The Best Episodes Directed By Naoyoshi Kusaka

Nio and his sister meet a pair of charming swordsmen in their grandmother's Kyoto eatery. Despite unsavory rumors, the children befriend the ronin from the east. How will these "wolves of Mibu" change their destinies?

During their first club meeting, Akane is delighted by her faster machine, Ako gets a lesson in dressing for the occasion, and Kyoh is prevented from using her premium equipment. However, the line between game and reality becomes more blurred.

Ako asks to play a different game during the club meeting, and Kyoh suggests a first-person shooter. Ako feels threatened when she thinks Nanako is interested in Hideki, and withdraws from both school and her friends.

A strange object appears in the pot and eats Miia! The culprit is an amorphous slime. Centorea weilds her blade against the attacking slime to protect Kimihito, but both of them end up covered in slime. They take a bath to wash the slime off, where they sink the slime on a wild rampage is search of water into the tub...! Papi names the slime Suu, and she begins living with them.

The adventurer Dale Reki is undertaking fairly typical mission when he finds a young devil girl, with a broken horn. Not willing to abandon her in the wilderness, he takes her back to the town he works out of, to see if he can help her find her way.

While helping run errands in town, Latina gets lost and goes on a small adventure of her own, while Dale frantically searches for her.

After visiting with Dale's cousin, he and Latina arrive in the village of Teathrow where they receive a spicy welcome.

Cayna discovers that the NPC characters she created in the game were actually considered her children in this world. In order to reunite with them, she heads to the royal capital of Felskeilo. However, she is unable to see Skargo, who is the High Priest. She is able to reunite with her youngest child, the dwarf Kartatz, and learns how the other two children are doing from him.

Lopus had messed up an experiment which creates a monster penguin who starts destroying the city of Felskeilo. Cohral and Shining Saber arrive to fight with the monster but are no match for it. Cohral and Shining Saber risk their lives for one final attack against the monster when suddenly, a giant boulder passes by?!

Ryoma decides to strike out on his own as an adventurer and business owner. He discusses his plans with the ducal family, and works with Serge the merchant to put his business plans in motion.

The laundry business explodes in popularity, so Ryoma rushes out on day two to hire more help. He meets Fei and Li Ling, foreigners with a hidden past.

As her reward for completing the quest, Tokitate gets to ask the Game Master whether this alternate world is actually virtual or not... and the answer is that it's an alternate Earth that branched off of the original Earth's timeline. Upon hearing that it's an existing world, Yotsuya trembles with the realization that he killed real people. Once he returns to the real world and resumes his normal life, the Game Master appears before him in the form of a young girl and leads him to a meeting with the next new player.

The islanders have sent the women and children away on a boat to protect them from the upcoming battle, but the orcs find and target them. Shindou and Cantil move to stop them, but in the midst of the fight, the earth begins to shake violently as the volcano on the island erupts. Pandemonium breaks loose as volcanic bombs rain down on the island... but this is only the prologue to a much greater disaster.

A job has Dale traveling to the royal capital, which means leaving Latina at home for several days. Will either of them manage without each other?

Dale and Latina begin their return to Kreuz, and along the way, pick up some souvenirs for their friends back home.

Ahide announces that Midhaze will be destroyed. However, the oracle’s will contradicts Arcana’s true intentions. Shin also joins in the fray as the two finally face off! Ahide possesses Arcana and thrusts the judgement of the Sword of the Almighty, Leviangilma, upon Anos. Arcana states that to destroy Ahide, he must be slashed three times with the Divine Sword. But the sword obliterates the source of anyone who draws the sword from its sheath….

Ceris, commander of the Phantom Knights, who claims to be Anos' father, says that Militia gave Anos false memories. After Ceris leaves, Arcana, unable to recover her memories of Anos, falls into a dream once again. In her memory of 2,000 years ago, Arcana hears a secret about herself from Ceris. Anos reincarnates Arcana to protect her, but his wish for her at the time was…

Cayna brings Luka to Felskeilo's capital to introduce her to her other children and friends. She also receives a wagon from Elineh as a gift for her past services, and summons Roxilius' counterpart (and rival), the werecat maid Roxine, to help in her new household. After converting the wagon into a self-propelled golem, Cayna and her entourage set out for the remote village, where she introduces Luka to the locals, who promptly prepare a welcome party for her.

Elise has succeeded in a complicated surgery thanks to her formidable medical skills. Impressed by her genius, the other doctors discuss her eligibility for the physician's exam. Later, Elise finds Lord Ron at the hospital and wonders why he's there.

Yotsuya’s party has saved the people who were under attack by kobolds. They then find out the group is a squad of soldiers from the dictatorial Kingdom of Deokk, and they’re escorting heretics to Radodorbo to be executed. The party still isn’t sure how they should interpret their quest, so for the time being, they accompany the soldiers and heretics on the way to Radodorbo.

The progress of all four party members is halted by heavy snow as time continues to tick away. What's worse, if anyone freezes to death, they can't come back to life until the weather they revive in becomes survivable again. The party grows desperate. Yotsuya gets lost in an underground dungeon that he unexpectedly fell into, Shindou walks across a frozen lake without realizing how thin the ice beneath her feet is, and Hakozaki is unable to progress any further. As the party members lose their lives one by one, Tokitate, the last one alive, is ready to give up...

The current quest is to make Jiffon Island's harvest festival a success, but the festival can't be held because some orcs that strayed onto the island have taken over all of the Buffo that are traditionally offered as sacrifices. On top of that, the increasing number of orcs threatens the islanders' very lives. With the festival date only 11 days away, Yotsuya begins leveling up to raise his rank so he can help fight them, and his job changes to Blacksmith.

After completing the fifth quest, Yotsuya is back in his hometown when a woman named Glenda pays him a visit. She knows about the other world he's been to, and she claims to know at least three other people who have been there. Glenda hopes to get in touch with these parallel world explorers, but she's had no luck contacting them through social media. So she decides to produce a video of Yotsuya and his fellow party members that only people who have been to the other world would understand.

Yotsuya's party manages to escape the village, and then they encounter a large group of people. They turn out to be the ones who had been run out of the village under the pretext of going on the Journey of Hope to find the so-called New Eden. The party accompanies the villagers in their hurried search for a new permanent residence, even as monsters close in on them...

Elise knows that tragedy is nearly upon them. She devotes everything she has to one final, desperate effort. Then, the physician's exam finally begins. After everything is done, Elise's convictions about how she wants to live her life only grow stronger.