The BEST episodes of Eureka Seven
Every episode of Eureka Seven ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Eureka Seven!
Renton Thurston is your ordinary 14-year-old boy, who has grown bored of his current life in his hometown. He is the son of the acclaimed hero of the military, and every day, he has no greater dream than to look up to his idol, Holland, who is skilled in the hoverboard sport referred to as “REFfing” ("Lifting," in the English dub). He also believes that he would one day join the LFO rebel group Gekkostate, and surf the skies. As he tries to master the art and skill of REFfing, Renton has nothing more than his dreams and his hopes, which his grandfather mechanic dismisses as something useless. But one day, Renton’s life changes, when a REFfing LFO mecha crashes into his house, out of which emerges the most beautiful girl pilot he’s ever seen. Now, Renton finds himself in the middle of a war in which he absolutely has no desire to be involved in, having the ride of his life with his newfound love, his number one idol, and his hero father.
#1 - The Final Frontier
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/20/2012
Truth and Ao fight for the Quartz Gun until it fires once more, erasing Truth and converting Ao's Nirvash into the "Nirvash Neo". It also rewrites history once more to render it like Generation Bleu defeated the Allied forces including Naru. As Naru is being hospitalized, Ao witness the Nirvash Spec V3 coming from the pillar and comes at its encounter, meeting his father Renton for the first time.
#2 - Better Days Ahead (Last Message)
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/14/2012
After learning that both Elena and the members of Team Harlequin switched sides to join the Allied Forces, Ao and his friends manage to escape taking the Quartz Gun with them. With nowhere to run, the remaining members of Team Pied Piper are contacted by the Japanese government offering them shelter and support according to a deal Cristophe made with the Secrets before his death.
#3 - Step Into a World (Heaven and Earth)
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/6/2012
Team Pied Piper goes to a Generation Blue Space Station to deposit the collected Quartz. While there a Secret attacks a Scub Coral that materialized in low orbit, and Pied Piper is sent out to intervene. Meanwhile, Truth begins to set his plan in motion, and Gazelle and his friends investigate the area beneath Generation Blue HQ, discovering the Coral Relic. When Ao manages to destroy the Scub Coral in orbit, it turns out to have the Gekko inside of it with the Nirvash Type0 piloted by Ao's mother Eureka.
#4 - Starfire (Another Truth)
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/20/2012
Despite Truth's intervention, Ao manages to return Eureka to her proper time, but hears from her that the baby she is carrying is not a boy, but a girl. After returning home to find more about it, he learns from his grandfather that Naru reappeared, but upon reuniting with her, the Japanese government declares claim of Iwato Jima and blames Ao for the death of one of its officers.
#5 - Ballet Mécanique
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 3/26/2006
Oratorio 8 has been completed and is ready to fire. What is Dewey planning to do with this weapon? Meanwhile, Renton and Eureka have reached the Command Cluster, but an unexpected foe arrives. Who is this foe and what is he/she planning?
#6 - La Vie en Rose (Johansson's Book)
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/24/2012
Ao confirms that the members of Team Goldilocks are leaving ordinary lives as if they were never assembled at all. However, the public opinion starts turning against Generation Bleu and during an operation in the middle of the ocean, the Quartz Gun starts moving by itself. Truth snatches the gun from Ao who falls into the sea and has a brief encounter with Eureka who revels to him the reasons for her disappearance.
#7 - She's a Rainbow (Moonlight Ship)
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/13/2012
On board the Gekko, Ao discovers that the Eureka before him is a past incarnation of her, from the time she was still pregnant. Soon the ship is surrounded by the Japanese and Okinawan armed forces, all desperate to take possession of both the past Eureka and her Nirvash. While trying to figure out how to send Eureka back to her own time, Ao and the others are attacked by Truth.
#8 - Don't Look Down (Third Engine)
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/31/2012
To protect his comrades, Ao surrenders himself, the Nirvash, and the Quartz Gun to the U.S. army. As the whole world questions about Generation Bleu's actions, Fleur and Elena decide to launch an attack on the carrier where Ao is being held to bring him back.
#9 - Plateau of Mirrors (Mirror of the World)
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/29/2012
Team Pied Piper returns from a mission in Australia, unaware that they had brought with them a sand-like substance that makes the child pilots have strong hallucinations. Meanwhile Gazelle and his friends investigate the past of Ao's fellow pilot Elena Peoples just to discover that she is even more mysterious than they previously imagined.
#10 - Maybe Tomorrow (The Day)
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/7/2012
Furious upon hearing that he is actually a Secret who lost his memory, Truth destroys Generation Bleu's space station among thousands of satellites around the globe. The Allied Forces blame Generation Bleu for the incident and launch an attack against them. Truth takes the opportunity to infiltrate the base and attempts to steal the Quartz Gun, but is stopped by Cristophe who sacrifices himself to allow Ao and Fleur to escape.
#11 - Guardian's Hammer (Next Phase)
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/17/2012
Several countries join Generation Bleu's special operation to lure all Secrets that have appeared arround the world to a deserted area in the Arctic and destroy them. The plan goes well until Truth interferes and Ao takes the initiative to ensure that the operation ends with no civilian casualties.
#12 - War Head (Humanoid Secret)
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/27/2012
Wondering about Eureka's claim that the Secrets are not enemies, a sleep-deprived Ao is sortied along his team to confront a Secret which has appeared beside a Scub Coral that was mysteriously reactivated. Ao is shot down by the enemy and after waking up, he learns that the other Scub Corals arround the world are being reactivated, too, putting Generation Bleu in a state of maximum alert to confront the multiple Secrets emerging near them.
