10.0/101 votes#1 - Cutting a Chicken with a Beef Cleaver
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2017
Warrior of the Chicken, Niwatori, isn't as powerful as the others, but her ability to see with a birds-eye-view has helped her survive many battles. She can also betray without feeling any remorse, until she first meets the Monkey Warrior, Sharyu.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
10.0/101 votes#2 - The Enemy, a Noble Primate
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2017
Warrior of the Monkey, Sharyu, is a powerful fighter able to manipulate the three states of matter, but uses her power to bring peace around the world. She seeks peace at the Juni Taisen as well, until her lone ally asks if people are really worth saving.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
10.0/101 votes#3 - Touko and Shigeru
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/2016
The story of why Touko and Shigeru adopted Natsume.
Director: Takatoshi Suzuki
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
10.0/101 votes#4 - The Days Eater
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/2017
A yokai known as "The Days Eater," turns Natsume back to a young child. Nyanko-sensei enlists the aid of Tanuma and Taki.
Director: Kotomi Deai
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
9.0/102 votes#5 - Even Boars May Become Pigs After Seven Generations
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2017
The Juni Taisen takes place every twelve years. The participating warriors must kill each other until only one remains. Inonoshishi, Warrior of the Boar and the daughter of the last Taisen's winner, ends up fighting her first enemy in an unexpected way.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
9.0/102 votes#6 - Tricks Both Mongrel and Fowl
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2017
Warrior of the Dog, Dotsuku, is known for his powerful bite, "Mad Dog's Vise." However, he has a secret skill: the ability to create and secrete a variety of poisons from his body. This gives him an advantage when all of the participants are poisoned!
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.7/103 votes#7 - Unchanging Form
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2016
Natsume continues to spend his days giving youkai back their names from the Book of Friends. One day, as he's heading home, he finds himself chased by a giant, rolling pot. The youkai in the pot insists that his grandmother Reiko stole a doll from her. When she threatens to hurt his family, however, he's forced to go out and find it. But would his kind, smiling grandmother Reiko really steal a doll from someone?
Director: Miyuki Ooshiro
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.1/1024 votes#8 - Pierrot Le Fou
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/1999
Spike takes a beating during a chance encounter with an indestructible assassin. While Jet searches for the secret to the madman’s power, Spike goes looking for payback!
Director: Yoshiyuki Takei
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.0/102 votes#9 - Princess of the Snow Sea
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2023
Kaina and the other villagers find out for the first time that there is life below the Canopy. Ririha, princess of Atland, explains that she came from the Snow Sea in search of "the sage," who may be able to help with their water shortage issue.
Director: Hiroaki Ando
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.0/102 votes#10 - Travelling Down the Orbital Tree
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2023
In order to safely return Ririha to her nation, Kaina goes with her to assist their climb down the spire tree, knowing he will not be able to return to his village again. Their travel goes smoothly, but the Valghians were waiting for Ririha at the base.
Director: Taku Yonebayashi
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.0/102 votes#11 - Fortress Nation
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/2023
Opting to stay hidden inside a box within the ship, Kaina, Ririha and Yaona find themselves offloaded to the mobile fortress of Valghia. Now, they must somehow come up with a way to return to Atland, but Valghians are hot on their tails.
Director: Hiroaki Ando
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.0/102 votes#12 - Insignia of an Ancient Castle
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/9/2023
Just before the start of the war between Atland and Valghia, Kaina and his friends race to get proof of a great tree that can save everyone, including their enemies.
Director: Reiji Nagazono
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.0/102 votes#13 - The name of a monster
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/5/2011
Natsume meets a shrine god in the form of an elderly woman. He is forced to help her return a mirror to a youkai said to bring disaster. The youkai turns out to be Reiko, Natsume's grandmother, who the shrine god only mistook as a youkai. Reiko had lent out the mirror so that the shrine god could save the life of an old tree, but the two parted after Reiko learned that the elderly woman was a youkai.
