Kemono no Souja Erin: The Beast Player Erin

[Kraco]

That would be episode 13.

[David75]

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[Kraco]

Things have been kind of slow of late but let's still go through the eps:

Episode 23 - SS
Episode 24 - SS
Episode 25 - SS
Episode 26 - SS
Episode 27 - SS
Episode 28 - SS
Episode 29 - SS



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John is dead and Erin has made a best buddy out of a king beast. Pretty much sums up everything that happened in these episodes. And it's a borther vs brother with the duke's sons (that was highly obvious but needed development). I'm only waiting for the inevitable moment when Erin gets mixed into the politics. Perhaps that will finally bring her and that royal bodyguard dude together. Surele they are the fated pair of this series.

Edit: The preview of ep 29 actually revealed another time jump. Can't say I wouldn't have seen it coming; it must be somewhat ethically easier to make things happens to an 18 years old than 14.

[Kraco]

Nobody likes recaps but still the studios keep making them like there's no tomorrow:

Episode 30 - SS

And worse yet: There's a couple of minutes of new material mixed in that might be even necessary for enjoying the next ep fully.

It would be about the time Erin teaches Lilan to fly. The beast clearly wants to. It's so monstrous already that it could easily carry Erin. While not as tiny and cute anymore, the adult version of Erin is not too big either.

[animus]

I'm a bit confused with the aftermath of Lilan biting her. She says she wants to find out if the only relationship King Beasts and humans can have is through fear and not love. However, she brings out the harp again, and says that she wants to find out the answer to that question even if it's following the path of her mother.

Does that mean she's not trying to follow the path of friendship? The use of the harp again makes me think that she changed what she was originally doing.

[Kraco]

I guess following the path of her mother refers to not obeying orders or at least failing at her duty. If the assumption is that fear (the mute whistle) is the only way to handle King beasts, then refusing to use it is to squarely lay the blame on oneself should something go wrong and the beast die.

The harp is certainly the path of friendship. It reminded the King beast of the sound of its mother. She just had put aside the harp after she began to think the beast can listen to her voice directly. But the harp might be a much more powerful way of communication in the end.

[animus]

I guess I could see that now. I was expecting her to use voice commands permanently. But I guess there would be no point in this being titled "The Beast Player" if she didn't play anything.

Lilan looks pretty majestic now, with some pretty wings.

[animus]

Episode 31

Pretty good episode. New OP animation, but same song though with a different singer who sounds like she can't hit certain notes.

The series is starting to get intriguing.

[Kraco]

Finally! Lilan is flying and Erin naturally riding. It certainly took long enough. The poisoner rebel (dealing out candies, no less; who the hell would eat a candy from a poison expert anyway?) coming to the school is a good addition. Perhaps he will push Erin to the center of the ruthless politics.

[David75]

Finally! Lilan is flying and Erin naturally riding. It certainly took long enough. The poisoner rebel (dealing out candies, no less; who the hell would eat a candy from a poison expert anyway?) coming to the school is a good addition. Perhaps he will push Erin to the center of the ruthless politics.

If he supposedly has desires to rebel against the nobility, he could certainly use people able to use flying beasts for combat.
We're not there, but we already know how efficient one beast lord is against 3 toudas...

[Kraco]

Desires to rebel:

Episode 32 - SS
Episode 33 - SS

[David75]

Ep 33 let me approach feelings and emotions from 20 years ago while watching The mysterious cities of Gold. Of course I'm refering to the eps including the Great Condor which were a lot inspiring at the time.

I'm glad I'm following that show, eventhough you could say it looks cheap, feels slow and so one, you can really get attached to it and enjoy many things.

[Kraco]

Finally we learned the essential parts of the history. Including the reason for the diaspora of the mist people. The golden eyed royals certainly had a humble beginning - hard to believe when you look at that one scheming dude. It's a good question what happened to those of the original folk who didn't fly to invade the kingdom but remained in the mountains. Maybe Erin will end up with them with Lilan. It doesn't seem to me she will be ultimately welcomed to great many peoples.

No wonder why the empire is keeping the king beasts chained down to the ground. Maybe they are more volatile than the touda and thus of little practical use since touda suffices just fine against regular enemies. Although they would make superb scout and messenger mounts.

Aye, David, #33 felt very nice. Even better than Lilan's first flight.

[KitKat]

I'm starting to get caught up on this show. (Trying not to read the previous summaries). I'm at about episode 22, and just wanted to check in. I love that we finally have an anime where a character is confronted with a severely traumatic event but doesn't go all emo about it. We aren't subjected to endless episodes of angst and unresolved emotional baggage. Instead, Erin does the sensible thing and grieves but moves on and makes the best of her life. It's very refreshing. I was put off by this anime a lot at first by the cartoony drawing style and the "smurf village" backgrounds. But, it's growing on me, and the story is much more compelling now that they're starting to reveal more of the conspiracy against the queen.

[Kraco]

Erin does the sensible thing:

Episode 34 - SS


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Edit: The filthy poisoner finally decided to strike. Good thing it wasn't Lilan. The "Ohh! Ahh!" faces of the others while Erin was calmly analysing the cause of the affliction were funny. She is certainly as good as Ial in what she does. A good pair they would make. Jolly good they finally got to travel a bit together. Ial no doubt respects Erin even more for spotting the strange behavior of the bird and thus revealing the sniper. Ial almost recognizing the poisoner dude is promising for future encounters between him and Erin.

Based on the preview the next episode looks no worse.

[Kraco]

Big and small matters:

Episode 35 - SS
Episode 36 - SS
Episode 37 - SS
Episode 38 - SS





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A lot has really happened and things are heating up like never before. Not only did Lilan get a hubby but also an offspring (a cute little thing). And as if that wasn't enough, Erin was revealed to the queen, who seems totally oblivious of the tragic shared history of her own kind and the mist folk. Very interesting, and furthermore I have a feeling even the sly nephew doesn't know, even though he seems to know everything else. I guess the first queen decided to keep everything a secret even from her own progeny.

To not cut all this action and change short, they of course must already in the next ep subject the queen to a touda attack and Erin naturally rides in to save the day, revealing even the most drastic secret ever.

This was quite a slow show until these episodes but no more. Erin hardly gets a breather anymore.

Edit: she->Erin

[Archangel]

I didn't like Seirei no Moribito, would i like this?

[animus]

Maybe not. They're very different already, not to mention this series moves a lot slower in the beginning. It feels a lot more like a slice of life of first with all the development, but recent episodes have been amazing.

[David75]

I revive this dead thread for 2 reasons:
Last ep has finally been issued by SS

At the very end, we are informed that the show will reair in a 10 ep summarized version.
I'm a bit skeptical about that, because 10 eps of storytelling with key images would be boring. And I can't see 10 eps that would be new animation with the core story. Something in beetween? We'll see after ep1 of that rehash. After all, KnSE was all about atmosphere and a lot of non spoken communication. So I guess it would be possible to compress it, for those already familiar with the show, after watching the 50 eps.


Regarding my opinion after finishing ep50?
It was a great enjoyment watching that show, a good way to have a nice and easy time and leap out of reality for a while.
At first you might classify it as a show for young children, but even if not too sophisticated, the plot is deeper than you'd think and not just black and white.
Also, nobody is all powerful and even the heroïn could die and make huge mistakes. She can't get out of everything without a trace.

It's not my favourite show, but I'm very glad I watched it.

[animus]

Thanks for reminding me. I forgot about watching it after slow subs after like episode 45 or something.