Forum - View topicREVIEW: The Twelve Kingdoms - Skies of Dawn (novel 4)
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Kalessin
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Then the question is whether there's any hope that Tokyopop will fix this in the paperback edition. I'd definitely buy it again to get that fixed. I can totally understand if they don't intend to do an entirely new edit of the book to make sure that things like the Kirin's names are correct (as nice as it would be for them to do that), but missing an entire chapter? That really needs to be fixed. Does anyone know if they've ever fixed anything in the paperback editions before? I've only bought the hardbacks.
I'm not aware that they've said anything official, but if you'll look at the release dates for the previous books, they've generally around March. So, I'd expect that we'll get the next book around March 2011. |
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scrapps
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Man, I hope they do, I'd be willing to double dip on the paperback if they end up inserting the missing chapter. I'm so torn with this series though. While I really love the novels and I hope TP keeps putting them out, I hate the dwindling quality of these releases. I wouldn't put up with this shoddy of work for normal books, but I want Twelve Kingdoms to continue being printed so I still buy them. Maybe we can all just write letters of disappointment 
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Megiddo
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Honestly, if Tokyopop has to degrade the quality just to get it all released, that's a price I'm willing to pay.
Nearly every other (light) novel series from Japan I was reading has been canceled... I think only the Vampire Hunter D novels still are being printed. Shana, FMP!, Kino's Journey, Scrapped Princess, etc. have fallen by the wayside. I'm willing to accept 12 grammar/content errors if it means the series doesn't get canceled. However.. missing an entire chapter... that's just silly, |
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vashfanatic
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Theron: knowing now that TokyoPop left out a chapter, would you alter your grade on this in any way?
And are there no TokyoPop reps hanging out on the forums to answer questions the way other companies do? |
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Key
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No, because the fact that there's an omission that big in the production equals the effect on the Overall grade that the chapter simply not existing has. Still think A- only is right for the Story grade given the other factors I discusses in the review. |
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nursemcquade
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ccachu
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Um so if I purchase the original series (in japanese) then I will be able to read everything like what happens to taiki and stuff?
i only watched the anime my mom gave to me and of course i was dissatisfied that is stops at episode 45. plus i know everything from the novel is not included in the anime, so i want to read it. but i heard that the novel series is also discontinued. is that true? thank you~ (sorry if i post in the wrong forum. im not familiar with posting. *-* ) |
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Megiddo
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As far as I know, the Twelve Kingdoms novel series is unfinished, but it does extend further in the novel version than the anime did. I hope Fuyumi Ono does eventually finish the story. I love her writing.
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ccachu
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ahh i was hoping to hear that it has been completed or at least is continuing~
i hope she finishes it too. i am planning to obtain the series in novel form that i can get while a friend of mine is in japan rather than order it from a bookstore here. i wont be going back to japan for a while so.. ><;; makes me sooo anxious to read what happens and such. i keep rewatching the series every chance i can get (its so rare i have time to stay home lol) and now i have a chance to buy the books. thank you for your reply. |
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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'The Twelve Kingdoms' series of light novels *has* been finished, and for quite a long time now (since 2001). However, they have not all been translated into English yet.
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Key
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Assuming that the novel releases continue, the fifth novel (theoretically out in March) deals with the Queen of Kyou and the sixth novel (theoretically due in 2012) deals with Taiki's disappearance. Both are fully beyond the scope of the anime episodes, but no release announcements have been made about either yet.
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ccachu
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light novels?
when you say due, do you mean for the translated versions? I intend to purchase the novels in Japanese instead of the English translations. I prefer not to read translations if I can. ~ But I am glad it is being translated :) |
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Megiddo
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Ah, my thanks to you then. I was still under the impression that Ono-san had left the series unfinished but was planning to go back to it later. That was all that I had ever heard about the novels at least. |
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Luxa
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I'd say the novels are finished in a sense of no more are expected in the near future but even the sixth book's plotline is a bit unfinished. It is still better then the anime's end in this regard.
So one more book would help a lot. 
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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Megiddo,
I was going by what I read on Wikipedia about it. I just read her interview with ANN, and she said she planned to write more stories about the Twelve Kingdoms (this was in 2001). So far as I can tell, she wrote some short stories after that, and then moved off into Horror or something. It's been ten years now, and I can't see any indication that she's going back to it. Since I haven't read the final books (as they're not translated yet), I don't know if the way what she's written has ended in a definitive manner or not. I hope so, because I personally don't see her coming back to the Twelve Kingdoms. |
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