Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (GN 9)
Title: Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
Volume: GN 9
Distributor: Viz Media
Release date: 2014-01-21
Suggested retail price: $12.99
Age rating: 17+
ISBN-10: 1421558777
ISBN-13: 9781421558776
Description:
A stunning alternative history from Eisner-nominated creator Fumi Yoshinaga
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...
Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for mature audiences.
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