Oukoku no Ko - Vol. 9 Ch. 36 - Elizabeth

[MangaDex]

 

[saveme]

A nice ending to wrap everything up

Thanks for the translation

 

[bakasennin]

Thank you for finishing this! Scanlators who pick up abandoned projects are the best.

 

[Marzinea]

Thanks for completing this story!

 

[Quieo]

Man I was hoping this manga would cover the war with Spain and the Spanish Armada but regardless it does wrap up quite neatly.

My other wish is that someone would replace the stupid made up names with the real country names because this really is a good interpretation of English history

 

[BluWacky]

Man I was hoping this manga would cover the war with Spain and the Spanish Armada but regardless it does wrap up quite neatly.

My other wish is that someone would replace the stupid made up names with the real country names because this really is a good interpretation of English history

The made up names are very, very odd, given that so many of the elements of the story are just directly taken from Tudor history. incidentally, regarding names, apologies to everyone if I wasn't consistent with the Dayment ones overall; I think I've ended up being a bit of a hodgepodge of Anglicisms, in that I used "Phillip" for King Phillip of Spain but I used "Marie" for Mary of Guise. I also didn't know/remember if Protestantism and Catholicism are referred to by name at all (probably not), so the brief mention of "old faith" and "new faith" in this chapter are literal translations, despite Elizabeth's coronation very clearly being at Westminster and the centrality of religious conflict to the Mid-Tudor Crises and Elizabeth's own early rule.

I think Elizabeth's rule could have rendered some fine material, not just because Tudor history is great but also in terms of this manga in particular - I think Shakespeare and Robert would have had much to discuss. Action clearly isn't something Bikke is particularly interested in here, though, and I'm not sure she'd have enjoyed covering the Armada (Francis Drake, however, could have added to the coterie of bishounen!). Clearly, however, her focus was on the Elizabeth/Robert relationship, and I rather think she had this end in mind from the start, although not perhaps the rather cursory treatment of Mary Queen of Scots and Lennox - Elizabeth's speech to the Commons in 1559 is substantively the same as the speech that Robert gives to the Privy Council in these last few chapters, and it is clearly what inspired the story's title.

 

[ricecrops]

william always acting like a shoujo fangirl when it comes to them kills me lmao ngl this really became my favorite "historical" manga, if you could call it that? awfully creative, very well researched, and makes for a compelling story even if you don't know england's history to a T. the road to elizabeth/robert's reign and the driving force behind it, despite how summarized it might have been, was understood perfectly even with just 39 chapters. thanks for picking this up!!

 

[kanoreads]

Thanks so much for picking this up! I'm glad I finally got to finish it.

Robert living as Elizabeth was not what I had expected, but it did give the story an interesting twist at the last minute. I do still wonder why this was written as if in a fantasy world instead of just naming each country, especially since it was never that far off from 'real' history... Would have made for a nice slice of alternate history, like Ooku.

 

[Quieo]

Thanks so much for picking this up! I'm glad I finally got to finish it.

Robert living as Elizabeth was not what I had expected, but it did give the story an interesting twist at the last minute. I do still wonder why this was written as if in a fantasy world instead of just naming each country, especially since it was never that far off from 'real' history... Would have made for a nice slice of alternate history, like Ooku.

I think the author didn’t want to get sued or something or other. It alines is pretty well with history. Maybe there was a history of body doubles, aside from it being a lot of work. Like more work than us English would really bother with its not against the possibility of having happened.