This one runs on the specific dizziness of being the only person in a ballroom who can see what's standing behind the guests. Mei Ayazuki falls out of a crimson full moon into the Rokumeikan, and the show immediately makes her Tamayori sight feel less like a superpower and more like a social problem: everyone is waltzing, and she is watching the Misty Hour fill the room with mononoke. The romance is the whole engine here, no apologies, and it's smart enough to build each suitor out of the actual man's reputation, so Mori Ougai gets his infamous manju-chazuke and Izumi Kyouka gets his skittish, easily spooked nerves. It's Meiji Japan as a costume drama where the costumes are real historical writers, painters and actors, and the crush is on their eccentricities. You come for the reverse harem. You stay because Mei never once pretends she isn't hungry, homesick, or terrified.

On a night when the full moon glows red, high school student Mei Ayazuki is sent back through time by Charlie, a self-described magician. She wakes in Meiji-era Tokyo, a version of the city where ghosts are an accepted part of life. Lost and bewildered, she is led by Charlie to the Rokumeikan, a grand ballroom filled with powerful officials and famous historical figures such as Ougai Mori and Kyouka Izumi. Between dusk and dawn, spirits called mononoke appear, and Mei learns she is a tamayori, a person able to see them, a gift prized in this era. As she adjusts to an unfamiliar life, her power changes her relationships with these men, and romance starts to grow. Hanging over it all is the question of whether she can ever return to her own time.