8.0/104 votes#1 - Then and Now
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/23/2014
Slaine is interrogated under the assumption that he knows something. Slaine manages to keep silent and not reveal the truth, thinking back to the time he once spent with Princess Asseylum. Meanwhile, Count Saazbaum seems to have ulterior motives of some sort.
Director: Kaoru Yabana
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/103 votes#2 - Wind, Snow and Stars
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/13/2014
Count Saazbaum launches his attack. The UEF meets its offensive in this land of brutal cold. Inaho and the others put together a plan to fight back. Working on his own, Slaine makes his way through the intense fighting to reach the Deucalion.
Director: Akio Hosoya
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/103 votes#3 - Childhood's End
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/20/2014
While Inaho and the others are carrying out their plan, they encounter Count Saazbaum’s Kataphraktos. Slaine, who had been trying to catch up to Princess Asseylum, finds himself in an unexpected situation. The fierce battle on the snowy field builds in intensity, and then—
Director: Makoto Kato
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/102 votes#4 - Toll for the Brave
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/2015
The Mars Knights have assembled at Marineros Island. Slaine tries to take part in the battle, but he is looked down upon by his erstwhile fellow knights because he was born on Earth. Elsewhere, the crew of the Deucalion prepares for battle at Trident Base. Learning of the existence of Slaine’s swift Tharsis, they are wary of its capabilities.
Director: Geisei Morita
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/102 votes#5 - The Rose and the Ring
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/2015
Princess Lemrina is distraught over an unexpected situation, but Slaine tells her that on the contrary, he will use it to his advantage. But deep down, he gradually feels more and more cornered. Elsewhere, the Deucalion’s crew links up with a UFE company that is engaging a powerful enemy. Then, on the front line, Inaho gets out of his Kataphraktos.
Director: Matsuo Asami
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/102 votes#6 - Inherit the Stars
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/28/2015
The war has come to one final battle. Having reached an understanding, Slaine resigns himself to his fate. Elsewhere, Inaho answers the call of his own destiny. There is someone who sheds tears at the sight of the battlefield where all too many lights flare, then die out. A solitary girl saw the final moments of their battle.
Director: Ei Aoki
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/103 votes#7 - One Day, They Will Learn the Truth
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/2013
Shizuka readies a bonfire and a "test of courage". Later, Yui recognizes the limo that hit Hachiman.
Director: Hideaki Nakano
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/103 votes#8 - And So the Curtain on Each Stage Rises, and the Festival is Festivaling Its Very Best
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/2013
Hachiman and Yui check on Yukino. Later, Hachiman shakes things up with the committee when he decides to alter their mindset.
Director: Shunsuke Ishikawa
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/102 votes#9 - The Cat Who Fell to Earth
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2010
The episode starts with three members of different factions listening to a special newscast about an alien message, the first part of which has been translated to mean "coming to play". One of the members is then called to battle aboard an enemy ship. She successfully infiltrates the ship and disarms the Captain. The situation is disrupted by a UFO passing too close to both ships. When the same member comes to, the enemy captain detonates the ship. Later, during a memorial service for one of his ancestors, Kio Kakuzu finds a cat-like alien sitting at the buffet table.
Director: Yoichi Ueda
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
8.0/101 votes#10 - Reset
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/8/2012
An ambulance arrives at Yuno's house together with the third Yuno's father. Although he is a much more caring man in this world, Yuno has to stab him when he starts getting suspicious of her. Uryu drops off Yuki and the third Yuno at the school and makes a phone call to this world's Keigo, forewarning him about his son's illness. Yuki evades Yuno and Murmur's attacks, trying to convince Yuno to return to the second world and rule as its goddess. However, Yuno, torn between her feelings for Yuki and the inevitability of the second world's destruction unless one of them dies, decides to trap him in an illusionary "ideal" world where his parents are alive and she has never existed. Uryu returns and fights Murmur, but she is overwhelmed once Yuno releases the seal on Murmur's powers. With Uryu beaten, Yuno approaches her other self.