Director: Takahiro Omori
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.0/102 votes#14 - To You, From Bygone Days
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/2012
In the town Natsume used to live in, a girl recalls Natsume. She remembers his strange actions and wanted to understand him. Meanwhile, Natsume encounters a small Youkai which reminds him of the same girl and town.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.0/102 votes#15 - The Letter from the Exorcist
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2016
Natsume finds a letter addressed to him from Matoba. Walking in the forest, he loses it when an amateur exorcist seals a yokai in a pot. Noticing the weak seal, Natsume and Nyanko-sensei take it to Natori's condo to re-seal it. When Natsume returns home he sees Matoba and learns the letter was a request for Natsume to attend a meeting of strong exorcists to weed out the person who has been targeting exorcists.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
8.0/101 votes#16 - To the Ephemeral Ones
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/2016
The mid-ranks show Natsume flowers at the top of a hill. Natsume later catches a cold and the mid-ranks go and get medicine for him, doing difficult chores for the yokai with the medicine. Amid Natsume's fever dreams are the memory of when he got sick as a child and he briefly talks to Reiko. With the medicine in hand, the mid-ranks give it to him and his fever goes down. They later learn the medicine doesn't work on humans and are disheartened as they wasted their time, but smile when Natsume thanks them for their efforts.
Director: Hideki Ito
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.7/107 votes#17 - Home
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/27/2014
Nagate fights one-on-one with the heart of his enemy while the strike force does not fare well in its attack on the Gauna.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.7/103 votes#18 - Tag Team
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2022
Bisco and Jabi continue their journey through Touhoku in search of Sabikui, the Rust-Eater, a mushroom said to cleanse away any rust. Milo also realizes that if he could cure his sister, Pawoo, if he had this Rust-Eater. Meanwhile, the governor of Imihama, Kurokawa, burns with an unusual obsession with killing Bisco.
Director: Katsuya Kikuchi
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.6/1030 votes#19 - Gateway Shuffle
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/14/1998
Faye teams up with Spike and Jet to track down a gang of space activists that plans on turning the human population into monkeys!
Director: Yoshiyuki Takei
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.5/102 votes#20 - Conflict at the Snow Sea
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2023
The Valghians capture Ririha so they can strongarm the Atlandians into surrendering. The Atlandian soldiers engage in the battle to rescue Ririha and Kaina, but aren't successful. Ririha manages to free Kaina while she remains in captivity.
Director: Reiji Nagazono
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.5/102 votes#21 - Rescue Mission
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/9/2023
After learning of the King of Atland's decision to not rescue Ririha and instead go to war with Valghia, it's up to Kaina and Yaona to go save Ririha. Without a means to travel the sea, they must figure out an alternative way to get there.
Director: Hiroaki Ando
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.5/102 votes#22 - Lost at Sea
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/2/2023
After saving an innocent girl from being executed, Kaina, Ririha and Yaona are given a small boat to escape. Unfortunately, without any means to navigate the boat accurately, they are unsure if they're heading in the right direction.
Director: Hiroaki Ando
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.4/107 votes#23 - Commencement
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/11/2014
In isolation his entire life, Nagate must adjust to life in a centuries-old space colony while training as a cadet pilot to fight an ancient threat.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.4/107 votes#24 - Glory
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/25/2014
Exploring Sidonia, Nagate makes an enemy of Kunato while protecting a friend. The Gauna attack, calling the pilots into action.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.4/1019 votes#25 - Boogie Woogie Feng Shui
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/20/1999
Spurred by a cryptic email, Jet goes looking for an old friend, but finds his daughter – and a mysterious sun stone – instead.
Director: Ikuro Sato
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
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"Cutting a Chicken with a Beef Cleaver" is the best rated episode written by Sadayuki Murai. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Naoto Hosoda. It aired on 10/17/2017 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Enemy, a Noble Primate".