Twelve Kingdoms

Yoko Nakajima is an A student at high school but feels isolated in class and at home. She constantly suffers from a nightmare about unfamiliar sights and dreadful monsters. One day, a blond hair boy, Keiki, shows up at school and tells Yoko that she’s the "master" he’s been looking for. Yoko is confused but monsters attack school and she has to fight them with Keiki’s servants and sword. She...

Yoko comes through the whirlpool of light, gets attacked by a monster and loses Asano and Sugimoto. She walks around an unfamiliar place, finds a village but the villagers lock her up with Sugimoto. Yoko realizes her face has changed. Asano finds Keiki as a beast under attack by another beast. The villagers take Yoko, Sugimoto and Asano to the district authorities but new monsters attack them.

Yoko’s Hinman power saves herself and her friends from the monsters’ attack. They are starving and hesitantly break into a farm house to steal food. The owner of the house, Takki, comes back and gives them food and clothes. When Takki promises a town job for them, Yoko trusts her but Sugimoto is skeptical. They leave for the town and see a play about Kei Kingdom on the way. Towards the e...

Yoko is confused by Aozaru but decides to follow Takki with Sugimoto and Asano. At the hotel, Yoko realizes the skeptic, Sugimoto, was right about Takki. Takki tries to sell them as prostitutes. Yoko, Sugimoto and Asano manage to escape, and meet an old man named Matsuyama from Japan. They have a good time talking but the next morning, Matsuyama reports them to the police for money. Yoko’s...

When Sugimoto is fed up with Yoko’s whiny attitude, a blond lady, Korin, shows up, tells her that the world needs her, and convinces her to act alone. Feeling sorry for hungry Asano, Yoko decides to rob people of food, but the victims turn out to be the mother and son she met before. The mother and son invite the two to lunch but Yoko cannot trust them this time and walks away. Then, monsters...

Sugimoto beats Yoko with the power of a Hinman, and Yoko passes out. Yoko wakes up in the hands of a half-beast, Rakushun. No matter how nicely Rakushun treats Yoko, she refuses to open up to him. Rakushun takes Yoko to En Kingdom where all creatures are treated equally. When Yoko and Rakushun are attacked my monsters on the way, Yoko runs to fight back, now with a smile on her face.

Monsters attack Yoko and Rakushun on their way to En Kingdom. When Yoko sees people push their way through to survive, she realizes she cannot live for others. After defeating the monsters, Yoko finds Rakushun on the ground and gets an evil idea to finish him off so he won’t report her to the police. She escapes but Aozaru accuses her and forces her to face her own demon. When she realize...

Ko-o forces sick Korin to put a Hinman spirit in Sugimoto to kill Yoko. The group of Shu-Sei kindly asks Yoko to take the ship to En with them, but Yoko chooses not to, so she won’t put them in trouble. Kotetsu, once the critic of Yoko in the group, saw Yoko’s hardwork and prepares another ship for her to catch up with the group. Sugimoto finds Yoko but she is surprised how much Yoko has c...

Yoko finds Rakushun in En, accepts his kindness and opens up to him. Sugimoto feels lost without the Hinman who translates the language but nice people in En take her to the government’s office for help. After getting a government’s pass, Yoko tries to sleep in a school and surprises Rakushun. A Kai-Kyaku teacher named Heki Rakujin tells Yoko that only the immortals and monsters have no...

When Yoko fights a tough battle against monsters, En-o Shoryu, comes to save her. He tells Yoko that only Kei’s queen can use the sword Yoko has been using, and that shocks Yoko. Yoko doesn’t like it when Rakushun starts treating her differently, so they bond as friends. Naotaka and Rokuta (Enki) tell Yoko Kei Kingdom’s status where a fake queen, Joei, controls Keiki. Yoko also learns the...

Rokuta’s Ranka(Egg) gets trapped in the Shoku(Storm) and flows down to the battlefield of Kyoto in the Medieval Period. Because Rokuta’s parents cannot afford to support him, they leave him in a mountain. A monster brings him back to the other side, and he realizes his mission as a Kirin. He must choose a king but he knows a king is responsible for battle and doesn’t want more children to ...

After hearing stories about En-o, Enki and Kei’s last queen, Yoko wonders why Keiki chose her as a new queen. She goes back to town to reflect on her experience during the trip and human stupidity. At school, Heki tells Sugimoto his stories to help her come to senses. Sugimoto finds Yoko and accuses her of the low and sinful things she did, but this time, Yoko puts up a fight instead of ru...

