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Originally Posted by scififan
Other people's initial reaction is yet another Cinderella. The girl is poor and the guy is rich.
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So many of these shoujo stories start out with a "plain jane" and untalented female lead who is picked on by everyone she knows until her Prince Charming comes and sweeps her off her feet to "happily ever after." I'd like to think that this story won't be falling into that tired old trap.
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Originally Posted by scififan
It takes place in the short-lived economic boom of Japan, before WWII.
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The Taisho era of Japan was like the 1920s of America, a boom period, but sadly Japan's short-lived liberalization would soon give way to the ultranationalist fascism of the 1930s and 1940s. I wonder if this anime series will give us some background as to whether or not the same trend towards fascism will be shown in this show's timeline. I remember a much older manga and anime series,
Haikara-san ga Tooru or
Here Comes Miss Modern dealing with the same time period and transition, so it's been done before.