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The Best Episodes of Blood+ Season 1

Every episode of Blood+ Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Blood+ Season 1!

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Unable to remember the past, high school senior Saya Otonashi must rediscover her destiny in order to defeat the chiropteran vampires that threaten her loved ones' existence.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Blood+ Season 1 Episode 1 - First Kiss
    7.2/10(90 votes)

    #1 - First Kiss

    S1:E1

    Japan, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa City, Koza District. Saya is a senior high school student, and with her best friend and classmate, Kaori Kinjo, she is a member of the track and field team at school. She lost her memories of her life beyond that of the past year, but she is living peacefully with her family. His father, George Miyagusuku, runs a pub called "Omoro." She also has two brothers, Kai, hot tempered but actually kind and committed to his family, and Riku, who is good natured and loves to read. But Saya's unruffled life is about to change: when she accidentally meets a handsome cellist, Hagi, it is a sign that the wheel of fate has begun to turn...

    Director:Jun Matsumoto
    Writer:Junichi Fujisaku

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  2. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 2 - Magic Words
    6.9/10(68 votes)

    #2 - Magic Words

    S1:E2

    School. Biology Room. Night. Kai, who has come to pick up Saya, witnesses an incredible scene: her sister covered with blood is fighting with a sword against a creature beyond any description. Then Saya faints on the spot... The next day, the incident is treated as a murder committed by a drug addicted American soldier, and there seems to be no trace of the creature. Taken to the hospital from school, Saya accidentally hears the conversation between George and David, a mysterious man who watches over Saya. And what she hears makes her run away terrified...

    Director:Jun Takahashi
    Writer:Yutaka Omatsu

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  3. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 3 - The Place Where It All Started
    7.1/10(58 votes)

    #3 - The Place Where It All Started

    S1:E3

    The memory of that terrible night is fading away: not a trace is left, and a brand new desk is placed in the biology room, as if nothing had happened. On her way home from school, George takes Saya to the grave of the Miyagusuku family, on a hill overlooking the sea colored by the sunset. George talks about his past and his meeting with Saya. Back at Omoro, David reveals to Saya that she is the only living being who can defeat the chiropterans, as the creatures like the one that attacked her at school are called. Saya is shocked, but a new menace is just approaching, its eyes shining red...

    Director:Tomoaki Ohta
    Writer:Taiki Sakurai

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  4. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 4 - Dangerous Boy
    6.8/10(55 votes)

    #4 - Dangerous Boy

    S1:E4

    George is seriously injured and is taken to the emergency ward. Full of anger, Kai takes out a Colt M1911 that his father was keeping secretly hidden, and goes alone after the man -or whatever it was- responsible for that hell, ignoring Riku who tries to stop him. Saya runs around town looking for her brother, when she meets Hagi. Now the young girl must take a decision. And there is no time for hesitation, because Kai is in immediate danger...

    Director:Akiko Honda
    Writer:Shoutarou Suga

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  5. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 5 - Toward the Dark Forest
    6.6/10(51 votes)

    #5 - Toward the Dark Forest

    S1:E5

    David and his group go after George, who had been taken away by the U.S. military, when they learn that there is a secret facility in Yanbaru. Perhaps George is there. When Kai hears this, he asks if he can go along as well, however...

    Director:Takashi Sano
    Writer:Midori Goto

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  6. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 6 - Father's Hand
    7.3/10(49 votes)

    #6 - Father's Hand

    S1:E6

    Saya and her team infiltrate the Yanbaru laboratory. David had learned that the U.S. military is conducting experiments underground to build artificial Chiroptera. There he discovers a mysterious keyword called "Delta 69". Then, a Chiropteran swoops down on Saya's party underground, where they can take no refuge. In order to escape from their subterranean trap, they will have to defeat the creature. Who can save Saya and her party from this desperate predicament?

    Director:Yasunori Urata
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 7 - I Must Do It
    7.0/10(48 votes)

    #7 - I Must Do It

    S1:E7

    On a ship leaving Okinawa, Riku hears about the tragic event that took place, and so he confines himself in his cabin. Kai tries to comfort Riku, but he doesn't even respond. Saya feels that she is solely responsible for her family's misfortune. Seeing Saya, Hagi takes out the sword and tells her that the key to take back her past lies at the end of the continuous battle. Meanwhile, Okamura, a reporter for the Ryukyu Daily who was investigating the random killing and came to focus on Yanbaru, finds an empty case of Bordeaux wine in the dump yard of an industrial waste disposal company...

