Juuza Engi: Engetsu Sangokuden - Gaiden Youzhou Genya

Otome games (sometimes shortened to otoge) are visual novels with a female protagonist, multiple male love interests, and story choices which lead the player down one of many routes towards a romantic ending. At their core, otome games are romance stories; however, they frequently feature an overarching side plot that is revealed slowly across each route.

Titles in this stack are sorted by most recent. Sequels and specials of TV anime are omitted. Where I've seen both the anime and played the VN, I've tried to give a brief description of what was covered.

These anime and donghua take place during the Three Kingdoms Era of ancient China or star characters from that time period. The classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms takes place during the Three Kingdoms Era, featuring famous Chinese warlords and political figures like Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, and Sima Yi. Many of these anime are period dramas, although the list also includes some cases where characters have time-traveled or reincarnated into the present day.

Anime based on Visual Novels and Games

So in 2023, I decided to challenge myself to watch all the anime based on otome games or with a game adaptation even if that isn't a good anime in the end.
I will try to play all the games even if they are just available in Japanese.
I want to share this publicly because I found that aren't that many stacks with this kind of theme and as an otome lover I need to do my job here (my English is trash sorry)

ps.: I will do the same for manga because normally manga is superior

Japanese anime that has inspiration from Chinese culture. Some have Chinese setting.

Every primary protagonist of Chinese descent in Japanese anime series excluding hentai anime based on a story written by Japanese people

Looking for Visual Novels? Here is a list of the ones I completed with a level indicator of enjoyment. I hope you find the next game to play. Also below you will find a list of anime adapted from Otome and BL games


Sweet Level Indicator
╭────»»❀❀❀««────╮
🧁 Little Flavor
🧁🧁 Candy
🧁🧁🧁 My heart
╰────»»❀❀❀««────╯

Spicy Level Indicator
╔════════════════╗
🔥 Warming up
🔥🔥 Getting hot
🔥🔥🔥 Burning
╚════════════════╝


⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ Otome ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆

✗ Hakuouki Kyoto Winds 🧁🧁🧁 x2
✗ Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome 🔥
✗ Amnesia Memories 🧁🧁
✗ Ephemeral -Fantasy On Dark-
✗ Nightshade 🧁🧁🧁
✗ Hakuouki Edo Blossoms 🧁🧁🧁
✗ Amnesia Later 🧁🧁
✗ Amnesia Crowd 🧁🧁
✗ Brothers Conflict 🧁🧁


⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ BL ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆

✗ Dramatical Murder 🔥🔥🔥
✗ Dramatical Murder Reconnect 🔥🔥🔥
✗ Lamento -Beyond the Void- 🔥🔥🔥
✗ Togainu No Chi 🔥🔥
✗ Sweet Pool
✗ Sleepover 🔥🔥🔥
✗ Hadaka Shitsuji
✗ To Trust An Incubus 🔥🔥🔥
✗ Camp Buddy 🔥
✗ My Burning Heart 🔥
✗ Slow Damage 🔥🔥🔥
✗ Night/Shade: You're The Drug 🔥🔥
✗ Dear Monster 🔥

As the title says~

Kevin Penkin is an award winning Australian composer who composes for video games, film, the concert stage and anime.
He won Outstanding Achievement for a Vocal Theme at the 2013 Annual Video Game Music Awards for his song "I Race the Dawn".
Kevin debuted at the age of 18, collaborating on a Japanese video game with legendary Final Fantasy series' composer Nobuo Uematsu. The collaboration proved to be so successful, Kevin has now been in involved with Uematsu on four different video game projects.

In anime he has composed music for many anime titles.
Most notably the anime Made in Abyss was were his music first started to shine.
Made in Abyss won Best in Soundtrack in 2018.
Kevin's work in Tower of God won the anime award for Best Score in 2021.
His music has also received nominations for Best in Soundtrack and Best Score for Rising of the Shield Hero (season one and season three) Tower of God and Made in Abyss season two.

This is a list of anime featuring Kevin's musical works.
New titles will be added once it is confirmed Kevin has worked on them.

✔ high bishie percentage (>90% main cast) or main protagonist bishies
✔ very sharp linework/shading cause I'm nearsighted AF

All OVAS,ONA,Special, TV Special with Opening for AMQ, Famous or not!

(Openings being single, not part from TV series)

Part 1-10
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54788
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54790
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54792
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54793
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54795
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54797
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54798
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54800
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/61415

An up-to-date list with all otome game anime adaptations out there, counting every season and specials. Includes light novel/drama cd that turned in anime/game later like Brothers Conflict and Hamefura, but doesn't count manga that got an anime/game later like Vampire Knight and Ouran High School Host Club.

If I'm missing anything, please let me know!

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60848
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60854