#12 kingdoms

[vqler]

[claremikas]

The Twelve Kingdoms 30th Anniversary Guidebook

Illustration by THORES Shibamoto

[minoyrheyr]

OMG WHAT? ITS MUSICAL!??? Youko and Rakushun's chemistry is so good helppp. I love Keiki's long hair. I like the idea of having two actress for Youko. Where are her classmates though?

【ミュージカル『十二国記 ‐月の影 影の海‐』ゲネプロ】柚香光 宝塚退団後初のグランドミュージカル

俳優の柚香光さんが主演を務めるミュージカル「十二国記」の公開ゲネプロが行われました。本作は、小野不由美さんによる大河ファンタジー小説の世界初の舞台化作品。我々が住む世界と、地球上には存在しない異世界とを舞台に繰り広げられる、壮大なファンタジーです。▼TBS芸能情報ステーション公式

[simandy]

her.

[dragonicmoon]

Hiya ! I'm not done yet, but I made some good progress on my 12K cross-stitch project !! :D

[animefeminist]

No One is Born to Be a Slave: How The Twelve Kingdoms questions social systems

Fantasy is often described as escapism, but the genre has great potential to expose a reader to different perspectives on their own society while drawing them into an exciting new world. The Twelve Kingdoms novels by Fuyumi Ono truly show this. The world of the Twelve Kingdoms is a masterful example of a fully developed, politically complex, colorful and varied fantasy world. 

While many alternate worlds in fiction are based on Tolkien-esque Western fantasy and traditional RPGs, the intricate world of The Twelve Kingdoms draws on East Asian, particularly Chinese, mythology. Nor does the story rely on stock archetypes with its characters, featuring instead flawed, conflicted, and realistic people who develop greatly throughout their narratives—many of whom are women.

Three of the primary point-of-view characters are Youko Nakajima, a Japanese high school girl who rose from a hated minority to Emperor of Kei; Suzu, a girl from Meiji-era Japan also stranded in the Twelve Kingdoms; and Shouko, a spoiled princess who must learn how to live as a commoner when revolutionaries depose her father. 

One of the most important things that really makes The Twelve Kingdoms stand out among other fantasy narratives is the story’s in-depth and intelligent exploration of lopsided social hierarchies and complacency in injustice. By exploring three different perspectives from three similar, yet very different young women, The Twelve Kingdoms tells a story of how people at all levels of society can create change.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[jnvsn]

This cover is so georgous.

Twelve Kingdom is Peak fiction.

[what-a-connmotion]

The Twelve Kingdoms (2002–2003)