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十二国記 [Jūni Kokuki] #15
白銀の墟 玄の月 第三巻 十二国記
今世紀最大の物語、ついにクライマックス!
驍宗様が身罷られたなど信じない。
新王が立つなら、それは麒麟の過ちか。
──角なき麒麟の決断は。
李斎(りさい)は、荒民(こうみん)らが怪我人を匿った里(まち)に辿り着く。だが、髪は白く眼は紅い男の命は、既に絶えていた。驍宗(ぎょうそう)の臣であることを誇りとして、自らを支えた矜持は潰えたのか。そして、李斎の許を離れた泰麒(たいき)は、妖魔によって病んだ傀儡(くぐつ)が徘徊する王宮で、王を追い遣った真意を阿選(あせん)に迫る。もはや慈悲深き生き物とは言い難い「麒麟」の深謀遠慮とは、如何に。
驍宗様が身罷られたなど信じない。
新王が立つなら、それは麒麟の過ちか。
──角なき麒麟の決断は。
李斎(りさい)は、荒民(こうみん)らが怪我人を匿った里(まち)に辿り着く。だが、髪は白く眼は紅い男の命は、既に絶えていた。驍宗(ぎょうそう)の臣であることを誇りとして、自らを支えた矜持は潰えたのか。そして、李斎の許を離れた泰麒(たいき)は、妖魔によって病んだ傀儡(くぐつ)が徘徊する王宮で、王を追い遣った真意を阿選(あせん)に迫る。もはや慈悲深き生き物とは言い難い「麒麟」の深謀遠慮とは、如何に。
384 pages, Paperback Bunko
Published November 9, 2019
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About the author
Fuyumi Ono
167 books332 followersKanji Name: 小野 不由美.
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."
- Wikipedia
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."
- Wikipedia
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February 8, 2020
All the story lines are getting weaved together beautifully and I look forward to the final book
July 16, 2025
COMPLETE REVIEW (for the whole "Hills of Silver Ruins", which comprises books #13 to #16)
After reading all 1200 pages, 374k words of this novel, I can tell you DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. Do not get invested in this story, in Gyousou or Taiki. Do NOT give this book a chance. You WILL be disappointed.
The first two parts of this four part novel drag like a slug. Nothing ever happens and you have to read over and over again that nothing ever happens and how that frustrates the protagonists. But then you push through because in part 3 everything starts moving and you're excited because Gyousou is back on scene and Taiki got political power again and you can see the story's climax coming with fireworks.
But it won't. There will be a bang, but off-screen. Spoilers ahead, who cares: after enduring what Asen does while usurping the throne, after all his crimes, his cruelty, his selfishness, he loses his battle off-screen. You have five chapters of characters deciding (one by one) to die in their last stand and then another five of them reuniting with characters that were never present in the story to begin with. And then, THEN, the book ends. A throwaway line at the end-summary these books have will tell you he lost and Gyousou is back on the throne and that's it. You won't get a satisfying ending, you won't even see the emperor and his usurper talk or interact. You won't even see Gyousou and Taiki interact beyond a "hey, you have grown".
1200 pages. 374 thousand words. I read all that, I invested all that time, I was expecting a satisfying ending, but I didn't even get a proper ending. I think Fuyumi Ono has no idea how to structure a novel and should go back to reading what a climax is. This book is so badly structured that it left me thinking that the genius behind the structure of book 3 that I loved so much wasn't there, it was just a fluke. After reading all nine books of the Twelve Kingdoms saga, I think I'm done with this author. I know there aren't any more books to read after this, but I won't even check if another one gets published.
This was the disappointment of the decade for me.
Ah! And one more thing: something I loved about this world was that motherhood wasn't a thing. Babies are born out of trees, so there are no gender roles. These books were populated by strong women that occupied the same spaces and held the same power as men. But in this book, not only 5% of the characters are women, you constantly hear that men have to fight to protect "women and children". This wasn't a thing! I was promised a world without gender roles. Why are suddenly women incapable of fighting? Why are they relegated to care for the children? What happened to you, Ono-sensei?
