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1	[[quoteright:264:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GoldenDays_08_5536.jpg]]
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3	''Golden Days'' is a shoujo manga with [[YaoiGenre boys' love]] undertones created by Shigeru Takao. It was serialized in ''Magazine/HanaToYume'' from 2005 to 2007, and collected into eight volumes.
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5	The story is about Soma Mitsuya, who cares only about his violin and his hospitalized grandfather. One night his grandfather’s condition suddenly worsens, an earthquake hits, and Mitsuya finds himself lost and alone in Japan of 1921. Jin, a childhood friend of his grandfather, mistakes Mitsuya for his grandfather and takes Mitsuya home.
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8	!!Contains these tropes:
9	* BigFancyHouse
10	* BittersweetEnding: Mixed with EarnYourHappyEnding for some characters.
11	* ButNotTooForeign
12	* CoolBigSis: Yuriko
13	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Yoshimitsu's chessboard as well as several photographs throughout the series.]]
14	* DidNotGetTheGirl
15	* DespairEventHorizon: almost all of the main characters at some point.
16	** [[spoiler:Yuriko in particular after one of her sons dies in the war.]]
17	* DomesticAbuse: Kei's father.
18	* DontYouDarePityMe: Ubukata Matsuri to Aiko.
19	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:By the time Mitsuya returns to his time every single person (excluding Yoshimitsu) he met in the past is dead - which is all the more sad, since there was a possibility they would still be alive because he only went about 70 years back in time.]]
20	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Tsuyuko.
21	* IdenticalGrandson: Mitsuya and his grandfather are identical.[[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], because Mitsuya actually is Yuriko's biological greatgrandson, not Yoshimitsu's.]]
22	* InSeriesNickname: ''Knight''(Mitsuya/Yoshimitsu), ''Bishop''(Aiko), ''King''(Jin) and ''Queen''(Yuriko)
23	* MyBelovedSmother: Mitsuya's mom is really protective.
24	* ReplacementSibling: Aiko
25	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Mitsuya thinks this is why he went back in time. [[spoiler: Though it takes him a very long time to figure out what event he was supposed to change.]]
26	* TheAtoner: Kei
27	* TheRoaringTwenties
28	* TimeTravel
29	* TimeTravelRomance: between Kei and Setsu & [[HoYay Jin and Mitsuya]].
30	* TraumaticHaircut: [[AxCrazy Aiko's mother]] cuts off her hair to make her look like her [[ReplacementSibling dead son]].
31	* UnrequitedLove: Jin, first for Mitsuya's grandpa and later for Mitsuya himself.[[spoiler: Though it might not count as completely unrequited by the last volume.]]
32	* WorthLivingFor:
33	** [[spoiler:Knowing that Mitsuya will be born in Japan in the ''future'' is the only thing that keeps Yuriko from giving up on the world after her son dies in WWII. ]]
34	** [[spoiler:This also keeps Jin going during the war.]]

Context Manga / GoldenDays