Reviews

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 7 by Fumi Yoshinaga

kamreadsandrecs's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

emeraldreverie's review against another edition

4.0

Loving it. The way this series weaves time is interesting and we end up back in the "present." Art remains great, clean thin lines, expressive miens. I am excited to read on!

misssusan's review against another edition

4.0

ejima is an incredible cutie, i'm so sad about how his story played out

also yoshinaga is unrelentless with her realism, dang

woman just refuses to give heroes and villains

i've cared about every set of shogun and retainers she's presented even as the course of the plot means they are unreconcilably opposed to each other

like i love yoshimune and i'm all abut her reign but also ouch, i did not enjoy seeing what happened to sakyo, manabe, ejima, and shingoro to get her there

4 stars

moonlightarcher's review

challenging informative tense slow-paced

2.0

kalanadi's review

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

halcyon_nights's review against another edition

4.0

Enjoyed this volume a lot more than I did the last couple. We're actually back to where the story started, but this time with the knowledge of all that has happened to bring us to this point. It was definitely an interesting framing device, to see the characters from the first volume with new eyes after understanding the context of certain things. And I don't know if I'm just imagining things, but I feel like the author is spending more of an effort at making the characters distinct from each other. They're still similar-looking but an improvement's an improvement.

nonesensed's review against another edition

5.0

What can I say? This series is still terribly interesting! I really need to buy the whole series, because the huge cast and time skips are throwing me off at this point. There is so much intrigue and so many characters that I almost forget who is doing what and why - it's possible to figure it out, but right now there are callbacks to stuff that happened in volume 1 and 2, sooo...

Yeah, still reccing this, still very good, I'm just old and forgetful. Need to buy this series, 100% (currently borrowing them from a library out of town, so that's why I can't read them more rapidly or go back to reread earlier volumes).

jamberg's review

5.0

This is the volume with Ejima's story.

christine_s's review

4.0

Still great art, and the story has come full circle where it started in the first place. It would be nice to have some sort of timeline graphic at the beginning so you could tell what year this is, and have it relative to all the other timelines. This is kind of like Game of Thones, once you start liking a character they probably are going to die, or be tortured, and then die.

meeners's review

5.0

OUT AT LAST!!

edit: GAH SO GOOD. this one focuses mostly on 江島生島事件 and the political machinations that lead to yoshimune becoming the next shogun. so much gender bending but it works so well. *_____* also, female kabuki actors as reverse onnagata (so i guess otokogata??) = so hot! also, kawaraban jokes = so funny! also, coming back full circle to yoshimune from volume 1 = so awesome! yoshinaga fumi, i love you.

edit 2: i just realized that i probably should have paced myself in reading this. will probably have to wait another year for the next volume. ahhhhhh :(