The BEST episodes written by Yuka Yamada
#1 - Abandoned Illusions
The aquatope on white sand - Season 1 - Episode 10
With the Gama Gama Aquarium soon to be closed, Kukuru is desperate to find ways to keep it afloat. She tries to figure out a way to market the illusions that people had been witnessing there.
#2 - Penguin Chaser
The aquatope on white sand - Season 1 - Episode 14
Fuuka has returned to Okinawa to find a dejected Kukuru, struggling to do well at work.
#3 - There's a Very Fine Line Between Attacking & Defending
Himawari - Season 2 - Episode 4
The organization sends another sinister device: micro-ninjas. And this time, they're after Himeji. Once again, by following the urges of his stomach, Hayato finds himself in a predicament.
#4 - Emperor of Demise Arrives! (It Was the Final Episode Before We Knew It)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 1 - Episode 13
Their day off is peaceful, and Miss Kobayashi spends her time relaxing with the others as usual. However, while out shopping, Tohru suddenly stops to think on the street--Miss Kobayashi is human, and what will she do when her lifespan runs out and she dies...? They can't be together forever. They'll have to part someday. She knew that. She was prepared for that. Yet still, Tohru's mind is in turmoil, and the final blow is dealt when the Emperor of Demise--her father--appears before her.
#5 - A Female Ninja's Forbidden Valentine
Himawari - Season 1 - Episode 5
The academy gets a new transfer student who proves to be fierce competition for Himawari.
#6 - Tsukiyono Forest Holds Many Dangers
Himawari - Season 2 - Episode 8
The enemy attacks the village, but, thanks to Nanafushi's warning, the girls are able to escape. They seek refuge in the forest. Hayato suggests that Himawari return home to her granny and save herself, but she refuses to leave her friends.
#7 - A Bond That Cannot Be Severed
Himawari - Season 1 - Episode 11
The group goes hiking in the mountains. Momota runs off, leaving Yusura extremely worried. While she and Himawari go to look for him, an avalanche creates problems for them.
#8 - I'll Protect Everybody
Himawari - Season 1 - Episode 8
With Shinobi Academy destroyed, the girls create a home base within the same forest that their classmate Tsukiyohime dwells. Little does the gang know of an impeding danger that threatens the sanctity of forest as well as their friendship.
#9 - Year End, New Year! (No Comiket Bit This Time)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 1 - Episode 11
The end of the year is drawing close as well. When Tohru plays the lottery at the shopping district, she wins a prize--a kotatsu, not the hot springs trip. Once they finally join Miss Kobayashi in the kotatsu, the dragons start lazing around... The kotatsu ruins not only humans, but dragons too. That relaxed, lazy mood is how Miss Kobayashi's family ends up spending their end of the year and the new year. Their peaceful days off pass by uneventfully. Meanwhile, Tohru and Kanna also change into kimono for their first shrine visit of the year--?!
#10 - The Strongest Maid in History, Tohru! (Well, She Is a Dragon)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 1 - Episode 1
One morning, as she left for work, she found a dragon before her. Stunned, the dragon transformed into a beautiful girl with horns, a tail, and a maid outfit right before Miss Kobayashi's eyes. Calling herself Tohru, this dragon-girl asked, "Please let me serve as your maid from now on!" Confused by her question, Miss Kobayashi remembered inviting the dragon into her home last night while drunk.
#11 - Home Visit! (And Homes Not Visited)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 1 - Episode 6
Kanna is invited to Saikawa's home. Since Saikawa's family has a maid too, they invite Miss Kobayashi and Tohru to join her. When a genuine maid, Josie, greets them, Miss Kobayashi gets excited. The two hit it off, chatting about maids. To top things off, Lucoa announces she's planning to live in this world too. She claims she was summoned by Shouta, a member of a mage family. Lucoa gets very touchy to try and get along with Shouta, but she goes overboard...
