Saiunkoku Monogatari: Difference between revisions

The manga has been licensed by [[Viz Media]] and is being released under their Shoujo Beat line. The light novels remain unlicensed.

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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: About the only couples who succeed in making things work out are side characters: Sa Kokujun and Sa Shunki, Tei Yuushun and Sai Rin, Eigetsu and Kourin (They're not exactly together, but it's less this and more [[Moment Killer|Ryuuren]]). The rest of them might get there someday, but in the meantime...

** The worst case is probably Ran Shuuei, who is in love with Shusui, who is in love with Shouka, who is in love with his dead wife Shokun... with whom Hyou Riou is still obsessed, causing his sister Ruka to become obsessed with looking like Shokun so that Riou will pay attention to her. And if that weren't bad enough, before he fell in love with Shusui, Shuuei was in unrequited love with his brother's wife. ''Phew''.

* [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?|Aren't You Going To Ravish Me]]: Said almost exactly word for word by Shuurei to {{spoiler|Sa Sakujun when she's sort of captured in the Sa Residence, but she's glad he's not going to (yet), rather than insulted.}}

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: {{spoiler|Ro Ensei, governor of the Sa Province.}}

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Sou Taifu, one of the eldest and most respected men in the Imperial Court, is a huge burly man who taught Ryuuki and Seiran their craft and shows up to basically kick everyone's asses.

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Eigetsu and Yogetsu.

* [[The Clan]]: The eight noble families of Saiunkoku, as well as the Hyou family. The Kou/Hong and Ran families especially fit the trope, and many if not all of the clans also double as [[Big Screwed-Up Family|Big Screwed Up Families]].

* [[Character Development]]: Meeting Shuurei does wonders for Ryuuki's... management skills.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Shuurei's sidekick, Shin Suou aka Tan-Tan. Sure, he's a slacker, a tanuki-loving borderline [[Cloudcuckoolander]], and shows little initiative in his job unless physically pushed and pulled into it by Shuurei, but he's highly perceptive of people's character and has an excellent nose for clues enough to earn fame as one of the most successful investigators in the Inspector General's office. It is unclear, though, if he really just likes [[Obfuscating Stupidity|playing the fool]].

* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Ran Ryuuren and his flute-playing, which seems to become more dreadful as the series progresses.

** Also [[Bilingual Bonus]]: both name changes are simply the result of reading those exact same characters in Mandarin Chinese, rather than Japanese.

* [[Eye Scream]]: Late in the series, a flashback shows how Shiba Jin came to lose his eye: when he first met the very young Ran Jyuusanhime, she insisted that she wouldn't let him come near her or the corpse of her murdered mother unless he gave her his eyes. So he stabbed one of them out. He was about to do the same to the other before she stopped him, too.

** WITHOUT telling them the Emperor would force them!

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: They're all Chinese people by another name.

* [[Fantasy Pantheon]]: Immortal sages of eight colors, all with colorful personalities.

* [[First-Name Basis]]: Ryuuki asks Shuurei to call him by his name instead of "your highness", at least in private.

* [[Freudian Trio]]: Reishin, Kijin, and Yuushun appear to have been one in the backstory of the series, with Reishin as Id, Kijin as Superego, and Yuushun as Ego.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Li Kouyuu and Ran Shuuei are always together. The yaoi fangirls were suitably displeased when they both {{spoiler|turned out to be straight}}.

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