The Best Episodes Written By Kenichi Kanemaki

#1 - Trial 1: Beautiful Agent

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/25/1997

The old town of Tokyo is buried under water following a terrible catastrophe which has occurred several years before. Aika and her young partner Rion work for an agency specializing in the recovery of old relics, but the owner has serious financial problems. This is why it was decided that Aika again take up her old activities as a special agent...

Director: Katsuhiko Nishijima

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#2 - Trial 2: Naked Mission

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/25/1997

Aika has been entrusted with a mission of collecting information on a material called "Lagu", but its progress was stopped by Hagen and his sister Neena, which have other projects for Lagu. Held captive on their vessel, Aika and Rion do what they can to try to escape. But it seems that the capacities of Aika are ineffecient against the new weapon of Hagen.

Director: N/A

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#3 - Trial 3: Takeoff Position

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1997

Aika with the assistance of her friend Gusto, succeed in escaping from the ship, leaving behind Rion. Her last combat left her weakened and she is no longer any match to face Hagen and his crew. During this time, Rion and Maypia, a spy whom they met, try to escape, but the projects of Hagen have already started to be carried out...

Director: Katsumi Terahigashi

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#4 - Trial 4: A Flower Blooming in Space

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/1998

The team of Aika finds themselves involved in space in the hope to carry a term to the intrigues of Hargen of which all the parts are in place to put at execution its terrible plan. But quickly Aika will be confronted with an adversary of size, Neena. which carries on it an object which confers to him capacities semblabes with those of its gilded long-line bra from now on inoperative. The combat is announced hard

Director: N/A

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#5 - Samurai Labyrinth? Loverinth?

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2000

Director: Tetsuya Watanabe

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#6 - Treasure Labyrinth? Loverinth?

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/21/2000

Director: Katsuhiko Nishijima

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#7 - Trial 6: Delmo Operation: White Silver

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/18/1998

An operation disguised in the form of collecting information on board a ultra-sophisticated plane, is worked out by the Delmo organization in order to secretly study the aptitudes of Aika for combat to discover her weaknesses. The latter not suspecting the trap which awaits her, accepts the work which is proposed to her.

Director: Noriyasu Yamauchi

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#8 - The Cat And The Book Of Friends

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2008

Natsume discovers that the heirloom "Book of Friends" that his grandmother, Reiko, gave him possesses the names of the spirits she defeated and bound to her will. Assisted by a cat whom Natsume addresses as Nyanko-Sensei (lit. Master Little Meow), Natsume aims to return all of the names to their rightful owners.

Director: Takahiro Omori

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#9 - The Dew God's Small Shrine

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/15/2008

Natsume is visited by the village's local god who is currently fading because of the lack of devotees.

Director: Sakai Hashido

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#10 - Heart-Colored Ticket

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/5/2008

Natsume comes across an old ticket in Reiko's belongings and decides to go to the abandoned train station to see why she kept it. There, he meets a slow witted spirit named Santo, who was waiting for Reiko the entire time to go Kiriganuma, to see and make up with his friend, Mikuri, but the trip isn't as easy as it first seems...

Director: Tomoyuki Kawamura

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#11 - Autumn Banquet

Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/30/2008

Tanuma finds out that Nyanko-Sensei is a spirit. Tanuma and Natsume enjoy the autumn festival and previous acquaintances are seen again.

Director: Hisatoshi Shimizu

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#12 - Trial 7: Break the Decisive Battle! Delmo Base!

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/25/1999

During her overtime at the office, Aika is suddenly attacked by an agent of Delmo which manages to escape afterwards. Little time after, the building in which Aika is in explodes. Rion and her friends attend a funeral for their friend. With the assistance of Maypia and Gusto, Rion decides to infiltrate the enemy base to avenge the death of Aika.

Director: N/A

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#13 - Big Brother, Be My Slave

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2004

Seeking to understand why he couldn't capture a hauntingly beautiful young girl on film, Kouhei Morioka stumbles into a medieval castle and a world he cannot comprehend.

Director: Shin Oonuma

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#14 - Big Brother, Let's Live Together

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2004

Kouhei and Hazuki seek out the young vampire's childhood home, so that she may fulfill her last promise to her mother - the same mother who abandoned her two years past.

Director: Nobuyuki Takeuchi

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#15 - Big Brother, I Feel Like Kissing

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2004

The return of the full moon has stirred Hazuki's thirst for blood. When Kouhei won't give her what she wants, the little vamp sets out on the hunt.

Director: Yasuo Ejima

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#16 - It's a Full, Full Moon

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2004

Elfriede, a servant of Count Kinkel, has come to retrieve Hazuki and return her to the castle. The little vampire proves to be less than agreeable, and a fierce and furry battle begins.

Director: Yasuo Ejima

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#17 - Big Brother, They Say It's The End! Will You Always Be My Slave?

Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/29/2005

Life for the Midou family returns to normal. Ryuuhei welcomes friends and family to celebrate, but plans go astray as the full moon feast begins. Kouhei might have to save the day one last time.

Director: Tatsuya Oishi

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

#18 - The Evening Primroses on Fuji are Wrong

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/1/2007

Nozomu notices a few members of the class playing a "spot the differences" game. Nozomu tells them that it is important to spot mistakes and he instructs the class in how life is filled with mistakes. He asks the class to identify mistakes in their lives after pointing out several of his own. After Nozomu contradicts himself, saying that a mistake was the correct action, Kafuka reasons that if a mistake comes to light, it is correct, resulting in many people approaching her, confessing their mistakes, making them correct. In the end of the first part, a boy approaches Nozomu, calling him "Dad." The second part of the episode reveals that he is actually Nozomu's brother's child, Majiru. Nozomu asks him to prove that he is indeed his nephew, and then asks all of his students to prove that they are the real one. When Majiru asks Nozomu to prove he is genuine, Nozomu is unable to come up with a response, and runs off. The episode ends with a sequence that deals with Majiru's hair fetish.

Director: Hideyuki Yoshida

Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki