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EP1 - Contract

April. A second year high school student, Arato had a normal life he spent with his friends Ryo and Kengo. Until that night. On his way home from shopping, Arato is attacked by a corrupted hIE, but a beautiful hIE named Lacia comes to his rescue.

EP2 - Analog Hacking

After binding an owner contract with Arato, Lacia has come to live with the Endo's. Arato's sister Yuka has completely accepted Lacia, and even enters her into an hIE modeling audition. Meanwhile, Arato can't hide his apprehension with living with someone who looks to be a beautiful girl his own age.

EP3 - You'll Be Mine

Despite his awareness of analog hacking, Arato can't help himself from being drawn to Lacia. Amid all of this, Lacia is kidnapped right in front of Yuka. Arato is upset with the police and their unwillingness to treat this as anything but property theft, so he gets the help of Ryo and Kengo to investigate on their own.

EP4 - Automatic World

Kouka, the violent hIE who calls herself Lacia's first sister. With her control over the antibody network, she is planning to carry out a horrifying act of terrorism. When Arato learns that her scheme is putting Kengo in danger, Arato sets out to rescue Kengo with Lacia's help.

EP5 - Tools for Outsourcers

Arato arrives at the industrial promotion center which is the target for the antibody network's terrorist attack. He heads up the stairs and sees the android politician Mikoto his father developed, which leaves him with feelings of uneasiness. Soon after, the terrorist unit led by Kouka as well as another Lacia-class hIE arrive on the scene. A big battle is about to break out!

EP6 - Higgins Village

Arato manages to rescue Kengo from the calamity at the industrial promotion center. However, even after returning to normal life, he finds himself consumed by the ever deepening mysteries. Meanwhile at the Memeframe Corporation, a factional dispute becomes escalated. Within the upheaval, the Lacia-class hIE Methode is about to make her move.

EP7 - Boy meets Pornography

Lacia has a new modeling gig. It is an image commercial to promote a new type of relationship between hIE's and human beings, one in which people view hIE's of the opposite sex as an equal partner.

EP8 - Awakening of Sleeping Beauty

Having made a contract with Shiori, Methode suddenly attacks Lacia while she is filming a commercial. As the circumstances surrounding Arato and Lacia are about to shift again dramatically, a new transfer student arrives at Arato's high school. Erica Burrows-the Sleeping Princess born in the 21st Century who just awoke from suspended animation, and Arato senses animosity from her.

EP9 - My Whereabouts

Shiori puts her plan into motion. At this rate, Arato will lose ownership of Lacia. Mr. Arato, please allow me to be with you. This unexpected plea from Lacia moves Arato, and he heads to Chubu International Airport to stop Shiori.

EP10 - Dwellings and Surroundings

Arato is given two weeks of suspension after the fight between Methode and Lacia leaves him with paying 4.5 million yen worth of damages they caused. In order to apologize to his father Kozo who offered to pay half of the damages, Arato takes Lacia, Yuka, and Ryo to Tsukuba where a large-scale hIE experiment is being conducted.

EP11 - Dystopia Game

Methode abducts Yuka right in front of Lacia. Arato and Ryo head to rescue her, but standing in their way are all of the hIE's in the experimental city who have been infected by Ginga Watarai to act like zombies. In order to get the hIE's to regain control, Arato and Ryo head to the administration center, but...

EP12 - Slumber of Human

Ginga Watarai's death puts an end to the incident at the experimental city. During all of the chaos, Arato had revealed his feelings to Lacia which she accepted. Yuka has mixed feelings about this sudden new coupling within her household. Meanwhile, the security police and Lacia-class masters begin to respond to the ever-changing situation.

EP13 - The Prayer Within

After being summoned by Erika to the Burrows estate, the Lacia-class hIE's fight entered the next phase. As each of them contemplated their next move, Kouka felt her possibility for a future quickly closing as she was being pursued as a suspect in the Chubu Airport bombing by the security police.

EP14 - An Answer to Survive

Kouka carries out an antibody network terrorist attack against the Next-Gen Society Research Center on her own. Kouka's overwhelming destructive power is streamed around the globe, inspiring fear and zeal to the masses. This was Kouka's path to her future.

EP15 - Edge Line

Kengo is arrested by the security police in connection to Kouka's terrorist activities. Arato decides to save Kengo and gives Lacia the order. Following the plan she has devised, Arato finds himself face to face with the PMC “HOO,” the military group responsible for destroying Kouka.

EP16 - Plus One

Affected by Kouka's destruction, Snowdrop moved up her own plans, taking over the Mitaka transformer substation to secure a steady energy supply and bringing disaster to the surroundings. Arato and Lacia try to stop her, but Methode and Ryo stand in their way.

