And here we are, at last. The final volume of Saitou Chiho-sensei’s magnificent edition of the Heian epic, Torikaebaya. Before you read this review, please make sure you read Jason L’s review of Rosette Willig’s translation of the source material, The Changelings, which we published yesterday on Okazu. I ask you to read it because […]
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Torikaebaya Manga, Volume 12 (とりかえ・ばや)
It’s all coming to a climax in Torikaebaya, Volume 12 (とりかえ・ばや). The penny dropped in Volume 11, as the emperor got an inkling of an idea that the person he knows as his consort Suiren is quite likely the young lord he cultivated as Sarasoujuu. In Volume 12, Umetsubo Naishogami boldly asks the Emperor to […]
Torikaebaya Manga, Volume 11 (とりかえ・ばや)
I just finished Torikaebaya, Volume 11. I’m also reading the new deluxe Revolutionary Girl Utena manga from Viz, Both are by the same artist, Saito Chiho, and I was thinking how very much Koyasu Takehito (Touga’s voice) would be *brilliant* as the Emperor if they ever did an anime. (They won’t. Nothing happens for long stretches). So […]
Torikaebaya Manga, Volume 10 (とりかえ・ばや)
AUUUUGGGHH. Sorry, but I got almost all the way through Volume 10 of Saitou Chiho-sensei’s Torikaebaya (とりかえ・ばや) without screaming and then I hit the final bit and AUUUUGGGHH! Okay, so. The Mikado is being pressured to replace Toguu-sama as heir and Ginkaku, an evil priest with really evil eyebrows and Shikibu-no-miya (who you always knew […]
Torikaebaya Manga, Volume 9 (とりかえ・ばや)
The train wreck that is the plot of Saito Chiyo-sensei’s Torikaebaya, Volume 9 (とりかえ・ばや) just keeps getting wreckier and wreckier. Sarasojuu who was born as a woman, but should have been a man, has been masquerading now for a while as a woman…as her sibling Suiren, in fact. Suiren, who was born a man, but should have […]
