Have you ever been to a magical land no one's ever heard of before? Betcha haven't! But Yoko Nakajima has.
In The Twelve Kingdoms, Yoko arrives in Kou, one of the kingdoms, and she is chased and captured several times. Luckily, to the help of a blue healing gem, her trusty sword, and the hinman Joyu, she is able to fend of her foes and the demons that attack her.
Yoko is followed by a blue, pessimistic monkey. This monkey tries to tell Yoko what to do, saying how it would be so much quicker if she killed herself.
I think that the blue monkey is like a creature of Yoko's bad thoughts, like a hallucination. It's like how in cartoons, there's an angel on one of the character's shoulders and a devil on the other. The monkey sort of represents the devil, and Yoko is trying to be optimistic and be the angel, wanting to find some way back to Japan. Yoko often quarrels with the monkey and slashes her sword at him, missing. She is losing hope. But then, Yoko meets a kind beastling, who she actually starts trusting, regardless the two other times she was deceived by people of Kou. One night, Yoko and the monkey are talking while Rakushun, the beastling, is hurt. The monkey tells her to run, and she does, but then realizes she shouldn't have because she trusts Rakushun. The monkey starts taunting her, and, frustrated, Yoko swings her sword. The monkey is gone. After that, Yoko meets up with Rakushun and stops doubting his help entirely.
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