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The Story of Saiunkoku

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The Story of Saiunkoku	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Story of Saiunkoku (JP: Saiunkoku Monogatari), also known as Colourcloud Palace in some areas, is a series of short novels by Sai Yukino that has been adapted into a two-season-long (78 episodes) anime (NHK, 2006–08), and a manga. The series is set in Saiunkoku, an ancient China-esque country divided into eight provinces named after colours, with eight noble families to match: Kou (crimson; "Hong" in the English versions), Ran (blue), Heki (green), Ko (yellow; not to be confused with the other Kou, which uses a different kanji), Haku (white), Koku (black), Sa (brown), and Shi (purple; the ruling family).The series follows Shuurei, a young woman – 16 at the beginning – whose family is very poor despite being a part of the Kou/Hong clan, the third most noble of the eight clans. Shuurei has dreamt of becoming a government official since she was a child, but cannot make that dream come true because the exams that one must pass to qualify to become an official are barred to women.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Because of her family's poverty – a side-effect of their actions during a war (more on that below) – Shuurei and her family's retainer Seiran, who is really more a member of the family than anything else, have to work constantly to make ends meet. Shuurei herself teaches at a small temple school, does the accounting for a brothel, and countless other odd jobs to earn money. So when Grand Advisor Sho, one of the most important people in the kingdom, arrives at her house and offers her a job paying 500 gold pieces, Shuurei accepts immediately without even asking (or caring) what the job is.As it turns out, this job involves temporarily entering the palace as the Emperor's consort, something Shuurei is less than happy about. The current Emperor, Ryuuki of the Shi clan, was the youngest of his six brothers, but unexpectedly found himself on the throne when all the other princes killed each other in a civil war eight years earlier. Ryuuki, at only nineteen years old, seems to have no interest in governing, has yet to take in any consorts or produce an heir, and rumor has it that he prefers men over women. Shuurei's job is to act as a sort of tutor to Ryuuki, and turn him into a proper ruler.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Several attempted poisonings and assassinations later, Ryuuki has, under Shuurei's influence, become a good emperor, and he decides to make it his goal to make Shuurei's dream come true, and give her the opportunity to become Saiunkoku's first female official.The court intrigues and politics are a game where you have everything to gain and everything to lose, and Shuurei is walking straight into the center of it all.The first season of the anime was licensed in North America by Geneon in 2007, but only 2 of the 9 planned volumes (totalling 10 episodes of the 39) were released before the company folded. After nearly a year in limbo – during which time the dub and subtitle work were completed – Funimation released and distributed the rest of the season as part of an agreement which also saw several other "orphaned" series finished. As of December 2010, however, Geneon's license and Funimation's distribution deal have expired and the series is out of print. The second season (episodes 40-78) was never licensed.The manga, which covers the first story arc, was licensed and released by Viz Media under their Shoujo Beat line. The light novels remain unlicensed.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Sa, Kou/Hong, and Hyou clans especially, but all of the eight noble clans have at least a little of this except for the Shi family, and that's only because Ryuuki is the only member still known to be alive by the time the series begins – four of his five older brothers having been executed thanks to their battling over the throne, and the fifth exiled and presumed dead.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Very important background information on the characters and the political situations appears in the side-stories.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Each episode of the anime has a proverb for its title, and in the first season, the proverb always gets used by someone (usually Shuurei) before the episode is over. Some of the title drops work more naturally than others; the practice is dropped in the second season.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_197b546a	type	Scarpia Ultimatum
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_197b546a	comment	Scarpia Ultimatum: Given by Sa Chusho to Shuurei when he wants her to marry Sakujun. He threatens to set fire to the city and kill one of her advisors if she doesn't go through with it. She still refuses.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: What lies at the core of the drama involving Reishin and Kouyuu in the novels. Reishin just does not know how to tell his adopted son that the boy is dear to him and thus does not have to live solely for his approval. In the end, he resorts to the drastic measure of stubbornly refusing to work so that Kouyuu will get him fired. Unfortunately, Kouyuu does not get the memo and instead does Reishin's work, which leads to him being accused of overstepping his authority.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_1c6a9289	type	Bishōnen
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_1c6a9289	comment	Bishōnen: The entirety of the main cast, with the possible exception of Ensei. Basically if they aren't one, they were one. Give him a razor and a change of clothes and Ensei becomes Bishonen All Along.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Li Kouyuu and Ran Shuuei are always together. The yaoi fangirls were suitably displeased when they both turned out to be straight.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Kou Shoka. Normally a complete pushover, if anyone does or says anything against his daughter within range of him, he will silently end them.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_20b2adb6	type	For Great Justice
