英和和英

名詞

otome (plural otomes)

1. Ellipsis of otome game.
   • 2014, Nitali Joshi, “'May I know who is on the line?': Technology consumption, mobile telephony and the gender question”, in SubVersions: A Journal of Emerging Research in Media and Cultural Studies‎, volume 2, number 2, archived from the original on 9 November 2022, page 44:

     While acknowledging that dating games in Japan were long confined to men and boys, these otomes are described by their makers as a response to the identification of a potent market considering the widespread use of mobile phones amongst young women.

   • 2022, Kieran Frank, Christmas in a Safe Room, unnumbered page:

     I have gay ones, too, but the otomes are more popular, so they tend to be of higher quality.

   • 2024, Elizabeth Kopriva Hedström, quoting Darrel, “A brief study of indie otome developers: Who is making indie otome games, and why?”, in Halmstad University‎, archived from the original on 18 June 2025, page 23:

     Also, otomes featuring BL [boys' love] generally let you pick the gender of the protagonist, or leave the gender vague.