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Gatchaman Crowds: Season 1

12 episodes Premiered Jul 13, 2013
Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Avant-Garde

Jul 13, 2013

Hajime Ichinose is a rather eccentric schoolgirl who is obsessed with notebooks. One day, she is approached by a mysterious man named J.J. who pulls out a journal called a NOTE fro

S1·E2 Core

Asymmetry

Jul 20, 2013

Hajime annoys Sugane when she allows the MESS to escape. Later, she teaches Sugane about a popular social app called GALAX, which allows users in the vicinity to help each other, a

S1·E3 Core

Futurism

Jul 27, 2013

Hajime befriends the MESS, which she nicknames Messy, and the abduction cases involving the MESS stop. The other Gatchaman begin to wonder whether they were hostile at all. The nex

S1·E4 Core

Kitsch

Aug 3, 2013

The mysterious "Crowds" are revealed to be strange beings controlled by the GALAX users. Meanwhile, Joe fights against the strange alien known as Berg Katze, but is beaten back whe

S1·E5 Core

Collaboration

Aug 10, 2013

While Hajime clashes with Sugane and Paiman about why the Gatchaman are so secretive, Rui is faced with a dissenter in one of the "Hundred", who believes that Crowds should be used

S1·E6 Core

Originality

Aug 17, 2013

Utsu-tsu risks her life to heal the wounded, and Hajime's identity is revealed to the world. Rui helps Hajime and Utsu-tsu evade the press, but then demands they give up being Gatc

S1·E7 Core

Abjection

Aug 24, 2013

Rui decides to stand against Katze using the might of Crowds, but Katze uses the power of Gatchaman to overwhelm them. The Gatchaman team rushes to Rui's rescue, but find themselve

S1·E8 Core

Genuine

Aug 31, 2013

Katze takes on Rui's form to steal control of GALAX and form a new "Hundred". Hajime suggests the best way to fight is for the Gatchaman team and Rui to reveal themselves and go pu

S1·E9 Core

Forgery

Sep 7, 2013

Katze continues to distort Rui's vision, giving Crowds to people Rui had decided were too dangerous to have it, and staging attacks on government targets. Hajime sets up a 'Gatchan

S1·E10 Core

Crowds

Sep 14, 2013

After taunting Hajime on GALAX, Katze sets the Neo-Hundred after the Prime Minister. The Gatchaman team are forced to protect him while trying to find a way to stop the Crowds with

S1·E11 Mytharc

Gamification

Sep 21, 2013

Rui regains control of X, and uses the GALAX network to help the Gatchaman team in the crisis. Hajime convinces the Prime Minister to broadcast a message on the Gatchannel, asking

S1·E12 Mytharc

Collage

Sep 28, 2013

As more citizens use Crowds and fight against each other, chaos breaks out. O.D. risks everything to retrieve Rui's NOTE from Katze. Hajime sends her mother a cryptic message, then