Netflix is streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the Ōoku: The Inner Chambers anime, which reveals that the series is scheduled to premiere worldwide on the service on June 29, 2023.

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 story of Ōoku: The Inner Chambers is described as:

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red Pox has begun to prey on the country’s men. Within 80 years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by 75 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.

Source: ANN

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