Ōoku: The Inner Chambers · review
9
/10
If you're into alternative history dramas, this is a great one. It intersperses little pieces of historical context for the era, but diverges from history in an interesting way. If you're interested in gender studies, then give it a watch, because it's realistic in its depiction of gender disparities, for both men and women. The pace is fairly good, and it holds interest. There's a diverse cast of characters with a web of drama between them, in different geographical locations. The way it weaves a present and past story, slowly revealing the mystery of how culture ended up in the present tent by depictingthe past tense. It's narratively sound.