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As Fumi Yoshinaga’s alternate history gets closer to the modern era, and the opening of Japan to the rest of the world, events move faster and more dramatically. Even with the delay between volumes — beautifully detailed historical interactions take time to draw — I had no problem catching up here. The thorough cast of characters pages help, but so does the universality of the main story. It’s all about how the new shogun wants to implement a universal vaccination program, now that they know that the red face pox, the disease that killed so many boys and men and left the country to be governed by women, can be beaten.

The challenges are manifest:
* an ineffective leader whose actions are controlled by his murderous mother
* public confusion over the risks and rewards of inoculation
* how to succeed without raising the ire of powerful leaders
* a distracting concubine who appears to have lost her mind after her child died
* how to benefit from the knowledge of other languages and cultures
* the conflict between hereditary positions and staffing those who actually have the knowledge needed for accomplishments

It all ties together in complex, satisfying ways. For something set so very long ago, in another culture, it’s very relevant to see the importance of the vaccine and the torment felt by those who lose children to such a terrifying disease. The fear of a country trying to hide its weakness from the international community by demanding tight borders also struck a chord. I don’t know much about Japanese history, but even I know, with the giant ship on the last page, that’s about to change. (Review originally posted at ComicsWorthReading.com.)


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Ôoku The Inner Chambers Vol 2 Fumi Yoshinaga 9781421527482 Books Reviews

My favorite out of the entire series by far. Probably because this "emperor" seems to have the best back story.
The more I read this series the more I enjoy it! It is beautifuly drawn and is an engaging tale based on historical facts. I enjoyed learning more about how this world came to be in Japan. I can't wait to see how this story will unfold!
i got this manda for my daughter because the story is very nonWestern. fantastic!
she is loving it and we are getting a volume each month.
This volume covers the start of the Chronicle of the Dying Day, an ancient scroll describing the beginning of women rule and the arrival of the Redpox illness. Yoshimune discovers the arrival of a monk named Arikoto and how he evolves in the Inner Chambers.

This basically is the idea of the story, the Chronicle continues in the next volume, where we find out more about the Inner Chambers and the rule of the next Shogun. I highly recommend it!
Beautiful art and interesting story. Book arrived in very nice and clean condition. Thank you.
I absolutely love this series, the characters are well developed and there is so much intrigue and murder and I like how this book took a huge step forward in the search for the cure of the redface pox and it feels like an ending but leaves the door right open for a new chapter. What I really hate is how much time I have to wait for the next book. I do have a tiny complain is that in this book I can see some awfully drawn side characters, it is distracting and I hope it won't happen in the next volume
Ooku vol. 5, much like the previous volumes isn't just a story of the Shogun and the men behind the Ooku wall but about an entire society and how it changes. This alternate history shows both the good and the bad, the real human desires that make people act as they do from pride, lust, to vanity, boredom and obsession.

Ooku volume 5 keeps to the high standards of the rest of the series, which if you don't have, I recommend buying now. Only instead of the story of tragic lovers, as in an earlier volume, or a hard women, keeping the empire together (another volume) here is an examination of how a shogun like so many world leaders, can change over time. Pressured on one side not to adopt but create her own heir, past the point of reason, and swayed not by her own mental illness but the sudden madness of one close to her, our female Shogun makes laws and atmosphere in the Ooku which is soon reflected in the rest of Japan.

We follow the female Shojun and the male High Court official, who both start as those who care about the empire, while one may care a bit more about personal gain. But as time continues, and one of the two forgets the Japanese people and empire, and is bored, and so the things that boredom leads to leaves the other to try and pick up the slack.

Ooku is unique in that is it telling a history, both the good leaders and the poor ones, but all interesting, and all had their own reasons for acting. But we finish this volume hoping that history can be turned around, not so much that men take over but that the Shogun, or the Emperor cares about the people again, and that corruption and slack become part of the past, not the present ruler.

Any thought that this is a dry read, is only because I don't want to reveal plot points and back conspiracies. This is a great work, one which I read as soon as it comes out and I have no regrets in doing so, I only wish Viz added even more titles to the Signiture Line as their selection seems to be spot on.
As Fumi Yoshinaga’s alternate history gets closer to the modern era, and the opening of Japan to the rest of the world, events move faster and more dramatically. Even with the delay between volumes — beautifully detailed historical interactions take time to draw — I had no problem catching up here. The thorough cast of characters pages help, but so does the universality of the main story. It’s all about how the new shogun wants to implement a universal vaccination program, now that they know that the red face pox, the disease that killed so many boys and men and left the country to be governed by women, can be beaten.

The challenges are manifest
* an ineffective leader whose actions are controlled by his murderous mother
* public confusion over the risks and rewards of inoculation
* how to succeed without raising the ire of powerful leaders
* a distracting concubine who appears to have lost her mind after her child died
* how to benefit from the knowledge of other languages and cultures
* the conflict between hereditary positions and staffing those who actually have the knowledge needed for accomplishments

It all ties together in complex, satisfying ways. For something set so very long ago, in another culture, it’s very relevant to see the importance of the vaccine and the torment felt by those who lose children to such a terrifying disease. The fear of a country trying to hide its weakness from the international community by demanding tight borders also struck a chord. I don’t know much about Japanese history, but even I know, with the giant ship on the last page, that’s about to change. (Review originally posted at ComicsWorthReading.com.)