Oooku

Oooku: The Inner Chambers
大奥
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers

Manga8.32044 votes19 volumes · 79 chaptersFinished

Award WinningDramaHistoricalSamuraiShoujo

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Synopsis

In Edo period Japan (1603 to 1868), 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 to a quarter of the total female population. 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 Chambers. (Source: VIZ Media)

Publication notes

Oooku won an Excellence Prize at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival, the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize along with Gekiga Hyouryuu in 2009, and the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo manga category in 2011. The series also received a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender awards in 2005. The series was published in English as Oooku: The Inner Chambers by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint from August 18, 2009, to March 15, 2022. It has also been released in Spanish by Ediciones Tomodomo since April 22, 2024. The manga was adapted into a live-action film that was screened in 2010. Two television drama adaptations aired in 2012, and another in 2023.

Published

Jun 28, 2004 to Dec 28, 2020

Authors

Yoshinaga, Fumi

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Oooku (anime)

Main characters

Yoshimune Tokugawa6 fan favorites
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8th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Birth name: Nobu Third daughter of Mitsusada, the second head of the Kii branch of the Tokugawa family. Acceded to domain lord and then, upon the death of Ietsugu, to shogun. Regarded as the greatest shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Yunoshin Mizuno2 fan favorites
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He is introduced at the age of 19 (year 1716), as the son of a hakamoto (a high-ranked samurai). He is in love with Nobu, a merchant's daughter. But their love is tragic and thus he decided to enter the Inner Chambers as a page.
Tsunayoshi Tokugawa1 fan favorites
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5th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. Birth name: Tokuko Third daughter of Iemitsu. Took office as the shogun after the death of her older sister Ietsuna. She became known as "the Dog Shogun" due to unpopular policy mistakes in her later reign. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Iesada Tokugawa0 fan favorites
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13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. Birth name: Sachiko She was appointed the shogun after the retirement of Ieyoshi, her father. She had a sickly and weak constitution. She falls in love with Taneatsu, her wedded consort. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .