Gatchaman form, with Hajime questioning Katze before he retreats whilst Utsutsu heals the injured.
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#25 - Dreaming Shallow, Uninebriated... (Part 2)
Darker Than Black - Season 1 - Episode 20
The Organization orders Huang to kill Shihoko, and as a secondary directive secretly orders Mao and Hei to kill them and Alma if Huang fails. In Huang's past we see him falling for Shihoko, and then Shihoko killing his then police partner Isozaki. Isozaki's wife's memory is wiped by the ME, and Huang is drafted into the Syndicate. He is unable to kill Shihoko, and asks Hei to kill them both. Hei tries to help them run away while Mao refuses to have any involvement. When they arrive at the docks to wait for a boat, Shihoko sees someone from the Syndicate and realizes they cannot escape. For love of Huang she runs into the path of an oncoming truck and dies.
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#26 - Futurism
Gatchaman Crowds - Season 1 - Episode 3
Ninomiya Rui is a genius who built GALAX, the social networking service powerhouse, and General X, an AI. Rui seeks to update the world by intervening in a broad range of issues. He empowers the people to resolve them by using General X's ability to gather intelligence and match human resources. One day, however, he is faced with a challenge beyond the scope of anyone's abilities, and is forced to consider using a forbidden power...
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#27 - A New Journey
Log Horizon - Season 2 - Episode 15
As spring comes to Akihabara, Shiroe decides to send Minori, Touya, Isuzu, Rundelhaus, and Serara on a quest to get the magic bag, a convenient and critical item for high-level adventurers. The 5 excitedly put together their things and get ready to go on a journey.
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#28 - Dreaming Shallow, Uninebriated... (Part 1)
Darker Than Black - Season 1 - Episode 19
Hei is sent to infiltrate a religious organization and kill the Prophet, Alma. He is aided by an insider, another Contractor by the name of Shihoko whom Huang appears to know. Amagiri and Alma appear to be in cahoots with Alma providing him with dolls. A well-meant mistake on Huang's part leads to Shihoko's capture.
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#29 - 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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#30 - A Heart Unswaying on the Water's Surface... (Part 2)
Darker Than Black - Season 1 - Episode 14
Kastenin, Gai, and Kiko take Yin back to her home town, meanwhile Hei is given the order to kill Yin and is given her location. Getting to Yin is not going to be that easy since th contractors from before are still after Yin and have their own method to finding her. The race is on once more, but this time Hei must make the choice on whether or not to kill Yin. Will he kill her or will the option be taken from him?
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#31 - A Heart Unswaying on the Water's Surface... (Part 1)
Darker Than Black - Season 1 - Episode 13
Hei, Yin, and Mao are targeted by a group of contractors and now must fight to survive. Things become problematic when Yin goes missing. Now Hei and Moa must find her before the enemy does, but things change when Yin's old piano teacher gets Gai and Kiko to find Yin for him. The race is on to find Yin, but who will get to her first?
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#32 - The Scent of Gardenias Lingers in the Summer Rain... (Part 2)
Darker Than Black - Season 1 - Episode 8
As Gai investigates the murder of Toshiko he is attacked by the mind switching contractor, who wants his jacket back. Mao makes an attempt to steal the jacket and take off with it by switching bodies with a crow. He fails and must revert back to the cat body. Things don't look good for Mao when the contractor realizes who he is. Now Mao's life hangs in the balance, can hei get there in time to save him and kill the contractor?
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#33 - The Scent of Gardenias Lingers in the Summer Rain... (Part 1)
Darker Than Black - Season 1 - Episode 7
Gai and Kiko get hired by a widow and are asked to find the widow's lost black cat. While trying to find the cat, they meet Hei, who is looking for the Contractor that is killing employers from that same company. As both Gai and Kiko continue to look, Gai comes across the skeleton of a woman who has been dead for a while.
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#34 - Some Day, for the Third Time...
Alderamin on the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 8
Ikta and his soldiers are sent to deliver supplies to the struggling imperial armies as the war continues. Unused to fighting in the high mountains, and led by incompetent leaders the imperial soldiers suffer heavy casualties. Ikta devises a brilliant stratagem to retake an enemy fortress, but when a messenger begs him for help in saving his allies, he's forced to choose between risking his own soldiers life, and bringing another imperial force to certain doom.
