The Best Episodes Directed By Masayuki Matsumoto
Every TV Episode Directed by Masayuki Matsumoto Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Masayuki Matsumoto Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Masayuki Matsumoto is "Overload", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Kyōko Katsuya". "Overload" aired on 5/16/2021 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Predestined Fate".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Overload
Season 1 Episode 199 - Aired 5/16/2021
Delta uses her destructive beam that can neutralize any regenerative power. Undaunted, Naruto forcefully suppresses it with a Giant Rasengan. He then turns up the power of his jutsu and propels it towards Delta. Unfortunately, Delta has been fitted with Scientific Ninja Tools and is able to absorb any jutsu, no matter how powerful… What will be the outcome of this battle?!
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Kyōko Katsuya
10.0/10 1 votes#2 - Predestined Fate
Season 1 Episode 214 - Aired 9/5/2021
Koji Kashin continues his battle with Jigen, whose body is revealed to have been taken over by Isshiki Otsutsuki. He continuously hits Jigen with a barrage of attacks in an attempt to drag Isshiki out of his body and destroy him.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Atsushi Nishiyama
10.0/10 1 votes#3 - The Final Judgment
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/26/2018
The 4th station of the Ryuo battle between the master and Yaichi, which is held at the hot spring inn Hinatsuru. If he loses here, Yaichi loses the title of Ryuo. But his heart was calm and clear. Aito, Ginko, and Katsura watch the biggest battle in Shogi history in the waiting room. And Tengi watching the online broadcast from home. No one knows the whereabouts of the game. Supported by the eyes of Ai who believes in the victory of the master, Yaichi challenges the fateful battle! !!
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
10.0/10 1 votes#4 - Encounter of Destiny
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/2012
Following their narrow victory against Purple Shadow, Project D's reputation is at stake after a pair of imposters parade around Saitama. Initially Takumi seems oblivious to the incident, but takes notice after he is mistakenly blamed for taking advantage of a girl. Meanwhile, the final stage of Project D's expeditions is upon them, and is to be the hardest yet.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Nobuaki Kishima
9.0/10 1 votes#5 - Escape
Season 1 Episode 190 - Aired 3/14/2021
Boruto and the others return to the technology lab to contain and watch over Kawaki while Konohamaru returns to the Leaf Village to report the events of the mission to Naruto.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Hideto Tanaka
9.0/10 1 votes#6 - The other Ai
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2018
At the request of Kudan, the chairman of the Shogi Federation, Yaichi met Yasha Shinteni, a selfish young lady in the 4th grade of elementary school. Although it is a twisted and high-flying garment, the skill of shogi is quite good. Yaichi, who thought that the existence of his rivals would strengthen his relationship, secretly decided to welcome Tengi as a disciple. Yaichi trains his garment at the Shogi Dojo in the New World, refraining from being in a bad mood when he takes another disciple. Of course, Ai couldn't have noticed such a suspicious master ...
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
8.5/10 2 votes#7 - Assemble
Season 6 Episode 121 - Aired 8/6/2009
As Akatsuki seals yet another tailed beast, Itachi and Kisame are warned that Sasuke and his group are after them. Both Konoha and Team Hebi prepare to move out for their quests to find Itachi, but Sasuke makes a little trip to an old Uchiha storage house first.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Yuka Miyata
8.3/10 3 votes#8 - Think: Wavering
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/2018
Eto drops in on a defeated Kanae, offering to help. Shirazu decides he needs to make a fresh start. Ui finally consents to Haise's idea of an undercover fact-finding mission. Haise grows frustrated probing into his past.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Chuji Mikasano
8.3/10 4 votes#9 - turn: In the End
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/8/2018
Takizawa continues his offensive against Haise on the main stage. Shirazu tries to get Saiko to help him subdue Nutcracker in the monitor room. Urie pursues Big Madam, and feels the effects of his increased Frame level.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Chuji Mikasano
8.0/10 2 votes#10 - Strong… Feelings…
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/8/2012
While being held hostage inside the Sanka mansion, Chihiro meets Aria. She discloses that she is Rea’s stepmother, and relates how she came to be married to Dan’ichiro. In the course of her tale, more about Dan’ichiro’s past is also revealed to Chihiro.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Kenji Sugihara
8.0/10 1 votes#11 - Kawaki, the Path to Shinobi
Season 1 Episode 228 - Aired 12/12/2021
In order for Kawaki to become a genin, it’s decided that he can take a special test that differs from the one held at the Ninja Academy. A D-rank mission is deemed to be equivalent, so Kawaki is assigned as an additional member. However, he is difficult to work with, ignores the need for teamwork, and acts on his own—giving his teammates a hard time while disrupting the mission!
