Format: TV
Episodes: 50
Episode length: 25 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Jan 10, 2009
Until: Dec 26, 2009
Season: Winter 2009
Source: Other
Average score: 80%
Mean score: 80%
Popularity: 24,241
Favorites: 664
Studio: Production I.G
Producers: NHK Enterprises, Trans Arts
Genres: Drama, Fantasy
Romaji: Kemono no Souja Erin
English: Erin
Native: 獣の奏者エリン
Synonyms: Kemono no Soujya Erin Kemono no Sou-ja Erin The Beast Player Erin

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Erin

★ 8.0 24,241 members

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.

(Source: MAL Rewrite)