Charlotte Season 1

Right now you can watch Charlotte Season 1 on and — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Koki Uchiyama sets the tone, and the world-building does the rest. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Charlotte Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The world-building is meticulous, but it is the characters who carry Charlotte Season 1 through its more ambitious moments. Season 1 of Charlotte includes 13 episodes. It aired from July 2015 to September 2015. This season stars Koki Uchiyama, Ayane Sakura and Takahiro Mizushima. Koki Uchiyama and Ayane Sakura lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2015. The rules of Charlotte Season 1's world are consistent enough that the big swings never feel like cheating. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Charlotte Season 1 is satisfying on multiple levels — something to watch and something to think about after. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Watch for Koki Uchiyama in particular — the performance elevates the material. Satisfying on multiple levels.

🎬 Charlotte Season 1 — Episode Guide

I Think of Others

2015-07-05

A small percentage of adolescents have onsets of special abilities. Yu Otosaka deftly uses an ability that takes over a target's body for five seconds to live the school life of an honor student, and gets accepted into a prestigious high school. Just when Yu is about to live a stable life in high sc...

Melody of Despair

2015-07-12

Yu unwillingly acts together with the student council and runs amok to secure individuals with special abilities. This brings to light why Tomori is determined to fulfill student council duties in face of danger - a past involving a cruel destiny that awaited an ability wielder.

Love and Flame

2015-07-19

Information concerning a new ability wielder reaches Yu and the active student council members. In their search of an individual with two abilities of soul possession and pyrokinesis, Yu and company comes across a particular pop idol.

Moment of Earnest

2015-07-26

The information of an ability wielder that Kumagami relays to the student council on the day Yusa transfers into Hoshinoumi Academy points to a high school baseball pitcher that Tomori already had her eyes on. His ability is telekinesis. Against a pitcher that uses his ability to pitch what could be...

Sound Heard Sometime In the Past

2015-08-02

With the information from Kumagami as a hint, the student council members continue a stakeout in the middle of the mountains where a wielder of a special ability supposedly hangs out. As they spend their time barbecuing and fishing, Yu comes across the music of ZHIEND through Tomori's music player. ...

Happiness Never Noticed

2015-08-09

The location of the new ability wielder according to Kumagami was the condo where Ayumi was currently home with a cold. Ayumi tells Yu and Tomori who came to see how she was doing about the nightmare that she had. Tomori, thinking that the dream's details can be a hint in figuring out Ayumi's abilit...

Beyond the Escape

2015-08-16

Yu, crestfallen by the fact that he lost his little sister Ayumi, shuts himself alone inside his home and cuts all communication with the outside world. Denying even the worried student council members that came to check on him, Yu leads a dissolute life only to find appearing before him...

A Chance Meeting

2015-08-23

Yu, starting to accept Ayumi's death, attends school for the first time in a while. There, he finds comfort in a school life that has not changed from before. Then, he ends up having to attend a ZHIEND live gig alone with Tomori, but on the way back home from school that day, he bumps into a foreign...

A World That Doesn't Exist Here

2015-08-30

Yu ends up heading to a ZHIEND live gig alone with Tomori. The gigs starts and the audience heats up, but Yu feels a strange feeling within his heart...

E10

Plunder

2015-09-06

Yu's big brother Shunsuke has the power to leap through time, but has lost his eyesight from utilizing this ability repeatedly, and is no longer able to use his power. So, now Yu must take his big brother’s place and save Ayumi.

E11

Charlotte

2015-09-13

Kumagami and Medoki appear before Yu Otosaka after he successfully rescues Ayumi. Within the laboratory facilities that they take the siblings to, Yu finds out the reason behind the outbreaks of special abilities. Kumagami then gains information regarding a new ability wielder and heads to Hoshinoum...

E12

Promise

2015-09-20

The friends from student council and Ayumi come visit Yu who is hospitalized from his injuries. Among them is Tomori. During his conversation with Tomori, Yu makes a certatin decision.

E13

Memories to Come

2015-09-27

The decision that Yu makes is to plunder the ability of every last wielder of a special ability on Earth. It is a choice that provides salvation to every ability-wielder, but at the same time, it is a choice that makes Yu pay a huge price in return.

📡 Where to Watch Charlotte Season 1

🎬 Charlotte Season 1 — Episode Guide

🎭 Cast of Charlotte Season 1

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