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[bookelfe]

It's Saturday! I am in my office doing work! The reason for this is that this upcoming week is the Big Conference of Epicness that my entire job revolves around, which means that today I am frantically printing out all the lists of Things I Need to Do And Places I Need To Be. In other words, this is basically a notice of absence - I may be

Comments

[e_mily]

Aaaah, it's a different book. That might be why that part of the story felt super-unresolved and like it had no point other than "ohai! this is why the x kingdom is in extreme shambles."

I mean, granted, he turns out to be pretty cool, taming the X.

[bookelfe]

Oh yeah! Like I said, I like Taiki a lot - and that was a pretty awesome moment. But it is not fair on him really, because there was no way he could live up to my EPIC LOVE for Yoko. I think I will like him better as a side character in later books - from what I understand, all those storylines get intertwined in the later books, the ones that the anime never got around to. (But I could be wrong.)

[e_mily]

Eeeenteresting.

Yeah, as far as Taiki goes, we learn his story, how he found his king, and then.... poof disappearance and you NEVER HEAR ABOUT IT AGAIN other than the occasional "yeah x kingdom is missing their king and their kirin. Sucks to be them."

SPOILERS?

[bookelfe]

Yeah, we find out that Taiki and his king are missing even in Sea of Shadows, which makes the ending of Sea of Wind pretty strange in and of itself - it's all happy ending, but you know SOMETHING BAD is going to happen a few years down the line, so . . . not so happy maybe! It also makes me not want to wait a year to read further on in the series. *makes faces at Tokyopop*

Re: SPOILERS?

[e_mily]

I was really hoping that we would get closure and continuance of them in the story, like you do when you learn Enki's history. I mean, black kirin! MOST ADORABLE THING EVER.

Re: SPOILERS?

[bookelfe]

According to wikipedia, the sixth book involves Yoko and somebody else searching for Taiki! So it looks like there must be at least some kind of continuance or closure there.