Gou - Himetachi no Sengoku
Alt Names: | Gō - Himetachi no Sengoku Gō - Princesses In War-time Gou - Princesses In War-time 江 姫たちの戦国 |
Author: | Tabuchi Kumiko |
Artist: | Akatsuki Kaori |
Genres: | Drama Historical Romance Shoujo |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | The 50th NHK Taiga drama is Gou. The story focuses on the life of Gou, a wife of the second Tokugawa shogun Hidetada. Gou was the third daughter of the daimyo Azai Nagamasa, who was married to the sister of Oda Nobunaga. One of Gou’s older sisters was the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, while the other married the daimyo Kyogoku Takatsugu. |
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anyone notices what happen to sadako? dont know if i miss it or the author just ignore it
Yeah it seems the manga made it more shoujo for the girls. Otherwise I guess it would have been labeled seinen if it followed history more closely. Would have also taken a lot longer to finish the manga.
Also glad the last chapter was nothing like the drama cause that was really boring imho. Gou in the drama had a lot of frustrations, but never dealt with them. Instead she just sort of quietly accepted them cause the writers wanted her to.
I'm disappointed we get to see nothing about her sons' conflict. The older had the younger commit suicide in real life to ensure his succession to shogun.
dem that's one faithful man
While IMHO your description truly matching the manga, but IMHO you search in a wrong place. While I won't deny maybe there's shoujo that ain't like that, but searching for those things in shoujo is just... not quite right.
But maybe this one's good if you wanna try reading Japanese Historical shoujo manga. It's not confusing (not too many info dumps), and has good and clean artwork with distinguishable character, and not to say the scanlation quality is very good. (Thank you very much Antisense!)
This manga is sadly a pale reflection of the original drama it was based on, which itself is a pale reflection of the historical life of Lady Gou. The shoujo-manga treatment doesn't really help. Too many bishounen warlords and modern sensibilities. There's also a "softening" of the warlords' true histories, even from the very first chapter: Nobunaga taking the skulls of Azai Nagamasa, his son, and his ally Asakura Yoshikage and turning them into cups is attested to in contemporary documentation and witness reports from both sides of the aisle (those supporting and those opposing Nobunaga's vision). This kind of Japanese historical revisionism is annoying to the max, especially given Japan's still continuing internal denial of their WW2 crimes, even as Japanese leaders repeatedly apologize for them internationally.
Even a somewhat-gag manga like Hyouge Mono could capture the greatness of Nobunaga's personality, ambition, and far-ahead-of-his-time vision while accepting - respecting, even - his ruthless, borderline schizophrenic, megalomaniacal tendencies. The history depicted in this manga doesn't even feel whitewashed; it's been bleached beyond all recognition.
There definitely seems to be some potential here, and the scanlation work is very good, but whether or not it will live up to said potential is anyone's guess at this point.