The Best Episodes Directed By Takeshi Ogasawara

#1 - The Day All Tuna Vanished

Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1988

Kotaro fights to stop the abduction of tuna by Professor Kuromatsu in order to gain an extract to improve the power of the Golgom mutants.

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi

#2 - Assault on a Haunted School

Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1988

Keisuke tries to stop a Golgom scheme of using schools to mold children into model students to assist in their control of Earth.

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Junichi Miyashita

#3 - Rider's Grave

Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1988

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Noboru Sugimura

#4 - Clash! Super Machines

Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1988

Bishium uses a Mutant to infect Battle Hopper with insects that make it run wild and ignore Kotaro's commands.

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Noboru Sugimura

#5 - The Female College Student's Nightmare

Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1988

Kotaro must save Katsumi and other college girls from a professor turned Golgom Mutant hoping to add more females to the mutant army.

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Ryu Yamaguchi

#6 - The Roaring Armed Machine

Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1988

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi

#7 - The Scarab Beetle's Invitation to Hell

Season 8 Episode 28 - Aired 4/10/1988

Bilgenia uses a scarab beetle Mutant to create a craze for its minions, forcing Kotaro into a corner in trying to stem this greedy obsession.

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Naruhisa Arakawa

#8 - The Targeted Death Mask

Season 8 Episode 29 - Aired 4/17/1988

Kotaro must rescue four Japanese astronauts when they're abducted and replaced with doll-like clones controlled by a Golgom Mutant.

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Junichi Miyashita

#9 - Tokyo Mutant Gathering

Season 8 Episode 42 - Aired 7/17/1988

Kotaro meets two brothers, Makoto and Yuki who has psychic powers which Yuki gets kidnap by Fly Mutant to bring the Phantom Mutants to life and begins a invasion of Tokyo. Kotaro tries to fight back and only to find the Phantom Monsters tuern themselves incorporeal to avoid his attacks! Will Kotaro find a way of how to end this madness, once and for all?

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Takashi Yamada

#10 - The Mutant Farm Battle

Season 8 Episode 43 - Aired 7/24/1988

Kotaro investigates the claim of a child that something strange is happening at his apartment, leading to a discovery of its inhabitants being used to create new mutants for Golgom!

Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

Writer: Kenichi Araki