The Best Episodes Directed By Yasuhiro Takemoto
Every TV Episode Directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Yasuhiro Takemoto Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto is "The Disappearing Adagio", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Fumihiko Shimo". "The Disappearing Adagio" aired on 2/2/2007 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Episode 16".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - The Disappearing Adagio
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/2007
Hoping to make her final days special, Yuichi hatches a plan to surprise Shiori with a birthday party on the day before her birthday! But there’s one thing he must do first - convince Kaori to attend the party.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - Episode 16
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/17/2011
Yukko can't order a cup of coffee, Mio has to fight to keep her secret. And Nano gets a suprise visit at home.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Jukki Hanada
9.0/10 1 votes#3 - Episode 22
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/28/2011
Tsuyoshi attempts to disprove exorcisms. Fe-chan tries to look on the bright side of life, while Sakamoto and the Professor are surrounded by terrifying dogs.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Maiko Nishioka
9.0/10 1 votes#4 - Episode 25
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/18/2011
Misato and Sasahara get a little closer, Mio goes for a run, and Nakamura enters the lair of the beast.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.5/10 2 votes#5 - Bitter Orange
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2013
Mirai and Akihito must defeat the Hollow Shadow while dodging around Sakura. The youmu can not only possess people, but also create labyrinths based off their memories. If Mirai hopes to have a future, she will have to face her past!
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.5/10 2 votes#6 - White World
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/2013
In a dream, Mirai informs Akihito of what happened during their battle and why it had to be this way. Then time jumps backwards to six months earlier. At long last, Mirai’s motives and Izumi’s plan are made clear!
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.3/10 12 votes#7 - Episode 9
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/2018
Heartbroken, Violet withdraws from her job and questions whether she even has the right to be an Auto Memory Doll. Then, she receives a letter.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Reiko Yoshida
8.0/10 1 votes#8 - Crybaby Saxophone
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/20/2015
The band is hard at work preparing for the audition and the competition. Aoi has trouble with her part, to which Taki says, "when will you be better by?"
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.0/10 1 votes#9 - A Myserious Divertimento
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2006
Makoto has an appointment to interview for a job at a café. Meanwhile, another encounter with Shiori makes Yuichi late for his movie date with Ayu.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
8.0/10 1 votes#10 - Kanon at the End of a Dream
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/16/2007
Yuichi is still searching for Ayu. Akiko may hold the key to discovering her whereabouts, but will Yuichi be able to handle the truth about her current condition?
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
8.0/10 2 votes#11 - The Doll That Took a Detour
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/17/2012
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: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Shoji Gatoh
7.8/10 4 votes#12 - Two Shadows
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/21/2008
After Nagisa finds out about her parents' secret past, she cannot take her mind off how she ruined their dreams, and becomes emotional and depressed. On the day of the school festival, the whole theater club realizes that Nagisa is not herself, and try to cheer her up, but to no success. As the performance starts, Nagisa breaks down, but with encouragement from Akio, who said that Sanae's and his dream was for Nagisa to make her dream come true, the play was a huge success. The next day as the sun is setting, Tomoya finally confesses his love to Nagisa in the club room. This comes as a shock for Nagisa, causing her to cry tears of joy.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
7.7/10 3 votes#13 - The Revival of the Time-Honored Classic Lit Club
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/2012
"Energy conservationist" Hotaro Oreki joins the Classic Lit Club at his high school at his sister's behest, to keep it from being shut down. Also joining the club are his best friend, Satoshi Fukube, and Eru Chitanda, a curious girl who enjoys mysteries.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Shoji Gatoh
7.5/10 2 votes#14 - The Day of Sagittarius
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/12/2006
Hoping to reclaim the computer Haruhi extorted from the Computer Research Society earlier in the year, the Computer Research Society president challenges the SOS Brigade to a computer game they created for the cultural festival entitled The Day of Sagittarius III. Haruhi accepts his challenge, but soon finds out that playing the game is much harder than she thought. Yuki is initially mystified by the computer's operation but catches on quickly, as she will tend to do. Eventually, she manages to find out that Computer Research Society club members are cheating and is able to block and use it against them, thus winning the game and some laptops for the SOS Brigade club room.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Shoji Gatoh
7.5/10 2 votes#15 - Episode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/22/2011
I've got an explosive desire to visit an air-raid shelter! Everything you own is garbage! Just let me take it off when I'm ready. He made a snot bubble. A masterpiece.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Maiko Nishioka
7.5/10 2 votes#16 - Ultramarine
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2013
Akihito helps Mirai defeat one of her very first youmu! He tries to use this as his chance to become closer, but instead Mirai seems to be pushing him away! Why won’t his bespectacled beauty join the Literary Club?
