Fafner
Fafner
TV ShowEnded

Fafner

6.3 / 10
2004
1 season
25 episodes
Sci-Fi & FantasyAnimationWar & PoliticsDrama

Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island's young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain peaceful and undisturbed. Or so they have been taught...but the truth is different. The fate of mankind is on the line, and Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile and incomprehensible enemy. At the center of it all, fighting for Humanity's continued existence, is the giant robot Fafner, the dragon that guards this final treasure of mankind.

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Trailer

Shangri-la Fafner in The Azure Dead Aggressor Opening

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Cast

Seasons

  • Paradise ~ The Beginning

    1.Paradise ~ The Beginning

    05-07-200425m

    When an enormous golden being attacks the peaceful Tatsumiya Island, citizens evacuate the surface to underground protective shelters. Soshi urges Kazuki to fight this horrifying a...

  • Confession ~ Life

    2.Confession ~ Life

    05-07-200425m

    Aboard the Mark XI, Kazuki has a brush with death in his first battle to save the island from the Festum. Soshi tells Kazuki about the secrets of the island. Once a paradise, Tatsu...

  • Labyrinth ~ Truth

    3.Labyrinth ~ Truth

    19-07-200425m

    A probe from the New United Nations has threatened to reveal Tatsumiya. As Alvis prepares to move the island to the northwest, students are drafted as new pilots and begin grueling...

  • Escape ~ Departure

    4.Escape ~ Departure

    26-07-200425m

    Kazuki and Soshi pursue the Festum while Alvis begins to move Tatsumiya Island. Then a New United Nations unit interferes with the plans, moving the battle directly into the island...

  • Promise ~ Pledge

    5.Promise ~ Pledge

    02-08-200425m

    After their discovery of Tatsumiya, the leader of the New United Nations forces Makabe to hand over the Mark VI. Shoko promises Kazuki that she will protect the island as he leaves...

  • Soaring Sky ~ Sacrifice

    6.Soaring Sky ~ Sacrifice

    16-08-200425m

    As the second Festum breaks through both of the island's shields and starts to ravage Alvis' underground shelters, Shoko reacts. Determined to keep her promise to Kazuki, she board...

  • Family ~ Parents and Children

    7.Family ~ Parents and Children

    23-08-200425m

    While the pilots mourn over the devastating loss of their friend, others lament her recklessness. After a combat field test, two pilots are chosen to be a part of a fleet exploring...

  • Strife ~ Kouyou

    8.Strife ~ Kouyou

    30-08-200425m

    Troops sent to probe the new island's core fall under attack by an army of Festums. When Mizoguchi receives orders to destroy the island with him and Maya trapped underground, one...

  • Assimilation ~ Parting

    9.Assimilation ~ Parting

    06-09-200425m

    Koyo manages to save the two soldiers, but fate doesn't find him so fortunate. Two pilots confront Soshi over whether he is more concerned for Fafner or his friends.

  • Disintegration ~ Crossing Paths

    10.Disintegration ~ Crossing Paths

    13-09-200425m

    Kazuki receives an answer from Soshi. Later, a student locks himself in the school broadcast room to protest the Arcadian Project after learning his aspirations to leave the island...

  • Old & New ~ The Neo U.N. Force

    11.Old & New ~ The Neo U.N. Force

    20-09-200425m

    Kazuki takes in a bird's eye view of the outside world for the first time. His refuge from the island quickly takes a turn for the worse when a Festum approaches followed by two fo...

  • Absence ~ Desperation

    12.Absence ~ Desperation

    27-09-200425m

    With Kazuki gone MIA, Kenji and Mamoru are recruited as pilots, just as a long-range firing Festum begins to attack. Mamoru boldly leads the defense with a plan that risks his own...

  • Erosion ~ Festum

    13.Erosion ~ Festum

    04-10-200425m

    At the Neo U.N. underground base, Kazuki is told he has the choice to fight or save the human race without fighting. Just as they discover new data and broadcast their plan to use...

  • Awakening ~ Occupation

    14.Awakening ~ Occupation

    11-10-200425m

    While Kazuki and the Human Army battle hordes of Festum, the Neo U.N. invades Tatsumiya--only to find that the island's core has vanished. Hino entrusts data on his most advanced F...

  • Memory ~ Scream

    15.Memory ~ Scream

    18-10-200425m

    Someone who Kazuki thought he'd never see again returns to give him Hino's powerful Mark Sein. During battle with a massive Festum, a childhood memory of Soshi helps him realize hi...

  • Friends ~ Welcome Home

    16.Friends ~ Welcome Home

    25-10-200425m

    A flock of Pleidaes Festum begins to wreak havoc on the island. As controls in the base start to seemingly move on their own, Makabe and his crew are lead to a second control room....

  • Survival ~ Device

    17.Survival ~ Device

    01-11-200425m

    Makabe finally has the upper hand and recovers the island from the Neo U.N., but the Human Army's Colonel leaves Canon behind with orders to destroy the island. It's up to Kazuki t...

  • Father ~ Memory

    18.Father ~ Memory

    08-11-200425m

    Maya's father returns to discover her medical files had been falsified, preventing her from piloting Fafner. His wife and Yumiko stand trial, facing possible exile from the island-...

  • Maya ~ Sight

    19.Maya ~ Sight

    15-11-200425m

    Maya displays impressive stability and sharp-shooting skills during her first test flight, but Soshi is reluctant to allow her to fight. But when 5 rare Festum breech the island's...

  • Lantern ~ Light

    20.Lantern ~ Light

    22-11-200425m

    The island commemorates those who've lost their lives fighting for peace at the Bon Festival. Then, when Koyo mysteriously wakes up from his coma, his friends step in to protect hi...

  • Sakura ~ Future

    21.Sakura ~ Future

    29-11-200425m

    The pilots are stronger than they've ever been. After another battle, an unexplainable phenomenon takes the island by surprise. Then, Yumiko and Michio lead a camp for the young wa...

  • Protection ~ Power

    22.Protection ~ Power

    06-12-200425m

    After collapsing in the yard, Sakura is rushed to the medical ward. Makabe approaches Tsubaki to confirm that the pattern in enemy attacks and recent phenomenon shows progress in t...

  • Pillage ~ Decoy

    23.Pillage ~ Decoy

    13-12-200425m

    Tatsumiya suffers more casualties when a spy sabotages the Human Army's experiments with a new Fafner model and attacks the island--disrupting a critical operation to save Soshi fr...

  • Conversation ~ Mir

    24.Conversation ~ Mir

    20-12-200425m

    Makabe receives a message and vital data from someone who has learned to understand the enemy. The remaining four pilots prepare for Operation Azure to save Soshi, the island, and...

  • Azure ~ The Sky

    25.Azure ~ The Sky

    27-12-200425m

    Kazuki and his fleet take off to face the North Pole Mir. With millions of lives hanging in the balance, their success in the do or die mission is imperative--if one of them is kil...

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