Meiji Tokyo Renka

Mei Ayazuki is just your ordinary, everyday high-school girl. That is until one night, when the moon is full and red, she’s transported through time to the Meiji Period by Charlie, a self-proclaimed magician.

She ends up in a strange, Meiji-era ‘Tokyo’ where the existence of ghosts is accepted. Led by Charlie, she finally arrives at the Rokumeikan. There, waiting for her to arrive, are the historical figures Ougai Mori, Shunsou Hishida, Otojirou Kawakami, Kyouka Izumi, Gorou Fujita, Yakumo Koizumi, and Tousuke Iwasaki.

Whilst interacting with these men, she discovers she is a Tamayori - someone who can see ghosts - a skill that is highly valued in the Meiji Period. Due to these powers, her relationship with the men begins to change… As she gets to know these handsome men in a new era she just can’t get used to, a love begins to grow within her.

Will Mei be able to return to her time? What will become of her love - a love that crosses the boundaries of time and space?

(Source: Honey's Anime)

Hishida, Shunsou Main

KENN Japanese

Mori, Ougai Main

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Ayazuki, Mei Main

Morohoshi, Sumire Japanese

Izumi, Kyouka Main

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Fujita, Gorou Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Kawakami, Otojirou Main

Toriumi, Kousuke Japanese

Iwasaki, Tousuke Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Koizumi, Yakumo Main

Tachibana, Shinnosuke Japanese

Shoukyousai, Tenichi Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Shirayuki Supporting

Tanezaki, Atsumi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kishida, Takuma Producer

Oomori, Shinji Producer

Daichi, Akitarou Director

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Jan 16, 2022

mochitokidoki

Recommended

I honestly made an account just to write a review on this anime. I think this anime is really underrated. It's beautiful, bittersweet, and really deserves a lot more attention. This 12 episode anime made me laugh and cry. That takes a lot to do for me because I usually just smile/grin, but parts of this anime actually made me laugh out loud. I'm a little sad about the ending, but I'm happy with her decision. Throughout this anime, I see a constant theme of "finish what you started." For that, I understand her decision. Hoping there will be a second season. I would really ... like to see that she finished what she had to do in her modern life and go back to that era.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Aug 12, 2025

RegalFlare

Mixed Feelings

This was an.... interesting show.

Its painfully obvious that its based of a otome game. Just by watching the opening you know what you are in for.
The show isn't bad, but it really needs more time to explore these characters. Twelve episodes is really not enough time to tell all of the characters stories. We are introduced to 9 characters very quickly and we don't get a lot of time to be with them. Its too congested with characters. I feel like to fix this problem you would ether give the show more episodes or cut out some of the characters. I know there's ... two movies, but from what I understand they are based on other dating routes in the game. Also, to watch the movies its a bit of an adventure to find. To save you the trouble, they are both on YouTube. They are only in Japanese, you will have to turn on the CC (close captions).

Overall, the show is fine. Nothing to crazy. Its a chill watch. I'm not a huge fan on the ending for the show. Actually it made me mad. But no spoilers here.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 10, 2023

ScarityNight

Not Recommended

I'm very disappointed with this anime.

The whole "A Girl can see ghosts and is sent back in time to meet historical figures." is a very interesting premise. Unfortunately, they barely did anything interesting with this set up even toward the end. After the first 2 episodes, the entire premise was poorly explained and then was toss aside in favor of normal daily slice-of-life-with-the-occasional-funny-moments anime. Even when they tried something with the whole Tamayori, the thing just ended the minute it got slightly interesting. Seriously why even bother showing a girl who can see ghosts, how it negatively affected her life, and how there are ghosts ... within this world where they need an entire division to deal with it only to have like 4 disappointing episodes about it. It's kinda a theme with most episodes, something mildly interesting happened only for the payoff to be a disappointment and could have you go "Why?".

This anime was also over-bloated with characters while under-developed most of the actual main casts and their relationship with the MC. Worse still, the anime kept introducing new side-characters with very little or no significance to the story or were only there for 1 gag/flirt with MC then never appeared again even within that episode. Though one of the few good things I do acknowledge is that the MC wasn't a damsel in distress (aside from that one episode) like most reverse harem anime and that she actually went out of her way to accomplish something.

Overall, the best way I can summarize this whole anime is "A girl got sent back in time and lived out her daily normal life in that era, oh and she can see ghost but that's not important since only few episodes gonna touch on that subject."
Truly disappointing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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