The Bakumatsu period—the volatile gap between the Shogunate era and the Meiji restoration—is where Chizuru Yukimura finds herself after traveling to Kyoto to find her missing father. She stumbles into the orbit of the Shinsengumi, the warriors tasked with preserving the shogunate's fading power, and gets drawn into their struggles against both the Emperor's forces and strange demons that have no explanation. The Shinsengumi are hiding something beyond the battles. Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom is a compilation of the Hakuoki visual novel series.