Fuyumi Ono (小野 不由美, Ono Fuyumi) is a Japanese novelist who is best known for writing the Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記, Juuni Kokuki) series, on which a popular anime is based. Her name after marriage is Fuyumi Uchida (内田不由美, Uchida Fuyumi), but she writes under her maiden name.
Ono was born in Nakatsu, Ōita, Kyūshū in 1960. She graduated from Ōtani University in Kyōto with a degree in Buddhist Studies, and in 1988 was employed by the publisher Kōdansha. Her debut story is titled Sleepless on Birthday Eve.
Ono is married to Naoyuki Uchida (内田直行, Uchida Naoyuki), a mystery novelist who writes under the pseudonym Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻行人 , Ayatsuji Yukito).
Before she started work on Twelve Kingdoms, Fuyumi Ono wrote The Demonic Child (魔性の子), a horror novel about a boy from another world. She later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series. Short stories set in the various kingdoms include: Kasho, Toei, Shokan, Kizan and Jogetsu. In February, 2008, the first new Twelve Kingdoms short story, Hisho no Tori (丕緒の鳥) was published in Shinchosha's Yomyom magazine.
According to an interview at the Anime News Network, she is "currently rewriting a girls' horror series (she) wrote long ago."
Loved every single book of this series. It's the kind of book that when you put it down at the very end you feel a mix of great satisfaction (because the story was packed with greatness), unbelievable anger (angry because it's over), frustration (because there's still so many unanswered questions in your mind), sadness and joy at the same time. Now the French edition is the only one that has translated the full series from Japanese (as of yet) and since it's my mother language I bought them in French (lucky me) but I suggest waiting for all the books to be out because.....you won't be able to put it down.
Pas mal. On apprend plus de choses sur les 12 royaumes, on découvre plus de royaumes, de reines, et le fait que l'on passe d'un personnage à l'autre comme cela rend le récit plus vivant.
Le hic c'est que je n'aime vraiment pas le personnage de Suzu, qui est tout de même l'une des trois héroines de ce volume.
Autre point ennuyeux: toutes les leçons de calcul de la taille d'un terrain, était-ce vraiment nécessaire?