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_20b2adb6	comment	For Great Justice: Shuurei's reason for being an official. She wants to help create a world in which people have a chance at happiness. Interestingly, this is the motive of the antagonists late in the series (to create a country without famine, war, and injustice) as oppose to Ryuuki and co., whose motives are personal affections.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: One of the criticisms against Shuurei, besides the issue that she is a woman.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: A common tactic for assassination. Most memorably, Sa Sakujun poisons his own water and hides the antidote in the tea as a gamble about Shuurei's feelings for him.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Shuurei and Ryuuki's relationship is often compared to Shouka and Shokun's. Ryuuki is also said to mirror his father in that he is love with a woman who'd rather work herself to death for him than marry him.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_2629c82a	type	Breaking the Glass Ceiling
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_2629c82a	comment	Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Shuurei wants to become a government administrator, but the required Imperial Examinations can only be taken by men. She has a roundabout route of achieving this goal, becoming a consort (and unofficial tutor and advisor) to the Emperor first.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_294ed981	comment	Also Bilingual Bonus – Both name changes are simply the result of reading those exact same characters in Mandarin Chinese, rather than Japanese.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Although Saiunkoku can be unpleasant, idealism wins out in the end.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_38718ea8	comment	Give him a razor and a change of clothes and Ensei becomes Bishonen All Along.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: A must if you want to survive the intrigues of the court, a lesson Ryuuki takes to heart.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Meeting Shuurei does wonders for Ryuuki's management skills. Shuurei herself toughens up to achieve her dream as the series progresses.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Ryuuki asks Shuurei to call him by his name instead of "Your Highness", at least in private. Close friends in the series also call each other by first name rather than title.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: There are more than a few of these, but the biggest is probably Grand Advisor Shou, who is explicitly referred to as such at the end of the first story arc.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: The symbolic gift of a flower from the emperor carries great significance, and recurs several times throughout the series.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Ryuuki marries Shuurei, overcomes the various intrigues and threats to his rule, and becomes one of Saiunkoku's greatest and most beloved rulers, presiding over a period of peace and prosperity. However, Shuurei dies giving birth to their daughter, leaving him so heartbroken that he never remarries. Also, demands of government eventually require him to distance himself from his former associates and even Seiran, causing him to be very lonely late in life.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_4435aa66	type	Attractive Bent-Gender
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_4435aa66	comment	Attractive Bent-Gender: Li Kouyuu. (Mentioned in the novel, he was forced to participate, crossdressed as a girl, and won first place in a the annual youth beauty pageant when he was a kid. But this is top secret.) In a humourous manga extra, Ryuuki, Shuuei and Kouyuu end up participating in drag contest for various reasons and are noted to be quite attractive. They are all upped by Ko Kijin.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Shuurei often comes across Ryuuki and another man in an...ambiguous situation and hurriedly excuses herself. While Ryuuki does swing that way, there's always a perfectly good explanation for why he's talking about flowers with another Bishōnen.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: Ryuuren often strikes people as weird because of his out-of-ordinary antics that only makes sense to him. Subverted in that he is perfectly capable of acting normal, albeit only when he is serious.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Said almost exactly word for word by Shuurei to 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.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: They're all Chinese people by another name. The legend of the immortal sages of eight colours is reminiscent of the Eight Immortals in Chinese folklore.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: While they didn't do the deed, Ryuuki jokingly asked Seiran to sleep with him after he woke up holding his hand. Seiran is secretly Seien, his older brother.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_5ca04734	type	The Legend of Chekhov
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_5ca04734	comment	The Legend of Chekhov: All myths in the series become plot-important.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_5e3c35bd	comment	Badass Bureaucrat: most main characters aside from Ryuuki and Seiran, really.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: A serious problem in the Kou clan. Reishin just cannot tell Shuurei that he is her uncle, and in general has trouble expressing his affections to people who are dear to him except his big brother Shouka. In the backstory, Shouka keeps from his brothers that he is the Emperor's assassin Black Wolf and the one who killed their formidable great aunt. Reishin realizes the truth but in turn hides it from both Shouka (that he knows what really happened) and Kurou (that their eldest brother just pretends to be clumsy and becomes an assassin for their sake).
