The Best Episodes Directed By Kazuomi Koga

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.6/10(31 votes)

   #1 - Love Me Down to My Blood and Guts

   S1:E483/10/2021

   After witnessing an unrealized present, Emilia completes the second trial and begins the third and final one. Ram and Puck are fighting their hardest to stop Roswaal. Each of them is doing it all for the sake of realizing their own goals. The battle between Garfiel and Elsa at Roswaal’s mansion is also growing more and more intense. As Subaru is being chased by a guiltylowe, he declares that it’s time to make use of his unparalleled knowledge of the modern world and lures it into a closet…

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   9.6/10(33 votes)

   #2 - The Value of Life

   S1:E338/26/2020

   Subaru was caught and confined by Garfiel, but Otto shows up to rescue him. Garfiel can’t leave the graveyard while Emilia is undergoing the trial, so Otto says this is their chance to get outside the barrier, but Subaru doesn’t agree. However, after he learns that Ram will be helping them—that she has been ordered by Roswaal to help him, in fact—Subaru puts his escape on hold to have a talk with Roswaal.

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   9.5/10(31 votes)

   #3 - Nobody Can Lift a Quain Stone Alone

   S1:E411/20/2021

   The missing Emilia was in the graveyard all along, her lost memories beginning to return due to Puck’s disappearance. Confused and losing heart over the realization that she’s forgotten such important memories, she tries her hardest to convey her feelings to Subaru. When the two of them leave the graveyard, they’re awaited by Garfiel, who’s been battered and beaten by Otto and Ram. He tries to prevent the Sanctuary’s liberation by closing off the graveyard himself, but Subaru won’t let him have his way without a fight.

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   9.4/10(32 votes)

   #4 - The Taste of Death

   S1:E369/16/2020

   Subaru heads to Roswaal’s mansion in hopes of finding out what’s going on there and how he can fix it. He has Frederica and Petra evacuate to Arlam Village to protect them from Elsa’s attack, then heads to Beatrice’s forbidden library. He tries to get Beatrice out of the library, but her wishes don’t align with his plans, and their discussion goes nowhere. Then, against all logic, Elsa finds her way into the forbidden library…

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   9.4/10(31 votes)

   #5 - The Sounds That Make You Want to Cry

   S1:E389/30/2020

   Subaru is shown several visions of events previously unknown to him during the second phase of the trial. When he feels as if he’s worn away to nearly nothing, the one to stir him is the one who loves him more than anyone else…and is tougher on him than anyone else. When he awakens to see Echidna extending a hand to help him, he tells her he’ll never accept it. Then the Witch of Envy appears, clad in a veil of darkness, and extends her hand to him as well. Subaru refuses again, screaming that he’ll solve everything on his own without any of their help.

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   9.3/10(31 votes)

   #6 - The Beginning of the Sanctuary and the Beginning of the End

   S1:E452/17/2021

   When Roswaal happily tells the story of how his romance with Echidna began 400 years ago, Beatrice rebukes him for casually calling it a “romance.” Ryuzu interrupts to comment that Echidna saved her, as well. The one thing these three very different people share is their gratitude toward Echidna. But their days spent in both amicable and argumentative conversation about Echidna are brought to an end by one man’s arrival.

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   9.1/10(29 votes)

   #7 - A Step Forward

   S1:E308/5/2020

   Having reached a place he can’t return from, Subaru realizes just how much he has been given and how little he can do to repay any of it. After remembering what he must do, he says goodbye to Kenichi and Nahoko and heads to the school. Steeling his resolve, Subaru opens the door to the classroom, where he’s greeted by Echidna in a school uniform. When Echidna says he arrived much sooner than she expected, Subaru responds that she looks good in the uniform.

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8. 

   8.9/10(46 votes)

   #8 - From Zero

   S1:E188/1/2016

   Subaru laments that he could not do anything or save anyone, and has no options left. Exhausted, he suddenly takes off running at full speed as if he’s made a decision…

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   8.7/10(49 votes)

   #9 - Starting Life from Zero in Another World

   S1:E34/18/2016

   Subaru attempts to buy the insignia from Felt and return it to Satella before Elsa arrives at the loot house…but Satella arrives before the negotiations are complete, and Elsa still attacks them.

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10. 

    8.7/10(42 votes)

    #10 - Self-Proclaimed Knight Natsuki Subaru

    S1:E136/27/2016

    As Emilia joins Priscilla, Crusch, and Anastasia in a meeting of the royal selection participants, Reinhard enters the hall with Felt. According to a new prophecy seen on the Dragon Stone, there are five priestesses with the potential to be the kingdom’s next ruler. Reinhard announces that Felt is the fifth priestess, meaning it’s time to formally begin the royal selection, but Felt refuses to have any part in it.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Routine and Girlfriend

    S1:E377/5/2025

    Summer break is over, and routine returns to Kazuya's life. Something he needs to fix, and fast.

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    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #12 - Provisional Girlfriend and Girlfriend

    S1:E78/22/2020

    While Kazuya desperately tries to get Ruka to promise she won’t reveal his secret, she tells him her own.

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13. 

    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #13 - Welcome to Class 3-1

    S2:E93/5/2021

    The quintuplets each find a job to help Ichika pay for the rent of their new place. They each settle into their new jobs and their new classmates.

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    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #14 - Confession and Girlfriend

    S1:E129/26/2020

    Chizuru and Mami go on an awkward rental date unaware that Kazuya has seen them together. How can Chizuru handle this situation?

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    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #15 - Girlfriend and Me

    S1:E249/17/2022

    Chizuru reflects on her journey to get her here, and Kazuya acts on his idea to help her.

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    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #16 - The Spark of Promise

    S1:E68/17/2019

    Shinra confronts Hibana in an attempt to rescue Iris, and must once again deal with her ability to make his body shut down. The story of Hibana and Iris’ youth as orphans, as well as Hibana’s rise to prominence, is revealed.

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    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #17 - Dream and Girlfriend

    S1:E137/2/2022

    As Mizuhara looks set to quit the rental girlfriend business, Kazuya goes to watch a play, one that could be pivotal to their relationship.

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    5.8/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Kill the Demon

    S1:E1811/3/2014

    Borick is scheming to take over a religious faction, and Night Raid heads to Kyoroch, where that religion has its headquarters. The Jaegars also head to Kyoroch to act as bodyguards for Borick. Wave is worried about Kurome, who still hasn't healed from her wounds. Night Raid safely infiltrates Kyoroch, however they must now face Borick's own appointed guards, the Four Koukenji Rakshasa Demons.

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