Blade and Soul Season 1
01. Road
Alka is chased by the Empire, and runs into Koga, who notices her skill with the blade. She's taken to their village. The village's land is great for cultivating Heaven's Spirits, so the Empire wants their land. Morii hires Alka as a bodyguard. Jin Varrel commands the Flower Monks and searches for Alka, saying she killed her master.
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Atsuhiro Tomioka
Writer
02. Desire
Wanted posters are posted in the red light district of this town of Alka. Jin Hazuki, the bounty hunter, takes Alka to the Tomon Inn. They meet the proprietress, Elle Karen. Karen realizes she's the bounty, but has a policy of leaving business outside of her establishment.
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
03. Revenge
Alka and Hazuki continue to fight and run into the Pleasure Gang. Dan Loana, the leader of the gang, tells Alka that she's trying to take revenge against Jin. She tries to explain that revenge is about an emotion, not a rule, and uses Alka as bait to lure Jin in.
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Yoshiki Kitai
Production Assistant
Yang Pyeong-gil
Animation Director
Hirofumi Onodera
Key Animation
04. Sword
Seto and Pia work by collecting garbage around the red light district. They invite Alka into their house, as it seems she has lost her sight. She remembers Master Hon's teaching. One day Seto is attacked and he ends up killing his attacker and selling his goods.
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Atsuhiro Tomioka
Writer
Yuu Nobuta
Director
Kôichi Chigira
Storyboard Artist
Akiko Kumada
Animation Director
Hitoshi Kamata
Animation Director
Hiroki Itai
Animation Director
Miho Aoki
Animation Director
Reiko Nozaki
Animation Director
Sayaka Takase
Animation Director
Noriyuki Fukuda
Animation Director
Key Animation
Tsuyoshi Honda
Key Animation
Tomoko Nitta
Key Animation
Ai Mochida
Key Animation
Ayako Suzuki
Key Animation
Mitsuteru Kubo
Key Animation
Takahiro Arai
Key Animation
Nagisa Takahashi
Key Animation
Eriko Miwa
Key Animation
Sotaro Shimizu
Key Animation
Rie Kaneko
Key Animation
Nobuhiro Kashiwaki
Key Animation
Hiroki Iwamura
Key Animation
Hikaru Naraoka
Key Animation
05. Flower
Shou, a man who hates the Heaven's Spirits, hires Alka as a bodyguard and then uses her to try to persuade a village to stop producing them. However, this village depends on the Heaven's Spirits, and Shou's pleas fall on deft ears. Shou creates a plan to help things go his way...
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Manami Yagi
Animation
06. Dream
Yuu joins an anti-gorilla force and doesn't like military action, however all the other members want to take the fight to the Empire. Jin commands the Flower Monks to set up camp to take them out. Yuu wants to stop the fight from happening, so he goes to talk to Jin...
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
07. Time
Alka runs into Moriii again, and finds her and others collected in a place where everyone carries some sort of past pain. Morii seems like she changed, and now speaks strangely. A woman, which Morii calls mother, wants to hold a ritual to help Alka, but...
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
08. Sky
Yuu, appears in front of Alka, poisoned by the Impurity. He asks where Master Hon is and then collapses due to hunger. Alka takes him to the Pleasure Gang base, and Alka takes care of him. While talking with Yuu, Alka starts to understand Master Hon's teachings.
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Yoshiki Kitai
Production Assistant
Yang Pyeong-gil
Animation Director
09. Moon
Alka doesn't know what to do anymore, and so Karen invites her to work at her shop. She learns what to do, and becomes close friends with Miharu. Alka starts to become more human, and realizes there's a world out there she didn't know. But she finds her lives shatter by someone.
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Hirofumi Onodera
Key Animation
Manami Yagi
Animation
10. Sin
Alka carries deep wounds because of Karen, and then runs into Hayate and his wife Hana. Hana realizes Alka is under distress, but both Hana and Hayate realize that Alka is related to something that happened to their daughter who died...
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
11. Punishment
Alka suffers thinking back on everyone's words, which she had originally thought were meaningless. She returns to the Village of the Sword. Karen searches for Alka with Hazuki and Loana, but Jin Varrel seems to be approaching as well.
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Ayumu Hisao
Writer
Keishi Kawakubo
Director
Kenji Seto
Storyboard Artist
Akiko Kumada
Animation Director
Hitoshi Kamata
Animation Director
Miho Aoki
Animation Director
Hiroki Itai
Key Animation
Key Animation
Kenji Hattori
Animation Director
Ryou Kobayashi
Animation Director
Makito Uehara
Key Animation
Li Shengzhen
Key Animation
Megumi Nagayama
Key Animation
Yoshiaki Ikeya
Key Animation
Toshihiro Kawakami
Key Animation
Satoshi Shimada
Key Animation
Takeshi Moriyama
Key Animation
Tomoyuki Ōshita
Key Animation
Hiroki Saitō
Key Animation
Takaki Inoue
Key Animation
Shinichi Iimura
Key Animation
Shunryou Yamamura
Key Animation
Kosuke Iwanaga
Key Animation
Kyohei Oyabu
Key Animation
Hirotaka Nii
Key Animation
Keiko Iwata
Key Animation
Kōichi Hashimoto
Key Animation
12. Soul
Jin Varrel stands before Alka once again. Karen, Hazuki, Loana fight against Jin, as Alka is no longer to fight, but they stand no match against her. Alka decides to end this once and for all. The fight continues, with no end in sight, but then Jin attacks Alka with a full blast of her Impurity...
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Yoshiki Kitai
Production Assistant
Yang Pyeong-gil
Animation Director
13. God
Hazuki wins a drinking contest, and gets a treasure map showing the location of eternal beauty. Karen also gets a map from a person staying at her inn, and she heads towards a lone island in the southern sea. Pia claims that it's totally a fake, but Karen says it might be fun to search for some treasure. Loana ends up coming in search of the treasure too...
Takao Yuki
Aruka
Ayahi Takagaki
Dan Roana
Sayaka Ohara
El Karen
Aoi Yuki
Jin Varel
Sora Amamiya
Hazuki Jin (voice)
Marina Inoue
Yuu (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Ron (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Ran Yu (voice)
Choo
Dougen Hon (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Gante Ga (voice)
Hiroaki Hanawa
Key Animation
Michio Satō
Key Animation
Yukihiro Kobayashi
Key Animation
Yoshihiro Taniguchi
Key Animation
Yoshiaki Taniguchi
Key Animation
Jun Yokose
Key Animation
Rinro Hattori
Key Animation
Masaharu Morinaka
Key Animation
Yoko Iizuka
Key Animation
Kenji Kodama
Key Animation