The BEST episodes of The Familiar of Zero

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

Meet Louise, a budding magician. The students at the Tristein Academy call her "Zero Louise", due to her current record of zero successes with magic. In fact, her magic tends to go spectacularly wrong. Now, as an important test of her aptitude for magic, she must summon a familiar to be her servant. At this critical moment, she summons up all her magic and wishes for a familiar that is "devoted, beautiful and powerful", and gets... Hiraga Saito, an ordinary Japanese boy. It's difficult to say who is more surprised and dismayed, but the rules don't allow for second attempts. Louise is stuck with her strange familiar, and he with her.

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The Farewell Wedding Ceremony
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8.92
142 votes

#1 - The Farewell Wedding Ceremony

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/24/2007

Louise is secretly approached by one of Henrietta's advisors and is asked to hold the enemy off while the Queen escapes. Knowing that it is a suicide mission, Louise plans to send Saito to safety, but not before marrying him. Catching wind of her plan, Saito uses a sleeping potion on Louise after they wed and asks Julio to take care of her and sets out to meet Albion's advancing troops. Louise faints before she can tell him she has always and still loves him. Despite his valiant efforts, Saito falls in the battlefield. Back at the academy, Louise collapses in grief at Saito's death, however, suddenly the magical flower that is connected to Saito unexpectedly comes back to life. Louise runs out and meets Saito who is very alive. When Saito fell, the Fairy, who resembles an Elf, saved him, revived him from death and healed him back health. While explaining, Saito mentions the fairy's large breasts which then Louise uses as an excuse, flies into a jealous rage, forgets about being sad about him and starts trying to explode Saito yet again.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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Wings of Freedom
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8.75
108 votes

#2 - Wings of Freedom

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/22/2008

Louise has a nightmare in which she loses the ability to cast magic; waking up, she finds that her nightmare has come true. In Tristain, Henrietta dispatches the Ostland and Colbert to rendezvous with Saito, carrying a type of cannon and Agnès offers the assistance of the Musketeer Corps. Saito, under Tabitha's guidance, learns to read quickly, while Louise broods over her inability to cast magic. Overhearing Tabitha telling Saito that under the influence of Gandálfr, the heart will experience changes, Louise wonders if Saito loves her because of Gandálfr's influence. Louise is captured. Guiche, Kirche, and Tabitha's attacks prove ineffective against an attacking golem. Louise decides to sacrifice herself for her friends.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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Zero Louise
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8.74
227 votes

#3 - Zero Louise

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/3/2006

Despite being from a famous magic family, Louise has never been able to successfully cast a single spell. On the day of her familiar summoning exam, she bungles the summoning and accidentally summons a human from Earth. The poor victim of her mistake is Saito Hiraga, a typical high school boy.

Directors: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
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The Familiar of Zero
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8.72
109 votes

#4 - The Familiar of Zero

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/2012

Saito is trapped in Japan while his friends fight against the Ancient Dragon. Even if he is able to return to Halkeginia, will he make it in time?

Directors: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
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The Sleipnir Ball
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8.72
107 votes

#5 - The Sleipnir Ball

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/18/2008

Siesta, in an effort to win Saito, challenges Louise to a contest. If he can locate Louise at the Seipnir ball, she will relinquish her advances towards him. Louise accepts, telling Saito that if he succeeds, she will allow him to “continue what he started before”. The ball arrives, and each participant takes a turn at the mirror of truth, which transforms him or her into their ideal self. Saito, on the way to the ball, notices a dark shape flying over the academy. Believing Louise to be in danger, he rushes in and begins to search for her. Locating her on the balcony, he has a brief conversation with her before the two kiss. Sheffield then arrives and disrupts the ball, destroying the mirror and reverting everyone to their former selves. Saito then discovers that the girl he kissed is not Louise, but is in fact Princess Henrietta, who had taken Louise's form.

