The Best Episodes Directed By Toshiyuki Kato
Every TV Episode Directed by Toshiyuki Kato Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Toshiyuki Kato Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Toshiyuki Kato is "Stone Ocean", rated 9.1/10 from 17 user votes. It was "written by Yasuko Kobayashi". "Stone Ocean" aired on 1/8/2022 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Sleeping Slave".
9.1/10 17 votes#1 - Stone Ocean
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2022
Florida, 2011. Framed for a DUI and imprisoned, young Jolyne gains a mysterious new power after receiving a bizarre item from her estranged father.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
9.0/10 2 votes#2 - The Sleeping Slave
Season 4 Episode 39 - Aired 7/28/2019
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
9.0/10 1 votes#3 - Even If I Should Stop Being Me
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/2005
The Count escalates his plan for revenge, launching a bitter blow at his next target, the Danglars Bank. The impact will be felt by many - including Albert.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yura Ariwara
8.5/10 4 votes#4 - Kurapika x Secret Assassins x Zoldyck
Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 3/10/2001
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
8.4/10 8 votes#5 - Torrential Downpour Warning
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/26/2022
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Shogo Yasukawa
8.2/10 4 votes#6 - Crazy D (Diamond) Is Unbreakable (2)
Season 3 Episode 38 - Aired 12/17/2016
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...
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#7 - It's a Wonderful World
Season 5 Episode 38 - Aired 4/8/2023
The unstoppable acceleration of time brings the universe full circle. Emporio awakes in Green Dolphin Street Prison, and humanity enters a new world.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
8.0/10 5 votes#8 - Three People? × Five People? × Last Choice
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/2000
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yoshiyuki Suga
8.0/10 1 votes#9 - Falling
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2024
The Prince unexpectedly calls in at the Southern House's palace and finds his brother there. Meanwhile, Lady Shiratama puts a proposal to Lady Hamayu about an alliance of sorts between the Northern House and the Southern House.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yukiko Yamamuro
7.8/10 6 votes#10 - A Boy Setting Out for a Journey × Leaving Behind the Sound of the Wind
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/1999
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Nobuaki Kishima
7.7/10 7 votes#11 - Young Caesar
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/2013
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
7.7/10 6 votes#12 - The Curse of DIO
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2014
Jotaro is able to defeat Kakyoin. He takes the wounded Kakyoin back to his house, hoping to get some information about DIO.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
7.5/10 2 votes#13 - Episode 5: Millionaire Village
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2017
Rohan accompanies his editor to a mountain village full of luxurious villas after she receives an improbable invitation to buy a home there.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Toshiyuki Kato
7.5/10 2 votes#14 - Episode 2: Mutsu-kabe Hill
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/19/2018
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Toshiyuki Kato
7.4/10 7 votes#15 - The Ascendant One
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/6/2013
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
7.4/10 8 votes#16 - Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/2013
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Shogo Yasukawa
7.3/10 15 votes#17 - A Letter from the Past
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2012
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
7.0/10 1 votes#18 - The Forest of No Return
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/18/2022
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Hiroshi Seko
6.8/10 4 votes#19 - Long Journey, Farewell, My Friends
Season 2 Episode 48 - Aired 6/20/2015
The final battle!
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
6.6/10 9 votes#20 - Sorrowful Successor
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2012
The encounter against Tarukus comes to an end. Poco's family is in grave danger. JoJo meets Dire, Straizo, and Tonpetty.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Shogo Yasukawa
6.5/10 4 votes#21 - Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/9/2016
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.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi
6.5/10 2 votes#22 - Episode 16: At a Confessional
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/8/2019
Rohan retells the story of a time he accidentally overheard a bone-chilling confession at a church in Venice.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Toshiyuki Kato
6.3/10 3 votes#23 - The Emperor and the Hanged Man (1)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/7/2014
The group travels to India. In a restaurant Polnareff is attacked by a mysterious Stand that is inside a mirror.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: N/A
6.3/10 3 votes#24 - The Emperor and the Hanged Man (2)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/2014
In an effort to save Polnareff, Abdul is injured by the enemy. Then J. Geil's Stand, Hanged Man attacks.
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: N/A
6.3/10 3 votes#25 - The Nijimura Brothers (2)
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/2016
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...
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Writer: Shogo Yasukawa