The Twelve Kingdoms Forum

Sounds sweet! I may have to buy the game after all ...

Hold off on buying that PS2 for now. You can only play Japanese PS2 games on Japanese PS2 platforms or on modfied US PS2s.

Alion is , according to a number of importers I talked to at conventions, just the newest in bootleggers to emerge after Sonmay . Their copies are excellent -- but unfortunately nothing of this goes back to Victor.

Thanks, s-girl; you beat me to the punch! (I haven't visited this board in a while ...

Xanthe,

Avoid DiscountAnimeDVD like the plague. THE JK DVD and CDs they offer are Hong Kong bootlegs! The creators of JK don't get a dime from these purchases.

Try deepdiscountdvd.com for legit discount Twelve Kingdoms DVDs, and cdjapan.co.jp for legit copies of the OSTs.

Good luck!

Hey MegaDuck,

Yeah, as I wrote earlier, I could be wrong about Kourin saving Youko, as saving Youko would seem to contravene Kourin's ostensible attempts to kill her. However, I believe that as when Sugimoto was about to administer the coupe de grace to Youko and Kourin stopped her, and when Kourin ...

My thoughts:

Youko wasn't granted immortal status until her coronation ceremony; Kourin likely saved her from plummeting to her death upon her arrival to the 12K.

Youko was able to speak the language of the 12K b/c she's a Taika. After all, when her Hinman left her body during her final showdown ...

I agree w/your interpretation, Dr. Fox; that's how I saw it as well.

Codex, I agree with you (except that I'm not too enamored of Scrapped Priness); JK moves me in a visceral sense like few, if any, animes have, principally due to the richness of its story and the complexity of its characters.

Last Exile is a wonderful and brilliantly animated anime (how much did ...

I agree with you 100%, Animal. IMO, JK is easily one of the greatest and most compelling anime works that I've come across (and I've seen at least 100 different anime series, OVAs, and movies).

And no, I haven't read the novels, but the 12K story, as presented in the anime, was quite apprehensible ...

Youko, by far, due to her extraordinary development; over the course of 39 episodes, she transforms from a highly insecure and infantile teenager into a surpassing heroine and leader.