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The Best Episodes of Blood+ Season 1

Every episode of Blood+ Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Blood+ Season 1!

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Unable to remember the past, high school senior Saya Otonashi must rediscover her destiny in order to defeat the chiropteran vampires that threaten her loved ones' existence.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Blood+ Season 1 Episode 50 - Nan-kuru-nai-sah
    8.2/10(61 votes)

    S1:E50

    As Saya sees Diva's babies, she hopes no one will be hurt. She takes her sword and brings the point up slowly. At that time, the US army was about to carry out a plan to erase all evidence of the Chiroptera...

    Director:Jun Matsumoto
    Writer:Junichi Fujisaku

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  2. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 32 - A Boy Meets a Girl
    8.0/10(52 votes)

    S1:E32

    Diva and Carl's attack puts the Red Shield Headquarters into great chaos. The ship's wall and floor are shattered and the black clad bodies lay everywhere. Saya faces difficulty as Carl continues to launch destructive attacks. Kai takes Riku to join David at a meeting point inside the ship, but...

    Director:Susumu Kudo
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 22 - The Zoo
    7.6/10(45 votes)

    S1:E22

    Saya and Hagi arrived at the ruins of "The Zoo," were Saya's forgotten past is sleeping. The place is covered with overgrown grass and only a portion of the exterior walls is still standing. Soon, Saya's memories awake: her first encounter with Hagi, the incident on the Zoo owner's birthday, and the image of the whole building on fire...

    Director:Mitsuru Kawasaki
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 29 - Cursed Blood
    7.6/10(44 votes)

    S1:E29

    Kai begs Saya to give her blood to Irene and save her from the advancing crystallization process. But Saya hesitates: what will she decide in the end? In the meanwhile, in the Red Shield HQ, Julia continues her researches, but she notices that her mentor Collins has got in touch with an unexpected person...

    Director:Akiko Honda
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  5. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 19 - Broken Heart
    7.5/10(46 votes)

    S1:E19

    Saya and the others check in at a hotel where they are supposed to meet up with others. While David is out doing some research, Riku comes down with a fever. Saya stays with her brother and takes care of him, but in this situation, Liza questions Saya about her true intention to fight the Chiroptera. Why does she kill them? Is she not getting others involved in the battles by killing Chiroptera? Saya, who is still confused about the real meaning of the dreams she had in Vietnam and in the Russian tundra, appears unable to find an answer. And then, Liza says something even more shocking...

    Director:Naoyasu Habu
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 21 - Sour Grapes
    7.5/10(45 votes)

    S1:E21

    Okamura and Mao arrive in France. They are looking for clues about the mystery behind the wine bottle of 1967 Chateau Duel that was transported out of the lycee in Vietnam. And their investigations lead them to an unexpected encounter. In the meantime, another party has reached French soil. They are known as the Schiff, and are determined to hunt Saya and Hagi.

    Director:Kiyoko Sayama
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 28 - Limited Existence
    7.4/10(44 votes)

    S1:E28

    As Irene starts showing signs of dying, Kai refers to Saya what he was told about Schiff. But for the girl, who firmly believes that her task is to exterminate the Chiroptera, this is the first time she feels desperately far away from her stepbrother. In the meanwhile, Julia isolates a DNA component that apparently does not belong to any known living creature on this planet...

    Director:Tadahito Matsubayashi
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 30 - Joel's Diary
    7.4/10(44 votes)

    S1:E30

    Kai tells Saya that he knows what she is. He suggests that Saya read Joels Diary. As she meets Joel at Red Shield HQ and starts reading the Diary, the shocking truth about Diva and the events in Vietnam back in 1972 slowly unveils...

    Director:Yoriyasu Kogawa
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 43 - Confused Heart
    7.4/10(40 votes)

    S1:E43

    Saya is kidnapped by Solomon. When she wakes up in a bed in a strange room alone, it was Solomon who opens the door and comes in. Saya is alarmed and stiffens. Ignoring this, Solomon tells her, "Please marry me." Meanwhile, Hagi dashes through Manhattan to look for Saya. Meanwhile, Kai is...

