The BEST Episodes of Kurau: Phantom Memory
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Mar 10, 2021
Network: TV Asahi
It’s the year 2100, and the moon is now home to a colony of scientists and pioneers. It’s also host to dangerous experiments into strange new forms of energy, and it isn’t long before one of them goes terribly wrong. In a freak accident young Kurau, the daughter of chief scientist Amami So, is struck by mysterious twin bolts of light. Rather than taking her life, the accident leaves her playing host to two mysterious entities that give her fantastic powers…and little love for the human race.

#1 - Toward the Vast World...
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Jun 24, 2004
Years ago, a tragic accident led to Kurau's possession by a Rynax. Now an adult, the Rynax powers she acquired so long ago have made her an unstoppable agent.

#2 - A Good Word
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Jul 1, 2004
Kurau's latest case forces her to protect a detestable young bridegroom.

#3 - Sleeping Beauty
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired Sep 2, 2004
The time finally arrives when Kurau and Christmas are unable to avoid capture by the GPO.

#4 - Anxiety of the Swallowtail Butterfly
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired Oct 13, 2004
A Rynax boy finds Christmas and tries to maker her his pair.

#5 - Shining Rain
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Aug 5, 2004
The GPO sets a trap to capture Kurau. Doug, the blonde agent, befriends Christmas and Kurau.

#6 - Manhunters
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Jul 8, 2004
Kurau takes on an extremely dangerous assignment, rescuing a space pilot whose spaceship has gone out of control. There are complications, however. Kurau and Christmas are being watched by the GPO, the police department of the future, and a blonde man, who apparently is a private agent.

#7 - A New Way of Life
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Aug 12, 2004
Christmas and Kurau flee to a seaside town, with the help of Doug, where they get jobs working in a restaurant.

#8 - Another Christmas
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired Aug 19, 2004
Kurau gets volunteered to be a POD pilot in the local games. We find out why Ayaka hates the holiday of Christmas.

#9 - Something I Must Protect
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired Oct 1, 2004
Kurau and Christmas escape from the moon on a spaceship piloted by Kurau's friend, Jose. However, the ship is boarded by space pirates.

#10 - The Visitor
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired Nov 3, 2004
Inspector Wong tells Kurau and Ayaka about the GPO's secret agenda. Ayaka finds out who killed her family, when she was a child.

#11 - Passing Through the Night
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Jul 22, 2004
Kurau and Christmas are on the run from the GPO and must leave their old life behind. Kurau gets a job as an agent with a new company, going after a gang of art thieves. When Kurau's new partner is captured, she is forced to rescue him.

#12 - The Town Where the Angels Disappeared
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Aug 26, 2004
Using false identities, Christmas and Kurau flee to Los Angeles. They discover a Rynax energy plant nearby and Kurau decides to investigate. However the GPO has managed to follow them to LA, and the pair find themselves cornered by the GPO.

#13 - The Voice That Calls You
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired Sep 9, 2004
The GPO sets a trap for Kurau, when Kurau travels to the moon to rescue Christmas.

#14 - I'm Here Now
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired Sep 16, 2004
Ayaka interviews Doug to find out the location of Kurau and Christmas. Meanwhile, Kurau tries to heal people who have been injured by Rynax energy.

#15 - Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired Oct 6, 2004
Kurau and Christmas find a safe haven, living with their uncle, Frank and their aunt, Kleine, in Switzerland.

#16 - The Gravestones On the Hill
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired Oct 20, 2004
A girl named, Jessica, who has lost her family in a Rynax energy accident, rescues Yvon.

#17 - In the Mist
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired Oct 27, 2004
Kurau rescues Yvon after the GPO captures Jessica. However, Ayaka and the GPO continue their hunt for Yvon.

#18 - Each Path
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired Nov 10, 2004
Ayaka visits Kurau and Christmas and shares some of her past with Kurau. Kurau and Christmas then travel to France to find two Rynax twins, to try to save them from being captured by the GPO. Ayaka confronts Director Saito.

#19 - Open the Window
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired Nov 17, 2004
The Rynax twins, Windt and Regel, turn out to have no regard for human lives, when they act out their strategy to capture Kurau's Rynax energy.

#20 - The Frozen River
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired Nov 24, 2004
Director Saito has perfected his newest crop of GPO soldiers. Kurau and Christmas continue to chase the Delyus twins. The twins, however, manage to separate Kurau and Christmas from each other, leaving them more vulnerable. But the pair are not in this fight alone. Ayaka Steiger has something special up her sleeve, to assist them in capturing the twins.

#21 - Shine in the Darkness
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired Dec 1, 2004
The twins learn what it is to be human. What price will they pay for this unbearable knowledge?

#22 - The Light at the End
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired Dec 8, 2004
Windt goes after Director Saito. Will Kurau, Ayaka and the GPO be able to stop him?

#23 - Before the Goodbye
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired Dec 15, 2004
A lonely Christmas goes back to live with Uncle Frank and Aunt Kleine in Switzerland. Meanwhile, Kurau goes back to live with her father. We find out the real reason that Kurau loved the Christmas holiday.

#24 - Lost Child
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Jul 29, 2004
Kurau convalesces from her injuries incurred in her previous case. Christmas takes care of her, doing the cooking and the shopping. Meanwhile, Kurau's father, is forced to use his scientific knowledge of Rynax energy to help the GPO. The GPO hunts a stray Rynax, while Doug hunts for any signs of Kurau, since she vanished from his surveillance.