#12 - Second Dragon, Kanna! (We're Totally Spoiling Here)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 1 - Episode 2
Miss Kobayashi was growing accustomed to her new life with Tohru, and so they headed out to go shopping together. She's surprised by Tohru's social skills though, when she sees how friendly Tohru was with the people of the shopping district. However, Tohru herself makes the dark claim that she's only pretending to be friendly, and shows how she still doesn't understand human emotions. Then on one of her days off, someone calls at Miss Kobayashi's home. She opens the door to find a little girl with horns and a tail--?!
#13 - Page.10
Blue Spring Ride - Season 1 - Episode 10
Futaba notices a change in the vibe between Kou and Yuuri during the study meeting. She really wants to ask Kou about it, but ends up skirting the issue. Instead, she tells Kou that she wants to know more about him. Kou shows her to a certain room. There, in silence room, Futaba realizes the reason why Kou changed.
#14 - Common Sense (It's Different for Everyone)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 7
Two suspicious figures appear in a dark alley under the cover of night. An unsettling air hangs over their secret exchange. "What do you need, asking me to come here?" asks the perverted woman with two horns. "Lend me your power," answers the melancholic man in a butler uniform. And so the most sinister and awful tag team begins to take action.
#15 - Android Yamada Episode 4: Isolated / The InaUsa Mysterious Detective Agency: Case File 9: Bōbō / Yo-kai Muchaburikko
Yo-kai Watch - Season 2 - Episode 52
#16 - Komari Hills 90210 Episode 4: Sleepover / Tomnyan VS Konamono Japon / Yo-kai Kameppa
Yo-kai Watch - Season 2 - Episode 60
#17 - Waltz Of The Bewildered Heart
La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~ - Season 1 - Episode 4
Hino seeks a piano accompanist, which proves difficult because she is a general education student. She is wary of an offer by Azuma Yunoki to find her an accompanist. Eventually another girl offers to accompany her and she accepts. She visits the shop after practice, where the manager offers to show her a video recording of a young prodigy, who turns out to be Tsuchiura. She is amazed at his piano playing, and is overwhelmed with emotion, which makes her cry. She laments that as a violinist, she cannot play Chopin’s pieces. The manager manages to find the score, Chopin's Allegro, for the violin. She makes up her mind to play this in the concours. Later, Hino encounters Tsuchiura, and on her request, he plays for her. When she tells him about the video she saw, the feelings about his playing, and her regret that he no longer plays the piano in public, Tsuchiura becomes upset and leaves but then regrets it.
#18 - There Are Various Reasons Behind It (It's Full of Elma)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 9
It all started with a single statement from Elma--"I demand improved worker conditions!" The company Miss Kobayashi and the others work at is very close to being exploitative, and Elma finally realizes their situation is wrong and rises up against it. Miss Kobayashi assumes it's impossible to improve their working conditions, but the dragon's energy and spirit were far greater than she imagined...
#19 - The Secretive Duet
La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~ - Season 1 - Episode 7
Kanazawa asks Hino to come with them shopping for food and souvenirs, leaving Tsuchiura, Hihara, Yunoki and Tsukimori at home. Kanazawa left a note saying that they can pre-heat the food for lunch. Unfortunately, Tsukimori burnt the food thus having Tsuchiura make lunch. After the dinner, Tsukimori fell asleep. When he woke up, he heard Hino playing and he made a duet with her. Upon returning to school, Tsukimori is chased by school newspaper reporter Nami Amou. He stumbles upon Hino who just finished practicing her violin and covers her mouth when Amou's voice is heard just outside and after she passes, he releases his cover over her mouth prompting her to leave. While walking away, Hino comments on how she felt Tsukimori's cold hand before and this time it was hot with a burning feeling, realizing what's happened she runs back to the practice room to discover Tsukimori leaning against the wall almost unconscious. As she is about to call for a doctor Tsukimori stops her and losing complete conscious his head falls on her shoulder.
