8.9/10 17 votes#1 - The Rave Master, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/13/2001
This episode opens up with a flashback 50 years ago with a guy fighting a monster with a pink crystal-like front. We then go to the present where we see a boy named Haru in Hip Hop City looking for something called Plue. He goes into a casino where he meets a girl, Elie, who's playing and Haru accidently messes up her roulette game. She get's mad so she uses her weapons to tear down the casino. Later, she runs into members of the Shadow Guard, an evil organization. She finds Plue then decides to take him. She runs into Shadow Guard again and they take Plue thinking he's a dog and taking it to a dog track. She goes to watch then helps him from almost getting hurt. Haru then comes in then fights a Shadow Guard who has a crystal and can use carbon monoxide as a weapon. He takes him down eventually and they are escaping from the city.
Director: Makoto Sokuza
Writer: Nobuaki Kishima
8.7/10 7 votes#2 - Under Tremolo Mountain Part 3
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/2002
Dearhound reveals a few secrets about himself and the rave stones after Haru proves himself in battle. Not only does Dearhound know Plue, but in a previous life he was one of four Knights of The Blue Sky who fought along side of Sheba and the army of Symphonia to defeat the Shadow Stones, a battle that only Sheba and Plue survived. Returning in the form of his favorite animal, a bear, Dearhound became the guardian of the Rave of knowledge. When all the Rave Stones are gathered their true power will be revealed which will probably have something to do with promoting good and destroy the root of evil so there will never be another war. The Rave of Knowledge gives Haru the power to attack faster then the speed of sound and transform his sword to Silfarion, which is used on Schneider when he sneaks in to the temple to steel it. Giving Haru the Rave Stone, Dearhound is free to pass on, but not before giving us a tantalizing hint that Elie has a mysterious power and resembles the Lady
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 10 votes#3 - The Rave Master, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/2001
Haru and Elie, along with the ""carrot-nosed dog"" Plue, met up with a blond female who to their surprise took refuge in a homemade home deep in the earth. This girl helped those esacpe from the evil known as Shadow Guard. Next on her list was our beggining heros! Though things weren't easy and there were hard fights for Haru, but once given the chance he rose to victory over Shuda. Now recognized as momentary escapees our heros continue to embark on their adventure!
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 10 votes#4 - Release the Beasts, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/2001
Old Musica works on the Sword as an impatient Haru looks on. Musica is found outside Lance's house and manages to defeat the Shadow Guard. Inside, Lance's patience is wearing thin. Just as he is about to eliminate Elie, Musica arrives. Musica and Bis battle only to have Musica outwit the powerful, but, intellectually challenged Bis. While finishing the sword, Old Musica tells Haru of his tragic secret. This isn't the only sword that he created. He also made the sword that Lance now uses. The very sword Lance used to destroy Old Musica's entire family. The old blacksmith makes Haru promise to destroy that evil sword.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 8 votes#5 - Sound of Thunder, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2001
As the group rides on toward Ska Village, it begins to rain very hard. Elie is affected by the sound of thunder. It seems to trigger some distant memory. When they arrive in Ska Village, they find the town decimated by the rain. The 'Thunder Man' came there five years earlier and brought the rain with him. Elie believes the Thunder Man may be a link to her past. She runs off to find him. Haru gives chase
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 8 votes#6 - Sound of Thunder, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/22/2001
Elie enters the Thunder Mansion and is immediately confronted by the Thunder Man. But, to her surprise, the entire location is only a movie set. The Thunder Man -- aka 'Go Tindar' -- is actually a movie director. Haru bursts in and inadvertently slams into Go, knocking him unconscious. Go's girlfriend Rosa, who happens to be the leading lady in the film, shows up. She attacks Elie, thinking she's the Rave Master. The attack goes awry and as Rosa is about to be hit by her own weapon, Elie steps in and saves her. She agrees to have Go stop the rain. But when Go wakes up, he is furious and challenges Haru to a fight
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 8 votes#7 - Sound of Thunder, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/2001
Even though Haru has no squabble with Go, he is forced to accept his challenge and fight him. After a long battle, Haru manages to destroy Go's Shadow Stone. With the cameras rolling, Go gives an overacted performance of defeat. Go agrees to stop the rain and brings forth a giant machine that has been causing the downpour. Go shows Elie a picture of the man she saw in her memory. It is Sieg Hart and Go warns her to stay away from him. Back in town, the villagers are amazed as the rain stops and the sun comes out
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 8 votes#8 - Mysterious Assassin
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/2002
Schneider gets Haru, Elie, Plue, and Griff lost in the caves and tunnels of Tremolo Mountain. While they decide to rest for a while, Schneider attempts to murder Haru. Much to his chagrin, he is stopped by Musica in the disguise of a Shadow Guard. Musica explains that he came to Tremolo Mountain to take the Rave Stone for himself. Haru then has a match against Musica, but Elie intervenes. Musica decides to help the others in finding the Rave Stone. Plue helps them find a secret passageway. An inception on a wall, written in an ancient language tells that the Rave Stone is inside. Once inside, they are confront by a Knight of the Blue Sky.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 10 votes#9 - Release the Beasts, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/2001