Director: N/A
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.7/103 votes#11 - The Boys of Earth
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/16/2014
Inaho and the others are hard pressed in their fight against the Martian Kataphraktos. But then a mysterious fighter craft appears and joins the battle. Elsewhere, Darzana and her crew hide the damaged assault ship in a dock, and there, they discover a combat mecha of unknown origin.
Director: N/A
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.7/103 votes#12 - Anyway, Getting No Rest, Even Though it’s Summer Break, Just Isn’t Right
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2013
Hachiman tries his best to relax during Summer break but constant texts from Shizuka concerning the Service Club activities prevent him from doing so.
Director: Tomoyuki Kawamura
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/102 votes#13 - Point of No Return
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/26/2014
Slain has misgivings about the war. However, he has no allies around him and no way of telling who the enemy is. Meanwhile, Inaho is entrusted with a secret request by Seylum as Rayet, who is hiding her own true identity, is on edge.
Director: N/A
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/102 votes#14 - Phantom of The Emperor
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/2/2014
Rayregalia, ruler of Mars, orders that an investigation be conducted on Earth. Slaine takes advantage of this opportunity to speak with the Martian emperor in person. Elsewhere, the assault landing ship that Inaho and the others are aboard has been sailing on a course to reach United Earth HQ.
Director: Geisei Morita
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/103 votes#15 - Before the War
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/6/2014
Seylum thanks Inaho for everything and then leaves. Elsewhere, Slaine learns Count Saazbaum’s true motives. Yagarai gives Capt. Magbaredge Marito’s patient chart. Feelings begin to stir within each of them.
Director: Shu Watanabe
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/102 votes#16 - This Side of Paradise
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/2015
2016, a year and a half after the assassination of Princess Asseylum. Slaine, who has earned the status of Mars Knight in spite of being an Earthborn is now served by his own personal subordinate and has been taking part in battles against the UEF. Elsewhere, the Deucalion is finishing up repairs in order to proceed to a new battlefront. One after another, the ship’s former crew returns.
Director: Shu Watanabe
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/102 votes#17 - The Beautiful and Damned
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/2015
At the Vers Empire’s frontline stronghold in Earthspace, Slaine leaves for their base on Marineros Island accompanied by the Stygis Squadron, compound Kataphraktoi. Meanwhile, the Deucalion arrives at the United Forces of Earth’s Trident Base, but some of the soldiers there are not fond of a unit that is equipped with Aldnoah.
Director: Tatsuma Minamikawa
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/102 votes#18 - The Fortune's Fool
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/2015
Under orders from United Forces of Earth’s General Headquarters, the Deucalion and her crew take part in an assault mission. They formulate a plan that will let them fight the Mars Knights. Elsewhere, with fresh determination, Slaine advances his invasion of the surface to broaden his power base. However, there are those who have doubts about his true motives.
Director: Yoshihisa Matsumoto
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/102 votes#19 - Changing After the Wedding? Swordmaster Motoko's Sunday Best: Feminine
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/5/2000
When Motoko runs out of clothes as they're all in the laundry, she is forced to wear a dress. Furthermore, her swordsmanship has been foiled by not only Tama-chan but also Keitaro. This leads her to doubt herself and things get worse when Mecha Tama-chan begins to create havoc.
