FEUDAL JAPAN MANGA IS BACK ON THE BOARD

>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.

last
>>280208643

best shogun keep ruling the stadium even decades after her decease

>>280211532
good to see the shogun

>>280211764
https://www.ndl.go.jp/zoshoin/e/collection/16.html
TAKAHASHI Kageyasu

oh boi

>>280211606
>>280211629
Cute

>>280211973
lol, I was like what a needless risk to come in person and next page splat

>>280212361
>>280212421
These pages are really pulling at my heart. God I hope this plan works

>>280211629
they really have a cute dynamic

>>280212187
It's always so satisfying when a seemingly useless character helps the good guys in a big way.

>>280211483
I miss this competent woman like you wouldn't believe

>>280211606
>>280211629
Cute hag

>>280211655
They seem earnest, at any rate

>>280211764
I didn't even realise this manga was missing a good meganekko until now
God bless glasses...

>>280211813
oh boy, here we go

>>280212910
Oh no no no

>>280211838
I like this lady

>>280211813
nice link to spoil the story

>>280211854
Surely Russia and Japan will never go to war

>>280211910
It's taken me a little while to say but it's an interesting image to imagine that back in this era of Japan there was a chunk of the high-up population speaking Dutch

>>280211655
>Anon said they're ugly
A happy person with happy thoughts can never be ugly.

Ovaaaaaaaaaaa see you in 6 hrs

>>280213127
I was expecting dead child after the page flip from this "however"

>>280211764
>Last time we had someone with glasses was the sister fucker
Man, that was a while back.

>>280212095
Who could have foreseen this
KILL
HER
NOW

>>280212233
Place your bets now
How many of these gigolos are going to die

>>280213326
My first guess was that she was one of his descendants. It isn't outside of the realm of possibility, actually.

>>280212361
For a moment I thought she had feigned growing worse

>>280211813
Forgetfulness runs in the family it seems.

>>280212576
It's like he's still with us

>>280211933
Look at him. All giddy for doing something for once.

>>280211973
This was supposed to be before this
>>280211813
you may now resume:
>>280211998

>>280212129
Perfect timing.

>>280213690
lol sorry

>>280212598
What a cute dork
I love her

>>280213475
Half of them already look resigned.

>>280212295
>oh well, might as well just live in lavish luxury if I have nothing better to do... sigh...
Peasants cannot fathom the depths of her boredom

>>280212647
>japs literally worship maths
No wonder they're like that

>>280212682
As someone who isn't very good at maths, it kinda sucks we're conditioned to hate it a bit
Maths is fun

>>280212647
I'm reminded of Orb/Chi now. I thought it was weird that you'd just paste math or astronomy problems to the town billboards, i had never heard of such a thing in Europe, but apparently it was a fad in Edo Japan.

>>280212739
Even kids know his mom is a dork.

>>280212267
For people wondering about Shiga, this page is a big hint.

>>280212739
Are they going to be gay

>>280212796
>Kuroki imagining Ihei would go for his wife
>Rui imagining Kuroki would go for the geek widow
This couple is too cute

>>280212772
Such a nice scene
If the nutcase sees this it's all over

>>280213297
Goddamn, what cliffhanger.

>>280212796
As soon as she's bored and comfortable...

>>280213052
Empathy's a killer

>>280213127
>however

>>280213297
Thanks thou saucy fellow
The suspense is killing me

>>280213297
This is going to be the longest 6 hours
Thank you OP

>>280214141
It beats being a soulless husk like Harusada.

>>280213554
I still think she may be. She knows you can't trust the shogun not to fuck it up so she can't drop character in private.

>>280213297
he's going to be bearpox bros with the mathematicians' boy

>>280213297
My heart can't take all these twists and cliffhangers

How do I get a cute 18th century bespectacled mathematician wife

>>280214601
step 1: travel to the 18th century

>>280214690
Fuck...

