Angelic Layer (2001)
12-year-old Misaki Suzuhara has just gotten involved in Angelic Layer, a battling game using electronic dolls called angels. Even as a newbie, Misaki shows advanced skills as she meets new friends and enters Angelic Layer tournaments to fight the greatest Angelic Layer champions of the nation.
- Sho Aikawa
- Ichiro Okouchi
- Reiko Yoshida
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Episode 1 - How Do You Do? My Very Own Angel
Release Date: 2001-04-01Misaki moves to Tokyo to live with her aunt. After getting lost at the train station she sees an Angelic Fight on a big screen. A mysterious man, Icchan, who followed her out of the train station tells her more about 'Angelic Layer' and helps her to create her own angel, Hikaru.
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Episode 2 - Do Your Best, Hikaru! It's Your First Fight
Release Date: 2001-04-08Misaki gets confused on her way to the first day of school when she meets Hatoko, a 5 year old girl who knows a lot about Angelic Layer, she also meets Hatoko's older brother, Kotarou and his best friend Tamayo. On her way home from school Misaki once again meets Icchan who helps her to make clothes for Hikaru and brings her to an Angelic Layer training center so she can practise movements on the Layer... However Misaki accidentally signs up for a match!
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Episode 3 - Who Are You? Misaki's Nervous Lesson
Release Date: 2001-04-15Icchan gets Misaki an Angel Card, a membership that will allpw her to enter official tournaments. He also teaches her a training technique, dancing with music, which will help her to learn the timing of fights. When Icchan has to leave Oujiro, Wizard's Deus, introduces himself and helps Misaki to practise. Later Misaki is tricked into fighting an unfair fight with another Deus.
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Episode 4 - The Day the Angel Flew Down
Release Date: 2001-04-22After choosing her entry line Misaki and her friends attend the regional Championships. As she waits for her first battle Misaki watches Suzuka, Hitoko's Angel, fight her opponent, Nightingale, who she defeats with a single hit. Misaki's match doesn't go as well, her opponent's angel, Katrina', uses ice skates to gain speed and deliver a powerful, and nearly flawless, spin kick gains an early advantage.
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Episode 5 - I Don't Want to Lose! I'm Believing in Hikaru
Release Date: 2001-04-29Misaki enjoys playing Angelic Layer and she loves Hikaru with all her heart, but when she goes up against the Power-type Vasquez, her confidence and self-esteem falters and has Hikaru engage in the 'hit and run' technique during battle, winning by a sheer stroke of luck. This angers Hatoko, who claims that Misaki has stopped believing in Hikaru and in herself.
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Episode 6 - The Light-Speed Suzuka! Hotoko's Declaration of Rivalry
Release Date: 2001-05-06 -
Episode 7 - Fight to the Limit... Misaki's Last Chance
Release Date: 2001-05-13 -
Episode 8 - Misaki vs Misaki? The Dangerous Classmate
Release Date: 2001-05-20 -
Episode 9 - Sing Misaki! The Deus is an Idol
Release Date: 2001-05-27 -
Episode 10 - The Mean Sisters! And the Targeted Hikaru
Release Date: 2001-06-03 -
Episode 11 - The Match! Hikaru and Mao's Real Fight
Release Date: 2001-06-10 -
Episode 12 - Misaki and Kotaru - The Two's Exciting Date
Release Date: 2001-06-17 -
Episode 13 - The Pure White Buranshe - Kaede's Smile
Release Date: 2001-06-24 -
Episode 14 - Never Give Up! And Then an Angel was Born
Release Date: 2001-07-01 -
Episode 15 - Shirahime vs Suzuka! The Ice Machine's Secret
Release Date: 2001-07-08 -
Episode 16 - The Final Match! Hikaru's Last Attack
Release Date: 2001-07-15 -
Episode 17 - I Choose You! Misaki's Chosen Person
Release Date: 2001-07-22Misaki has made it all the way to the National Games, but before the competition begins, there is one more thing she must do- find someone to act as her second during the upcoming fights. But when Misaki's friends come over to congratulate her on her success, it becomes clear that they all want they all want to be chosen as her second! And as Misaki attempts to sift through all the offers and select the one person she really wants as her partner, Shuko has a decision of her own to make, as to whether it is finally time for her to come and see Misaki.
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Episode 18 - Lots of Formidable Opponents! The Much Anticipated National Tournament
Release Date: 2001-07-29With Hatoko by her side, Misaki heads for the opening ceremony of the National Games, determined to do her best no matter how stiff the competition. As the action gets underway, it becomes clear that all of the players are at the top of the game, but it soon becomes clear that there is one who still stands hand and shoulders above the rest- current champion ‘Shu' and her angel Athena.
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Episode 19 - System Down? A Battle Onboard a Boat Amidst a Storm
Release Date: 2001-08-05 -
Episode 20 - The Enemy is Icchan? The Stuttering Second Match
Release Date: 2001-08-12 -
Episode 21 - The Summer Sea! Someone is in Love with Someone
Release Date: 2001-08-19 -
Episode 22 - Suddenly Alone Together - The Secret Double Date
Release Date: 2001-08-26 -
Episode 23 - Break into the Magical Wall! Misaki vs Ohjirou
Release Date: 2001-09-09The National Semis are here and it's Hikaru vs. Wizard, Oujiro's Angel. His Magic Guard seems impenitrable and Hikaru can't get a hit in edgewise. It's going to take all of Misaki's skill to get her Angel out of this one as Oujiro struggles with his own feelings about Misaki and his first love: her mother.
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Episode 24 - Reach Out to Misaki! This Feeling is Over the Rainbow
Release Date: 2001-09-16Misaki ponders the days when she was writing letters to her mother. But for now, it is time for the second semifinal as Sai, with her angel Shirahime, battles Shuko and her angel Athena.
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Episode 25 - Fateful Reunion - An Angel Soaked with Tears
Release Date: 2001-09-23The secret is finally out! Shuko has told Misaki that she is her mother. But now Ohjiro is going to have them meet face to face, and have Misaki learn the truth as to what her mother had been doing in Tokyo all these years.
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Episode 26 - Angels Wings! Pull Me and Hikaru Together
Release Date: 2001-09-30Misaki and Hikaru are in the finals, and she is ready for biggest match ever as she faces three-time champion Athena, who is commanded by none other than her mother! Athena is the angel that Misaki modeled her own angel after, and with them having met each other for the first time in seven years, it is time for mother and daughter to communicate in the Layer. While only one angel will emerge as the champion, the battle is a win-win situation for everyone involved.