Director: Shigeru Ueda
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/102 votes#20 - Voice Message
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/2011
Yomotsu appears before the fleeing Yuki, Yuno and Tsubaki with four hypnotised cult members dressed like him. Yomotsu explains that his Righteous Diary led him to infiltrate the Sacred Eye cult and that he intends to blow himself and Tsubaki up using Uryu's bomb. Having learned from Keigo that Yomotsu is blind, Yuno manages to find and kill him. Tsubaki then has her followers capture Yuki and Yuno, revealing her plan was to kill them, Keigo and Yomotsu all along. Due to her traumatic past as a ritual rape victim, Tsubaki wishes to attain Deus' power in order to remake the world. Yuno manages to kill the guards holding her, cut off Tsubaki's hand and hand Yuki her diary before collapsing from exhaustion. Using both diaries, Yuki manages to avoid detection, until Tsubaki tries to lure him out by announcing that her followers will rape and kill Yuno. Realising Yuno's devotion to him, Yuki gathers his courage and manages to reach Yuno on time, but Tsubaki gloats that as long as he's in sight of her followers, his actions will be predicted in her diary. Yuki throws a small ball he found earlier up in the air, causing all of Tsubaki's followers to look at it and rendering her diary useless. Yuki then throws a dart at Tsubaki's diary, and since she is missing a hand, she is unable to deflect the shot. With her diary pierced, Tsubaki vanishes and Yuki and Yuno escape. Meanwhile, Uryu, who was released by Yomotsu, gets captured by Keigo, but he eventually lets her go in return for her contact information.
Director: N/A
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.5/102 votes#21 - Format
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/15/2012
After some hesitation at seeing the innocence of her other self, Yuno lunges at her, but she is stopped by her other self's parents. Meanwhile, the actions of Yuki and Uryu have caused a domino effect that has changed the future of almost every diary holder for the better. When Balks reads about his other self's death in Yuki's diary using his incomplete Watcher Diary, he calls off his partnership with Deus, who decides to cancel the survival game and find another method to determine his successor. Yuki manages to remember Yuno and break free from the illusionary world, in the process releasing his world's Murmur, who had been trapped by her first world self in order to impersonate her. Faced with Yuki's love and her other self's united family, Yuno's resolve to kill them all is lost, and she decides to commit suicide. A horrified Yuki is declared winner of the survival game by his world's Murmur and spirited away through a vortex. 10,000 years on, Yuki is still grieving Yuno's death in his now empty universe, refusing to create anything. At the end of the episode, the final entry in his diary changes from "Yuno died" to "Yuno came to see me", and her voice is heard calling his name.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.3/103 votes#22 - Sign Up
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2011
Yukiteru Amano is a loner who spends his time writing in his mobile diary and talking to an imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina. However, one morning, he finds his diary entry for the day has been filled in already. Stranger yet, the events portrayed in the diary start coming true. Deus, who reveals he is an actual God, warns Yukiteru that if he loses his diary, he will die. As Yukiteru starts using the diary to his advantage, he is approached by a stalker named Yuno Gasai who also possesses a Future Diary that foretold his death at the hands of a serial killer, another Future Diary owner. Helping him evade the killer, Yuno helps Yukiteru throw a dart into the killer's phone, killing him. Afterwards, Deus explains the rules of the survival game to Yukiteru and the other diary owners, in which they must try to kill each other in order to win the right to succeed him.
Director: Naoto Hosoda
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.3/103 votes#23 - Steel Step Suite
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/9/2014
There were no traces of the battle that once occurred on Tanegashima, which was heavily damaged in Heaven’s Fall. When they arrive, Marito is flooded with memories of the fierce fighting there. But then, the Kataphraktos of a female Mars Knight comes at them relentlessly. Meanwhile, Slain, who has been acting without the knowledge of his superiors, acts recklessly.
Director: Yasuhiro Matsumura
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.3/103 votes#24 - Darkness Visible
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/30/2014
Inko and the others undergo piloting training in a Kataphraktos combat simulator. Inside, Rayet reflects on her hatred, anger, and fear towards the Mars Knights, as well as her own circumstances. Yagarai and Marito also use the simulator to recreate a past battle. And the truth of what happened on Tanegashima is revealed.
Director: Tatsuma Minamikawa
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
7.3/103 votes#25 - Beyond My Thoughts
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2024
When Ivy goes into the village to sell her catch, everyone is really nice to her which makes her nervous. Later, she chances upon a peddler selling zaro, a specialty of Latomi Village. When she asks how the village is faring, the answer surprises her.
Director: Penny Hung
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama
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"Then and Now" is the best rated episode written by Katsuhiko Takayama. It scored 8/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by Kaoru Yabana. It aired on 8/23/2014 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Wind, Snow and Stars".