# E1 - Crimson Wings
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYEX7J2X6/crimson-wings)
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***SIGN*** East China Sea
Shanghai Evacuation Fleet
**[00:10] ---**
It's the Xi!
**[00:33] ---**
Over here! Quick!
**[00:35] ---**
Shit!
**[00:37] ---**
It's the Xi!
**[01:08] ---**
Kei! What are you doing?
We need to get out of here!
**[01:11] ---**
Yeah, this ship isn't going
to last for much longer.
**[01:14] ---**
Let's go, Kei! Don't worry.
**[01:17] ---**
I'll protect you, no matter what happens.
**[01:20] ---**
Right.
**[01:37] ---**
The Air Force is here!
**[01:38] ---**
Get them!
**[01:40] ---**
*That... won't work!*
**[02:19] ---**
Kei!
**[02:23] ---**
It's awakened.
**[02:25] ---**
EGG pattern within acceptable ranges.
**[02:27] ---**
All systems go.
**[02:29] ---**
Hey!
**[02:30] ---**
*What's wrong, you defective girl?*
**[02:33] ---**
I want to fly.
**[03:04] (Flashback) ---**
No! Don't!
**[03:24] ---**
Did that thing shoot down a Xi?
**[04:10] ---**
Wow...
**[04:38] ---**
You're not going to save them?
**[04:39] ---**
Kei?
**[04:40] ---**
The pilot's still inside!
**[04:47] ---**
Kei!
**[04:49] ---**
Kei!
**[05:01] ---**
The Rising Sun?
**[05:04] ---**
Hey, are you inside?
**[05:07] ---**
There's a rescue boat here!
**[05:09] ---**
Get out of there! The plane's going to sink!
**[05:24] ---**
H-Hey...
**[05:33] ---**
I'm not here to hurt you—
**[05:43] ---**
Nova Era...
**[05:46] ---**
What the?!
**[05:47] ---**
Hey, wake up!
***SIGN*** Crimson Wings
**[07:25] ---**
Huh?
**[07:26] ---**
Ow...
**[07:29] ---**
Huh? Where am I?
**[07:32] ---**
That's right.
**[07:34] ---**
This is my grandpa's place in Komatsu.
**[07:41] ---**
It wasn't a dream, was it?
**[07:48] ---**
* A Japanese fighter crashed in*
* Chinese territorial waters.*
**[07:52] ---**
* I went to save the pilot,*
* and it was a young girl.*
**[07:54] ---**
*And she kissed me.*
**[07:56] ---**
*That's impossible.*
**[07:58] ---**
*So I haven't told anybody.*
**[08:00] ---**
Kei, when are you going to get up?
**[08:03] ---**
M-Minghua?
**[08:04] ---**
Don't you know how to knock?
**[08:06] ---**
I've seen you in your
underwear plenty of times.
**[08:09] ---**
There's no point in being embarrassed now.
**[08:12] ---**
It's not like when we were kids!
**[08:15] ---**
What if it were the other way around?
**[08:17] ---**
What if I walked in when you were changing?
**[08:19] ---**
I'd get mad.
**[08:20] ---**
That's not fair!
**[08:22] ---**
Here's the shopping list.
***SIGN*** Carrots Onions Pork Lettuce
**[08:24] ---**
This is for lunch, so go now!
**[08:27] ---**
Hurry up!
**[08:31] ---**
Why are you bossing me around?
This isn't even your house.
**[08:37] ---**
Mommy, buy me some gummies.
**[08:39] ---**
Lessie's all grown up now, huh?
**[08:41] ---**
Yup!
**[08:42] ---**
I can't believe this.
**[08:44] ---**
Is this guy even beatable?
**[08:52] ---**
That's right.
**[08:53] ---**
There are still civilian
planes in the sky here.
***SIGN*** Narutani
**[08:58] ---**
* More and more refugees from the*
* continent are arriving daily.*
***SIGN*** What Do They Want!?
Mysterious Military Group:
The Xi
**[09:01] ---**
* Overcoming cultural*
* differences and difficulties*
**[09:03] ---**
Thanks for the food.
**[09:04] ---**
Sure. Just put that there.
**[09:04] ---**
* with the locals has become*
* a pressing issue.*
***SIGN*** What Do They Want!?
Mysterious Military Group:
The Xi
**[09:07] ---**
* What are the authorities doing,*
* letting these Xi continue to...*
**[09:13] ---**
They're saying the Xi are
just an "armed group."
**[09:16] ---**
Japan's so peaceful.
**[09:18] ---**
What's wrong with that?
**[09:19] ---**
It beats running for your life every day.
**[09:22] ---**
But...
**[09:23] ---**
I like this city.
