The Best Episodes Directed By Shin Oonuma

Kyosuke Tsutsumi spots a beautiful girl and tries to photograph her. Hiro Hirono meets the beautiful Miyako Miyamura when she steals his bike in pursuit of a purse thief. Renji Aso encounters the mysterious Chihiro Shindo at an abandoned train station.

After getting a significant amount of work done on the novel, Renji and Chihiro go for a walk on the beach where a misunderstanding causes Chihiro to run away in tears. Kei further sabotages Miyako's relationship with Hiro.

A depressed Renji reflects on his memories with Chihiro and begins to collect her missing diary pages. They meet again at the train station. Yuko and Yu reunite at the old church, and all is well for the other couples.

Kuroki Tomoko thought she would instantly become popular once she entered high school... but the reality is that, two months after starting school, she still hasn't spoken with any of her classmates. As other kids in her class laugh over photos from their recent karaoke outing, Tomoko sits alone reading a book while she eats her lunch. That's when she decides it's time to take action so she can learn to converse with others - especially boys.

Kyosuke questions his ability as a photographer. Hirono spends the day with Miyako. Chihiro reveals to Renji that she has a memory defect that only allows her to remember the last thirteen hours.

Everyone in the guild is hard at work leveling up and preparing for what's to come. Maple manages to "cheese" her way through a quest to help a sick NPC.

Chihiro starts working part time at Ashley’s office. Chihiro cleans Ashley’s whole office and then goes to take a bath and Ashley finds out Chihiro’s “secret.” Meanwhile, Itsuki heads to the zoo with Nayuta so he can do some research for his next book and they observe all the naked animals. He then goes to the aquarium with Chihiro and then takes Chihiro home in a taxi and...

Itsuki asks Miyako to take something to the publisher’s for him and she runs into Nayuta’s editor. Miyako tells her that she will go see Nayuta and get her to finish the manuscript in person, and her editor thanks her. Miyako then realizes that she might want to be an editor herself. To celebrate his new volume being released, Itsuki has his friends come over and they all play the game “Once Upon a Time” and chaos ensues.

Itsuki falls asleep at the kotatsu and has a dream. He dreams about his darker middle school days. His mother had just died and he falls in love with a certain girl, but... Back in modern time, Itsuki celebrates his book becoming an anime and has a mixer at his apartment. Haruto brings over a board game about being a light novel artist and they all play. What kind of results will they all get in the end?

The culture festival is over, and it's back to life as usual. As fall sets in, Tomoko asks herself what exactly she's been doing all this time, and begins to feel like her life is flashing before her eyes... Making the decision to focus on the future instead of regretting the past, Tomoko finds a future plans questionnaire in her school bag. She decides to call Yuu-chan to see what she thinks, but is reminded of a past she'd have just as soon forgotten...

Seeking to understand why he couldn't capture a hauntingly beautiful young girl on film, Kouhei Morioka stumbles into a medieval castle and a world he cannot comprehend.

The Mythical Age. In an effort to destroy the Moon of Creation, Anos meets the Goddess of Creation Militia and begins to interact with her. And now the present... Anos, who has made his identity as the Demon King of Tyranny known throughout the world, joins classes at Demon King Academy as the transfer student, Anoshu. To train even stronger demons, Erdomaid instates the Great Demon King Drills. As the first initiative, swordsmanship training under Shin begins!

Nayuta, Miyako and Haruto gather at Itsuki’s room for Valentine’s Day, and Haruto tries to show off his friendship with Itsuki again. Toki then shows up with the chocolates that fans had sent to them. A few days later, a new face shows up at Itsuki’s house. Itsuki was getting ready to do his final return for his taxes and all of his possessions are carefully inspected by the new figure...

Itsuki is nearing his final deadline for volume 5 and flees from his editor, Toki, however he is immediately caught. However, Itsuki manages to escape when he runs into Setsuna and they both go to a hot springs. Setsuna felt like he was in a slump and wanted to see some asses to get some inspiration. But when they get to the ryokan with the hot springs, Itsuki witnesses something horrifying...

Itsuki has a meeting with Kaiko Mikuniyama, the manga artist who will be doing the manga version of “Mahou Academy.” She looks very refined, which makes Itsuki nervous, but apparently she loves little sisters as much as he does. The group has a little celebration to celebrate the upcoming broadcast of Haruto’s anime and the manga version of Itsuki’s series. The group gets together once again to watch the broadcast of the first anime episode live, but…

Tasked by Meme, Koyomi heads to a lonely temple to attach a prayer slip. There he sees a dead snake that has been severed into five parts.

On the day of the Tennomifune Academy entrance ceremony, in the class 1-7 classroom, Hanakoizumi Anne (Hanako), Hibarigaoka Ruri (Hibar), and Kumegawa Botan (Botan) are told by their homeroom teacher Kodaira-sensei that they are unfortunate and unhappy students. The goal of the students of class 1-7, who are burdened by a variety of forms of misfortune, is to become happy. The three girls have trouble accepting their circumstances, but they're immediately given an unexpected assignment...!

Itsuki Hashima is a popular, young novelist. However, he is obsessed with little sisters and his works seem to always include little sisters, so there’s some difficulty coming up with a new series. One day, his younger step-brother Chihiro and his colleagues, Hayato Fuwa, Nayuta Kani, and fellow college student, Miyako Shirakawa show up at his apartment. They enjoy dinner, drinks, and a game. That night, Nayuta makes advances towards Itsuki, but...

Nayuta and Miyako walk in on Itsuki, who was naked in front of the bathroom mirror, trying to act out the little sister character in his new volume. Itsuki is everything to Nayuta, and Miyako secretly has some feelings for Itsuki, but Nayuta also cherishes Miyako because she showed her compassion in her time of need. Nayuta invites Miyako to the hotel she’s staying at and immediately gets naked. She then asks Miyako to also get naked for some kind of research for her novel...

Itsuki, Nayuta, and Miyako have a hard time dealing with the cold and head down to Okinawa. The next day, they visit a remote island so Itsuki can do some research and Nayuta decides to flail around naked in the water. Miyako is awed by what she's seeing and eventually jumps into the water naked, as well. Two days later, Itsuki is invited by his illustrator to go to Hokkaido, where they try various local cuisines. However, Itsuki finds out that Setsuna had been ignoring a deadline...

In order to cheer Haruto up after his anime was such a flop, Itsuki gets him as well as Nayuta, Miyako and Chihiro together so they can play a TRPG. Itsuki usually plays girls in games, but for some reason, Chihiro makes out their character to be Itsuki’s character’s little sister, which leads to Nayuta and Miyako also making their characters sisters of the other two. Haruto becomes the GM and does whatever he wants.

After Haruto tells him how he feels about Miyako, Itsuki promises to help him out. Around the same time, Nayuta, who sees Miyako as an older sister, tells him that she wants to have a birthday party for her. Itsuki and Nayuta have difficulties trying to figure out what to get Miyako for her birthday, so Nayuta asks her who her favorite author is, and she responds with Itsuki. Nayuta feels jealousy toward Itsuki for the first time, since they’re both authors. What was the gift that Nayuta ended up getting Miyako?

Toki brings Itsuki the manuscript for the Mahou Academy manga. Itsuki was looking forward to what Kaiko had drawn because of her art quality, but there was a problem. Itsuki is unable to get over this problem and goes to confront Kaiko. Setsuna then shows up and has a manga battle with Kaiko on who will do the manga version of Itsuki’s book.