Review of Taisho Otome Fairy Tale

What a beautiful take on a beautiful romance story. Tomahiko was a product of his upbringing. He was miserable and dejected and completely unloved. He had been convinced that he didn't deserve to be loved. Although it was under terrible circumstances, he had his future wife sent to him. Yuzu is portrayed as a happy young lady, though the circumstances could easily not let her be. I do think it's cliche that she's strong and happy for somebody who's not, but this was a nice way to handle it. The story progresses reasonably and nothing is left hanging and upon initial review, I don't find anyplot holes or unfinished stories throughout the episodes.

The one thing that I do wish we saw was an actual verbalization by tomahiko that he loved Yuzu. It's obviously something that's well within reach, especially because he told Rio on their way to Tokyo that there was no doubt that he was in love with her. I'm not sure why saying that made them decide that they needed to avoide putting it in the story because it would have been so easy to, even in the after credits. That's about the only thing that I take issue with.

There are some animation gaffs, but the depiction of Japanese landscape and customs are very well presented.

By the end you reach a very nice conclusion without the expected marriage/family build that is so common. There is no time skip here and I really appreciate it. Everything occurs on the same timeline and on the same plane, which makes it very easy to appreciate.

This most definitely is a recommended treasure.