I am not the most well read when it comes to older romantic stories, but I feel Itou Hachi's stories feel like they come from another era. I mean, they have gay marriage, women in masculine jobs, and fox ears (because the author likes fox ears.) And, of course, it's a manga with a modern art-style.
But, the way that a lot of the stories focus on a young woman or girl falling in idealized, chaste love with an older, wealthier person, the familial matchmaking, the upper class focus, the 19th to early 20th century technology; it feels like an early romance novel.
It is strangely jarring, to read modern yuri manga with this sort of nostalgia for old-fashioned romances (it is something I think comes through also in Hachi's author's notes). It is interesting to read, despite not fitting my tastes.
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