The Best Episodes Directed By Masahiko Otsuka
Every TV Episode Directed by Masahiko Otsuka Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Masahiko Otsuka Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Masahiko Otsuka is "We Have To Contact Each Other And Confirm Our Feelings. Because We're Friends!", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by N/A". "We Have To Contact Each Other And Confirm Our Feelings. Because We're Friends!" aired on 6/18/2016 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Crazy For You".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - We Have To Contact Each Other And Confirm Our Feelings. Because We're Friends!
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/18/2016
Katsuhira finds out what happened to the friends from his childhood and Sonozaki is intent on making the Kizna Experiment successful no matter what.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 4 votes#2 - Crazy For You
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/2014
Honnouji Academy is mobilizing for the Tri-City Schools Raid Trip! But after her recent rampage, Ryuko is moping in bed, unwilling to fight. However, Shinjiro Nagita, formerly with the Newspaper Club, is determined to get her back into uniform!
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
9.0/10 1 votes#3 - Death Race 2010
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2010
Panty & Stocking have to fight against a Ghost in a race of death.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Masahiko Otsuka
9.0/10 1 votes#4 - Pulp Addiction
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/2010
The Ghosts of wasted sperm take over a paper plant, causing a shortage of tissues for men to relieve themselves with.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 1 votes#5 - Les Diaboliques
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/6/2010
The school is taken over by the demon sisters, Scanty and Kneesocks (the daughters of the mayor), and Panty and Stocking aren't pleased with the new changes they have made. In order to get their revenge, they team up with a Loser Ghost, who leads them to an underground factory where the demon sisters are producing Fake Ghosts. Whilst Brief escapes with the Ghoststone powering the factory, Panty and Stocking fight against the demons sisters.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Hiroyuki Imaishi
9.0/10 1 votes#6 - Panty + Brief
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 12/18/2010
After collecting the necessary Heaven Coins, Stocking manages to return to Heaven. However, due to her erratic sex life, Panty is forced to stay behind and redo her quota, with Garterbelt forbidding her from having sex. She and Brief go to a party, where a devious plan is being concocted by Corset and the Sisters, and Panty finds herself losing her angelic powers.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 1 votes#7 - Later, Buddy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/20/2007
Having temporarily stalled Viral and Thymilph in the last skirmish, the Team Gurren and their newly arrived allies join forces as "Team Dai-Gurren" and launch a decisive strike against the regrouping Gunmen force.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
9.0/10 1 votes#8 - You Don't Know Anything!
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/22/2007
During the following seven years, a new civilization rises and prospers under Simon's leadership. However, these peaceful times come to end when the threat mentioned in Lordgenome's last words starts to reveal itself.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
8.5/10 2 votes#9 - Everybody Loves Chocolate
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/13/2001
It's Valentine's Day, and Tohru has given all the Sohma's chocolates. But it seems that after finals, she's also working harder than ever earning money. Could something be the matter?
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 2 votes#10 - Usual Days
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/2014
Mirei steals Chifuyu's ability when she uses it to protect Hatoko, before Tomoyo helps everyone to escape. Regrouping at a karaoke box, the group deduce that the Mirei they fought against was an imposter possessing her body. Jurai goes by himself to confront the imposter, tricking her into stealing his enhanced "Dark and Dark of the End", which only serves to burn its user's hand with a neverending flame that cannot be extinguished. This forces the imposter to return Mirei to her body, after which they use Chifuyu's powers to chop off the burning hands and send them to another dimension whilst Sayumi heals them. Following the incident, Tomoyo and Hatoko discuss their respective feelings for Jurai, before everyone returns to their everyday lives.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Masahiko Otsuka
8.0/10 1 votes#11 - I Will Head Towards Tomorrow
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 7/8/2007
The last of the Divine Generals fall, and the city of Teppelin collapses, revealing a Gunman of gigantic proportions. Simon and Nia struggle to pass through it in order to confront her father, the Spiral King himself.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kurasumi Sunayama
8.0/10 1 votes#12 - Let's Go, Buddy
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 9/23/2007
After finally transforming their flagship into the Super Galactic Gurren-Lagann, Simon and his friends successfully fight back against the enemy. When their enemy starts to use their own memories and desires against them, Kamina reappears to help.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
7.8/10 11 votes#13 - 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: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Yoji Enokido
7.8/10 10 votes#14 - Furi Kiri (Full Swing)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2000
There’s a guy claiming to know Haruko and why she’s using Naota’s head as a portal for oversized battling robots. It’s too late, though, as a malfunctioning satellite is heading straight for them and it’s up to Naota to stop it!
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Yoji Enokido
7.6/10 5 votes#15 - 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: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
7.6/10 19 votes#16 - Weaving A Story (2): Oral Stage
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1996
Shinji achieved an unprecedented 400% synchronization ratio with EVA-01 during the battle with Zeruel, to horrible effect. With the EVA having ascended to the status of a living God and Shinji absorbed inside it, Ritsuko unsuccessfully attempts to recover him.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 2 votes#17 - Their Secret
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1998
Yukino's inadvertently made a fool of herself in front of Arima and now he's blackmailing her! Getting her to do his work, act as his slave... she's just about at her wit's end!
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Hideaki Anno
7.5/10 1 votes#18 - Progress
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1999
Arima's feelings for Yukino are beginning to build up and he knows now, more than anything, he wants to take their relationship to the next level...
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Hideaki Anno
7.5/10 2 votes#19 - Bust Through the Heavens With Your Drill!!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2007
Living underground in Giha Village, Simon and Kamina dream of a life on the surface. When their home is invaded from above, it is up to them to activate the mysterious mecha Lagann and save their village.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
7.3/10 6 votes#20 - Easy Albatross
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2020
Michiru meets albatross beastman Pingua when he crash lands in her house. Shirou has an encounter with Alan Sylvasta in the mayor's office.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
7.3/10 6 votes#21 - A Beastly Feast
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/18/2020
Nazuna decides to reveal she's human during her concert. While the mayor escapes detention in Japan, Shirou and Flip put their own plans into action.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
7.2/10 10 votes#22 - FLCLimax
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/2001
A hand statue looms over the Medical Mechanica building, threatening to iron out the city. As Mamimi’s new pet turns out to be a crucial element to Haruko’s plans, Naota finally proves that he’s no pushover.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Yoji Enokido
7.0/10 1 votes#23 - Mystery! Abenobashi Shopping Arcade
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/2002
Summer is almost over and Sasshi learns his close friend Arumi is moving soon. To make matters worse, recent developments have put many of the local shops out of business and a new shopping area is on the way. There seems to be something behind it, but Sasshi and Arumi soon find that they aren`t in Osaka anymore, and instead, have suddenly been transported to a strange and magical world.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Hiroyuki Yamaga
7.0/10 1 votes#24 - Flashback! Magical Shopping Arcade Birth
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2002
There aren't any wacky themes here. Instead, it's a more somber look at how the magical shopping arcade was born, as told from those that were there some 50 years ago. It doesn't explain what's going on in Arumi and Sasshi's case, however, but it reveals some other important information.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Hiroyuki Yamaga
6.9/10 35 votes#25 - The Elder
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/22/2021
A Jedi and his Padawan pursue a dark and powerful presence.
Director: Masahiko Otsuka
Writer: Masahiko Otsuka