Directors: Yuu Kou
Writer: Rika Nakase
Pursuit Aboard the Ostland
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8.68
106 votes

#6 - Pursuit Aboard the Ostland

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/25/2008

Colbert is alive. He was saved by Tabitha before death. Using knowledge from the dragons plumage he constructed an air ship with an advanced engine. Louise is still suspicious about what she witnessed between Henrietta and Saito and enlists the help of Siesta and Tiffania to capture Saito and force him (by using magic) to reveal what happened the previous night. Pursed across the ship (under the mistaken impression the magic will remove his clothes) by the increasingly desperate trio he is finally cornered and it is revealed to all about Tabitha's involvement in the previous nights escapade. Saito and Henrietta have difficulty meeting each others eyes throughout the episode but the episode concludes with Louise's resolution to trust Saito while Siesta is still concerned.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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Captive in Alhambra
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8.68
106 votes

#7 - Captive in Alhambra

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/15/2008

Using her talents at persuasion, Kirche discovers that Tabitha is being held in Al Hambra. Upon arriving there, the gang decide upon a plan of attack.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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A Thief's Identity
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8.67
133 votes

#8 - A Thief's Identity

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/7/2006

Worried that the princess may be blamed for Fouquet's theft, Louise volunteers to go out and catch her. With Kirche, Tabitha, and Saito tagging along, they travel to the last sighting of Fouquet with Longueville. There, they discover the hiding place of the Staff of Destruction only to have Fouquet's golem appear. Wishing to show her worth, Louise tries to take it head on with a spell, nearly being crushed in the process. Only by Saito's quick reflexes is she saved. Her confidence broken, Louise breaks into tears. Saito is moved by this and begins attacking the golem in her name. After discarding Kirche's sword and drawing Derflinger, the runes on his hands glow once again and his ability greatly increases. Louise tries to help by taking out the Staff of Destruction, which turns out to be a "M72 Light Anti-tank Weapon system(LAWs)" rocket launcher from Vietnam War. Immediately recognizing it, Saito grabs it and quickly uses it, blowing up the golem.

Directors: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
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Tabitha's Little Sister
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8.66
104 votes

#9 - Tabitha's Little Sister

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/1/2008

A nude girl falls from the sky and introduces herself as Tabitha's younger sister. Is she really who she says she it?

Directors: Yuu Kou
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Zero Treasure
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8.66
121 votes

#10 - Zero Treasure

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/18/2006

The gang has located a rare dragon, which Siesta's family has kept a map. It turns out to be a Mitsubishi Zero-sen, a Japanese aircraft use in World War II. They bring it back to the school. Colbert said someone earlier used another aircraft to fly during the solar eclipse and disappeared. Saito concluded that the person returned home and this is his chance for him to return home also.

Directors: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
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Louise The Void
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8.66
152 votes

#11 - Louise The Void

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/25/2006

The enemy is starting attack villages and another solar eclipse is about to happen. The empire has formed an army with Louise and Guiche to avert the attack. Saito finds out and uses the plane to come to their aid, but he has to give up his chance to return home. He was able to use the machine gun to eliminate most of the enemy, but ran out of ammo and couldn't take down Wardes. Louise unlocks her magic, destroying the entire enemy force. After the battle, the solar eclipse is over and the plane is nearly destroyed. Saito ends up staying.

Directors: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
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The Queen's Holiday
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8.66
108 votes

#12 - The Queen's Holiday

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/13/2007

Saito and Louise are ordered to be at Scarron's inn to receive further instructions. They take their previous positions and costumes back, and are surprised by Gulio's appearance. Saito runs into Henrietta who asks him to protect her as she poses as a commoner in order to lure out one of her enemies. Saito and Henrietta evade detection from the soldiers searching for the Queen by behaving like sweethearts, while Louise learns of the details of the Queen's mission from Agnes. In a theater in town, while Scarron and his girls are in the middle of performing a play, Henrietta confronts her enemy.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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Mountain Pass on the Border
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8.66
105 votes

#13 - Mountain Pass on the Border

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/8/2008

Saito and company take refugee in the Charming Fairy Inn while the search for them continues. A plan is created to use the Ostland to fly towards Germinia as a decoy, while Saito goes across the border directly. Scarron provides disguises for them, while Colbert, Seista, Gimli and Reinard proceed to liberate the Ostland. Siesta shows doubts at first of not having any powers but gets encouraged by Saito that she could still help. She hugs him so Louise kicks him in the groin from behind. In Gallia, Joseph and Sheffield uncover a massive object, which Joseph calls Jormungand, covered with pulsing veins and with a single large eye. Posing as a travelling circus, Saito and company cross the border, while Louise broods over no longer being an aristocrat, realising she only has Saito left. Back at the castle, using Siesta as a distraction, Gimli and Reinard take out two guards and they board the Ostland, after dispatching two more groups of guards.

