Trivia / The Story of Saiunkoku

• Completely Different Title: For Animax-Asia, it's titled as Colour Cloud Palace.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The fact that Geneon shut down in the middle of releasing it didn't help. Even so, no one reasonably expected this series to do well in North America (shojo anime, with rare exceptions, sell terribly in the States). Thus, it had a very low print run, especially once Funimation started distributing it. However, the series proved to have just the right level of popularity to completely sell out at retail, but not for any other company to rescue the license (or pick up Season 2). As a result, good friggin' luck finding a legitimate copy; when available at all, used copies of the series – especially the 9-disc complete collection that Funimation put out for about ten minutes in 2009 – are often extremely pricey. Saiunkoku also happens to be one of those shows where the few people who own it tend to love it and won't sell it for anything.

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