Synopsis
The Deer King (鹿の王, 2021) is a Japanese fantasy anime you can watch online on iFILM. After the Zol Empire conquers a neighboring kingdom, a deadly disease carried by wild dogs starts creeping across the land. Van, a former warrior now worked half to death in an imperial mine, survives a night attack alongside a small girl named Yuna — the only two who walk away uninfected.
Free at last, Van wants nothing more than a quiet life raising Yuna in the countryside. But the capital sends men to hunt the girl, the plague keeps spreading, and a young court physician races to find a cure he doesn't yet understand. The father's road and the doctor's lab slowly bend toward the same answer.
Directed by Masashi Ando — animation director on Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away — with Masayuki Miyaji at Production I.G, it adapts Nahoko Uehashi's fantasy novel, by the same author behind Moribito. This is patient, grown-up fantasy about disease, power and what you owe a child who isn't yours — closer to Ghibli than to action anime. Stream The Deer King (2021) online on iFILM.
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