Kino's Journey is one of my favs of all time! Hope you enjoy it~

It does deal with darker themes. The tagline of the show, as halfcactus said, "the world is not beautiful, therefore it is."

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Ah, there's also the classic Rose of Versailles which has a movie adaptation (is gonna be on Netflix later this month): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_of_Versailles_(film)

I haven't watched it, but I plan to!

Re: Butterfly Lovers

I took a look at the list of adaptations and somehow can't find the version I watched there (idk if I just remembered the actors wrong or something). I'll get back to you on that!