    Director:Shintaro Itoga
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 1 - First Kiss
    7.3/10(97 votes)

    S1:E1

    Japan, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa City, Koza District. Saya is a senior high school student, and with her best friend and classmate, Kaori Kinjo, she is a member of the track and field team at school. She lost her memories of her life beyond that of the past year, but she is living peacefully with her family. His father, George Miyagusuku, runs a pub called "Omoro." She also has two brothers, Kai, hot tempered but actually kind and committed to his family, and Riku, who is good natured and loves to read. But Saya's unruffled life is about to change: when she accidentally meets a handsome cellist, Hagi, it is a sign that the wheel of fate has begun to turn...

    Director:Jun Matsumoto
    Writer:Junichi Fujisaku

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  11. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 6 - Father's Hand
    7.3/10(54 votes)

    S1:E6

    Saya and her team infiltrate the Yanbaru laboratory. David had learned that the U.S. military is conducting experiments underground to build artificial Chiroptera. There he discovers a mysterious keyword called "Delta 69". Then, a Chiropteran swoops down on Saya's party underground, where they can take no refuge. In order to escape from their subterranean trap, they will have to defeat the creature. Who can save Saya and her party from this desperate predicament?

    Director:Yasunori Urata
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 9 - Rainbow for Each
    7.3/10(55 votes)

    S1:E9

    In Hanoi, Kai and Riku encounter a beautiful girl, Mui, who lost her left leg to an unexploded bomb that had detonated. In the meantime, David and his group analyze the photos of the past phantom incidents at the lycee and find out that the past victims all had black hair and Oriental complexions. They realized Saya was lured out deliberately. Meanwhile, in Naha, Okinawa, Okamura prepares to go to Vietnam on a paid holiday. Then, from the belongings left by his late photographer father, who covered the battlefields, Okamura finds a photo...

    Director:Kiyoko Sayama
    Writer:Shoutarou Suga

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  13. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 10 - I Want to See You
    7.3/10(53 votes)

    S1:E10

    In the morning, as Saya comes into her classroom, she finds a blue rose. Students are murmuring about the phantom legend that has been the gossip at the lycee. Saya and Hagi sneak into a rose garden beside the church where it is said the blue roses were in bloom. And they find steps leading to the underground...

    Director:Takashi Sano
    Writer:Shigeru Morita

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  14. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 11 - After the Dance
    7.3/10(55 votes)

    S1:E11

    An annual ball is being held in the lycee. Students, guardians and guests in formal attire are gathered in the school cafeteria when Saya arrives in a dress she borrowed from Min. On the dance floor, Saya meets a young man named Solomon, who asks her for a dance. As the music starts, David reaches the entrance to the basement surrounded by blue roses...

    Director:Naomichi Yamato
    Writer:Taiki Sakurai

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  15. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 13 - Jungle Paradise
    7.3/10(52 votes)

    S1:E13

    At the experiment farm of Les Cinq Fleches Pharmaceutical, Saya is surrounded by child Chiroptera. But confronted with a mysterious humming coming from nowhere, the howling of the Chiroptera and a choking smell of blood, the girl goes berserk, and swings the sword at anything that comes into her view without even distinguishing between friend and enemy...

    Director:Yasunori Urata
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 20 - Chevaliers
    7.3/10(46 votes)

    S1:E20

    David and the others arrive at the headquarters of the Red Shield, where they get checked for possible Chiropteran reactions, Kai finds out some shocking truth from "Joel's diary", a mysterious document in possession of the Red Shield. In the meantime, in France, the chevaliers, Amshel, Solomon, James and Nathan are meeting to decide the fate of Saya who has been keeping their plan from materializing.