**[09:25] ---**
The breeze is so nice and tranquil.
**[09:28] ---**
It's the first time in ages I've
really been able to sleep.
**[09:31] ---**
Sure, but...
**[09:33] ---**
I'm going to keep cleaning.
**[09:35] ---**
You go water the garden.
**[09:37] ---**
Don't you think you're overdoing it?
**[09:39] ---**
Grandpa said you don't
need to do all this, right?
**[09:42] ---**
I'm freeloading here, you know?
**[09:46] ---**
And if I'm not busy, I'm going
to start thinking about things.
**[09:50] ---**
I see.
**[09:51] (Flashback) ---**
Minghua!
**[09:52] ---**
Dad!
**[09:53] (Flashback) ---**
Minghua!
**[09:55] ---**
Your parents will show up on the next
evacuation ship. I'm sure of it.
**[09:59] ---**
Y-Yeah, you're right.
**[10:02] ---**
Yup. They'll get rid of the Xi eventually.
**[10:06] ---**
And once they're gone,
we can go back to China.
**[10:11] ---**
Kei?
***SIGN*** "JASDF deployment"
Equipment | Ministry of Defense | (JASDF)
ADC Squads | 7th Air Wing 301st Tactical Squadron
***SIGN*** "JASDF deployment"
Fighter jet squad (JASDF)
JASDF Fanatics
***SIGN*** "JSDF Fighter Jets"
Photos of JSDF fighter jets on photographer.com
**[10:27] ---**
I was sure that red fighter was Japanese.
**[10:35] ---**
I didn't dream it, did I?
**[10:38] ---**
If I could pilot one of those things,
I could take down the Xi.
**[10:41] ---**
I could avenge my mom!
**[10:47] ---**
Kei!
**[10:48] ---**
We need to talk.
**[10:49] ---**
What is it?
***SIGN*** Air Force Academy Handbook
**[10:51] ---**
What's this about joining
the JSDF Air Force Academy?
**[10:54] ---**
It's just what it looks like.
**[10:57] ---**
You can train to be a pilot at an
academy in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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You don't need to pay for
the dorm or tuition.
**[11:04] ---**
You even get a salary.
**[11:05] ---**
It's a pretty sweet deal, right?
**[11:08] ---**
So what if tuition's free?
**[11:11] ---**
You understand, right?
**[11:13] ---**
If I took advantage of that,
**[11:15] ---**
even somebody like me could become a pilot.
**[11:17] ---**
Idiot.
**[11:18] ---**
Why are you calling me an idiot?
**[11:19] ---**
Because you're an idiot.
**[11:21] ---**
A Self-Defense Force school?
**[11:22] ---**
That means you'd be a soldier, right?
**[11:24] ---**
You're going to fly a
plane and fight the Xi?
**[11:27] ---**
Do you *want* to get killed?
**[11:28] ---**
I'm not going to die!
**[11:29] ---**
You saw it when we escaped
from Shanghai, right?
**[11:31] ---**
That red fighter jet.
**[11:33] ---**
Nobody's ever been able
to shoot down the Xi,
**[11:35] ---**
but it was mowing them
down like it was nothing!
**[11:37] ---**
I'm pretty sure it's a secret JSDF weapon!
**[11:39] ---**
But the "secret weapon" you're
talking about crashed.
**[11:44] ---**
You'll never make it as a pilot.
**[11:47] ---**
You've never even been able
to beat me at arm wrestling.
**[11:50] ---**
That was years ago.
**[11:52] ---**
I won at racing, the long jump,
**[11:54] ---**
and even the vision exam, too.
**[11:56] ---**
This is the fastest way!
**[11:58] ---**
I'm going to be a JSDF pilot
and fly in that jet.
**[12:01] ---**
I said no, and I meant it.
**[12:03] ---**
I'm telling your grandparents.
**[12:05] ---**
I'll tell them that you've got a dumb idea
in your head, and they should stop you.
**[12:12] ---**
Hey! Where are you going, Kei?
**[12:21] ---**
*Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!*
***SIGN*** JASDF fighter jets
***SIGN*** De
***SIGN*** Del
***SIGN*** Delta
***SIGN*** Delta Wing
***SIGN*** Delta Wing Cana
***SIGN*** Delta Wing Canar
***SIGN*** Delta Wing Canard
***SIGN*** Brazil's up and coming fighter jets - photographer.com JAS39 Gripen Swedish Saab Corporation...
**[12:30] ---**
This is it.
**[12:32] ---**
The JAS39...
**[12:35] ---**
Gripen.
**[12:38] ---**
A Swedish fighter?
***SIGN*** JAS39 Gripen Swedish Saab Corporation...
**[12:40] ---**
Why did a Swedish fighter have
a Rising Sun emblem on it?
