8.0/1010 votes#1 - C: Smoke of Gunpowder, Hail of Bullets; BARRAGE
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/1/2003
Despite their best efforts, the remaining members of Section 9 are rounded up one by one by the government forces; only Batou and Motoko are left.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.8/1010 votes#2 - C: Sunset in the Lonely City; ANNIHILATION
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/1/2003
The government orders Section 9 disbanded. Aramaki is taken away, and Togusa is arrested. Motoko assembles the remaining team members at HQ for one final mission. They prepare for a full-scale assault while Elite troopers and Armed Suits descend on Section 9 HQ.
Director: Yasuhiro Geshi
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.3/103 votes#3 - Falsehood
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/13/2006
A client seeks Yūko's aid because she has problems with her right little finger; Yūko tells her that it is happening because of a bad habit of hers. Watanuki learns more about Yūko while becoming the shop's cook. Himawari-chan and Doumeki both make their first appearance in this episode.
Director: N/A
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.2/1011 votes#4 - C: Inside the Forest of the Sub-Imagoes; PORTRAITZ
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/2003
Togusa goes undercover at a hospital for patients with Closed Cyberbrain Syndrome, a hospital completely cut off from communication with the outside world.
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.1/108 votes#5 - DI: Beware the Left Eye; POKER FACE
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 7/3/2004
Saito recounts his first run-in with the Major, and how he became part of the group that would eventually become Section 9.
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.0/1011 votes#6 - SA: The Fortunate Ones; MISSING HEARTS
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/1/2003
Motoko's friend Courtin asks her to come to the hospital where she works. It seems a little girl just received a heart transplant, but the donor's family doesn't remember ever agreeing to donate the heart. When Motoko mentions this story to Aramaki, he tells them to determine if this is tied to a ring of black-market organ smugglers supposedly run by the mafia.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.0/1011 votes#7 - SA: Tachikoma Runaway, The Movie Director's Dream; ESCAPE FROM
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/1/2003
One of the Tachikomas decides to take a little stroll through the city. It meets a little girl, Miki, who is searching for her lost dog and it agrees to help her. On their journey, the Tachikoma finds a strange box.
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.0/1011 votes#8 - SA: Time of the Machines; MACHINES DÉSIRANTES
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/1/2003
The Major has become worried about the Tachikomas. It appears that their AIs have developed much more quickly and in ways that were not anticipated; they have begun speaking about their "individuality".
Director: Kenichi Takeshita
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.0/101 votes#9 - After the Dance
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/2005
An annual ball is being held in the lycee. Students, guardians and guests in formal attire are gathered in the school cafeteria when Saya arrives in a dress she borrowed from Min. On the dance floor, Saya meets a young man named Solomon, who asks her for a dance. As the music starts, David reaches the entrance to the basement surrounded by blue roses...
Director: Naomichi Yamato
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
6.9/1010 votes#10 - SA: The True Reason for the Unfinished Love Affair; ANGELS' SHARE
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 6/1/2003
While at an international police conference in London, Aramaki drops by to visit an old flame who's now in the wine brokering business. She asks him to help her put a stop to the corruption in her company, but he tells her that it's out of his jurisdiction. Just then, however, two thieves break into the building and take them hostage.
Director: Yasuhiro Geshi
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
6.9/108 votes#11 - DI: One Angry Man; TRIAL
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 5/8/2004
Togusa is brought up on charges after he becomes involved with a murder while off duty. But during the course of the trial, it becomes clear who the attorney is really after.
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
6.8/1012 votes#12 - SA: A Modest Rebellion; ANDROID AND I
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/2002
A certain type of android, the GA07_JL, nicknamed Jeri by its users, has been affected by a virus. Recently, all Jeri model androids have been committing "suicide". Section 9 is called in as it may be related to a virus detected in an android at the National Assembly Building.
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
6.6/1014 votes#13 - DI: Reactivation; REEMBODY
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2004
A group of terrorists identifying themselves as the "Individual Eleven" barricade themselves within the Chinese Embassy. Section 9 is called in to eliminate the terrorists without any civilian casualties, all before the scheduled police raid.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
6.6/108 votes#14 - DI: Afternoon of the Machines; PAT.
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 8/7/2004
During a scheduled maintenance, the Tachikomas begin to chat away about the Individual Eleven. While talking in their new "forum", Batou and Togusa appear and take one of the Tachikomas - who just happens to be Batou's pet - with them to Spring-8 to look at the scientific evidence gathered on the Individual Eleven.
Director: Kenichi Takeshita
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
6.0/102 votes#15 - The Place Where It All Started
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/2005
The memory of that terrible night is fading away: not a trace is left, and a brand new desk is placed in the biology room, as if nothing had happened. On her way home from school, George takes Saya to the grave of the Miyagusuku family, on a hill overlooking the sea colored by the sunset. George talks about his past and his meeting with Saya. Back at Omoro, David reveals to Saya that she is the only living being who can defeat the chiropterans, as the creatures like the one that attacked her at school are called. Saya is shocked, but a new menace is just approaching, its eyes shining red...
Director: Tomoaki Ohta
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
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"C: Smoke of Gunpowder, Hail of Bullets; BARRAGE" is the best rated episode written by Taiki Sakurai. It scored 8/10 based on 10 votes. It was directed by Kazunobu Fuseki. It aired on 10/1/2003 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "C: Sunset in the Lonely City; ANNIHILATION".