About this season
In the future, Earth is at war with aliens. This heralds the creation of a mecha unit called the Sonic Divers, piloted by three girls to counter the threat.
Episodes (26)
1. Candidates
Aired 5 July 2007 • 25 min
Three young girls are recruited to become test pilots for the new Sonic Diver program.
2. Sonic Diver
Aired 12 July 2007 • 25 min
The girls travel to the military base and are introduced to each other and the other base personnel.
3. Flight
Aired 19 July 2007 • 25 min
Eika performs the team's first test flight of a Sonic Diver.
4. The Alley Corner of the Holiday
Aired 26 July 2007 • 25 min
After all the girls have flown their Sonic Divers, it's their first pay day, and first day off. They meet a new friend, Takumi Hayami.
5. I'm Counting on You, Zero!
Aired 2 August 2007 • 25 min
The girls learn to fly as a team. Otoha has trouble with the shooting practice.
6. Nanae's Secret
Aired 9 August 2007 • 25 min
Elise survives the destruction of the West Europe base. Back at Oppama base, Otoha finds a large bra and MUST find the owner. And the girls have a surprise in their combat simulators.
7. Naming, Sky Girls
Aired 16 August 2007 • 25 min
It's time for the girls to debut at the Oppama Air Festival, and they need a team name. The prototype fighter plane, the Vic Viper, debuts and its pilot causes the girls difficulties.
8. Let's Go to the Hot Spring!
Aired 23 August 2007 • 25 min
Fun and trouble at the local hot spring. The girls learn the truth about the Sonic Diver program.
9. Delta Lock
Aired 30 August 2007 • 25 min
The girls learn how to perform the "Delta Lock", a combat maneuver which traps the enemy WORM into a field where its cells collapse and can be destroyed. They also experience their first combat with a real WORM. Karen gets shot down and suffers a concussion and sprained arm.
10. Ghost Base
Aired 6 September 2007 • 25 min
The girls chase down rumors of a ghost on the base.
11. The Fourth Sky Girl
Aired 13 September 2007 • 25 min
The girls meet Elise, a Sonic Diver pilot from the destroyed West Europe base.
12. Goodbye, Oppama
Aired 20 September 2007 • 25 min
Karen schedules a meeting with her older brother, but must miss it when she's called on a rescue mission. The Sky Girls team is moved from the base to a special-purpose ship called the Koryu.
13. Kouryu, Move Out!
Aired 27 September 2007 • 25 min
The Sky Girls team settles into its new home at sea. Ryohei becomes seasick, preventing him from working on Reijin. When a WORM approaches the ship, Otoha is unable to launch, until Ryohei overcomes his illness and repairs their Sonic Diver.
14. Quadlock
Aired 4 October 2007 • 25 min
The Sky Girls battle as a group of four for the first time but Elise, occupied by vengeance, has problems working together as part of a team. Vic Viper is involved in its first battle against a WORM, albeit briefly.
15. Father and Daughter
Aired 11 October 2007 • 25 min
The military's strategy against the WORMs and their plan for the Sky Girls is made clearer. The Koryu is ordered towards a supposed location of a nest of WORMs. Eika's Father faints from over working. Eika's past is somewhat revealed as well.
16. Stopping at a Port
Aired 18 October 2007 • 25 min
The Koryu docks at a small island, which happens to be Nanae's home. Nanae is reunited with her childhood friend, Kurosawa Hiroharu, but lies about her job when he displays hostilities toward her ship. He finds out when a WORM attacks, he's saved by the Sky Girls.
17. Sky Girls of the Southern Islands
Aired 25 October 2007 • 25 min
The Girls become stranded on an island in the south Pacific and have to battle internal fissures that have not fully healed until they are rescued.
18. Intruder
Aired 1 November 2007 • 25 min
A new smaller WORM invades the Koryu.
19. Aisha Chronicle
Aired 8 November 2007 • 25 min
Elise is suspicious of Aisha. The Sky Girls learn the origins of the WORMs.
20. What Came Out in that Finder
Aired 15 November 2007 • 25 min
Takumi finds some camera film. Otoha and the crew get to know Aisha. A new faster WORM attacks.
21. Joint Struggle
Aired 22 November 2007 • 25 min
A Vic Viper squadron attacks a WORM with a self-recovery ability. Togo's backstory is also further explained.
22. Southern Cross - Holy Night
Aired 29 November 2007 • 25 min
Koryu holds a Christmas party celebration. A portion of Otoha's first encounter with WORMs is further revealed. A WORM in the shape of Otoha's long-lost brother makes a dramatic appearance.
23. Lost Wing
Aired 6 December 2007 • 25 min
Otoha deals with the ramifications of her brother having been resurrected by the WORMs.
24. Decisive Battle
Aired 13 December 2007 • 25 min
The crew of the Koryu prepare themselves for their last battle with the WORMs.
25. Otoha, Once More
Aired 20 December 2007 • 25 min
All five Sky Girls and the Vic Viper squadrons engage in the final battle against the WORMs' nest.
26. The Future...
Aired 27 December 2007 • 25 min
The story catches up on the Sky Girls' lives six months after the WORMs were defeated.