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This series is one of my favorites, The rating is for the overall series since I cant recall particulars about each specific book,
The main character is strong and likable, She is extremely hardworking as she tries to earn her place in a profession that is traditionally only available to men.
Although there are underlying romantic tensions with multiple possible love interests, the focus for me was her journey as she pushed against societal expectations and glass ceilings.
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十年前この話のアニメ見たんだがアニメと漫画は結構違うそれか私の覚え力は全くゼロかもでもそうじゃないと思覚えいてい９覚えいてい９歳に読んだ本のキャラと話はまだ覚えているので私の能力の問題ではないと思うただ話か雰囲気か大人のテーマとか何かガ結構違う
私の感想は清覧はたぶん今の王の兄そうじゃんかたっら彼はこの国の見守り神最初の王どれが本当がまだ分からないしゅうれいはちょっと浅いキャラ最初の巻のせいで彼女自身のせいでまだ分かんないけどあまり好きじゃない今 Okay, so the storyline really wasn't mindblowingly awesome, Interesting, yes. But the artwork was gorgeous, and I'm just a flatout sucker for beautifully drawn manga, Or perhaps just beautifully drawn manga men, I'm not sure which. Whatever the case, I loved the characters and the artwork enough to be spellbound, In which a destitute but idealistic young noblewoman becomes the emperor's consort in order to persuade him to take on the responsibility of actually governing.
Rereadto refresh memory. First off the art is gorgeous and the backstory are fascinating based on a Chinese tale I think, though the characters are Japanese.
The main storyline is easy to understand, A down on her luck noblewoman, Shurei the daughter of the state archivist, is a teacher and is selected by a member of the ruling council to assist the newly minted emperor in properly ruling.
He isand she is, She is getting paid a lot of money to do this and plans on using the money to restore her family's home, which has been falling apart for years thanks to her father's bad management and rotten luck well that and his job is more ceremonial than actually paying well, despite working for the empire.
What she doesn't plan on is slowly falling for the emperor Ryuki, who is basically like a small frightened child on one hand the way he treats her and a clever calculating man on the other hand the way he treats his retainers.
My problems with the story come in the way the illustrator has created the four main male characters: the emperor, the general, his bodyguard/tutor, and Shurei's former bodyguard and friend.
They all look alike, esp the blond ones, But the males in the story are trying to make sure the emperor is on track and I think there may be some twists and upcoming turns, like Seiran Shurei's bodyguard/Emperor's guard may actually be the emperor's exiled brother.
We'll see what else happens in the next volume, Recommended for ages,/stars. hard to follow, a lot of unnecessary dialogue
i'd probably read more eventually just out of curiosity but my least favorite in the shojo beat series so far.
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The Story of Saiunkoku follows a young woman named Shurei, who comes from a poor family of noble birth.
Her kingdom is ruled by a seemingly incompetent emperor, who does not want the throne, She becomes consort to the emperor and is tasked with motivating him to properly govern his kingdom,
After this first volume, I have some pretty high hopes for this series, Shurei is an extremely likeable and capable protagonist, and I love how intelligent she is, I'm also quite a fan of Ryuuki he reminds me a lot of Suwon, and I look forward to further exploration of his character.
We had quite a few characters introduced in this volume and I'm interested to see what their roles will be in the story.
As for the art, it's not my favourite, and I do really wish the male protagonists were more distinctive looking.
There was more than one occasion where I got some of them confused, I find the characters and story compelling enough to look past this though,
Note: this manga is based off a collection of light novels and does not adapt them to completion.
I've been warned it ends inconclusively, so that's something to keep in mind if you're interested in this series,
sitelinkBlog sitelinkInstagram main account sitelinkInstagram manga account sitelinkTwitter THIS IS SO CUTE JAHDQLIDJWISBDWOLAOXN Better than I had thought it would be.
I like Shurei, but the story surrounding her just didn't grab me, The art is pretty, but the character designs are too similar overall, Better than average, and I have no doubt that this will find many devoted fans, Not sure I'm going to be one of them, though, Apparently, this was originally a novel without the pretty pictures, It is interesting to have such a bait and switch with the main male character to find some companionship in the arms of his Noble Consort.
Even though we wouldnt want to give too many ideas about a man and a woman sleeping in the same bed together, Ryuki calls her his “wife” which seems a little odd without an official ceremony.
Okay, I spoiled it a little, and for that, Ill put the spoilers thing up on my review, More thoughts could be forthcoming as I continue this series, I loved this anime when I first watched it aboutyears ago and now I finally found the manga, The beginning is great and I fear a rewatch of the anime is in order, too, Shurei Hong, destitute but of noble birth, has always dreamed of working as a civil servant in the imperial court of Saiunkoku, but women are barred from holding office.
The emperor Ryuki, however, refuses to take command, leaving everything to his advisors, Shurei is asked to become a consort to the emperor to persuade the neerdowell ruler to govern,
Shurei enters the palace as Ryuki's consort, but he has yet to seek her out, It is rumored that men, not women, share the emperor's bedchamber, Shurei must think of a way to stop the emperor from shirking his responsibilities, but she has to find him first! Ok, after rereading it for a second time.
. . I'm ready to be nicer,
Again, it deserves it's two for drawings because it was honestly such a beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL thing to read.
The pictures were so elegant and pretty, The illustrator really has so much talent in this area, The men are pretty, the women are pretty, and everything is just, . . perfect.
Now, after reading it again, I get a lot more of what the plot is supposed to be about.
I'm not half as confused as I was before! So basically our main character has to travel to the Inner Court to be the consort of the emperor, who's really a tornup guy inside.
