Kemono no Souja Erin


The Beast Player Erin

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Alternative Titles

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: Saturdays at 18:25 (JST)
Producers: NHK
Licensors: None found, add some
Source: Novel
Genres: DramaDrama, FantasyFantasy
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.291 (scored by 2232022,320 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #2932
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2395
Members: 91,565
Favorites: 1,512

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Jun 5, 2010
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 ...
Sep 20, 2016
Mixed Feelings
Kemono no Souja Erin is a good choice for you if you want to watch a series aimed for children that tries to build a fantasy world that has its own depth and use that to ingrain something into your moral fiber. However this immediately becomes a terrible choice if you can't handle its slow pace and its very poor choices in the sound department, which I'll get on later. And it's also an obviously terrible choice if you don't expect it to treat you like a dumb kid who needs flashbacks every few episodes to be remembered what happens and don't like being to ...
Jul 17, 2023
Mixed Feelings
I stumbled upon Beast Player Erin in search of anime with good world building like Slime Reincarnation and Ascendance of a Bookworm.

There are already many great reviews so the purpose of my review here is to provide expectations to potential viewers of this show:

Each episode will consist of:

10% mini music videos with overly played songs,
40% overly used flashbacks,
50% actual scenes that progress the story.

This series did not have to be 50 episodes long as a great much of it was just filler content. Frustratingly much of that wasted time used for flashback filler could have been used more meaningfully such as providing a more conclusive ...