This novel is the second part of the Sa arc. Don’t read this if you haven’t seen the anime series, because it’s the climax of the second half of the series.
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[repost from LJ]
I think I’ve rather becoming boring and can only chat to people about reading Japanese novels these days. -_- Apologies to all I’ve bored. I think I will be eventually done though ? This rate is not bad, and perhaps I will begin to read faster in Japanese. Well, maybe one day! BTW, if you want to know what the Saiunkoku novels are like, they are like the anime except with slightly more exposition. XD Well, the other difference is that the narrator sometimes shows that they are telling the story far in the future after all the events have taken place, during a period where all of this has become legend.
This novel covers the journey of the new governors to Sa Province, and around the revelation of the true identity of “Lin Senya.”
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This volume covers the part where after Shuurei passes the exam, she works in the palace, while there is some kind of conspiracy involving a fake ring.
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[also a repost from LJ]
This novel covers the part about Shuurei working in the finance ministry and Ryuuki trying to get the bill to allow women to take the exams passed. Eh, I’m debating whether I should continue to put this novel blogging on this blog, or move it to the wordpress.com blog, because I know most of you don’t watch Saiunkoku, and even if you do, that doesn’t necessarily mean you will be interested. I like Saiunkoku, but for some reason I don’t feel a huge need to pimp it to others.
[This is a repost of my LJ entry, with some added notes]
In other news, am reading the Saiunkoku novels. It’s actually, despite them being shorter and probably grammatically simpler than the LoGH novels, a harder row to hoe because I’ve seen the anime and I already know what is going to happen next; well, it’s not only that, but the way they’re written is already quite anime-like, being heavily dialogue-based, so I feel like I’ve already seen it before. So far, the first book seems then, very faithful to the anime, and although I was hoping for more background information, there honestly doesn’t seem to be that much that wasn’t put into the anime.
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