The Best Episodes Directed By Katsuichi Nakayama

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.2/10(4 votes)

   #1 - The Secret of Guard Westwood

   S5:E1610/29/2022

   The Stand Survivor sparks brawls throughout the Disciplinary Wing. While fighting off a prison guard, Jolyne realizes that he is also a Stand User.

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   9.0/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Prisoner of Love

   S5:E52/5/2022

   Father and daughter try to escape the visiting room's trap and the prison, but an enemy Stand extracts two discs from Jotaro. One holds Star Platinum.

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   9.0/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Maiden Heaven (1)

   S5:E363/25/2023

   After shafts of bright light shine from Father Pucchi, Jolyne and her companions awake to find that he is gone and gravity has returned to normal.

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   9.0/10(4 votes)

   #4 - I'll Never Forget This Minute, This Second

   S1:E249/9/2007

   Guided by Simon and Nia's feelings for each other, Team Dai-Gurren break through dimensions in search for the Anti-Spirals' homeworld. But after falling into the enemy's trap, they end up losing some of their most precious members, due to its vicious offensive.

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   9.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - The Golden Boy's True Identity

   S1:E213/9/2005

   An abominable memory, consigned to the darkness of the past, has been resurrected by the hands of the Count and his plan of revenge enters its final stage.

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   8.2/10(5 votes)

   #6 - Operation Savage Guardian (Head to the Courtyard!) (2)

   S5:E113/19/2022

   Father Pucchi learns some damning information. Jolyne and Weather's bodies strain under Jumpin' Jack Spark's Stand ability as the fight continues.

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   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Well Met, Everyone

   S1:E147/1/2007

   At last, Team Dai-Gurren arrives at the outskirts of Teppelin, but before aiming to the city, they must face a combined full-scale attack of Cytomander and Guame's forces.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Until the Sun Rises over the Moon

   S1:E210/13/2004

   Albert is kidnapped! Franz's frantic attempt to collect the ransom money comes up short, so he warily seeks the assistance of the Count of Monte Cristo.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Encore

   S1:E121/5/2005

   Albert's engagement is in jeopardy; Baron Dangler prefers his daughter to marry into wealth. Albert rushes to the opera house to find Eugenie - but the curtain may have already closed on his love.

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    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #10 - You're Gonna Do It!!

    S1:E75/13/2007

    Thymilph, one of the Four Divine Generals of the mysterious Spiral King, arrives to support Viral's Enki, with the massive mobile Gunmen fortress, the Dai-Ganzan. Kamina and Simon pilot the Gurren-Lagann against seemingly overwhelming odds.

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11. 

    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Victhor

    S1:E811/25/2023

    Spoil transitions to Phase 2. For this type of UMAs, capture is complete when the core within its body is extracted. However, Spoil decomposes anything that gets near and fires a decomposition laser if you get away, and defeating him is proving to be extremely difficult.

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    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - A Different Story From Up to Now

    S1:E253/19/1999

    Kano's been feeling a strange presence lately... as if someone is following her. Mysterious phone calls... flowers from an anonymous admirer...

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