The plot itself, is very dramatic and really would make a good liveaction drama, but paired up with the images, it's a wholesome little world unto itself.
The last star is because I think I judged it too harshly the first time, It's a very sweet book!!! I'm so glad I gave it another chance and liked it a whole lot better this time.
It was comical when it was supposed to be and gave the air of seriousness when it was needed, Perfect. . Frankly, the only decent thing I can say about this book is that the art is lovely, The rest debatable.
For one, everybody is beautiful,
No no, I don't think you fully get this: Every, Body. Is. Really. Freaking. Beautiful.
This wouldn't be much of a problem if all of them didn't look EXACTLY the same.
All the men are pretty, All of them have long hair, All of their hair is light, All of them have heart shaped faces, ALL OF THEM HAVE ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME FACE AND BODY STRUCTURE,
That makes differentiating who is who just a liiiitle difficult, But that's not the only problem it brought, Because they all look the same, none of the names stuck,
Imagine you are in a room with aboutpeople who look exactly the same, Now go around introducing yourself and asking their names, By the time you're greeting yourperson, you are likely to have forgotten the names of the firstpeople, Then you go around calling everybody by their wrong name because there is nothing that makes them look different.
I think you get my problem now,
Coming to the characters, I remember the main character's name and how she looks because she was one of the
only female with dark hair.
Shuurei was fine as far as main characters go,
I don't remember any of the men, so I'm not going to risk going there,
Don't think I'll continue, I'm already hella confused, I don't want to completely befuddle myself, Synopsis:
Shurei Hong, destitute but of noble birth, has always dreamed of working as a civil servant in the imperial court of Saiunkoku, but women are barred from holding office.
The emperor Ryuki, however, refuses to take command, leaving everything to his advisors, Shurei is asked to become a consort to the emperor to persuade the neerdowell ruler to govern,
Shurei enters the palace as Ryuki's consort, but he has yet to seek her out, It is rumored that men, not women, share the emperor's bedchamber, Shurei must think of a way to stop the emperor from shirking his responsibilities, but she has to find him first!
My Thoughts:
I've watched the first season of the anime of this series, so a lot of what I read here, I'd already seen before.
Still, I'd been wanting to read the manga because stateside, we'd only got the first season of the show even though there are a few others past that one.
I want to know if the manga goes further than that, Besides, it was a few years ago that I watched it, so I don't remember just how close Shurei and Ryuki get.
Shurei laments being poor, so when she's offered so much money to whip the Emperor into shape, she jumps at it.
Of course, it isn't so easy in the beginning as it takes quite some time to even met him, It seems Ryuki has gone out of his way to avoid meeting those appointed to posts that he's supposed to work with.
When Shurei does get to meet Ryuki, he's pretending to be someone else not realizing that she has already met this person.
Still, they meet for tea often and get closer, Once Shurei tells him her story, he finally decides to start learning about governance,
As they get closer, Ryuki starts wanting a closer relationship with Shurei, He's a bit jealous that she speaks about her attendant Seiran so often, He decides he wants her to call him by his name from now on, but ends up falling asleep in her bed.
As he's been known to only bed men, everyone is quite surprised when it's discovered that Shurei and Ryuki have spent the night together.
Shurei is embarrassed, but Ryuki seems to have more than one reason for staying there, He's had nightmares for years stemming from his awful treatment as a child and it seems someone is trying to kill Shurei.
She has no idea that Ryuki has been protecting her or that he's given "flowers" to Koyu and Shuei and enlisted their help.
What will she do when she finds out What will she do when she notices like Shuei and Koyu have that Ryuki isn't nearly as inept as he's made himself out to seem I'm looking forward to finding out.
Not bad. I'm interested in where this manga is going,
It's obvious that the artist is a huge Chinese history nerd, The mc had more costume changes than necessary, but I'm not complaining about it in fact, the art is the best part of the manga.
I think there were certain parts that jumped around too much, Like nonspecific time passing on one page, Or how the emperor's motivation/personality changed drastically overpages or so,
Some pages had too much text.
I'msurprised to learn that this is based off a book, What a lovely book. Wonderful art, touching and often funny story, . . I loved the anime and I'm loving the manga! I fell in love with the anime version of this manga.
The story is very wellwritten and full of intrigues and politics, along with the sensuality of blossoming romance, This book was so so SO much fun reading!
The characters are fleshed out and immediately feel genuine to the reader, and the plot is fun and easy to follow along with.
I'm sure there will be many complications down the road this is a courtbased story, after all, but I'm excited to see how our main characters overcome each obstacle and how it affects those around them.
Highly recommend this manga to anyone even remotely interested! Of course I was biased to like this version of one of my favourite female empowering animes which sadly got too little PR in the West due to Pioneer/Geneon suddenly vanishing from the anime publishers list in the US.
I was quite grateful that Funimation finished the first series, but the second series was only available in fansubs and I haven't heard of this world developing a strong fanbase, so I hardly think we shall get it in English.
There are many powerful shoujo heroines, but here you have a female josei heroine in an epic fantasy society, with almost a reverse harem eventually, trying to make her way in a man's world, man's society and man's job eventually just so her country can be healed and run better by the politicians/administration/civil servants.
She's female, so she appreciates and fosters relationships to get what she wants/to make others rethink their views.
There's love on offer of a paternal and filial nature which she delights in/ of a romantic nature which she worries might lead her astray from her aim of bettering the future of being the strong support her friends need.
I adore Shurei and love the fact that the original illustrator of the light novel series took up the challenge to create the manga, because she knows the whole story so well and can still instil little points of emphasis that let me view certain developments in a new light.
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