#20 - The Guilty Pianissimo
La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~ - Season 1 - Episode 12
Yunoki continues to insult Hino, telling her to quit the concourse. The next day, Hino tries to tell her two friends about Yunoki's sudden negative personality but they interrupt her with their love for Yunoki before Hino could tell them. She encounters Amo at the stair way. As she tries to tell her about Yunoki, she hears Yunoki's voice behind her. Surprised, she slips on the stairs and falls down. During the fall, she had acquired a bruise on her knee. Yunoki takes her hand and drags her to the nurse's office. Putting up a smiling facade, Yunoki inquires Hino if she thought about what he said, about quitting the concourse. Hino hesitantly says that she'll stay in the concourse despite anything. Yunoki's facade falls off as he approaches Hino. He pushes Hino onto the bed and threatens her. Hino realizes that she has no choice but to keep Yunoki's personality to herself because she realizes that no one will believe her compared to the perfect, kind student, Yunoki. She feels more dejected and guilty that she's deceiving everyone. Hino decides to skip practice and leave school when she meets up with Hihara. Hihara invites Hino and Yunoki to his orchestra. After hearing a first year try her hardest on a piece of music, she becomes filled with guilt and runs out, resulting in her meeting Shinobu Osaki. He manages to comfort Hino.
#21 - Premium Seat (No Extra Charge)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 11
Miss Kobayashi's hips have seriously started hurting. She buys up a bunch of health products to try and improve it, but she hardly uses any of them... Even Tohru loses her patience and tries to get her to eat tail meat, but she sadly refuses. Tohru then begins her search for what Miss Kobayashi considers a "typical remedy."
#22 - The Impatient Crescendo
La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~ - Season 1 - Episode 17
Hino is still affected of what Tsukimori has said. It seems that even Hihara, Tsuchiura, Tsukimori and Shimizu are also affected by Hino's troubles. Moreover, it affects their performance in the third selection. Seeing how great Tsukimori and Tsuchiura's performance level, Hino has felt that she is never going to be as good as them. She wishes strongly to the magic violin to help her have a good performance, causing the strings to snap during her performance.
#23 - When you go back to the starter town with the full party, new stuff tends to happen
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki - Season 1 - Episode 9
Tomozaki rehearses with Hinami to prepare for his movie date with Kikuchi and is invited to an overnight barbecue with his popular normie classmates.
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#24 - It Was a Thrilling Autumn
Non Non Biyori - Season 3 - Episode 7
Parents’ Day provides Natsumi a particular variety of anxiety, but she finds a way to relax when Renge brings home a new friend.
#25 - New Dragon, Ilulu! (Please Be Nice to Her Again)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 1
The self-proclaimed ultimate maid Tohru storms into a new maid cafe opening up soon with a sense of rivalry. However, when she returns she says, "Somehow I've ended up working there!" As they live out such typical days in their lives, she and Miss Kobayashi learn from the news that someone has destroyed the mountain where they met.
#26 - Multiplayer games have their own special appeal
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki - Season 1 - Episode 10
Tomozaki gets a taste of the traditional overnight normie camp activities he'd always shunned as the group plots to get Izumi and Nakamura together.
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#27 - A single choice can change everything
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki - Season 1 - Episode 11
An overheard conversation between Mizusawa and Hinami gives Tomozaki a different perspective on his private lessons in conquering the game of life.
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#28 - What's Hidden in Your Heart
New Game! - Season 2 - Episode 11
Tsubame gets done with her work early and is praised by Umiko about how fast she is. Nene is annoyed by how this is making Tsubame act, and while reading some of Tsubame’s code while doing her debug work, points out the fact that the code could’ve been shorter. Tsubame panics, thinking this could bring down her reputation with Umiko, and angrily tells Nene to mind her own business The air gets a bit tense in the programming department, so Nene decides to go visit the character team, where Momiji tells her something rather surprising about Tsubame...
