The Twelve Kingdoms Forum

Also FTP. That's how I got most of the episodes. (I just came in a few episodes ago.) The address is listed on the irc channel.

I don't think there's any risk of shitsudou as long as she is honestly trying to help her kingdom. By what I understand the sickness doesn't come from failure, it comes from the Emperor loosing the qualities that make for a meikun. As long as (in Tentei's judgement) Yoko possesses those qualities ...

He must have been sensing a great potential for violence. Notice that Yoko took to killing pretty easily, hinman or no hinman.

As for Enki's appearance, well... he is a Taika!

I think that as a Kirin she can only be killed by beheading or internal causes, even with a touki! After all, as you recall when the plotted to kill Yoko they felt they needed touki, if beheading would work with a normal weapon then they wouldn't have plotted to get so many touki. Without the need ...

As for what the "scent of blood" refers to... It's one of those things that I see again and again in anime and manga. Rurouni Kenshin and Blade of the Immortal stand out in that regards. It's a samurai thing. The idea that one's capacity for violence can be sensed by another.

I doubt that all ...

"Knowing your place in the world."

I think that has possibilities. Note that he cannot take his true form until he decides to choose Gyousou as his emperor, thus accepting what he is supposed to do. Even so he continues to suffer until he realizes that his choice is true...

I think it is a start ...

Okay, there is no reason that people wouldn't get STDs. Disease is totally unreleated to procreaation. The virus or bacteria merely uses sexual contact as a vector to propogate.

On the other hand a Meikun could have the effect of reducing disease, just like they make the fields fertile so... if you ...

The Hakuchi dies when the emperor dies, not when the Kirin dies. We have no proof that the Kirin is actually dead. He might have staged the Kirin's execution because he knew the people resented her for carrying out the emperor's orders.

Considering that you have to tie the ribbon to the Riboku and pray to Tentei, I wonder if the baby will look like the parents? While on the surface it seems that there is no genetic connection between mother and child, perhaps Tentei does create children that reflect the parents who pray for them ...

I think that it is curious that they tell us that Hou's Kirin has no ranka, yet we've seen the ranka for Kou's Kirin. Unless I'm mistaken (and I don't think I am) Hourin died a number of years before Kourin, yet the new Kourin will be born first!

I suspect that there must be some problem regarding ...

Tsunami: I liked Fushigi Yuugi! That said, I have to agree that it was rather superficial. When I saw the first episode I was thinking "Okay, it's like FY, except that the girl is given some ability to fight so that she doesn't have to be useless like Miaka." Fortunately by the time I saw Sugimoto ...

I just discovered this show 8 days ago. In that time I have downloaded and watched all 29 episodes to date. (Poor me, I want more !)

One (of the many things) that impressed me about this show was how it develops themes which run through the story arc. I believe the theme of the first arc was "know ...