The Best Episodes Directed By Shunsuke Nakashige

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.7/10(3 votes)

   #1 - The Hip Toss Brings Us Together!!!!

   S1:E210/13/2016

   Now that Nozomi and the others are settled in, it's time to get to work! The life of a Keijo trainee isn't an easy one: there's butt figure eights, butt squats, butt-runs, and other butt-related activities. Then, to top it off, they have to play butt hackey-sack with a beach ball!

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   9.4/10(73 votes)

   #2 - The Outside of Madness

   S1:E157/11/2016

   Upon returning to Roswaal’s mansion, Subaru is greeted by an unbelievable sight and wails that this was not what he wanted to happen. Stricken with despair, everything before Subaru starts to go white as, finally, he hears a voice: “You were too late.”

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   8.9/10(15 votes)

   #3 - Awakening

   S4:E198/23/2020

   Escaping his nightmares, Kirito regains consciousness at last. With the Night-Sky Blade in his right hand and the broken Blue Rose Sword in his left, he faces off against Vassago, armed with the Mate-Chopper, now enormous in size.

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   8.8/10(46 votes)

   #4 - Arise

   S1:E123/31/2024

   Drained from endless battle, Jinwoo sees a phantom of his past self. To overcome his own past as the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind, he struggles to find a way to clear the job-change quest.

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   8.6/10(30 votes)

   #5 - On to the Next Target

   S1:E253/30/2025

   After no shortage of hardship, the 4th Jeju Island raid comes to a close. But for Jinwoo, the hunt never ends.

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   8.6/10(16 votes)

   #6 - Taboo Index

   S3:E1012/9/2018

   Ronie and Tiese are late getting to the dorm. Kirito rushes out in search of them, but no sooner has he gone than Frenica appears. She tells Eugeo about how she's suffered at Humbert's hands, and that Tiese and Ronie went to confront him about it.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #7 - The Closed k / A Chain of Malice

   S1:E89/19/2022

   Shotaro and Philip struggle to discover the truth behind the Alcohol Dopant's attacks before there's another death.

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   8.1/10(16 votes)

   #8 - Ray of Light

   S4:E1212/29/2019

   Due to Gabriel's scheme, U.S. players were given black knight accounts, and are now continuously logging in to the Underworld. They begin mercilessly slaughtering soldiers from both the Human Empire Army and the Dark Territory Army.

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   8.0/10(16 votes)

   #9 - The 32nd Knight

   S3:E213/10/2019

   Standing in Kirito and Alice's way is Eugeo, who's undergone the Synthesis Ritual and become an Integrity Knight. Kirito is rattled, until Alice admonishes him into resolving to fight Eugeo with everything he's got.

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    7.5/10(62 votes)

    #10 - I'm Used to It

    S1:E11/7/2024

    Around ten years ago, gates that connected our world to another dimension began to appear, leading to the rise of hunters who would traverse these gates to fight the magic beasts within. Sung Jinwoo, E-Rank hunter, is the weakest of them all.

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    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #11 - Blood and Life

    S4:E812/1/2019

    The powerful formal art unleashed by the Integrity Knight Alice inflicts severe casualties on the forces of darkness. Alice encounters an enemy survivor and learns that Emperor Vecta's objective is to find the "Priestess of Light."

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