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.0/10 4 votes#17 - The Girl Genius' Challenge
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2007
Since no new members have joined the drama club, Tomoya goes to talk with Kotomi once again about joining. Tomoya takes her around school and helps her introduce herself to people to make more friends. Tomoya takes Kyou, Ryou, and Kotomi to the drama room after school, and after a round of introductions, Tomoya asks them to join the club. Kyou initially passes on the chance, but ends up giving in after her sister says she wants to join, and Kotomi joins as well. During the meeting, Kotomi leaves when she hears someone playing the violin, though when she is given the chance to play it, she is painfully horrible.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
6.8/10 5 votes#18 - Whisper
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2005
Surroundings of Yukito and Misuzu briefly change from the shrine to a cropland as a result of Kano's experience. After a confrontation with Hijiri, Yukito and others briefly go to the clinic. Yukito and Misuzu leave the clinic for home. On their way Yukito realizes he wasn't paid for his part time job and sneaks back into the clinic only to overhear Kano's other personality.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
6.8/10 4 votes#19 - 3 on 3
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/2008
When Mei shows up, she cleans her brother's filthy room, but cannot stay at her Youhei's all-boy dorm, so Nagisa offers to have her stay at her home while she is in town. Tomoya and Youhei easily get Kyou to help with the basketball game, and she gets pumped up after a comment about pairing up with such loser guys. For half the game, Tomoya and the others play against first-year rookies, and manage to lead by eleven points, but then the basketball team switches with their starters and the score evens out. In the very last seconds of the game, Tomoya manages to make the last shot and win the game. Afterwards, Mei goes back to her hometown.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
6.5/10 2 votes#20 - Revenge in the Medley!
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/29/2013
Haruka, Makoto, Nagisa, and Rei swim in their individual events. Rin becomes irritated as he remembers watching them swim back in grade school. Afterwards, the four Iwatobi Swim Club members must prepare for the medley relay.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
6.2/10 4 votes#21 - No Visitors!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2014
Seiya Kanie -- handsome, scholastically successful and athletic, self-confessed narcissist Seiya Kanie is befuddled. His classmate, Isuzu Sento, gives him a musket and asks him out on a date.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
6.0/10 1 votes#22 - Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/22/2009
The future Mikuru tells Kyon where to find a certain person that he is supposed to help. Kyon and Mikuru travels back in time to the Tanabata of three years ago. Carrying the sleeping Mikuru, Kyon finds the young Haruhi herself from middle school. After helping her draw strange drawings on her school yard, Haruhi questions him on the existence o aliens, time travelers, espers, or sliders; and Kyon suggests that they might. After Haruhi leaves, Kyon wakes up Mikuru and finds that she has somehow lost her time traveling device, or TPDD. He takes her to the Yuki of three years ago and helps them return to their proper time.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo
6.0/10 1 votes#23 - A Grotesque Waltz
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/2006
Yuichi’s plan to salvage Mai’s reputation seems to be working! With him in a tux and her looking radiant in her dress, nothing could ruin the school dance - except maybe the sudden appearance of a demon.
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Fumihiko Shimo