Sorry for a bit off topic but does anyone here plan to go to the de Young Museum later this year? There will be original art from Fumi Yoshinaga there along with several others.

Where can I read this? Mangadex doesn't have it. I really enjoyed the Netflix anime.

>>280215454
weebcntral

>>280211428
>>280211483
>>280211532
https://youtu.be/eZAocot63s8?si=K82wuvnLF7F9WJp7

>>280215454
comick io

i wish arikoto were here

>>280215545
Thanks!

>>280215982
>comick io
thanks man!

>>280212129
So...did Ienari's consort go mad in real history?

>>280216046
imagine what the dream team of Arikoto and Yoshimune could accomplish.

>>280216607
read an history book

>>280216697
I'm not sure they'd get along very well. Yoshimune was all for austerity, while Arikoto liked coming up with ways to make life more comfortable for everyone. In the very least he would disapprove of Hisamichi's methods, which could turn ugly.
Sugishita was a pretty good match for Yoshimune. The only thing he did wrong was not noticing what was going on between the sisters earlier, but that's not solely on him.

soooooooooooooon

>>280216046
Arikoto 3 in 4 volumes

>>280212598
>When you find that one manga volume missing from your collection

>>280212796
Cute.

>>280213157
Crushed hope is worse than having none.

>>280213297
This is the kind of intensity I like.

>>280213929
If you haven't study it in a while try to do it now. I find myself enjoying it more as an adult than back then.

Someone fucking kill harusada godamit

>>280215003
I will - just saw a poster for it yesterday and realized there was an Oooku character on it. IIRC there was also a picture of the climber from Summit of the Gods.

>>280215003
I wish I could. I love the kimono designs in this manga.
>>280220808
all dailies are connected after all.

>>280220808
>Summit of the Gods
Fukamachi would fit right in in feudal Japan.

>>280221160
>prethee, why would you want to risk so much to become the Senior Chamberlain, O Habu sama?
>Because it's there.
>(Holy fucking shit he is so cool, why can't he make me his Nentei...)

>>280220808
Nice! I take it you're a local? If so, is there a best time of year to visit? I was considering traveling there in Jan

>>280221009
I actually never read the SotG daily - I heard about it through a relative who recommended the film. Shima is the only other one I actively follow so no idea how much crossover there is.

>>280221160
How would the cast of Plinius or Thermae Romae fare? Took a look back at the event details and realized I completely missed Yamazaki Mari.
>>280221434
There's really no wrong time to visit SF since the weather is so mild year-round. Visit MoMA and the Legion of Honor if you get the chance, and the beaches along the Sunset/Richmond have nice views of the water if it's not too foggy or rainy.

>>280221486
it's an amazing read, give it a try. I don't know how closely the movie follows the story though.
>no idea how much crossover there is
from the museum site's page the featured artists seem random so it might be a coincidence.
>Shima is the only other one I actively follow
now that guy would go far in the Oooku. it's no wonder we're reading it, both series have some similarities.

>Shima
>Mountain of the Gods
>Therma Romae
I'm just glad to see so many cultured anons in the same thread.

good news for some, bad news for other ones

>>280222080
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>280222446
Oh, it's time for that scene.

>>280222080
Oh nononono

>>280222509
>>280222534
When I said she needed a new hobby this isn't what I quite had in mind...

>>280222331
>>280222902
I was worried she might do something fishy out of jealousy but I'm glad my fears were unfounded.

>>280223200
How do you think she killed her?

>>280223304
UH OH

ovaaa see you tomorrow

now this is a cliffhanger

>>280223304
Yeah, everything was going entirely too well

bump

>>280222212
ENTER Pfizer

>>280222856
ENTER bureaucracy

watch it !

>>280222417
FAT

>>280223087
Extremely low effort bears

>>280223304
It would be even easier to club her with a table leg now that she's fat, just sayin'

>>280222019
Phew

>>280222080
What a fucking shame
She's too good a woman to suffer

>>280222131
No way Harusada won't catch wind of this

>>280222305
Oh look, it's our boy Mizuno's great-(great?)-granddaughter!

