The Best Episodes Directed By Naomichi Yamato

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(5 votes)

   #1 - Darkness

   S2:E912/6/2010

   Jura starts a battle with Hot Eye of the Heavenly Eye, and Wendy wakes up and heals Erza. Meanwhile, Cobra follows Jellal, being unable to read his mind, to see that Jellal finds Nirvana. Natsu runs off to find Jellal, determined to not let him meet Erza. Erza hears the name "Jellal" and sets off by herself without the others knowing. Racer's personal guild, Harpyia, tries to stop Natsu, but is easily defeated. Hibiki explains about the power of Nirvana - the people in between the power of light and darkness switch to the opposite element. The people of light who feel powerful negative emotion fall into darkness. Fearing that Wendy, who blames herself for reviving Jellal, would fall into darkness as well, Hibiki knocks her unconcious. Meanwhile, Sherry, who feels that Gray has caused Lyon's death, has fallen into darkness, and knocks Gray unconscious. Hot Eye is also affected by Nirvana, and teams up with Jura. Ren heads toward the light, but Midnight, who begins to hunt the magicians, gets Eve as his first victim.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - After the Dance

   S1:E1112/17/2005

   An annual ball is being held in the lycee. Students, guardians and guests in formal attire are gathered in the school cafeteria when Saya arrives in a dress she borrowed from Min. On the dance floor, Saya meets a young man named Solomon, who asks her for a dance. As the music starts, David reaches the entrance to the basement surrounded by blue roses...

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #3 - From the New World

   S1:E253/23/2013

   After all the scores are settled, ten years go by. Saki and Satoru hope for a better world.

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   7.6/10(7 votes)

   #4 - Our Home

   S1:E82/25/2023

   Many years in the past, a colony ship traveling through space to find a new home for humanity suddenly experienced an emergency. Young Vash and Knives were saved by Rem and crash-landed on the planet No Man's Land on an escape pod.

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   7.5/10(8 votes)

   #5 - HUNGRY!

   S1:E41/28/2023

   Vash meets Nicholas, a suspicious undertaker who carries a huge cross. Before they could get to know each other, though, they are attacked by a huge worm, swallowing them and the building they were in.

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   7.2/10(9 votes)

   #6 - NOMAN'S LAND

   S1:E11/7/2023

   Veteran reporter Roberto and rookie Meryl find themselves helping Vash the Stampede, an infamous thief with a bounty of six million double-dollars on his head.

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   6.5/10(10 votes)

   #7 - Snow-like

   S1:E21/12/2014

   Angry that Yato hasn't found a way to heal her yet, Hiyori takes matters into her own hands. She hurries off to find a new Regalia for Yato, but encounters disaster instead!

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Vanishing Children

   S1:E210/6/2012

   Another student is removed from the roster. Saki uses her power outside of class.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Bloody History

   S1:E410/20/2012

   As the library continues to explain the history of the world, a danger looms in the background.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Weak Link

    S1:E1212/15/2012

    Saki sits down with head of the ethics committee, Asahina Tomiko. Asahina begins to tell her the other side of the town’s history.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Footsteps of Destruction

    S1:E171/26/2013

    Many years have passed; Saki and Satoru have grown and moved their separate ways. But recent actions within the monster rat community have brought them back together.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Darkness

    S1:E192/9/2013

    Searching for survivors in the hospital, Saki and the group she and Satoru have joined up with discover Yakomaru’s secret.

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    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - The Season of New Leaves

    S1:E19/29/2012

    Saki is the last of her friends of finally to be touched by a Blessing Spirit, but at the Unified Class her skills are lacking. And talk of missing children taken by the trickster cat continues to scare her.

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    0.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Siberian Express

    S1:E161/28/2006

    Saya and the others arrive in Vladivostok, and take the Trans-Siberian Railroad with Elizaveta, a Russian Red Shield agent. But the Chiroptera are lurking in the most unexpected places...

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    #15 - Paris, je t'aime

    S1:E274/15/2006

    Kai finds out that Riku has turned into a chevalier. "What can I do?" Kai keeps asking himself, wandering around in the city of Paris. He comes across Irene in the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower. She's terribly weakened, but she's ready to disclose what she knows about Schiff's past...

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