9.0/101 votes#1 - Secret of the Rainbow Pearls
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/2021
On the night of the new moon, Riku pays Towa a visit to chat. Unfortunately, he’s not the only one planning to drop by.
Director: Katsuya Oshima
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
9.0/101 votes#2 - The Three Princesses Strike Back
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/13/2021
Setsuna and Towa hire Moroha to help slay Zero. The trio successfully track Zero down, but Riku stands in their way.
Director: Teruo Satou
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
9.0/105 votes#3 - Lesson Number One
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 12/6/1989
Locked in battle with the Saiyans, Goku gives Nappa a brutal demonstration of the training he received from King Kai. Broken and defeated, Nappa must now face the ferocious wrath of Vegeta!
Director: Yoshihiro Ueda
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
9.0/105 votes#4 - Goku's New Power
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 11/7/1990
Goku has arrived on Planet Namek, and without a second to lose! Gohan and Krillin are hanging by a thread, held at the mercy of the Ginyu Force! Has Goku’s training in 100-times gravity prepared him to face these powerful foes?
Director: N/A
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
9.0/105 votes#5 - Explosion of Anger
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 6/26/1991
Engulfed in golden light, Goku announces that he is now a Super Saiyan! Frieza is unimpressed - until the fighting begins! In a raging battle, Frieza is horrified when he realizes that Goku is now superior to him in every way!
Director: Junichi Fujise
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
9.0/101 votes#6 - Enter Shampoo, the Gung-Ho Girl! I Put My Life in Your Hands
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/15/1989
Ranma gets a shock when an Amazon girl he encountered in China tracks him down, intending to kill his girl half.
Director: Takeshi Mori
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.8/105 votes#7 - Spirit Bomb Away!
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 1/17/1990
Goku feels the brunt of Vegeta’s fully-realized Saiyan power! Earth’s greatest hero is left with no choice except to use the Spirit Bomb. If his attack fails, he may find himself completely doomed!
Director: Yoshihiro Ueda
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.8/105 votes#8 - A Final Attack
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 7/10/1991
With only minutes to go before the planet explodes, Frieza reaches his maximum power! Meanwhile, Gohan and Bulma race back to Goku’s spaceship. Can Goku defeat Frieza in time to rejoin his son and fly to safety?
Director: Yoshihiro Ueda
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.8/105 votes#9 - Borrowed Powers
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/3/1992
Gingertown becomes a battlefield as Piccolo confronts Cell. This monster from the future gains his strength by sucking the life out of his victims! But that’s not the creature’s only talent. He also knows the Kamehameha Wave!
Director: Junichi Fujise
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.8/105 votes#10 - The Monster is Coming
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 7/15/1992
Behind the closed doors of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Vegeta and Trunks struggle to push past the level of Super Saiyan! Down on Earth, Piccolo challenges Android 17 to a battle!
Director: Yoshihiro Ueda
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.8/105 votes#11 - He's Here
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 7/22/1992
Stronger than ever after fusing with Kami, Piccolo leads the attack against the androids! It looks like the Super Namekian has things under control until Cell arrives on the battlefield! Can anyone stop this hideous monster?!
Director: Daisuke Nishio
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.8/105 votes#12 - Cell Juniors Attack!
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 5/5/1993
Gohan boils with rage as the Cell Juniors wreak havoc on the Z-Fighters. The boy struggles to resist the urge to fight, but he’s a powder keg waiting to explode, and Android 16 appears ready to light the fuse!
Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.7/103 votes#13 - Yusuke's Back
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1992
Yusuke has reclaimed his life, but has only one day to be revived by someone's kiss -— And that someone might be Kuwabara! Back in the flesh, Yusuke finds he can see supernatural creatures hiding in the living world, and quickly hunts down a demon criminal. With this move, he learns his adventure is only beginning. Yusuke is a Spirit Detective.
Director: Junya Koshiba
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.6/107 votes#14 - Reunions
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/3/1989
Goku and Gohan attend a reunion on Roshi’s island, where Goku introduces his son to all of his old friends. The smiles quickly fade, however, as an unexpected visitor - Raditz - lands on the island.