EP17 - A Reason of Our Own

Lacia's secret is revealed. Arato is unable to handle it and steps away from Lacia. Defenseless on his own, he's captured by Ryo and Methode where he could do nothing but watch the monitor as Snowdrop spread her seeds of destruction.

EP18 - Protocol of Love

Pushed by Shiori and Yuka, Arato decided to face Lacia once again. If his last order was still in place, Lacia should be trying to stop Snowdrop. With this thought, Arato heads towards Mitaka, a place which has transformed into an unrecognizable landscape by Snowdrop's power.

EP19 - Paper Tiger

It has been two months since the tragic events in Mitaka. The world returned to some semblance of normalcy, and Arato and Lacia lay low as they prepare for whatever may come next. However, their brief period of happiness is disturbed after they are contacted by the super intelligent AI Astraia.

EP20 - Our Error World

Super intelligent AI have spurred society to change. As the fight surrounding Arato and Lacia escalates, the leaders of the old guard discuss how they could maximize their own profits. Among the participants, only Erika Burrows expresses anger towards their foolishness.

EP21 - Higgins' Silo

The super intelligent AI Higgins. The core of Memeframe, one of the keys to humanity's future, and the creator of Lacia. Arato and Lacia traverse through a giant underground facility in order to contact Higgins. There they will find a future far beyond the human imagination...

EP22 - Pygmalion

Once again, Methode appears to stand in the way of Arato and Lacia down in the underground facility containing Higgins. They must also be wary of Snowdrop who had been sent there by a rival super intelligent AI. As the conflict escalates, Arato and Ryo try their best to fulfill their duties as representatives of humanity.

EP23 - Beatless

Snowdrop appears in the underground facility as some sort of hybrid between bird and person, a strange new creature created by a super intelligent AI which no longer needed humanity to exist. Lacia attempts to hack the cloud system that stores hIE behavior controls in order to stop Snowdrop. Her efforts would determine the outcome of the entire human race.

EP24 - Boy Meets Girl

Arato and Lacia walk towards the heart of the Higgins storage facility in order to choose a future. The two act like one as they help and support each other. However, damaged from the intense battle, Lacia does not have much time left...

EP5.5 - Intermission_01

レイシアと出会って、アラトの人生は激変した。ドキドキの同居生活を営み、高性能hlEのオーナーとしてさまざまな経験を重ねる。「誘拐」事件のような思わぬアクシデントに巻き込まれることもあれば、レイシアの力を借りて、みずから危険な場所に飛び込むことも。そして物語は、次の段階へと進む。

EP9.5 - Intermission_02

紅霞、スノウドロップ、メトーデ……「レッドボックス」と称される、レイシア級の高機能hIEたちとの出会いは、アラトとレイシアの関係に何をもたらしたのか。そして、ここから何が始まるのか。アラトの世界は、少しずつ変わり始めている……。

EP12.5 - What's BEATLESS

4月20日（金）はキャストが出演する特別番組「What's BEATLESS」を放送します。遠藤アラト役の吉永拓斗、遠藤ユカ役の小野早稀、そしてアニメに詳しいお笑いタレントをむかえ、BEATLESSのさらなる魅力をお届けします。ぜひご覧ください！第13話は4月27日（金）放送予定です。【出演者】遠藤アラト役：吉永拓斗、遠藤ユカ役：小野早稀、お笑いタレント：向 清太朗（天津）、松崎 克俊（やさしい雨）、前田 登（はりけ～んず）

EP14.5 - Intermission_03

変わりゆく世界。「レッドボックス」たるレイシア級hIEたちは何を目指し、どこへ向かおうというのか。示された「未来」の可能性は、少しずつ具体的な形を取り始める。人々は大きな流れに翻弄されながら、一体、何を視るーー。5月4日（金）放送の第14話で第3章がクライマックスとなり、5月11日（金）は第10話〜第14話を振り返るintermission_03を放送します。アラトの告白、渡来の死、遼との対立、紅霞の描いた未来など様々な出来事や事件を振り返り、第4章へ向けてBEATLESSの魅力をお伝えしていきます。これまで観ていただいている方も、初見の方もぜひご覧ください。なお、次回のIntermission_04は6月8日（金）の放送を予定しております。

EP16.5 - Intermission_04

レイシアとは何か？ 人は答えを知ることができるのだろうか。超高性能AIが引き起こす時代の変化。その激流に晒され、戸惑いながらも、アラトはレイシアの手をとった。彼の選択の先にあるものは、人類の「終わり」か？ それとも、新たな「始まり」か？5月25日（金）放送の第16話で第4章がクライマックスとなり、6月1日（金）はこれまでを振り返るintermission_04を放送します。進化しすぎた世界で人間は何ができるのか……。第5章へ進む前に今までの出来事や事件を振り返ります。BEATLESSの魅力が詰まったintermission_04をぜひご覧ください。