Eastern Palace (Novel) - Recommendations

• Web (13 eps)
• 2021

The second season of Memory of Chang'an.

• Web (12 eps)
• 2020 - 2021

Princess Ming Yue and Li Qiang, the emperor's ninth prince, are forced to marry in order to keep the peace in their kingdoms. As the princess finally seems to be getting used to her new life in Chang'An (an ancient Chinese capital), there are plots hovering against her and the royal family.

• Other

In the summer of 1907, 15-year-old Inako Momokawa lives in the Fushimi area of Kyoto, and is the second daughter of a sake brewer. Nothing she does ever comes out right, and she receives a scolding from her father every day. Her only relief is the trust she places in her prayers to the gods. One day while at Fushimi Inari shrine, she meets a freewheeling young man named Kihachi Sakamoto. He rejects the gods, and boasts of the incoming age of electricity. The topic of marriage suddenly comes up in Inako's household. Her father is one-sidedly making all the decisions for her, and Inako is about to give up hope. It is then that Kihachi draws out Inako's true feelings of wanting to run away from her family. The only way to stop her marriage is to find an unusual book called the "Electricity Catalog." The book is a prediction book about electricity that Kihachi wrote when he was a child, but his older brother Seiroku took the book, and its current whereabouts are unknown. Inako and Kihachi together go in search of the book across Kyoto and Shiga prefectures.

• Web (16 eps)
• 2018 - 2019

Qian Yunxi, the eldest daughter of the Grand Councilor, has had supernatural powers since she was young. Because of this, she has been kept in the Spirit-Cloud Mountain as she is seen as an ominous girl. When she's 16, she finds herself substituted for her younger sister into a marriage with Prince of Ye. However, it is said that the Prince of Ye is cold, eccentric, and cruel.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1995

A long-form animation that depicts the eventful life of the Chinese philosopher Confucious. Broadcast on NHK General TV, this is an adaptation of Taiwanese manga artist Chen Uen's series Toushuu Eiyuu-den which ran in Weekly Morning, but the content is considerably different.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1981

The Chinese tale of the poor young man. His mother married with cruel king of the state and he want to take his mother back. One old man come from the heaven and make his three wishes come true.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2023

Sara and Naranbayar, a princess and young man from two rival kingdoms, meet by chance and find that they must act as a couple to maintain peace in their realms. Even so, they find that they slowly fall for each other.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2017

During the Taisho era of 1918, 17-year-old Benio Hanamura thrives on bucking tradition. As a boisterous and quarrelsome tomboy, Miss Hanamura leads a life of kendo and tree-climbing adventure with her best friends Tamaki and Ranmaru. Benio determines to find love on her own, though her family has other plans. Benio will encounter tests of love, independence, and friendship during wartime.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2014

Nike, the fourth princess of the Principality of Rain and one who holds the power to call forth the rain, travels to the Sun Kingdom to marry Sun King Livius for her country, despite her own reluctance. She soon discovers that the King, who conquered the world in only three years after his ascendance to the throne, is still a child!! Furthermore, for trivial reasons, he has demanded that Nike call forth the rain…!?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2020

In an ancient Eastern Kingdom, an emperor was forced to control by the ministers. Finally, the emperor felt intolerable and ran away from the palace. The emperor fell into the memory while running away. The emperor was not taken seriously by his father just because the emperor is a female. The lonely and helpless emperor here was forced to act like a man and put on a fake beard. In order to maintain the dignity of the empire to gain the throne, she lost freedom. But she didn’t want these things to tie her up and decided to run away. She began to shake off the shackles. From this moment, there is nothing that can fasten on her. She transmogrified and began to chase her freedom.