The Twelve Kingdoms Forum

mindstalk, i suppose you're right about the kaikyaku's fertility being suppressed.
and silk probably grows like cotton over there.

well, i consider myself lucky already ^^ i have the full animation (VCDs), 1 to 15 of the anime manga (without book 13, in japanese), the official guidebook, kaze no banri meirei no sora part 1 (in japanese) and 2 soundtrack CDs XDDD will keep my eyes peeled for more stuff!

hello!
like everyone else here on the forum, i have a room chock full of twelve kingdoms paraphernalia.... not ^^"
i shall just dangle here from this riboku and be a well-behaved ranka until somebody plucks me (instead of messing around with kanris and shoguns)
hope to be able to read all the novels ...

Taiki was very weak even when he had just a trickle of blood flowing from his forehead...
i personally think that it would be quite an ordeal if a female kirin were to menstruate! even if there weren't that much blood, the smell is overpowering (um, yes, personal experience).

oh ya, do you think ...

... even if it was the case the Mrs. Ono just decided to make things up or, more likely, took from Chinese and Japanese mythology. In fact, more information about those myths would probably be helpful

nope, i don't know any Chinese or Japanese myths Ono Sensei might have referenced from. well ...

Gosh, have you had your coffee yet?

Rain comes from an ocean in the sky.
Personally, i think Ono Fuyumi just got inspiration to have rain coming from an ocean in the sky on a literary whim. The Chinese characters for "an expanse of clouds" can be rendered as 云海 (yun2 hai3), literally, cloud sea ...

haha, thanks Zitch!


I do wonder, they do have chicken (or some other bird) eggs, right? Hens can produce eggs without being fertilized (hence, those eggs will never produce an embryo), so maybe all Tentei did was sterilize all male animals?

so he sterilized all male animals, so nothing comes ...

Jinx999 wrote:Sorry if I came across a little abrupt - I'm not a nice person without my coffee and weatabix.

Please consume lots of coffee and weatabix before coming to the 12k forums! *kowtow*

thanks! i'll read around a little more before starting new threads!

new here, so hajimemashite!

there was one thing which i have always thought weird about the system in 12k and that's the fact that they have brothels (er, well, at least in the anime, not sure about the novel).
so, if they have brothels, it means some sort of uh... sexual intercourse must take ...