In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects
males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the
vacant jobs, therefore changing the social structure. Now, 80 years
after the initial outbreak with a 1:4 male:female ratio, Japan is a
completely matriarchal society. Females hold all important political
positions, and males are their consorts. Only the most powerful
female--head of Tokugawa shogunate--may keep a harem of handsome and
unproductive males, known as "Oooku."
Note: Won an Excellence
Prize at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival and a special prize at The
Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth
annual Sense of Gender Awards in 2005.
Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural the Grand Prize in 2009 and the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in Girls' Category in 2011.
Was nominated for the first annual Manga Taishō in 2008.
