Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku: Eureka Evrika

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Synopsis

It is the summer of 1907. 15-year-old Momokawa Inako lives in the Fushimi area of Kyoto, and is the second daughter of a sake brewer. Nothing she does ever comes out right, and she receives a scolding from her father every day. Her only relief is the trust she places in her prayers to the gods. One day while at Fushimi Inari shrine, she meets a freewheeling young man named Sakamoto Kihachi. He rejects the gods, and boasts of the incoming age of electricity. The topic of marriage suddenly comes up in Inako`s household. Her father is one-sidedly making all the decisions for her, and Inako is about to give up hope. It is then that Kihachi draws out Inako`s true feelings of wanting to run away from her family. The only way to stop her marriage is to find an unusual book called the "Electricity Catalog". The book is a prediction book about electricity that Kihachi wrote when he was a child, but his older brother Seiroku took the book, and its current whereabouts are unknown. Inako and Kihachi together go in search of the book across Kyoto and Shiga prefectures.