**[12:47] ---**
* I was sure if I joined the JASDF,*
* I could fly one of those.*
**[12:52] ---**
*Maybe I was wrong.*
**[12:59] ---**
What's that huge plane?
**[13:02] ---**
Its wingspan is enormous.
**[13:05] ---**
Don't tell me!
**[13:11] ---**
That's...
**[13:24] ---**
Damn it!
***SIGN*** How about we stay to the end and see how it goes?
***SIGN*** Got it.
***SIGN*** Minghua Where are you? Dinner's ready.
**[13:37] ---**
*Where are you?*
**[13:38] ---**
*Dinner's ready.*
***SIGN*** Jonanmachi
***SIGN*** Mae River
***SIGN*** JASDF/Komatsu Military Base
**[13:51] ---**
That's... a JASDF base?
***SIGN*** JASDF/Komatsu Military Base
**[13:55] ---**
Komatsu Base?
***SIGN*** Nakamachi Community Center
**[14:24] ---**
I can't see inside?
**[14:26] ---**
But I can't give up after coming this far!
**[14:32] ---**
Is there any place that'll let me see inside?
***SIGN*** Current Location
**[14:38] ---**
I'm at the edge of the base already!
**[14:48] ---**
Damn it! I can't see a thing from here!
**[14:56] ---**
M-Minghua?
**[14:57] ---**
What the hell are you doing out here?
**[14:59] ---**
Wh-What...?
**[15:01] ---**
The way you just ran off, and this late...
**[15:03] ---**
I followed you because I
wondered what you were doing.
**[15:05] ---**
What the hell are you doing
going to a JSDF base?
**[15:09] ---**
It's none of your business, Minghua.
**[15:11] ---**
It is!
**[15:12] ---**
Why?
**[15:13] ---**
I'm worried about you!
**[15:15] ---**
If I'm not watching, you do
all kinds of crazy things.
**[15:18] ---**
Listen, can you knock that stuff off?
**[15:21] ---**
What do you mean, "that stuff"?
**[15:24] ---**
Acting like you're my mom.
Telling me what to do all the time!
**[15:28] ---**
I'm not going to be a kid forever!
**[15:30] ---**
Just leave me alone!
**[15:31] ---**
I can't!
**[15:33] ---**
You can't?
**[15:34] ---**
I'm worried because I think you need me!
**[15:38] ---**
It doesn't matter whether we're in
China, Japan, or at the North Pole!
**[15:42] ---**
You're being weird.
**[15:44] ---**
You're the one who's being weird.
**[15:45] ---**
I'm normal.
**[15:47] ---**
Now let's go.
**[15:48] ---**
We can talk when we're back home.
**[15:50] ---**
Knock it off!
**[15:51] ---**
What's gotten into you?
**[15:53] ---**
Even if my parents asked you to
look after me a long time ago,
**[15:56] ---**
you don't have to be so stubborn!
**[15:58] ---**
That was when we were kids!
**[16:00] ---**
That's not why!
**[16:04] ---**
You're the only person in this
country I know right now.
**[16:08] ---**
I was separated from
all my friends and family.
**[16:11] ---**
You're all I have left,
and you want to join the army?
**[16:14] ---**
Am I not allowed to worry?
**[16:17] ---**
Is that just me being a bossy mom?
**[16:22] ---**
Listen, Minghua...
**[16:29] ---**
Hey, what are you—
**[16:49] ---**
Okay. Take off the blindfold.
**[16:54] ---**
Minghua! Minghua!
**[16:55] ---**
Now, I'm going to ask you a simple question.
**[16:59] ---**
Who are you with?
**[17:01] ---**
Who sent you?
**[17:02] ---**
Where's Minghua?
**[17:04] ---**
Where am I?
**[17:05] ---**
Start talking.
**[17:06] ---**
I'm not a patient man.
**[17:08] ---**
If you don't start talking,
I'll shoot you right now.
**[17:12] ---**
Th-This is some kind of mistake!
**[17:14] ---**
We were just going for a walk.
**[17:16] ---**
That's a pretty lame excuse.
**[17:19] ---**
I guess intelligence agencies don't train
their spies to handle interrogations anymore.
**[17:24] ---**
Intelligence agencies?
**[17:26] ---**
Five seconds.
**[17:28] ---**
I'll be pulling the trigger in five seconds.
**[17:30] ---**
I'm not bluffing.
**[17:32] ---**
Four!
**[17:33] ---**
Wait!
**[17:34] ---**
Three!
**[17:35] ---**
You've got it all wrong!
**[17:36] ---**
Two.
**[17:37] ---**
I...
**[17:38] ---**
One!
