The BEST episodes of Nobunagun

Every episode of Nobunagun ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Nobunagun!

Shio Ogura is a Japanese high school student, who is visiting Taiwan on a school trip when she is suddenly attacked by monsters. Agents known as "E-Gene Holders" from the government agency DOGOO also arrive, who wield weapons infused with the spirits of historical figures. Shio is revealed to also be an E-Gene Holder when the soul of Oda Nobunaga awakens after she tries to rescue a friend.

Last Updated: 1/24/2023Network:Tokyo MX

9.00

7 votes

#1 - Operation Stone Forest Part 1

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/16/2014

Will Nobunagun's plan to capture the Evolutionary Invasion Object tunnel and destroy the original cells work? Nine E-gene holders begin Dogoo's most important operation yet.

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8.42

45 votes

#2 - Capa's Island

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/2014

Sio starts intensive training at the Dogoo facility with war photographer Robert Capa. She manages to make some friends on base, but the reality of everyone's situation there is harsh.

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8.37

54 votes

#3 - Oda Nobunaga

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2014

Weapon otaku Ogura Sio is on a school trip to Taiwan when she and her classmates get caught up in an Evolutionary Invasion Object attack, not that she has any idea what is going on. And who is the guy with the knives?

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8.36

11 votes

#4 - Sio and Kaoru

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/2/2014

Evolutionary Invasion Objects suddenly show up during Kaoru's visit to Sio, who is convalescing in a hospital in Japan.

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8.30

10 votes

#5 - Tunnel

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/2014

The First and Second Platoons have to team up, after one of Vidocq's hypotheses reveals the biggest threat yet.

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7.92

12 votes

#6 - Musashi Wonder

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/2014

When a famed sunken battleship of the Japanese Imperial Navy starts wreaking havoc near the Panama Canal, Domoo realizes it's due to Evolutionary Invasion Objects, and sends in the Second Platoon

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7.90

10 votes

#7 - Dogoo

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/9/2014

As the plan to deal with the Objects in the tunnel takes shape, the commander remembers the ups and downs of her extra-long life.

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7.89

9 votes

#8 - Nobunagun

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/30/2014

Who is Jack the Ripper? Sio gets let in on the secret as Operation Stone Forest comes to an end. And then?

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7.75

16 votes

#9 - Hurricane

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/2014

Ogura and the others are sent to deal with an Evolutionary Invasion Object that can ride a hurricane.

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7.53

15 votes

#10 - The Second Platoon

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/2014

Sio gets assigned to the same platoon as Jack and is reunited with Gandhi, Newton, and Galileo. The team is tasked with seizing Invasion Object brain tissue for study.

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7.45

11 votes

#11 - Monster Meat

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/2014

Gaudi, Cyx, and Geronimo of the First Platoon crash-land on a snowy mountain. By coincidence, they come across a research outpost where something has gone horribly wrong...

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7.44

9 votes

#12 - Operation Stone Forest Part 2

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/23/2014

Jack and Geronimo make a bet; Hunter has to learn to fight however he can. Meanwhile, Nobunagun faces a new threat.

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7.17

24 votes

#13 - Evolutionary Invasion Objects

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/2014

The incident in Taiwan draws to a close, and Sio gets a chance to have a heart-to-heart with recovering Asao before deciding whether she will join the monster-fighting team or not.

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