Sakuran: Blossoms Wild
Moyoco Anno,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Vertical, Incorporated on 07-17-2012
Moyoco Anno,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Vertical, Incorporated on 07-17-2012
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781935654452 (1935654454)
Publish date: July 17th 2012
Publisher: Vertical
Pages no: 302
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
Japan,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Manga,
Seinen,
Graphic Novels Manga,
Josei
The story presentation was okay. The pacing was odd at certain parts of the books, and the plot is told in a non-linear kind of way. The manga held no punches of what life is like for a courtesan in red-light districts. I strongly remember the lectures the lives of girls sold to brothels (in Japan a...
Anno was Okazaki's assistant and protegee before she began her own career; they both have a certain sharp strong line and a focus on girl-on-girl violence and cultural policing. Like Helter Skelter, Sakuran is a single-volume story focused on the career of a strong-minded, vicious-tempered woman who...
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