**[17:46] ---**
I knew you could move, you lazy ass.
**[18:04] ---**
Fine, fine.
**[18:05] ---**
I'll stop playing around.
**[18:08] ---**
Hey, let's get this cleaned up.
**[18:10] ---**
The princess is ticked off.
**[18:20] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[18:24] ---**
Narutani-kun, right?
**[18:27] ---**
Come with me.
**[18:28] ---**
We've got something to talk about.
**[18:30] ---**
Minghua... Is she okay?
**[18:33] ---**
She's fine.
**[18:34] ---**
She's waiting at the guard post.
**[18:38] ---**
She was worried enough about you
to cause some serious damage.
**[18:41] ---**
Is she your girlfriend?
**[18:42] ---**
It's not like that.
**[18:44] ---**
I'll introduce myself.
**[18:46] ---**
I'm with the Ministry of Defense Technical
Research and Development Institute.
**[18:49] ---**
My name's Director Yashirodoori, of the
Special Technology Research Office.
**[18:52] ---**
Ministry of Defense?
**[18:55] ---**
You're with the JSDF?
**[18:56] ---**
A technical officer, but yes.
**[18:58] ---**
I mostly research how to fight the Xi.
**[19:02] ---**
Do you know why the Xi defeat us so easily?
**[19:07] ---**
Because there are more of them,
**[19:09] ---**
and they have better fighters than we do?
**[19:12] ---**
That answer gets you a 30%.
**[19:15] ---**
Their numbers are part of it,
but still, only part of the reason.
**[19:19] ---**
What makes them a threat is
their special abilities.
**[19:22] ---**
HiMAT and EPCM.
**[19:24] ---**
Hima... EP?
**[19:27] ---**
HiMAT. "Highly Maneuverable
Aircraft Technology,"
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which lets them move in ways
manned fighters can't.
**[19:33] ---**
Normally, the most a human fighter
pilot can withstand is 9Gs.
**[19:38] ---**
But the Xi can easily surpass that,
**[19:41] ---**
turning and accelerating at
rates that humans simply can't.
**[19:44] ---**
No normal fighter is a match for them.
**[19:47] ---**
And let's say somebody did get
within range and fired a missile.
**[19:52] ---**
It wouldn't hit. It would go
off course and then explode.
**[19:56] ---**
Even if you switched to
manual and got close,
**[19:58] ---**
the closer you got to them,
the harder they'd be to see.
**[20:03] ---**
This is their other ability: EPCM.
**[20:07] ---**
Electronic Perceptory Countermeasures.
**[20:09] ---**
But we haven't just sat back and let this
unknown super-technology run all over us.
**[20:15] ---**
Adding HiMAT to existing fighter craft...
**[20:17] ---**
Adding Anti-EPCM capabilities...
**[20:20] ---**
Equipping special fighters with an autonomous
piloting device called "Anima,"
**[20:23] ---**
and tuning them to fight the Xi.
**[20:26] ---**
We call these fighters "Daughters."
**[20:28] ---**
This is one of them.
**[20:31] ---**
It's a Swedish fighter called the JAS39.
**[20:34] ---**
The Gripen...
**[20:35] ---**
Correct. It's also the fighter that saved
you during the evacuation of Shanghai.
**[20:42] ---**
We managed to get it in the
air for its first flight,
**[20:46] ---**
but it's incredibly unstable.
**[20:48] ---**
As you know, it had an ugly crash.
**[20:51] ---**
But then what happened?
**[20:53] ---**
Some boy came out of nowhere and
started grabbing on to its canopy,
**[20:57] ---**
and it suddenly restarted.
**[21:00] ---**
And then today, we see that
boy on our security cameras.
**[21:06] ---**
So we put on a little show for it.
**[21:09] ---**
It was enough to make it boot up.
**[21:11] ---**
When it saw you...
**[21:13] ---**
I don't understand.
**[21:15] ---**
Don't look at me. I don't know, either.
**[21:18] ---**
But what I do know is that you
being here stabilizes the Gripen.
**[21:28] ---**
Allow me to introduce you again.
**[21:30] ---**
This is the JAS39 Gripen.
**[21:35] ---**
This is the fighter's autonomous
piloting device, its "Anima."
**[21:39] ---**
I want you to make it so
she can fly properly.
**[21:43] ---**
Will you do it
**[21:45] ---**
for the sake of humanity's future,
Prince Charming?
***SIGN*** Air Force Academy Handbook
**[23:27] ---**
Next time on *Girly Air Force*...
**[23:30] ---**
ALT 02: "Komatsu Rendezvous."
***SIGN*** Komatsu Rendezvous
**[23:33] ---**
Barbie 01, cleared for take off!