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"Three years ago, he had the same posture. Three years ago, he had stood behind Miyuki. Yes.... Compared to three years ago, it had changed." Set 3 years prior to the present time, Tsuioku Hen tells the events that would change Miyuki's world drastically, as well as the events that led Tatsuya to become what he is now.
Benio Hanamura is a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Tokyo during the Taisho era. Benio lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy - contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions, and isn't as interested in housewife duties as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love. Benio's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Benio but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sanako is a 10-year-old girl who lives with her father in Tokyo. Inside the grey building which is their home, they have created a sky garden full of huge, green potted plants. In this city oasis, kind-hearted people meet… (Source: Ivyscan)
Mitsuko was born with a star-shaped birthmark in her palm, signifying that she will climb to greatness - but as a middle-class Japanese girl in the late 1800s, the best thing she can hope for is a respectable marriage. When she meets Heinrich, a handsome, charming Austrian diplomat, her feelings may force her to go against all the rules she has been taught. Based on the true story of Mitsuko Aoyama, mother of the influential Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Lady Mitsuko is a classic tale of culture clash and star-crossed lovers.
Aliens exist for sure. Even a child knows it. The world is protected by a group of aliens with special power. Daichi lives in such a world. He terribly got burned five years ago, but it's all cured and he now lives a peaceful life. But one day, he meets one of the aliens and his life slightly changes... He is forcibly appointed as to be an examiner of the next protector test. There are also three girls who move to his school to take the test and one of them is his childhood friend. He still doesn't know that there will be a big event, which will change his future, in the not too distant future...
Although hailed as a musical prodigy since he was very young, Fukao Kairi, now a conductor/piano major at a conservatory, seems to have lost his passion for music. He skips class and lessons left and right and has not participated in any major competitions for years. His friends are concerned for his future, but it is only when Kairi meets Miyamura Ruka and encounters her undying love for Shion that he starts to change little by little. This story is about love and its true semblance.
Yuuta's grandmother died and on the last day of his grandmother's funeral, amidst the gossip of the relative about who will adopt him, someone spoke it outloud "I will raise this kid." Who's she? She is Meguri Ichiko, the main character of this series. With posh brand named clothes and her attitude, no one would believe at first that she's a detective, an assistant inspector for the Narcotic Department for the Metropolitan Police Department. Aside from her work, Ichiko does take another thing seriously at heart, that's a man with 5E. 5E? What is 5E....?
During the time of the great dynasties of Japan, 5-year old Nana-hime and a little boy vowed that they would marry each other, but they were tragically separated without ever learning each other's true identities. Now, at the age of 17, Nana-hime is still unmarried and her mother is restless. She forces her daughter to try to enter the imperial court, and miraculously succeeds. Much to her chagrin, Nana-hime will now serve as lady-in-waiting to nobleman Hikaru Genji, the most infamous playboy of his time...
The time is 1939, year 14 of the Showa period. Single-handedly raised by a former geisha in the Yanagibashi district of Tokyo, Takechiyo Morimasa is an energetic, straight shooting 4th year intermediate school student who loves the big city life and his beautiful mother. However, due to a family death, he is suddenly forced to move to a very rural, backwards region of Japan in order to take over the Aoba family line. What awaits him there is a school full of extremely eccentric characters who operate as if they were still in the Edo period. It seems the only way he can save himself is to create a successful baseball team...??
Mari, a young Spanish flamenco dancer who lost her mother at a young age, meets aspiring Japanese photographer Ikushima Reki. They are strongly drawn to each other, but their meeting is fleeting since Reki must return home at the end of the week. On the day they say good-bye, a tragic accident occurs and Mari must make a difficult decision that may change everything about her life...