What exactly is an otome game? Well, that's what I'll be talking about in today's blog post! Although the term was originally used for any Japanese games targeted towards women, that's changed over time. Now the term is only used specifically for dating sims targeted towards women. This is because all otome games were considered dating sims; even if they weren't. Some of the games were just targeted towards women without any way to actually date the characters. Others just happened to have a lot of pretty male characters without any way to date them. So to keep this from happening, new terms were create so people could tell them apart from the dating sims. This may seem familiar, since Twisted Wonderland is not considered an otome game. Even though it has a lot of attractive characters, you can't date any of them. So it isn't an otome game. As always, I hope you all enjoyed this blog post! I wanted to talk about this because I've seen it mentioned a few times before, and I wanted to clear up any confusion you all may have about the topic. As a little bonus, here's a picture of Lilia Vanrouge. Enjoy!