Oooku

大奥 Manga

Informações adicionais

Format MANGA
Status Finished
Start date Jun 28, 2004
End date Dec 28, 2020
Average score 81/100
Popularity 6466
Favorites 261
Genres Drama
Romance
Slice of Life

Tags

Matriarchy 100%
Prominently features a country that is ruled by a Queen or a society that is dominated by female inheritance.
Tragedy 100%
Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
Historical 97%
Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.
Pandemic 96%
Prominently features a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world.
Heterosexual 95%
Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.
Politics 88%
Centers around politics, politicians, or government activities.
Shoujo 79%
Target demographic is teenage and young adult females.
Ensemble Cast 76%
Features a large cast of characters with (almost) equal screen time and importance to the plot.
Male Harem 75%
Main cast features the protagonist plus several male characters who are romantically interested in them.
Primarily Adult Cast 75%
Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.
Suicide 70%
The act or an instance of taking or attempting to take one's own life voluntarily and intentionally.
Royal Affairs 65%
Features nobility, alliances, arranged marriage, succession disputes, religious orders and other elements of royal politics.
Rape 64%
Features non-consensual sexual penetration.
LGBTQ+ Themes 60%
Prominently features characters or themes associated with the LGBTQ+ community, such as sexuality or gender identity.
Samurai 60%
Prominently features warriors of medieval Japanese nobility bound by a code of honor.
Incest 60%
Features sexual or romantic relations between characters who are related by blood.
Espionage 40%
Prominently features characters infiltrating an organization in order to steal sensitive information.
Religion 40%
Centers on the belief that humanity is related to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements.
Military 40%
Centered around the life and activities of military personnel.
Bisexual 40%
Features a character who is romantically or sexually attracted to people of more than one sex or gender.
Swordplay 40%
Prominently features the use of swords in combat.
Boys' Love 10%
Prominently features romance between two males, not inherently sexual.

Sinopse

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...

(Source: VIZ Media)

Notes:
- Won an Excellence Prize at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival
- Won a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender Awards in 2005.
- Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural the Grand Prize in 2009 and the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in Girls' Category in 2011.
- Nominated for the first annual Manga Taishou in 2008.