The Best Episodes Written By Aya Yoshinaga

Every TV Episode Written by Aya Yoshinaga Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. Background image for Our One Shot at Victory
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Our One Shot at Victory

    Missing info
    S4:E21

    Zheng refutes his chancellor's notion of ideal government and articulates his reasons for a united Middle Kingdom. Xin gets turned around in Xianyang.

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  2. Background image for Mischievous Rain
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Mischievous Rain

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    S5:E2

    On a rainy day, Natsume meets a young girl youkai. Her name isn't in the Book of Friends, but she wants his help anyway: she wants him to find a man she met once. The man couldn't see youkai normally, but a mischievous trick of the weather let him see her for just one day. For the next fifty years she visited him, hoping he'd see her one more time, but he never did. Now he's vanished. Can Natsume find him for her?

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  3. Background image for Distant Festival Lights
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Distant Festival Lights

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    S5:E7

    Natsume and his friends go to a distant hot springs to help with the renovations. When he arrives, he meets an old friend of Tanumas, but he quickly gets caught up in local youkai trouble. Tanuma's old friend is actually a youkai, and she threatens terrible things if Natsume reveals her secret.

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    Director:Akira Toba
  4. Background image for The Flower's Plan
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - The Flower's Plan

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    S1:E17

    As Mahmut and co. enter the Cuore di Rumeliana region, they quickly learn that all 34 city-states lack the military power to defend themselves against Balt-Rhein and are annoyed by their seemingly complacent attitude. After learning that they must get the Republic of Florence's permission to allow the Turkish army passage through their territory, the group heads there and sets up a meeting with Gonfaloniere Caterina di Rossi, the leader of Florence and Süleyman's former lover.

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    Director:Takeru Sato
  5. Background image for Heiyong at Night
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Heiyong at Night

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    S5:E3

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  6. Background image for What the Guardian Serpent Heard
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #6 - What the Guardian Serpent Heard

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    S1:E2

    Kotoko receives a request for help from a giant snake, who is the guardian spirit of Tsukuna Swamp. It appears that a murderer named Tanio Aoi disposed of a body in the snake’s swamp, but there’s something that’s just not sitting right with the snake. After learning about Kuro’s powers, Kotoko asks Kuro to accompany her on this journey, but Kuro declines for a certain reason…

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    Director:Keiji Gotoh
  7. Background image for The Rumors of the Steel Lady
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #7 - The Rumors of the Steel Lady

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    S1:E3

    Kotoko is asked why a suspect had thrown a dead body into the Guardian’s swamp and she starts constructing a story. This ends up being a rather tragic tale about Tanio Aoi filled with love and regret that the Guardian is also shocked to hear. Two years later, random acts of violence were happening in Makurazaka City. The suspect seems to be the ghost of the former idol, Nanase Karin…

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  8. Background image for A Monster of the Imagination
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #8 - A Monster of the Imagination

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    S1:E5

    Kotoko happens to spot a man fighting with Steel Lady Nanase. She gets closer and realizes that it was actually Kuro that was struggling in this battle. Saki then also joins in and after talking with her, Kotoko remembers the story about Kuro when he was younger that he told her about. Kotoko realizes they will need a special method to defeat Steel Lady Nanase because she is not an ordinary spectre...

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  9. Background image for Mutual Love
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #9 - Mutual Love

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    S1:E16

    Anri is targeted by the Slasher, but Kyohei’s gang moves to rescue her. Shizuo and Celty join in, and after defeating the Slasher, reveal his true identity. However, this moment of relief doesn’t last as Celty reads what has been posted in the chatroom.

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  10. Background image for She Who Spins Fiction
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #10 - She Who Spins Fiction

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    S1:E8

    Saki remembers the first time she met Kuro’s cousin, Sakuragawa Rikka. Saki had heard that Rikka had passed, and tries to get more information out of Kotoko. Meanwhile, the forums on the wiki site become rather active again, making Steel Lady Nanase’s presence even stronger...

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  11. Background image for Declaration of Disbandment
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Declaration of Disbandment

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    S1:E22

    The Dollars are enraged at the Yellow Scarves’ actions. The Yellow Scarves learn that Anri is the girl who escaped from their hideout during the night of the meeting, and track her down. However, an unexpected group of people steps in to save her...

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  12. Background image for Electroshock Pinocchio
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Electroshock Pinocchio

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    S1:E18

    Tae is an active octogenarian who lives with an unusually talkative cat. Why do the fishermen in her seaside town find dead fish coming in with the tide every morning?

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  13. Background image for Ephemeral Dream
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Ephemeral Dream

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    S1:E8

    Celty runs away from home after arguing with Shinra, and an exchange student asks people to write what they're looking for in a notebook she carries.

