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The Path of Sorrows, The Dragon Throne: Chapter 3
Author: Nightheart
Rating: PG-15
Characters: Taiki/Kaname Takasoto, Yuka Sugimoto, Gyousou Saku.
Summary:Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer, the secret to redemption lies in remembrance. For Yuka and Taiki the way forward lies in going back, and only the path of sorrows will lead them to a new hope.
Spoilers to the end of the anime. Anime-verse Twelve Kingdoms.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8043403/3/The_Path_of_Sorrows_The_Dragon_Throne
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(crossposted from tumblr)
I’ve been at a children’s writers and illustrators conference for the past two days, and I had the chance to attend some fantastic panels. At one of them, a representative from an established US publisher mentioned being open to hearing about children’s lit in translation. I’m not a translator and I don’t read Japanese, but I figured why not mention the Twelve Kingdoms to her?
She gave me her card and asked me to send her some links, and she mentioned sending it on to a friend if she couldn’t do something with it. I have no idea how the publishing rights would work, since Tokyopop is no more, but hopefully this might see some interest in the books. Nothing might come of it, but maybe something might?
So my question is, does anyone have any links they think might be good to include in an email pitching the Twelve Kingdoms? Or stuff that they wouldn’t include? Thoughts or reservations? I’m aiming to email her next week so it doesn’t look like I’m bugging/stalking her.
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
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Here it is! The first Chapter in The Path of Sorrows, The Dragon Throne. Grab a Snickers, we've a long road ahead of us.
Title: The Path of Sorrows, The Dragon Throne
Author: Nightheart
Characters: Yuka Sugimoto, Kaname Takasoto/Taiki, Gyousou Saku, et al.
Genre: Adventure, fantasy.
Spoilers: Animeverse, through the wretched cliffhanger ending of the series in which they never told us what happened next to Taiki.
Summary: Yuka Sugimoto thought her adventures in the other world were over once Keiki had brought her home. The discovery of Taiki and his situation and the subsequent friendship that developed makes it clear that neither of their stories is over yet. After all, Yuka has never been a passive sort. Together they might just find what they're looking for... they might just find redemption.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8043403/1/The_Path_of_Sorrows_The_Dragon_Throne
Authors Note: Huge shout-out to K. R. for the beta!
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
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Icon bases:
♛ [ 49 ] + anima
♛ [ 30 ] 12 kingdoms / juuni kokki
♛ [ 10 ] air tv
♛ [ 11 ] misc.
♛ [ 12 ] naruto
♛ [ 07 ] ouran high school host club
♛ [ 54 ] vampire knight
♛ [ 16 ] zombie loan
total ♛ [ 189 ]
Garage Sale Trash @ natsusuki
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At last... at long last... I finally have it. The perfect title.
I had always vaguely planned on aping the format used by the author of the original novels (though I warn you all, that this follows the anime version of 12K for obvious reasons) where the different "books" (or segments in the anime) had different titles connected together. I knew I was going to call the second book "The Dragon Throne" but try as I might I could not come up with the perfect title for the first book, ergo, even though its pretty much ready for posting, I never got it posted because I needed something to call it and because of my perfectionist nature it couldn't be just any old something, I had to make it cool and resonant. And fitting. I'm babbling, can you tell I'm excited? So, this monster is...
The Path of Sorrows, The Dragon Throne.
Book one is the Path of Sorrows and book two is the Dragon Throne. Look forward to it please!
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
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Title: True is His Name
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Book canon - set directly after "The Shore at Twilight, The Sky at Daybreak".
Wordcount: ~1.2k
Genre: Angst, gen.
Characters/pairings: Taiki (Takasato Kaname), Risai, Gyousou.
Contents/warnings/kinks: Violence.
Beta'd by: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) elfwreck
A/N: Written for pengiesama as part of Yuletide Madness.
Disclaimer: 12K and its characters do not belong to me.
Summary: Taiki and Risai search for Gyousou.
When we reach Tai, you shouldn't call me Taiki.
