Episode guide
Gatchaman Crowds: Gatchaman Crowds
12 episodes · premiered Jul 13, 2013
As the energetic and cheerful Hajime Ichinose joins the mysterious and secretive Gatchaman team, a new collaborative social network called GALAX is having enormous impacts on society. But when GALAX, and the power of Crowds, falls into the wrong hands, Tachikawa may need a kind of hero they've never known before.
- Episode 1: Avant-Garde Jul 13, 2013 · 23m Hajime Ichinose is a rather eccentric schoolgirl who is obsessed with notebooks. One day, she is approached by a mysterious man named J.J. who pulls out a journal called a NOTE from her…
- Episode 2: Asymmetry Jul 20, 2013 · 23m Hajime annoys Sugane when she allows the MESS to escape. Later, she teaches Sugane about a popular social app called GALAX, which allows users in the vicinity to help each other, and…
- Episode 3: Futurism Jul 27, 2013 · 23m Hajime befriends the MESS, which she nicknames Messy, and the abduction cases involving the MESS stop. The other Gatchaman begin to wonder whether they were hostile at all. The next day…
- Episode 4: Kitsch Aug 3, 2013 · 23m The mysterious "Crowds" are revealed to be strange beings controlled by the GALAX users. Meanwhile, Joe fights against the strange alien known as Berg Katze, but is beaten back when Katze…
- Episode 5: Collaboration Aug 10, 2013 · 23m While Hajime clashes with Sugane and Paiman about why the Gatchaman are so secretive, Rui is faced with a dissenter in one of the "Hundred", who believes that Crowds should be used to kill…
- Episode 6: Originality Aug 17, 2013 · 23m Utsu-tsu risks her life to heal the wounded, and Hajime's identity is revealed to the world. Rui helps Hajime and Utsu-tsu evade the press, but then demands they give up being Gatchaman…
- Episode 7: Abjection Aug 24, 2013 · 23m Rui decides to stand against Katze using the might of Crowds, but Katze uses the power of Gatchaman to overwhelm them. The Gatchaman team rushes to Rui's rescue, but find themselves…
- Episode 8: Genuine Aug 31, 2013 · 23m Katze takes on Rui's form to steal control of GALAX and form a new "Hundred". Hajime suggests the best way to fight is for the Gatchaman team and Rui to reveal themselves and go public…
- Episode 9: Forgery Sep 7, 2013 · 23m Katze continues to distort Rui's vision, giving Crowds to people Rui had decided were too dangerous to have it, and staging attacks on government targets. Hajime sets up a 'Gatchannel'…
- Episode 10: Crowds Sep 14, 2013 · 23m After taunting Hajime on GALAX, Katze sets the Neo-Hundred after the Prime Minister. The Gatchaman team are forced to protect him while trying to find a way to stop the Crowds without…
- Episode 11: Gamification Sep 21, 2013 · 23m Rui regains control of X, and uses the GALAX network to help the Gatchaman team in the crisis. Hajime convinces the Prime Minister to broadcast a message on the Gatchannel, asking everyone…
- Episode 12: Collage Sep 28, 2013 · 23m As more citizens use Crowds and fight against each other, chaos breaks out. O.D. risks everything to retrieve Rui's NOTE from Katze. Hajime sends her mother a cryptic message, then leaves…