Saiunkoku Monogatari (2nd Series) The Story of Saiunkoku

[eggplant]

The second series for Saiunkoku Monogatari has been announced on this site.

The new series will premiere on April 2007, so there will only be a short break between the two series.

I was wondering how they were going to complete everything in 39 episodes, but my question is answered.

Hope the second series is as long as the first.

[Zappster]

Excellent news

[andromeda0201]

wow great news! i thought this series would end in a sloppy way but luckily there is a continuation

[Sinestra]

Originally Posted by eggplant

The second series for Saiunkoku Monogatari has been announced on this site.

The new series will premiere on April 2007, so there will only be a short break between the two series.

I was wondering how they were going to complete everything in 39 episodes, but my question is answered.

Hope the second series is as long as the first.

WOW music to my ears im looking forward to it i still cant get enough of the first season and its not even finished yet. IMO Saiunkoku Monogatari is underrated

[White Manju Bun]

Originally Posted by eggplant

The second series for Saiunkoku Monogatari has been announced on this site.

The new series will premiere on April 2007, so there will only be a short break between the two series.

I was wondering how they were going to complete everything in 39 episodes, but my question is answered.

Hope the second series is as long as the first.

So glad to here that!! Saiun is soooo good and so underrated. Happy to see that more epis will come out in April!

[Radiosity]

Um... ok, I think I missed something here. 39 episodes? Not 26? The word 'sweet!' springs to mind, as this is one of my absolute favourites this (or any) season has so far offered.

So not only do I have a buttload of episodes still to look forward to, there's a second season announced as well. Christmas seems to have come early this year

[Yaoi_Pocky]

Originally Posted by Frontier Works' Saiunkoku DVD Special Site

http://www.fwinc.co.jp/saiun/news/index.htm (refer to the entry on January 26, 2007)

-アニメ「彩雲国物語」第2シリーズ-

＜放送枠＞
【放送予定】　ＮＨＫ ＢＳ２　毎週土曜 前9:00～9:25
【初回放送予定】　４月７日（土）

＜スタッフ＆キャスト＞
【原作】　雪乃紗衣　
【監督】　宍戸淳　　　
【シリーズ構成】　丸尾みほ
【出演】　桑島法子（秀麗）　関智一（劉輝）　緑川光(静蘭)　ほか
【アニメーション制作】　マッドハウス　【共同制作】　総合ビジョン

So they've given a preliminary air date of April 7, 2007 for Episode 1 of the second season. Like Season 1, it will be aired on NHK BS2, on Saturdays from 9am to 9:25am (Japan time).

The production staff is the same as the first season - except for Series Composition, which is handled by Maruo Miho instead of Yoshida Reiko.

I've linked to Maruo Miho's ANN Encyclopedia entry. She's only done Series Composition for a 1992 - 1993 series called Shounen no Ashibe according to the entry, but she has experience doing screenplay for Ultra Maniac, Peach Girl, Kodocha and, most recently, one episode of Nodame Cantabile. (I mentioned Maruo Miho's screenplay experience because Yoshida Reiko, who did Series Composition for the first season of Saiunkoku, has also done screenplay for several episodes - so I figure that Maruo Miho may also wear two hats for the second season, like her predecessor did.)

[tritoch]

Did Season 2 start already? I think I stumbled upon SM Soushuuhen ep 1

[teh_suck]

Originally Posted by tritoch

Did Season 2 start already? I think I stumbled upon SM Soushuuhen ep 1

NHK is airing summary episodes with no new footage. That's what you found. Season 2 starts April 7.

[Ch1kane]

Raw for season 2 is out! hopefully WeSuck will still be subbing this

[usagijen]

Originally Posted by Ch1kane

Raw for season 2 is out! hopefully WeSuck will still be subbing this

hope so too (coz I'm afraid I can't trust my japanese or chinese knowledge for this show... gonna need quite some help)! only 1 episode they go and they'll be finished subbing the first season (though I still have a lot of catching up to do since I'm pretty much just halfway through... >.<''')

(edit: wow... just after I wrote this, We-Suck has already released episode 39! XD hehe...)

