| # |
Title |
Original Japanese Airdate |
| 01 |
The Shooting Star She Saw |
7 April 1995 |
| After years of oppression from the United Earth Sphere Alliance, a group of rebels in the space colonies send down five mobile suits known as "Gundams" to overthrow the militaristic regime. Of the five, one (Wing Gundam) is intercepted by Zechs Merquise of the Alliance's secret organization, OZ, and it falls into the Pacific Ocean. The pilot, Heero Yuy, is found by Relena Darlian, the daughter of the Vice Foreign Minister. |
| 02 |
The Gundam Deathscythe |
14 April 1995 |
| When Heero fails to appear at Relena's party, she goes off in search of him. Heero has found Wing Gundam and attempts to destroy it, but is stopped by another Gundam pilot, Duo Maxwell (the pilot of the Gundam Deathscythe), who was trying to recover it. |
| 03 |
Five Gundams Confirmed |
21 April 1995 |
| Heero is taken to the Alliance base medical facility, where he is later rescued by Duo. Pilots Quatre Raberba Winner and Trowa Barton meet in battle, but when Trowa surrenders after running out of ammunition, Quatre asks that they become friends instead. |
| 04 |
The Victoria Nightmare |
28 April 1995 |
| Zechs arrives at the Alliance base at Lake Victoria to meet with a friend, Lucrezia Noin. The base falls under attack thanks to the pilot Chang Wufei. Trowa and Quatre part ways after a brief respite from battle, while Heero repairs Wing Gundam by stealing parts from Duo's Deathscythe, and destroys an OZ transportation carrier later. |
| 05 |
Relena's Secret |
5 May 1995 |
| Relena goes with her father to the colonies when he is expected an important meeting. OZ colonel Lady Une sets off an explosion that severely injuries Relena's father; father and daughter are quickly spirited away by Dr. J, the engineer who designed Heero's Gundam. As Minister Darlian dies, he reveals to Relena her true identity and Relena soon learns from Dr. J the extent of Heero's mission and his past. |
| 06 |
Party Night |
12 May 1995 |
| Relena returns to school in time for a dance, but discovers Heero is going to transfer. After she challenges him to kill her after she reveals she knows all about him, Lady Une sends mobile suits at the school to kill Relena. Heero attacks the suits with Wing Gundam, believing they've come for him, and ends up saving Relena, much to his own disbelief. |
| 07 |
Scenario for Bloodshed |
19 May 1995 |
| The five Gundam pilots attempt to kill the higher echelon members of OZ at the New Edwards Base, but they discover too late they have been tricked; Heero has already eliminated the pacifist leaders of the Alliance while Lady Une and OZ leader Treize Khushrenada manipulate, then kill General Septum, the only survivor. The Alliance is overturned from within and OZ takes over as the new ruling power. |
| 08 |
The Treize Assassination |
26 May 1995 |
| Wufei and Trowa go after Treize while Heero, Duo, and Quatre attempt to stop the detonation of the New Edwards Base. Wufei and Treize duel in a battle for honor and justice, but Treize decides to spare Wufei when the young man loses. |
| 09 |
Portrait of a Ruined Country |
2 June 1995 |
| Zechs returns to the land of his birth, the Sanc Kingdom, in hopes of liberating it from the hands of the Alliance. The connection between Relena and Zechs is finally revealed. |
| 10 |
Heero, Distracted by Defeat |
9 June 1995 |
| OZ sets an elaborate trap to destroy the Gundams in Siberia, where the new Taurus suits are being stored. While Wufei is too ashamed over his defeat by Treize to show up, the other four pilots arrive in their Gundams. While Zechs, using his new Tallgeese unit, battles Wing Gundam, Lady Une eventually threatens to destroy the colonies using the missiles of Space Fortress Barge unless the Gundams surrender. Dr. J responds and apparently agrees to her terms, only for Heero, under orders, to detonate his Gundam and nearly kill himself. |
| 11 |
The Whereabouts of Happiness |
16 June 1995 |
| With his retreat path blocked by OZ troops, Duo is forced to travel with Quatre and the Magunac Corps to their base. But when OZ troops locate the Magunac's base, they distract the enemy while Duo and Quatre escape. Meanwhile, Relena attempts to take revenge on Lady Une and is nearly killed in the process, but is saved by Lucrezia Noin. |
| 12 |
Bewildered Warriors |
23 June 1995 |
