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Ōoku: The Inner Chambers

Oooku

2004, Manga, 79 ch, 84%

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In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that…

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About The Tale of Genji: Dreams At Dawn

1979, Manga, 53 ch, 77%

Prince Genji falls in love with his stepmother, and so begins a forbidden love that will make him suffer his whole life. Genji’s love story involves him falling for many women and begins with his love for Princess Fujitsubo—his father’s wife, and his stepmother. And Genji will cross that line which he should never cross.

(Source: Kodansha USA)

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