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I have vol.6 of Okano's Onmyouji. If vol.6 is anything like any of the other volumes then I merely wish to note that Onmyouji is not a manga, it's an info dump. 'Elementary Onmyoudou, its Principles and Practices: an intensive course for the beginner.' Poor Hiromasa has nothing to do but sit in the ox-cart for pages and pages while Seimei instructs him in which element conquers what element if a certain place is in the north-west corner of the palace on a day when the wind blows from the east, while the reader's head spins. To say nothing of that long discursus about which jinja are built where in N-E Kyoto and how they all line up with the meridian of the sun at the summer solstice or something- information which to date has no bearing on the story at all.
( But I plug away... )