The Best Episodes Written By Tamazo Yanagi

The annual Cultural Festival has arrived. Mie and Komura are both preparing exhibits. What will they be, and will they impress each other? Perhaps beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

It's cooking practice day at school. What will Mie make? And FAR more importantly, who will get to taste her food? Mie and Komura contemplate their past dreams for the future, and perhaps their new dreams...

Director: Shouhei Adachi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Mie keeps forgetting her glasses, making lunch service a challenge, but Komura still finds her adorable. When Komura gets a text from Mie on the weekend, is it a date, or....

Director: Shouhei Adachi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

On Valentine's Day, girls give chocolates to boys usually as a form of friendship. For Komura, what matters is receiving one from Mie, whether it has a more meaningful implication or not.

Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

A year has passed since Komura fell helplessly into Mie's glassesless eyes. A new term has come, and with it new seats. Will Komura and Mie be separated? Will a new deskmate fall for Mie? Will Komura be able to focus long enough to find out?

Director: Shouhei Adachi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

When Mie forgets her glasses at school, Komura ends up taking the home for the weekend. To keep them safe. That's all. Really. He's only keeping them safe!

Director: Shouhei Adachi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Komura and Mie continue to grow closer, in rain, shine, and dark of night. They even witness a confession together. Will Komura follow suit?

Director: Katsumasa Yokomine

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

When Mie and Komura go on a school field trip, will they join groups or stay separate? Will Mie remember her glasses? And if not, what dangers await Mie in an unfamiliar environment? Fortunately, Komura is always there to help.

Director: Katsumasa Yokomine

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

As the school year comes to an end, Mie meets an elementary school classmate, but can't remember who he is. Will Komura too be forgotten one day? Will this year be a fading dream or a past to remember?

Director: Shouhei Adachi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Tazuna is a young boy who loves to fix things. But his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a girl who's lying on a hospital bed in an electronically locked lab. When he takes her hand, he finds out that he can never let go, or she will die. On top of that, he has to battle a man and his partner in something called the Ziggurat, and he doesn't have a power of his own. Can he unlock the might of the Hand Shakers?

Director: Katsumasa Yokomine

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Tazuna and his new friend Koyori have a problem: If Tazuna lets go of Koyori's hand, she'll die! Can he take her home with him and explain to his parents why he now has to live with a girl? And how's he going to take a bath with her!?

Director: Katsumasa Yokomine

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Tazuna meets Chizuru and Hayate, the pair who's car he fixed on the day he met Koyori. They're workers for a major food corporation in the area, and they offer to treat him and Koyori to dinner as a thank you. But after the meal, they reveal that they're actually Hand Shakers themselves!

Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

After the battle inside the Ziggurat, Chizuru and Hayate are horrified to find out that their victory would have cost Koyori her life. They agree to help Tazuna and Koyori, even though they're out of the fight now. They tell the two of them that in order not to be found in the real world, they need to come up with a name to use inside the Ziggurat when they fight. After a bit of thought, Tazuna and Koyori's new name becomes "Single Gear".

Director: Hiromitsu Kanazawa

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Koyori gets separated from Tazuna, and because she doesn't have a cellphone, she doesn't have a way to get in touch with him. Fortunately, she's found by President Lily and her little brother Masaru, who take her to play the new game, Precious Memories. Koyori shows an amazing talent for the game, but things take a sudden turn when Lily and Masaru are revealed to be Hand Shakers as well.

Director: Masayuki Tachibana

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Lily and Masaru insist on fighting Single Gear, despite Tazuna's fervent protests. The two of them use cards: Lily, her Tarots, and Masaru, his precious memories deck. But because Masaru is using the same strategy he does in the game, Koyori knows how to beat him. Can she share this with Tazuna when she isn't able to speak?

Director: Katsumasa Yokomine

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

It's time for the School Festival, and Tazuna's class is in big trouble! The machinery's broken and the cooks broke their arm, and they've got no way to get the cheap ingredients they need for their food stall. Can Tazuna use the connections he's made so far to make everything right? And can Koyori learn to cook in time?

Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Tazuna and Koyori meet their next opponent: Kodama, a powerful idol singer who has defeated many other Hand Shakers. She and her producer are their toughest opponent yet, and together, they overwhelm Single Gear. Tazuna barely escapes into the water below a nearby bridge...

Director: Masayuki Tachibana

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Tazuna and Koyori battle Awaza Kodama a second time, and she's just as powerful as the first. Tazuna, and Single Gear, cannot hope to defeat her. Their only choice is to rely on Koyori's unseen strength.

Director: Katsumasa Yokomine

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

With the last of their foes vanquished, and Koyori now having the ability to talk, it's time for her and Tazuna to take up a part time job at the local Cocktail Corn. It's a time to reflect on what's gone on so far, meet old friends, and ready the pair for the future.

Director: Hiromitsu Kanazawa

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Makihara once had a partner, and a boss. Together they researched the Ziggurat, and the mystery of Babel's revelations. But when a pair of Hand Shaker children were born, their lives changed. The children were constantly targeted, and if they were defeated, they would die. Makihara and his partner tried their best to defend the children, but years of fighting wore them down, and they had a falling out. Now his partner is back, and he has a demand: put Koyori back to sleep forever, and separate her from Tazuna.

Director: Masayuki Tachibana

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Tazuna and Koyori are facing off against Koyori's sister and the doc's old partner. Koyori's sister has been reduced to an emotionless mute after years of difficult treatments and abuse. Can the two of them bear to hurt someone so close to Koyori? And even if so, can they win against Handshakers who are so much more powerful and determined?

Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Komura has a crush on a peculiar girl named Mie, who he has known for exactly three days. She forgot her glasses today, and somehow, that makes her even cuter even though she can't really see anything.

Director: Katsumasa Yokomine

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Mie and Komura have gotten closer... much much closer. So when Mie makes a special request of Komura, what will it be?

Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Between one and another help he needs to give Mie, Komura is faced with situations that put his sanity and common sense to the test.

Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi

Daily life as Mie is a challenge when she forgets her glasses so often. Thank goodness for Komura-kun! But when Mie receives a love letter, has Komura’s luck run out?

Director: Shouhei Adachi

Writer: Tamazo Yanagi