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The Summer 2023 Anime Preview Guide

This is actually showing that her characterisation was done correctly.

Ah yes, history has shown that wherever women are in short supply, they take over the entire power structure of their societies. See colonial Australia, Alaska Gold Rush, early Western US settlement, etc. (Native peoples were mostly separate social orders, and also not experiencing a drastic sex ratio disparity)

"Valuable" ≠ "powerful." Kinda hard to rule when you're essentially in quarantine, or to maintain a patriarchy or even a noble patrilinear bloodline when few sons live beyond childhood. But things aren't that simple, especially in Edo-period politics and culture, and I think the anime (haven't read the source material) does a pretty good job of illustrating how complicated such a transition would be while making it reasonably believable.

I really enjoyed it, although there were a few places that were cringingly melodramatic. At those times it kind of reminded me of Tale of Genji at its soapiest.

That's never stopped noble class from dominating peasant class, and that wasn't a 4:1, more like 100:1.

I suppose there's a reason certain genres of series are given to reviewers who openly dislike those genres, but I've never quite understood it.

Do you not understand how preview guide works?

I will absolutely accept this - it makes a lot of sense. I only watched my sister play a bit of the first game, but she loved it, so I was planning to give this more episodes to prove itself.

I don't want to get too deep into this thorny argument, but the above is the most relevant point here. Social change is unbelievably, depressingly difficult, and I find it hard to believe that patriarchy would magically reverse itself and become matriarchy just because there was a man shortage for a few decades. Oppression easily becomes internalized in its victims, discouraging dissent even when they have a huge numerical advantage, and times of crisis--such as a mystery illness wiping out almost half the population--tend to encourage conservatism, not radical change, because people don't want to try new things when an unplanned new thing is wreaking havoc.

Like, if it got so bad that the only remaining man was the shogun/emperor and he was a gigantic sexist, then yeah, he'd probably be thrown out. But it doesn't sound like this disease situation was that extreme. Women had to take over a lot of men's jobs in the US during WW2, and 80-odd years later, we still aren't even willing to have a female president...

The mitama ... is divided into four aspects: the wild and violent ara-mitama; the serene and functional nigi-mitama; the happy and loving saki-mitama; and the wise and powerful kushi-mitama. ... I haven't seen them come up in anime or manga, even ones that are explicitly about Shintoism