Ōoku: The Inner Chambers / 大奥 (3 books in series)
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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 buddhi...
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review 1: Stuff I Read - Ooku volume 2 by Fumi Yoshinaga ReviewAfter a first volume that just sort of delved right into a world where ninety percent of men died from the mysterious Red Pox, volume two of Ooku steps back and gives us a bit of the history of the setting, specifically the div...
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review 1: So, in the second volume we go back 80 years (from the first volume) to get some broader historical background, so this is a kind of prequel to volume one, and further evidence of Yoshinago's storytelling abilities. Complex, rich, sad, brutal, murderous, turning the idea of the f...