Along the way to Punk Street, Haru encounters the Silver Rhythm Gang and it's brash leader Musica. In town, Plue makes friends with the elderly blacksmith Old Musica (no relation -- or is there?) Once Haru realizes who he is, he begs him to fix his sword. Another leader in the Shadow Guard, Lance learns of the arrival of Haru, the Rave Master, and sees this as his chance to capture the Rave Stones. Elie meets the young Musica from the Silver Rhythm Gang and thinks he's the blacksmith they've been searching for. Haru tells her that he's found the real Musica. During the discussion, they are all attacked by Bis, one of Lance's toughest and biggest goons.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 8 votes#10 - A Bite to Eat
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/2001
Haru, Elie, and Plue find a chariot being pulled by an unusual creature with a smaller creature named Griff as the driver. The group continues north where the blacksmith Musica believes the next Rave Stone may be. After finding a spot to camp for the night, Elie takes Plue with her to a natural hot spring located just moments away from where they set up camp. At the hot spring, Elie decides to twist Plue's nose-- and that deflates him! After trying many ways (which includes pumping with air, putting in the ground, filling with water, and many more) to bring Plue back to his normal state, he is still flat. Griff mentions that a special strawberry might be the only cure. Elie takes off by herself to find the berry, and while she is searching for the berry she is attacked by a monster. The monster threatens to eat her, and then Haru shows up just in time to save Elie! Plue is given the special strawberry and returns to his original state.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 9 votes#11 - Release the Beasts, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/2001
While Elie is off getting her 'Tonfa Blasters' upgraded, she is taken hostage by Lance. When Musica tries to intervene, he is unsuccessful in his attempt to rescue her. Lance tells him to find the Rave Master and bring him to Lance's house. Old Musica is still having a hard time believing that Haru is actually the new Rave Master. Haru recalls the day he first met Shiba. Shiba tells Haru the history of the Rave Stones. Old Musica still refuses to work on the sword. His motives are not exactly clear. Musica finds Haru and tells him of Elie's kidnapping. Old Musica knows that Haru will need his sword in order to defeat Lance, so he agrees to fire up his furnace one last time.
Director: Shunji Yoshida
Writer: Hisashi Tokimura
7.9/10 10 votes#12 - Release the Beasts, Part 4
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/2001
Haru and Lance rage an intense battle. Lance's Beast Sword seems too much for Haru to handle. Lance takes pleasure in the fact he's going to defeat an opponent who uses one of Old Musica's swords. After taking blow after blow, Haru finally discovers the secret to Lance's illusions. He manages to fend off most of Lance's attacks, but when Lance reveals that his sword has more than one attack method, Haru appears doomed.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 7 votes#13 - Breaking Out
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/2001
Musica and gus gang break into a vault. While Hebi, one of the members, is in the vault, he realizes Plue is in his bag! The alarm is triggered and the police end up capturing Plue. Hebi, who was in the vault just moments earlier decides, it's his duty to get Plue back from the police. While trying to convince the police to give Plue back, Musica arrives at the station and turns himself in. Meanwhile, Haru and Ellie are having dinner with the Old Musica. Musica, Plue, and Hebi escape from their jail cells. The policemen find Plue wandering around and realizes Musica and his friend has escaped. Soon, the whole police force is out searching for Musica and the other members of the Silver Rythm Gang. Musica and his gang decides it would be best to leave town, and before they leave, Haru find out that Musica and Old Musica are related (Grandfather and Grandson). Both Musicas know, but doesn't tell the other they know so. After the Silver Rythm Gang and Musica leave town, Haru's sword gets f
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 7 votes#14 - Fortress in Flight, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/2002
Shuda shows up with two henchmen to claim Haru's Rave stone. After dropping Gail Glory's name and destroying Dearhounds shrine to the worriers of Symphonia, Shuda sets the stage for his fight with Haru by abducting them with his mobile fortress Raptopia, in the process causing the entire mountain to fall down on his own men.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 7 votes#15 - Fortress in Flight, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/2002
We start with everyone feeling the effects of Shuda's shadow stone blasts. Plue is hanging off the edge of the Vanishing Fields battle ground, and below on the mobile fortress, Elie is unconscious. This leaves Musica double teamed by Pasha and the Cyborg. He is holding his own, but doesn't get a victory until Elie wakes up from her nap and takes out the cyborg with her tonfa blaster.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 6 votes#16 - Out of Time, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/2002
Elie looks up and finds that Seig Hart has silently appeared before her. The lost young lady addresses this cloaked figure. Seig Hart beckons Miss Elie to follow him through the winding corridors of the city.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 6 votes#17 - Out of Time, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/2002
Elie, a seemingly normal girl, frolicks in the waves at the beach with sharped nosed Plue and the scared ""Please Elie! while Haru and Musica enjoy some sun.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 6 votes#18 - The Enclaim, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/8/2002
Haru is forced to make an agonizing decision after learning the history between Gale and King and the shocking revelation behind his mother's death.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 7 votes#19 - Under Tremolo Mountain, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/2002
While searching for the 2nd Rave Stone, Haru, Ellie, and Plue find themselves in Tremolo Mountain. Will Haru and the gang find the 2nd Rave? Or will Shuda and the Shadow Guard get to it first?
