Kemono no Souja Erin (2024)

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Synonyms: Kemono no Soujya Erin, Kemono no Sou-ja Erin

Japanese: 獣の奏者エリン

English: The Beast Player Erin

German: Erin

Spanish: Erin

French: Erin

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Type: TV

Episodes: 50

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 10, 2009 to Dec 26, 2009

Premiered: Winter 2009

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: NHK

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Production I.G, Trans Arts

Source: Novel

Genres: Drama, Fantasy

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 8.30¹ (scored by 21,656 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #267²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #2290

Members: 87,287

Favorites: 1,481

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Synopsis

In the land of Ryoza, the neighboring provinces of Shin-Ou and Tai-Kou have been at peace. Queen Shinou is the ruler of Ryoza and her greatest general, Grand Duke Taikou, defends the kingdom with his army of powerful war-lizards known as the "Touda." Although the two regions have enjoyed a long-standing alliance, mounting tensions threaten to spark a fierce civil war.

Within Ake, a village in Tai-Kou tasked with raising the Grand Duke's army, lives Erin, a bright girl who spends her days watching the work of her mother Soyon, the village's head Touda doctor. But while under Soyon's care, a disastrous incident befalls the Grand Duke's strongest Touda, and the peace that Erin and her mother had been enjoying vanishes as Soyon is punished severely. In a desperate attempt to save her mother, Erin ends up falling in a river and is swept towards Shin-Ou.

Unable to return home, Erin must learn to lead a new life with completely different people, all while hunting for the truth of both beasts and humanity itself, with tensions between the two regions constantly escalating.

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Adaptation (Novel)

Kemono no Souja

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Kemono no Souja Erin Recap (TV Special)

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Characters & Voice Actors

Erin

Main

Hoshii, Nanase
Japanese

Lilan

Main

Ial

Supporting

Suzumura, Kenichi
Japanese

Tousana, John

Supporting

Uchida, Naoya
Japanese

Soyon

Supporting

Hirata, Eriko
Japanese

Shunan

Supporting

Hanawa, Eiji
Japanese

Nukku

Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

Mokku

Supporting

Yanagihara, Tetsuya
Japanese

Kirik

Supporting

Kusuda, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Kashugan

Supporting

Kanada, Aki
Japanese

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Wada, Jouji

Producer

Hamana, Takayuki

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

Hiramitsu, Takuya

Sound Director

Takashima, Daisuke

Episode Director

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	1:"Shizuku (雫)" by Sukima Switch(eps 1-30)
	2:"Shizuku (雫)" by Chitose Hajime(eps 31-50)

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Ending Theme

	1:"After the rain" by cossami(eps 1-29)
	2:"Kitto Tsutaete (きっと伝えて)" by Takako Matsu(eps 30-49)

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47 Recommended

3 Mixed Feelings

1 Not Recommended

All reviews (51)

Jan 5, 2010

Archaeon

Recommended

Kemono no Souja Erin (The Beast Player Erin), is a surprising anime. Not in the way it looks or sounds, or in any aspect of it's production. Not even because of it's story or characters (which are wonderfuly by the way). No, it's surprising for being the most recent example of a genre that is slowly disappearing in anime.

Many people will be confused by that statement, especially as the show is very clearly labelled and marketed as a children's series, and as everyone knows, kids shows are rife in anime. The problem, however, doesn't lie in the fact that this series was initially aimed at ...

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Jun 5, 2010

zuziako

Mixed Feelings

"Kemono no Souja Erin" is an anime with great plot potential, well build characters and pleasant design, but unfortunately - horrid storytelling and structure. It takes 50 episodes to tell the story (which is supposed to be understandable, since it's long one), but dragged scenes with badly animated conversations, and lots of flashbacks make you feel as if it should be done in 26 episodes instead - and maybe it should have.

As I mentioned, the story has great potential - we have our main heroine that we meet when she is still a little kid, we watch her grow, mature, and struggle, through all ...

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Mar 12, 2010

Rampant

Not Recommended

While it may strike as inconsistent to rate a series a 3 when I "finished" 50 episodes of it, there is one essential reason, that is pacing of this series. Not only is the pacing typically slice-of-life slow from the very start, but it has the most self-indulgent use of flashback I have ever seen. By the midpoint of the anime, flashback starts taking up easily perhaps 1/10th of the total time. We already saw these events, and they are already in our heads. Bringing the same events up as much as five or ten times is a horrible abuse of our viewership. Maybe it ...

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Kodansha announced the release of the volumes three and four of "Kemono no Souja" novel. The author Uehashi Nahoko had thought that she fully concluded the...read more

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Erin

Lilan

Ial

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Soyon

Shunan

Nukku

Mokku

Kirik

Kashugan

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