The Best Episodes Written By Kenji Sugihara

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   10.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - The Final Hunt

   S1:E2212/31/2010

   The mountain is on fire and threatens to engulf the entire town. At the same time the final Shiki make their final effort to escape.

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   9.0/10(6 votes)

   #2 - Smash Force

   S1:E335/21/2001

   Makunouchi takes the smash improved Sendo, and crashed into the ropes, but do not fall! Alas, his legs tremble, Sendo and the opportunity to boost its smash. Ippo then chooses the combat body to body pure to prevent Sendo launched its smash, blow midway. Both boxers are equal forces in this area, and no stroke reaches its target.

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   9.0/10(3 votes)

   #3 - Umaru’s Big Brother

   S1:E78/20/2015

   People in his office have seen Taihei walking home and going shopping with a hot girl! His coworker comes over for a visit to see this so-called “sister” for himself.

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   9.0/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Umaru and Now and Once Upon a Time

   S1:E109/10/2015

   Umaru gets sick, but it’s a good thing her germs are as lazy as she is! Sadly, her germs show her brother no mercy. Later, Taihei remembers a day at the arcade, 10 years ago.

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   8.6/10(5 votes)

   #5 - A Thing to Strive For

   S1:E376/18/2001

   Ippo gets to get up, the game resumes. Date returned, and hardly the match resumed, Ippo is again stuck in the ropes. Date then returns its corkscrew, trying to anticipate where Ippo Date will strike, and protects his body. But the blow-out date is very accurate and comes crashing right in the heart of Ippo. The latter is then locked again, and again takes the left of Date. Our young boxer collapses into the ring for the 2nd time. Date who just wanted to test this one, decided to no longer use and Sparring resumes...

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   8.6/10(5 votes)

   #6 - A Counter to Surpass All Counters

   S1:E407/10/2001

   The boxing stadium tremble with excitement, the crowd goes wild and wants to see only one thing, the victory of Jimmy Sisfer, and the defeat of Ichiro Miyata ... While the gong is about sound, Payao and baby Chana brother are on their way to see one of the most beautiful game of the life Miyata. Back at the stadium Runpini, Miyata can only see the reputation of Jimmy Sisfer, while his father described the situation of the failed against Ichiro. Payao Chana and finally arrives at the stadium before the match is over.

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   8.5/10(6 votes)

   #7 - Battle for Distance

   S1:E264/2/2001

   Ippo VS Mashiba Round 1

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   8.2/10(5 votes)

   #8 - Umaru and Her Disciple

   S1:E37/23/2015

   Umaru’s sulky, glaring classmate, Motoba, has unexpectedly shown up at her door… while she’s wearing her hood! Is her secret out?

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - First Blood

   S1:E17/9/2010

   Megumi hates living in the small village of Sotoba. She dreams of graduating from high school and moving to the city. Only two things hold her interest in the village, the giant European Mansion that was recently built atop a hillside and the boy Yuuki Natsuno. The owners of the mansion, the Kirishiki's, arrive under the cover of darkness. Megumi marches up their mansion with fantasies of being adopted. Hours later Megumi has failed to return home with the sun set the villagers begin searching the woods for her. They find her lying on the ground pale and weak. The town doctor suspects she is suffering from anemia and the next day she passes away.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Second Decay

    S1:E27/16/2010

    Megumi is dead and a burial is held for her. Doctor Ozaki is shocked at her sudden death and requests permission to perform an autopsy to determine the exact cause of her death but Megumi's father refuses. Later two more villagers die suddenly. Growing concerned about so many deaths happen in a short space of time Ozaki contacts the head monk Seishin. Together they discover that ten people have died in the month of August alone. Ozaki fears that the village is in the clutches of an epidemic.

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    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Yanagi and Kiri Want to Have Fun, Too!

    S2:E811/19/2022

    Hana has a meltdown at the café because Shinichi does not call her by her first name, although he does with other people and he called Yanagi by her first name not ten minutes after they met. Back home, Yanagi tells her mother about her meeting with Shinichi, making Tsuki spiral down into further misunderstandings. Kiri is stressed studying for exams and lack of physical activity. As such, he goes to exercise at the gym where his father works to cheer himself up. However, when Shinichi also shows up, Kiri ends up feeling completely outclassed.