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Kyōko Katsuya
8.0/10 1 votes#12 - Infiltrating Dotou Island
Season 1 Episode 235 - Aired 2/6/2022
The Land of Water is taken over by pirates, and contact with Denki's Team 5 is lost. The new Team 7 joins up with a unit led by Kagura and sets out for Dotou Island to assist Team 5 and rescue the islanders. However, the unit is made up of Buntan, Hebiichigo, and Kyoho, who in the past had called themselves the “New Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.” Sarada and Mitsuki go ashore to scout the island while Boruto and the others stay back and watch the situation nearby.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Atsushi Nishiyama
8.0/10 1 votes#13 - Another Fierce Battle
Season 1 Episode 248 - Aired 5/8/2022
Denki and Iwabe protect the village children who accompanied them but they are captured by Funamushi and his squad. Funamushi’s squad shows up once again to attack the village. Funamushi burns with the desire to avenge Seiren as he fiercely battles Boruto and the others once more.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Atsushi Nishiyama
8.0/10 1 votes#14 - The Demon Lord makes his Park Debut
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/2011
Oga's family coerce him into taking Beelzebub to the park so he can make his 'park debut'. Despite making a bad impression with the other mothers, Oga meets a girl named Aoi who is looking after her little brother, Kouta. Aoi tries to help Oga make his park debut which, partly due to the appearance of Alaindelon, doesn't reap much success. The general antics convince the other mothers to call over a police officer, who starts badmouthing both Oga and Aoi. Before Aoi can lose her temper, Oga throws him into a trash can, with Aoi coming off impressed. After Oga leaves, it is revealed Aoi's true identity is that of Aoi Kunieda, leader of the Red Tails gang and one of the Tōhōshinki.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.0/10 1 votes#15 - There was Something Money Could not Buy
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/3/2011
Himekawa plots revenge against Oga by setting him up with a poisoned sandwich, but it doesn't affect him due to his resilience to Hilda's cooking. He next attempts to use a popular costumed character in order to try and capture Beelzebub, but Oga and Beelzebub notice that he's a fake due to differently colored chopsticks. He later attempts to seduce Takayuki into giving him Beelzebub, but Alaindelon intervenes, transporting Himekawa and his gang to a far off island. The resulting failures leave Himekawa with no money to hire any more henchmen. Ans as he tries to attack Oga by himself, he gets caught up in fighting against a rival gang also attempting to kill Oga. Afterward, Kanzaki offers him one of his yogurt drinks, to which Himekawa repays him with a year's supply with a month long lifespan.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.0/10 1 votes#16 - You Kidding Me? The Demon World
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/26/2011
As the Zebub Spell is restored, Lamia and Dr. Forcas begins to return to the Demon World through Alaindelon. While they were being transported, Baby Beel grabbed onto Lamia and refused to let go, causing Furuichi and Oga to be transported as well. All 4 of them landed in Vlad's Haunt, one of the most dangerous areas in the Demon World, with Alaindelon unconscious. Lamia manages to contact Hilda through her cellphone, and is informed that Alaindelon's daughter might be able to transport them home safely. A Yople alien shows up, which Oga punches, causing the Yople to call the creatures in Vlad's Haunt to attack the group. As the group escapes to find Alaindelon's daughter, they encounter numerous creatures, with Furuichi suffering the worst of their attacks. When the group finally reaches their destination, they realise the place was ransacked by bandits, Gare and Edda, who have kidnapped Alaindelon's daughter. As Oga defeats the bandits easily, the episode ends with Furuichi realising how attractive the daughter is.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.0/10 1 votes#17 - No Conclusion Was Reached!
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 8/28/2011
The fight between Oga and Miki begins, with Miki seemingly beating Oga with ease. He strikes Oga with a technique which Aoi recognizes to be Hakkyokuken, a martial art form from China. Oga continues to fail to hurt Miki, using a variety of "special moves" which don't seem any different from his usual attacks. Miki begins to power up his most powerful technique, which he advises Oga to dodge due to its power. Before he has a chance to use it, he is interrupted by Nanami, the 2nd strongest of the 6 Holy Knights. She is shortly joined by the final knight, Izuma, the strongest of the six. Aoi senses how much power he has and recognizes that they have no hope of defeating him. The students return to their classroom to find a notice, declaring all of the Ishiyama High students who were present on the rooftop expelled. The students go to the Counselor's office to complain, and are told that they have a chance to avoid expulsion - by beating the 6 Holy Knights at a sporting event at the upcoming school festival. The students reluctantly accept and leave the office.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.0/10 1 votes#18 - His Brother Was a Crybaby
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 10/23/2011
Before destroying humanity, Lord En wants to experience everything in the human world. As Lord En is a huge fan of games and the like, he is drawn to the game centres and amusement parks there and is distracted from his original mission of destroying humanity. During the visit to Ishiyama Land it's found that he cries very easily over the slightest things that BabyBeel does or happens in general. He suggests going on a roller coaster, which everyone is against due to his crying, but still he demands to go on. He does eventually end up crying and creating fire once again on the roller coaster. Lord En then alerts Oga that he may be attacked by his private guards.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.0/10 1 votes#19 - Beelzebub's New Year's Special! Beelbeel Journey to the West!