>>280222281
If only Gennai were here...

>>280222106
the fucking bully didn't deserve that

>>280222212
>chinese doctors hate him! rogue holland studies scholar discovers this one weird trick to prevent the red pox! buy our newspaper to find out more

>>280222375
kek

>>280222395
>extreme in its depravity
I wonder if she makes them fuck each other like her distant relative

>>280222534
Next Kaiji villain

>>280222417
Two bitches

>>280222557
I see I see

>>280222509
>please laugh
>or else

>>280222573
Can't things just go well for a while

>>280222802
>400 boys
Even if they stop right here, the demographics of Edo in the next generation may well have already shifted

>>280223009
Oh, she seems to be recovering a little.

>>280223087
GENNAI'S FUCKING BEAR FARM

>>280223226
always on that sigma grindset

>>280223304
most compassionate, my lady

>>280222916
>telling the raving madwoman about your secret
Please no

>>280223155
>implying besto girl would do something so horrible
Apologise.

>>280223226
Can someone please kill her already

>>280223244
>but I shall discover it eventually anyway
What she actually means is that one day she'll get bored of her and use her makeup as an excuse to do what she does

>>280223281
Kino

>>280223304
What a kind woman

>>280223380
Thanks thou saucy fellow

>>280222446
I figured the big weak point of Ienari's and Matsukata's scheme was that Harusada hadn't shown herself to be a sexually motivated individual, but playing with the lives of adult men must be more thrilling than killing little kids so I guess it worked out.

>>280212162

>>280228811
This manga is perfect for LOTGH memes

>>280223281
I'll take this small victory.

>>280223380
Jesus, this manga has no right to be so good

>>280223226
>>280223244
Welcome Fritzlyoshi.

>>280222816
>will he not turn into a bear?
Kek

>>280223226
>queerly
Harusada you can't say that...

>>280221830
>How would the cast of Plinius or Thermae Romae fare?
I doubt they would fare well. One of the reason Pliny stays away from Rome is to avoid the conflict and conspiracies surrounding Nero. He'd probably do the same mistake as Gennai ("humiliating" Sadanobu) and incur the wrath of some higher-up (like when he yawned when Nero was singing). He's pretty close to Gennai in the way that they're both eccentric naturalists that travel the land. On top of that, he's also shit at understanding women, so I doubt he'd fare well in a world where they're the majority.
Lucius also seems too straight-forward to get involved in conspiracies. It could work with the right shogun like the guy in the first volume.

>>280223281
the male mind...

>>280223362
Danke

>>280231898
Lucius is too good-hearted to survive feudal japan.

>>280222816
>it gives you bear spirit powers
should have advertised the jab this way

>>280228412
I'm glad they already won in the sense no one would suffer harusada forbidding the vaccines again, too many people already know how it works.

>>280234280
>sends the army to kill all the bears in japan

Soom

which one of these would be more accurate

>>280237237
This one.

>>280237749
oh fuck

>>280237826
he sees right through it.

>>280238080
fucking kill her already come on

>>280238218
lmao

>>280238257
>>280238298
holy shit. I didn't see this coming.

>>280238170
>>280238218
>>280238257
HOLY FUCK!
I was about to pop a blood vessel!

>>280238377
I love these girls.

>>280237980
Stick your fingers down her throat right away!

>>280238490
damn

>>280238446
>It was foreshadowed
AUTHOR-SAMA, I KNEEL!

>>280238525
RIP to a real one.

>>280238577
and this retard did nothing to stop it, he was even going to eat it too.

>>280238170
Oh, it was all all right anyway

>>280238647
Bro.
>>280238699
BRO. Oh how far the Tokugawa have fallen.

>>280238699
BASH HER FUCKING HEAD IN ALREADY

>>280238699
Oh hell n-
SHE KILLED YOUR FUCKING KIDS!!!!

