The Beast Player Erin
The Beast Player Erin
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The Beast Player Erin

7.6 / 10
2009
1 season
50 episodes
AnimationDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

In the war against neighboring countries, the Grand Duke’s warriors use dragon-like beasts called Touda as weapons. Touda are admired across the nation and villages take great pride in breeding them. Erin lives in one such village with her mother, Soyon, who is the best beastinarian in the country. However, life in the village is not so straightforward: Soyon is also an Ariyo, a woman of the Mist People - a race that is feared by humans for its mystical abilities. So that she and Erin can stay in the village, Soyon must flawlessly fulfill her duty capturing and disciplining the Touda; but while Erin wants nothing more than to become a beastinarian, she also feels sorry for the Touda and recognizes that there’s far more to them than meets the eye. Can Erin ever become an ordinary beastinarian when her deepest instincts tell her there is a better way to interact with the Touda?

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Cast

Seasons

  • Erin the Green-Eyed

    1.Erin the Green-Eyed

    10-01-200925m

    The first episode, introducing the heroine of the story; a 10-year-old girl named Erin and her mother Soh-yon, a beastinarian who cares for Tohda in the Tai-Koh Region in the Villa...

  • Soh-Yon the Healer

    2.Soh-Yon the Healer

    17-01-200925m

    A Touda rider from a neighboring village comes to the Village of Ake seeking medicinal help for his Touda. Soh-Yon is called to the Touda and, with Erin's help, manages to revive t...

  • The Battling Beast

    3.The Battling Beast

    24-01-200925m

    Erin sees the fearsome side of the Tohda during an exhibition for the Duke.

  • Secret in the Mist

    4.Secret in the Mist

    31-01-200925m

    Erin hears that Shaju's older sister has been engaged. But while eating a rice cake, Soju, Shaju's sister, suddenly falls ill. Soh-yon diagnoses Soju's illness as "Mock milkweed po...

  • Erin and the Egg Thief

    5.Erin and the Egg Thief

    07-02-200925m

    Erin encounters the comedic duo, Nuk and Mok as they attempt to steal a Tohda egg for money.

  • Soh-Yon's Warmth

    6.Soh-Yon's Warmth

    14-02-200925m

    On a rainy night, Soh-yon is summoned to the underground Tohda ponds. There, Soh-yon finds all the Kiba, the Duke's most prized Tohda, dead. Knowing what would happen next, Soh-yon...

  • Mother's Whistle

    7.Mother's Whistle

    21-02-200925m

    Soh-yon is executed by the way of the Tohda after the Duke's Kiba mysteriously die. Erin jumps into a lake full of Tohda in an attempt to save her bleeding mother, but her mother h...

  • Joh-on the Beekeeper

    8.Joh-on the Beekeeper

    28-02-200925m

    Joh-on, a beekeeper living in the Shin-Oh Region, finds the unconscious Erin floating in the river. He rescues her and nurses her to health, as she attempts to cope with the loss o...

  • Honey and Erin

    9.Honey and Erin

    07-03-200925m

    While staying with the beekeeper Joh-on, Erin decides to have Joh-on teach her to be an animal breeder and live with him.

  • Dawn of the Bird

    10.Dawn of the Bird

    14-03-200925m

    Erin and Joh-on both go to the Capital to shop for supplies. There, Erin meets a man named Ia-lu, a Seh-zan, playing a lullaby "Birds of Dawn" on the harp. Later, Erin meets Ia-lu...

  • Inside the Door

    11.Inside the Door

    21-03-200925m

    Joh-on decides to have the entire family move to his summer cottage in the mountains. While cleaning his regular home, Erin finds out that Joh-on used to be a teacher. But when Eri...

  • The Silver Feather

    12.The Silver Feather

    28-03-200925m

    Erin finds a large, silver feather in a tree close to Joh-on's summer cabin high in the mountain. Joh-on tells Erin about the king of beasts, the Ohju, and Erin's interest in the O...

  • The Valley of the Ohju

    13.The Valley of the Ohju

    04-04-200925m

    While walking in the woods, Joh-on slips and falls onto a ledge of a steep cliff. Erin goes out and finds the hurt Joh-on, and decides to stay with him until morning came. While on...

  • People of the Mist

    14.People of the Mist

    11-04-200925m

    The first recap episode; Nah-son, a scout sent by the Mist Elders to watch over Soh-yon, tells the Elders what happened to Soh-yon and her daughter Erin. He tells the Elders that E...

