"Even if this way is a thorny path, this is my choice. I’ll regret nothing.”
Kiyoko Ranman is a story about a lady who keeps acting with pride as a daughter of Samurai family and her faithful love with her childhood friend.
It’s 1895 and Japan is riding high on the country’s recent victory in the Sino-Japanese War. Though raised by her parents and grandmother to take special pride in her warrior ancestry, Kudo Kiyoko, the daughter of a family of former samurai, lives a modest life. Kiyoko’s childhood friend Arima Sota is a doctor who has watched over her since she was born. The two were raised like brother and sister.
But when Kiyoko’s father is arrested and falsely imprisoned in an embezzlement case, everything is suddenly turned upside down. Labeled the daughter of a corrupt teacher, Kiyoko and her family are forced to take drastic measures. Arima bows his head and asks the wealthy merchant Shibusawa Yahiko for financial assistance to save the family. No one could ever have imagined that this action would change Kiyoko’s future in such a drastic way.
This tale of “love and pride” hinges on a daughter of samurai who lived in the Meiji Period, her childhood friend whose love for her is unending, and a business tycoon who is a rank amateur when it comes to matters of romance.


明治２８年、日清戦争の勝利に沸く日本。そんな中、元士族の娘・九堂潔子は、両親や祖母から、武家としての誇りを教えられながら、慎ましく生きていました。そんな潔子を、生まれた時から見守り続けてきた幼馴染で医師の有馬蒼太。二人は兄妹のように育ちました。そんな中、横領事件で潔子の父が逮捕されたことで事態は一変します。言われなき罪で投獄されてしまう父。汚職教師の娘というレッテルを貼られる潔子たち家族には手立てもなく…。蒼太は「金で救い出してくれ」と豪商・渋澤弥彦に頭を下げにいきます。そのことがきっかけで、潔子の運命を大きく変えることになるとは、誰も知る由もなく…。明治を生きた武士の娘と、その娘を愛し続けた幼馴染の男、そして愛に不器用な豪商の男が織りなす“愛と誇り”の物語。