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_6a157a14	type	Color-Coded Patrician
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_6a157a14	comment	Color-Coded Patrician/Purple Is Powerful: Unsurprisingly, of the eight noble families, the Imperial family is the one named for the color purple.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Subverted when Shusui is mind-controlled by Hyou Ruka. Ryuuki and Juusanhime urge Shuuei (who is in love with her; see All Love Is Unrequited above) to use The Power of Love to snap her out of it, which he does... by yelling "Hey look, it's Shouka!" It works, but he is subsequently called out for having no shame.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Ryuushun, one of Shuurei's students, says that he wants to marry Shuurei when he grows up and take her to the palace. It's a one-off line, though.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: The final conflict of the novel series between Ryuuki and those who want to depose him.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The eight noble families (and the provinces they govern) are even named after colours. Clan members will usually wear clothes of their colours too, and some will even wear matching ear studs (such as Reishin's red ones and Hakumei's green ones). In the novels, it is stated that it is also forbidden to wear the "true" colours of the eight coloured clans.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: Clan obligations are serious and being disinherited by the clan is treated as a great misfortune. In return, the clans do their best to protect their members. The Kou in particular are rather infamous for inflicting Disproportionate Retribution on those who cross their members. On the other hand, they are willing to sacrifice the monopoly on the precious seven-coloured ink to protect Shuurei.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: The series opens with Shuurei telling the story of the Eight Sages who helped the first Emperor found Saiunkoku, ending by saying that legend has it the Sages are still alive in secret among the people of Saiunkoku. This is absolutely true. Early in the series, Shuurei begins to tell Ryuuki a fairy tale about a "Rose Princess" who had magical healing powers and married a mortal human man. This one is not only also absolutely true, it's the story of her parents' marriage. Although it is probably not, as Shuurei claims, the reason roses have thorns. Later in the series, there's a story about demons sealed by a mirror, and the demons being calmed by the music of an erhu after the mirror is broken. Averted in one case: When a disease begins spreading in the Sa province, the Jasenkyou, a cult in the area, spreads rumors that the cause of the illness is the gods' anger that a woman was made the province's governor. Many people believe it out of desperation, making Shuurei's attempts to solve the problem a lot more difficult than they need to be, but of course it isn't true.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Ryuuki is quite decent at embroidery and Kouyuu's cooking is good despite its looks.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Various characters starting with Ryuuki are screwed up, to say the least.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Hair-Trigger Temper, He-Man Woman Hater, Non-Action Guy Li Kouyuu and smooth-talking The Casanova military general Ran Shuuei. Also straightlaced Seiran and easygoing, rough-around-the-edges Ensei. Double as Vitriolic Best Buds.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_9ceae394	type	Facial Composite Failure
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_9ceae394	comment	Facial Composite Failure: Played with. When Seiran and Ensei get wanted posters put up for them during the trip to and through Sa Province, Seiran's likeness is perfect, but Ensei — who would be Bishōnen if he hadn't grown out a coarse, shaggy beard to disguise his face — is drawn as a wild-haired, jagged-toothed monster not unlike a bear. Ensei finds this rather unfair.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Eigetsu and Yogetsu.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_9e74f33	type	Flock of Wolves
