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Forum - View topicThis Week in Anime - An Alternate History in Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
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residentgrigo
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Ooku is an alternate history story... until it isn´t anymore. The plot ends up reaching into the 19th century and the red pox is the explanation for the isolationism of 1603 to 1868 and why the Shogunate became undone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku
The manga has roughly 3 acts. The anime covers about 2/3rds of act 1 (till Vol 4, Chapter 15). The 2nd act is all about vaccination (also racism with a trans deuteragonist on top) and now makes the work more political than it was during its release. There is little hope for anime like this to get sequels unless these were negotiated from the start. The setting shifts every few volumes despite rarely leaving the Shogunate and its inner chambers making sequels hard to market but S3 would have real meat on its bones if it came about. Last edited by residentgrigo on Tue Jul 18, 2023 2:34 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Shay Guy
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I don't know what people mean by "digipaint" anymore. Last I checked, it meant the "digital ink and paint" process by which all anime is made today, but it's almost exclusively used for the early days of the process when you could see its growing pains on the screen. Like, the first five years or so. |
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Zhou-BR
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I was very impressed with this show, and I'm crossing my fingers we'll get the four additional seasons that would be necessary to reach the manga's conclusion. I get that it's not the most commercial material out there, and the occasional sexual violence makes it difficult to watch at times, but it's amazingly powerful and well thought out. Even if this one season is all we'll get, I'm glad Netflix took a chance on it.
That's why I usually add the word "early" before "digipaint" when talking about those shows from the late '90s and early '00s. |
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TheSleepyMonkey
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That was J.C. Staff, not Deen. |
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Glordit
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Loved it! Hopefully we get more in the future because the manga has so many more stories to tell.
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fuuma_monou
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The intro's "female-led Shogun" should probably be "female-led Shogunate".
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Joker#941490
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That was Netflix's doing even the manga publisher wasn't involved and the author liked the anime the way it is. |
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TheSleepyMonkey
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Netflix only streamed the series, they did not make it themselves. It was "animated" by J.C. Staff. |
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