Niehime to Kemono no Ou Episode 1 - Ikenie to Kugi no Yoru

Other Names: Niehime to Kemono no Ou, 贄姫と獣の王, Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts

Episodes: 24 / 24

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Anthropomorphic, Shoujo

Type: TV

Show Info: Niehime to Kemono no Ou

Episode 1 Plot: Sariphi is taken in chains to the Kingdom of Beasts, Ozmargo, as a sacrifice. The King is intrigued when she is rude to his chancellor Anubis but shows no fear. Her name means "sacrifice" and her adoptive parents raised her as a surrogate sacrifice replacing their own daughter and she has accepted her fate. The King temporarily treats her as a guest and takes her on an inspection of a border town where flowers grow - one of the few places in the kingdom not covered with poisonous miasma. On the night of the sacrifice in a secluded underground room, Sariphi is confronted by an assassin planning to kill the King but a human suddenly stops him. The man is in fact the King whose mother was human which causes him to suffer immense guilt over his deception. The transformation occurs on each rare "moonlit night of the revelation" when he is supposed to devour the sacrifice. He secretly releases the sacrifices then cuts himself to make it look like their blood has spilled. He symbolically breaks Sariphi's chains and the next day as the beast King, he outrages his court by declaring Sariphi will be his Queen. Sariphi calls the unnamed king "Leonhart", meaning "brave heart", which he accepts.