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The Best Episodes Directed By Seiki Takuno

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 3 Episode 16 - Summer Vacation is the Most Fun Right Before It Begins
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    S3:E16

    While Gintoki, Shinpachi, Kagura, Hasegawa, Tae, Kyuubei and Katsura are on their way to the legendary Dragon Palace, a quarrel between them ends up bringing them onto an isolated island.

    Director:Seiki Takuno
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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 45 - When Riding A Train, Make Sure You Grab the Straps With Both Hands
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    S2:E45

    Hasegawa gets a job. While commuting on his first day, an accident lands him in jail with harassment charges.

    Director:Seiki Takuno
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  3. undefined Season 3 Episode 8 - Kids Don’t Understand How Their Parents Feel
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    S3:E8

    The Yorozuya are requested to help a Yakuza boss's son who has become a hikikomori, but little do they know how dangerous this job could turn out to be...

    Director:Seiki Takuno
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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Kiss Me, Okay?
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    S1:E2

    Ito Miyabi, who loves supernatural phenomena, appears just as Yamada, Urara, and Miyamura restart Supernatural Studies Club activities. Miyabi shows off her supernatural paraphernalia so proudly that Yamada and the others can't tell her the truth: that they only want to use the clubroom to kiss.

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - I've Turned Into Her!
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E1

    Yamada Ryu, a second year student who attends the prestigious Suzaku Private High School, is a problem child who comes to school late and leaves early, is prone to fighting all over the place, and even nods off in class. One day, he falls down the stairs with the honor student Shiraishi Urara. They faint, and when he wakes up in the infirmary he's turned into her!

    Director:Seiki Takuno
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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - It Looks Like I’ve Fallen for Yamada!
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E4

    "We're going on the school camping trip today, huh?" Yamada is less than thrilled, but gets his fill of all he wants to do after switching bodies with Urara and thinks, "Looks like this'll be sorta fun now!" However, Urara has never really fit in with the other girls.

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - You Mustn't Kiss Her, Okay?
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E5

    "Keep this a secret from Shiraishi!" Just as Yamada decides to keep the fact his kiss' power has changed to "Charm" a secret from Urara, she urges him to switch bodies. He'd better go see Odagiri Nene and get his power back to normal in a hurry! Elsewhere, Nene is irritated that Yamada hasn't become charmed by her kiss and shown up like he's supposed to.

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Please Go Out With Me
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E10

    The Supernatural Studies Club meets Miyamura's sister, Leona, in their search for the seventh witch. She has dropped out of school in order to escape from that witch's power to erase memories. The instant one learns her name, all of their memories related to witches will be erased.

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 11 - What Did You Do With Shiraishi?!
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E11

    Unable to stand by and do nothing after seeing Urara's tears, Yamada tries to kiss her to prove she's really a witch, but she refuses. Yamada and Tamaki, unwilling to give up, continue trying to find a way to restore everyone's lost memories.

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - I Love You, Shiraishi
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E12

    Yamada must get all the witches together to conduct the seven witches' ceremony, and the last three needed are Urara, Mikoto, and Rika. Hoping to at least save Urara, Yamada heads for Mikoto's house along with the student council president Miyamura, but they're stopped by Miyamura's sister Leona.

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 23 - Father and Mother
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    S1:E23

    Chiyo and Sakura take cover, and Sasori wastes no time unleashing a ruthless attack.

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 39 - The Tenchi Bridge
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    S2:E39

    Yamato disguises himself as Sasori after creating a wood replica of Hiruko, and goes to meet the spy. The spy turns out to be Orochimaru's right-hand man, Kabuto Yakushi, who reveals the location of Orochimaru's current hideout to Yamato. Orochimaru interrupts the meeting, appearing to attack Kabuto, and while it initially appears that Orochimaru has come after Kabuto, Kabuto attacks Yamato and reveals that he is truly loyal to Orochimaru. Orochimaru calls out Naruto, Sakura and Sai from where they are hiding and observing the meeting, and prepares to fight the team.

