The Best Episodes Directed By Toshiyuki Kato

Every TV Episode Directed by Toshiyuki Kato Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 5 Episode 38 - It's a Wonderful World
    9.3/10(6 votes)

    #1 - It's a Wonderful World

    S5:E38

    The unstoppable acceleration of time brings the universe full circle. Emporio awakes in Green Dolphin Street Prison, and humanity enters a new world.

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  2. undefined Season 4 Episode 39 - The Sleeping Slave
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #2 - The Sleeping Slave

    S4:E39

    In the past, Bruno and his team investigated the mysterious death of a girl and how it ties into the power known as Rolling Stones. And in the present, the final fate of Giorno and the gang is revealed as Golden Wind comes to a close.

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  3. undefined Season 5 Episode 1 - Stone Ocean
    8.9/10(25 votes)

    #3 - Stone Ocean

    S5:E1

    Florida, 2011. Framed for a DUI and imprisoned, young Jolyne gains a mysterious new power after receiving a bizarre item from her estranged father.

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  4. undefined Season 3 Episode 38 - Crazy D (Diamond) Is Unbreakable (2)
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #4 - Crazy D (Diamond) Is Unbreakable (2)

    S3:E38

    Josuke and Hayato try to force Killer Queen and Stray Cat into close-quarters combat by going into a nearby house. However, air bullets start to show up in the house. Josuke tries to dodge them by throwing around ash from an ashtray so he can see where they are going, but for some reasons, the air bullets keep chasing after Josuke. There's no way that Kira should be able to see them from the outside, so Josuke and Hayato start panicking...

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  5. undefined Season 0 Episode 6 - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #16: At a Confessional
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #16: At a Confessional

    S0:E6

    After an incident forcing him to pause his series Pink Dark Boy for the summer, Rohan had decided to take a vacation in Italy. In Venice, Rohan accidentally entered the priest's compartment of a confessional in the middle of his research. Shortly after, a man entered the booth and confessed his sin to Rohan, believing him to be a priest. Interested, Rohan heard out his confession.

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  6. undefined Season 5 Episode 12 - Torrential Downpour Warning
    8.6/10(10 votes)

    #6 - Torrential Downpour Warning

    S5:E12

    Jolyne reaches the courtyard. Pucchi recalls his talks with DIO and his reason for hunting Jotaro when Weather unleashes a squall of poison dart frogs.

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  7. undefined Season 2 Episode 48 - Long Journey, Farewell, My Friends
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Long Journey, Farewell, My Friends

    S2:E48

    The final battle!

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  8. undefined Season 0 Episode 7 - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #9: The Run
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #8 - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #9: The Run

    S0:E7

    The story opens with two men struggling over the possession of a remote, both unseen except for their respective arms. Rohan Kishibe appears, his right hand in a splint. Listing his injuries, Rohan regrets his foolish actions in a recent incident. These events are Episode 9: The Run.

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 60 - Kurapika x Secret Assassins x Zoldyck
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #9 - Kurapika x Secret Assassins x Zoldyck

    S1:E60

    Gon and Killua escape from Nobunaga. Killua tells Gon about Kurapika being the "chain user", they try to call him but get no answer. Neon runs away and is found by Chrollo Lucilfer who pretends to be friendly to get her prophecy. He helps her to sneak into the auction, then hits her unexpectedly and tells the security to call the emergency.

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  10. undefined Season 0 Episode 2 - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #2: Mutsukabe Hill
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #2: Mutsukabe Hill

    S0:E2

    Rohan meets his editor, Kagamari Minoru, while reading a De Staël's Art book. Rohan explains that due to his research about the Yokai legend he bought 6 mountains in order to stop a corporation who wanted to build a resort in that area. When the resort plan was abandoned, Rohan's lands lose its value and he is unable to recover his money. However, Rohan tells his editor the research was a success and begins telling him about it.

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 26 - The Ascendant One
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #11 - The Ascendant One

    S1:E26

    JoJo's victory, along with his arm, is cut short when Kars manages to survive the volcano by forming a shield of air bubbles to protect him from its deadly lava.

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 17 - Three People? × Five People? × Last Choice
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Three People? × Five People? × Last Choice

    S1:E17

    The last test to get out of the tower has two paths: one is too long and the other will only allow three of the five to enter. Leorio and Tonpa start fighting to see who will stay, when Gon thinks outside the box. They choose the longer path, destroy the wall between the paths with axes provided so they could fight, and all five make it.

