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Netflix India Lists Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, My Happy Marriage Anime
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers will debut worldwide on Netflix on June 29.
Noriyuki Abe is directing the anime at Studio DEEN. Rika Takasugi is writing the script, Yōko Satō is the character designer, and Kenji Kawai is composing the music.
The anime will star:
- Mamoru Miyano as Madenokōji Arikoto
- Eriko Matsui as Tokugawa Iemitsu
- Yūki Kaji as Gyokuei
- Kikuko Inoue as Kasuga no Tsubone
- Jun Fukuyama as Sutezō
- Tomokazu Seki as Mizuno Yūnoshin
- Miyuki Satō as Onobu
- Sanae Kobayashi as Tokugawa Yoshimune
Hitoshi Kubota is narrating the anime.
Viz Media publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:
In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red 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 of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shogun's Inner Chamber...
Yoshinaga launched the manga in Hakusensha's Melody magazine in 2004, and ended it in December 2020. Hakusensha published the manga's 19th and final volume in February 2021, and Viz Media published the final volume in English in March 2022. The manga won the 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009. Its other honors include the 1st anan Manga Prize, the 56th Shogakukan Manga Prize in the shōjo division, the 5th Sense of Gender Prize's Special Award, and most recently, the Grand Prize in the 42nd Nihon SF Taishō Awards.
The manga inspired a live-action film adaptation in 2010, a live-action television series titled Ōoku: Arikoto・Iemitsu Hen in October 2012, and a second live-action film titled Ōoku: Eien - Emonnosuke・Tsunayoshi Hen in December of the same year.
A new live-action series premiered on NHK on January 10 and will have a second season this fall.
The anime stars:
- Reina Ueda as Miyo Saimori
- Kaito Ishikawa as Kiyoki Kudo
- Ayane Sakura as Kaya Saimori
- Kōtarō Nishiyama as Kōji Tatsuishi
- Houko Kuwashima as Yurie
- Hiro Shimono as Yoshito Godō
Takehiro Kubota (Gloomy the Naughty Grizzly) is directing the series at Kinema Citrus (Made in Abyss). Takao Abo (22/7, Macross Frontier) is in charge of storyboards and supervision. Ami Satо̄, Takahito Ōnishi, and Momoka Toyoda are overseeing the series scripts. Shōko Yasuda (Happy Sugar Life) is designing the characters. Yuushi Koshida (Ghost in the Shell Arise) is the 3DCG director. Evan Call (Violet Evergarden) is composing the music. Riria. performs the anime's opening theme song "Anata no Soba ni" (By Your Side), while Kashitarō Itō performs the anime's ending theme song "Itaphilosophy."
Agitogi and Tsukioka launched the novel series in January 2019. Yen Press licensed the light novels, and it describes the story:
Born to a noble family, Miyo is raised by her abusive stepmother and married off to Kiyoka, a soldier so heartless his prior fiancées fled within three days into their engagement. With no home to return to, Miyo slowly starts to open her heart to her cold and pale husband-to-be, despite their rocky introduction... This might just be her chance at finding true love and happiness.
Rito Kohsaka's manga adaptation debuted on Square Enix's Gangan Online website in December 2018. Square Enix Manga & Books is releasing the manga physically and digitally in English.
A live-action film adaptation of the novels opened in Japan on March 17. The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend, and sold 479,700 tickets to earn 654 million yen (about US$4.97 million) in its first three days.
