From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 01/21/2015 07:44 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > On 01/20/2015 10:02 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
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   >>   
   >> "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:m9hv2o$ji0$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>   
   >> Hi Lurkers and Posters.   
   >> I got lucky at the San Francisco Public Library and found volumes 8 & 9   
   >> of Ooku (already owning volumes 1-7) and was able to   
   >> catch up this weekend.   
   >> It starts to get good in volume 8 and begins to turn on   
   >> Dutch Medicine versus the traditional doctors and relegated heirs   
   >> to the Shogun begin to intrigue against the Shogun, her primary   
   >> councilor and a woman scholar as well as the half-Dutch commoner   
   >> scholar who has been brought into the Ooku to help teach Dutch   
   >> medicine to the male inmates.   
   >> The objective of the study is to find a way to deal with   
   >> the deadly Red Face Plague and it is exciting to read.   
   >>   
   >> I hope you will read Ooku.   
   >>   
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   >>   
   >> I have read the first volume in Japanese but haven't had the chance to   
   >> get caught up with the series.  It's an alternative history book of   
   >> feudal Japan where men died off and became rare and women took on almost   
   >> all occupation including running the country as shogun.   
   >   
   >     So try getting it at your local public library and maybe they   
   > can borrow it from the SFPL system.   
   >>   
   >> Most women cannot even meet a woman so they could get impregnated while   
   >> Oo-oku/ Shogun has many men essentially serving as her male concubines.   
   >   
   >     I believe you have made a typo in that paragraph above and   
   > good fertile men are available for stud service at some expense.   
   > In less favored areas men are passed around in communities so that the   
   > population can be kept up with enough workers,  But because men   
   > are so important they tend to be coddled so they are trying avoid   
   > being taken captive by the collectives.  One in the two chapters is   
   > a chef but not permitted to work outside the Ooku because of gender   
   > discrimination.   
   >   
   >> I believe the same artist did a foodie manga Kinou Nani Tabeta (What Did   
   >> You Have for Dinner Last Night) among a gay couple.   
   >   
   >   
   >     bliss   
   >   
      
   	I foolishly thought the series wrapped up at volume 10 when a male   
   became shogun again.   
   	Yesterday at the Kinokinya manga shop I found volume 11 and   
   it ends as the male shogun asserting himself makes an appeal to the   
   physician trained in Western medicine to renew the attempt to develop   
   a vaccination against the Red Face pox.  His mother who was alway   
   a schemer with no regard for human life has descended to ....   
   cannot spoil this for you,   
   	   
   	Read Ooku volume 11 as soon as you may,   
   	It is very good.   
      
   BLISS   
      
   	   
      
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