10.0/101 votes#1 - The Challenger
Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 10/9/2001
Recap episode.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: N/A
9.0/102 votes#2 - Calm Down, Two Men
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2006
Revy's resentment at being sent on assignment with Rock may change when he calms a potentially volatile situation with a dealer.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Sunao Katabuchi
9.0/102 votes#3 - The Long-Awaited Reunion
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 7/22/2020
On the way to the Sanctuary, Subaru unwittingly finds himself invited to a witch’s tea party, where the hostess introduces herself as Echidna, the Witch of Greed. Subaru is alarmed, but Echidna encourages him to sit and drink his tea before it gets cold. When he somehow makes it back outside after a conversation with Echidna, he finds Otto lying on the ground, battered and beaten. Then, before he even has a moment to assess the situation, Subaru himself is attacked.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Eiji Umehara
8.5/104 votes#4 - The First Step
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2000
Ippo is a high school student who works full time at his mother's fishing though. Because of this, he gets bullied on by the kids at his school. That's when his life turns around, when a professional boxer happens to be jogging along the way, and introduces Ippo to the world of boxing.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Tatsuhiko Urahata
8.0/102 votes#5 - Moonlit Hunting Grounds
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2006
Dutch and Revy's violent raid on the neo-Nazi ship leads to surprising revelations about Revy and the Black Lagoon's mission to recover the painting.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Sunao Katabuchi
8.0/102 votes#6 - Lock 'n Load Revolution
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/18/2006
While transporting information on a terrorist organization to the CIA, the Black Lagoon crew comes under attack by the terrorists.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Sunao Katabuchi
8.0/101 votes#7 - The Succession
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 11/22/2006
Feuding breaks out between Balalaika and the Washimine gang, and Rock makes a shocking discovery about Yukio, the girl he met at the festival.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Sunao Katabuchi
8.0/101 votes#8 - Cage- Die Gefangnis
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2004
Motoharu's past is revealed. Suigintou takes control of Motoharu's dream world and entraps Jun and the dolls inside it. Suigintou also takes Souseiseki's artificial spirit, Lempika. She then pressures Suiseiseki to hand over her artificial spirit, Sui Dream, lest Jun's life be endangered.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: N/A
8.0/106 votes#9 - Missing Link of the Annihilator -Absolute Zero-
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/2018
Though WWIII is on the horizon, Okabe attempts to live a normal college life. However, a newly developed AI is about to shake up his world.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.9/1079 votes#10 - Departure x And x Friends
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2011
The story begins with a young boy named Gon, who aspires to be a hunter just like his father Ging. Ging leaves his son in the care of Mito, Gon's aunt, and has not been seen since. Gon catches the local monster fish, "Lord of the Lake", in order to prove his ability to take the exam. Although Mito is reluctant to let Gon leave his home, she relents after he is determined to understand the reason his father left him and his interest of being a hunter.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Atsushi Maekawa
7.7/103 votes#11 - Epigraph of the Closed Curve -Closed Epigraph-
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/19/2018
After a chance encounter with Maho where they discover knowing someone in common, Okabe has his first face-to-face with her special AI, Amadeus.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.6/1011 votes#12 - A Gathering of Adventurers
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/23/2018
Goblin Slayer does his usual rounds around the farm and finds a bunch of goblin footprints, and realizes that they're planning to attack the farm that night. Goblin Slayer tries to convince Cow Girl and her uncle to leave, but she refuses to leave, wanting to protect the one place that Goblin Slayer has to come home to. In order to protect the farm Goblin Slayer heads to the guild to make a request...
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Hideyuki Kurata
7.5/106 votes#13 - Protocol of the Two-sided Gospel -X-day Protocol-
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/25/2018
Mayuri tries to bring everyone together for a Christmas party at the lab, but Okabe has a rude awakening.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.5/102 votes#14 - Traces of Intense Battles
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/7/2001
Episode 31 is a retrospective on the hope that managed Ippo championship. It is made in the form of a newspaper article commented and written Fuuji, journalist of the monthly "boxing fan."
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Tatsuhiko Urahata
7.4/109 votes#15 - Beyond Good and Evil
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/2014
Yuko is drawn to Shimada Hideo, but gradually realizes that something is seriously amiss with Shimada's face itself. As Yuko pursues Shimada's secret, she connects the dots between him and her brother's police investigation.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Shinzo Fujita
7.2/104 votes#16 - Mangrove Heaven
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2006
Rock devises a plan to destroy the gunship that seems to have trapped the Black Lagoon. Meanwhile, the Lagoon Company accepts Rock as a new member.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Sunao Katabuchi
7.0/107 votes#17 - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/2015
Though still full of doubt, Kuramori has, for the time being, accepted Shinichi. Soon after, Kuramori's resolve is severely shaken by witnessing a parasite murder a human being. Shinichi is frustrated by the turn of events, but the lull is cut short when a new parasite appears...
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Shouji Yonemura
6.8/1015 votes#18 - The Black Lagoon
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/2006
Abducted by modern-day pirates and declared dead by his company, businessman Rokuro Okajima joins his captors on their ship, the Black Lagoon.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Sunao Katabuchi
6.0/101 votes#19 - Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 11/15/2006
Rock and Revy accompany Balalaika to Japan, where they enact -- then endanger -- an assignment to take out one yakuza gang at the behest of another.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Sunao Katabuchi
6.0/101 votes#20 - Daughter of the Zodiac
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2010
Tony Stark meets Aki, a mysterious young girl with strange powers. Tony is shocked when the girl tells him that she belongs to Zodiac and mentions that she needs Tony, as Iron Man to protect her from Zodiac. Is Aki who she says she is? And even if she is, how can Tony trust her?
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Naoki Tozuka
4.0/101 votes#21 - Greenback Jane
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/25/2006
The Florida mafia and various bounty hunters descend on the Church of Violence in pursuit of U.S. counterfeiter Greenback Jane, who wants to join.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Sunao Katabuchi
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"The Challenger" is the best rated episode directed by Kenichi Kawamura. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 10/9/2001 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Calm Down, Two Men".