Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
| Ōoku: The Inner Chambers | |
First English edition of Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, as published by Viz Media
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大奥 (Ōoku) |
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| Genre | Alternate history, Romance |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Fumi Yoshinaga |
| Published by | Hakusensha |
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| Demographic | Josei |
| Magazine | Melody |
| Original run | September 29, 2005 – present |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Fuminori Kaneko |
| Released | October 1, 2010 |
| Television drama | |
| Ōoku: Arikoto Iemitsu Hen | |
| Directed by | Fuminori Kaneko |
| Written by | Minako Kamiyama |
| Original run | October 2012 – December 2012 |
| Episodes | 10 |
| Live-action film | |
| Ōoku: Emonnosuke Tsunayoshi Hen | |
| Directed by | Fuminori Kaneko |
| Written by | Minako Kamiyama |
| Released | December 22, 2012 |
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (大奥 Ōoku?) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga. The plot follows an alternate history of medieval Japan in which an unknown disease kills most of the male population, leading to a matriarchal society in which the Ōoku becomes a harem of men serving the now female shogun.
The manga has been serialized in Hakusensha's josei magazine Melody since 2005. Hakusensha has released thirteen tankōbon volumes to date, starting in September 29, 2005. The manga is licensed in North America by Viz Media and in Taiwan by Sharp Point Press. In addition to winning an Excellence Prize at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival and a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender Awards in 2005, the manga was nominated for the first annual Manga Taishō in 2008 and three times for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize before winning the Grand Prize in April 2009. It was adapted into a live action film in 2010 and it was adapted into a drama series and another live action film in 2012.
In an alternative timeline of feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects men has caused a massive reduction of male population, thus women have to pick up men's jobs, changing the social structure. Now, after 80 years of the initial outbreak and current man:woman ratio of 1:4, Japan has become completely matriarchal, with women holding important political positions and men being their consort. Only the most powerful woman—head of Tokugawa shogunate—can keep a harem of handsome yet unproductive men, known as "Ooku."
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