
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. © CLAMP/ANGELIC PRODUCTION COMMITTEE, TV TOKYO

Apr 1, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki Suzuhara left her grandparents' home in Wakayama and moved to Tokyo when she entered junior high school. After failing to change trains for her, she ends up outside Tokyo station, and she is glued to the martial arts broadcast on the street TV. When she learns from a mysterious man that it's a game called Angelic Layer, she buys a set of products to create her own angel.

Apr 8, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
On her first day at school, Misaki meets Hatoko, a kindergartener who is familiar with Angelic Layers. She also becomes friends with Kotaro, Hatoko's older brother and classmate, and his childhood friend Tamayo. On the way home from school, Misaki goes to the Angelic Layer practice field with Icchan, but ends up participating in the tournament by mistake.

Apr 15, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
The day after winning her first match, Misaki comes to the practice field with Icchan and tries her hand at making Hikaru dance to music. While Misaki is immersed in her practice, Icchan disappears, but a boy named Ojiro appears and invites her to practice with him.

Apr 22, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Following Icchan's recommendation, Misaki decides to participate in the Tokyo preliminaries of the official Angelic Layer tournament. Her first opponent is Yuko Hikawa, who controls the speed-oriented Angel Katarina. Katarina kicks while spinning at high speed, and Hikaru's stamina is unilaterally reduced.

Apr 29, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Even after winning her first official match, Misaki still lacks confidence. In the second round, Misaki faced the heavyweight Angel Vasquez, and was afraid that Vasquez's powerful attacks would break Hikaru, so she fought passively with the goal of winning by decision.

May 6, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki is in great shape with eight straight wins in official battles, but her next opponent is the "high-speed Suzuka" piloted by Hatoko. Misaki overcomes her weakness during her fight with Hatoko and attacks aggressively without fear of counterattack, but her every move is read. Hatoko had predicted Hikaru's movements by watching Misaki's.

May 13, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
In the final match of the Tokyo tournament, Misaki will face Deus Maria Shibata, a newcomer who also has 8 wins and 1 loss, and Angel Tsubaki. The one who wins this match will advance to the Kanto tournament. However, due to the trauma of losing for the first time, Misaki, who is extremely afraid of Hikaru getting injured, cannot move Hikaru like she always does.

May 20, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki and her classmate Ryo Misaki, who boasts that there is no way a woman can beat a man, compete in a three-game Angelic Layer match. In the first run, she was attacked and lost out of the arena. Although she maneged to win the second one by decision, she loses confidence that Hikaru, who is still weak, will not be able to become any stronger.

May 27, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki is surprised to know that the girl she met during the match with Ryo Misaki is the popular idol Ringo Seto. Moreover, in the first round of the Kanto Tournament, she will be competing against Ringo. Ranga's special move "Dance of Death", controlled by Ringo, gives damages to opponents at a distance. The spectators' cheers focus on Ringo, and Misaki loses her confidence even more.

Jun 3, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Following the first round against Rinko, Misaki also made it through the second round. Her third-round opponent is Madoka Fujisaki, who has a strong rivalry with Hatoko. Before the match, Misaki is asked by Madoka's sister Arisu to see Hikaru, and she happily agrees, but then she secretly attached Hikaru an unknown device.

Jun 10, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
During the match with Mao, Hikaru suddenly stopped acting as Misaki wanted. Icchan realizes that the transmission of thoughts from Misaki to Hikaru is being disturbed, and tries to head to the venue to stop.

Jun 17, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
After defeating Madoka, Misaki was pointed out by the Kanagawa representative that Hikaru had a weakness. Unable to understand her weaknesses, Kotaro asks her if she would like to come and see his karate moves.

Jun 24, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Finally, it's the day of the final match of the Kanto tournament. Misaki is overjoyed to find our that her mother, Shuko, is coming to watch the battle. Just before Shuko arrives at the venue, she makes a U-turn to the hospital, and even during the match with Blanche, controlled by Kaede, Misaki is too obsessed with the spectators seats.

Jul 1, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Hikaru struggles against Blanche, whose limiter has been removed after hyperization. Meanwhile, Shuko returned from the venue and was in her hospital bed. Seven years ago, she fell ill with an incurable disease and moved to Tokyo under the guise of her job in order to not worry Misaki, and she has been hospitalized ever since.

Jul 8, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki wins Blanchet in a big comeback and advances to the finals. The battle between Hatoko and Sai Jounouchi, which will decide the other finalist, has attracted more attention than their previous matches, but after the match began, both sides did not move at all.

Jul 15, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
With Hatoko's feelings entrusted to her, Misaki faces the final match against Jonouchi Sai, and proves her amazing growth by hitting Shirahime with sharp attacks one after another. However, Hikaru's attack does no damage, and even Suzuka's special move Rolling Thunder is blocked.

Jul 22, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki heard that she needs a second to support Deus at the national tournament and wanted to ask Hatoko to be the second. Hatoko also analyzed Hikaru's past battles with that intention in mind. However, during a party to celebrate Misaki's participation in the national tournament, Ringo, Oujiro, and others also come running for her second place.

Jul 29, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
The 4th Angelic Layer National Tournament has begun. Shuko also appeared at the opening ceremony as Queen Shu, who once won the tournament three times in a row. Misaki is fascinated by the sight of Shu controlling Athena, the white angel of her dreams, without knowing that she is actually her mother.

Aug 5, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki's opponent in the first round is Deus Tanaka Chitose from Hokkaido. Having a complex about her height, she shows intense hostility towards Misaki, whose height is short. And Hikaru is tormented by Chitose's Angel Elaine's mysterious technique "Reversion Hexagon".

Aug 12, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
In the second round, Misaki battles against the latest type of angel controlled by the Angelic Layer development team. Then, Icchan appeared as the second on the opponent side, and made Misaki surprised and confused.

Aug 19, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki went to the beach with Tamayo, Kotaro, and Hatoko. Meanwhile, Icchan, Shuko, Ohjiro, and other Angelic Layer staff members are also at the same beach, and they end up having a barbecue with Misaki and the others. However, since Shuko became unwell and moved to another location, she couldn't manage to see her daughter.

Aug 26, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
At Hatoko's house, Misaki was researching the Wizard controlled by Ohjiro, her opponent in the semi-finals. On her way home, she bumped into Ohjiro, who came to deliver a photo taken at the beach. They had a great time at the coffee shop, talking about their childhoods.

Sep 2, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Misaki was about to lose her faith by the Wizard's magic guard that blocks any attacks. However, remembering the promise with Hatoko to "battle with the white angel" and regaining her fighting spirit, she sees through the secret of his magic guard and finally deactivates it.

Sep 9, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Before the semi-final match, Icchan takes Shuko out to an amusement park and proposes to her. Although he did not receive her answer, he finally expressed his long-held feelings. In the semi-finals, Shuko overwhelms even Shirahime, who has put everything on the line for this match. After the match, she took off her visor for the first time and revealed her true identity.

Sep 16, 2001 • 24m•U/A 13+
Just before reuniting with Shuko, Misaki runs away and wanders through the rainy city crying with complicated feelings for her mother. She arrived in front of the monitor at Tokyo Station where she first saw Angelic Layer. Shuko, who was desperately searching for Misaki in her wheelchair, also headed for the place on the advice of Icchan.

Sep 23, 2001 • 23m•U/A 13+
The final match has finally begun. The battle between Hikaru and Athena unfolds violently, but Shuko and Misaki have smiles on their faces. The two of them are talking through the angelic layer, as if to fill in the gap of seven years. Hikaru stood up even though she received a one-hit kill technique, and on her back are shining white angel wings!