Ko-o tries to kill Yoko out of jealousy, and that makes his Kirin, Korin, sick. Korin chooses death by disobeying Ko-o’s order to kill Yoko. That makes Yoko decide to get Keiki back from Kei’s fake queen, Joei. Yoko’s still not sure whether to be Kei’s queen or go home, but Rakushun gives her good advice. With En-o’s help, Yoko breaks Keiki’s seal, accepts him as her Kirin, rules Kei King...

Ko-o’s conspiracy to stop Kei from being richer than Ko fails with the death of his Kirin, Korin. Yoko and Rakushun talk about the world. Yoko is a queen of one of the 12 Kingdoms created by Heaven and Keiki is her Kirin. Yoko(Kei-o), En-o, Enki and Taiki are Taikas, who were supposed to be born in this world but were born in Japan because their Rankas(Eggs) got trapped in the Shoku(Storm)....

Kei Kingdom’s Kirin, Keiki, chooses Yoko as the queen and Yoko visits Mt. Ho to be officially enthroned. Keiki and Yoko stop by a palace where Kirins’ Shashinboku Tree (Unselfish Tree) is. Yoko hears a story about the missing Kirin, Taiki, and Tai’s female monster which longed so much to find him. Sugimoto is now back in Japan and hears a rumor of a boy named Kaname who was spirited away. He...

At Mt. Ho, Yoko hears stories of Tai Kingdom’s Kirin who grew up in Horai(Japan) as a Taika like her. Taiki’s Ranka was caught in the Shoku and flowed down to Horai, then Taiki came back to Mt. Ho 10 years later. Because he had felt that he didn’t belong in his family in Japan, he accepted his destiny as a Kirin to choose a king. Lady Priests who take care of Taiki are worried that Taiki still...

A man named Goson captures Taiki to be a king in a wrong way, but Chief Shin saves Taiki. Now the lady priests are worried about two things: Taiki cannot transform into Kirin’s original shape to choose a king; he does not have Shireis(servants) to guard himself. Lady Gyokuyo invites Keiki to see Taiki. They have trouble communicating at first but later become friends. Keiki motivates Taiki to...

The gate opens in summer and people come climbing the mountain to be chosen as a king. Taiki is not sure if he’s capable of choosing a king but lady priest encourages him by saying "when the king is here, you’ll receive the Heaven’s mission." Taiki finds two prospective people, Ms. Risai and Mr. Gyoshu, both military commanders, but neither of them are a king.

Taiki is relieved of his duty to find a king among the first group of people who came climbing the mountain. He goes Sugu hunting with Gyoso and Risai. Risai gets trapped and Gyoso gets hurt by a giant monster, Totetsu. Taiki faces the monster and successfully defeats it to be his Shirei.(servant) When Gyoso leaves the mountain, Taiki misses him so much that he finally transforms into a Kirin,...

Taiki got a Shirei, transformed into a Kirin, and made Gyoso his king. But he believes he made a mistake and Gyoso would be killed by Heaven. After Gyoso and Taiki receives the Heaven’s decree, Gyoso invites Keiki to the palace for Taiki. Keiki sets up a meeting for Taiki, Shoryu and Rokuta. When Taiki cannot bow to Shoryu, he realizes that he chose the right king. By hearing this story,...

Rokuta is worried about the conditions of the world made of 12 kingdoms and Kokai. Ko and Ho are in bad shape because they don’t have a king. The worst is Tai. Tai-o and Taiki are missing. Rokuta remembers Taiki whom he brought back from Horai. If Taiki is dead Tai’s new Ranka should be growing on Shashinboku Tree in Mt. Ho but there’s no sign of it. Rokuta is still looking for Taiki.

Rancho, a message carrying bird, comes to Rakushun at his college campus in En. It was a message from Yoko, now a new queen of Kei. She tells him that she found out Asano could be alive, and that she visited Rakushun’s mother in Ko, and also invites him to her enthronement. Rakushun sends the bird back to Yoko. They say to each other they’re doing fine, but they both know that’s not true....

In Meiji are, Japan, Suzu Oki was born into a poor farmer’s family. She was sold to pay the family’s debt, but fell off a cliff and ended up in Kyokai in the other world. Because she can’t speak the language, she travels with Shusei, the traveling performers. One day she meets an Immortal named Riyo who can understand her language. Rin begs her to take her. Riyo takes her to the mountain and...

Riyo comes home to tell Suzu about the new Kei-o to torture her. The new Kei-o comes from the same back ground as Suzu, but her social status is much higher than her. Suzu starts hoping that Kei-o will come rescue her. On the other hand, Shokei, the former princess of Ho, now endures tough manual labor as an orphan. The orphanage’s manager also finds out Shokei’s background and blames her for...