2006-06-24, 23:14 | Link #105 |
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Watched ep. 9. Some scenes that I remembered:
+ Firiel and Ingraine travelling together. I mistook Ingraine for a man before + Adale is not very good @ horse riding. + Adale and Leandra's mother is just a princess (I thought she was a queen or something) + Eusis getting dumped by the unicorn many times. + Firiel found a baby unicorn. Baby unicorn getting attached to Firiel. + Eusis almost shot Firiel w/ an arrow. --> Not many things happen but it's still a nice episode.
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2006-06-25, 22:40 | Link #106 | |
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2006-07-05, 19:54 | Link #109 |
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About the Leandra pointing, she's referring to Roux I think. Because the Duke put a mark on Roux when he was captured and he says that he belongs to him.
Eusis wants to marry Firiel because.....I think he fell in love to Firiel (exactly what Lot predicted - despite how Eusis denied it). As for Adale, she's a little jealous that her brother found a love but she's also happy because it was Firiel.
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2006-08-05, 09:15 | Link #110 |
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Adele Pictures
As short as this series was, I really enjoyed it. I would like to get my hands on the manga to see where and if it differed....! I've looked all over the web trying to find scans of Adele (especially in her military outfit from episode 12!) and from the manga. If anyone has any help on finding these, or the existence of an artbook to buy, I would greatly appreciate it!
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2006-09-02, 20:50 | Link #112 |
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I'm a little surprised there wasn't more buzz with this one. It was a highly original work, IMO - ironically because it so faithfully followed the European fairy-tale format, faithfully right to the end. There were several genuinely sharply drawn and interesting characters (especially Roux) and a plot that was generally cohesive and logically drawn. Just not flashy enough for everyone, I suppose.
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2006-10-25, 01:13 | Link #113 |
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Just watched the whole thing (plus all 4 manga avalible in Chinese thus far) and I have to say I really like this show. Having read the manga and saw the anime as well I have to say the manga is better in terms of art, pacing, and character development. But the anime does have very nice music (love the OP song), and I honestly don't mind the difference in design all that much. It's just that 13 episodes isn't enough to develop all the things that goes on in the manga, which I believe is based much more closely to the novels. I have to concur with the wide spread opinion in this forum that the show would've benefited from a few more episodes to flesh things out a bit more. *sigh*
Still, for all the people who enjoyed this anime, I'd highly recomment reading the manga (first volume's avalible from Tokyopop). It's darker than the anime but much more interesting IMO. |
2006-11-30, 22:15 | Link #114 |
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Good Witch of the West
I've watched a few episodes of this...and it's really science fiction, isn't it? These guys colonised some earthlike world and then imposed peasant ignorance on the bulk of the population right? I'm not sure how effective fairy tales would be as a method of manipulating people's psychology, though, if you don't let people hear them.
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2007-02-27, 17:33 | Link #115 |
Lost in my dreams...
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Just finished this little piece of work, and it was a fairly good watch. Pretty interesting and somewhat original, considering its fairy tale
Characters lacked any real development, but bleh - i can live with it. Roux is one strange animal though - i can't recall ever seeing something as ... unique as him He certainly looked like a complete bookworm when i first saw him, and i thought his personality would be matching that... boy, was that wrong Still can't figure out what the hell was that star, and especially - Bard 0_o And of course, as a proper fairy tale we have a happily ever after for every one. Cheeziness over the top with them forgiving the major villains and all seemed on the "bleh" side though ... but hey - only evil dragons get killed in fairy tales mostly, right ? Animation was fairly nice, but they did overuse the "blush" effect. Overall a pretty decent watch. 7/10
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2007-02-27, 19:22 | Link #116 |
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I liked this one a lot, though it didn't get much attention. Your reaction to Roux seems to be the common one - he didn't fit neatly into any stereotype, and as such was easily the breakout character of the series.
Check out the manga - first two volumes are out. It's very good. |
2008-02-25, 20:11 | Link #118 | |
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2008-06-13, 18:38 | Link #120 |
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I just finished watching this myself.
Are the novels finished with the story? It really felt like the anime started strong, then went completely off the rails eventually -- specifically, somewhere around the time: Spoiler:
My assumption was that the anime's writers had to just suddenly start inventing things eventually; it seems like there's a pretty clear dividing line beyond which the plot and characterization suddenly and sharply decline in quality (around when people start teleporting everywhere, although it was starting to feel rushed and hectic a bit before that.) If that's what happened, I can at least say one good thing about this show: it made me grateful for the fact that Twelve Kingdoms stopped where the novels did, and didn't try to continue without them. |
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