Yoshinaga Fumi - Ooku, vol. 01-03 (Chi. trans.)

[oyceter]

I first heard about this when it won a special prize from the Japanese Sense of Gender award (awards SFF works that examine gender); the people behind the SoG have been going to Wiscon regularly, which is how I heard of the award. Ooku (pretend there's a macron over the first "o") is an alternate history of Japan where a strange pox ends up killing

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[magicnoire]

Dude. This sounds awesome.

[oyceter]

It is! IT IS! Someone should license it so I can understand everything because all the ranks in the ooku are really confusing! I am so annoyed only one volume is coming out a year! I do not think I will be able to read this in Japanese because it's so complicated! I flail with exclamation points!

[oyceter]

It is so good! I wish it were being scanlated at least...

[jiawen]

Maybe there should be a panel called Things You Can Only Read in Japanese, So Far. Wiscon isn't the market, but who knows, it could start a critical mass.

[oyceter]

Heeee! (Well, technically I read this in Chinese because I think the Japanese would have been too hard for me, but you know.)

[rilina]

I really think it's the release schedule that may be holding up licensing of this--given how much of Yoshinaga's other stuff has come over, you'd think this would have been snatched up already!

[oyceter]

Yeah, I think so. Or that it's too different from the rest of Yoshinaga's stuff? Or possibly a combination of those and possible translation difficulties and/or cross-cultural difficulties, as it's very reliant on knowledge of Japanese history?

Still!

[oyceter]

I wish it were translated so badly!