12 Kingdoms
十二国記
Released- 2002-2003
Series: Complete with 45 episodes
Story:
The story starts with Yoko Nakajima a Japanese student who has strange natural red hair and lives with her parents. She goes to highschool and is even a class president but is unhappy while trying to be the perfect student and daughter. One day a strange man appears by the name of Taiki and claims she's his queen and he's there to take her back to their lands. She is later taken to another land along with 2 companions where she searches to know who she really and her destiny.
Rate: 9/10
(At the moment of making this review I'm on ep 7. ^_^)
Though my story description is not that great the story was rather catchy. At first Yoko is rather annoying and a crybaby. You kind of wanted to say "OMG! Just use the sword and protect everyone!" But it was still interesting and that phase passes by after ep 3-4.
The storyline is good and the anime is based off a novel. The drawings are rather dated a bit but not too bad to be honest and the voice acting even in english was fine.
Preview/Download:
You can watch it here on youtube:
12 Kingdoms ep 1-1
(The link above is just 1/2 or ep 1. You'll see on youtube there will be a 1-2 as well. That's the 2nd part of ep 1. There are a total of 45 episodes which you can find from the links there to continue watching it although I only provided a link to the first episode. Also, this is the english dub version of the anime) Enjoy!