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 1/8/2012
A tired and thirsty Furuichi finds himself in a desert, accompanied by Oga, Baby Beel and Kunieda. Furuichi asks what the hell is happening but Oga replies that this is Journey to the West, that he is the monk Sanzohoshi and they are traveling to Tenjiku (India) to retrieve the Buddhist Scrolls. Before dusk, Oga and company arrive at a village populated by people who look like Shiroyama. The townspeople prepared dinner for the four of them. They continued their journey, with more and more people accompanying them along the way, first the Six Holy Knights, then the Red Tails, then the MK5, until the whole of Ishiyama accompanied them to the doors of the Ox King's castle. They were surprised, however, to find Lord En and his three maidservants inside. En tries to hold a New Year's party for his newfound "friends" (Isabella comments that En does not have friends who visit him at New Year) by playing a card game. However, Furuichi beats En at the game, causing the latter to cry and set the Ox King's palace on fire. They later find out that the Ox King is not the Demon Lord himself, but Tojo, and he steals all of the octopuses from the village in order to make Takoyaki, as it was his part-time job. Oga borrows Tojo's fan and tries to quell the flames, but to no effect until Tojo comes with the real Bassho Fan and extinguishes the flame. After chiding En being a pain in the ass, Tojo invites everyone present to a Takoyaki party, at which point Oga and Baby Beel forgets totally forgets about their quest and joins in eating.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.0/10 1 votes#20 - Won't You Eat a Manju? / Won't You Get in a Mixed Bath?
Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 3/4/2012
Koma gets an idea from Oga's Super Milk Time training to switch bodies with Aoi Kunieda by offering her Manju. He has some fun moments with Aoi that gets pervy but he also spends a good bit of time with the kids, of which Koma fits in pretty well. His attempts to push them into his own designs are definitely fun since he wants to utilize the body switching ability for his own ends, which is essentially to get into Aoi’s body and play with her end. Hilda wins a ticket to an Onsen where Oga's family and her enjoy a relaxing bath. Oga, Beel, and Hilda bond a little bit while Furuichi thinks he has a chance to see a woman naked in the mixed hot spring bath.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.0/10 1 votes#21 - The Promised Tree
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/2009
Natsume encounters a spirit who was enslaved by his grandmother Reiko 50 years ago by writing his name on a torn page from the Book of Friends, and tying it to a tree in a forest. Can Natsume help locate the torn page? What was Reiko's intention of tying it to a tree? (Source: Wikipedia)
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#22 - The Boy From The Empty House
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/2009
Natsume encounters a young boy named Kai sealed in a coffin in an abandoned house. Natsume sets Kai free and finds out that Kai is being stalked by a youkai. After a time, Natsume becomes the target of this youkai and stops the youkai's stalking with Nyanko-sensei's help. In the end Natori who turns out to be the stalker and who sealed Kai in the coffin, tells Natsume that Kai is a Youkai. (Source: Wikipedia)
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 2 votes#23 - The Serpent's Pupil
Season 6 Episode 113 - Aired 6/11/2009
Orochimaru's body has reached its limit and the time for the ritual has come. Sasuke has other plans, however, and seeks to target a bedridden Orochimaru.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Masahiro Hikokubo
8.0/10 1 votes#24 - Changing Desks, Class Reps, and New Friends
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2023
With the start of September comes a new school semester, and Akane finds herself seated next to Taiyou. As the class decides on new class reps, Akane finds herself being volunteered for the job, much to the chagrin of an unexpected rival...
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Yuki Tanihata
8.0/10 1 votes#25 - The Azure Surge! Tail Blue
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/2014
Twoearle gives the others a tour of the newly-completed secret base. When an Elemelian appears, Soji goes into action to stop the attack, but he soon finds himself in over his head. It's going to take another Tail Gear warrior to rescue him!
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Naruhisa Arakawa