While Kodansha published the original novel series’ run, Ono published Hisho no Tori in Shinchosha’s Shinchou Bunko line.
Shinchosha’s official website for Fuyumi Ono’s The Twelve Kingdoms novel series revealed on Wednesday that Ono has finished the first draft for the newest work in the series.
Ono began writing the light novel series in 1992, and has published 12 volumes in Japan.
The draft for the “epic” story is 2,500 Japanese manuscript pages long, and it centers on the Kingdom of Tai.