The Best Episodes Directed By Yoshihiro Mori

#1 - My Dear Friends

Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 9/25/2020

As the fight atop the airship draws to a close, the Doppelganger's true intentions become clear. Following the battle, the members of Scavenger seek to regain their former glory, while the circle of Mikoto's friends becomes more interconnected.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Shogo Yasukawa

#2 - Shoot the Moon

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/16/2012

Kadingir is complete, and Finé's master plan is revealed. She's going to shoot a giant rail gun at the moon, and blow it up!

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Akifumi Kaneko

#3 - New & Old

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/14/2017

Ernie's new mech, the Tzendolg, as well as his Telestales, are paired off against the Kaldatoah Darsch, the Lab's new mech. Several Darsch are paired against a single mech, putting the Silver Phoenix at a serious disadvantage before the fight even begins.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Noboru Kimura

#4 - Hit & Away

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/11/2017

Ernie repels the Bronze Fang Ambush, but now the Jarodeks know where Eleonora is. Can Ernie hold off their levitate ships?

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Michiko Yokote

#5 - Tragic Irony

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/13/2014

Seitenshi's vehicle is hit by a sniper while she in enroute to her meeting. Rentaro realizes this is more than a mere assassination attempt and gets help from Miori to find out more about the attack.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Tatsuhiko Urahata

#6 - Scrap & Build

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/16/2017

After his defeat of the Behemoth, Ernesti goes to the capital to be rewarded. But the king is cautious about this new child who can take down a monster that easily defeats armies, and sets for him a difficult task before his reward can be given.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Michiko Yokote

#7 - Welf Crozzo | Shikou

Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/2023

Bell and Ryu must cast reservations aside in the face of death. Meanwhile, Welf faces a trial by fire he cannot fail; lives are at stake.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Hideki Shirane

#8 - Shadow of Vampire

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2010

It becomes known, by some students, that Nanami was attacked by vampires. Akira and Yuki are attacked by vampires wearing the same school uniform as them, and they are saved at the last moment by Meiren who takes on the band of vampires with ease. Mina sends Nella to kidnap the grandson of the Prime Minister when he refuses to accept Mina's plan.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Hiroyuki Yoshino

#9 - Walpurgis Night

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/2010

The Bund is finally enjoying some well-earned peace when chaos visits once more - the Three Clans have appeared in the Bund, putting Akira's life in grave peril.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Hiroyuki Yoshino

#10 - Letter of Happiness

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2014

Sachi: the classmate dressed as a maid who will grant any wish. However, to achieve that end she will employ any means necessary. Everyone at the academy knows Sachi has that dangerous side to her, and are careful not to be humble when they speak to her. One day with summer close at hand, Michiru carelessly tells Sachi to make the tests go away while preparing for finals.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: N/A

#11 - Worries

Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/23/2023

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Yuko Kakihara

#12 - When I Came Out Of The Tunnel It Was White

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/2007

After confiding in his latest despairs to Ms. Arai, she asks Nozomu to visit one of his students who hasn't shown up to school — Kiri Komori, a hikikomori. In the end Kiri goes to school but decides to be a hikimori there. The next day, Nozomu notes that another of his students, Matoi Tsunetsuki, didn't show up that day. Ms. Arai brings Nozomu to the counseling room, where she explains Matoi's obsessive-stalker tendencies to Nozomu. That night, he attempts to dissuade her from bothering her last boyfriend; however, his strategy backfires on him. This turns him into Matoi's latest object of affection.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama

#13 - The Seed of Blanc Aile VI

Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/21/2015

Tartarus, a gigantic, man-made island, floats on the Pacific Ocean. It is both the adversary of society, and the castle of Heath Oslo, Yuuji Kazami's mortal enemy. Oslo quietly awaits the moment Yuuji Kazami, the final key he needs to fulfill his ambitions, appears before him once more.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: N/A

#14 - Flowers of Evil 8 of 13

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/25/2013

Nakamura and Kasuga slowly walk home, hand in hand. The next day, the whole class is in uproar. The ink covered Kasuga's name. Saeki is devastated, her clothes at the center of the destruction. The whole school gets informed. Kasuga pukes. Saeki confronts Kasuga, having noticed that the drawing on the floor was the same as on his favorite book. He breaks up with her.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Aki Itami

#15 - Angelic Howl II

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2014

The survivors of the crash continue to make do as Kazuki continues to care for the wounded. As the days pass, they bury their dead and continue to gather what little food they can find. Their teacher, having scouted around, takes half of the food and leaves, promising that he will return with help. Despair sets in when he does not return after a couple of days. Malnourished, some of the girls start acting strangely. Finally, the pet dog of one of the girls perishes and is butchered to provide the survivors with sustenance.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: N/A