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 7 votes#20 - Fortress in Flight, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/2002
Can they stop the fortress from exploding? Will the cyborg keep making trouble for them? Is Musica's friend done with the lather, rinse part, and will he repeat in time to pick them up?
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 6 votes#21 - Out of Time, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/2002
The fortune teller finds Musica to warn him that the future is about to change for the worse, but Musica is confident that Haru will change it for the better and rushes off with Plue and Griff to find them.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 6 votes#22 - Out of Time, Part 4
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/2002
Musica still running around town trying to find Haru and Elie. In Elies flashback she sees herself walking in the snow with her father on her fifth birthday. We find out she liked playing games at the arcade even back then and she wants to be an insect when she grows up.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 6 votes#23 - The Enclaim, Part 4
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/22/2002
with the battle ended, and King laid to rest after making peace with his former friend, all is still not well. The recent fight has damaged the Tower of Din, leaving Haru, Elie, and Gale hurrying to find a way out of the collapsing structure! Let makes a surprise return to help in the escape, but the tower is crumbling too fast—the damaged floor falls apart from underneath Gale and Haru, sending them into a dark chasm...
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 6 votes#24 - The End of the Fight
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 9/14/2002
Berial knocks Haru unconscious with ease, causing his defeat. Soon after, Jegan, Reina, and Berial observe the match between Elie and Julius. Catching Julius off guard, she manage to use her tonfa blasters at his face. Julius become aggressive, experiencing a temper tantrum. Griff attempts to run away, however Julius encased Elie in a coat of ice and launches her at Griff, Elie manages to break free, but she injures her arm in the process. Julius approaches Elie with a sword of ice, prepared to slash her. Suddenly, Griff jumps in the way to take the hit, cutting him in half. Seeing Griff in pieces, Elie unleashes a sample of the immeasurably vast destructive strength and power of her sealed Etherion, put the Oracion Six at shock.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 6 votes#25 - Release the Beasts, Part 5
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/2001
Old Musica enters the fray, holding to Lance. He orders Haru to destroy them both. Haru realizes what he must do and lunges forward. But, instead of attacking Lance, Haru destroys Lance's Shadow Stone. Without the Shadow Stone, Lance and Haru battle head to head. Haru seems to gain strength as the battle continues and Lance's blows have no effect. Haru knocks Lance's Beast Sword away. Now weaponless, Lance begs for forgiveness. Haru destroys Lance's Beast Sword. Lance's men try to take on the group, but Musica fights them off.
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Rave Master
Every episode of Rave Master ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Rave Master!
Fifty years ago, malevolent stones known as Dark Brings brought about the "Overdrive," a calamitous event that destroyed one-tenth of the world. In the present day, the nefarious organization Demon Card seeks the Dark Brings' power for their all but innocent intentions. Haru Glory, a sword-wielding silver-haired teenager, inherits the title of Rave Master: the person who wields the power of the legendary Rave Stones, artifacts capable of destroying the Dark Brings. However, the many Rave Stones were scattered across the globe as a result of the Overdrive, allowing Demon Card to continue their malpractices.
Genres:AnimationComedySci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure
Network:TBS
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Rave Master" is "The Rave Master, Part 1", rated 8.9/10 from 17 user votes. It was directed by Makoto Sokuza and written by Nobuaki Kishima. "The Rave Master, Part 1" aired on 10/13/2001 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Under Tremolo Mountain Part 3".