The Best Episodes Directed By Taichi Ishidate

While the club room is closed for repairs, the girls have nowhere to practice. All is not lost, though, because the girls finally write lyrics to the music Tsumugi wrote.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Reiko Yoshida

Let's have a birthday party for Nano! Professor, what do you mean, "a little one?" Got it! I'll take this ugly one away, too! Cake, cake, cake!

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Keiichi Arawi

Asuka is about to lose her seat competing in the Nationals. But that might not be why she invited Kumiko over.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Jukki Hanada

Still basking in the glow of their kiss, Yuichi and Ayu spend more and more time together. Everything appears to be going splendidly - until their burgeoning romance is derailed by a visit to Ayu’s school.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Fumihiko Shimo

When Tomoya brings Ushio to school he meets her teacher, who is none other than Kyou Fujibayashi and they have a conversation. After that, Tomoya goes to work and Yoshino asks him for Fuko to play with Ushio, since she likes her. Tomoya agrees to this and Fuko arrives at his house to play until the evening when she goes back home. When it is time to sleep, Tomoya uses Nagisa's song to lull Ushio to sleep. The next day, Kyou tells Tomoya about sports day at school where the parents are to participate as well. He is reluctant about it, but Ushio encourages him, which makes him change his mind. One evening, Ushio is taking a stroll to the new hospital by herself and encounters Fuko on her way. When the latter asks why she does this, Ushio says it is for no real reason. The next day, Tomoya is preparing for the meet at the Furukawa bakery with Sanae and Akio, when Ushio is suddenly struck with a fever, much to the others' shock.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Fumihiko Shimo

Nagisa and Tomoya are now a married couple living together. Nagisa tries to find work and starts working in a family restaurant with Nishina. Akio and Tomoya visit Nagisa at work and scare out a couple of customers who were hitting on Nagisa. Nagisa tells Tomoya that the old building of the school they went to is going to be torn down. Knowing that the drama club was in the old building, Tomoya freaks out and admits that he is uncomfortable with all the changes happening in their town. Tomoya and Nagisa visit Akio and Sanae, who tells them Nagisa is most likely pregnant. Akio gets angry at Tomoya at first, but he congratulates him afterwards.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Fumihiko Shimo

An exceptionally hot day launches a crusade to have air conditioning installed in the club room.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Katsuhiko Muramoto

The girls decide to record an album as an emblem of their time at the school.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Reiko Yoshida

When Akihito sees a girl about to jump off the school roof, he surprises even himself as he races up the stairs to rescue her. Much to his surprise, the girl he saved is a Spirit World Warrior. And as a half-youmu, he’s now her prey!

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Jukki Hanada

The signing ceremony concludes, officially bringing an end to the war. While writing letters for an air show, Violet composes a letter to the Major.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Reiko Yoshida

Now that she's well into her third-year, Kumiko is now facing pressure from teachers and parents alike to choose what she's doing after high school. Concert band members form groups to attend the Agata Festival, but Kumiko has other plans.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Jukki Hanada

Summer is almost here, and Konata is still staying up late playing online video games, reading manga, and watching anime instead of studying. Kagami and Tsukasa's birthday arrives on July 7 and Konata and Miyuki celebrate with them. After this episode, the director is changed from Yutaka Yamamoto to Yasuhiro Takemoto.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Yutaka Yamamoto

Azusa Nakano joins the Light Music Club but realizes that the laid-back club might not be for her, and Azusa’s membership is at stake.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Reiko Yoshida

Azusa and Ui, along with their classmate Jun, spend time together while the third years are on their trip to Kyoto. Noticing that Ui would be lonely without her sister around, Jun and Azusa decide to sleepover at her house.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Jukki Hanada

Kotomi finally leaves the house to find that Tomoya worked in the garden all night long and had fallen asleep. When she returns to school, Tomoya, Kyou, Ryou and Nagisa are all waiting for her. The mysterious stranger whom she was so frightened of, believing he wanted to steal her parents' thesis, is there as well. Kotomi and her friends find out that he is her legal guardian, and that there never were any written notes for the thesis after all. The envelope Kotomi set fire to, and felt so guilty about, was nothing important. The stranger also has a birthday gift for her: her parents' suitcase, which survived the plane crash and was passed from hand to hand for years until he found it. Inside is a teddy bear, Kotomi's gift request to them before they left, and an affectionate letter. Kotomi, holding the bear, is so happy that sparkles literally fill the room, and makes peace with her parents' deaths at last.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Fumihiko Shimo

The incantation of resurrection. A shark. A warrior never goes back on her word! My life is over!

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Jukki Hanada

Now that Akihito and Mirai have been reunited, they must work together to defeat Beyond the Boundary’s core. But what will happen to Mirai and Akihito once it has been defeated...? Will either of them survive?

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Jukki Hanada

Mayu taking the soli part has made the concert band uneasy. Despite Kumiko's insistence that this is how it should be, several members take issue with Taki's decision.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Jukki Hanada

After his first day at school, Yuichi is able to stir the memories of Ayu, who happily recalls a promise he made to her years before. But the strange girl who later attacks Yuichi doesn’t seem happy at all.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Fumihiko Shimo

Yuichi finds his feelings for Makoto growing, and his memory offers clues of who she might really be. Meanwhile, a girl named Mishio offers him startling information about Makoto - and a strange warning.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Fumihiko Shimo

Yuichi is throttled by Mai’s revelation that the demons might come after him next. Sayuri is worried about both of her friends, but an attempt to surprise Mai on her birthday could end disastrously!

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Fumihiko Shimo

Hotaro is enlisted by Eru to appear in a Dolls' Festival parade that her local shrine holds every year. When construction work unexpectedly causes a last-minute detour, it leaves the participants wondering what went awry.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Shoji Gato

Tsukasa gets a new cell phone. Kagami teaches her how to text message. Tsukasa text messages Kagami to the point of sheer annoyance. Konata invites Kagami and Tsukasa over to her house and they forget to do their homework.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Yutaka Yamamoto

It's Konata's birthday, and her family sets up a surprise party for her when she gets home from work. All goes according to plan until Konata calls and says that her coworkers are throwing her a party and that she'll be coming home late. The girls discuss what their goals in life are. Kagami has a bad day when she gets bothered by little annoyances and ends up going to a store to buy a drink but forgets her wallet. Things get worse for Kagami when her older sister Matsuri scolds her for neglecting to buy groceries for dinner. On Lucky Channel, Akira and Shiraishi have a special guest: Meito Anizawa, the manager of the anime store that desperately wants Konata to buy something from his shop. He talks about the three factors that determine an anime's success.

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Touko Machida

It's almost time for the school's culture festival. While the girls are preparing for their classes' themes for the festival, Patricia proposes that she and the girls in her class should do a cheerleading act for the opening ceremony of the festival. Patricia "persuades" Konata into performing the routine with her, who in turn gets Kagami, Tsukasa, Miyuki, Misao, and Ayano to do it as well. Akira Kogami finally makes an appearance on the actual show, although she and Shiraishi are still on bad terms. Before the opening ceremony, the girls practice the cheerleading act one last time to the song, "Motteke! Sailor Fuku!"

Director: Taichi Ishidate

Writer: Kagami Yoshimizu