The Best Episodes Directed By Johei Matsuura

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(7 votes)

   #1 - Layer:07 – SOCIETY

   S1:E78/17/1998

   As the Knights activities make the evening news, a strange man named Nazumi wanders the city with machines strapped to his body. People on the WIRED are asking: ""Who is Lain"". Meanwhile, the two MIB agents take Lain to the Techibana offices where Lain's identity is challenged by a man; how well does she know her parents, her sister, herself? Can Lain answer him?

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   7.6/10(16 votes)

   #2 - Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY

   S1:E119/14/1998

   Alone and frightened, Lain immerses herself in the WIRED, processing the events of the past few weeks and searching for the truth of who she is.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - The Bloody Sports Festival – Datto!

   S1:E511/26/2000

   The gang helps Keiichiro train for a sports festival at school. A mysterious boy shows up at the track, running alongside Keiichiro. Despite the bonding between the two, it seems the new boy isn't quite alive--and he's got a penchant for cutting off the feet of those who run!

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   7.2/10(10 votes)

   #4 - The Alchemy Exam

   S1:E611/8/2003

   Once in Central City, Ed and Al move into the vast mansion of sewing-life alchemist Shou Tucker and begin to prepare for the Alchemy Exam.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - The Picture that Swallows People – da Vinci

   S1:E132/4/2001

   A ghostly painter with the ability to trap souls within his work has reawakened, and not even the other ghosts of the old schoolhouse want anything to do with him. Satsuki and the gang travel back in time in order to put the artist back to sleep, where they meet someone familiar.

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   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #6 - Ladd Russo Enjoys Talking a Lot and Slaughtering a Lot

   S1:E48/17/2007

   10 hours before the Flying Pussyfoot departs, in California, Russo learns that his cash was stolen by a couple and one of his underlings was killed. Then Ladd barges in and shows Russo just how much of a homicidal maniac his before heading to the Flying Pussyfoot with his subordinates. Back to the Flying Pussyfoot, Vicky has been killed by the "Lemurs" and yet again Ladd shows how much of a maniac he is. In New York Isaac and Miria happily enter the hat shop and after their purchase they are hit by the car Ennis is driving. She happens to be chauffeuring Szilard to the secret society of old geezers.

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   0.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Stalked by the Rare Hunters

   S1:E555/15/2001

   Jonouchi is cornered by a group of sinister Rare Hunters who force Jonouchi into a duel where if Jonouchi loses, the Rare Hunters get his precious Red-Eyes B. Dragon! Though Jonouchi pummels his foes with his mighty monster armada, eliminating life points isn’t the only path to victory…

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   0.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Mime Control (3)

   S1:E678/7/2001

   The spell Infinite Cards allows Strings to hold an unlimited number of cards in his hand, so Strings’s Slifer the Sky Dragon can grow to infinite attack power! Can Yugi discover Slifer’s one fatal flaw before he’s annihilated by tens of thousands of attack points?

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