Directors: Yuu Kou
Writer: Rika Nakase
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The Spy's Seal
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8.65
107 votes

#14 - The Spy's Seal

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/6/2007

Louise's sisters move in and make Saito do the work. Siesta makes a pass at Saito when Louise shows up. Just when Louise was about to strike him with a newer whip an explosion happens. A thief stole something from the principal's office and the principal marked the woman with a magic seal on her chest. Saito tries to do it secretly but Louise finds him and tries to hurt him again. Then a commotion in her eldest sister room gets their attention. The thief is found out and when everything is done and over with because Saito didn't tell her what he was ordered to do along with other things that was justifiable she beats him with her new whip out of spite.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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The Silver Pentecost
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8.65
106 votes

#15 - The Silver Pentecost

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/17/2007

Henrietta's forces enter South Gotha and claim it. Scarron's traveling tavern sets up shop, and Saito and Louise are reunited with Siesta, Jessica, and Guiche. Guiche shows off a medal and relates a story of coming back from the dead, which no one believes. Using the Ring of Andavari, Sheffield causes some of Henrietta's troops to attack the city from within.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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The Conspicuous New Student
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8.64
109 votes

#16 - The Conspicuous New Student

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/2008

Saito begins training daily with the Knights of Ordine. This leads to him not having as much time to spend with Louise, arousing her jealousy once again. Matters only become worse when Tiffania shows up as a transfer student at the academy. A student named Beatrice, whom is revealed as royalty, becomes suspicious of Tiffania when she refuses to remove her hat. After telling her that she will remove the hat eventually, Tiffania decides to reveal her true identity as a half elf. Upon the revelation, Beatrice proclaims that she has the authority of the Pope and insist that Tiffania be put through a heretical interrogation. She proclaims that if Tiffania believes in the true god, she will be able to step into a pot of boiling water she has had prepared. Saito shows to stop her, but upon hearing from Guiche that Louise would be in trouble he interferes, he bows a begs Beatrice to stop.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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The Alluring Girls' Bath
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8.64
106 votes

#17 - The Alluring Girls' Bath

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/4/2008

After the events of the last episode, Saito was forced, in his boxers, to read aloud and sign a pledge admitting that he took advantage of Tiffania in the infirmary. However, he refuses to sign it, insisting that it was she who asked him, and leaves. Upon seeing the shack where Professor Colbert kept his books and other materials, he entered and sadly remembered the teacher's wish to someday visit Saito's world. He apparently starts to doze off, but wakes up after hitting his head on the table. His attention then turns to the piles of gifts being left for Guiche and Reynald, and inquires as to their meaning, in which case, Reynald explains that gifts from the ladies are becoming more common after the fight with the Air Dragon Knights from the previous episode. With love seemingly in the air, Saito remembers the fight with Louise and becomes rather depressed. Upon seeing this, Guiche, Malicorne, and Reynald grow determined to cheer him up.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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The Familiar's Mark
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8.64
110 votes

#18 - The Familiar's Mark

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2008

Saito's runes disappear before his, Louise's and Siesta's eyes. While on a trip to the castle, they are attacked by Sheffield, who is revealed to be the familiar of an unseen Void mage that she refers to as "Master Joseph". After arriving at the castle, Saito is given a paper by the princess that would make him a knight and effectively a noble. He, however, turns it down on the issue that he does not believe he can protect the princess or Lousie without the familiar's contract. When asked about the disappearing runes, he tells them about the elf, whom he recalls as Tiffania. Derflinger tells them where they may find her so Louise and Saito prepare to depart. That night while worrying about recent events, Louise awakens to find Saito awake outside on the balcony. She tells him that she is afraid of him leaving again, especially with the disappearance of the runes.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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Her Majesty, the Queen's Zero
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8.63
115 votes

#19 - Her Majesty, the Queen's Zero

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/9/2007

Louise tries to prevent Saito from looking at other girls, but her plan fails. The newly crowned Queen Henrietta assigns the code name 'Zero' to Louise for a mission. When they get home Louise insists she tell him about the misunderstanding that Agnes said. When he tried to explain she beat him until morning causing bruises all over his body. The next morning, Saito and Louise are informed that Henrietta has been kidnapped.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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The Fairy of the Forest
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8.63
108 votes