  • The Two's Pasts

    15.The Two's Pasts

    18-04-200925m

    Joh-on's son comes and asks his father to become a teacher again. When his son learned that his dad had a young girl living with him, he offered to have her come live with them and...

  • Ia-lu the Seh-zan

    16.Ia-lu the Seh-zan

    25-04-200925m

    While in town, Erin accidentally breaks the harp Ia-lu the Seh-zan gave to her when she was 10. She goes to a harp shop to have it fixed, where the carpenter Yantoku was Ia-lu's fr...

  • Shin-Oh in Danger

    17.Shin-Oh in Danger

    02-05-200925m

    At a festival celebrating the Shin-Oh's birthday, Ia-lu the Seh-zan, along with a baby Ohju, are injured by an assassin's arrow during an attempt on the Shin-Oh's life.

  • Master Esal

    18.Master Esal

    09-05-200925m

    Erin passes the entrance exam with flying colors and becomes a Kazalm student. There, she meets the Reverend of Teachers at Kazalm, Esal, who is also an old friend of Joh-on. And f...

  • Friends at Kazalm

    19.Friends at Kazalm

    16-05-200925m

    Erin begins to feel like she needs to be more like other students, losing sleep, and comedically falling asleep during her welcoming party. Her new friend Yuuyan told her that she...

  • The Ohju Named Lilan

    20.The Ohju Named Lilan

    23-05-200925m

    Professor Esal decides to let Erin take care of the baby Ohju Lilan after talking and observing her in action. She says that Tomura, the person who is currently talking care of Lil...

  • The Disappearing Light

    21.The Disappearing Light

    30-05-200925m

    Erin begins to take care of Lilan and finds out that Lilan won't eat anything, and has been eating her fur. When she hears Lilan's cries, she comes up with the idea to use her harp...

  • The Harp's Sound

    22.The Harp's Sound

    06-06-200925m

    Erin goes to the capital with Tomura and her two followers, Nuk and Mok, to go back to the Yantoku harp shop and change the harp to make a sound resembling an Ohju. They are allowe...

  • The Oath of Kazalm

    23.The Oath of Kazalm

    13-06-200925m

    Professor Esal talks to the other teachers at Kazalm about reporting to the palace of Erin's ability to communicate with Lilan with a harp, and not a mute whistle (It is considered...

  • Song of Grief

    24.Song of Grief

    20-06-200925m

    The Grand Duke's two sons' paths finally diverge, with Shunan and Nugen taking their own paths after a duel.

  • An Errand for Two

    25.An Errand for Two

    27-06-200925m

    Nuk and Mok are helping out at Kazalm and are making more work for Karisa, the dorm mother, than helping her. After considering firing them because they couldn't carry out even hal...

  • Lilan's Heart

    26.Lilan's Heart

    04-07-200925m

    Erin takes a quiz and fails it, so Erin and the others study hard so they can advance into high school at Kazalm. After the exam, everyone leaves for summer vacation. Lilan walks u...

  • Fallen into Hikara

    27.Fallen into Hikara

    11-07-200925m

    Erin starts to have dreams about a place filled with thick mist, and that her mother Soh-yon was being taken into "Hikara" the bad side of the afterworld. While Erin falls asleep n...

  • Joh-on's Death

    28.Joh-on's Death

    18-07-200925m

    One morning Erin receives a letter from Joh-on's son stating simply that Joh-on passed away from heart disease. Erin becomes sullen and sad, but acts strong in front of Lilan. Prof...

  • The Beast's Fangs

    29.The Beast's Fangs

    25-07-200925m

    Erin noticed Lilan was scratching herself against a tree trunk and thought of using a brush to groom her. She got the brothers, Mok and Nuk, to make her a bigger brush as the small...

  • The Fourth Winter

    30.The Fourth Winter

    01-08-200925m

    A recap episode on Erin's stay at Kazalm; a four year time-skip where Erin is now 18 and a college student.

  • Luminous Sky

    31.Luminous Sky

    08-08-200925m

    A new teacher, Kirik, comes to Kazalm Academy from the capital. The new teacher is a royal agent whose entire family was killed by Wajaku poison. While on a stroll, Erin and Lilan...

  • The Great Crime

    32.The Great Crime

    22-08-200925m

    After landing, Erin is confronted by Nah-Son, the agent sent by the Mist Elders to watch over her. He tells Erin he had known Soh-yon and asks her to make a difficult decision. He...

  • Flying

    33.Flying

    29-08-200925m

    Erin informs Professor Esal that Lilan can fly. Both of them are worried that Lilan will fly away from Kazalm. So, Esal wants Erin to teach Lilan to fly only when she wants to or t...