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#35 - The Round Table Fractures
Log Horizon - Season 3 - Episode 3
When Shiroe goes to see Eins to discuss the future of Akiba, he finds the head of the Saiguu Family was also waiting for him. They ask Shiroe to help them with the Akiba Government. The answer Shiroe reaches is…
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#36 - The Fate of a Small Honor
Alderamin on the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 9
The war against the mountain people continues, and the imperial forces are about to make one last march to their final staging ground. The incompetent imperial commanders pick a route that leaves their flanks exposed to an attack, but fortunately Ikta persuades them to dismount and use their shields. In the midst of the Sinack attack, a group of unknown assassins appears out of nowhere and heads straight for the Lieutenant General! They're heavily armed and highly trained, but can Yatori stop them in time?
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#37 - Hyoketsu In the Moonlight
The Lost Village - Season 1 - Episode 9
As members of the group left behind try to make sense of their situation, Masaki, Hayato, Mitsumune, and the bus driver continue toward the tunnel. Masaki finally explains why she is adamantly against going through the tunnel, but how much of what she says can be trusted?
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#38 - Three Yuunas Is a Crowd
The Lost Village - Season 1 - Episode 5
Their escape plans thwarted, Mikage's group returns to the village to report their findings, only to find that Jack has broken free. As accusations fly, their unease only grows...
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#39 - At the Base of the Stairs of God
Alderamin on the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 6
Ikta and crew are assigned to a garrison in the far northern region of the empire: a lonely, desolate place at the foot of a massive mountain range. The garrison staff are petty and corrupt, and don't like it when Ikta slacks off and defies orders. But when they try to throw him in the garrison prison, he stumbles across a secret that they want desperately to keep hidden.
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#40 - Blessings
Log Horizon - Season 3 - Episode 5
Election day has finally come. Standing in front of Adventurers and the People of the Land, both Eins and Rayneshia give sincere speeches. Votes are cast and starting to be counted. What will the result be?
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#41 - Labyrinth in Akiba
Log Horizon - Season 3 - Episode 10
One morning, the Adventurers wake up and realize that the Akiba they're currently in isn't the Akiba they know. With reduced levels, they start to feel helpless, but Shiroe notices there's still hope.
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#42 - The Monk's Immorality
The Lost Village - Season 1 - Episode 6
While the two groups reunite in the village, the mounting suspicion of each other strains the group dynamic. As the group struggles to find some semblance of cohesion, more members begin seeing apparitions...
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#43 - The Northern Katjvarna Rebellion
Alderamin on the Sky - Season 1 - Episode 7
War breaks out in the far north, as the Empire's oppression of the mountain people results in a terrifying backlash. With the one competent leader in the Northern Garrison assassinated, the ignorant garrison commander flings the troops headlong into a highly defended, mountainous position, with disastrous results. Ikta and his friends are kept as part of the reserves for now, but it won't be long until they're thrust into the war as well.
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#44 - The Stranger in the Wind
Active Raid - Season 2 - Episode 8
An invisible Willwear is causing massive damage in random attacks across Tokyo. Unit 8 tracks the Willwear down to the quagmire zone, a hotbed of illegal immigrant activity. The area is a lawless zone, so Sena is sent to infiltrate as a civilian garbage collector. There, he meets an illegal immigrant from a equatorial nation, who he suspects of being involved in the attacks. When he strikes up a friendship with the man, however, he's forced to choose between his personal feelings of respect, and his duty.
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#45 - Who Benefits?
Active Raid - Season 2 - Episode 5
Unit 8 is overwhelmed by a new threat: too many Willwear criminals doing random misdemeanors at once. From smashing store windows to painting graffiti on the walls, these new Willwear foes are doing absolutely nothing to threaten the city. But their continued presence is a threat to Unit 8's reputation, and an increasingly frustrated public is losing patience. Can Unit 8 catch these minor crooks and salvage their reputation?
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