9.0/107 votesLoading...#1 - Mother's Whistle
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/2009
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 has her whisked away to safety while she is eaten alive to atone for her sins.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
8.0/109 votesLoading...#2 - Erin the Green-Eyed
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2009
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 Village of Ake.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki, Takayuki Hamana
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
6.6/106 votesLoading...#3 - Soh-Yon the Healer
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2009
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 the Touda.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki, Daisuke Tsukushi
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - The Battling Beast
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/2009
Erin sees the fearsome side of the Tohda during an exhibition for the Duke.
Director: Kohdai Kakimoto
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Secret in the Mist
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/2009
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 poisoning" a poisonous plant that was mistaken as a plant used in the cakes. Soh-yon decides to ask her clan, the Mist People, for the medicine.
Director: N/A
Writer: Midori Goto
NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Erin and the Egg Thief
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/2009
Erin encounters the comedic duo, Nuk and Mok as they attempt to steal a Tohda egg for money.
Director: Kenichi Matsuzawa
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Soh-Yon's Warmth
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/2009
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 decides to spend the entire day with Erin. But later that night, soldiers come to the house. It was only then that Erin learned that her mother was going to be sentenced to death.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Joh-on the Beekeeper
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/2009
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 of her mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Honey and Erin
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/2009
While staying with the beekeeper Joh-on, Erin decides to have Joh-on teach her to be an animal breeder and live with him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Dawn of the Bird
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/2009
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 again, who was about to kill Nuk and Mok, the two former egg thieves she met in Ake. While hearing a woman nearby singing "Birds of Dawn," she manages to convince Ia-lu from killing them. Ia-lu gives Erin his harp and the two former egg thieves say that they will follow Erin to repay her for her kindness.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki, Takahiro Natori
Writer: Daishiro Tanimura
NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Inside the Door
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/2009
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 Erin finds Nuk and Mok sick from eating some rotten food, Joh-on comes and helps Erin read a book about poisonous plants. He decides to teach Erin, Nuk and Mok about animal breeding and plants.
Director: Kenichi Matsuzawa
Writer: Midori Goto
NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - The Silver Feather
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/28/2009
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 Ohju begins to grow.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - The Valley of the Ohju
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/2009
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 the ledge, Erin and Joh-on witness a wild Tohda about to eat a baby Ohju. All of a sudden, they see the mother Ohju fly into action to save her baby and eat the Tohda.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - People of the Mist
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/11/2009
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 Erin is alive, and is now 14. She is living with a beekeeper named Joh-on and 2 former thieves, Nuk and Mok. He vows to always watch over Erin to repent for not saving Soh-yon.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - The Two's Pasts
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/18/2009
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 have Erin marry-off. But Joh-on decides that he's happier with Erin and asks his son to deliver a letter to an old friend at an Ohju breeding school.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Ia-lu the Seh-zan
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/25/2009
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 friend. Ia-lu coincidentally happened to be in the shop when Erin came and immediately recognized the green-eyed girl he met 4 years ago. But after she left, Ia-lu was ordered by his troop to kill his teacher, Hagaru, due to treason.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Shin-Oh in Danger
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/2/2009
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Master Esal
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/9/2009
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 from there, Joh-on and Erin say their tearful good-byes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Friends at Kazalm
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/16/2009
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 can just be herself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - The Ohju Named Lilan
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/23/2009
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 Lilan, is not ready to take care of her yet.
Director: N/A
Writer: Daishiro Tanimura
NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - The Disappearing Light
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/30/2009
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 to try to communicate with Lilan. It didn't work, until she fell asleep and accidentally hit the harp under her blanket.
Director: N/A
Writer: Midori Goto
NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - The Harp's Sound
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/6/2009
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 allowed to borrow the shop for a few days while Yantoku is out. In another part of town, Ia-lu reopens his arrow wound while fighting against two unknown assailants, and stumbles upon Erin and her friends. They bring him into the shop and tend to his wound. After hearing Erin's story, Ia-lu decides to teach Erin how to fix the harp the way she wants to. With Ia-lu's help, Erin is able to make the sound she wanted and help Lilan eat again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - The Oath of Kazalm
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/13/2009
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 against the law to not carry and use one as a beastinarian) and how she is able to become close to an Ohju. Esal tells the other teachers how she and Tomura also tried to use the harp to communicate with Lilan, but Lilan would just stare. Esal comes to the conclusion that the reason Lilan only reacts to Erin is because Lilan sees her as her mother. According to legends, only the Shin-Oh could command the Ohju. However, Erin can also do the same thing. Esal believes that if they report this to the palace, others would believe that Erin was able to command Lilan by using a magic trick of the Mist People, and not because of her own efforts. Also, she believes that the palace would use Erin's ability to communicate with the Ohju for war purposes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Song of Grief
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/20/2009
The Grand Duke's two sons' paths finally diverge, with Shunan and Nugen taking their own paths after a duel.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - An Errand for Two
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/27/2009
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 half the work of a single man, she decides to give them another chance and asks them to go shopping for her. They leave for town, determined not to disappoint her but end up losing the bag filled with five pieces of gold. Just as they were about to give up hope, Mok remembered how they had met Erin and had promised that they'd never be thieves again. And so they go in search of ways to earn the money back so they can return to Erin's side.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Beast Player Erin
Every episode of The Beast Player Erin ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Beast Player Erin!
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...
Genres:AnimationDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NHK BS1
Best Episodes Summary
"Mother's Whistle" is the best rated episode of "The Beast Player Erin". It scored 9/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Kazunobu Fuseki and written by Junichi Fujisaku, it aired on 2/21/2009. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Erin the Green-Eyed".