I knew that the ōoku anime was gonna bring out some brain dead takes from a certain type of anime watchers but I ended up arguing with a dude who couldn't understand the point of an anime with a Shogun but "no sword fighting in it".
The Redface Pox has decimated the male population. Women now dominate the workforce and the country. The few men that are left are a precocious resource. However, the most coveted of these men are sent to the Shogun. But it will take far more than a beautiful face to keep up in the Inner Chambers.
Presidential system vs. parliamentary system: The debate that triggers me even in my historical manga and I take as a personal attack 😂 Life has not been the same for me since 2017...
“Oooku” The Manga For Gets Anime Series in Summer 2023
The Netflix Anime Special Stage at AnimeJapan 2023 revealed an animated version of the Oooku (Ooku: The Inner Chambers) novel by Fumi Yoshinaga. In the summer of 2023, the anime will debut solely on Netflix.
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Descripción: Su argumento nos traslada a un período Edo en el que Japón ha sido asolado por una extraña enfermedad llamada Redface Pox, que sólo afecta a los hombres. Ochenta años después del primer brote, la población masculina se ha reducido a una cuarta parte de la población femenina total. Las mujeres han asumido todos los roles tradicionalmente otorgados a los hombres, incluso el de Shogun.
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#so might as well play with the trope. have a woman surrounded by hot and attractive dudes vying for her attention #she could be average looking, or older, or charismatic
I've seen some examples of this in media aimed at straight women, although the woman is always young & attractive too since that's the default for women in media lol.
Examples I know of:
Bloodbound 2 from Choices: Stories You Play app has a cover with the LIs (including 1 of the female LIs) surrounding her whilst she's sat down.
Finding Twilight webtoon from the Lezhin website/app has a cover where the guys literally have half open shirts whilst the f!MC sits on a throne lol.
Lady & Maid from Tapas website has a cover where the female character is sat in a suit whilst the male characters are sat around her in maid costumes.
Love & Thirst, an upcoming otome game has a cover with the f!MC sat on a chair surrounded by guys.
"Reverse harem" books seem popular on TikTok so maybe there's more there?
Thank you for the tip, Anon! And sorry for the late reply, I kept wanting to add more to the post haha. I don't want to derail the original thread so I will compile the examples here.
(^ Finding Twilight)
I'm always down for women in suits :P And I like that the guys are casually wearing maid outfits, not looking humiliated or embarrassed.
Baka-Updates also has a number of reverse harem stories, though it might take some effort to find the ones you like.
As for the ones I know... There's Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, a josei manga by Fumi Yoshinaga. It's an alternate history of Tokugawa Japan, depicting the shoguns from this era as female. It starts with polyandry as the premise, explained as the result of a plague reducing the number of men in society. Because the shoguns are now women, the inner chambers employ hundreds of men as concubines.
(The live-action adaptation)
I would argue that Ōoku is more diverse than average when it comes to women who aren't conventionally attractive. One of the shoguns, Ieshige, has a speech defect and other health problems like her historical counterpart. The rest of the court underestimates her because of it, but she isn't dehumanised or vilified by the story (imho).
Baka-Updates was actually how I found out about Queen's Palace/Empress's Harem :D It's set in a matriarchal society, has a dominant female lead, and a whole bevy of other GRR stuff/flipping gendered tropes. It's one of my personal favourites.
Like you said, many of the examples are still young, light-skinned, conventionally attractive women, so I'd love to see more variation. And for the men too--they don't have to be skinny anime boys or muscle-bound hunks all the time :P
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