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ザ・サード 蒼い瞳の少女

The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye

In the distant future, because of an interplanetary war that had continued on for centuries, civilizations were ruined. Human beings have lost everything, and only 1/5th of the population survived. A strange breed of humans, ''The Third'' is said to have appeared just after the war. They possess a third eye, as their name suggests, that appear as oval-shaped red pupils called "space eyes'' over their conventional two eyes. Using them, they can control computer systems and so on, and as such, rule the world by their superior power over technology. In this world, there is a young woman named Honoka; she is a "jack-of-all-trades" sellsword, and she accepts any job except murder. One day, she happens to find and rescue a young man named Ikus in the desert. Entering his world, and accepting a job from him, the adventure begins for Honoka and Ikus. (Source: BestAnime, modified)

Names

Originalザ・サード 蒼い瞳の少女 (japanese)
RomajiThe Third: Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo
EnglishThe Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye
Chinese苍之瞳的少女 (simplified · via bangumi)

Facts

FormatTV series · 24 ep · 23 min · 9h total
Aired2006-04-14 → 2006-10-27 (Spring 2006)
StatusFINISHED
StudioXebec
SourceLight novel
OriginJapan (Anime)
GenresActionAdventureSci-Fi
ThemesFemale ProtagonistPost-ApocalypticSwordplayTanksGunsUrban FantasyLost CivilizationRobots
StreamingHulu · Crunchyroll

Reception

Community score7.15 / 10
Bayesian score7.40 / 10
Composite50.0
On lists4,614
Favourited30 (0.7%)
Completion70.6%
Drop rate10.3%
In backlog52.5%
Score spread σ1.75

Score distribution

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Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
Broadcast seasonSpring 2006C30 of 78
StudioXebecC41 of 112
Year2006C80 of 232
LengthTwo-courD423 of 699
EraLate 2000sC439 of 1,149
Source materialLight novelC446 of 927
GenreSci-FiC605 of 1,409
GenreAdventureD779 of 1,534
Season (all years)SpringC859 of 1,868
GenreActionD1,424 of 2,765
FormatTV seriesC1,649 of 3,322
OriginJapanC3,187 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorJun Kamiya, Yoshimi Umino, Katsutoshi Hirose
Series compositionShinsuke Oonishi
Character designShinichi Yamaoka
Original creatorRyo Hoshino

AniList id 944 · MAL id 944 · Bangumi 3603 · record updated 2026-08-27