Comments on: Saiunkoku Monogatari Review - 90/100

by: Maileeee

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:46:56 +0100

Now that the final installment for the light novels is released. Can’t they finally decide for a third series? How I wished there were. NHK please do a 3rd season for this AMAZING Series? Anyways, Saiunkoku Monogatari is worth the watch, the read. I loved it.

by: MurasakiRiyu

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:12:06 +0000

I would perhaps compare this more to Fushigi Yuugi than Juuni Kokki. It falls somewhat between the two, being a more realistic setting than FY but not as fully realised as JK. Since this is perhaps the third anime I’ve found in this sort of category (bishounen, fantasy, court politics)it is well worth a watch if you enjoy this style/theme.

by: Spik

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:26:10 +0000

Lorena says much of what I feel in regards to 12K and SaiMono.

Having watched 12K first, when it came to SaiMono I felt extremely disappointed. SaiMono seems extremely unrealistic and pales in comparison to the character development and world creation of 12K.

And as I am somewhat familiar with Chinese customs, some of the things that happen in SaiMono just rubs me the wrong way. If it were to happen in a modern setting it’d be fine, but considering that SaiMono takes place in an AU Ancient China, I had hoped for something more culturally accurate.

by: Lorena

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:14:51 +0100

Excellent blogging. I’ve found this when I began watching this series. Although… I wouldn’t recommend this to people who enjoyed the Twelve Kingdoms (granted you didn’t know). As a 12K fan, I was encouraged to watch this because is “alike” with “strong heroines” and was very let down by the first season. Shuurei’s completely unrealistic and perfect without any single flaw people don’t coddle her from compared to Youko’s greatness in her complexity and flaws. Twelve Kingdoms has no qualms to show us heroines who are flawed, realistic people who struggle to be better (and people acknowledging their shortcomings in negative ways).

The series is rather good, I’m working my way through the second season, but I wouldn’t go as far as to even compare it to Twelve Kingdoms. It’s like comparing Fushigi Yuugi with SaiMono. SaiMono has certainly more realistic depth than FY but at the same time it comes short when pitted against JK.

Lovely series, however.

by: Kamryn

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:26:09 +0100

Where do I find any episodes after 39?

by: kawahato

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:04:09 +0100

I love Saiunkoku!! You said on another blog it gets the most hits on your blogsite, but interestingly enough I haven’t run into anyone that’s have heard of it besides people online! It’d be nice to have someone to talk about it to, lol. It is such a great series though. It has strong characters and has a good balance of humor and seriousness. It has it slow parts and sometimes it’s hard to remember who does what and whose name is whose in the show, but it’s easy enough to get past. This show is especially good though since it’s so rare to such a strong female character like Shuurei! I really hope they make a third season as well. I’d love to actually see Shuurei and Ryuuki together, not just hope they are.

by: psgels

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:52:27 +0000

The thing that mostly led me to believe that the show had its budget-problems was due to their strange placement. Saiunkoku Monogatari didn’t just have three recaps, but around December and January, there were lots of one- and two week hiatuses, and three episodes before the ending another recap gets introduced. I can’t really believe that everything was planned that way.

by: Kei

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:38:15 +0000

>some dramatic budget-problems

budget problem? really?
I thought that the problem is caused by the tight schedule caused by the original novel. As you know, this animation is based on the novel of the same title for teenagers. The novel is still going-on, and the latest volume, on which the last several episodes of the animation were based, was published last summer. This might cause a problem for the production team of the animation, because they did not have enough time to prepare scripts for the rest of the animation series. To insert three recap-episodes was a solution for them, maybe.
Regarding the possibility of the third series, it totally depends on Yukino Sai, the author of the original novel. Even though I never read the novel, I personally think that it is better that the Saiunkoku Monogatari finishes with the second series, since I am a little bit worried if she has a good idea how to end the story…

by: death13a

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:26:54 +0000

I picked Saiunkoku after my craving for 12 Kingdoms, I really like stories with rich and complex worlds, I am currently waiting for more subs.

For those that want to watch 12 Kingdoms warning: you will want more.

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by: shun

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:28:45 +0000

hmm………………………….

looks like this is the End of the End.

based on how it looks, they’re not planning for a season 3. because as part of my former simulation, there’s no indication of the next move, which is the upcoming Kouyuu Arc… so… hmm, even though it’s sad on my side, but even if they do have a new season, like what psgels said, it’s not gonna be very soon.

hmm….

by: marmot

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:28:12 +0000

I’m only a few episodes into the second series (fansub group picked it up again woo!) but this really is one of my favourite series, I always like how there wasn’t one large overall goal to it, it made it seem far more true to what life would be like. Admittedly it is sometimes too slow and too complex for it’s own good (I keep forgetting what characters do, though that isn’t a terrible thing) and I’m not so sure about the supernatural side of it playing a bigger role in this series but overall an incredible achievement on the production company to have such a long series and only a few minor slip ups.