The Best Episodes Directed By Yasushi Muroya

#1 - Crack the Code!? A Message from the Deceased

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/13/2003

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: N/A

#2 - The Beautiful Boy Genius - Exposing the Perfect Mystery Room

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/17/2003

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: N/A

#3 - Awakening Heartbeat

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2012

When bizarre creatures known as the Noise threaten the Earth, only popular singing duo Zwei Wing has the power to fight back. But what happens after one of the idols sacrifices herself to save a civilian girl?

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Akifumi Kaneko

#4 - From the Bottom of Darker Depths

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/2012

The Japanese Government has decided that the enemy is getting too close to Durandal, the powerful intact relic kept at the bottom of the Abyss. They want to move it to a secure location, which means transporting by car. But the Noise are sure to notice, which means a high-speed car chase through a dangerous chemical plant.

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Akifumi Kaneko

#5 - Perspective

Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2020

While Hinata, Kageyama, and Tsukishima are gone, the Karasuno High School Volleyball Team do practice matches with Tokonami High School. Meanwhile, as the other boys are doing a practice match with the Shiratorizawa third-years, Hinata watches them play and begins to realize that all he’d ever concentrated on is chasing after the ball..

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Taku Kishimoto

#6 - Crushing Blow: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission (5)

Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/1/2013

After a last act of desperation, the person inside the Female Titan has escaped from the Recon Corps and reverted to their human form. Now, disguised as a member of the Recon Corps and equipped with Maneuver Gear, they finally catch up to their prey — Levi's squad.

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Noboru Takagi

#7 - Democracy under the DEAD

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/19/2010

The enemy's weak points are discovered and exploited. The human condition is put to the test, and everyone's base survival instincts kick in. Tensions rise as more people swell the ranks, and one survivor refuses to continue with the group

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Yosuke Kuroda

#8 - Act 7 - Chapter of the Egg: Raven Princess ~ An der schönen blauen Donau

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/27/2002

Distraught over what she has done to Mytho, Duck thinks about giving up being Princess Tutu, but knows that if she does she can no longer be a girl. Drosselmeyer is worried that the story will be frozen again if Duck quits, so he stops time to encourage her. His pep talk, however, achieves the opposite of his intentions: Duck throws her pendant into the river, transforming back into a duck. Meanwhile, Mytho is confused at the new emotions he is feeling and wanders to the river. There, the heart shard of curiosity takes him deep underwater. Duck tries to save him but cannot in her duck form, so she retrieves her pendant and becomes Princess Tutu once more. Mytho tells her that he does not want her to go; that he wants her to restore his heart. Gladdened, Tutu is about to restore his feeling of curiosity when it is suddenly stolen by the Raven Princess, Kraehe.

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: N/A

#9 - Act 11 - Chapter of the Egg: La Sylphide

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/25/2002

Mytho, inspired by an overheard conversation between Duck and her two friends, decides to give a present to Princess Tutu to express his feelings and to find out how she feels. He goes out to town with Rue, where they find Edel selling gems. Edel gives Mytho a gem called Love, but warns him that although beautiful, it can be dangerous and delicate. Rue, aware of the gem's intended recipient, is jealous and scuffs it, then tells Mytho she will shine it and make it even more beautiful. Instead, she curses the gem with hatred and spells a raven's feather inside before giving it back to Mytho. Mytho gives it to Princess Tutu, who discovers the heart shard of love is inside. She is about to return it when Kraehe's hatred manifests and binds her. Kraehe appears and rips the half-returned heart shard out of Mytho's chest.

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: N/A

#10 - Act 14 - Chapter of the Chick: Monster Raven ~ Blumenwalzer (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 11/22/2002

(During the original airing, each season 2 episode aired as a half-episode that premiered weekly. This archives the original air-date of part 2)

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: N/A

#11 - Act 16 - Chapter of the Chick: Prayers of a Maiden ~ Gebet einer Jungfrau (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 12/20/2002

(During the original airing, each season 2 episode aired as a half-episode that premiered weekly. This archives the original air-date of part 2)

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: N/A

#12 - What Needs to be Done Now: Eve of the Counterattack (3)

Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/28/2013

Everyone is a suspect in the investigation to find out who killed the two test-subject Titans. Meanwhile, the cadets pick which military branch they'll be joining, but after the harrowing events in the Trost attack, many are uncertain which branch to choose.

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Yasuko Kobayashi

#13 - The Voice Calling from the Past

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/2016

Kyōma recalls his past as he gets ready to join the other Collectors on Easter Island.

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Ryou Higaki

#14 - The Future Reached

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/2016

Mira helps Kyōma put the pieces of his memories back together as they all fight to bring down Seameyer together.

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Ryou Higaki

#15 - Question

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/2017

Haruto works up the courage to ask out Morikawa but does his confession go as well as he had envisioned it?

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: N/A

#16 - TOP3

Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/2023

In this new stage of the second selection, the white team formed by Isagi, Nagi and Bachira will finally go against the top three in the ranking of the previous stage, running the risk of losing one of their three players if they lose the game. Still, the willingness to test their new skills against the top three is much stronger in the white team members. Will they be able to win this match?

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Taku Kishimoto

#17 - Act 18 - Chapter of the Chick: Wandering Knight ~ Egmont Ouvertüre

Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/2003

After the drama club asks Fakir to perform in the story of the Phantom Knight, he begins to dream about him.

Director: Yasushi Muroya

Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka