Category Archives: Area 88

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 4 Desert – Skies of Betrayal 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. area-88-ep-4

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 5 Lip Stick – Unyielding Rouge 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. area-88-ep-5

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 6 Cross Over – Intersection of Solitude 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. area-88-ep-6

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 7 Hungry Boy – Sweet Soldier 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. area-88-ep-7

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 8 Sand Glass – Sand’s Bullet 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. area-88-ep-8

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 9 Canyon – Tightrope at the Speed of Sound The Area pilots are ordered to attack a well-guarded base that defends a rebel oil refinery the government wants to capture. area-88-ep-9

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 10 Fire Ball – Contrails of Destiny 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. area-88-ep-10

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 11 Truth – Truth of the Sand 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. area-88-ep-11

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 12 Lock On – Wings of the Wind 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. area-88-ep-12

Area 88 Season 1 Episode 3 Shin & Makoto – Finder of a Blue Sky 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. area-88-ep-3