• Premiered: Oct 1997
  • Episodes: 25
  • Followers: 292
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Season 1
1x1
The Black Swordsman
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 08, 1997
A blacksmith is forging an enormous sword while a dark man with only one eye and one arm stands back and watches. The dark man approaches a castle by a large town. There is an Inn .. show full overview
1x2
Band of the Hawk
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 1997
There is a great battle-taking place at a fort. The attackers are doing well, except one thing stands in their way - Baruso. Baruso is a huge grey knight and he states that none shall .. show full overview
1x3
First Battle
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 22, 1997
Guts and Griffith begin their sword fight. After Guts gets knocked down, he says how good Griffith is with a sword; using only one hand (Guts likes the challenge). Griffith tells Guts .. show full overview
1x4
The Hand of God
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 1997
Griffith and Guts develop their friendship. Griffith shows his "Ha-ou no Tamago" pendant. Guts reminisces about his childhood. He had been adopted by a fighter named Gambino, who trained .. show full overview
1x5
A Wind of Swords
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 05, 1997
Guts is now a commander in Griffith's army and he is taking great risks in battle. Although he succeeds, Casca takes him to task for it. Griffith is knighted and the nobles become jealous. Guts saves the Hawks in battle, to Casca's chagrin.
1x6
Zodd the Immortal
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 12, 1997
In another raid, Guts and Griffith come across a demon known as Nosferatu Zodd. Amazingly, they survive the combat against the powerful creature though both men are injured.
1x7
The Sword's Owner
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 19, 1997
Griffith and Guts are injured and Griffith uses this in his political machinations; getting closer to the nobles and the King. He also flirts with the King's daughter. Guts and some of the Hawks feel that Griffith is pulling away from them.
1x8
Conspiracy
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 26, 1997
Griffith and Guts continue to have success in battle and Griffith is made a count. General Yurius is furious about this, and the minister Foss plants the idea of murder in his mind. The .. show full overview
1x9
Assassination
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 03, 1997
Griffith saves Charlotte when her horse bolts during a fox hunt. Yurius, the king's younger brother, attempts to have him assassinated, but the assassin's arrow strikes Griffith's pendant and leaves him unhurt. Griffith plots his revenge.
1x10
Nobleman
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 10, 1997
Guts, sent by Griffith, assassinates Yurius and his son Adonis. Griffith gets closer to Charlotte. The Hawks depart for yet another mission.
1x11
The Battle
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 17, 1997
On a stormy battlefield, Caska, Griffith's second in command, is wounded while fighting the leader of an enemy army. Guts runs to her rescue but when she passes out at the edge of a .. show full overview
1x12
Together
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 24, 1997
Caska is still unconcious, so Guts shelters them in a cave while the rain pours down. She comes to and tells Guts about her past and about Griffith's. She was a peasant's daughter and .. show full overview
1x13
Prepared For Death
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 07, 1998
Guts and Caska try to fight their way back to the Hawks while the enemy army they were fighting from before try to stop them.
1x14
Bonfire of Dreams
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 14, 1998
Caska finds Judeau's division of Hawks and leads them back to where Guts was fighting alone. Although injured, he defeated all the enemy soldiers by himself. They return to the Hawks' .. show full overview
1x15
The Decisive Battle
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 21, 1998
The King of Midland and his various generals confer about Doldrey Castle, long since captured by the Chudan Empire. Griffith plans an attack and the King agrees despite the protests of .. show full overview
1x16
The Conqueror
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 28, 1998
With the help of Nosferatu Zodd (who threw a sword down on the battlefield after Guts broke his), Guts defeats the defender of Doldrey Castle in one on one combat.
1x17
Moment of Glory
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 04, 1998
With the victory at Doldrey, Griffith is promoted to White Phoenix General, an aristocratic title. The Queen of Midland and other court conspirators try to poison Griffith.
1x18
Tombstone of Flames
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 11, 1998
Griffith has his revenge by having the Queen's castle burned down, then covers his tracks by having Gatts kill the men he had hired to set the fire. With Griffith's position secure and .. show full overview
1x19
Separation
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 18, 1998
Griffith will not let Guts simply leave. He says that Guts belongs to him. With a single swing of his sword, Guts defeats Griffith by cutting through his sword and leaves the Hawks. .. show full overview
1x20
Sparks
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 25, 1998
Guts is on the road again, occasionally entering in tournaments for practice. He arrives at the home of Godo the swordsmith and stays there for a while while Godo crafts a new sword for .. show full overview
1x21
Confession
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 04, 1998
Guts returns in time to save the remaining Hawks from annihilation. Caska is angry at him, then tries to kill herself in frustration, but Guts stops her. He and Caska become romantically involved.
1x22
Infiltration
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 11, 1998
With Guts help, Caska and the Hawks hope to rescue Griffith. While they are off, a group of injured Hawks are wiped out by demons. Guts, Caska and the rest of the rescue group break a wounded, emaciated Griffith out of the Tower of Rebirth.
1x23
Eve of the Feast
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 18, 1998
Breaking away from the King's pursuing armies, the few Hawks left contemplate their future. Guts comforts Caska, who is despondent over Griffith's condition. Griffith begins to .. show full overview
1x24
The Great Eclipse
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 25, 1998
Seduced by the promises of demons and his dreams from his childhood, Griffith agrees to fulfill his destiny and become one of the God Hand demons. A seal is branded onto the Hawks after Griffith confers with God Hand.
1x25 Show finale
Time of Eternity
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 01, 1998
Griffith's men are sacrificed to the demon's appetites. Guts fights on, at first to save Griffith, then to save himself from the result of Griffith's ambition. Judeau and the others .. show full overview

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