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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor / Fafner
Official name：蒼穹のファフナー
Chinese name：苍穹之法芙娜
Other names：苍穹之Fafner / 苍穹之战神
Premiered：July 4, 2004
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Science fiction / Robot war / Combat / Source original
Original author：XEBEC
Director：羽原信義 / 山岡信一
Scenario：山野辺一記(1话～11话) / 冲方丁(12话～)
Storyboard：大森英敏 / 鈴木吉男 / 二瓶勇一 / 羽原信義 / 吉川浩司
Co-director：菱川直樹 / うえだしげる / 榎本明広 / 羽原信義 / 鈴木利正
Studios：XEBEC
Production assistant：XEBECzwei
Family：Fafner
Rating：12+

Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor

"Are you there?"

It was a peaceful and calm island... the blue sky and the blue sea reach as far as one can see.

For the boys and girls living there, another day was supposed to begin as usual.

"Are you there?"

Then one day, the boys and girls suddenly began to receive a message.

The moment they replied, a stream of light flashed in the blue sky.

Seemingly beautiful, the enemy suddenly appeared, heralding an apparently hopeless future for mankind.

How should they have replied in order to live?

A boy, Makabe Kazuki, decides to pilot a Fafner in order to live and to escape from this bleak reality...

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Jul 4, 2004

EP1 - Paradise ~ The Beginning

When an enormous golden being attacks the peaceful Tatsumiya Island, citizens evacuate the surface to underground protective shelters. Soshi urges Kazuki to fight this horrifying adversary by piloting the Fafner Mark XI.
Jul 11, 2004

EP2 - Confession ~ Life

Aboard the Mark XI, Kazuki has a brush with death in his first battle to save the island from the Festum. Soshi tells Kazuki about the secrets of the island. Once a paradise, Tatsumiya is no longer safe from the dangers wrought on the rest of the planet.
Jul 18, 2004

EP3 - Labyrinth ~ Truth

A probe from the New United Nations has threatened to reveal Tatsumiya. As Alvis prepares to move the island to the northwest, students are drafted as new pilots and begin grueling training.
Jul 25, 2004

EP4 - Escape ~ Departure

Kazuki and Soshi pursue the Festum while Alvis begins to move Tatsumiya Island. Then a New United Nations unit interferes with the plans, moving the battle directly into the island's path.
Aug 1, 2004

EP5 - Promise ~ Pledge

After their discovery of Tatsumiya, the leader of the New United Nations forces Makabe to hand over the Mark VI. Shoko promises Kazuki that she will protect the island as he leaves for battle. Suddenly, another Festum attacks.
Aug 15, 2004

EP6 - Soaring Sky ~ Sacrifice

As the second Festum breaks through both of the island's shields and starts to ravage Alvis' underground shelters, Shoko reacts. Determined to keep her promise to Kazuki, she boards Mark VI to save the island.
Aug 22, 2004

EP7 - Family ~ Parents and Children

While the pilots mourn over the devastating loss of their friend, others lament her recklessness. After a combat field test, two pilots are chosen to be a part of a fleet exploring a newly-discovered island almost exactly like their own.
Aug 29, 2004

EP8 - Strife ~ Kouyou

Troops sent to probe the new island's core fall under attack by an army of Festums. When Mizoguchi receives orders to destroy the island with him and Maya trapped underground, one Fafner must fight while the other risks an underwater rescue mission.
Sep 5, 2004

EP9 - Assimilation ~ Parting

Koyo manages to save the two soldiers, but fate doesn't find him so fortunate. Two pilots confront Soshi over whether he is more concerned for Fafner or his friends.
Sep 12, 2004

EP10 - Disintegration ~ Crossing Paths

Kazuki receives an answer from Soshi. Later, a student locks himself in the school broadcast room to protest the Arcadian Project after learning his aspirations to leave the island in hopes of fame are dashed.
Sep 19, 2004

EP11 - Old & New ~ The Neo U.N. Force

Kazuki takes in a bird's eye view of the outside world for the first time. His refuge from the island quickly takes a turn for the worse when a Festum approaches followed by two foreign mechs--neither party showing peaceful intentions.
Sep 26, 2004

