I thought so too. I mean, first off, I'm not a big historical fiction fan. And I'm not too fond of the Victorian age. And I've never been interested in liesurely pased character-focused romances. And although I find Jane Austen-based movies to be cute and I enjoy classic theater, I've never actually read Jane Austen and I don't read romances in general anyway, much less ones in historical settings dealing with class divisions and social pressure.

But dammit I just kind of fell in total love with this particular show. It was something in the execution... I'd say it's one of the best directed anime series I've ever seen. It's so subtle in the animation, and the handling of entire conversations through subtle facial expressions, and the minimalistic dialogue, the deft use of symbolism and themes, the way the character development is so understated yet so expansive, and the strict realism of the portrayal of historical London... it's one of those shows where the quality is so amazing that it makes me love it even though it's far from my typical choice of genre.

It probably helped that I didn't really know anything at all about it going in. So it captured me with the first episode by a sort of surprise attack thing.