Kemono no Sōja I: Tōda-hen
core novel 2006 The Beast Player
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  JA |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.28 (173 ratings, collected 2026-10-29) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9784062137003 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
In the Lyoza Kingdom, young Elin lives happily in a village that raises the Tōda, fearsome serpent-like beasts bred as weapons of war, until her mother, a beast doctor, is condemned to death after Tōda in her care die. Her mother’s mysterious finger-whistle saves Elin from the same fate, and the girl is rescued and taken in by Jōun, a beekeeper. Drawn ever more strongly to living creatures, Elin resolves to become a beast doctor like her mother, setting out on a path that will entangle her with the two great beasts on which the kingdom’s divided power depends.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Beast Player
- Series: The Beast Player core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Nahoko Uehashi
Notes
- Original title 獣の奏者 I 闘蛇編. Published in English together with volume II as The Beast Player (tr. Cathy Hirano, 2018).
- From the series record (The Beast Player): Four-volume Japanese novel sequence (Kemono no Sōja), Kodansha, 2006 to 2009.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Beast Player: position 1 of 4: next Kemono no Sōja II: Ōjū-hen (2006)
Sources
- Hatena Keyword: Kemono no Sōja (series ISBNs)
- Kodansha: Kemono no Sōja I Tōda-hen
- Kodansha: Kemono no Sōja 1 Tōda-hen (bunko)
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