Futakoi



Futakoi is a 2004 anime and visual novel series created by Mutsumi Sasaki. It tells the story of a boy named Nozomu Futami who goes back to his home town, moving in near a shrine. This shrine contains a stone, which, according to legend, turned two twin girls into birds. They chose to turn into birds because they were both in love with a man who would not pick one or the other. Soon Nozumu inherits the same problem, winding up with his own 12-girl, 6-sets-of-twins, harem.

In 2005, a 13 episode anime spin off, and later a manga, titled Futakoi Alternative was made. While this series contains the same characters as the original, it has a different story line and continuity altogether.

This series provides examples of:

 * Alternate Continuity: From Futakoi Alternative.
 * Battle Butler: The Sakurazaki sisters's butler.
 * Childhood Marriage Promise: Nozomu and the Ichijou twins.
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Each set of twins have at last one change in coloring in their outfits so they can be told apart.
 * Cool Old Guy: The Sakurazaki sisters's butler.
 * A Dog Ate My Homework: Nozomu has a similar problem with a goat constantly eating his homework, and no one believing him.
 * Girlish Pigtails: Rara and Ruru both have these.
 * Love Dodecahedron: Nozomu, his 12-girl harem, their crushes/fanclub... It gets complicated
 * Meganekko: Both of the Chigusa sisters, as well as Mai Momoi.
 * No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Nozumu. In the first episode, he tries helping the Sakurazaki sisters, only to get his ass kicked.
 * Ojou: The Sakurazaki sisters.
 * Pinky Swear: Done by Nozomu and the Ichijou sisters as children, agreeing that he would marry both of them.
 * School Uniforms Are the New Black: Some of the twin sets.
 * Sibling Yin Yang: All sets of twins, to one degree or another
 * Tenchi Solution: How the anime ends.
 * Themed Harem: The whole point.
 * Token Mini Moe: The Hinagiku sisters, though there are two of them, fit this trope
 * Twin Banter
 * The Unfavorite: Ichijou Kaoruko hides her feelings from her sister because she is this.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: The Ichijou sisters.
 * Unlucky Everydude: Nozumu.
 * Unwanted Harem