The first otome visual novel that I played – in fact, the first visual novel at all – was Hakuouki, back on the PlayStation 3, when visual novels on console were a rare treat indeed. These days, we’re inundated with the genre, but Idea Factory, the publisher behind Hakuouki, have now released Homura: The Crimson Warriors, and it remains a treat when this publisher takes a stab at historical fiction. Hakuouki was an otome spin on the story of the Shinsengumi. Homura takes place a fair number of years beforehand, being set at the very tail end of the Sengoku…