7.9/1019 votes#1 - Splitting of the Breast
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1996
Shinji beats Asuka in a synch test, much to her annoyance. Not too long after, the EVAs are dispatched to deal with a mysterious apparition, and EVA-01 is sucked into a shadowlike blackness that materializes out of nothingness from under it. While an emergency operation to rescue the captured EVA is concocted, Shinji goes on a trip into the depths of his own consciousness...
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: Hiroshi Yamaguchi
7.8/1011 votes#2 - Fooly Cooly
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/26/2000
Naota is a detached sixth-grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. When a crazed girl on a motor scooter runs him over and brains him with a bass guitar his life gets weird - giant-fighting-robots-shooting-from-his-skull weird.
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: Yoji Enokido
7.6/105 votes#3 - Past the Infinite Darkness
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/28/2014
The final confrontation is at hand! Will Ragyo and Nui bring on the end of the world, or will Ryuko and the others be able to stop them?
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
7.5/102 votes#4 - The Location of Happiness
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1998
Tsubasa has holed up at Yukino's house and refuses to go home. Tsubasa's father is remarrying and it's been hard for her to come to terms with the idea.
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: Hideaki Anno
7.4/1027 votes#5 - The Beast
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1995
Shinji wakes up in the hospital, with no memory of defeating the Angel the night before. Rejected by his father, Misato decides to take Shinji with her to live in her apartment. Later that night, memories of the battle against the Angel come flooding back to Shinji.
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: Yoji Enokido
7.3/1020 votes#6 - Don't Be.
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1996
Asuka's synch rate is on a downward spiral after her defeat at the hands of the Fourteenth Angel, Zeruel, and her frustration with Rei, Shinji, Misato and Ryouji is on the rise. Angrier and more disturbed than ever, she is forced to relive her dark, traumatic past during the encounter with the Fifteenth Angel, Arael.
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: Hiroshi Yamaguchi
7.3/1014 votes#7 - The Black Swordsman
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1997
A blacksmith is forging an enormous sword while a dark man with only one eye and one arm stands back and watches.
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: Atsuhiro Tomioka
7.2/1023 votes#8 - Asuka Strikes!
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1995
Misato brings Shinji, along with Touji and Kensuke, to a massive UN naval convoy transporting Evangelion Unit-02 and its fiery German pilot, Asuka Langley Souryuu, to Japan. Escorting Asuka is Misato's old boyfriend, Ryouji Kaji. After some awkward introductions and reunions, the fleet is attacked by a massive aquatic Angel. Asuka powers up Eva-02, and decides that she will defeat the Angel by playing "hopscotch"...
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: Yoji Enokido
7.1/1027 votes#9 - Angel Attack
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1995
Shinji Ikari is summoned to Tokyo-3 by his estranged father Gendo, commander of the special agency NERV, to defend the city from a giant Angel by piloting the only weapon capable of battling the monster: Evangelion Unit-01.
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: N/A
6.9/1020 votes#10 - Do You Love Me?
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1996
Instrumentality has begun, and now its inner process, the joining of all souls into one, will be depicted. The episode is primarily driven by dialogue, the background usually complete darkness. White text often appears on a black screen, an omniscient voice questioning the characters.
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: N/A
6.8/1020 votes#11 - Take Care of Yourself.
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/27/1996
Instrumentality continues. The focus is primarily on Shinji now, as he learns to accept the individual’s ability to shape their world, and how the self cannot exist without others to define it.
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Writer: N/A
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"Splitting of the Breast" is the best rated episode directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki. It scored 7.9/10 based on 19 votes. It was written by Hiroshi Yamaguchi. It aired on 1/17/1996 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Fooly Cooly".