Genres
Comedy Aims to entertain and amuse through humor, often using witty dialogue, slapstick, or exaggerated situations to provoke laughter.Romance Explores the development of romantic relationships between characters, often featuring emotional intimacy, courtship, and personal growth.Slice of Life Depicts the mundane aspects of everyday life, focusing on ordinary characters and their routine experiences without major plot points.Tags
Female Protagonist Main character is female.Ojou-sama Features a wealthy, high-class, oftentimes stuck up and demanding female character.Heterosexual Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.Historical Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.Adoption Features a character who has been adopted by someone who is neither of their biological parents.Showa Otome Otogibanashi
昭和オトメ御伽話
In Kobe, during the late 1920s at the dawn of the Shōwa Era, a girl and a boy live under abusive households. They make a solemn oath to stay together until death, finding in each other a promise of loyalty and companionship. But their bond is quickly broken when they are separated, seemingly forever.
Three years later, in 1931, a chance encounter reunites them. Now, they must face the years they spent apart and the circumstances that tore them from each other. Will their oath still hold, or has too much changed?
As they reconnect, they must confront their shared history and the feelings they thought were lost.
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