Episode
Blue Gender: Trial
Overview
Tired of feeling helpless in this new hostile world, Yuji pleads to be trained as part of the team. Marlene gives Yuji a crash course on weapons. Joey teaches him the basics of driving a mech suit. Armed with his new skills and his newfound confidence in his ability to survive, Yuji is ready for action. But against an enemy like the Blue, overconfidence can be deadly...
Details
- Series
- Blue Gender
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1999-10-22
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Trial is Episode 3 in Season 1 of Blue Gender. It aired on 1999-10-22. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 2: Cry
Yuji learns the horrible truth about the Blue. Their infestation of the planet has forced the human race to seek refuge in outer space. migrate to a Second Earth in outer space. Marlene and the Sleeper Recovery Team have been given orders to get Yuji to space station Second Earth alive. But with the Blue lurking around at every turn, things do not always go according to plan.
Episode 4: Agony
Yuji disobeys Marlene's orders by saving a little girl's life, and discovers a group of survivors hidden among the ruins of the city. Yuji makes promise to the little girl, Yung, that he will protect her from the blue. But this new cause is threatened when he learns a shocking truth about his rescuers from Second Earth.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: One Day
It is the year 2031. Humankind has been replaced as the dominant specieson Earth by a race of monstrous insect like creatures known as the Blue. Sleeper Yuji Kaido finds himself thrust into this nightmarish world, suddenly awakened after 22 years in suspended animation. Alone and surrounded by Blue, Yuji's only hope for survival comes the elite Sleeper Recovery Team, and a steely Mech pilot named Marlene...
Episode 5: Priority
The surviving members of the Sleeper Recovery Team must enter an abandoned communications tower that is now a Blue nest in a desperate attempt to contact Second Earth. With the Blue now converging on their position, the only chance of staying alive is to draw the Blue into a fight using human survivors as bait. Yuji has promised to protect Yung at any cost -- but is it a promise he can keep?
Episode 6: Relation
Marlene and Yuji now travel on foot towards Balinonur Space Base. The tensions between the two come to a head, as Yuji confronts the demons that now haunt him in this nightmarish new world. As she witnesses Yuji's struggle, Marlene's own horrifying memories of the past begin to resurface. But can even Yuji's fiery emotions help to melt away Marlene's icy exterior?
Episode 7: Sympathy
Still en route to Baikonur, Marlene and Yuji cross paths with a rough mannered stranger named Dice. With the Blue lurking dangerously close, he offers them shelter for the night and Yuji is given a glimpse into his seemingly carefree life. But as Yuji soon discovers, no one left on Earth is without their demons...not even Dice.
Episode 8: Oasis
Yuji is seperated from Marlene and Dice amidst the confusion of a sandstorm. He is rescued from the desert by a band of nomads, and is befriended by Elena, a young nomad girl. As Yuji begins to believe that a peacefull life might still be possible, a raid by a group of bandits serves him a harsh reminder that there is more than one kind of danger in the world -- and it is never far away.
Episode 9: Confirm
Marlene and Dice are reunited with Yuji outside the nomad camp. Marlene pressures Yuji to continue his journey to Second Earth, but Yuji refuses. He decides to remain Elena and her people and to live out the rest of his life in peace. But when Marlene and Dice are attacked by the Blue, Yuji is forced to choose between his life with Elena and saving the lives of his friends.
Episode 10: Tactics
Marlene and Yuji arrive at Baikonur, only to find the space base in the state of chaos. The facility is crawling with Blue, and the computer defense systems have turned on thier human counterparts. Now, with supplies and personnel dwindling, the assembled recovery teams must launch a desperate bid to regain control of the base.
Episode 11: Go Mad
The lives of the remaining recovery squad members are thrown into jeopardy when a renegade officer attempts to hijack the shuttle and escape on his own. The attempt is thwarted, but the cost is the diversion of valuable resources from the battlefield, where Marlene and a small team of Armor Shrike pilots are fighting to stay alive!
Episode 12: Progress
Yuji is rushed into intensive care after being attacked by a Blue aboard the shuttle to Second Earth. Now, Marlene must face an inquiry before the High Council and defend her recent actions on the planet's surface. But Marlene has questions of her own, and soon begins to suspect a dark design behind the Council's plans for the recovered Sleeper, Yuji.
Episode 13: Heresy
When Yuji disappears from the Medical Station, Marlene defies orders and decides to find him on her own. Now, with Amick Hendar's security forces on high alert, Marlene must descend into the lower reaches of the Military Station to find the one man who may know Yuji's whereabouts -- Science Director, Seno Miyagi.