#29 - Uncanny Relationships (One Side Is a Dragon)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 6
Shouta is troubled over how to approach Lucoa about her daily, uninhibited contact. He should be the master in their relationship, though... He resolves to take back control as the full-fledged mage he's aiming to become. So he begins trying to uncover Lucoa's weaknesses.
#30 - The InaUsa Mysterious Detective Agency: Investigation File 3 'Meramelion / Job Series: Yo-kai Aquarium / Yo-kai Myccar / Yo-kai Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX
Yo-kai Watch - Season 2 - Episode 46
#31 - Android Yamada Final Episode: Melancholy / Inaho Observation Diary / Yo-kai Nikuyaki
Yo-kai Watch - Season 2 - Episode 56
#32 - The World's Only (Insert Phrase You Like Here)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 8
Shouta suddenly begins shutting himself up in his room. He's pouring over a complicated grimoire in order to create a magic item as a gift for Father's Day. Lucoa offers to help him since the task is so difficult, but he refuses and declares he must accomplish it by himself. However, he continues to fail to produce it...
#33 - I Made Something Incredible
Non Non Biyori - Season 3 - Episode 5
Beep boop! Koma-plushie is live, boop beep! But Hotaru isn’t a master of robotics just yet, and her pet project still has a long way to go before it’s ready to fly.
#34 - Sometimes the Main Character Can't Enter the Village of Another Species on His Own
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki - Season 2 - Episode 8
Tomozaki and Mizusawa scope out a girls' school festival (and its girls). Tomozaki has a deep discussion with Fuka the author. Mimimi drops a bomb.
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La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~ - Season 1 - Episode 11
Hino begins to feel guilty about getting second place when she's not using her own talent but the magic violin's. Hihara cheers her up when he asks Hino and Yunoki to help him find a present for his older brother. After shopping for the present (a cap), they rest for a while near the harbor, where Hihara explains to the curious Hino how he and Yunoki met. After the flashback, Hihara reveals that after high school, he will be attending a university that has musicology. Yunoki, on the other hand, will abandon music to study business, which surprises Hino, who believed Yunoki will pursue music. The next day, Hino goes to the roof to practice, hoping to immerse herself with practice other than drowning in her guilt, discovers Yunoki already practicing on the roof. After exchanging pleasantries, Yunoki begins to get hostile and calls Hino annoying.
#36 - Kanna's Summer Break (Broadcast in Two Languages!?)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 10
After having a fight with Miss Kobayashi, Kanna runs away from home. Since she doesn't want to go home she flies across the ocean to somewhere brighter where the sun's still out. Kanna lands on the continent she happens to find during her flight, putting her in New York, the city that never sleeps.
#37 - The Heartbreaking Partita
La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~ - Season 1 - Episode 18
Yunoki is the one last to perform. In some way, it seems that he is also affected by what's happening because it is said that his performance was more serious than before. Nevertheless, he says that such things will not affect him. At home, his grandmother tells him that he will continue his high school education abroad. At the waiting room, Lili tries to fix the magic violin but couldn't. After the 3rd selection, Hino goes home. The next day, she lives her life before the concourse. She doesn't play anymore saying that she doesn't have the right to play and love the violin. Tsuchiura confronts her but it's no good because she says that she is going to withdraw from the concourse. Going home, he passes across the soccer club. The team captain says to him that he has to choose. If he decides to continue soccer, he must withdraw from the concourse. If not, he can't return to the soccer club anymore.
#38 - Hot Guy Kobayashi! (In Many Senses)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 2
Miss Kobayashi managed to drive Ilulu away, but in return she got a you-know-what attached to her groin with magic. Because of that you-know-what, she starts perceiving behaviors that she would usually think nothing of in a different light and starts getting more and more turned on by Tohru.
#39 - If You Don't Make Up Your Mind, the Story Won't Advance
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki - Season 2 - Episode 9
Things get awkward around Mimimi. Tomozaki finally chooses the two girls he'd like to pursue, and Hinami gives him more tasks in pursuit of his goals.
