It is! (Well, one of 'em, now. ^^) We started working on it partway through the run, so we've been going back and filling in earlier episodes as we continue doing new ones, but we've *almost* got all of the older material done. I just greenlit episode 6, and that and ep. 7 will fill in the hole. (It's up to 27 eps. so far, and the other one we're working on right now is 21.)
Anyway, let me see . . . I'm notoriously bad at summaries. *laughs* It's set in a fictional country called Saiunkoku, which went through a bad period of fighting for the throne and ended up with a fairly young emperor who shows no interest whatsoever in actually ruling. His advisors are in despair over the fate of the country with this foolish emperor in charge, so one of them basically bribes drafts the main character, Shuurei, to come to the palace and make him shape up--which, since women aren't given positions of authority, means bringing her in as a concubine.
Shuurei is from a noble family that's fallen on pretty hard times, and she's very intelligent; she teaches kids at the local temple and works odd jobs with the family retainer to keep food on the table, that kind of thing. And she *hates* being poor, so she accepts the advisors' offer. (Her seiyuu plays her as occasionally shrill in the first ep. or so, but thankfully the performance calms down quickly. O_o)
All of that's just the initial set-up. (*laughs* No one will ever claim I write short summaries. ^^) The story goes some really interesting places, and has some pretty awesome characters; it gets political, but the characters themselves are always the focus. It's also got supernatural elements, but they're incredibly downplayed. Whole storylines go by when I forget about them. ^^ It's based on a series of novels, and there's a lot left to happen (although I'm unspoiled past where we are in the work, so I don't know what that might be).
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Wed, Nov. 22nd, 2006 11:45 am (UTC)Anyway, let me see . . . I'm notoriously bad at summaries. *laughs* It's set in a fictional country called Saiunkoku, which went through a bad period of fighting for the throne and ended up with a fairly young emperor who shows no interest whatsoever in actually ruling. His advisors are in despair over the fate of the country with this foolish emperor in charge, so one of them basically
bribesdrafts the main character, Shuurei, to come to the palace and make him shape up--which, since women aren't given positions of authority, means bringing her in as a concubine.Shuurei is from a noble family that's fallen on pretty hard times, and she's very intelligent; she teaches kids at the local temple and works odd jobs with the family retainer to keep food on the table, that kind of thing. And she *hates* being poor, so she accepts the advisors' offer. (Her seiyuu plays her as occasionally shrill in the first ep. or so, but thankfully the performance calms down quickly. O_o)
All of that's just the initial set-up. (*laughs* No one will ever claim I write short summaries. ^^) The story goes some really interesting places, and has some pretty awesome characters; it gets political, but the characters themselves are always the focus. It's also got supernatural elements, but they're incredibly downplayed. Whole storylines go by when I forget about them. ^^ It's based on a series of novels, and there's a lot left to happen (although I'm unspoiled past where we are in the work, so I don't know what that might be).