9.3/103 votes#1 - I thought net games and reality were different?
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2016
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Tatsuya Takahashi
9.3/103 votes#2 - I thought once you reincarnated, you still get another chance?
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/2016
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Gou Zappa
8.6/105 votes#3 - Everyday Life with a Slime
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/2015
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
8.0/101 votes#4 - The Young Man and the Little Girl Meet
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/4/2019
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
8.0/101 votes#5 - The Little Girl Begins Her New Life
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/11/2019
While helping run errands in town, Latina gets lost and goes on a small adventure of her own, while Dale frantically searches for her.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
8.0/101 votes#6 - The Young Man Arrives at His Home Village
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/22/2019
After visiting with Dale's cousin, he and Latina arrive in the village of Teathrow where they receive a spicy welcome.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
7.5/104 votes#7 - An Injured Person, the Royal Capital, My Sons, and a Game of Tag
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/2022
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
7.5/104 votes#8 - A Battle, a Victory, a Conversation, and News
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/2022
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?!
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
7.0/102 votes#9 - Starting the Business, with the Slimes
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2020
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
7.0/102 votes#10 - The New Coworkers, with the Slimes
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/2020
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
7.0/102 votes#11 - A Murderer’s Summer
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/2020
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
7.0/102 votes#12 - The Island That Flows
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/31/2021
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takayo Ikami
7.0/101 votes#13 - The Young Man Heads Out
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/18/2019
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?
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
7.0/101 votes#14 - The Young Girl Returns to Kreuz
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/5/2019
Dale and Latina begin their return to Kreuz, and along the way, pick up some souvenirs for their friends back home.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
6.8/104 votes#15 - An Introduction, a Carriage, a Maid, and Moving
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/16/2022
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
6.5/102 votes#16 - The Ancient Ruins of Hosszú Bányázait Alagút
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2020
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
6.5/102 votes#17 - Majiha Forever
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/2020
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...
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takayo Ikami
6.5/102 votes#18 - Yana & Aoiu Are the Väikedaam
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2021
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takayo Ikami
6.5/102 votes#19 - A Short Film and the Sixth Hero
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/21/2021
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
6.5/102 votes#20 - A Will to Destroy
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 9/11/2021
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...
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Takawo Yoshioka
6.5/102 votes#21 - Ordeal
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/2024
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Shunma Hara
6.0/102 votes#22 - Let’s Make Bishojo Games Together!
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/2023
Konoha ends up in Akihabara in the year 1992. She finds that the building she works at is now a computer shop, with a bishojo game company on the second floor. Could Konoha's 21st century art skills be the key to survival?
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Tatsuya Takahashi
6.0/102 votes#23 - A Path
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/2024
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.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Deko Akao
5.5/102 votes#24 - After the Storm
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/6/2024
Through an unexpected turn of events, Elise ends up staying at the Child family's home, something she never imagined would happen. While there, she and Juliane have a chance to talk and they begin to share things they've never told anyone before.
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Deko Akao
4.0/101 votes#25 - U... U-U-U-U-U...
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/2023
Mamoru frantically searches all over Akihabara for Konoha after she suddenly goes missing. Little does he know that deep underground, Konoha finds herself facing a fate worse than death...
Director: Naoyoshi Kusaka
Writer: Yuichiro Higashide
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"I thought net games and reality were different?" is the best rated episode directed by Naoyoshi Kusaka. It scored 9.3/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by Tatsuya Takahashi. It aired on 4/21/2016 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "I thought once you reincarnated, you still get another chance?".