Kemono no Sōja II: Ōjū-hen
core novel 2006 The Beast Player
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  JA |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.35 (121 ratings, collected 2026-10-29) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9784062137010 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
At the Kazalm academy, where she has begun to study the medicine of beasts, Elin meets Lilan, a young Ōjū that has been wounded and sent there for care. The royal beasts, held to be sacred creatures sent by the gods as the emblem of the crown, never grow tame and must never be tamed, and Elin’s teachers warn her that anyone who comes too close will be torn apart. She refuses to master the animal through fear, and through the sound of a harp she finds a way to reach Lilan’s mind. That discovery draws her into the plots surrounding the throne and a struggle that will decide the kingdom’s fate, and it forces her to ask whether people and beasts can ever truly live side by side.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Beast Player
- Series: The Beast Player core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Nahoko Uehashi
Notes
- Original title 獣の奏者 II 王獣編. Published in English together with volume I 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 2 of 4: previous Kemono no Sōja I: Tōda-hen (2006) · next Kemono no Sōja III: Tankyū-hen (2009)
Sources
- Hatena Keyword: Kemono no Sōja (series ISBNs)
- Kodansha: Kemono no Sōja 2 Ōjū-hen (bunko)
- Ehon Navi: Kemono no Sōja (2) Ōjū-hen
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