Monday, February 19, 2007

Ohoku by Fumi Yoshinaga



I've read Ohoku #1-#2 by Fumi Yoshinaga.
Fumi Yoshinaga is popular yaoi mangaka and shojo mangaka.
Ohoku is her new series. The story is very unique and interesting!
She draws regularly for a shojo manga magazine 'Melody'. I can't wait vol.3!

Set in the Edo (Tokyo) in Edo period, the story centers on the love of female Shogun for beautiful men in the inner palace?! As you aware, female Shogun were non-existent. In this story, the young male population fell drastically due to fascinoma. So women have stakes in making society work, and then they care about men. Lots of good looking men serve female Shogun in the inner palace to bear an heir.

I thought it's a comedy in a way before reading it. But actually it's serious love story!! It's so romantic! Yoshinaga sensei is great as usual! Lots of men and 2 female shogun appear in the series. The characters have distress caused by particular circumstances and political anguish. The female Shogun 'Yoshimune' is cooool! She is very smart, masculine but tender. And Mizuno and Arikoto are very nice!! They serve Shogun and.....
You can see yaoi taste a little because only men live in the inner palace.

For your information, 'Yoshimune' was a real person. He is the 8th Shogun and famous in fact. His life was made into some dramas and novels. I used to study about him when I was a student.

And only women live in the inner palace and serve Shogun in fact.

Fumi Yoshinaga book list
Ohoku #1-#2 (a little yaoi taste)
Ai towa Yoru ni Kizukumono: Lovers in the Night (Yaoi)
Shitsuji no Bunzai (P.E. of Ai towa your ni kizuku mono, Yaoi)
Gerard & Jaques (2 volumes long, Yaoi)
Gerard & Jaques (P.E., Yaoi)
Seiyoh Kotto Yohgashiten: Antique Bakery (4 volumes long, Yaoi)
Flower of Life #1-#3
Aisubeki Musumetachi
Tsuki to Sandal: The Moon And Sandales (2 volumes long, Yaoi)
Kare wa Hanazono de Yume wo Miru
Solfege (Yaoi)
Solfege (P.E, Yaoi)
Ai ga nakutemo kutte yukemasu
Sore wo ittara oshimaiyo: Don't Say Animore Darling (Yaoi)
Kodomo no Taion
Kodomo no Taion (Special cover)
1 Genme wa Yaruki no Minpou: Ichigenme...The First Class Is Civil Law (2 volumes long, Yaoi)
Hontou ni Yasashii: Truly Kindly (Yaoi)

These are Japanese version and commercial printing books. Some of them are published as English edition.

Fumi Yoshinaga also draws doujinshis. I wrote about her doujinshi the other day.
I love her artwork and stories. She has a good sense of humor.

2 comments:

Bi said...

Where can I find this manga online?
It seems so interesting and I want to read it. But only way I can read manga in my country is online, or downloaded. Either way in electronic version.

lotus said...

I afraid that I don't know about online manga.