Adabana Odd Tales

Adabana Odd Tales is a visual novel about Shirohime, a girl who wakes in a dark forest with no memory. When a monster attacks her, a boy named Kurofude cuts it down with a brush he wields like a sword. He recognizes her as Shirohime, though she does not recognize him.

Storybook realms

Kurofude tells Shirohime that they are in Adabana, a realm of illustrated books whose tales disappear like dreams when readers wake. The two once traveled through these story realms together, finding and correcting distortions in their tales. Shirohime accepts his explanation and opens a dilapidated copy of Hanasaka Jiisan, its pages riddled with worm-eaten holes. The book glows and carries them into its fairy-tale world.

Kurofude and Shirohime

Kurofude is a calm, collected boy dressed in black. He uses the brush from his brush case to restore missing text in illustrated books, and sometimes wields it as a sword against enemies. He once corrected distorted tales with Shirohime.

Shirohime wears a white kimono and has lost her memories. Kurofude says she used to guide the correction of distorted tales. She can catch the bookworms that eat words from illustrated books and draw the eaten words out as ink. She is modest and softhearted.

Characters from the tales

The story realms include characters from familiar tales:

• Hanasaka Jiisan: A gentle old man who lives quietly with his good-natured wife in a small village. He was never blessed with children.
• Otohime: Ruler of the Dragon Palace beneath the sea. She appears attractive and mysterious, but can be prim and blunt; she says she has never been unhappy.
• Urikohime: A quick-witted young girl from a mountain village whose precocious, teasing remarks often throw Shirohime off.
• Momotaro: A young man born from a giant peach floating down a river. Righteous and gallant, he sets out to slay the oni making life difficult for the people.

Restore the books

Bookworms are strange creatures resembling a cross between goldfish and catfish. When they eat important parts of a book's story, it can no longer progress. Shirohime turns them into ink by touching them, and Kurofude uses that ink to restore the words and return the illustrated books to their original form.