The Best Episodes Directed By Yuji Tokuno

#1 - A Spell! Kid and Zoro Facing Threats!

Season 21 Episode 1045 - Aired 12/17/2022

Killer is shocked to find out who Hawkins’ straw doll he slashed represents. Meanwhile, Sanji who is in a hard battle against Queen and King sees enemy brutes going after the injured Zoro, and no one else is there to save him.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Atsuhiro Tomioka

#2 - Decisive play stoppage

Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/28/2018

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: N/A

#3 - Death to Your Partner! Killer's Deadly Gamble!

Season 21 Episode 1054 - Aired 3/19/2023

Killer tries to figure out how to fight against Hawkins whose power enables him to transfer damage against him to Kid. Kid is dying not knowing where his damage is coming from. Killer takes a chance with Kid’s life on the line.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Jin Tanaka

#4 - The Spreading Malice

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/7/2019

Tamaki watches on as Shinra confronts Rekka over his actions, and reminisces about how she once looked up to the lieutenant. Rekka reveals his objective in seeking out compatible children, one which could spell disaster for the entire world.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: N/A

#5 - Right and Wrong (3)

Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 12/7/2023

Itadori stands in a daze at the disaster before his eyes, his mind already well past its limit. As a curse, Mahito is elated at seeing his ideal sequence of events play out before him, and he prepares to further finish off Itadori.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Hiroshi Seko

#6 - The Black Bulls

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/2017

Asta has arrived at the home of the Black Bulls, which Yami himself called the absolute worst Magic Knights Squad. He is greeted by the squad’s unique members.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: N/A

#7 - For Whom the Flames Burn

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/26/2019

As Asakusa burns around them, Konro encourages Benimaru to step into his role as a community leader. Benimaru devises a way for the townspeople to foil the designs of the impostors among the crowd. Konro reaches out to Shinra for help.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: N/A

#8 - Destruction and Salvation

Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/2018

The dungeon itself turns against the Magic Knights as they fight to escape—and to keep a badly wounded Asta alive. Mars remembers how he came to be.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu

#9 - I Can't Be Friends With Someone Like Him!

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2022

After watching a performance of Swan Lake with Miyako, Jumpei is inspired to try the pas de deux for himself. But when he sees Luou dance...

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Yoshimi Narita

#10 - Ah, I'm So Embarrassed

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2022

As Jumpei and Luou get used to the summer school class, they become involved in a friendly competition with some other boys from the class.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Misaki Morie

#11 - Path

Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/24/2018

Old friends and fellow squad members reminisce about Asta: his humble beginnings, his craziest battles—and underlying it all, his burning ambition.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu

#12 - The Savior of the Heavenly Fowl

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/2019

After hearing of a village that's in immediate need of herbicide, Naofumi and his party head there to do business. The village has been overrun by plants that have turned into monsters, and its residents were forced to abandon it. These plants can even take root in humans, and apparently Motoyasu is the one who released them into the wild.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: N/A

#13 - Anemone: Believe in You and Wait

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/2020

Riri is confined for a week as punishment for insubordination and sinks into depression over Yuri's death. The other members of her legion look for her missing hair tie, hoping to cheer her up, but will it be enough?

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Shouji Saeki

#14 - The Secrets of Pyrokinesis

Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 11/23/2019

Vulcan gets settled in at the 8th, while Captain Obi meets with Hibana, Konro, and Karim to exchange data on the White-Clad matter. Konro proposes that Shinra and Arthur be given combat training in Asakusa to improve their fighting skills.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: N/A

#15 - Pressure

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/21/2023

B Komachi's first performance approaches, but the group still needs practice while Kana refuses to be the center. Perhaps a certain expert choreographer could help them shine?

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Jin Tanaka

#16 - How Have You Been, My Brother?

Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/29/2019

Tohru meets a man she never knew existed, and learns something about Yuki that she never knew before.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Taku Kishimoto

#17 - Forget-Me-Not: True Love, Memories

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2020

Riri is overjoyed that Yuyu is now her Schutzengel, but can she hold up under Yuyu's harsh training? Then, when a powerful Huge attacks, Riri gets a glimpse of Yuyu's secret.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Shouji Saeki

#18 - The Swindler, the Vanishing Man, and the Pretty Boys (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/2/2021

The Pretty Boy Detective Club obtains an invitation to a mysterious casino called Reasonable Doubt. When they arrive at the casino, they find that all the patrons and employees appear to be middle school kids. The manager of the casino, Lai Fudatsuki, challenges Nagahiro Sakiguchi to a showdown, and if Nagahiro wins, he acquires the right to operate the casino!

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: Yukito Kizawa

#19 - The Battle Begins

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/10/2019

While jogging, Shinra inadvertently disturbs Iris’s purification rite, and sees that she is troubled. When Iris later turns up missing, the other members of Company 8 rally to Company 5’s compound, to which Iris had secretly slipped away.

Director: Yuji Tokuno

Writer: N/A