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The hardbacked versions of the first three books have all come out in March.

And while the anime series took some different approaches to the stories, I disagree that they were worse ones. The first three books were all entirely stand-alone stories, so the anime version had to modify their presentation a bit to make them all part of a continuing narrative.

I thought the anime came out just fine and liked that they kept the original Japanese names rather than translating them (as they do in the novels).

Looks like volume 4 is coming out in March 2010.
http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Kingdoms-Hardcover-Skies-Dawn/dp/1598169491/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added

Just a few days to the release of the 4th English installment "Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn". Official release date is March 2, 2010. Looks like it will be a little more expensive that earlier releases with a list price of $19.00US. However, according to Barnes & Noble it will be 656 pages, the longest English release yet. Yeah!! Can't wait!

It's accurate because Skies of Dawn was originally released as two novels rather than one. Thankfully, Tokyopop is releasing the whole story in one shot rather than splitting it over two years. Very Happy

Have my copy ordered, so it should be delivered sometime in the next couple of days. I have another book for review that I really should finish before starting this one, so expect a review later in the month.

Amazon finally has some reviews up for the 4th novel that are actually for this edition instead of for the previous novels. All of them so far agree that the story is great, but it looks like they did a horrible job with editing.

That kind of thing really bugs me, but I'm sort of glad to be warned up front about it. Somehow it won't be as irritating as if I came upon a bunch of stupid errors unprepared. I know that may not make much sense, but I know it will work that way for me.

I'll have to wait a bit longer to find out for myself. I ordered my copy from RightStuf, but they didn't have it in stock when I bought it so it will take a little while to get to me. I don't mind a bit of a wait, but I am really looking forward to getting this novel in hand and reading it.

I haven't had a chance to start on it yet because of having to finish up another book first (one about Miyazaki, a review for which should be up in the next few days). Editing errors would be an unpleasant surprise, since the first three books have been edited quite well.

Oh, well. Guess I'll find out over the next week or two.

Woo hoo! My copy showed up today. It's got the uber cheap paper again. It feels more like newsprint than proper book paper, even for a paperback, and I got the hardback edition. But I suppose I should just be glad that Tokyopop has kept releasing this series. I sure hope we get the other three books.

Now it's decision time. Do I dive right into this book or re-read the first three volumes again before I start it? I'm leaning towards the re-read at this point. It's been quite a while since I read the first novel and it looks like this is a continuation of Yoko's story so I think I'll go back and read the other books again.

In any event, the collection of Franz Kafka's stories that I have been working through painfully slowly is going to get put on the back burner for a while longer so I can jump back into the Twelve Kingdoms! Anime hyper

I'm still waiting for someone to catch on to the fact that there is a chapter missing in the Tokyopop version of the book.

Chapter 16 ends on p521 with Yoko forcing the man to lead her to Koshou. Chapter 17 starts on p523 with Yoko leading the attack on Shoukou's mansion.

If you read the original novel (or an unofficial English translation of it) and/or watched the anime adaptation, then you might remember that there should be a chapter in-between those two. In it Yoko meets up with Koshou, Sekki and Suzu, they work things out and Yoko joins their group. And then they start their attacks on Shoukou.

But hey, maybe it's only my copy of the book and I now hold a very rare "missing chapter" edition... ;)

No, your copy isn't an exception, alfi. I just turned in my review for the book (expect to see it on the page later this week or early next) and I comment at length about that. If that chapter really did exist in the Japanese release, though, then I may need to adjust the review a bit. (Can you email me a link to a site where it can be found if you happen to know of such a site?)

I can also, unfortunately, confirm the rumors about the typos in the book. There are a lot of them - I didn't keep count, but probably noticed a dozen or more, and that's without counting some questionable use of hyphens in places. This is a shoddy production effort compared to the previous three novels.

I will warn that this book also reads surprisingly fast for as long as it is. IIRC, I popped off the last 400 pages in just a couple of sittings over the course of one day.

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