What Does This Mean?
A Japanese word for a maiden or young woman, used in fandom for female-oriented media, especially otome games: story-driven romance games aimed at women in which the player works toward a relationship with a male character.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""She spent the weekend replaying an otome game to see every route.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia explains that otome gemu literally means maiden game, that the label took hold around 2001-2002 when female gaming-magazine readers called themselves otome, and that Koei's Angelique (1994, Super Famicom) is generally considered the first such game. Recent term; the bare word otome in English is mostly shorthand for the genre.
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