Dec 30 2008
#2 - The Twelve Kingdoms
When a wayward princess that doesn’t know she is even missing runs into a man sworn to protect her and bring her home a whole mess of adventures are bound to happen. ”The 12 Kingdoms” is a 45 episode TV series, with each episode running about 30 minutes. I was immediately intrigued by the opening, as well as the clean and bright animation style. The plot took a while to get up some speed at first, with alot of time spent on inner character development and less on story development, but by the end there was enough action to satisfy most fans. I was not particularly impressed with the main character, Youko, and in fact found her rather whiny and unlikable. However I’ve only watched one episode so far so maybe she will grow on me as the series progresses.