| Heero awakes at a traveling circus troupe after being rescued by Trowa. Meanwhile, a depressed Wufei encounters former Alliance Major Sally Po, who is now a guerilla leader. Sally helps Wufei overcome his loss to Treize, causing Wufei to pilot the Shenlong Gundam once again. |
| 13 |
Catherine's Tears |
30 June 1995 |
| Zechs returns to the Lake Victoria Base, despite the fact Noin is no longer there. Her two former students have him join them in a military offensive, but Zechs is forced to kill them when they reveal their lack of understanding as to what they are fighting for. Catherine Bloom, a knife thrower in the circus, forces Trowa to realize the value of his own life. |
| 14 |
The Order to Destroy 01 |
7 July 1995 |
| Heero attempts to find Sylvia Noventa, the granddaughter of Alliance Field Marshall Noventa, one of the men he killed at New Edwards, and allows her to choose his fate as to the actions he took. Relena Peacecraft and Noin go to a meeting of the Romefeller Foundation (an organization of European nobles with monetary and military support for OZ), where her defiance of the leader, Duke Dermail, catches the admiration of Treize. Because his duel with Heero was interrupted in Siberia, Zechs is attempting to reconstruct the Wing Gundam (01), but suspicious officials from Romefeller force him to destroy it. |
| 15 |
To the Battleground Antarctica |
14 July 1995 |
| Noin finds Heero and Trowa and takes them to Antarctica, where Zechs intends to duel Heero. When Inspector Acht, who ordered the destruction of the Wing Gundam, arrives to expose Zechs as a traitor, Noin and Trowa destroy the search parties before they find Zechs. |
| 16 |
The Sorrowful Battle |
21 July 1995 |
| Relena receives a letter Noventa's widow wishes to give Heero and she sets off to find him. Heero duels Zechs in Trowa's Heavyarms unit, but Relena's arrival to stop the battle interrupts the duel again. Noin reveals that Zechs is Relena's brother and Trowa uses the Wing Gundam to pick up Heero in order to escape before OZ carriers arrive. |
| 17 |
Betrayed by a Home, Far Away |
28 July 1995 |
| Lady Une has become a diplomat of OZ to the colonies and the colonies debate if they should accept OZ's proposal. Duo and Quatre attempt to catch the attention of the other three pilots while Lady Une captures the five engineers of the Gundams. The five pilots take off into space after Quatre detonates his Gundam, Sandrock. |
| 18 |
Tallgeese Destroyed |
4 August 1995 |
| Zechs fights his final battle as Zechs Merquise while Lady Une forces the Gundam engineers to design and build mobiles suits superior to Zechs' Tallgeese and the Gundams under the threat of destroying a shuttle with Quatre inside. |
| 19 |
Assault on Barge |
11 August 1995 |
| Duo is captured after attempting to fight off mobile dolls, computer-controlled mobile suits that require no pilot. Heero sees the battle on television and goes to find and kill Duo, but ends up rescuing him instead. Wufei attacks Space Fortress Barge in his Shenlong Gundam, but escapes before Lady Une's subordinate, Nichol, finishes him off while Lady Une advocates peace. |
| 20 |
The Lunar Base Infiltration |
18 August 1995 |
| Sally Po infiltrates an OZ base in an attempt to destroy the remains of Sandrock, but with the convincing of the Magunac Corps, she allows them to take the pieces back to their base so it can be rebuilt. The Deathscythe is destroyed by possible OZ recruits, one of whom is a familiar face. Heero sneaks into the Lunar Base in order to destroy two new mobile suits, Mercurius and Vayeate, only to be caught by Trowa, who is now a member of OZ. |
| 21 |
Grief Stricken Quatre |
25 August 1995 |
| Trowa and Heero confront Zechs for the first time since their battle in Antarctica and Zechs surrenders willingly. Quatre discovers files in the Winner family computer detailing a machine known as Wing Zero and decides to build it. After failed negotiations, Quatre's pacifist father decides the other course of action to evacuate and sacrifices himself to destroy the colony before OZ can take advantage of it. |
| 22 |
The Fight for Independence |
1 September 1995 |
| Zechs, now going as Milliardo Peacecraft, meets with Lady Une and advocates peace as an ambassador of the Sanc Kingdom. When Nichol, one of Lady Une's subordinates, begins acting on his own, she realizes that she's developed a split personality while trying to execute Treize's dream of the future. She returns to the Space Fortress Barge and imprisons Nichol. Meanwhile, Wufei is captured by Chief Engineer Tsuborov of the Romefeller Foundation. |