#20 - The Fairy of the Forest

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/2008

While they are traveling to the village where Tiffannia is living, they meet up with Siesta who is carrying cooking supplies and food. At the same evening, while they were having dinner, Louise gets into another fight with Saito and walks off. Agnes, who was making a wooden sword, asked Saito to train a little bit. The next morning while they are traveling, Saito sees Tiffania and chases after her. At first she doesn't recognize Saito but after shouting her name a few times, she turns around and hugs him. Louise and Siesta are jealous when they see how big Tifannia's breasts are. The same evening Louise tries to ask who she is, and Saito explains that she saved him during his battle. Out of spite, Louise starts to fondle Tifannia's breasts. But when Saito stops her, Louise runs away and Siesta follows her. After forming a temporary alliance against Tiffania, the two get attacked by Sheffield.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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Enemy on the Snowy Alps
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8.63
107 votes

#21 - Enemy on the Snowy Alps

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/10/2007

Henrietta has a special mission lined up and Louise and Saito are the perfect candidates. But Saito hesitates to go into battle because of what Mr. Colbert mentioned before.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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The Underground Secret Document
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8.61
109 votes

#22 - The Underground Secret Document

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/20/2007

Henrietta is convinced to sign a declaration of war against Albion. News of a victorious battle for the Tristain and Germania allied forces reaches a town that Louise and Saito are currently in. Saito discovers a sailor uniform on sale at a clothes merchants shop, and buys it, opting to give it to Siesta rather than to Louise. Upon returning to the academy, the two join Agnes and Julio on exploring a secret archive hidden beneath the school, which Agnes was denied permission. Agnes wishes to obtain the information there regarding her home town of D'Angleterre's burning to help carry out her revenge against those involved. Eleonore is picked to open to lock to the entrance. As the group heads farther down, they are joined by Siesta, who is wearing the sailor uniform Saito gave her earlier. After discovering that Saito gave the sailor uniform to Siesta because Louise lacked the chest size to make it look good, Louise blows a part of the cave in the way they came. With little to do but move further, the group finds the archives and are sent to look for the records regarding the town of D'Angleterre's burning 20 years ago. When Siesta trips and makes a mess of the books, Eléonore returns them to their proper place with magic, which triggers the archives' security system and begins to bring the bookshelves to a close. Agnes finally finds the information regarding D'Angleterre's burning, but a part of the page that lists the person who led the attack is missing. The group narrowly escapes the collapsing of the bridge that led them to the archives. Upon realizing that Louise had blocked their way out from before, Julio grants Saito permission to have intimate moments with Siesta. Siesta is happy to oblige and Saito also thinks it to be a good idea, however, Louise is watching and is preparing to blow something else up. When Saito points out that the cave in she made earlier is in the opposite direction, Louise tells him to shut up and blows them up anyway.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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Crisis at the Institute of Magic
star
8.61
106 votes

#23 - Crisis at the Institute of Magic

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/27/2007

Albion sends hired mercenaries to make a surprise attack on the Magic Academy and take all of the people from the royal families hostage. Saito and his friends plan on how they will rescue the people taken hostage as it will take too long for the reinforcements to come from the palace. It is discovered the captain was one of those who attacked Agnes's town D'Angleterre's and burnt it to the ground 20 years ago.

Directors: Yuu Kou
Writer: Mayu Sugiura
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The Three Vallière Sisters
star
8.61
111 votes

#24 - The Three Vallière Sisters

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/30/2007

Eléonore drags Louise, Saito, and Siesta back to the Vallière house, where Louise is announced to be engaged to a duke. Saito goes to talk to her at night but instead finds her sister who beats him like Louise does. Saito confesses his true feelings to Louise, makes out with her in a childhood boat, fights his way out of the Vallière residence, and heads back to school with Louise. She doesn't believe him about what happened in an earlier incident and beats him again while Siesta tells herself she is the only one for Saito.

Directors: Yuu Kou
Writer: Mayu Sugiura
The Priest's Sword
star
8.61
110 votes

#25 - The Priest's Sword

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/23/2007

Julio Cesare transfers to Louise's school and shows an interest in her. He challenges Saito to a fight in which the winner gets to kiss Louise. Saito receives special training from Agnès but Louise shows up and attacks Saito in a jealous rage yet again. He fights against Julio the next day, but Julio loses on purpose.

Directors: Yuu Kou
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