- Type: TV
- Studio: Studio Pierrot
- Publish Date 2002-04-09
- Status: Completed
- Genre: Action Adventure Animation Drama Fantasy Supernatural
- Scores: 2.53 by 4,405 reviews
- Duration: 25 min
- Views: 434
The Twelve Kingdoms
Youko Nakajima has always wished to fit in and be ordinary. She follows instructions, achieves high academic standing, serves as class president, and even lends a hand to her fellow students when she can, yet due to her red hair, she has never felt at home. Youko has no real friends because of her pushover personality, which allows her peers to take advantage of her. However, on a rather routine day, a man who claims to be from another planet storms into Youko's class and prostrates himself before her. Keiki, a dapper man with blonde hair, asserts that Youko is his master and rightful heir to the throne of his kingdom. However, their initial encounter is cut short because Keiki was being chased by strange creatures known as youma. Ikuya Asano and Yuka Sugimoto, two other students, are also sucked into the chaos before he and Youko are able to flee with Youko into their own dimension. Sadly, their problems have barely begun because the youma attack has cut them off from Keiki. These common students must learn to survive on their own in this foreign new land or perish.