A kid runs from his abusive master and finds a woman in a forbidden tomb, and somehow that accident becomes the most sincere love story anime has ever told. The show keeps separating them through circumstance, keeps forcing them back together, and by the fifth reunion you stop rolling your eyes because you realize the repetition is the point, love isn't a climax, it's a choice made over and over. Based on Jin Yong's novel but honest in a way adaptations usually aren't, it treats their romance like the only thing in the world that matters, and by the end it convinces you it actually does.

Youka is a thirteen-year-old boy whose uncle, Kakusei, sets him on the martial arts path he himself followed by sending him to study at Zenshinkyou. Mistreated there, Youka runs away and comes across a Forbidden Tomb, where he meets a beautiful young woman named Shouryuujo. Before long she accepts him as her student in the techniques of the Koboha, and the two begin an adventure shaped by both martial arts and love. The TV series runs 26 episodes and blends adventure, drama and romance.