The Best Episodes Directed By Naoto Hosoda
Every TV Episode Directed by Naoto Hosoda Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Naoto Hosoda Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Naoto Hosoda is "Cutting a Chicken with a Beef Cleaver", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Sadayuki Murai". "Cutting a Chicken with a Beef Cleaver" aired on 10/17/2017 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Enemy, a Noble Primate".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Cutting a Chicken with a Beef Cleaver
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2017
Warrior of the Chicken, Niwatori, isn't as powerful as the others, but her ability to see with a birds-eye-view has helped her survive many battles. She can also betray without feeling any remorse, until she first meets the Monkey Warrior, Sharyu.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
10.0/10 1 votes#2 - The Enemy, a Noble Primate
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2017
Warrior of the Monkey, Sharyu, is a powerful fighter able to manipulate the three states of matter, but uses her power to bring peace around the world. She seeks peace at the Juni Taisen as well, until her lone ally asks if people are really worth saving.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
10.0/10 1 votes#3 - Hot Springs, Let's Eat
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2008
The Minami sisters, Makoto, Touma, Fujioka, and Takeru go on a hot spring trip for New Years.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: N/A
10.0/10 1 votes#4 - Taste is Something Inherited Over Generations
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2008
Kana decides to help her sister become the Great Bancho once more by making the Kana army, but Chiaki on the other hand couldn't help because she considered her friends useless. In the end of the episode they find out Haruka was just refusing a phone call to become class rep.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: N/A
10.0/10 1 votes#5 - Even One Bite More Is Painful
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/23/2008
Chiaki helps to prepare for a school sports meet. Meanwhile, the sisters learn that Fuyuki is moving and is forced to leave in the middle of the sports meet. Kana learns that Haruka has been selected to study abroad.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: N/A
10.0/10 1 votes#6 - Everyone At Once, 'Thank You for the Meal'
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/30/2008
Frightened of the prospect of Haruka studying abroad, Kana and Chiaki decide to step up to the plate and exert more of an effort with the cooking and cleaning as well as the other domestic chores in order to put Haruka's mind at ease after sending her off with a smile. It quickly becomes evident that the prospect of having to actually take care of themselves in Haruka's absence is much more than Kana and Chiaki can endure. While being tearfully embraced and exhorted to stay with them, Haruka explains to Kana and Chiaki that she has no intention of studying abroad anyway.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: N/A
10.0/10 1 votes#7 - A Warm Place
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 3/22/2009
Chiaki lashing out at Uchida, Kana, and Maki due to their boisterous laughter rousing her from a nap on a warm spring day gives way Kana first sending in Uchida and Maki to fight this battle for her before doing her own dirty work only to have it end in a stalemate. The next arc features Makoto and Uchida taking an afternoon nap with Kana when Maki pays the trio a visit with the request that Kana gaze upon her sleeping face while recalling a dysphoric middle school memory, especially after Kana reads Maki and Uchida sleeping as the perfect opportunity to draw on their faces as a prank. The arc thereafter features Haruka and Atsuko looking at pictures from their middle school days. The arc that ensues has Chiaki sewing on a wayward button while Kana detects Haruka's school uniform carelessly strewn about before remarking of the seasonal uniform transition. While modifying a shirt of Kana's, Chiaki accidentally slices Haruka's fuku skirt. Knowing that Haruka will be very angry with them when she detects the damage, Kana and Chiaki attempt some desperate and frenzied repairs to buy time for computing their next move. Unfortunately, things coming unraveled when Maki detects the telltale thread put both Kana and Chiaki in scalding hot water with Haruka. The final arc features Kana blowing up at Chiaki for insulting her once too often before deciding to resolve her fears of Chiaki becoming a delinquent by being a nice older sister. Unfortunately, all Kana accomplishes is to greatly unsettle Chiaki and frighten her into co-sleeping with Haruka.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 2 votes#8 - Even Boars May Become Pigs After Seven Generations
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2017
The Juni Taisen takes place every twelve years. The participating warriors must kill each other until only one remains. Inonoshishi, Warrior of the Boar and the daughter of the last Taisen's winner, ends up fighting her first enemy in an unexpected way.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
9.0/10 2 votes#9 - Tricks Both Mongrel and Fowl
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2017
Warrior of the Dog, Dotsuku, is known for his powerful bite, "Mad Dog's Vise." However, he has a secret skill: the ability to create and secrete a variety of poisons from his body. This gives him an advantage when all of the participants are poisoned!
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - The Man Who Chases Two Rabbits Catches Neither
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2017
Warrior of the Rabbit, Usagi, is a Necromantist who makes other warriors into his "friends." Warrior of the Ox, Ushii, and Warrior of the Tiger, Tora, end up facing off against two of these "friends," the Tatsumi Brothers.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.0/10 2 votes#11 - Sign Up
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2011
Yukiteru Amano is a loner who spends his time writing in his mobile diary and talking to an imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina. However, one morning, he finds his diary entry for the day has been filled in already. Stranger yet, the events portrayed in the diary start coming true. Deus, who reveals he is an actual God, warns Yukiteru that if he loses his diary, he will die. As Yukiteru starts using the diary to his advantage, he is approached by a stalker named Yuno Gasai who also possesses a Future Diary that foretold his death at the hands of a serial killer, another Future Diary owner. Helping him evade the killer, Yuno helps Yukiteru throw a dart into the killer's phone, killing him. Afterwards, Deus explains the rules of the survival game to Yukiteru and the other diary owners, in which they must try to kill each other in order to win the right to succeed him.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.0/10 1 votes#12 - Format
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/15/2012
After some hesitation at seeing the innocence of her other self, Yuno lunges at her, but she is stopped by her other self's parents. Meanwhile, the actions of Yuki and Uryu have caused a domino effect that has changed the future of almost every diary holder for the better. When Balks reads about his other self's death in Yuki's diary using his incomplete Watcher Diary, he calls off his partnership with Deus, who decides to cancel the survival game and find another method to determine his successor. Yuki manages to remember Yuno and break free from the illusionary world, in the process releasing his world's Murmur, who had been trapped by her first world self in order to impersonate her. Faced with Yuki's love and her other self's united family, Yuno's resolve to kill them all is lost, and she decides to commit suicide. A horrified Yuki is declared winner of the survival game by his world's Murmur and spirited away through a vortex. 10,000 years on, Yuki is still grieving Yuno's death in his now empty universe, refusing to create anything. At the end of the episode, the final entry in his diary changes from "Yuno died" to "Yuno came to see me", and her voice is heard calling his name.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama