Series synopsis
Red Garden, also known as レッド ガーデン is a Japanese mystery animation television series that premiered on TV Asahi on October 3, 2006. It ended on March 13, 2007. It stars Akira Tomisaka, Ayumi Tsuji, Ryoko Shintani and Miyuki Sawashiro.
Four students of the same age have nothing in common except that they attend the same elite New York City school. Kate, Rose, Claire and Rachel all belong to different cliques and hardly notice each other's existence. Then one day they gain something in common, something very important, something mysterious. They find themselves drawn together by the death of a fellow student and the secret of their own missing memories. Suddenly they are thrown into a world of hidden warfare on the city streets ...
Premise
Four students of the same age have nothing in common except that they attend the same elite New York City school. Kate, Rose, Claire and Rachel all belong to different cliques and hardly notice each other's existence. Then one day they gain something in common, something very important, something mysterious. They find themselves drawn together by the death of a fellow student and the secret of their own missing memories. Suddenly they are thrown into a world of hidden warfare on the city streets and are caught up in secrets which would not be believed by others. These four all have their own problems to struggle with, things that seem more important than such strange conflicts. Can they escape from this fate? The only thing they know is that despite coming from four different worlds they now have to rely on each other or die without a hope.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Akira Tomisaka as Kate Ashley (voice)
- Ayumi Tsuji as Rose Sheedy (voice)
- Ryoko Shintani as Rachel Benning (voice)
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Claire Forrest (voice)
- Rie Tanaka as Lula (voice)
- Misato Fukuen as Lise Harriette Meyer (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 23 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | August 4, 2007 | August 4, 2007 |
| Season 1 | 22 | October 3, 2006 | March 13, 2007 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Dead Girls OVA It's the future of New York. Kate, Rose, Rachel, and Claire lead the normal school life and a new transfer student comes... The transfer student, Louis wants to be friends with Kate. However, something happens to "Red Garden". What is the truth behind this and the real purpose. |
August 4, 2007 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Farewell, Girls Kate, Rose, Rachel, and Claire are four New York girls who cannot recall what events transpired the previous night. While at school news spread to the student board that the NYPD found Lize's body left at Central Park. Kate, who was close friends with Lise, breaks down and takes the rest of the day off. As the night falls, she and the other three girls are led by butterflys that only they can see to the same place and are unexpectedly approached by a woman wearing a black suit. She asks them if they can remember the previous night when all of them died. |
October 3, 2006 |
| 2 |
Cruel Night The four girls are at the mercy of a man whose behavior sounds exactly like that of a rabid dog. The stranger is run over by a bus soon after Rachel displays a supernatural ability to break free from his grasp. Aghast and in shock all four are approached by the mysterious woman, who calls herself Lula, and explains them that are living on borrowed lives and from now on at every night they will be needed to hunt and kill demons for 'them'. If they break the contract, all will die. |
October 11, 2006 |
| 3 |
True Me Lize's father asks Kate about his daughter's diary and thanks her for being friends with Lize. The four girls become upset upon finding Lula also attending Lize's funeral. She gave them a red seed and explains to them to plant it if they want to know the truth. She later takes the four girls to witness another group of girls in the same situation as them, but having lost their will to live as they are brutally murdered by another beast man. The four girls plant the seed, and it blooms into a red flower at night, influencing the girls' memories as they finally recall the fateful night when they found Lise dead and were murdered by orders of a man in a white suit. |
October 18, 2006 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TV Asahi |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 3, 2006 |
| Last aired | March 13, 2007 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes |
| Status | Ended |