The Twelve Kingdoms Forum

I really love the music for this anime. The opening song is also played in the trailer for the show, and I think that music was the biggest draw to it in the first place, before I'd seen the show to find out what a good plot it has. So I would probably never have found out what a good show this is ...

2. Kijuu, Youma and Shirei guide. What kinds of creatures have been introduced to the series and who owns/holds control over them, or are they wild. :( I don't think i know enough to write this.
Would you like to include such a page if someone else wrote it? I'm not up to putting together an ...

Lenna wrote:The February one it's the first one I've done, but with the .psd file it's easy to change the month, or even to remove the calendar thing and leave it as a common wallpaper if I grow tired of it.

Could you post a plain wallpaper version of this? I think it's beautiful. The background is great.

Only twelve kirin in the world, and three of them are Taika. Isn't that an awfully high percentage? Mt. Hou must be subject to Shoku pretty frequently.

Besides, i'm quite sick of hearing how Youko learns and learns and learns for 2 years already and still doesn't know the most basic things and can't even read a letter properly. Not to mention the mysterious memory loss i talked about in the earlier posts. She was a smart student in Japan, and now ...

May be, we can push this URL into a main thread or a seperate section of the discussion so that people visiting this forum notice it.
Well, it's got this whole thread devoted to it now as well as the "SPREAD THE WORD!!" thread from a few months ago. (Plus, I think it's been mentioned in a couple ...

Bringing him back to Kei would also kill him because only Senin can pass through Shoku.
I don't really understand this part of it. Why does Taiki have to be a Sen'nin in order to pass through a Shoku, when other people don't? Kaikyaku are ordinary humans who get blown from Hourai to the Twelve ...

I'm aware of how acclaimed this series has become and now with the releases of the two premium sets I have recently been pondering whether they would be worth buying,
Yes. I certainly think so. It's an excellent series. (Of course you know you're asking a biased audience here. :wink: )

in spite ...

Well, the book does say that "that Saihou finally died at his thirties without choosing an emperor", but it might be a bit of a jump to go from the statement that he died while in his thirties to to deciding he died because he reached that age. kirins ages and timeline: http://www015.upp.so-net.ne ...

I thought this might be important because Kirin have a natural lifespan of the late-30's. The Enki before Rokuta died because he could not find a ruler before he reached that age. So if a kirin looses his ruler, he starts to age and eventually reaches 38,39 (whatever) and dies.
Well, the book does ...

Now if only there's a Juuni Kokki manga.
Well, there's "Twelve Kingdoms - Anime Edition", a series of 15 books classified as comics on Amazon, which presumably means it's a manga based off the anime version of the storyline (though I haven't seen it, so I'm not certain). Go to http://www.amazon.co ...

kei_taiho wrote:well, it's on tha faq's of otyaku..the link is sumwer here....i think the order is there...

http://www.otyaku.com/animeObserver/juu ... fo_FAQ.htm

Besides, I don't have any programs that will allow me to take pics from the dvds. >.<

Um.. Actually if you really can't find anything you can use "printScreen" which is the button in your keyboard to copy what's showing on your moniter. ^^ Just in case you dono, that printScreen button's on your ...

i want to know keiki more...:D i don't understand why he literally doesn't got any emotions...that's very weird....some characters might be unemotonal outside, but they hide sumthin inside....i don't think keiki hides anything...really weird.... :?
I'm not sure where you came up with the idea of ...

That's really good. Enki's expression is priceless. But I think you should do a companion piece to go with it - one where a disgruntled Shouryu has just been the butt of Enki's joke. :lol:

I'd love to see your fan comic when you get around to doing it. There aren't enough of those around. Lots of ...

nightchaser wrote:Geez people - it's obvious - Gyousou and Risai! 100%!

Yes, I definitely like those two together. (And I can see Taiki deciding to play matchmaker to get them together, too.)

Does anyone know anything about the ruler and kirin of Han? I mean, besides what Enki said about them being a little eccentric. I was under the impression that the ruler was male.
Yes, the emperor of Han is male. There was some discussion of them here a while back. IIRC, Han-Ou and Hanrin are very ...

My guess is that either of those would be possible pronunciations of the same kanji, but I can't confirm that without seeing how his name is written in kanji.

Here's Asano's name in kanji: 浅野郁也 :)
Looks like my guess was wrong. That says Asano Ikuya, and it doesn't look like Asano Naoyuu would ...

Wow, some of those costumes are really good - a lot more detailed than most of what I've seen around here. (Well, ok, so I've only been to a couple of cons, but one of them was a fairly big one.)

However I think the text may not be in japanese because i am having a diffcult time viewing characters ...

Ikuya and Naoyuu are such a huge difference in spelling & pronounication, I wonder why it's confused.
My guess is that either of those would be possible pronunciations of the same kanji, but I can't confirm that without seeing how his name is written in kanji. (My name dictionary lists 37 ...

But! I think this is just shows us his humanity and vulnerability which are still there even after 500 years rule. I believe, personally, that they are part of the reason he's such a great ruler after all. Unlike Kou-ou or Hou-ou he never lets himself to forget he isn't perfect. He knows he's ...

Also, kirin are placed with a ruler very young (Sairin was 8, Taiki was 10) and expected to work. You couldn't do that with a human child of that age - the maturity would not allow for hours of concentrated work.
Kirin get the title of Saihou as soon as they choose their ruler, and if they can ...

They certainly mature faster,
Do they? We only saw two kirin as children, and they both matured at the same rate as humans, but they were both taika and growing up in their human forms, so it's hard to tell how much that changed things. We know that normally kirin grow up in their kirin forms, but ...

And sometimes it spontaniously shows her the scary vision of herself, ending her life the same way as Joukaku - those the things she doesn't want to see, but she can't control it (just remember how scared she is after the ceremony, throwing the sword away). But this is the truth within her mind ...

Thanks, Yume Li :D
Shouryuu's one of my favorite characters in the series, but the lack of a full translation of this book really limits how much we know of him. This passage has some good background info.

[OK, so I actually have several favorite characters in this series, but Shouryuu is ...