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Will You Accept? Or Won't You?
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    S1:E3

    "They won't give us a club budget?" Miyabi is unhappy the Supernatural Studies Club can't move forward with their research because the student council won't give them funding. Yamada isn't interested initially, but quickly changes his mind once he learns he could buy a microwave to warm up his beloved yakisoba bread.

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Respond!
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    S1:E6

    "It's summer! It's the beach! It's a summer retreat!" The Supernatural Studies Club holds a summer retreat at the club house to find volume two of the notebook containing the legend of the witches, but Yamada's spirits plummet as he is forced to take supplementary lessons and exams with Otsuka Meiko, Tsurukawa Hideaki, and Kameda Mitsuru from the Manga Research Club.

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - Anything But Tempura!
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    S1:E7

    Yamada begins searching for the witches and visits the home of the fourth witch, Sarushima Maria, who is a shut-in taking a break from school. When they're alone, she tells him that her power is to see the future of the person she kisses.

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - Be Sure to Change the Future
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    S1:E9

    Suzaku Fest is here! Thanks to copying Maria's power to predict the future, Yamada's fortunes guaranteed to strike home make the Supernatural Studies Club's yakisoba bread shop a huge success. Meanwhile, Maria confides in Yamada and tells him she wants to erase her witch power. "I want to kiss and fall in love like a normal person."

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 43 - Be a Person Who Can See People's Strong Points and Not Their Weak Points
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    S2:E43

    An assassin has been hired to kill Matsudaira but encounters unexpected scenarios while carrying out the task.

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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - Romio and Juliet
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E12

    Romio enters the White Cats dorm to celebrate Persia's birthday at all costs. While searching for Persia, he encounters the White Cats prefect, 'Cait Sith', and the two face off. Romio stands no chance. Though disheartened by their difference in strength, Romio doesn't quit, and fiercely runs at the window. His last hope. Will Romio and Persia's hands be joined as they climb the world's walls?

    Director:Seiki Takuno
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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 35 - Hard-boiled Egg on a Man's Heart
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    S2:E35

    A washed out detective tells his tale about his life-long quest of pursuing of a thief who turned from righteous to evil.

    Director:Seiki Takuno
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  20. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Rules Are Made to be Broken
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    S3:E2

    Some Shinsengumi member shows up, and it is soon revealed to be a rival of Hijikata.

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  21. undefined Season 4 Episode 73 - Akatsuki's Invasion
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    S4:E73

    Naruto proceeds to the next step of his training, the cutting of a waterfall. Hidan and Kakuzu reach the Fire Temple and fight Chiriku, so as to obtain the bounty on his head. After defeating him, they move out to claim the bounty and thereafter target the Nine Tails Jinchūriki Naruto.

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 57 - Deprived of Eternal Sleep
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    S3:E57

    Naruto, Sakura, Sai and Yamato head out for a new mission near the Fire Temple. When the other party fails to show up at the rendezvous point, the team gets separated and Naruto stumbles upon one of the four hidden tombs they came to protect. Due to a misunderstanding, he fights one of the monks-in-training from the Fire Temple, Sora, who also uses wind chakra based techniques. After the confusion, the monks and Team Kakashi travel to the Fire Temple, and Naruto recognizes it from his nightmare.

    Director:Seiki Takuno
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  23. undefined Season 3 Episode 69 - Despair
    6.0/10(4 votes)

    S3:E69

    Furido releases Sora's seal, and tells him the truth: Sora is a pseudo-Jinchuuriki. The chakra that had leaked from the Nine Tailed Fox when it attacked Konoha 15 and a half years ago was harvested and implanted into Sora. Just then, Asuma arrives at the scene with Naruto. Asuma recognizes Furido and it is revealed that he is Kazuma, Sora's father. Yamato, Sakura, Kiba, Lee, Ino, Choji and Shikamaru also turn up. Enraged, Sora wants to destroy everything, and turns into the Three-Tailed form of the Nine-tails. However, Yamato is unable to restrain him, because he does not have the First's necklace on him.

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Seiki Takuno Ratings Summary

"Summer Vacation is the Most Fun Right Before It Begins" is the best rated episode directed by Seiki Takuno. It scored 9/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 7/17/2008 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "When Riding A Train, Make Sure You Grab the Straps With Both Hands".