  • Ia-lu and Erin

    34.Ia-lu and Erin

    05-09-200925m

    An injured Ohju is delivered from the Lazal rescue center. That night, Kirik poisons the injured Ohju with mock milkweed, a poisonous plant that is said to grow in the Tai-Koh Regi...

  • A New Life

    35.A New Life

    12-09-200925m

    Another injured Ohju is delivered to Kazalm, this time it is a wild male who they decided to call "Eku." The teachers try to calm the angry Eku themselves, but fail. Professor Esal...

  • The Graduation Test

    36.The Graduation Test

    19-09-200925m

    Erin and the others take the Graduation test with all of them passing. Erin takes the top seat in the scores, meaning that Erin can stay at Kazalm as a Master. The Shin-Oh gives he...

  • Birth

    37.Birth

    26-09-200925m

    Erin officially becomes a Master in the fall and new students come to Kazalm. But Shiron, a female student, sees Erin as an enemy and desired to "beat her." When Shiron decides to...

  • Shin-Oh Harumiyah

    38.Shin-Oh Harumiyah

    03-10-200925m

    The Shin-Oh decides to visit Kazalm to see Aru. Esal and the faculty decide to keep the Shin-Oh from finding out that Erin uses the harp to communicate with Eku and Lilan. But when...

  • Tohda Attack

    39.Tohda Attack

    10-10-200925m

    While going back to the palace by boat, the Shin-Oh is suddenly attacked by an army of Tohda in the river. Erin, along with the rest of the students and teachers of Kazalm, watch i...

  • A Nation in Shadow

    40.A Nation in Shadow

    17-10-200925m

    The Shin-Oh is knocked unconscious after the sudden Tohda attack on the boat-ride to the palace, and stays at Lord Kazalm's home until she recovers. Ia-lu feels ashamed of not prot...

  • The Truth of the Shin-Oh

    41.The Truth of the Shin-Oh

    24-10-200925m

    Erin is called to the Kazalm palace, and is asked to accompany the Shin-Oh back to the royal palace with Lilan as bodyguards. Erin knows that if she accepted it, Lilan and Erin wou...

  • Seimiyah's Tears

    42.Seimiyah's Tears

    31-10-200925m

    Word of the Shin-Oh's sudden death on the way back to the palace has spread, and everyone mourns for the death of their beloved Shin-Oh. And as tradition states, Princess Seimiyah...

  • Beast Healer

    43.Beast Healer

    07-11-200925m

    Beastinarians from Lazal come, learning about Erin's ability to tame Ohju without the use of a Silent Whistle, despite the fact that she is supposed to carry one under Law. They or...

  • Akun-Meh-Chai

    44.Akun-Meh-Chai

    14-11-200925m

    As the war between the Shin-Oh and the Tai-Koh Reigons begins, Erin is called to the palace by Dahmiyah. While in there, he orders Erin to create a battalion of Ohju to use for the...

  • Bird in a Cage

    45.Bird in a Cage

    21-11-200925m

    Back at the Royal Palace, Kahil tells Ia-lu that Dahmiyah was to wed Shin-Oh Seimiyah. He also hears that the old Seh-Zan were to be dismissed and new Seh-zan were to be introduced...

  • Bond Between the Two

    46.Bond Between the Two

    28-11-200925m

    After being poisoned by Dahmiyah and injured by the Psi-Gamul, Ia-lu seeks refuge at Lazal with Erin. While there, Erin tends to his wounds while he tells her about Dahmiyah workin...

  • Pure Night

    47.Pure Night

    05-12-200925m

    While at the Forest of Purification, Seimiyah is confronted by a large Ohju in the mist. Seimiyah meets Erin and learns of the First Shin-Oh Je and the incident of Ophalon. Erin al...

  • Dawn of Ryoza

    48.Dawn of Ryoza

    12-12-200925m

    The day of the meeting of the Shin-Oh and the Tai-Koh comes, deciding whether there will be a war or not. Kirik is heavily injured due to pursuers sent by Dahmiyah, and takes refug...

  • Final Battle

    49.Final Battle

    19-12-200925m

    The Tai-Koh's Touda troop advances toward the Shin-Oh, but Seimiyah refuses to go to war with Shunan. As she orders her maids to put up the blue flag to surrender, Dahmiyah shows h...

  • Beast Player

    50.Beast Player

    26-12-200925m

    Erin flies Lilan into the battlefield and successfully destroys the Touda army Dahmiyah made. She manages to have Lilan stop attacking the Touda and has Shunan ride Lilan to escape...

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