The Twelve Kingdoms

Name: The Twelve Kingdoms
Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2002-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.9

About The Twelve Kingdoms

Nakajima Youko is your average somewhat timid high school student. One day, a strange man named Keiki appears before her, swearing allegiance.

NHK BS1's The Twelve Kingdoms is an action-adventure, animation, and science fiction series. Its themes are chinese mythology, supernatural, magic, and based on light novel.

It ran for 4 seasons and 45 episodes between April 2002 and August 2003. Seasons run to about 11 episodes.

Takehito Koyasu leads the cast as Keiki (voice), Kenichi Suzumura as Rakushun (voice), Masaki Aizawa as Shōryū (voice), and Kappei Yamaguchi as Rokuta (voice). Produced by Pierrot.

In the United States it streams on Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, The Faraway Paladin, and Sword Art Online make useful companions to The Twelve Kingdoms, all filed under fantasy and fantasy world. TMDB voters put it at 7.9 out of 10 across 54 votes.