9.0/101 votes#1 - Cheerful Child
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/5/2014
Handsome young master calligrapher Handa Seishuu has been exiled to a far-western island for punching a critic. He plans to focus on his writing in solitude, but rambunctious little Naru won't leave him alone...
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Pierre Sugiura
9.0/101 votes#2 - Glad You're Back
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/27/2014
With his calligraphy exhibition entry finished, Handa wants to return to the island and the people he cares about there. Unfortunately, his mom is dead set against it. How will he convince her to let him go?
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Pierre Sugiura
7.6/107 votes#3 - IN: Aerial Bombing of Dejima; NUCLEAR POWER
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 12/4/2004
The Prime Minister is taken into custody, and the military begins its strike on Dejima. The Major and part of Section 9 head to Dejima to try to hand over the nuclear device to the military there, in order to defuse the situation, while Ishikawa heads to SPring-8 to deliver the rest of the plutonium.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
7.5/102 votes#4 - The Lost Genesis
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/20/2016
Loser shows the others his memories, and Kyōma starts to remember more of his past as they search for the lost coil, Genesis.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Ryou Higaki
7.5/102 votes#5 - Pyrophoric Cult, Part II
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/7/2015
Motoko and the gang have caught their man--or have they?
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: N/A
7.3/1012 votes#6 - C: The Copycat will Dance; MEME
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2002
As Togusa and Bato track down Nanao, Motoko and Paz are attempting to protect the Superintendent-General at a press conference about the police misuse of interceptors. When the virus does hit, Motoko and Paz have to act fast to save the intended victim. Meanwhile, the road to Nanao=A hits a dead end.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
7.1/1011 votes#7 - SA: Chinks in the Armour of the Heart; Ag2O
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/1/2003
Batou goes undercover on a military base to shadow one of his former heroes, a man named Zaitsev who was an Olympic silver medalist. Now, however, he's under suspicion of espionage. Batou befriends him easily, and the two really seem to get along--which is unusual for Batou. But when Batou learns the truth behind his hero, he must make a very difficult decision.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Nobutoshi Terado
7.0/1010 votes#8 - C: Corporate Graft; SCANDAL
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/1/2003
Motoko is about to be fitted for her new prosthetic body. But when the doctor arrives and begins the procedure, it's clear that she has no intent of letting Motoko out alive. Meanwhile, Aramaki receives a disturbing message that his brother has been kidnapped.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
6.9/1011 votes#9 - C: The Man Who Lurks in the Darkness of the Net; CHAT! CHAT! CHAT!
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/1/2003
Motoko enters into an online chat room devoted to the Laughing Man to see if she can find any new information on him. What she discovers is a spirited debate among the self-proclaimed "fans" of the Laughing Man, but very little hard evidence.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Dai Sato
6.6/1014 votes#10 - DI: Reactivation; REEMBODY
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2004
A group of terrorists identifying themselves as the "Individual Eleven" barricade themselves within the Chinese Embassy. Section 9 is called in to eliminate the terrorists without any civilian casualties, all before the scheduled police raid.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.6/108 votes#11 - IN: To Those Without Even a Name...; SELECON
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/5/2004
The Tachikomas, Ishikawa, and Borma locate a suspicious file believed to be the Individual Eleven virus, The Major, Batou, Saito go after Kuze, and the Individual Eleven prepare to put their plan into action.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.4/108 votes#12 - IN: The Fact of Being There; ANOTHER CHANCE
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 8/7/2004
The Prime Minister is alerted to the existence of "hub cyberbrains," while Ishikawa returns from the peninsula to report on what he found out about Kuze's past.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
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"Cheerful Child" is the best rated episode directed by Masaki Tachibana. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Pierre Sugiura. It aired on 7/5/2014 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Glad You're Back".