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
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Saturday, November 26th, 2011
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
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Hi,
It''s been a month since we sent our e-mails to Kodansha USA. I've been wondering if any of you get a reply. I didn't get any though.
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
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akzseinga is hosting a great love fest dedicated to female characters. It’s called:
WE LOVE THE WOMEN THAT THE FANDOM HATES
It’s a week-long fest where you post everyday, showing your love and appreciation to a female character that might be hated on in the fandom (for variety of reason).
You can learn more here (as well as claim a female character for yourself.)
And don’t be afraid to spread the love and pimp the event everywhere :)
Click here to reblog on Tumblr
(mods, please delete if not allowed)
look who I found
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Sunday, September 4th, 2011
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It never wants to work for me, maybe it's because I got ambitious and put it in rich text instead of html. Now it won't let me edit the post in my home page because for some reason it won't show up. I'm terribly sorry about the space waster guys, it's because I'm an idiot.
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
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I wrote this on a sudden whim last night because the post by midspace got me thinking that, while I had touched on how Yuka Sugimoto was after being the only one to come back, I hadn't really gone into much detail. You can consider this as kind of a prologue to the as yet untitled fic I'm currenly embroiled in (its a little over halfway done and really getting to the good part) or it can stand just as well on it's own. It's always better to show rather than tell, so...
( readmore )
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
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I note that fanfic authors on FFN use the same style that the original author of the novels (and the episode titles in the anime too) uses for the title of a lot of their works, even the short ones. It's nitpicky, but the titles are put together like that because they were the individual titles of two books later combined into one. Just an odd little observation. If they're titleing thier stories like that, we should make them all write follow up books, what do you think? ((winks)) My own massive runaway train doesn't have a title yet, I'm thinking about putting two titles together author-style but actually have the two titles be two books put together.
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
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Hello. I'm Nightheart. I'm new to the community as of now. It sounds a little selfish, but I have this Twelve Kingdoms fanfiction I've been working on and it's a monster already but I don't have a beta to help me out with the rough patches. It is mostly anime based since at the time I started writing it I could not get hold of a translation of the next book to save my soul, the only thing I had found was a small synopsis someone had posted somewhere... sadly when i finally stumbled across the excellent translation by eugene woodbury I was already halfway into the fic and couldn't really change some aspects that differed from the anime without destroying what id written. Oh... I'm probably the only person in the world who actually likes Yuka Sugimoto. I'm one of those contrary individuals who always seems drawn to unpopular (but cannonical) pairings and the sorts of characters with difficult personalities. I think that it makes them interesting.
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
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Dear friends,
Tomorrow (Aug 19, 2011) is our promise date. Don't forget to send your e-mail to Kodansha :)
Littlenk
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
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I'm clearing out my collection, and have some Twelve Kingdoms doujinshi for sale. (Some gen/gag, and some Shouryuu/Enki books)
There are plenty of other goodies for sale, as well, so go check it out here!
Thanks!
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It's been a while since I made an amv. Anyway, this is my gift (in advance) for those who will send e-mail to Kodansha with me :)
Since I don't know how to post the amv, so here is the link:
www.youtube.com/watch
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
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I thought to ask Eugene Woodbury about how he feels with the Kodansha licensing situation. He sympathizes, of course, as he is a fan but really, has no plans to pick up translations right now as his plate is full with other projects. Here's his response to my e-mail:
"Hi Kero,
I appreciate your update on the demise of the English-language Juuni Kokki licenses. This is indeed a sad turn of events.
Unfortunately, besides working on a new novel, I'm doing several translations for Digital Manga on a pretty tight schedule. I don't have the time right now (not to mention that translating chews up a lot of mental CPUs) to continue with Juuni Kokki anytime soon. Though I will certainly consider returning to it at a future date.
Take care,
Eugene"
As English reading fans, we are on our own...for what may be a very long time...unless qualified translators decide to pick it up out of sheer generosity of heart....sigh
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