The Best Episodes Directed By Yumeko Iwaoka

With the fate of the Earth on the line again, Lum and Ataru’s last game of tag begins.

Nagisa needs a kiss from Ryunosuke to pass on, which is easier said than done. Later, Mark threatens his class with supplementary lessons if he catches them talking.

While at camp, Nishikata hears that if you're holding hands with someone you like at the end of a folk dance, they'll like you back.

While sharing a textbook with Takagi after forgetting his own, Nishikata foolishly tries to pull off a word-prank.

Ryunosuke grew up without a mother and wants to know more about her. Unfortunately, her father is keeping an important detail from her.

What’s this? A handkerchief? It smells divine, so it MUST belong to a total hottie. Definitely not a nightmare creature or anything like that. Ataru’s nose cannot be fooled!

There is nothing suspicious about the lipstick Lum wants to put on Ataru. Nope, nothing suspicious at all. Later, Ataru’s class takes the dreaded Yaminabe food challenge!

Shibe reels from the accusation that he has "actually killed a person." Despite protesting that he never did such a thing, he loses the audience's confidence and is thrust into first place. Meanwhile, Tenji finds himself in a distressing situation after realizing Yuichi is the one who wrote the card. Yuichi then makes the shocking announcement that he knows who the traitor is.

Yuuichi goes to help Kokorogi knowing it will be very dangerous, but things could turn out worse than imagined.

Lum finds herself in a race against time to save Ataru. Later, a certain fox seeks to recreate an old legend with magic horsetail shoots. Even later, Mark meets Lum's parents.

After the hard-earned funds for their expensive high school class trip are stolen, sophomore Yuichi and his four best friends are kidnapped by Manabu, a surreal character from a creepy late-night anime show. The mischievous Manabu challenges the students to a series of mind games that the five must decipher and outwit in order to win back their trip funds, uncover the thief, and pay off a huge and mysterious debt.