Area 88

Name: Area 88
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Drama

7.3/10 TheTVDB Score

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Genres: Action Adventure Animation Drama

First Aired: 1985-02-05Length: 25 minStatus: Ended

In the early 1980s, a war is raging in Arslan, a fictional Middle Eastern kingdom. Mercenary fighter pilots from all over the world are hired or shanghaied to fight. They live in a secret desert airbase called Area 88. (Source: TheTVDB)

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Season 1 (show/hide)
12	Lock On - Wings of the Wind	2004-03-25
Because of expenses related to his crash, Shin can't buy his freedom. Shinjou is expelled from the Area. Shin finds out Kanzaki and Ryoko are getting married, so he buys a new plane and attempts to desert.
11	Truth - Truth of the Sand	2004-03-18
Shin shoots the final plane he needs to buy his freedom, but then crashes on landing. Kanzaki fires Shinjou, because Kanzaki and Ryoko have become engaged.
10	Fire Ball - Contrails of Destiny	2004-03-11
Area forces are sustaining heavy losses due to a rebel pilot with a lizard mark on the nose of his plane. This pilot turns out to be Patrick Reed, who flew under Mickey's command in Vietnam.
9	Canyon - Tightrope at the Speed of Sound	2004-03-04
The Area pilots are ordered to attack a well-guarded base that defends a rebel oil refinery the government wants to capture.
8	Sand Glass - Sand's Bullet	2004-02-26
A lone sniper brings operations at Area 88 to a halt with a few well-placed shots. A plan is conceived to get Shin up in the air using a decoy (Saki) to buy him time.
7	Hungry Boy - Sweet Soldier	2004-02-19
Kitri expresses doubts about Kim's abilities as a pilot, and Kim's Harrier is in bad need of parts and repairs, but when an enemy bomber squadron draws near, the shortage requires her, Shin, and Kim to fly out alone to defend the base.
6	Cross Over - Intersection of Solitude	2004-02-12
Shin's new fighter arrives and he sets out on a training flight to break it in, just as Kanzaki is piloting a commercial flight nearby under the watchful eye of Captain Shibukawa, who is evaluating him.
5	Lip Stick - Unyielding Rouge	2004-02-05
Kitri Parvaneh, cousin to Saki Vashtar, makes her first appearance just in time to save the lives of some of the Area 88 pilots, Kim in particular.
4	Desert - Skies of Betrayal	2004-01-29
Shin engages a large number of enemies all alone and his Crusader is destroyed. He manages to eject just in time to run into a sandstorm.
3	Shin & Makoto - Finder of a Blue Sky	2004-01-22
Shin and Kim shoot down an enemy transport plane, and McCoy tells all the men on base there was gold on board, so the pilots go out in a feeding frenzy to find the downed plane.
2	Boris - Tombstone of the Setting Sun	2004-01-15
Pilot Boris is called the Angel of Death because he always loses his companions on missions and returns alone, and therefore nobody wants to fly with him.
1	Sky Blue - Desert Wings	2004-01-08
Photographer Makoto Shinjou arrives at Area 88, an airbase for mercenary flyer's in the Kingdom of Aslan which is fighting a war against anti-government forces.

Season 0 (show/hide)
5	Area 88 The Movie (OVA Act 1 + Act 2 US Release)	1985-07-20
Kazama Shin, tricked and forced into fighting for the remote country of Arslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. As the war rages on, Shin has to deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as he tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.
4		2006-07-06
No description available.
3	Act III: Burning Mirage	1986-06-15
No description available.
2	Act II: The Requirements of Wolves	1985-08-05
No description available.
1	Act I: Blue Skies of Betrayal	1985-02-05
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