[Impz]

Yep, for all who needs the detailed summary for season two, I have continued to pick up the tab and writing entries for each episode as it comes. Hence, if anyone is interested in the entries, just wait for my updates at this space ^_^

Shuurei!!!!! Gosh, and Kourin too, she's my favorite character.

[Ch1kane]

Spoiler:

is just like what Nightengale had said Kouyuu was ask to marry Shurrei...

anyway side track a little i still prefer the old ED for this anime. ^^" and somehow i feel that they didn't really develop much for the 1st episode. so we shall wait and see

[Kaoru Chujo]

As the theme started up, it all came back to me how much I liked the first season. The flower opening was only the first of several times in the new OP animation that tears started to come to my eyes.

I enjoyed the episode, too. Was it my imagination that the animation seemed a bit better than season one? Maybe not a lot happened on the surface, but there were certainly two or three important things going on underneath. And as long as Kuwashima Houko is there, all is well.

Personally, I totally loved the new ED. Teruya Miho's 照屋 実穂 voice is just overwhelming. And she wrote the music and lyrics, too.

[Impz]

As said, Saiunkoku Monogatari Season 2 Episode 1 is out (hell, that's a mouthful to say) in my blog.

I actually find the light hearted pace for the first episode to be a good interlude for the drama heavy last few episodes. it's good especially to see Seiran all drunk and sarcastic!

[Kaoru Chujo]

I've updated the page showing names, pics, and descriptions of the characters and their seiyuus. I think I've included all the significant characters up to now (29 of them).

[KingMoo-chan]

I adore the entire first season, and this one seems to have started promisingly and moved straight into a balance of plot (with Ryuuki's marriage situation and Kurou's plans for Shuurei) and comedy, with the familiar characters of the capital finally returning after all the time spent in Sa Province.

The new OP sequence is also interesting, too, especially as it reveals a couple of characters that make me wonder. The brown-haired girl that appears at the start and end seems likely to be the Rose Princess due to her hair ornament and the way she is compared with Shuurei, and I deduced that the seemingly unknown man who appears next to Son Taifu in the throne room shot is one head of the Emperor's guards. I must ask, though, if anyone knows who the white-haired bishounen that appears in the opening is.

Spoiler:

My outlandish and supernatural theory is that he is Sakujun, for a number of reasons
-Sakujun "died," but clearly has another role in the plot given his body's removal
-Enjun is supposedly the Sage of Sa, and yet he lived a normal lifetime, as his backstory, Chuusou and Eiki atest to, while the Sage of Shi Shou Taishi appears immortal and was supposedly around at the start of the kingdom
-With Enjun now gone to another world, the Sage could need a new body to continue to use, and Sakujun is the only fitting member of the Sa clan given the clan's situation
-He appears in the OP around the same time Sakujun did, and Sakujun is absent, although this could be brought down to the secrecy of Sakajun's continued survival
-Something about his appearance, especially his eyes, reminds me of Sakujun

My other suggestion is that he could be related to the situation with Yougetsu and Eigetsu, although if that was the case he probably should have appeared in the OP with those two and Kourin.

Finally, a "Rin Sen'ya" appears on tne ANN cast list for season two. I vaguely recall a mention of a Lin merchant family that Sakujun may have killed. ("On top of that, Shuurei has learned that the Lin clan was killed by the Satsukinzoku a few days earlier," from episode 26) Perhaps this, therefore, is a member of the real Lin family.

I also must wonder who the last two characters on the official website are. (http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/saiunkoku/almanach/index.php) Their appearance on that page would suggest they are important to the future plot, although they do not seem to enter the tale until around volume 10.

[katyqueen]

I can't wait to see 2nd season
Does anyone know when that would be with subtitle?

[Nightengale]

Sorry for the double post. Just watched episode 1 of Season 2. Gold.

Spoiler for Season 2:

It's nice that they're going to finally start developing the layed out foundations of my 2nd favourite Shuurei pairing, second to Sakujun x Shuurei.

[Sinta]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Sorry for the double post. Just watched episode 1 of Season 2. Gold.

Spoiler for Season 2:

It's nice that they're going to finally start developing the layed out foundations of my 2nd favourite Shuurei pairing, second to Sakujun x Shuurei.

Damn, Shuurei has quite the little harem going doesn't she...Sakujun x Shuurei is your favorite pairing? Are you insane? Why?