The Road Home

How should I tell the story's opening?

A girl, abandoned by her own world, travels a great distance to a certain city.

When she's starving, freezing, destitute, with nothing to eat or drink, she collapses by the roadside and is rescued by the kindhearted male lead.

After a good meal, the girl falls in love with him at first sight. (Wait! Why under these circumstances...?)

The boy falls deeply in love with her too. (Where did that cause-and-effect come from?!)

From then on, the two of them live happily ever after. (How did we get to this twist?!?)

...Ahem, ahem! STOP! What kind of crappy opening is this?!

This is a proper daytime anime for young boys, full of love and justice, passion and youth, laughter and tears!

If you want a melodramatic romance, come back after eight!

Love at first sight, devotion, thunderous sparks, mountains crumbling and heaven and earth joining together? Forget all that!

We're a proper shonen manga full of love and justice, passion and youth, laughter and tears! (...Manga?!)

Anyone who got the wrong idea from that first paragraph, go stand in the corner and reflect on your mistake!

All right! I admit that this has nothing to do with the actual story!

It's just the author's rant because she didn't know how to start! (Get her!)

Anyway... this is for all ages and full of love and justice...

Fine, I've already said all that. It's a youth drama (probably...)

Definitely not a prime-time soap opera! Though maybe late-night young adult programming would be a better fit?

If you love this, come gather around!

If you want to see the daily life of the Death Weapon Meister Academy, come gather around!

If you want to see Symmetry Guy cry, throw a tantrum, and threaten to hang himself, come gather around! (What!!!)

If you want to see a beautiful girl who's innocent on the surface but secretly devious, come gather around!

If you want to see... (Enough!!!)

The serious blurb:

The story of a certain sorceress, abandoned by her own world,

who travels far and wide in search of a way home.

This world is merely one stop on the seasonal train making its long voyage through the universe.

After finding the "compass" that will show her the way, she is about to set off on her journey once more.