The Best Episodes Written By Sachio Yanai

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Race

   S1:E55/7/2018

   Sugimoto is tortured by twin brothers Youhei and Kouhei Nikaidō. Shiraishi breaks into Sugimoto's cell and releases his bonds, allowing him to kill Youhei. He fakes a fatal injury using Youhei's intestines, and is able to escape and reunite with Asirpa. While hunting, Asirpa and Sugimoto come across the tracks of two men: Tanigaki and Tetsuzō Nihei, a famous bear hunter.

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Logical Fiction

   S1:E62/16/2020

   Kotoko realizes that Steel Lady Nanase is a spectre that was born from her own wiki site. In order to defeat Steel Lady Nanase, who is made up of people’s imaginations, she has to come up with a story that’s more interesting than Steel Lady Nanase’s. Kotoko ends up asking Saki for help to defeat Steel Lady Nanase. She then meets up with a ghost that is at the site where Nanase Karin died, who also happened to see her die...

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   7.8/10(5 votes)

   #3 - The Committee to Conquer Steel Lady Nanase

   S1:E93/8/2020

   Everything is finally in place, and the committee to conquer Steel Lady Nanase is now in session. Does Steel Lady Nanase actually exist? Perhaps she’s just a made up urban legend. A battle between the truth and lies begins to figure out her existence. Kotoko gets on her PC and starts posting her own deductions...

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #4 - The Silenced Children

   S1:E213/6/2023

   The heirs to the hotel chain begin discussing what they're going to tell Kotoko, but some unexpected details come to light.

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   7.4/10(5 votes)

   #5 - And So, the Ruler Disappeared

   S1:E202/27/2023

   A hotel chain magnate asks Kotoko for help in solving a murder… that he may have committed.

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   7.4/10(5 votes)

   #6 - Sleeping Murder

   S1:E233/20/2023

   Kotoko offers her own explanation of Sumi's death, which awakens the memory of a crime that had slept for decades.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #7 - Uninvited Judge

   S1:E223/13/2023

   Rion talks to her father and, realizing something important about her grandmother, proposes an answer to the president's assignment to her relatives.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - The Cage of Paradise

   S1:E1911/17/2017

   Mahmut, Erbach, and co. arrive at Chielo and meet the state-city's leader, Carvajal, and his secretary, Cassandra. With the Balt-Rhein army pillaging provisions around the surrounding areas, thousands of refugees come to Chielo (who has a strong welfare-based system) to seek aid and shelter. Despite this taking a toll of their food supply, Carvajal allows the refugees in and agrees to join the Anti-Imperial Alliance to safeguard Chielo.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Golden Eagle Pursui

   S1:E2212/8/2017

   Despite their superior numbers, the Balt-Rhein army is boxed in by the Anti-Imperial Alliance and burns their rafts with fire arrows. Pineau orders his commanders to deal with their enemies that encircled them from the outside as the rest deals with the Turkish army that they have in an envelopment. Having chosen the battlefield beforehand, the Anti-Imperial Alliance has molded the area to their advantage and quickly overwhelms the Imperial army. After the El Toro mercenaries takes out the 13th division's ballista, Mahmut and his army escape the encirclement to take on the more vulnerable troops, decimating two imperial divisions.

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