9.0/101 votes#1 - Like... The Release is Canceled?
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/8/2016
Aoba finishes her project of modeling villagers and gets a new one. Her next project is to design and model a character. Seeing Aoba struggling with the design, Ko gives her helpful advice. At the team leader meeting, Ko and Rin find out that they are a little bit behind schedule. It looks like the character team will have to stay some nights and come in on the weekends to catch up.
Director: Ryohei Takeshita
Writer: Yuka Yamada
9.0/101 votes#2 - Full-time Employment is a Loophole in the Law to Make Wages Lower
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/5/2016
The donut store near the Eagle Jump office is having a store-wide 50% off sale. So naturally, everyone shows up to office with boxes of donuts, and it's time for a donut party.
Director: Ryouki Kamitsubo
Writer: Yuka Yamada
9.0/105 votes#3 - Where Sea Meets Man
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/2005
Ginko is waiting along the sea shore, for a transport to get him across the bay when he meets a man called Shirou, who lost his wife under strange circumstances. Ginko seems interested and decides to listen to his story about how he lost his wife in a swarm of sea snakes, during fog. Ginko later comes back with information on the Mushi that caused the bizarre events.
Director: Toshinori Narita
Writer: Yuka Yamada
9.0/101 votes#4 - I Pretended I Forgot My Swimsuit
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2013
Hotaru and Renge are invited to the Koshigaya’s house for breakfast. Afterwards, the girls, accompanied by Kazuha, go to the beach, where Komari’s height leads her to be mistaken for a lost child. On their way home, the girls stop at a railside noodle restaurant, where a prank by Natsumi on Komari backfires due to Renge’s innocence. They manage to catch the last train home on time, but accidentally leave Kazuha behind.
Director: Jin Tamamura
Writer: Yuka Yamada
9.0/101 votes#5 - We Cooked Rice at School
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2013
Hotaru gets along with the Koshigaya family’s next door neighbour, Konomi Fujimiya, whilst Komari laments that the two seem more grown up than she is. Later, Komari joins Hotaru and Renge in doing some sketching, where she ends up becoming a model for them. Afterwards, Konomi helps Komari and Natsumi make dried persimmons.
Director: Naoki Horiuchi
Writer: Yuka Yamada
9.0/101 votes#6 - We Made Snow Houses
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/2013
Due to a snowy blizzard, the girls end up having to spend the night at school, with Hotaru and Natsumi competing against each other to see who gets to sleep in a futon, eventually decided to just kick Kazuho out of hers. Later that night, Hotaru decides to check out the snow and see the starry night sky, leading to some misunderstandings from Komari and Natsumi. Later, on another snowy day, the gang decide to try their hand at skiing before building a snow house and having some hot food.
Director: Rokou Ogiwara
Writer: Yuka Yamada
9.0/101 votes#7 - I Became a Pampered Child
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/2015
One morning during winter break, Ichijo Hotaru and Koshigaya Komari are on a walk when they run into Fujimiya Konomi on her way back from practice. Komari takes great interest in Konomi’s cellphone.
Director: Yuuta Takamura
Writer: Yuka Yamada
9.0/101 votes#8 - I Made Something Incredible
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/2021
Beep boop! Koma-plushie is live, boop beep! But Hotaru isn’t a master of robotics just yet, and her pet project still has a long way to go before it’s ready to fly.
Director: Yasufumi Soejima
Writer: Yuka Yamada
9.0/101 votes#9 - It Was a Thrilling Autumn
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/22/2021
Parents’ Day provides Natsumi a particular variety of anxiety, but she finds a way to relax when Renge brings home a new friend.
Director: Tsutomu Yabuki
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.7/103 votes#10 - The Cotton Changeling
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/2006
A lady named Aki discovered a green stain on her wedding gown, one year later she gave birth to a boy who, now grown up, has the same marks on his body. It turns out that the boy was originally born not as a human but as some shapeless green blob, which then turned into a human. Her husband asks for Ginko's help yet he is unable to save her son because it's the work of a "Watahaki".
Director: Toshinori Narita
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.7/106 votes#11 - New Dragon, Ilulu! (Please Be Nice to Her Again)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2021
The self-proclaimed ultimate maid Tohru storms into a new maid cafe opening up soon with a sense of rivalry. However, when she returns she says, "Somehow I've ended up working there!" As they live out such typical days in their lives, she and Miss Kobayashi learn from the news that someone has destroyed the mountain where they met.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.5/106 votes#12 - Extracurricular Activities (Of Course They're Not Normal)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/22/2021
Saikawa visits Miss Kobayashi's home to play. However, there's a girl that's unfamiliar to her (Ilulu)... Even after inviting her to join their games, Ilulu coldly refuses. Then Lucoa happens to stop by and she notices Ilulu's feelings as she tries to avoid them, so she makes an effort to help the dragon out.
