A review by misssusan
Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 6 by Fumi Yoshinaga

5.0

today i figured something out about myself

it's that i am hella predictable and a good 80% of all my favourite fictional relationships come down to queen/lionheart dynamics

the queen believes in higher ideals and embodies them as best they can! the lionheart believes in their queen and will do whatever is necessary to protect them and bring them to power! yup, i'll take like one hundred of those, thanks

(king/lionheart is also cool but we're dealing with ooku here so i feel using the general feminine is more appropriate)

so yeah. take a queen with two lionhearts and two cases of tragic romance and you get...

5 stars