Comments on: The Twelve Kingdoms — Epic Win

By: Salima

Salima — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:38:25 +0000

I WANT THE BOOK!!! PLEASE CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW ICAN GET HOLD OF IT IN THE UK, IN ENGLAND!!!!

By: gerlyn

gerlyn — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:15:41 +0000

I agree, I enjoyed the Twelve Kingdoms, though I have yet to (and probably won’t in a long time) get my hands on the reading material, considering I can’t read Japanese.
i like the story very nice
the last episode aim sad

By: eri

eri — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:59 +0000

The Tokyopop translations are rather juvenile with regards to how it actually reads in English.

I noticed too many redundancies in the words; part of a translation is a translation of literary conventions between languages. Referring to ‘the dog’ so many times as opposed to changing it up with ‘it,’ or ‘he,’ or ‘she’ kind of grates on stylistic nerves.

Still, it’s an awesome story and the anime is great, too.

By: Marigold Ran

Marigold Ran — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:38:23 +0000

Finished the show on your recommendation. It’s good shit. Any other “old” series to recommend?

By: veester

veester — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:11:08 +0000

I absolutely adore 12 kingdoms… i think I spazzed at the end. Not only was the animation sooo much better by the end, but the story was getting amazingly interesting. I was really starting to want to watch the rest of it… but apparently not. Cuz it’s non-existant. I’m willing to wait until Tokyopop’s done translating them all before buying and reading them all in one go. I’m now incredibly excited :D

Reading this reminded me why I absolutely love it. Soooo much was taught to me via this anime… it’s educational, without actually being educational. The characters are great, and … I really love it. Really, they need to finish this… both in book and in anime format… So much was about to happen in the anime… and they all just… stopped. :(

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:25:11 +0000

I’ve been told to watch this show forever and I just might have to do that sometime soon since I’ve been missing some good fantasy epics to watch as of late. It also doesn’t hurt that the soundtrack is pretty darn solid on top of all that.

By: riceblade

riceblade — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:46:53 +0000

Why dont you try watching maison ikkoku since you are into old animes these days. It has a lot of episodes though. 96 eps + a movie and a OVA i think.

By: Silencers

Silencers — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:15:17 +0000

Ooooh, I loved this show. I almost went into rage when it abruptly ended at 45. Makes you wonder if the studio [Pierrot or DEEN, i forgot] would pick it up again now that the novels are complete.

By: Miko

Miko — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:56:35 +0000

Hi, just a quick note:

“The novels are now completed with a total of 7 books divided into 11 volumes…”

Actually, Ono left us hanging at the end of her last full length novel (黄昏の岸　暁の天), and fans have been waiting since 2001 for what happens next! The last book published after that was a short story collection that fills in a lot of back story but wasn’t a continuation of what happened.

She did more recently (early 2008) write another short story in the 12 Kingdoms world that was published in a magazine, so there’s hope that she’ll get a move on.

Have always enjoyed your reviews! Especially Code Geass R2, for which a lot of times I looked forward more to reading your review of an episode than watching the episode itself. XD;;

By: Faceoffkang

Faceoffkang — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:26:28 +0000

….i’ve only watched something 50+ episodes a couple times…seems kinda LONg lol