The Best Episodes Directed By Masaki Tachibana

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Glad You're Back

   S1:E129/27/2014

   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?

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Cheerful Child

   S1:E17/5/2014

   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...

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   7.3/10(10 votes)

   #3 - IN: Aerial Bombing of Dejima; NUCLEAR POWER

   S2:E2412/4/2004

   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.

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   7.3/10(16 votes)

   #4 - C: The Copycat will Dance; MEME

   S1:E612/1/2002

   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.

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   7.0/10(15 votes)

   #5 - C: The Man Who Lurks in the Darkness of the Net; CHAT! CHAT! CHAT!

   S1:E92/1/2003

   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.

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   7.0/10(14 votes)

   #6 - SA: Chinks in the Armour of the Heart; Ag2O

   S1:E165/1/2003

   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.

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   6.8/10(13 votes)

   #7 - C: Corporate Graft; SCANDAL

   S1:E228/1/2003

   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.

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   6.7/10(19 votes)

   #8 - DI: Reactivation; REEMBODY

   S2:E11/1/2004

   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.

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9. 

   6.6/10(11 votes)

   #9 - IN: To Those Without Even a Name...; SELECON

   S2:E126/5/2004

   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.

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10. 

    6.5/10(11 votes)

    #10 - IN: The Fact of Being There; ANOTHER CHANCE

    S2:E168/7/2004

    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.

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11. 

    6.3/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Yuko's Treasure

    S3:E510/29/2025

    A sheltered orphan teams up with a streetwise kid to rescue his droid and find a lost treasure.

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