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  13. undefined Season 0 Episode 1 - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #5: Millionaire Village
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #5: Millionaire Village

    S0:E1

    Rohan Kishibe accompanies Kyoka Izumi, a Manga magazine editor, to a buy house at a village far off from civilization. They soon discover the village is home to a group of millionaires who had all mysteriously become rich at the age of 25. Rohan and Izumi enter one of the houses, only to realize they they are trapped by a mysterious power that won't let them progress unless they follow specific rules lest they suffer the consequences.

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - The Curse of DIO
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #14 - The Curse of DIO

    S2:E3

    Jotaro is able to defeat Kakyoin. He takes the wounded Kakyoin back to his house, hoping to get some information about DIO.

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  15. undefined Season 2 Episode 10 - The Emperor and the Hanged Man (1)
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #15 - The Emperor and the Hanged Man (1)

    S2:E10

    The group travels to India. In a restaurant Polnareff is attacked by a mysterious Stand that is inside a mirror.

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Episode 2: Mutsu-kabe Hill
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Episode 2: Mutsu-kabe Hill

    S1:E2

    Bankrupt, Rohan pleads with his editor for an advance on his pay, swearing that the land he bought as research for his manga wasn't a wasted investment.

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  17. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 5: Millionaire Village
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Episode 5: Millionaire Village

    S1:E1

    Rohan accompanies his editor to a mountain village full of luxurious villas after she receives an improbable invitation to buy a home there.

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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 20 - Young Caesar
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #18 - Young Caesar

    S1:E20

    Lisa Lisa tells JoJo of Caesar's childhood, in which he took to crime at a young age after being abandoned by his debt-ridden father, Mario.

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  19. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - A Boy Setting Out for a Journey × Leaving Behind the Sound of the Wind
    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #19 - A Boy Setting Out for a Journey × Leaving Behind the Sound of the Wind

    S1:E1

    Gon Freecss runs into a Foxbear in the forest. A mysterious stranger named Kite saves Gon by killing the beast. This man tells him that his father Ging is alive. Gon decides to take the Hunter Exam and become a professional Hunter, but can only do this after catching the Master of the Swamp to convince his Aunt Mito to let him do it. Despite her feelings, after Gon catches it, Mito allows him to begin his adventure.

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 14 - Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times
    7.3/10(10 votes)

    #20 - Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times

    S1:E14

    Speedwagon brings statued remains of Santana to the headquarters of his foundation in Washington, D.C., where it is shown Santana is still alive, but his scientists are able to keep him dormant through the use of ultraviolet light.

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 11 - The Emperor and the Hanged Man (2)
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #21 - The Emperor and the Hanged Man (2)

    S2:E11

    In an effort to save Polnareff, Abdul is injured by the enemy. Then J. Geil's Stand, Hanged Man attacks.

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - The Nijimura Brothers (2)
    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #22 - The Nijimura Brothers (2)

    S3:E4

    In order to save Koichi, Josuke goes further into the Nijimura household. Suddenly, he's attacked from many tiny beams of light. Josuke manages to dodge the attack, but it hits Okuyasu right in the face. Josuke tells Okuyasu that he'll heal his wounds if he tells him what the identity of his brother's Stand is. Okuyasu says he has no itention of telling him, and Josuke does something surprising...

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  23. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - A Letter from the Past
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    #23 - A Letter from the Past

    S1:E2

    Seven years later in 1888, JoJo and Dio are supposedly getting along, though JoJo is still fearful of Dio. Meanwhile, Dio plots to liberate the Joestar family of their fortune.

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  24. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - The Forest of No Return
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Forest of No Return

    S1:E3

    Yu must investigate a cursed forest and search for Soma, the mythical nectar of immortality. He teams up with unlikely allies to find a way out.

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  25. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo
    6.9/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo

    S3:E2

    Josuke spots the terrible and violent villain Angelo's Stand, and tells Jotaro about that incident. Jotaro figures it's a Stand that can somehow enter people, so he warns Josuke to not eat or drink anything until he can get to him. Right when he's told that, Josuke witnesses the Stand go into his mother, and then does the unthinkable.

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Toshiyuki Kato Ratings Summary

"It's a Wonderful World" is the best rated episode directed by Toshiyuki Kato. It scored 9.3/10 based on 6 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 4/8/2023 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Sleeping Slave".