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_9e74f33	comment	Flock of Wolves: In season two, Shuurei was demoted to be an official without actual rank as a result of her successful but reckless efforts to deal with the plague in Sa province. She had to find a job or do something useful within a month to remain an official. Every official ostensibly under the same trial who actively approached her in this period turned out to be a spy for somebody.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a2b38d3b	comment	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.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: The twin swords Kanshou and Byakuya that can detect danger, exorcise evil spirits and cut through magic.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Watch out for people who appear to be silly, incompetent, or lazy in Saiunkoku. The third episode is even titled "The Shrewd Hawk Hides His Talons", which is a Japanese name for this trope.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Shuurei and Ryuuki's first meeting.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: Shouka says this to Seiran several times. While Reishin never comes out and tells Kouyuu forthright, he does care about Kouyuu as his own son.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_a9de87d2	comment	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 playing the fool. In a side-story, it is revealed that Prince Seien's mother, who he remembers as a sickly and weak-willed person, manipulated her father into committing treason and thus got her son out of the palace via being exiled. She also made a deal with the Hyou clan for a deadly curse aimed at her husband with the "your heart or your life" ultimatum.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_aaff69d0	type	Unexpected Successor
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_aaff69d0	comment	Unexpected Successor: Youngest (and seemingly weakest) sons seem to end up being leaders quite often in Saiunkoku, courtesy of power struggles in the clans. Or in the case of the Kou brothers, because the elder sons drop the position and the youngest gets stuck with it.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: There are quite a few Prince Seien was exiled because of his grandfather's attempted coup. It turns out to benefit him in the long run because he avoids getting involved in the bloody succession war and more importantly, has the opportunity to make his choices in life, something his brother Ryuuki does not have. In a sidestory, Shouka notes the irony of Shuurei, daughter of the master assassin Black Wolf, doing her best to save people suffering from a plague in Sa province. A young Shuuei was sent to serve Prince Seien but was dismissed for his lack of skills. He determined to train and prove himself to the prince, but then Seien was exiled. After he gets himself disinherited, he was re-assigned to work under Seiran. And in the end, it is noted that he has become stronger than Seiran. Ryuuki and Shuurei make a bet that if he manages to persuade her, she will marry him. In a later novel, Ryuuki practically forces her to marry him not as "Shuurei" but as the eldest princess of the Kou clan. A young Tei Yuushun tried to seek help from a young Reishin, the future head of the Kou clan, to avoid the massacre of his clan at the hand of former Emperor Senka and was rudely rejected. Years later, he is among the very few people who have Reishin's affection and respect, and in turn is shown to be fond of Reishin.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_abb16044	type	AsskickingEqualsAuthority
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_abb16044	comment	Asskicking Equals Authority: Ro Ensei, governor of the Sa Province by special dispensation because the previous governors kept getting assassinated.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The name of each episode is a Japanese proverb. Many of these proverbs are adapted into English proverbs in the subtitles and dub.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_bbdf5f31	type	Everyone Is Related
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_bbdf5f31	comment	Everyone Is Related: Characters from the Kou and Shi clans are related to each other one way or another. Seiran, who is Kou Shouka's adopted son in all but name, is Ryuuki's exiled older brother Seien. Shouka's brother Reishin is married to Yuri-hime, who is the previous emperor Shi Senka's half-sister, and adopts Li Kouyuu, making Kouyuu cousin to Shuurei and Ryuuki and Seiran. At the end of the novel series, Shuurei marries Ryuuki.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_c099ca1a	type	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_c099ca1a	comment	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Beautifully averted. Shuurei is able to be successful in a male-dominated society through brains and hard work, and she's allowed to be as feminine as she wants while she's doing it, dammit. In fact, Episode 12 of the anime has Shuurei getting advice from her friend Kouchou, the highest-ranking courtesan of the Kogoro brothel (Shuurei used to keep the brothel's account books). Before Shuurei leaves, Kouchou gives her a box full of fancy cosmetics, referring to it as "a woman's war-paint" and encouraging her to "wear it into battle". Shuurei does exactly that on the day of the Imperial Exam, in a Mundane Made Awesome moment.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Ryuuki has good reasons for not wanting his throne.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: Shouka inherited the title Black Wolf from his mentor.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_cd83fa5b	type	Spoiler Opening
