Twelve Kingdoms
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Description
For high-schooler Yoko Nakajima, life has been fairly ordinary–that is until Keiki, a young man with golden hair, tells Yoko they must return to their kingdom. Once confronted by this mysterious being and whisked away to an unearthly realm, Yoko is left with only a magical sword; a gem; and a million questions about her destiny, the world she’s trapped in, and the world she desperately wants to return to.Associated Names
12 Kingdoms
Juuni KokukiAuthor - Ono Fuyumi
Artist - Akihiro Yamada
Year - 1992
Status - 8 Volumes (Hiatus, last volume was released in 2013)
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@chrollo the cover is beautiful!
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There was an anime where each season covered 1 volume right? well I really want tot see this one.
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Loved the anime, this would be a great addition.
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Wasn't this already licensed?? I have Volume 3 lying around somewhere
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@paulnamida said in Twelve Kingdoms:
Wasn't this already licensed?? I have Volume 3 lying around somewhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Kingdoms#U.S._release
it was 2010 that the last book was in English.
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@paulnamida
Tokyopop lost their licenses rights when they walked out on the market! -
@bloodygaikotsu oh, it was Tokyopop
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I'd love to own these. At least I'd love to be able to read them...
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I love this series and would like for a new license for the rest of the books. I know recently there was an announcement that a new book was being released for this series after about 6-7 years between the last to which I think it was said it was like 2000 pages or some absurdity like that. Either way this series is actually one of the few Japanese novel series that I've read that has an incredibly deep and rich backstory to its world, politics, and characters. Definitely worth picking up as its one that would add some depth to J-novel's catalog.
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After 6 years Author is back from Hiatus!! and we will get 4 volumes this year - 2 in October and 2 in November,good timing to licence right?
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Spotlight time! A friendly bump to an older post in order to draw attention to it.
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This gets all my upvotes.
I loved the anime back then, and I was so happy when the novels got licensed... only to be dropped after a few volumes, in both english and german. So disappointing.
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THe First 2 vol. of new 4part Novel SOLD OUT INSTANTLY!!! with 500 000 copies and 3 days later with another 100 000 copies!!!!!(its the Highest in Shinchosha Bunko in history)
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I mentioned this already, but its one of my favorites as far as fantasy goes. I like the world building in the series and its definitely worth picking up considering we only got 4 of the books from the series. I believe there are 3-4 books not counting the 4 that are from the arc mentioned in the above post that were never translated into English officially.
Its an older series for sure, but one that deserves an proper full translation. Perhaps as a rescue title?
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is this still on hiatus?
I'd like to read this series, looks like it's meaty and the art seems really cool tooI read banned books
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@jon-mitchell The new novel (which is so long they're releasing it in four volumes) is wrapping up Taiki's storyline. They've announced a new short story collection for 2020 as well.
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@jon-mitchell Yep. the 4 books are 2500 pages long apparently in total? so like 630 pages per book if that is the case. However, I figure it would honestly take that much to wrap up what was left off considering what needs to happen in the storyline.
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cover for 3rd and 4th part!(STUNING!) + did you know? Author of Twelve Kingdoms wed THe AUthor of Another
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@theredjet said in Twelve Kingdoms:
THe AUthor of Another
It's interesting to me that Ayatsuji is known as the author of Another in the West, when he has made so much more valuable contributions to Japanese literature. The Decagon House Murders by Ayatsuji started the Shinhonkaku movement in Japanese literature, and he's also one of founders of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. Without him, Japanese (traditional fair play) mystery genre wouldn't be where it is right now, and it wouldn't have so many diverse sub-genres you can't really find in Western literature. So many popular mystery novels, visual novels (e.g., Umineko) and light novels (e.g., Zaregoto) possibly wouldn't have existed today.
