The Twelve Kingdoms Forum

megance wrote: wow really? where did you find the books? i have been searching for it everywhere. is it in japanese or english?

I'm reading the Chinese translated version, I think season 2 ends at the 12th book, so I'm not sure there is enough material for a new season right now.

I have only watched season 1, but I'm on the 11th book right now.

I remember the teacher to be an ordinary human.

Nice work!

thesmokingman wrote:This one is absolutely fantastic!

http://eop.rubberslug.com/gallery/maste ... esID=28664

Agree totally, this is amazing!

Even though I would like to have a proper finish of the Taiki story, but I am even more interested in the countries that she has not yet touched upon, she has only scratched the surface of Ryu, Ren and Han, not to talk about the mysterious Shun.

There are some continuity errors I'm finding (I.E., Yoko remembering Keiki saying to "Stay put if they get separated" when she was in Kou for the first time, but I searched through the earlier parts of the book and I didn't at all find where he actually said that), but I wouldn't know if that's an ...

When the books were translated into Chinese the Demon Child got published, so there is still a small chance that it will come out in English as well, but I guess it all depends on how well the first books will sell.

I agree on that the book gives quite a different feeling of the story compared to the anime. In a book everything can be described in detail, while one would be forced to use slow motion all the time to achieve the same effect.
About the degree of violence in the book, The Demon Child is much much ...

That's a population density of one person per 3 square kilometers. That's tiny - considerably less than any country in the world - even Western Sahara has a population density of 1.3 per km2. Considering how common subsistence farming is in third world countries - I'll regard any argument based on ...

I was browsing through "The Twelve Kingdoms Encyclopedia" and came across some interesting facts.

This world is flat. The horizon is not arc.

Population: 3,000,000 / country

A country is a size like China.(9,600,000 square kilometers)
About 3100km of every direction
The total area of land is 124 ...

Can rulers ever choose to retire? Or do they basically have to kill themselves to do that?

Yes, they can go to Houzan and make an announcement to retirement, but then as you have guessed they have to die during the ceremony (this happened to the previous kings/queens of Sai and Kei). So in a ...

About the extent of the immortality, I think basically the king/queen can decide totally by him/herself who to put on the list of the immortals (there is an official list in each country).

Just as zitch said, the kirin will get the Shitsudo illness if the ruler does not behave.

In the book "The ...

There has been some similar discussions in
http://12ktp.inspirelight.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=436&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Im getting a bit more confused about the size of there world... Takki tells Youko it'll take roffly 3 months to walk to the easten most part of Koou to the western ...

It is true that only tou-wepons can harm a kings or a queen, but more often they die because the kirin has got the Shitsudo illness.

zitch wrote: This suggest that those are still in there.

That's great! Thanks for the info.

The covers of all the releases (except for the Demon Child) can be seen here:
http://www.dmwc.org/topic/12kokuki/goods/book.htm
I guess it's just that I'm used to the original covers.
I'm wondering if they will keep the illustration pages.

I just saw the cover, it looks a bit odd, I really love the original covers by Akihiro Yamada...

Seven-volume novel... seven? I just counted them to be eight, are they going to omit of them?

I just tried, it worked fine, it looked like you can't press the Submit button since it was gray, but it actually works just pressing it.

Is this the place you are looking for?
http://www3.rocketbbs.com/401/12kirin.html

Yes, the passage in my last post was the original words from the novel, and I have marked the relevant sentence with red.
I have not seen much said about Hourin, the only other place that I know is in the drama "Eight kirins", but nothing about the matter was revealed there.

One other thing that ...

I have found the original passage in the book:
月渓は淡々とした視線を祥瓊に投げて、峯麟の横たわった榻へと歩み寄る。
「――台輔」
峯麟は虚ろな目で月渓を見上げた。
「二代に亘って暗君を選んだあなたに対する、民の絶望を理解していただきたい」
峯麟はまじまじと月渓を見上げ、やがて静かに頷いた。
月渓は深く拝礼し、そして血濡れた直刀を翳した。
――峯王および、峯麟登避。
芳国で一つの王朝が終わった。

No one here who can read Japanese?

Strange, but my OST and Image Soundtrack are using DVD covers, I bought them at CDJapan a couple of months ago.

My problem is the opposite, I faint when I see hiragana and katakana...

My hope is that she is working on the 12 kingdoms in secret.