Vendue à une maison close dès son plus jeune âge, Tomeki, une petite fille rebelle cherche par tous les moyens à échapper à la condition de courtisane ou, plus crûment, de prostituée, à laquelle on la destine. Mais, difficile d'échapper à un destinMore Vendue à une maison close dès son plus jeune âge, Tomeki, une petite fille rebelle cherche par tous les moyens à échapper à la condition de courtisane ou, plus crûment, de prostituée, à laquelle on la destine. Mais, difficile d'échapper à un destin tout tracé. Les années passant, Tomeki, sous le nom de Kiyoha, devient une courtisane en vue et développe un véritable don pour les choses de l'amour. Un talent précieux dans un monde gouverné par l'argent, la violence. et le sexe. Less

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Seth T. rated it really liked it

over 3 years ago

[Introducing Kiyoha: first-time smoker
(comment courtesy of Katie Jett Walls)]

I care about women. And not just because they're mine or I have some familial duty to the ones who are related to me. I care about women because somewhere over the last twenty years, I began to e. Read full review

Sean O'Hara rated it really liked it

almost 5 years ago

I picked this up without knowing anything about it except it's from Vertical, and Vertical's manga selections are by far the most interesting of all American publishers. When I pulled it out of the box from Amazon, I was struck by two things -- first, it came shrink-wrapp. Read full review

May rated it it was ok

about 4 years ago

Watching a rerun of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit was more intriguing than this manga. I get it. Reading about the sexual exploitation of women is a serious subject, no matter what historical period you set it in or what format you choose to tell the story. My bigge. Read full review

Victoria rated it it was ok

over 3 years ago

I wanted to like this book more but it was just too hard to tell what was going on most of the time. All the courtesans pretty much looked the same, so you could only tell them apart based on behaviour, and even then it was only the protagonist who really stood out (I sti. Read full review

Ksenia added it ∙ review of another edition

over 2 years ago

I must admit, I had a hard time figuring out what was going on mostly because the speech bubbles were scattered about and I had no idea which bubble belonged to whom. On the the other hand, I did like the art, especially when it came to facial expressions amongst the cour. Read full review

Mely marked it as read-seq-art ∙ review of another edition

almost 4 years ago

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. Read full review

scarlettraces rated it it was amazing

almost 3 years ago

(There is an 18+ warning on the back of the book. It possibly should have been on the front for those unwarily browsing in bookstores. This one is definitely NSFW.)

I wish, wish, wish Anno-sensei had written more of this story - I wonder if it had run in a josei magazine. Read full review

Anna rated it liked it

over 2 years ago

Anno really has a thing for female-centered stories. full of extremely bitter terrible humans & set in hella rotten world!!

Which is what makes her works so amazing. Also the color spreads in this book are magic

Clodjee rated it really liked it

about 4 years ago

L'histoire de Sakuran. qui n'est pas sans rappeler Mémoires d'une geisha (le livre d'Arthur Golden porté à l'écran par Rob Mitchell), est assez simple. Comme dans la plupart des manga de Moyoco Anno, Sakuran mets en scène des personnages féminins forts, qui prennent leur. Read full review

Alex rated it it was ok

over 4 years ago

Sakuran is a one-shot manga about a woman growing up in a teahouse (read: brothel) in Edo, Japan. It starts in "present" time, then from chapter 2 onward, recounts the life story of Kiyoha, the protagonist. She was orphaned, presumably (the book doesn't get into it), at a. Read full review