| 23 |
Duo, God of Death Once Again |
8 September 1995 |
| Duo and an OZ officer, Hilde Schbeiker, clash in ideals as to what will bring about peace, and she comes to his way of thinking. Duo, after running into the five engineers, allows them to turn him in if he gives them time to finish the upgrading Deathscythe and Shenlong, which have been recovered by OZ. Meanwhile Sally Po manages to locate Wing Gundam, which Heero had left behind on Earth. |
| 24 |
The Gundam They Called Zero |
22 September 1995 |
| Quatre, now mentally unstable, appears in Wing Zero and threatens to destroy various colonies one by one. Lady Une sends Trowa and Heero to fight back in the Vayeate and Mercurius, while Tsuborov finding Une's behavior to be too lenient, stages a coup against her and cuts off the air supply to Wufei, Duo, and the Gundam engineers' cells. |
| 25 |
Quatre VS Heero |
29 September 1995 |
| Heero fights Quatre in a near vain attempt to demonstrate that the colonies no longer need the might of the Gundams. When that fails, Trowa forces Quatre to realize his own kindness by paying the ultimate price. Meanwhile, Treize is stripped from his position when he refuses to support the mobile dolls and Lady Une, who learns of Tsuborov's treachery, leads a group to free Duo and Wufei and is shot by Tsuborov when she unlocks their cell. Duo and Wufei escape with their incomplete new Deathscythe Hell and Altron Gundams. |
| 26 |
The Eternal Flame of the Shooting Stars |
6 October 1995 |
| Treize has been imprisoned by the Romefeller Foundation and soldiers loyal to him have created the Treize Faction. Heero and Quatre are taken away by the group to the engineers, who explain that Wing Zero uses a system known as ZERO, which increases skill but takes away free will, thus driving the pilot insane. They are captured again by OZ solider Trant Clark, who forces Heero to test the ZERO system to gather data. Quatre stops Heero before his insanity destroys the abandoned colony and the pair escape to Earth. |
| 27 |
The Locus of Victory and Defeat |
13 October 1995 |
| A recap episode from the point of view of Relena and Heero. |
| 28 |
Passing Destinies |
20 October 1995 |
| A recap episode from the point of view of Treize and Lady Une. Heero and Quatre crash land on Earth. At the conclusion of the episode, there is a sneak peek of Treize's new creation: the Gundam Epyon. |
| 29 |
The Heroine of the Battlefield |
27 October 1995 |
| Sally Po is captured by OZ, but is able to hide Wing Gundam. Noin helps rescue her and they team up to recover Wing Gundam before OZ finds it. Relena, now leader of the Sanc Kingdom, clashes ideals with Dorothy Catalonia, a new transfer student and granddaughter of Duke Dermail, who desires the thrill of war. Meanwhile Heero and Quatre arrive on earth and escape from an OZ carrier. |
| 30 |
The Reunion with Relena |
3 November 1995 |
| Heero fights as a mercenary for the Treize Faction while Quatre decides that after the battle he will go to the Sanc Kingdom. Noin arrives with Wing Gundam's buster rifle to even the odds and brings the two to the Sanc Kingdom, where Relena is waiting. |
| 31 |
The Glass Kingdom |
10 November 1995 |
| While Heero intends to take back Wing Gundam and leave, Quatre convinces him to stay in the Sanc Kingdom to defend Relena. After Heero and Wing Gundam help a Treize Faction unit used by OZ as an excuse to attack the Sanc Kingdom and Relena is saved during the battle, she decrees that although she advocates pacifism, she will allow Heero and Noin to have a small defense force to defend the country with mobile suits. |
| 32 |
The God of Death Meets Zero |
17 November 1995 |
| While working on salvaging the parts to complete the Deathscythe Hell, Duo is captured and forced by Trant to test the Zero system for OZ, but is driven nearly insane. He is rescued by Hilde as Trant attempts to fight in Wing Zero. |
| 33 |
The Lonely Battlefield |
24 November 1995 |
| Relena meets with Duke Dermail, the leader of Romefeller, who declares the Sanc Kingdom hypocritical as Milliardo/Zechs continues to fight. Heero leaves to fight mobile dolls in Luxembourg and receives a message from Treize after Wing Gundam is disabled. |