If Ieyasu saw Ienari he would be ashamed. ASHAMED.

>>280238790
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FUCK YOU FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

>>280238856
>survive but is crippled
I don't know how to feel about this, if she's brain dead then she can't even process what's going on so she's not suffering.

>>280238856
okay. I can live with that.

>>280238647
jfc, how do you even reach this level of spinelessness , even the drooling incontinent shougun had more respect for herself than this guy.

Tell you one thing and I'm not ashmed to say it. My estimation of Tokugawa Ienari as a man just fucking plummeted.

>>280239044
If they saw how he acted when his ma was dying, I doubt they'd suddenly fear him.

>>280239006
This display of authority is too little too late.

>>280239272
what the hell is wrong with this dude

>>280239272
Where was this Ienari when we needed him years ago?

>>280239430
>>280239468
Hag-anobu learnt her lesson

>>280239694
:D
>>280239757
D:

>>280239757
lol lmao dumb bitch don't LITERALLY give anything for a map, that shit was huge for national security in that era.

>>280238257
Called it. I swear I hadn't read this before, probably should have kept wild ass speculation like that to myself.

>>280240034
lewdest page so far

>>280239982
>>280240034
>>280240096
Kuroki no... I'm not ready for you to go.

>>280238128
He doesn't deserve to be saved by the gong. If only he had killed her with his own hands

>>280240134
In the end, we turn into our parents

>>280238298
>>280238334
NICE

>>280239405
I'm just in disblief.

>>280238856
ehh alright it was just to match book history

>>280240203
such is life in early modern japan...

>>280238973
It's to some degree a feminist work, the women had to solve the problem.

>>280239757
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Franz_von_Siebold

>>280239848
winner

>>280237237
>>280237251
To be fair, you'd probably enjoy Midare Somenishi too if you liked Oooku, it's lewder and more melodramatic but it's also focused on tragic/doomed/toxic romance

>>280240034
This... This is what every one wants from life.

>>280238044
She knows he knows.

>>280240621
there is is, pery sama is here to open you up

>>280240134
>>280240163
>>280240203
He truly is his mother's son.

>>280240579
>it's lewder and more melodramatic
well that's what I expected Oooku to be.

>>280240621
UGH PERRY-SAMA
PLEASE PENETRATE YOKOHAMA

THREE SHOGUNS

LEFT

>>280239430
Was it established that Harusada killed her kid and he didn't really die of the vaxx? I remember thinking it at the time but I can't remember if there was evidence. Although now that I think of it probably not and it was just pure bad luck because too many doctors were about for it to go completely unchecked.

I'm half expecting the series to end with the reveal that all other countries were also affected so japan never was in such a disadvantage as they thought.

>>280240621

>>280240621
HERE

WE

GO

>>280238525
>she dirtied the tatami with her blood
dishonorabru

>>280240705
>Peak moe has arrived.
>And the most based senior chamberlain

>>280240746
At this point it's just a history book

>>280240358
He did not derseve her.

>>280238826
A fate worse than death perhaps.

>>280240859
TOOK YOU LONG TO REALIZE THAT

>>280238218
>>280238257
Holy shit

>>280240621
ENTER
THE MAN
THE MYTH
THE LEGEND

>>280240705
She looks like a bad bitch.

>>280238973
He was groomed to be a spineless puppet ruler, cut him some slack.

>>280239078
>>280239239
Imagine if this came out during covid

>>280240796
I think that's impossible with what has been given. Other countries wouldn't be so open about dealing with Japan if that was the case.

THE DISEASE HAS BEEN ERADICATED

I hope you enjoyed this volume, i'll be back in the afternoon or evening of Sunday or early Monday. Have a great weekend

OVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>280239369
murder and betrayal is a thankless duty.

>>280241090
>THE DISEASE HAS BEEN ERADICATED
Now we can go back to having CHADs rule Japa-pffhahahaha. The last great men died in the Sengoku Jidai.