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#40 - Extracurricular Activities (Of Course They're Not Normal)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 3
Saikawa visits Miss Kobayashi's home to play. However, there's a girl that's unfamiliar to her (Ilulu)... Even after inviting her to join their games, Ilulu coldly refuses. Then Lucoa happens to stop by and she notices Ilulu's feelings as she tries to avoid them, so she makes an effort to help the dragon out.
#41 - A Funfare for You
La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~ - Season 1 - Episode 22
Since Hino has started to play the violin without the magic, it sounds horrible. She tries her best and keeps on practicing. Moreover, it has been the talk of the school. Hihara is greatly affected of what is happening and Hino tries to cheer him up. Hihara also tells her his story about the time he quit track team to play the trumpet. Because of the intrigue about her around the school, her friends cheer her up. Hino is about to go home then she saw Yunoki's car at the gate. He takes her away by force to have his last dinner in Japan with her.
#42 - Life Is Constant Change (But It's Okay to Stop and Appreciate It)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 12
A typical morning with typical dragon girls. A priceless slice of daily life without any complaints. However, ever since Miss Kobayashi heard the tale from the Emperor of Demise, something has been slightly weighing on her. Yet it's not clear to her what exactly that is. As that uncertainty builds, the summer festival they've all been waiting for is drawing closer.
#43 - We Cooked Rice at School
Non Non Biyori - Season 1 - Episode 8
Hotaru gets along with the Koshigaya family's next door neighbour, Konomi Fujimiya, whilst Komari laments that the two seem more grown up than she is. Later, Komari joins Hotaru and Renge in doing some sketching, where she ends up becoming a model for them. Afterwards, Konomi helps Komari and Natsumi make dried persimmons.
#44 - Everyone Has Different Expectations About a Big Event
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki - Season 2 - Episode 6
Tomozaki confronts Hinami over her handling of the Konno affair. He's tasked with making a good impression on his classmates, plus a big decision.
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#45 - Like... The Release Is Canceled?
New Game! - Season 1 - Episode 6
Aoba finishes her project of modeling villagers and gets a new one. Her next project is to design and model a character. Seeing Aoba struggling with the design, Ko gives her helpful advice. At the team leader meeting, Ko and Rin find out that they are a little bit behind schedule. It looks like the character team will have to stay some nights and come in on the weekends to catch up.
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#46 - When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do (It's Hard to Match Others)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Season 2 - Episode 4
Takiya and Miss Kobayashi are impressed by a beautiful array of code. Surprisingly, the one who wrote it was Elma. Miss Kobayashi is overjoyed that finally have more fully capable manpower. Then Elma hears that Miss Kobayashi is considered a "pillar" of the company who handles much more work than her, which causes her to suddenly get mad.
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#48 - I Pretended I Forgot My Swimsuit
Non Non Biyori - Season 1 - Episode 5
Hotaru and Renge are invited to the Koshigaya's house for breakfast. Afterwards, the girls, accompanied by Kazuha, go to the beach, where Komari's height leads her to be mistaken for a lost child. On their way home, the girls stop at a railside noodle restaurant, where a prank by Natsumi on Komari backfires due to Renge's innocence. They manage to catch the last train home on time, but accidentally leave Kazuha behind.
#49 - I Became a Pampered Child
Non Non Biyori - Season 2 - Episode 11
One morning during winter break, Ichijo Hotaru and Koshigaya Komari are on a walk when they run into Fujimiya Konomi on her way back from practice. Komari takes great interest in Konomi's cellphone.
#50 - How Dense... Can You Be?
New Game! - Season 2 - Episode 4
“Moon Ranger” started off as a girls’ anime series, but because of its high quality, it was highly regarded by adults and was made into theatrical releases as well as live shows. After it’s 2 and a half year run, the protagonist in the “Moon Ranger” series was going to change. And because of that, a final live show was going to take place. Hajime, a huge “Moon Ranger” fan, wants to do anything possible to get her hands on the tickets and tries to get into the ticket site, but...