Jyu Oh Sei
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Cover art of the first Jyu-Oh-Sei tankōbon
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獣王星 (Jū Ō Sei) |
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| Genre | Science fiction, romance, Tragedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Natsumi Itsuki |
| Published by | Hakusensha |
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| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | LaLa, Melody |
| Original run | December 1993 – January 2003 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Nishikiori |
| Written by | Reiko Yoshida |
| Music by | Hajime Mizoguchi |
| Studio | Bones |
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| Original network | Fuji TV (Noitamina), Animax |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 13, 2006 – June 22, 2006 |
| Episodes | 11 |
Jyu-Oh-Sei (Japanese: 獣王星 Hepburn: Jū Ō Sei?, lit. "Planet of the Beast King") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Natsumi Itsuki. An 11-episode anime adaptation was animated by Bones and premiered April 13, 2006 in Japan as part of Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block.
On May 2, 2009, the series made its North American television debut on the Funimation Channel.
Three hundred and fifty years have passed since humans first settled the Balkan star system, located approximately 150 light years from Earth, where a number of planets have been terraformed to resemble Earth. Two 11-year-old twins, Thor and Rai, live on the space colony Juno until they come home to find their parents have been murdered. The unknown assassins drop Thor and Rai on Chimaera, a secret planet used as a penal colony. Thor learns about Chimaeran society's four "Rings" and how to leave Chimaera by becoming the Beast King from Zagi, who rescued Thor and Rai after they immediately run into trouble on the planet. Thor proceeds to the Ochre Ring where he gets swept up into that Ring's politics and winds up defeating its Top, bringing him closer to becoming the Beast King. After several years Thor faces off with Zagi who has violently taken over the Blanc ring and is determined to rule over and change Chimaeran society. Their encounter ends with an uneasy truce and a plan to force Juno to negotiate with Thor. When Thor finally meets Odin, the President of Juno, the mystery of Thor's and Chimaera's secret origins are revealed. Odin tells Thor he is a genetically engineered human created from the DNA of all the previous Beast Kings. His mother Eve was the lead researcher at the facility where he was created, and was a surrogate mother to him. Thor's genes adapt to survive under any circumstances, so they mimicked Eve's physical appearance. This is the reason Thor appeared to be Rai's twin. Odin also reveals no new children are being born in the colonies, and that Thor is humanity's last hope for survival. Finally, Odin reveals a long-kept secret: that Earth was destroyed by an asteroid collision long ago, and humanity cannot return there, so they must adapt to survive in the Balkan Star System. However, Odin's plans involve dissecting Thor in order to mass-produce more genetically engineered humans capable of surviving in Balkan, and terraforming Chimaera, which would kill the planet's current inhabitants. With the help of Third, Thor stops the terraforming process, though Third dies in the process. Thor returns to Chimaera to live with Chen, Zagi and the rest of the planet's inhabitants.
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