The BEST episodes written by Kazuki Yamanobe
#1 - Pledge (Promise)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 5
Shouko's friends and mother express concern over her medical condition. The U.N.'s fleets makes an approach to the island to pick up the Mark Sechs that they requested but is attacked by a Festum along the way.
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#2 - Sacrifice (Soaring Sky)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 6
Two Festums have appeared, and with Kazuki preoccupied with one of them, Shouko makes a decisive decision to act. Her actions saves the island and she keeps her promises to Kazuki and her mother. But the cost for everyone is too great.
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#3 - Parents & Children (Family)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 7
Shouko's death is received with mix reactions. Kouyou's and Sakura's performance are tested against Kazuki's Mark Elf. An island showing similarities to the Tatsumiya island is discovered, a team is assembled to investigate.
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#4 - Parting (Assimilation)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 9
Efforts to rescue Maya and Kyouhei from the island come at a great cost to Kouyou. And Kouyou's friends and family react to the great loss differently.
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#5 - Truth (Labyrinth)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 3
Various children on the island are selected for enrollment into the service, much to the dispair of many parents. Meanwhile, Kazuki discovers someone at the basement of the base. A search plane flys in the direction of the island's location. And an enemy appears at a bad time.
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#6 - Kouyou (Strife)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 8
The team arrive on the island and various units set out to explore the apparently uninhabited island. Things go horribly wrong however.
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#7 - Human Force (Old & New)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 11
Kazuki leaves the remote island with Yukie, taking the Fafner Mark Elf with him, arriving at a rundown city. Both Fumihiko and Kyouhei speculate about the sudden departure. After Kazuki and Yukie decide to make camp, they are then attacked by a Festum. Michio Hino and Canon Memphis, both piloting Fafners, appear and annihilate the Festum. However, the two then turn on Kazuki and disable his Fafner. Both Kazuki and Yukie is taken prisoner aboard the Neo UN fleet, having the Fafner Mark Elf in its possession. Soushi tells Maya that Kazuki wanted to escape from the island, though she disagrees with him.
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#8 - Departure (Escape)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 4
Kazuki rescues the search plane against the commander's orders. Their battle does not go well. And Kazuki's disobediance results in more trouble to come.
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#9 - Crossing Paths (Disintegration)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 10
Hiroto Douma rebels and locks himself up in the school's broadcast room, apparently upset that his dreams of stardom may not be fulfilled.
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#10 - Occupation (Awakening)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 14
Maya and Kyouhei go on a mission to rescue Kazuki at Moldova base. At the same time, the Neo UN fleet invades the Alvis base, trying to secure the island by taking control of the red female core, revealed to be a Coagula Type Festum, however it has left its container. Meanwhile, Yoji manages to persuade Mjolnir, the Master Type Festum which has assimilated Akane Makabe, to give the Fafner Mark Sein to Kazuki. Yukie, as well as Col. Dudley Barns, questions Fumihiko and Soushi concerning the whereabouts of the female core, but the latter two are unaware of its current location. While Kyouhei fends off the Festum in the laboratory, Yoji gives Maya the research data of the Fafner Mark Sein.
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#11 - Festum (Erosion)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 13
Mitsuhiro Bertrand says that Japan was destroyed thirty years ago when toxins were emitted from the core, which prevented citizens unable to produce offspring, marking the beginning of the attempted genocide of humanity by the Festums. When the Alvis base was founded, children were able to become immune to the Festums through gene manipulation. Hester deceptively announces of a new weapon capable of defeating Festums, having the Fafner Mark Elf displayed. Yoji Hino, who revealed he had left the island five years ago to create weapons for the Neo UN fleet, offers Kazuki to work for him as a staff member. The Grendel Type Festums invade the Moldova, prompting Kazuki to fight back.
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#12 - Scream (Memory)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 15
The Neo UN fleet occupies the Alvis base, however the female island core is still reported missing. Back at the Moldova base, Kazuki receives the Fafner Mark Sein from Mjolnir. Idun, another Master Type Festum, consumes Mjolnir, enraging Kazuki as he continues to fight. Both Kazuki and Idun sink into a lava pit generated by the Fafner Mark Sein. Kazuki confronts his internal conflicts about his past of when Soushi's left eye was first injured and of how the green crystals were first implanted in his body. Maya and Kyouhei witness Kazuki defeating Idun in the lava pit. Kazuki later tells Maya and Kyouhei that he is looking forward to protect the island after knowing what he is dealing with.
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#13 - Desperation (Absence)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 12
Mamoru Kodate, Kenji Kondo, and Sakura Kaname are among the candidates to pilot the Fafners. Meanwhile, Kazuki and Yukie are questioning the reason of their imprisonment. As a new Festum approaches, the new pilots are soon tested to defeat it. Mamoru devises a plan, ignoring Soushi's specified orders. The three collaboratively succeed in defeating the Festum, yet they are put in confinement for acting on their own judgment. Soushi learns from Fumihiko that Kazuki denies himself daily, bypassing any assimilation. Maya realizes that Soushi has feelings for Kazuki. Michio brings Kazuki to the deck of the ship, also encountering Canon, before arriving at the Moldova base.
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#14 - Life (Confession)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 2
Kazuki pilots the Fafner and defeats the enemy. But the children on the island, previously oblivious, must now face the horrible reality of their situation.
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#15 - Beginning (Paradise)
Fafner in the Azure - Season 1 - Episode 1
Introducing some of Tatsumiyajima's inhabitants, like the school going children: Kazuki, Maya, Hazama (sick in bed) and the rest of the gang. And Soshi (believed to have returned from a trip from Tokyo).
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