[anime was a mistake][cw: incest] crunchyroll's batting average for recommending anime to me continues to hover around .000

I'm confident that this was written in an attempt to win some kind of "how close can you get to incest without it technically being incest" contest

actually this is a very, like. old trope in japanese romantic comedies

and i do mean centuries old

it's not great, but it's established

congratulations, that's the worst thing I've learned today

the "i didn't realize i was related to this family and now they want to marry their daughter off to me"

I'd say "why" but there's some pretty terrible tropes in Western tradition too

also I scrolled down and it's actually worse than this summary

Yeah, like... even if you argue the main couple isn't technically incest (they were switched at birth, so his birth parents are her adoptive parents and vice versa), he does have a sister, who is introduced complaining/fearing that she's losing her brother and then promptly sitting down to read NBR incest manga just so we're clear about her motivation here.

according to the character descriptions they were both raised by each other's birth parents

OH and the email subject line: Raised by the Wrong Family. Marrying Back Into the Right One.

Because while we're at it let's devalue non-bio families

also like just to put another layer of what the fuckery on this, they're asking us to accept opposite gender switched at birth?

like unless one of these kids is trans, the families... would have noticed, surely