Director: Noriyuki Kitanohara
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.5/106 votes#13 - The Pillow Pathway
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/2005
Ginko hears a rumor around town that a man is has prophetic dreams every once in a while. He suspects that Mushi are living in his dreams. He gives the man medicine to keep them under control and says he will come back when he has used about all of them. When Ginko returns, the village is deserted and torn up. Ginko finds the man alone in is house. The man then tells him about what happened while he was away.
Director: Kouichirou Sohtome
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.5/105 votes#14 - The White Which Lives Within the Ink Stone
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/8/2006
Some kids enter Adashino-sensei's shed and find a lot of strange things, but there's one thing in particular that interests them. It's night and Adashino-sensei is called upon to look at one of the kids, a girl who has become bitterly cold, and the cause is a mysterious ink stone she touched. Luckily for Adashino-sensei, Ginko is passing through the village, and he shows him the ink stone, which he identifies it as a "Kumohami".
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.5/104 votes#15 - Pickers of Empty Cocoons
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/2006
"There are countless fissures in the physical world. Those who vanish like smoke are lost in such hollows. Without their memories, without their souls..." Ginko receives a letter in a cocoon, but it isn't adressed to him. Rather, it's addressed to an old accquaintance, Aya Tozawa, so he decides to visit her. Ginko is concerned about Aya, as she is still searching for her sister, who has been trapped in an Uroana for 5 years.
Director: Kenichi Imaizumi
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.2/106 votes#16 - Hot Guy Kobayashi! (In Many Ways)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/15/2021
Miss Kobayashi managed to drive Ilulu away, but in return she got a you-know-what attached to her groin with magic. Because of that you-know-what, she starts perceiving behaviors that she would usually think nothing of in a different light and starts getting more and more turned on by Tohru.
Director: Taichi Ogawa
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.2/105 votes#17 - There Are Various Reasons Behind It (It's Full of Elma)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/2/2021
It all started with a single statement from Elma--"I demand improved worker conditions!" The company Miss Kobayashi and the others work at is very close to being exploitative, and Elma finally realizes their situation is wrong and rises up against it. Miss Kobayashi assumes it's impossible to improve their working conditions, but the dragon's energy and spirit were far greater than she imagined...
Director: Minoru Ota
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.2/105 votes#18 - Life Is Constant Change (But It's Okay to Stop and Appreciate It)
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 9/23/2021
A typical morning with typical dragon girls. A priceless slice of daily life without any complaints. However, ever since Miss Kobayashi heard the tale from the Emperor of Demise, something has been slightly weighing on her. Yet it's not clear to her what exactly that is. As that uncertainty builds, the summer festival they've all been waiting for is drawing closer.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.2/105 votes#19 - Inside the Cage
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/2006
While resting in a bamboo forest, Ginko is approached by an odd man named Kisuke, who tells Ginko that he has been lost in the forest for 3 years. Ginko seems to have also become lost, and decides to go off and figure something out about the forest. After managing to get out of the forest, Ginko figures out that it's the work of a "Magaridake".
Director: Kazu Yokota
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.0/103 votes#20 - When you go back to the starter town with the full party, new stuff tends to happen
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/5/2021
Tomozaki rehearses with Hinami to prepare for his movie date with Kikuchi and is invited to an overnight barbecue with his popular normie classmates.
Director: Yoshihisa Matsumoto
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.0/103 votes#21 - A single choice can change everything
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2021
An overheard conversation between Mizusawa and Hinami gives Tomozaki a different perspective on his private lessons in conquering the game of life.
Director: Nana Fujiwara
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.0/102 votes#22 - If you don't make up your mind, the story won't advance
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/2024
Things get awkward around Mimimi. Tomozaki finally chooses the two girls he'd like to pursue, and Hinami gives him more tasks in pursuit of his goals.
Director: N/A
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.0/102 votes#23 - Even fairies feel lonely when they're away from their spring by themselves
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/2024
As rehearsals begin and Kikuchi polishes her script, she reveals her philosophy to a concerned Tomozaki. Mimimi and Tomozaki work on their comedy.
Director: N/A
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.0/105 votes#24 - Uncanny Relationships (One Side Is a Dragon)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/12/2021
Shouta is troubled over how to approach Lucoa about her daily, uninhibited contact. He should be the master in their relationship, though... He resolves to take back control as the full-fledged mage he's aiming to become. So he begins trying to uncover Lucoa's weaknesses.
Director: Takuya Yamamura
Writer: Yuka Yamada
8.0/102 votes#25 - Abandoned Illusions
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/10/2021
With the Gama Gama Aquarium soon to be closed, Kukuru is desperate to find ways to keep it afloat. She tries to figure out a way to market the illusions that people had been witnessing there.
Director: Tokihiro Sasaki
Writer: Yuka Yamada
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"Like... The Release is Canceled?" is the best rated episode written by Yuka Yamada. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Ryohei Takeshita. It aired on 8/8/2016 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Full-time Employment is a Loophole in the Law to Make Wages Lower".