Piofiore no Banshou ピオフィオーレの晩鐘 – Review / Summary

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In the 1920’s of Italy in a city called Burlone, the heroine Liliana is an orphaned girl who lives at a church with other orphans and a nun named Sophia. She also has a mysterious mark on her chest but has no idea why its there or what it means. She often leaves to go shopping outside the church but only stays in the “safe” area where the mafia groups agreed to not start any fights there. The parts of Italy is essentially “ruled” by different mafia groups called the Falzone, Viscounti, and Laoshu. Arc is the safest district while Vereno and Strano areas are dangerous.

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Variable Barricade – Taiga Isurugi

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Taiga (CV: Okamoto Nobuhiko)  is one of the suitors with the least amount of motivation to actually try and win Hibari’s heart. He loves to gamble and his favorite saying is to “win it all in one go”. However, his bad eating and sleeping habits don’t bode well with Hibari. He also goes out a lot which annoys Hibari even further. In addition, each time Hibari interacts with Taiga, they always argue.

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Variable Barricade – Ichiya Mitsumori

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Ichiya (CV: Toriumi Kousuke) is the so-called “flirt” of the candidates that continuously comes up with cliche catchphrases that don’t effect Hibari whatsoever. He is the most skilled in cooking and continuously conjures up special menus for Hibari for her every meal. He’ll make her something exotic or super fancy according to what he believes her tastes are. However, this ends up driving Hibari nuts when all she wants to do is eat normal food rather than this fancy stuff that Ichiya comes up with.

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Variable Barricade – Common Route/True Route + Final Thoughts

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Hibari lives in a rich household and is close with her butler who is basically her caretaker. She starts her first day of school at an all girl’s academy. After school, she encounters four mysterious men that all ask her to marry them. Super confused, Hibari is sent back home with her butler, Kasuga. She talks to her strict grandfather who tells her that he decided on these marriage candidates for her so that they have a man worthy of taking over the Tojo name. Hibari is completely against it but her grandfather is relentless and tells her she needs to face reality. So she’s taken to a villa where the four men are staying.

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