6.9/10117 votes#1 - The Season of New Leaves
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2012
Saki is the last of her friends of finally to be touched by a Blessing Spirit, but at the Unified Class her skills are lacking. And talk of missing children taken by the trickster cat continues to scare her.
Director: Naomichi Yamato
Writer: Masashi Sogo
6.6/10102 votes#2 - Vanishing Children
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2012
Another student is removed from the roster. Saki uses her power outside of class.
Director: Naomichi Yamato
Writer: N/A
6.8/1097 votes#3 - The False Minoshiro
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2012
The group has rowed past their designated safe areas in search of monsters. What they find is worse than what they originally imagined.
Director: Hiroaki Kudou
Writer: N/A
7.3/10101 votes#4 - Bloody History
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2012
As the library continues to explain the history of the world, a danger looms in the background.
Director: Naomichi Yamato
Writer: Rika Nakase
6.3/1091 votes#5 - Pursuit on a Hot Night
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2012
Satoru and Saki have been split up from the rest of the group and captured by the outside Monster Rat group.
Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Writer: Kouhei Urasawa
6.7/1084 votes#6 - Escape
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2012
Saki has figured out a way to help her and Satoru to escape, but in their escape they are thrown deeper in the war between the clans.
Director: Mamoru Kurosawa
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
7.2/1085 votes#7 - Summer Darkness
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2012
Satoru is getting tired and his power is waning and the Earth Spider Colony army is much larger than expected. When all seems lost, help comes from an ally that could be much more dangerous.
Director: Makoto Fuchigami
Writer: Masashi Sogo
6.6/1086 votes#8 - Omen
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2012
Two years have passed since the camping incident and the relationship between the friends has changed dramatically.
Director: Kazuyoshi Yaginuma
Writer: Rika Nakase
7.5/1079 votes#9 - The Rising Wind
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2012
Saki and friends are looking for Shun but hit road blocks everywhere they turn. After dinner, Saki remembers a name from the past and Maria flies in with some big news.
Director: Yuuta Takamura
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura, Kouhei Urasawa
7.7/1083 votes#10 - More than the Darkness
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/2012
Saki has found Shun; he has changed dramatically and asks Saki to leave. Her refusal breaks him down and he explains everything.
Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Writer: Kouhei Urasawa, Masashi Sogo
7.2/1067 votes#11 - Distant Thunder in Winter
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/2012
Saki fears the Ethics Committee is somehow altering the memories of her and her classmates. But when Mamoru has a breakdown, Saki is asked to quit looking for answers.
Director: Tomoya Takahashi
Writer: N/A
7.8/1073 votes#12 - Weak Link
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/2012
Saki sits down with head of the ethics committee, Asahina Tomiko. Asahina begins to tell her the other side of the town’s history.
Director: Naomichi Yamato
Writer: Masashi Sogo
7.1/1067 votes#13 - Reunion
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/2012
When Mamoru runs away, his friends do what any good friends do - they try to find him. But on their search, they soon discover that they aren't the only ones tracking him.
Director: Junichi Fujise
Writer: Masashi Sogo
7.4/1068 votes#14 - Snowflakes
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/5/2013
Saki and Satoru have returned to the village, but upon arrival Saki is ushered to a meeting with the Education Committee. Her fate is now in the hands of the adults who know all her secrets.
Director: Yoshihiro Mori, Atsushi Nakayama
Writer: Rika Nakase
7.1/1066 votes#15 - Afterimage
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/12/2013
While searching for Maria and Mamoru, Saki and Satoru meet their old friend Squealer. He invites them to the new Robber Fly colony where things have changed greatly, but where is the Queen?
Director: Hideki Hiroshima
Writer: Rika Nakase
7.3/1067 votes#16 - To My Beloved Saki
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/2013
Maria is gone; she has left Saki a letter explaining her decision. Saki is up against terrible odds - the disappearance of her friends, the fact that her memory may be erased again, and the monster rats might not be on the side of the gods after all!
Director: Tomoya Takahashi
Writer: N/A
7.0/1068 votes#17 - Footsteps of Destruction
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/2013
Many years have passed; Saki and Satoru have grown and moved their separate ways. But recent actions within the monster rat community have brought them back together.
Director: Naomichi Yamato
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
7.9/1070 votes#18 - Scarlet Flower
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/2013
Many events act as catalysts in an impending war.
Director: Hiroaki Tomita
Writer: N/A
8.0/1072 votes#19 - Darkness
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/2013
Searching for survivors in the hospital, Saki and the group she and Satoru have joined up with discover Yakomaru’s secret.
Director: Naomichi Yamato
Writer: N/A
7.6/1067 votes#20 - A Cold and Sunlit Place
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/2013
Someone or something is following Saki and Satoru as they glide down the river discussing what has happened.
Director: Kenjirou Okada
Writer: N/A
8.3/1076 votes#21 - The Fire that Destroys the World
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/2013
As Niimi stays behind to fulfill Tomiko’s last order, Saki and Sataru head toward the Temple of Purification. When they get there they learn the true extent of Yakomaru’s true plan.
Director: Kouta Okuno
Writer: N/A
7.7/1069 votes#22 - Tokyo
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/2013
Saki receives a gift from her mother, followed by one final request.
Director: Mamoru Kurosawa
Writer: N/A
7.8/1067 votes#23 - The Face of the Boy
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/9/2013
Kiroumaru has suggested that they split up to distract their pursuers, but are his intentions noble?
Director: Tomoya Takahashi
Writer: Masashi Sogo
7.7/1069 votes#24 - Torchlight in the Darkness
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/16/2013
Things become increasingly more complicated after Inui faces the ultimate fate, Kiroumaru is suspected of being a traitor, and Saki has second thoughts about killing the ogre.
Director: Hiroaki Tomita
Writer: N/A
8.1/10203 votes#25 - From the New World
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/23/2013
After all the scores are settled, ten years go by. Saki and Satoru hope for a better world.
Director: Naomichi Yamato
Writer: Masashi Sogo
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Season of New Leaves" is the best rated episode of "From the New World" season 1. It scored 6.9/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by Naomichi Yamato and written by Masashi Sogo, it aired on 9/29/2012. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Vanishing Children".