>>280237237
>>280237251
>no feudal game of thrones

>>280240768
He did seem to have a severe case of the pox, so I think it was just poor luck.

>>280240796
I always kind of noped it off when it seemed like the work was going to pretend that this was a secret history of something that actually happened but it looks like that's actually what she's going with

>>280239468
I imagine there must be a lot of vaxx truthers waiting for all the boys to turn into bears... any day now...

>>280241090
Thx mate.

>>280237902
It goes to show what a good kid he was that Harusada had never had to do the tears routine on him. I can't completely hold him crumbling at her manipulation against him. Older people who've seen that trick a few times can still fall for it.
>>280238128
Even so, when it was his, his wife's, Kuroki's, and every boy in the country's life at stake, he still picked his mother over them. He failed in the decisive moment and never managed to free himself from her influence.

>>280239757
OOF

>>280239848
Ihei, you dog
That explains how the clinic survived during Kuroki's country tour.

TAKE THE VACCINE

>>280240322
And so it was.

>>280238298
You love to see it

>>280240420
Wow, he looks so much like his father now.

>>280240500
>redface pox is almost forgotten but female shogun are back
what the fuck

>>280240621
happy 4th of july!

>>280238856
Sixteen years of being trapped fully conscious inside her decaying body is the least of what she deserved.

>>280238490
>>280238525
;_;

>>280240859
Oooku is often classified as alternate history, but it's actual "secret history" fiction, it just provides fanciful explanations and dramatization for received history.

>>280239369
What a generous woman. She'd be justified to lose all respect for him forever.

>>280240564
I'd be surprised if the wife and daughter don't show up in this work before the end (gender swapped). I guess maybe they can't because they'd have been born from a resident foreign male before the red pox was eradicated.

>>280241490
The people also forgot in the span of 60 years that there was a time before the red face pox, that wasn't myth and legend. The series has a rather low view of the common (wo)man's historical memory.

And the explanation on why Iesada became Shogun is an entire volume worth of story.

>>280240034
To think this was once the gloomy man unwillingly serving a young Holland studies scholar...

>>280241066
It is ironic that the manga ended in 2020.
Vaccination drives in the 19th-20th century could get similarly forceful, which is what this part of the story was based on.

>>280240949
>>280241585
autism runs strong in these threads but i guess it makes sense

>>280241090
Thanks OP! Have a nice outing and remember to fully put out any fires or else Smokey the Bear will getcha.

>>280237948
This woman is so far past insane I'm not sure there's a word for her

>>280238257
>>280238298
THE RUSE

>>280238170
About fucking time
Really should've been him though

>>280238298
OUR FUCKING HEROINES

>>280238417
Ahhhh
The makeup was to cover up how sick she was making herself
I figured she was ill, but not like this

>>280238218
DIE PIECE PF SHITTTTTTTTTTT

>>280238617
I have a good punishment idea
Make her the new shogun

>>280238699
Nigger...

>>280239006
At least he's acting like a leader now

>>280239078
Fauci...

>>280239239
>penis inspection day

>>280239405
Come on man...

>>280239430
It feels like yesterday she was a cutie
It's good she learned

>>280239468
Absolutism is back on the menu

>>280238377
What was the point of Shige pretending to be off her rocker?

>>280239621
Our guy has aged

>>280239656
Sei-chan looks like Master Gennai

>>280239694
And Lady Takahashi is as foxy as ever

>>280243521
so O-shiga could pretend to be in Harusada's camp and Harusada wouldn't suspect they found out the truth

>>280239757
Oh man
What a gut punch right during all the happy stuff

>>280243593
also it gave Shige free rein to wander around the inner chambers without suspicion

>>280240096
Rest in Peace to one of the greatest and most significant men in Japanese history
He saved the nation

>>280240134
Oh man
I don't feel good about this

Where I can read this

>>280240239
So...manga over? With seven volumes left?

