9.0/101 votes#1 - Light Music!
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/19/2009
Yui gets a fever. Will she recover in time for the festival?
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
9.0/103 votes#2 - Clean-up!
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2010
The girls find an old guitar that ends up being worth a lot of money. The girls purchase a selfless gift for their friend.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.7/106 votes#3 - New Dragon, Ilulu! (Please Be Nice to Her Again)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2021
The self-proclaimed ultimate maid Tohru storms into a new maid cafe opening up soon with a sense of rivalry. However, when she returns she says, "Somehow I've ended up working there!" As they live out such typical days in their lives, she and Miss Kobayashi learn from the news that someone has destroyed the mountain where they met.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.5/102 votes#4 - Triangle Syncopation
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2024
Taki decides to let the band executives choose their competition piece this year. The leadership deliberates on this decision while trying to get the rest of the band ready to perform at the Sunrise Festival.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.3/103 votes#5 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/2006
Haruhi Suzumiya is an eccentricity who dislikes the ordinary. If she could just meet an alien, time-traveler, or esper, her life would be made! Unfortunately, things just aren’t interesting. Until she decides to shake things up with her own club.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Tatsuya Ishihara
8.3/103 votes#6 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/3/2006
One night, Haruhi's power is activated without her knowing, and both she and Kyon become trapped in a sealed reality at their school. As Haruhi goes out on her own, Kyon is met by Itsuki, who tell Kyon that Haruhi might have created this world to be alone with Kyon. Yuki contacts Kyon via computer and gives the hint of Sleeping Beauty as a means to return back. Kyon and Haruhi are forced to evacuate when blue giant entities appear and begin to destroy the school and the surrounding area. Using hints provided by Yuki and Mikuru beforehand in order to defuse the situation and escape, Kyon kisses Haruhi as he expresses his desire to return to the old world. It remains unknown whether or not this world is the old one or a new one, however the three other members are glad to see Kyon back again.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
8.3/106 votes#7 - School Festival!
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/8/2009
The band plays the school festival. Mio trips and exposes her underwear to the audience. She ends up getting a fan club, but is scarred by the embarrassment.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Katsuhiko Muramoto
8.2/105 votes#8 - Life Is Constant Change (But It's Okay to Stop and Appreciate It)
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 9/23/2021
A typical morning with typical dragon girls. A priceless slice of daily life without any complaints. However, ever since Miss Kobayashi heard the tale from the Emperor of Demise, something has been slightly weighing on her. Yet it's not clear to her what exactly that is. As that uncertainty builds, the summer festival they've all been waiting for is drawing closer.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.0/101 votes#9 - The Many Ways to Spend Christmas Eve
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/17/2007
Konata and the girls discuss the problems with sleeping during trainrides. Christmas is around the corner, but before that, Konata learns the truth about the existence of Santa Claus, Tsukasa and Miyuki talk about dentists, Kagami thinks that the people in Konata's class are a little too familiar with her, and Konata has to work during the holidays. Konata's cousin Yui insults the cops on television (despite the fact that she's a cop herself). The girls talk about how once a person is over 25 (i.e. their teacher Nanako Kuroi), a Christmas cake is any old cake to him/her. The girls also discuss static electricity and why Konata doesn't get shocked by it. On Lucky Channel, Akira announces that she will appear in the actual show starting in the next episode.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#10 - Mid-summer Fanfare
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2016
Having won first place at the Kyoto competition, Kumiko and the band are preparing to compete in the Kansai competition. A shadow looms over them when an old member, Nozomi Kasaki, enters the picture.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.0/102 votes#11 - The Plan Isn't Working!
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2014
Circumstances and impulse bring Seiya in the position to become the acting owner. He proposes reforms in order to meet the goal of attracting 250,000 visitors within three months, but the crew is full of complaints.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Yasuhiro Takemoto
7.8/105 votes#12 - Let's Find Friends
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2007
Tomoya runs into Fuko again at school, and she tries to invite him to her older sister's upcoming marriage ceremony, but Tomoya is not interested. Tomoya gets Youhei to help reform the drama club by bribing him with bread from Nagisa's family bakery. Nagisa tries to get the help of Ryou and Kyou in reforming the drama club, and Tomoya even tries to ask Tomoyo and Kotomi if they would like to join; Tomoyo is trying to become student council president, and Kotomi does not give an answer. Tomoya and Nagisa later go see Fuko about the club, and he discovers from Nagisa that Fuko is supposedly unconscious in a hospital.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
7.7/103 votes#13 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2011
Selamat pagi! Goats? What's wrong with goats? What does KY mean? I don't have any special features, but my toe comes off.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.6/105 votes#14 - On the Hillside Path Where the Cherry Blossoms Flutter
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2007
On the way to school one day, Tomoya Okazaki meets a strange girl talking to herself named Nagisa Furukawa. Later in the day, Tomoya has a conversation with Nagisa during lunch and learns that she is repeating her last year of high school, and wants to join the now-disbanded drama club. After school, Tomoya goes to Nagisa's family bakery and meets her parents; he is invited to have dinner with them.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
7.4/105 votes#15 - Air
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2005
The summer festival has finally arrived, but unfortunately it rains that day and thus the festival is canceled. Wanting to do anything she can for Misuzu, Haruko brings her to the local shrine. As mother and daughter bond, can Haruko ultimately save Misuzu from returning to her other self in the vast blue sky?