    Director:Nanako Shimazaki
    Writer:Taiki Sakurai

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  17. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 27 - Paris, je t'aime
    7.3/10(46 votes)

    S1:E27

    Kai finds out that Riku has turned into a chevalier. "What can I do?" Kai keeps asking himself, wandering around in the city of Paris. He comes across Irene in the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower. She's terribly weakened, but she's ready to disclose what she knows about Schiff's past...

    Director:Naomichi Yamato
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 3 - The Place Where It All Started
    7.2/10(64 votes)

    S1:E3

    The memory of that terrible night is fading away: not a trace is left, and a brand new desk is placed in the biology room, as if nothing had happened. On her way home from school, George takes Saya to the grave of the Miyagusuku family, on a hill overlooking the sea colored by the sunset. George talks about his past and his meeting with Saya. Back at Omoro, David reveals to Saya that she is the only living being who can defeat the chiropterans, as the creatures like the one that attacked her at school are called. Saya is shocked, but a new menace is just approaching, its eyes shining red...

    Director:Tomoaki Ohta
    Writer:Taiki Sakurai

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  19. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 16 - Siberian Express
    7.2/10(51 votes)

    S1:E16

    Saya and the others arrive in Vladivostok, and take the Trans-Siberian Railroad with Elizaveta, a Russian Red Shield agent. But the Chiroptera are lurking in the most unexpected places...

    Director:Naomichi Yamato
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 23 - Two Chevaliers
    7.2/10(45 votes)

    S1:E23

    Saya and Hagi meet Solomon in the Zoo again. Hagi fiercely attacks him. Solomon skillfully handles Hagi. Solomon tells them that he is a chevalier and that chevaliers are trying to kill Saya. He also adds that his feelings are different from the wishes of his brothers. Around that time, David, Kai and Riku arrive at the Zoo...

    Director:Ei Aoki
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 24 - Airy Singing Voice
    7.2/10(43 votes)

    S1:E24

    Finally Saya confronts Diva. The memory of the tragic event that took place at Joel's birthday starts to come back to Saya. And as she screams, Kai dash to the top of the tower...

    Director:Shigeru Ueda
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 26 - Those Who Serve Saya
    7.2/10(45 votes)

    S1:E26

    Near the new port of Marseilles, France. Riku finally awakens from a coma and everyone is overjoyed. But Riku is anxious about the way his body feels. Something is different. Worried about his little brother, Kai is frustrated about not being able to help him in any way. In the mean time the Schiff is about to reach the Red Shield HQ after Saya.

    Director:Jun Takahashi
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 45 - Turn the Palm of Your Hand Toward the Sun
    7.2/10(40 votes)

    S1:E45

    As Karman notices the Thorn, he acknowledges that his death is near. Moses hugs him and vows, "I will not let you die." James tells Moses that Karman needs Diva's blood to survive. Moses leaves to get what was demanded in return for Diva's blood: Kai's life. Moses does not realize James' real intention and takes a sword alone.

    Director:Junichi Fujisaku
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 48 - Skyscraper Opera
    7.2/10(42 votes)

    S1:E48

    With much anticipation around the world, global live satellite broadcast of Diva's concert in New York begins. To stop Amshel's plan to fill the world with chiroptera using the Synchronicity effect of Diva's singing, Saya and Hagi sneak into the backstage and get ready for the final battle. Meanwhile, Nathan talks to Amshel and reveals his astonishing identity!!

    Director:Shintaro Itoga
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 8 - Phantom of the School
    7.1/10(53 votes)

    S1:E8

    Saya infiltrates a girls' boarding school, the Lycee des Cinq Fleches. Hagi too sneaks in, disguised a gardener. Saya learns from her roommate Ming about a legend of a phantom who fell in love with the prettiest girl from the school and who presented her with a blue rose flower.

    Director:Akiko Honda
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Nan-kuru-nai-sah" is the best rated episode of "Blood+" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 61 votes. Directed by Jun Matsumoto and written by Junichi Fujisaku, it aired on 9/23/2006. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "A Boy Meets a Girl".