>>280243694
good instincts

>>280240322
Looks like what I thought is coming through
This series takes place in 'our' history, in a time period that was thoroughly covered up after the fact

>>280243731
Four shoguns left. Two male, two female. The Bakumatsu will be a wild ride.

>>280240450
Both of these could be Ihei's kids
The incest during this series must've been incredible

>>280240500
>people are forgetting the name of the Redface Pox
Japan won

>>280240551
WHAT COLOUR SHIPS?

>>280240705
Hot

>>280243924
she has the "tokugawa look"

>>280241090
Thanks thou saucy fellow
Enjoy your break, these chapters have been great

>>280243935
harasuda also had to be desu >>280223281

I get why it started with the third shogun, as that is when the Ooku was founded, but it would've been cool to have had a full Tokugawa history

>>280244661
you could read hyougemono for ieasu's reign.

>>280244758
Been meaning to get to that one for a while
Maybe I will after this

>>280244795
'tis nothing to be embarrassed. one like yourself should not be expected to have beholden such a ware.

>>280244841
One may only call oneself a true /a/esthete, if one has beheld the Korean arc of our jocular fellow.

>>280244933
I've been meaning to dump it as a daily for years now, but life got in the way. I hope someone has the balls to do it.

>>280243742
Different anon. I got a bad feeling the moment we saw how much he looked like his grandma and Harusada's too easy dismissal of him as a moron. She was a good judge of character but not impossible to fool.

>>280239405
>the second panel
>the scene where he pretends to be his wife's son
Hmmm

>>280245519
Well if you ever get to it, you'll have one reader at least

>>280241452
He's supposed to be like 55 now considering when perry was about

So does the next volume go backwards in time? Someone made it sound like we'll go back to see the puppet male shogun

>>280247594
I'm just curious to see how this is all gonna work. There were no female Tokugawa shoguns in real history, as far as I know

>>280239656
Sei's a model of filial piety for giving up a well-paid hereditary government job without a word.

>>280247594
We still not done with Ieasada's father reign before jumping striaght to her

>>280238128
>>280238170
YES

>>280213127
HOWEVER

>>280223281
Seething

>>280238170
>>280238218
YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE

>>280240621
Good timing OP

>>280251963
for sooth, OP could not have timed it better if he had planned out the whole thing

>>280239656
I feel like an American would almost never write "sure some people died but it worked" with absolutely zero self-conscious flinch. They really want the story to be that they had their cake and ate it too. In the fictional world red pox is so heinous that anyone would make that call so maybe I'm reading too much into it.

I have a surgeon friend that told me St. Jude's Children's Hospital is completely legit (if you're a foreigner, it's that they make a lot of sob story commercials to beg for donations, which can feel pretty suspicious) and the main thing they do that sets them apart is that they're willing to prescribe intense treatments normal pediatricians won't do because if they don't cure the kid it'll absolutely contribute to killing them. Normal pediatricians will often slow roll treatments that won't work but won't directly kill the kid either and just say there was nothing anyone could do when they die of the disease.

For the euros

>>280241066
You fucking well know that the mRNA clotshots aren't vaccines and dictionary definitions had to all be changed to make it seem otherwise.

>>280238490
Now kiss!

>>280238973
How dare you speak foul of this son of Heaven's limitless filial piety!?

>>280240388
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>280238973
His mom never really let him grow up.

>>280241090
Thank you for posting. See you then.

>>280253587
Arigato.

>>280240322
>he only smiles in his old age is when he's with his wife

>>280240621
BASED

Are we gonna go all the way?

>>280243900
beige

>>280264039
We're already 2/3rds of the way there, I don't see why not

>>280211393 (OP)
Bump

>>280269518
Why

>>280267498
I meant this thread. I don't think we've hit bump limit before.

There's no point in dragging out a thread for hours and hours when there's literally no room for any conversation to be had, and none being had anyway

So I'm ending it

It's a great manga, but this autistic fixation on bumping helps no one

>>280271260
Try me

We're here, thank you anon.