Otome

I do not believe this reveals the grand truth about otome games as genre or form, but I think it still reveals a truth.

Patterns of protection and care during a crisis in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and Idea Factory's Collar x Malice.

Otome, a genre targeted to teenage girls and young women, often shows an unspoken paternalism in what it deems as proper representations of its subject matter for its audience. It’s most obvious