6.5/1013 votes#1 - Avant-Garde
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/13/2013
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 from her body, declaring her to be the new member of the elusive Gatchaman team.
Director: Yoshihiro Yanagiya
Writer: Toshiya Ohno
6.9/109 votes#2 - Asymmetry
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2013
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, and decides to take him to an offline meet-up.
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6.8/106 votes#3 - Futurism
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/27/2013
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 next day, GALAX users at Hajime and Sugane's school receive word that some spoiled milk has been sent to their school, and they act together to warn the other students.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Kitsch
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/3/2013
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 when Katze uses a NOTE of their own.
Director: Mamoru Enomoto, Emi Yamashita
Writer: Toshiya Ohno
NaN/100 votes#5 - Collaboration
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/10/2013
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 to kill evil politicians.
Director: Takahiro Majima
Writer: Toshiya Ohno
NaN/100 votes#6 - Originality
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/17/2013
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 Gatchaman, because GALAX makes Gatchaman unnecessary.
Director: Hiroaki Nishimura, Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Writer: Kenji Sugihara
NaN/100 votes#7 - Abjection
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/24/2013
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 themselves outmatched.
Director: Shin Matsuo
Writer: Shinsuke Onishi
NaN/100 votes#8 - Genuine
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/31/2013
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 public. Rui learns a troubling fact about the side effects of Crowds.
Director: Mamoru Enomoto, Emi Yamashita, Fumio Itou
Writer: Kenji Sugihara
NaN/100 votes#9 - Forgery
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/7/2013
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 'Gatchannel' live stream, where Rui publicly apologies over the usage of Crowds and urges those that have it to not use it, and Hajime explains that the Gatchaman will confront Katze even if she is still unsure they can win. Hajime's determination inspires Sugane to confront J.J..
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Crowds
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/2013
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 without harming the users.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Gamification
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/21/2013
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 everyone to join the GALAX network and band together. But Katze takes the form of the Prime Minister, once again urging people to use Crowds.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Collage
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/28/2013
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 leaves for a final showdown with Katze.
Director: Yoshihiro Yanagiya, Hideki Ito, Takaaki Wada, Mamoru Enomoto, Osamu Sekita, Emi Yamashita, Ai Yoshimura, Shinsuke Terasawa, Tomoya Takahashi
Writer: Toshiya Ohno
The Best Episodes of Gatchaman Crowds Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Avant-Garde" is the best rated episode of "Gatchaman Crowds" season 1. It scored 6.5/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Yoshihiro Yanagiya and written by Toshiya Ohno, it aired on 7/13/2013. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Asymmetry".