#16 - That's Impossible Isn't There an Original

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/16/2007

The girls are watching a particularly awful movie. Outside, they meet with the director, who defends himself by saying that he is just "following the original story." Chasing him, they arrive at roads that are used by many people to escape or to shift blame from their mistakes. In the second part, Nozomu, Majiru, and Matoi are sitting in a kotatsu in Nozomu's house. Chiri then arrives to clean up everything. After the cleaning, Nozomu keeps wishing that humans can hibernate and finally he and the regular cast decide to take a winter hibernation. However, after the group nearly dies of carbon monoxide poisoning, Nozomu decides to simply leave. Fūra goes to find him, only to witness him being struck by a runaway trolley. The episode ends at the hospital as the entire class waits for Nozomu to leave surgery.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: N/A

#17 - The Cocoon of Caprice III

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/2015

Yuuji goes to America to follow the same path as Asako, and through his rigorous military life meets and forms a deep bond with war buddies who go through the same joys and sorrows.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: N/A

#18 - The Seed of Blanc Aile III

Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/31/2015

A formless supporter, "Thanatos," suddenly supports Amane and the others. "Her" objective is also to liberate and rescue Yuuji Kazami. Thanatos and the Mihama girls' interests align and begin preparing to execute their mission. The girls are perplexed by Thanatos's seemingly cryptic instructions that unfold via cell phone, but they bring the girls better results than they ever expected in bringing their goal to fruition.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: N/A

#19 - The Seed of Blanc Aile V

Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/14/2015

The Mihama girls have executed their intense getaway and have rescued Yuuji. Waiting at their goal is Kazuki Kazami, who lived as the core of Thanatos for a long time. This unexpected encounter leaves Yuuji and Amane unable to hide their surprise, but circumstances don't allow them time to savor their emotional reunion.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: N/A

#20 - One Morning, When Gregor Samsa Awoke, He was Carrying a Portable Shrine

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/18/2007

This episode begins with Fujiyoshi bumping into Nozomu while she is on her way to make copies of her doujinshi. Through a misunderstanding, Nozomu ends up going to Comiket to sell his doujin literature with mixed results. At Comiket, Chiri reads Fujiyoshi's yaoi doujinshi. On the way back from Comiket, they meet Kafuka, who talks Chiri and Fujiyoshi into drawing more manga that strictly adheres to the above mentioned format. The second half of the episode involves the girls at a matsuri, where overzealous festival-goers begin piling random objects and people on portable shrines and dancing and parading around with them.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama

#21 - Forget Me Not

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/2007

Hiro and Miyako take their relationship to the next level, causing Kei to melt down emotionally. Renji pushes on with the work, despite Chihiro's change in personality and the pain it causes him.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama

#22 - Temptation

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/2011

Shu returns to school with Inori since his arrest by the GHQ. Thanks to a cover story that he was interviewed by the GHQ for finding one of their cellphones and the student council president Arisa Kuhouin supporting Shu and defending him against malicious rumors, his classmates welcome him back with open arms. Shu also learns from his friends Hare Menjou and Souta Tamadate that Yahiro hasn't been back to school since his arrest. Later, Shu's mother Haruka comes back home and welcomes Inori living with them with open arms. Meanwhile, the Undertakers are running out of supplies and need a new supply route which Gai knows someone who will help them. The next night, Arisa and her grandfather, the head of the Kuhouin Group attend a party on a cruise ship where Shu and Gai have snucked in to make a deal with Arisa's grandfather. However, the Anti Bodies learn about the deal from an "informant" and sends Daryl, Segai and Rowan to work with GHQ Colonel Dan Eagleman whom the latter plans to shoot down the ship with Surface to Air missiles. After Gai flirts with Arisa and makes his business proposal with her grandfather, Shu learns from Tsugumi about the attack and tells Gai about it in order to save the passengers on the ship which include his mother. With Gai's help of bringing Arisa to the upper deck, Shu is able to extract her Void and use it to shield the ship from the missile which Colonel Eagleman orders his men to fire all of their missiles which are stopped thanks to Shu. With the threat over, Arisa's grandfather agrees to help supply the Undertakers which unaware to everyone but Gai and Shinbugi, Gai was the GHQ informant. Before leaving, Gai comments to Arisa despite the tough image she gives out, she is very shy when being doted on by others. As Shu and Inori leaves for school the next day, Shu admits to her that this is the first he was glad to use Voids while Haruka looks at a photo with her, her son Shu and the girl from Shu's memories.

Director: Yoshihiro Mori

Writer: Ichiro Okouchi