Mami Horikoshi

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.

The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the deaths and injuries among the villagers' relatives. A elementary schoolgirl named Eiko transfers from the city of Yokohama to this village. Eiko happens to have blue eyes from her American father, and her classmates make no attempt to rein in their bullying. Other than Eiko's homeroom teacher Akiko, even the teachers view Eiko the same way that the children do. However, a boy named Kenta views Eiko more with curiosity than with hostility. The children's lives change as the injured father of one of Kenta's classmates returns from the battlefield and news of more casualties arrives in the village.

The truth behind the well-known Grimm’s Tales is cruel and full of blood and lust! Eps#1 “Hansel & Gretel”: Two brothers lost in the woods were actually criminals… Eps#2 “The Blue Beard”: The true character of the Blue Beard was a cannibal who was unable to tolerate his wife’s adultery. Eps#3 “Cinderella”: Actually Cinderella had abnormal affections toward the prince.

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