    Director:Shigeki Awai
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 8 - Phantom of the School
    7.1/10(48 votes)

    #8 - Phantom of the School

    S1:E8

    Saya infiltrates a girls' boarding school, the Lycee des Cinq Fleches. Hagi too sneaks in, disguised a gardener. Saya learns from her roommate Ming about a legend of a phantom who fell in love with the prettiest girl from the school and who presented her with a blue rose flower.

    Director:Akiko Honda
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 9 - Rainbow for Each
    7.3/10(50 votes)

    #9 - Rainbow for Each

    S1:E9

    In Hanoi, Kai and Riku encounter a beautiful girl, Mui, who lost her left leg to an unexploded bomb that had detonated. In the meantime, David and his group analyze the photos of the past phantom incidents at the lycee and find out that the past victims all had black hair and Oriental complexions. They realized Saya was lured out deliberately. Meanwhile, in Naha, Okinawa, Okamura prepares to go to Vietnam on a paid holiday. Then, from the belongings left by his late photographer father, who covered the battlefields, Okamura finds a photo...

    Director:Kiyoko Sayama
    Writer:Shoutarou Suga

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  10. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 10 - I Want to See You
    7.3/10(49 votes)

    #10 - I Want to See You

    S1:E10

    In the morning, as Saya comes into her classroom, she finds a blue rose. Students are murmuring about the phantom legend that has been the gossip at the lycee. Saya and Hagi sneak into a rose garden beside the church where it is said the blue roses were in bloom. And they find steps leading to the underground...

    Director:Takashi Sano
    Writer:Shigeru Morita

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  11. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 11 - After the Dance
    7.3/10(50 votes)

    #11 - After the Dance

    S1:E11

    An annual ball is being held in the lycee. Students, guardians and guests in formal attire are gathered in the school cafeteria when Saya arrives in a dress she borrowed from Min. On the dance floor, Saya meets a young man named Solomon, who asks her for a dance. As the music starts, David reaches the entrance to the basement surrounded by blue roses...

    Director:Naomichi Yamato
    Writer:Taiki Sakurai

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  12. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 12 - Lured by the White Mist
    7.0/10(45 votes)

    #12 - Lured by the White Mist

    S1:E12

    Saya and the others follow a container cargo carrying Diva who was transported out of the lycee. The operational unit of the Red Shield, Clara, Spencer, Rogers and McCoy, joins the pursuit. They go upstream on the Mekong River and head toward the experiment farm of Les Cinq Fleches Pharmaceutical. The farm had collected children from all over Vietnam. Mui, Riku and Kai were among them. But Saya and her friends are not aware of this fact as they get ready for the showdown...

    Director:Naoyasu Hanyu
    Writer:Shoutarou Suga

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  13. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 13 - Jungle Paradise
    7.3/10(48 votes)

    #13 - Jungle Paradise

    S1:E13

    At the experiment farm of Les Cinq Fleches Pharmaceutical, Saya is surrounded by child Chiroptera. But confronted with a mysterious humming coming from nowhere, the howling of the Chiroptera and a choking smell of blood, the girl goes berserk, and swings the sword at anything that comes into her view without even distinguishing between friend and enemy...

    Director:Yasunori Urata
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 14 - The Last Sunday
    6.9/10(42 votes)

    #14 - The Last Sunday

    S1:E14

    Saya and friends return to Okinawa for a brief time. They decide to do whatever they wish on this one-day break. Saya, Kai and Riku bury George's memento in his grave. And Saya meets her best friend Kaori at the Yaejima Park.

    Director:Kazuhiro Ozawa
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 15 - I Want to Pursue
    6.5/10(42 votes)

    #15 - I Want to Pursue

    S1:E15

    Mao gets frustrated for not being able to see Kai and she feels left out. Okamura, the Ryukyu Daily reporter, cannot forget about the sight he witnessed in the wine barrel storage at the lycee in Vietnam. Mao wants to pursue Kai. Okamura wants to find Saya to solve the mystery of what he saw. Then, two people with the same goal and different motives meet...

    Director:Tetsuya Kobayashi
    Writer:Shigeru Morita

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  16. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 16 - Siberian Express
    7.1/10(47 votes)

    #16 - Siberian Express

    S1:E16

    Saya and the others arrive in Vladivostok, and take the Trans-Siberian Railroad with Elizaveta, a Russian Red Shield agent. But the Chiroptera are lurking in the most unexpected places...

