ข้อมูลอนิเมะHaruka: Beyond the Stream of Time – A Tale of the Eight Guardians

While on her way to high school with friends Tenma and Shimon, Akane Motomiya is drawn to an old well. Together with a sudden gust of wind, a mysterious shadow appears.

Princess Fuji, a girl of the Star clan, ancestral servants to the Priestess, accepts Akane and Shimon into her palace. There, Akane unintentionally unleashes the rampant power of the Dragon God.

Akane is safely reunited with the once missing Tenma. However, she is still unable to accept that she is the Priestess of the Dragon God. Amid all this, Akane falls over from a fever of unknown cause.

Major General, Tachibana-no-Tomomasa, pays a visit to Princess Fuji’s palace as an Imperial messenger, offering the Priestess of the Dragon God, Akane, an invitation to the Flower Purifying Ceremony.

Thoughts of Akram continue to sway Akane, though the quick response of the Eight Guardians in sensing her troubles further proves to her the existence of a mysterious bond connecting the Priestess and Eight Guardians to one another.

One night, at the Chief Councilor’s banquet, the Vice Minister of Civil Affairs Fujiwara-noTakamichi meets the dancer Shirin. All of the noblemen are intoxicated by her beautiful figure and graceful performance.

Upon hearing that white-winged vengeful spirits have appeared at the foot of Daimonji Mountain and threatened the people there, Yorihisa remembers the “Nue” he encountered in the mountains of his homeland in his youth.

Inori is a young boy who lives a tough life in the capital, working as an apprentice blacksmith while protecting his sick elder sister.

An incident occurs at Toji Temple involving a young monk who dies after touching an eight string harp. Akane visits the temple to see the harp and meets Eisen by the lakeside.