Episodes

Episode 1

Overview

Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of ...

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Cast

Hideaki Anno

Jirou Horikoshi

Miori Takimoto

Nahoko Satomi

Mirai Shida

Kayo Horikoshi

Steve Alpert

Hans Castorp

Mansai Nomura II

Caproni

Armando Tiraboschi

Hattori

Igor Lott

Kirou Honjou

Masahiko Nishimura

Kurokawa

Morio Kazama

Satomi

Keiko Takeshita

Jirou no Haha

Haruka Shibuya

Kinu

Darren Criss

Katayama