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: Ryuuki, I am sorry, but your efforts to convince people you are gay do not fool the audience one bit once you and Shuurei are revealed to be the Official Couple.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Later volumes of the novels are noticeably darker. Many things viewed as positive early in the story are revealed to have negative consequences.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In season two, the tactic Ryuuki and Kouyuu came up with to protect Shuurei against the opposition against her in the court was turned against them instead. Reishin chewed Kouyuu out for their oversight.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Ran Ryuuren and his flute-playing, which seems to become more dreadful as the series progresses. It is ironic that in the novels, Ryuuren excels at other instruments.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Ki Kouki, Chief of the Inspection Department, who first appears harsh but ultimately turns out to be a fair judge of character. Also Official Rou, who puts the new officials through harsh tasks but takes care of them.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_de9043cc	type	Gambit Pileup
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_de9043cc	comment	Gambit Pile Up: Pretty much everyone with a name is creating one, involved in one, or a sucker for one. Sometimes all three. Shuurei pulls off a particularly fine Xanatos Gambit against the Merchant's Guild in the second season of the anime – correctly expecting them to stonewall her when she approaches them for help in combating the outbreak of plague in Sa Province, she lets them stall until a message arrives from the Emperor declaring that if they haven't reached an agreement already, he's commanding them to do the work for free. She then pleasantly suggests that she's willing to pretend they'd come to an agreement by the time the message arrived... in return for some extra concessions from them for her understanding.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_df1a0454	type	Fantasy Pantheon
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_df1a0454	comment	Fantasy Pantheon: Immortal sages of eight colors, all with colorful personalities.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Ruka gives Ryuuki one but he is not impressed. Ou Ki, on the other hand, shakes the young Emperor to the core by pointing out how ineffectual and selfish he is.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e268e2	comment	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 Families.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: There's a couple, both justified. The name of Shuurei's family is changed from Kou to Hong in the English localization to avoid confusion with the similar sounding Ko, as the short-vowel/long-vowel distinction which Japanese audiences could hear just fine would be lost on English ears. Similarly, Seiran's assumed family name is modified from Shi to Si (but still pronounced the same in both sub and dub), since the distinction between the kanji used to write his name and the kanji of the royal family's given name is lost on an English-speaking audience. Also Bilingual Bonus – Both name changes are simply the result of reading those exact same characters in Mandarin Chinese, rather than Japanese.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e30c7674	type	Sliding Scale of Beauty
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e30c7674	comment	Sliding Scale of Beauty: Out of the full harem of pretty men in the series, Kijin is the one who has the "Divine Beauty" status up to a thousand. Anyone (with only a few exceptions), man or woman, will instantly faint, go blind, tremble, and be disabled to work for years upon seeing his face in a flash. Hence, that's why he wears a mask in public all the time.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e3739de7	comment	Cast Full of Pretty Boys: The Imperial Court of Saiunkoku is full of pretty men.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_e8cae797	comment	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. The Kou brothers also form one, with Reishin again as Id, Kurou as Superego, and Shouka as Ego.
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The Story of Saiunkoku / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Shuurei's efforts to help victims of the plague in Sa province incur the ire of quite a few high-ranking officials, to the point that Ryuuki has to demote her to keep them quiet.
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