EP12 - Absence ~ Desperation

With Kazuki gone MIA, Kenji and Mamoru are recruited as pilots, just as a long-range firing Festum begins to attack. Mamoru boldly leads the defense with a plan that risks his own safety--but gains his commander's trust.
Oct 3, 2004

EP13 - Erosion ~ Festum

At the Neo U.N. underground base, Kazuki is told he has the choice to fight or save the human race without fighting. Just as they discover new data and broadcast their plan to use the Mark XI, the base falls under attack.
Oct 10, 2004

EP14 - Awakening ~ Occupation

While Kazuki and the Human Army battle hordes of Festum, the Neo U.N. invades Tatsumiya--only to find that the island's core has vanished. Hino entrusts data on his most advanced Fafner to Maya, who has arrived to bring Kazuki back.
Oct 17, 2004

EP15 - Memory ~ Scream

Someone who Kazuki thought he'd never see again returns to give him Hino's powerful Mark Sein. During battle with a massive Festum, a childhood memory of Soshi helps him realize his role in protecting Tatsumiya Island.
Oct 24, 2004

EP16 - Friends ~ Welcome Home

A flock of Pleidaes Festum begins to wreak havoc on the island. As controls in the base start to seemingly move on their own, Makabe and his crew are lead to a second control room. The Fafner are grossly overpowered, but one pilot makes a timely return.
Oct 31, 2004

EP17 - Survival ~ Device

Makabe finally has the upper hand and recovers the island from the Neo U.N., but the Human Army's Colonel leaves Canon behind with orders to destroy the island. It's up to Kazuki to defuse the detached kamikaze pilot.
Nov 7, 2004

EP18 - Father ~ Memory

Maya's father returns to discover her medical files had been falsified, preventing her from piloting Fafner. His wife and Yumiko stand trial, facing possible exile from the island--but they aren't the only ones guilty of the offense.
Nov 14, 2004

EP19 - Maya ~ Sight

Maya displays impressive stability and sharp-shooting skills during her first test flight, but Soshi is reluctant to allow her to fight. But when 5 rare Festum breech the island's shield, the newest pilot gets a chance to prove her worth.
Nov 21, 2004

EP20 - Lantern ~ Light

The island commemorates those who've lost their lives fighting for peace at the Bon Festival. Then, when Koyo mysteriously wakes up from his coma, his friends step in to protect him from termination.
Nov 28, 2004

EP21 - Sakura ~ Future

The pilots are stronger than they've ever been. After another battle, an unexplainable phenomenon takes the island by surprise. Then, Yumiko and Michio lead a camp for the young warriors, but it's for more than just combat training.
Dec 5, 2004

EP22 - Protection ~ Power

After collapsing in the yard, Sakura is rushed to the medical ward. Makabe approaches Tsubaki to confirm that the pattern in enemy attacks and recent phenomenon shows progress in the Mir's agenda--foretelling a potentially devastating next move.
Dec 12, 2004

EP23 - Pillage ~ Decoy

Tatsumiya suffers more casualties when a spy sabotages the Human Army's experiments with a new Fafner model and attacks the island--disrupting a critical operation to save Soshi from the Festum.
Dec 19, 2004

EP24 - Conversation ~ Mir

Makabe receives a message and vital data from someone who has learned to understand the enemy. The remaining four pilots prepare for Operation Azure to save Soshi, the island, and the future of humankind.
Dec 26, 2004

EP25 - Azure ~ The Sky

Kazuki and his fleet take off to face the North Pole Mir. With millions of lives hanging in the balance, their success in the do or die mission is imperative--if one of them is killed, everyone's chances of survival are close to nothing.
Dec 26, 2004

EP26 蒼穹〜そら

イドゥンはその存在において、初めて痛みに襲われる。それこそが、総士がフェストゥムに教えていた本当の戦い方、消耗戦だった。総士によって、北極のミールは生と死、全体と個を理解したのだ。この機を逃さぬよう再び合流する一騎たち。イドゥンは恐怖におびえ戦線を離脱した。一騎たちは、ようやくミョルニアのコアにたどり着く。そしてコアに触れた瞬間、膨大なデータが竜宮島に送信された。さらに一騎は捕らわれた総士を発見する。