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    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #12 - Uzaki-chan Wants a Confession!

    S2:E711/12/2022

    Hana is worried she will not be able to hang out with Shinichi once he graduates from college. Since she is adamantly convinced that he likes her, and not the other way around, she plots to make him confess his feelings to her. She cooks him lunch, which attracts the interest of her whole family. After Hana refuses to introduce her to Shinichi, Yanagi visits the café.

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    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Childhood… Friends…

    S1:E75/18/2012

    Chihiro spends his Sunday helping out with the Saoji family’s restaurant. Ranko tells the tale of the first time she met Chihiro. The two young children develop an unusual friendship between themselves as more about Ranko’s family is revealed.

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    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Strong… Feelings…

    S1:E106/8/2012

    While being held hostage inside the Sanka mansion, Chihiro meets Aria. She discloses that she is Rea’s stepmother, and relates how she came to be married to Dan’ichiro. In the course of her tale, more about Dan’ichiro’s past is also revealed to Chihiro.

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    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Nothing… Really… Special

    S1:E116/22/2012

    Rea arrives home just as Dan’ichiro shows Chihiro into the fencing hall, where he is determined to settle things between them. Though detained by the maid staff, Rea is able to elude them, and rushes to save Chihiro, but is startled by what she finds.

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    7.1/10(8 votes)

    #16 - The Café Owner Wants a Glimpse

    S1:E27/17/2020

    Uzaki visits the café where Sakurai works, much to his dismay. An encounter with a cat goes horribly awry. Sakurai eats lunch with an actual friend.

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    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #17 - I Want to Meddle in My Friend’s Business!

    S1:E58/7/2020

    Sakurai’s friend is determined to get him and Uzaki together, but meets resistance from an unusual place. Uzaki has some thoughts about choco-mint.

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    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Does Sakurai Want to Hang Out, Too?

    S1:E119/18/2020

    Sakurai makes Uzaki clean up her stuff, then takes cooking lessons from her mom. A solo karaoke trip spirals out of control and ends in disaster.

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    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #19 - Does Uzaki-chan Want to Go to the School Festival?

    S2:E310/15/2022

    Sakaki convinces Hana and Shinichi to attend the college's festival, bribing them with the opportunity to win a video game console in a lottery. On the first day of the festival, they actually have fun together and decide to have their fortunes read at the Occult Club's stand. They then try to leave when they discover that only romantic fortunes are told, but are forced to comply. Shinichi is left emotionally shaken after he hears their fortune. Later, Hana prepares a meal for Shinichi and herself. She concludes via a self-absorbed thought process that he needs her around and tries unsuccessfully to get him to say it.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Umaru and Amusement Parks

    S2:E711/19/2017

    Umaru and the girls head out to spend a fun day at the amusement park, but Kirie is having a few struggles. Will the day end up a total disaster?

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Umaru and Memories

    S2:E912/3/2017

    After Bomba gives Taihei one of his old cameras, Taihei spends sometime reconnecting with Umaru. Later, the tension between Hikari and Umaru increases.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Sixth Skull

    S1:E68/13/2010

    Natsuno investigates local stories of the "Risen" after seeing that someone had disturbed the torn-up pieces of Megumi's letter he threw out. Meanwhile, Masao's brother Hiromi has died of the same mysterious causes, and Masao is bedridden with peculiar bite wounds. Seishin meets with Dr. Ozaki with his findings, but Dr. Ozaki yells at him over his own frustration with not being to help his patients. Later, Dr. Ozaki notices that most patients with symptoms of the epidemic have "insect bite wounds" on them, and has some success when he performs a blood transfusion on Gyouda Etsuko and she is able to return home. However she later dies after she does not report to the clinic for a follow-up. Natsuno asks Dr. Ozaki if there was any possibility that Megumi might not have been dead, to which Dr. Ozaki responds jokingly that she would be a zombie or a vampire. This starts Dr. Ozaki thinking that maybe this isn't an epidemic...

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    6.1/10(10 votes)

    #23 - A Normal… Girl

    S1:E44/27/2012

    Aria learns that Rea has run away, and Dan’ichiro vows to get her back. In Chihiro’s room, Rea sews up her wound, and the two of them each come to terms with her rebirth as a zombie. Free of her father, Rea reveals to Chihiro what she now wants from him.

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