| 34 |
And Its Name is Epyon |
1 December 1995 |
| A philosophical Treize presents Heero with Epyon, a mobile suit that proves to have more in common with Wing Zero than Heero realizes. OZ's attempt to destroy Wing Zero is intercepted by Zechs, who sacrifices the Tallgeese as a distraction to acquire the Wing Zero. |
| 35 |
The Return of Wufei |
8 December 1995 |
| An amnesiac Trowa wanders around a colony and is found by Catherine. Wufei has returned to his home colony, but is forced to witness its destruction when they believe it is the only path to take against OZ. Zechs attempts to become Wufei's ally, but when he uses Wing Zero and is driven insane, Wufei finds that Zechs lacks the justice to properly bring about peace. Relena tries to bring together other pacifist nations against Romefeller. Quarte, after learning from Noin that the Magunacs have his Sandrock, heads out to retrieve it knowing that it is now only a matter of time before Romefeller attacks the Sanc Kingdom. Meanwhile, Duke Dermail authorizes Chief Engineer Tsuberov to begin construction of Libra in hopes of using it as a symbol to unify the soldiers. |
| 36 |
Sanc Kingdom's Collapse |
15 December 1995 |
| After attending a meeting with a group of rebels who want to take back control of space from OZ, Duo finds Trowa when Hilde takes him to the circus to help him relax, but is driven away by Catherine when he tries to talk to Trowa. Relena is forced to dissolve the Sanc Kingdom in order to save the lives of the people in the country and agrees to become a prisoner of OZ. After listening to Relena's speech, Dermail realizes that she might be the symbol needed to unify OZ which Romefeller presently lacks. Noin and Quatre leave for space while Heero loses control of Epyon and attempts to destroy the mobile dolls. |
| 37 |
Zero VS Epyon |
22 December 1995 |
| Zechs arrives in the Sanc Kingdom too late. In his devastation, he (in Wing Zero) fights Heero (in Epyon), but the battle ends in a draw and they exchange mobile suits. Relena reluctantly takes Duke Dermail's offer to become the new representative of Romefeller. Meanwhile, the Lunar Base and the uncompleted Libra are stolen by the White Fang revolutionary army as they begin their quest to take back space from OZ, and Tsuborov is killed during Wufei's attack on the Lunar Base. |
| 38 |
The Birth of Queen Relena |
12 January 1996 |
| Quatre, after Duo tells him, finds Trowa and asks for forgiveness. As Quatre and Noin fight the new faction, White Fang, Trowa, despite the fact he still remembers nothing, agrees to fight with them in hopes of recovering his memory. Queen Relena eliminates all international boundaries and founds the World Nation in hopes of bringing peace. |
| 39 |
Trowa's Return to the Battlefield |
19 January 1996 |
| Zechs is approached by Quinze, a member of White Fang, to become the faction's leader. While Dermail intends to continue using Relena as a figurehead, Dorothy and Marquis Weiridge (a friend of Relena's from episode 11) conspire with other members of Romefeller to make Relena a queen in power as well as name. Meanwhile, White Fang's repeated advances convince Duo to leave Hilde's colony, for her own protection. Trowa, Quatre, and Noin are mistaken as White Fang members by an OZ unit in the ruins of a nearby colony; after turning the tide of the resultant battle, Duo agrees to join the group. |
| 40 |
A New Leader |
26 January 1996 |
| Howard (an ally to the Gundam Pilots and Zechs) agrees to team up with the Gundam pilots and offers his ship, the Peacemillion, as a base. While Dermail heads for space in hopes of regaining his power, Relena announces that OZ needs to disarm and Earth and colonies can coexist peacefully. Heero, in an attempt to kill her to end the false peace, spares her when he and Relena see the response Romefeller has given her is positive. Dermail is killed and White Fang announces that Zechs (who introduced himself by his real name, Milliardo Peacecraft) is their new leader as they use the footage from Wufei's failed attack against Libra as an excuse to launch a war against Earth. |
| 41 |
Crossfire at Barge |
2 February 1996 |