After reading all 1200 pages, 374k words of this novel, I can tell you DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. Do not get invested in this story, in Gyousou or Taiki. Do NOT give this book a chance. You WILL be disappointed.
The first two parts of this four part novel drag like a slug. Nothing ever happens and you have to read over and over again that nothing ever happens and how that frustrates the protagonists. But then you push through because in part 3 everything starts moving and you're excited because Gyousou is back on scene and Taiki got political power again and you can see the story's climax coming with fireworks.
But it won't. There will be a bang, but off-screen. Spoilers ahead, who cares: after enduring what Asen does while usurping the throne, after all his crimes, his cruelty, his selfishness, he loses his battle off-screen. You have five chapters of characters deciding (one by one) to die in their last stand and then another five of them reuniting with characters that were never present in the story to begin with. And then, THEN, the book ends. A throwaway line at the end-summary these books have will tell you he lost and Gyousou is back on the throne and that's it. You won't get a satisfying ending, you won't even see the emperor and his usurper talk or interact. You won't even see Gyousou and Taiki interact beyond a "hey, you have grown".
1200 pages. 374 thousand words. I read all that, I invested all that time, I was expecting a satisfying ending, but I didn't even get a proper ending. I think Fuyumi Ono has no idea how to structure a novel and should go back to reading what a climax is. This book is so badly structured that it left me thinking that the genius behind the structure of book 3 that I loved so much wasn't there, it was just a fluke. After reading all nine books of the Twelve Kingdoms saga, I think I'm done with this author. I know there aren't any more books to read after this, but I won't even check if another one gets published.
This was the disappointment of the decade for me.
Ah! And one more thing: something I loved about this world was that motherhood wasn't a thing. Babies are born out of trees, so there are no gender roles. These books were populated by strong women that occupied the same spaces and held the same power as men. But in this book, not only 5% of the characters are women, you constantly hear that men have to fight to protect "women and children". This wasn't a thing! I was promised a world without gender roles. Why are suddenly women incapable of fighting? Why are they relegated to care for the children? What happened to you, Ono-sensei?
November 11, 2019
物語が大きく動き始めた第３巻。
このシリーズは、三国志とか封神演義を読んでいるときみたいなワクワク感がたまらない。
泰麒、強くなったなあ。
このシリーズは、三国志とか封神演義を読んでいるときみたいなワクワク感がたまらない。
泰麒、強くなったなあ。
November 16, 2019
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 25, 2025
I read all four as a single set ... whoops
January 5, 2020
三巻再読。やはり素晴らしかった。
一番好きなのはp322-p336、
阿選視点の説明から供物流しの親子まで、最後主上生死を解明するこの一連の描写。アニメの画面がイメージできる。特に供物の籠を頭上に上げて一礼して、そして歩き出すところは「風駿」の音楽が頭の中に流れてきた。アニメ化、期待してるぞ。
第三卷再讀，果然是最棒的一本。
最喜歡p322-p336，從阿選視點的解說再到河川放流供物的父女，最後轉至主上生死解明的一連串描寫。讀這一連串的敘述很能在腦海裡勾勒出畫面。主上拿到供物後將籃子上舉行一禮後轉身走的畫面，腦中特別響起了動畫配樂「風駿」的音樂。期待動畫化。
一番好きなのはp322-p336、
阿選視点の説明から供物流しの親子まで、最後主上生死を解明するこの一連の描写。アニメの画面がイメージできる。特に供物の籠を頭上に上げて一礼して、そして歩き出すところは「風駿」の音楽が頭の中に流れてきた。アニメ化、期待してるぞ。
第三卷再讀，果然是最棒的一本。
最喜歡p322-p336，從阿選視點的解說再到河川放流供物的父女，最後轉至主上生死解明的一連串描寫。讀這一連串的敘述很能在腦海裡勾勒出畫面。主上拿到供物後將籃子上舉行一禮後轉身走的畫面，腦中特別響起了動畫配樂「風駿」的音樂。期待動畫化。
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