    Director:Naomichi Yamato
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 17 - Do you Remember the Promise?
    6.9/10(46 votes)

    #17 - Do you Remember the Promise?

    S1:E17

    Trying to rescue Riku, Saya jumps off the train and passes out in the blizzard. When she wakes up, Hagi is on her side, but everything around her is like in a dream. A dream of something that happened in the past, a long forgotten memory fallen into oblivion...

    Director:Ken Ando
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 18 - Moon Over Ekaterinburg
    6.7/10(47 votes)

    #18 - Moon Over Ekaterinburg

    S1:E18

    Kai is worried about Saya who fell out of the speeding train, but David insists on pressing on to find Dr. Ted A. Adams, a scientist involved in the Delta-67 research at the time of Vietnam War. Although they cannot find him, they find clues in his hous which lead them to an abandoned nuclear facility in Sverdlovsk-51...

    Director:Akiko Honda
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 19 - Broken Heart
    7.4/10(43 votes)

    #19 - Broken Heart

    S1:E19

    Saya and the others check in at a hotel where they are supposed to meet up with others. While David is out doing some research, Riku comes down with a fever. Saya stays with her brother and takes care of him, but in this situation, Liza questions Saya about her true intention to fight the Chiroptera. Why does she kill them? Is she not getting others involved in the battles by killing Chiroptera? Saya, who is still confused about the real meaning of the dreams she had in Vietnam and in the Russian tundra, appears unable to find an answer. And then, Liza says something even more shocking...

    Director:Naoyasu Hanyu
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 20 - Chevaliers
    7.3/10(43 votes)

    #20 - Chevaliers

    S1:E20

    David and the others arrive at the headquarters of the Red Shield, where they get checked for possible Chiropteran reactions, Kai finds out some shocking truth from "Joel's diary", a mysterious document in possession of the Red Shield. In the meantime, in France, the chevaliers, Amshel, Solomon, James and Nathan are meeting to decide the fate of Saya who has been keeping their plan from materializing.

    Director:Nanako Shimazaki
    Writer:Taiki Sakurai

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  21. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 21 - Sour Grapes
    7.5/10(42 votes)

    #21 - Sour Grapes

    S1:E21

    Okamura and Mao arrive in France. They are looking for clues about the mystery behind the wine bottle of 1967 Chateau Duel that was transported out of the lycee in Vietnam. And their investigations lead them to an unexpected encounter. In the meantime, another party has reached French soil. They are known as the Schiff, and are determined to hunt Saya and Hagi.

    Director:Kiyoko Sayama
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 22 - The Zoo
    7.5/10(42 votes)

    #22 - The Zoo

    S1:E22

    Saya and Hagi arrived at the ruins of "The Zoo," were Saya's forgotten past is sleeping. The place is covered with overgrown grass and only a portion of the exterior walls is still standing. Soon, Saya's memories awake: her first encounter with Hagi, the incident on the Zoo owner's birthday, and the image of the whole building on fire...

    Director:Mitsuru Kawasaki
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 23 - Two Chevaliers
    7.2/10(42 votes)

    #23 - Two Chevaliers

    S1:E23

    Saya and Hagi meet Solomon in the Zoo again. Hagi fiercely attacks him. Solomon skillfully handles Hagi. Solomon tells them that he is a chevalier and that chevaliers are trying to kill Saya. He also adds that his feelings are different from the wishes of his brothers. Around that time, David, Kai and Riku arrive at the Zoo...

    Director:Ei Aoki
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 24 - Airy Singing Voice
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #24 - Airy Singing Voice

    S1:E24

    Finally Saya confronts Diva. The memory of the tragic event that took place at Joel's birthday starts to come back to Saya. And as she screams, Kai dash to the top of the tower...

    Director:Shigeru Ueda
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Blood+ Season 1 Episode 25 - The Red Shield
    7.0/10(58 votes)

    #25 - The Red Shield

    S1:E25

    Okamura and Mao arrive at the Zoo only to find a broken sword left behind. Saya and the others return to the Red Shield HQ with the wounded Riku. As Kai helplessly watches his still unconscious little brother, Saya wonders if what she did for Riku has really been the right choice...

    Director:Naoyasu Hanyu
    Writer:Reiko Yoshida

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"First Kiss" is the best rated episode of "Blood+" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 90 votes. Directed by Jun Matsumoto and written by Junichi Fujisaku, it aired on 10/8/2005. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Magic Words".