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  14. Background image for Stand-In
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Stand-In

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    S4:E4

    Natsume is at home early one evening when he hears a knock on the door. He sees Tohko outside, asking to be let in. But when he opens the door, there's nobody there, and a gust of wind rushes past. Another Youkai is after the book of friends!

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    Director:Kotomi Deai
  15. Background image for Or You Could Wish Upon a Star
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Or You Could Wish Upon a Star

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    S1:E19

    Tae talks about her past and Kotoko figures out a way they can defeat the Electroshock Pinocchio.

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  16. Background image for The Man with the Mechanical Arm
    7.1/10(10 votes)

    #16 - The Man with the Mechanical Arm

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    S1:E5

    Ed and Al hop aboard a train to Central City and quickly find themselves defending the passengers -- including Gen. Hakuro -- from terrorists.

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  17. Background image for Love and Cherish
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #17 - Love and Cherish

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    S1:E9

    After losing contact with her brother Seiji, Namie Yagiri enlists Izaya's help to find him. While roaming through Ikebukuro, Seiji and Mika Harima stumble onto Shizuo and Celty and a heated pursuit begins after Celty figures that the head attached to Mika's body is actually hers.

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  18. Background image for A place to go home to
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - A place to go home to

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    S3:E12

    A youkai from Natsume past has found him and memories of living with relatives before the Fujiwaras are explored.

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    Director:N/A
  19. Background image for The City of the Lighthouse
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The City of the Lighthouse

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    S1:E5

    Mahmut arrives at Phoiníkē and sees a Balt-Rhein ship docked at the harbor. He meets with the Türkiye spy, Kyros, who informs him that he will find trouble during his stay. Mahmut is summoned by the patriotic Magistros Konstantinos and other members of the Phoiníkē senate, who request that Mahmut to sit in at the senate assembly to discuss the empire's demands to cede their harbor to them. While Caesar Apollodorus wants to accept the empire's demands, Konstantinos states it is an excuse to invade and gain control over the Centro sea.

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    Director:N/A
  20. Background image for The Iron Chains
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Iron Chains

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    S1:E6

    As the siege continues, Konstantinos berates Apollodorus for not assisting in the war effort and the two argue over if going to war against Balt-Rhein was the right decision, given how citizens from nations that the empire has annexed are cruelly treated. At night, Glalat prepares the army for their next attack, uncaring for the lives for his men and conscripted soldiers to enact his plans.

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    Director:N/A
  21. Background image for The Sinking City
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Sinking City

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    S1:E7

    As everyone looks on in horror as Phoiníkē burns, Konstantinos tries to rally soldiers to defend the city, but Apollodorus sabotage the speaking tubes and scolds him for not seeing the reality of the situation. In order to save the citizens from slaughter, Apollodorus and the senate agree to surrender to Balt-Rhein and relay the message to everyone in the city.

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  22. Background image for Heiyong's Crucial Moment
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Heiyong's Crucial Moment

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    S5:E6

    He Liao Diao switches gears to share some hard-earned power with Huan Yi's forces--all the general has to do is take it. Qiang Lei's caretaker speaks.

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    Director:Ippei Ichii
  23. Background image for Roar of Pride
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Roar of Pride

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    S5:E10

    Huan Yi's top commanders question his latest bizarre decision. Wei Ping has a crisis of conscience. Xin and Qiang Lei react to a gruesome discovery.

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  24. Background image for The Unbeatable Magician
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - The Unbeatable Magician

    Missing info
    S1:E4

    Until the age of 16, Yang Wen-li spent most of his life on an interplanatary merchant spaceship with his father, who was a trader. After his father's death, Yang entered the Free Planets Fleet Academy to study war history. There, he met Jean, who would become his best friend, and his childhood friend Jessica, a music school student

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  25. Background image for Both Men
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Both Men

    Missing info
    S3:E2

    Wolfgang Mittermeyer and Oskar von Reuenthal, two renowned admirals under the command of Reinhard von Lohengramm collectively dubbed as the "Twin Pillars", get together and reminisce about their respective pasts, culminating in the event that would lead to the defining moment of their careers: the Klopstock Incident. In March 795 UC, after thirty years of life in exile from Imperial high society, Marquis Wilhelm von Klopstock plotted an assassination of Kaiser Friedrich IV that was to occur during a party organised by Duke Otho von Braunschweig.

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Aya Yoshinaga Ratings Summary

"Our One Shot at Victory" is the best rated episode written by Aya Yoshinaga. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Natsumi Yasue. It aired on 8/28/2022 and is rated 2.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mischievous Rain".