Saya Kisaragi is an outwardly normal girl who serves as the shrine maiden to a country town; in reality, she is a skilled swordswoman charged by her father to defeat Elder Bairns, monsters who feed on human blood. As her battles grow more desperate and more people she cares for fall victim to the Elder Bairns, Saya begins finding faults in her reality, and eventually uncovers a disturbing truth about herself, the town and her surviving friends.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | O Ye Winds of Heaven | 2011-07-01 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | It's for Thy Sake | 2011-07-15 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | As for Man | 2011-07-22 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | That Has Made Me Sad | 2011-07-29 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Meeting in the Way | 2011-08-05 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Dashed by Fierce Winds | 2011-08-18 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | As Pitiless As the Storm | 2011-08-26 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Within the World | 2011-09-01 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Against My Wish | 2011-09-08 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Since 'Tis by Its Breath | 2011-09-16 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Whom Then Are There Now | 2011-09-23 | 22 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | For Some Men I Grieve | 2011-09-30 | 22 min |
| Visual Effects | Yasuomi Umetsu | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Editing | Junichi Uematsu | Editor |
| Art | Naoyoshi Shiotani | Conceptual Design |
| Art | Naoko Kouda | Prop Designer |
| Visual Effects | Takayuki Goto | Supervising Animation Director |
| Production | Hiroo Maruyama | Producer |
| Production | Motohisa KATO | Producer |
| Production | Makoto Furukawa | Producer |
| Production | Tôru Kawaguchi | Producer |
| Production | Kyoko Uryu | Producer |
| Visual Effects | Kazuchika Kise | Character Designer |
| Directing | Tsutomu Mizushima | Series Director |
| Visual Effects | Narumi Sakai | Color Designer |
| Sound | Yoshikazu Iwanami | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Noriki Tsukamoto | 3D Director |
| Art | Hiromasa Ogura | Art Direction |
| Sound | Naoki Sato | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Nanase Okawa | Series Composition |
| Art | Kazushige Kanehira | Art Designer |
| Visual Effects | Noriki Tsukamoto | CGI Director |
| Camera | Eiji Arai | Director of Photography |