Director: Osamu Kasai
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.6/107 votes#15 - Unlikely Alliance
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/10/1989
Raditz has kidnapped Gohan, and unless Goku agrees to join the sinister Saiyan, he may never see his son again! All hope is not lost, however, as a second visitor arrives, and Goku forges an unlikely alliance!
Director: Kazuhisa Takenouchi
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.5/102 votes#16 - Yusuke's Destiny
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/20/1994
Yusuke Urameshi suffers from a recurring nightmare that he just can't shake. Is this a mere inconvenience? Or are there deeper meanings hidden behind the bizarre occurrences? Genkai sends Yusuke to the home of a former Spirit Detective. But what he doesn't know is that someone knows his destination... and more about his past than he ever thought possible!
Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.5/102 votes#17 - Farewell Under the Lunar Eclipse
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/2021
The truth behind the night that sealed the fate of Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha’s parents is finally revealed.
Director: Akira Toba
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.5/104 votes#18 - Mystery of the Dark World
Season 1 Episode 152 - Aired 4/12/1989
After the Basho-sen fails to put out the fire threatening the Gyumao, Goku and Chichi set out to find the Eightfold Furnace, believed to be the last hope for extinguishing the deadly blaze. But before they can complete their quest, Goku must solve the mystery of the next world.
Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.3/103 votes#19 - A Plea from a Friend
Season 3 Episode 133 - Aired 5/4/2005
Naruto proves to be too much for Sasuke to handle as Naruto fights back with renewed vigour. Finally acknowledging Naruto's strength, Sasuke puts on his forehead protector, symbolizing both as equals. But when Sasuke's Sharingan is upgraded to level 3, the tables turn on Naruto. Just when all hope seems lost for Naruto, he undergoes a startling transformation, but will it be enough?
Director: Atsushi Wakabayashi
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.2/104 votes#20 - Outrageous Octagon
Season 1 Episode 151 - Aired 4/5/1989
Goku's search for the Basho-sen leads him to a treacherous mountain that has a strange curse. Chichi is faced with the biggest mess of her life when she meets a mysterious old woman, while the Gyumao tries to flee the raging fires that threaten to destroy his castle!
Director: Kazuhisa Takenouchi
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.0/102 votes#21 - The Search Begins
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1992
Yusuke's three-day weekend is cut short when Botan delivers his next big case. Genkai, an aging psychic, will hold a contest to find a worthy apprentice to her powerful technique: the Spirit Wave. But an evil demon, Rando, plans to steal the technique and use it for mass destruction! Yusuke must go undercover and infiltrate Genkai's compound!
Director: Shigeru Ueda
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.0/102 votes#22 - Kuwabara's Fight of Love
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/10/1993
One giant battle stands in the way of rescuing Yukina. Yusuke and Kuwabara versus the leaders of the demon mercenaries, the immensely powerful and bizarre - Toguro Brothers! What will it take to defeat the freakish duo in a fight where anything goes? Elsewhere, Kurama races to stop Hiei, who is entering Tarukane's stronghold with his own violent agenda!
Director: Hitoyuki Matsui
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.0/102 votes#23 - Inuyasha: Since Then
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2020
Towa Higurashi learns about an incident that took place decades ago involving a half demon named Inuyasha and a priestess named Kagome.
Director: Teruo Satou
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.0/102 votes#24 - The Dream Butterfly
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2020
In the present day, a demon emerges through the Sacred Tree at Higurashi Shrine with Setsuna, Towa’s twin, and the bounty hunter Moroha in tow. Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha struggle to battle the demon, whose powers have been strengthened with two Rainbow Pearls, but seeing Setsuna in trouble awakens Towa’s latent demon powers.
Director: Lim Ka-hee
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
8.0/101 votes#25 - Double-Edged Moroha
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/2021
Moroha once had a master named Yawaragi, who was keeping a life-threatening secret. In order to resolve the secret and protect her pupil, Yawaragi made an agreement with Jyubei.
Director: Ryuta Kawahara
Writer: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
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"Secret of the Rainbow Pearls" is the best rated episode written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Katsuya Oshima. It aired on 2/27/2021 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Three Princesses Strike Back".