| Heero heads off into space with Sally Po, taking with him Heavyarms, which Sally had recovered. Treize dismisses Relena from her position because he reasons, now that she has laid the foundation for peace, he will provide the military might required to bring it to fruition. She and Dorothy head for space separately. Meanwhile Trowa, Duo, Quatre, and Noin intervene in the White Fang's attack on Barge in hopes of finding out why Zechs has declared war against Earth. Zechs makes his purposes clear as he singlehandedly destroys the Barge with Epyon. |
| 42 |
Battleship Libra |
9 February 1996 |
| Treize visits a comatose Lady Une and reveals that he must bring about the peace because the burden would be too great for Relena. Wufei attempts to fight against White Fang on his own, but Altron runs out of power. While he refuses help from Sally and Heero, Heero lends him Wing Zero. Relena continues towards Libra, Zechs' new base of operations. |
| 43 |
Target: Earth |
16 February 1996 |
| The Gundam pilots are reunited on board Peacemillion. Trowa steals the Wing Zero in order to free colonists of C421 (after seeing Catherine amongst them), but nearly destroys them (once again because of the Zero system) until Quatre stops him, recovering Trowa's memory in the process. Relena attempts to reason with Zechs as her shuttle approaches Libra, but he orders the firing of Libra's cannon on Earth as a direct challenge to Treize. |
| 44 |
Go Forth, Gundam Team |
23 February 1996 |
| Relena, now on board Libra, attempts to reason with Zechs, but is imprisoned instead. After Heero installs the ZERO System in Sandrock, Zechs adapts the system so Dorothy can control mobile dolls. Dorothy has the upper hand against the pilots until Quatre uses ZERO and turns the tide. |
| 45 |
Signs of the Final Battle |
1 March 1996 |
| Hilde Schbeiker sneaks on board Libra to steal the blueprints and runs into Relena. When she escapes to Peacemillion, she is nearly killed until Duo arrives to fight against two mobile dolls programmed with Trowa and Heero's combat data. Duo reveals to Heero (from Hilde) that Relena is on Libra. |
| 46 |
Milliardo's Decision |
8 March 1996 |
| Heero sneaks on board Libra and he and Relena go to confront Zechs. When their attempts fail, Heero forces Relena to leave with him. Treize leads the Earth Nation forces into battle and offers to duel Zechs one on one to decide the fate of the world, but Zechs fires Libra's cannon. Lady Une wakes up and steals Wing Gundam (since it had been left behind in Luxembourg) and saves Treize from the blast. Treize orders his forces to destroy Libra. |
| 47 |
Collision in Space |
15 March 1996 |
| The Gundam pilots on board Peacemillion refuse to join Treize, but still believe they must stop Libra and head off in that direction. Sally and Howard decide the only way to stop Libra is to evacuate Peacemillion and ram it into Libra's main cannon. Noin decides she would rather remain by Zechs' side than fight him. |
| 48 |
Takeoff into Confusion |
22 March 1996 |
| Wufei fights mobile dolls and gets a rematch with Treize, questioning if Treize understands justice and the consequences of his actions. However, as Treize reveals that he does understand, he commits suicide by impaling himself on the Altron's Trident. Duo finds the Gundam engineers while Dorothy reveals her own tragedies as she attempts to prove to Quatre in a fencing duel on Libra that war is the only way peace will be understood, eventually impaling Quatre on her blade. Heero and Relena return to Peacemillion, where Heero takes off in Wing Zero and asks Relena to believe in him. |
| 49 |
The Final Victor |
29 March 1996 |
| Heero and Zechs begin their final duel against one another. Duo sets off with the Gundam engineers, who intend to rewire Libra so it will destroy itself before it is dropped onto Earth. This objective is eventually accomplished, though it kills the engineers along with Quinze. Lady Une announces the surrender of the World Nation to the moderate colony leaders in the lieu of Treize's death, who agree with her proposal that the war must end. Heero and Zechs continue fighting until they realize that it now has no meaning and Libra will destroy the world. After Zechs apparently sacrifices himself to destroy Libra(but he does not die), Heero, with the help of the other Gundam pilots, destroys a remaining fragment of the station that has entered the atmosphere. The war ends and we see that Relena (now Darlian again) has become Vice Foreign Minister in hopes of maintaining the current peace. |