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
7.2/104 votes#16 - A Farewell to the End of Summer
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2008
Summer vacation is now over and the second semester has started at Tomoya's school. Nagisa's father Akio asks Tomoya to form a baseball team for a local game against the neighboring shopping district team. Tomoya is able to recruit Kyou and Kotomi from the drama club, Youhei and his younger sister Mei, Tomoyo, Misae, and Yusuke. Tomoya's team manages to get an early lead, but Akio's leg gets injured by a flying bat, and Nagisa fills in for her father as the pitcher. The other team catches up near the end, and it comes down to the final inning when Tomoya scores an RBI, winning the game.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
7.2/105 votes#17 - Breeze
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2005
Yukito Kunisaki arrives to the town in hopes of making money for food with his puppet show. He meets Misuzu Kamio, a strange girl living in the town. Misuzu manages to lure Yukito to her house with food at which after a discussion she offers him residence. Soon after Haruko Kamio, Misuzu's foster mother, arrives to the house. Haruko initially opposes Yukito's stay but later decides to allow him to stay in the shed.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
7.2/105 votes#18 - Star
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2005
After Minagi's mother's mental condition has caused her to forget she has a daughter, Minagi leaves home and joins Yukito. Yukito tells Minagi he's leaving town and wants her to come with him, but instead leads her back home to face her mother. Michiru is invited to eat at Minagi's house. Michiru leaves, having fulfilled her purpose.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
7.0/103 votes#19 - Nice to Meet You, Euphonium
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/15/2015
Kumiko and the others join the concert band, and they choose their instruments. Their eccentric senior, Asuka, still likes to mess with them.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.0/101 votes#20 - Early-Spring Epilogue
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/29/2016
With the competition over and the third-years graduating, Kumiko is left to sort through her feelings: Is it a love of concert band, of the euphonium, or of something else?
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
6.0/102 votes#21 - Endless Eight (5)
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 7/17/2009
The previous time loop continues for the 15,521st time. As the last day of vacation arrives, Kyon stays up late until midnight finishing his summer homework alone without any assistance. The final scene shows Kyon's clock ticking away on his desk but cuts out to the ending video one second before the clock strikes 12:00am.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Yasuhiro Takemoto
6.0/101 votes#22 - The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (3)
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 8/28/2009
Shooting of the SOS Brigade's short film continues. During the battle scene, Haruhi is displeased with Mikuru's acting. She yells at her, demanding that Asahina try to shoot a laser beam from her contact-lens-colored eye, but Kyon manages to cool her down . Afterwards the scene is reshot but, to the surprise of everyone except Haruhi, Mikuru actually shoots laser beams from her eye. Yuki knocks Mikuru down and apparently takes her contact lens. In a conversation Itsuki explains to a shocked Kyon that Haruhi changed reality once again and Nagato proves his words by showing her hand, burnt while protecting Kyon from being hit by the laser. Koizumi promises to take care of Mikuru's problem with Yuki's help. The rest of day is spent on shooting more scenes with Mikuru dressed as a bunny girl. The next day Kyon finds out that Haruhi dragged Tsuruya, Taniguchi and Kunikida to help. After Haruhi gets off to pick up Mikuru, Itsuki explains to Kyon that Yuki succesfully helped Mikuru get over herself. Haruhi returns with Mikuru, who secretely tells Kyon how Yuki helped her: she bit her to inject nanomachines into her body. Haruhi leads everyone to the next shooting location, a lake near Koizumi's house.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Atsushi Ito
5.5/102 votes#23 - Connecting Melodies
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 6/30/2024
The final competition for the third-years is at hand. The Kitauji High School Concert Band performs together one last time in a bid for National gold.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
Popular searches:
The Best Episodes Directed By Tatsuya Ishihara
Every TV Episode Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Tatsuya Ishihara Ratings Summary
"Light Music!" is the best rated episode directed by Tatsuya Ishihara. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Jukki Hanada. It aired on 6/19/2009 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Clean-up!".