#13 - World to World (Rising Sun)
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/21/2012
Team Pied Piper, the Japanese Government and the Secrets join forces to prevent the Allied Forces from claiming the Scub Corals' Quartz. While Naru rallies supporters for her cause of having the Plant Corals shut down. Elena joins the Allied IFO squad along Maggie Kwan, but Eureka appears before them and makes Elena remember the truth about her origins that she wants so much to deny. Soon after, both are dispatched to fight Ao, and when he manages to finally dissuade Elena, Truth appears before them.
#14 - Call It What You Want (AO's Cavern)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2012
The G-Monster continues its attack on Iwato Jima, and with Gazelle's help Ao pilots an IFO being transported by the Japanese Navy and uses it to defeat the G-Monster, his hair changing color to turquise in the battle, all while Team Pied Piper pilots watch, realizing that the IFO is the first ever model made.
#15 - In The Dark We Live (Enemy Below)
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/2012
The Japanese government runs an experiment on Tokyo Bay trying to create its own Plant Coral. However, a Secret appears and starts wreaking havoc. Team Pied Piper is dispatched to the area, but when Ao is informed that protecting the city from the Secret is not their top priority, he leaves against orders to engage it.
#16 - Light My Fire (Noblesse Oblige)
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/18/2012
Team Pied Piper is dispatched to aid Team Goldilocks, but upon their arrival, they find that their leader sacrificed himself to save his companions. After retrieving the pilots and their IFO, they return to confront the enemy Secret leaving an exausted Ao behind. After awakening, Ao hears from Chloe, one of Goldilocks' pilots about their battle with the Secret and comes with a plan to defeat it. While Ao confronts the Secret, he is watched by an enigmatic figure who takes an interest to him.
#17 - Walk This Way (Plant Coral)
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/4/2012
With renewed resolve to protect Iwato Jima, Ao takes on the G-Monster with some help. And in the aftermath, Ao begins to learn that the world is more complex than he realized. In hopes of finding his mother and learn more about his birth, Ao decides to join Generation Bleu.
#18 - Born Slippy (Deep Blue)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/2012
April 2025. While helping his childhood friend Naru Arata, Ao Fukai accidentally takes a bracelet being smuggled by Gazelle, Pippo, and Han Juno, and a Scub Coral suddenly appears, along with a G-Monster. Gazelle and his friends were smuggling the item to the Japanese Armed Forces, but they discover the bracelet is missing and go to find Ao to try to retrieve it. In the interrim, another Scub Coral and G-Monster appears, as Cristophe Blanc of Generation Bleu makes a deal with the Union of the Okinawa Islands government to take care of the new G-Monster. Ao soon realizes that the bracelet is one owned by his mother years ago, just as Gazelle goes to take it back.
#19 - Still Fighting (Secret Operation)
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/2012
Ao is hunted down by the people of Iwato Jima because they still believe that he and his mother are to blame for the terrible accidents that befell the island when she appeared out of nowhere. While in the custody of local musician Kazuyuki Kinjo, Kinjo apologizes to him for what his generation has done, just as Ivica Tanovich of Generation Bleu seeks him out, realizing he is the pilot of the Nirvash. While Rebecka tries to convince the Okinawa Self Defense Forces to allow Team Pied Piper to get rid of the Scub Coral, another massive Secret appears to attack. Gazelle frees Ao who brings the boy back to the Nirvash, which he realizes must be the IFO piloted by his mother Eureka, and that he was the one meant to pilot it in her absence.
#20 - Release Yourself (The Pied Piper of Hamelin)
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/22/2012
A Scub Burst appears in Phoenix, Arizona and while Team Pied Piper is on standby waiting for an official authorization to intervene, Ao and Ivica get ahead to evaluate the situation. As they arrive there, Ao meets Truth once more, holding a group of survivors hostage while the US Army comes with a different approach to confront the enemy secret with disastrous consequences.
#21 - Wish Upon a Star
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 4/2/2006
It's the finale episode and Eureka completes her transformation in order to save the planet. Holland and the others discover that the Limit of Life phenomenon hasn't happened. Realizing that Eureka is still alive, can Renton save her in time?
#22 - Tighten Up (Generation Bleu)
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/2012
While adjusting to life on Generation Bleu, Ao begins to feel uncertain about why he joined them in the first place. Meanwhile, Team Goldilocks is under attack during an operation.
#23 - Shout to the Top!
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 4/2/2006
Using Oratorio 8, Colonel Dewey fired on the Scub Coral Control Cluster and destroyed it. Now that it's gone, what is Dewey's next move? Meanwhile, Renton and Eureka are in the damaged Nirvash when the Compac Drive turns blue. Nirvash suddenly moves disobeying Renton and Eureka's orders. What is Nirvash trying to accomplish by doing this?
#24 - Memento Mori
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/30/2005
Determined to destroy them all, Ray returns to attack the Gekko. However, before the attack happens, Renton has a conversation with Holland which helps him better understand his and Eureka's past.
#25 - Don't You Want Me?
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 3/5/2006
Captain Jurgens and Lieutenant Dominic arrive aboard the Gekko in order to find out if what Dr. Bear said about the Scub Corals is true. After finding out the truth, they decide to fight alongside the Gekkostate against Dewey - whether any of their fellow military crew supports them or not. Meanwhile, Maurice begins to feel that Renton is trying to change Eureka, so he insists on having things back the way they used to be.