Ooku

[la_vie_noire]

Ooku wins James Tiptree Award. It's the first time a manga has won. Ooku has also was "recipient of special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender awards (2005), Excellence Award for manga at Japan Media Arts Festival (2006), and Grand Prize in Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize (2009)".

I post this because I can. And because, against all economy odds, I ordered the first two volumes. Oops.

Oh God. How much I don't want to study Biochemistry. Let me count the ways.

Comments

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not like I have read everything so i can't make a perfect comparison, but it was definitely one of the most well told, clever and thought inducing fictional work about gender roles I've seen in ages.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaay! <3 *wants to have it*