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Le Pavillon Des Hommes, Tome 2 (2006)

by Fumi Yoshinaga(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

2505007136 (ISBN13: 9782505007135)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Kana

series

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers / 大奥

review 1: Much more brutal than the first volume, but in many ways, this only made it more enjoyable for me. I felt like the characters had a lot more to lose and that anyone could be murdered at any time. Taking place years before the events of volume 1, volume 2 follows Arikoto, a buddhist monk who is forced to make a very difficult decision to give up his vows or have those around him slaughtered. We also get a new villain, the truly terrible Kasuga. I hate her so much, but she is very much a well written antagonist. The stakes seem high, so I'm quite eager to start the next volume and see what happens next.
review 2: Further in the Oooku story, the 8th shogun investigates why even though the power has shifted to women, do women still have to take on masculine names f... moreor their positions. Why does the entire framework of their government show the signs of still being male-dominated. As being born in a world where females were the main powers in a family, she does not know of a time when the society was patriarchal. So, from this volume, we see the story of the time when the plague struck, when the 3rd shogun had to be a female. It tells the story of a handsome monk who was forced to serve in the Inner Chambers, for a ruthless spoiled teenager who was a stand-in for the deceased shogun. The turmoil and changes wrought by the plague, and its subsequent effect on both the royalty as well as the common folk are the main focus of the story. The change in power, the shift in preferences and the delicate secrets hidden behind sequestering the country itself are so subtly depicted. You see a spoiled princess at first but later on find why it was so. Moreover the total reversal of roles still doesn't change the fact that men are deemed more important. She struggles with that and more. Besides the brilliant storyline and the amazing characters, the thing to watch out for is how the mangaka emphasized the change in society. The story doesn't hold back - it is ruthless and not romanticized. It deals with mature subject matter, so of course, caution while reading. less

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