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August 18th, 2006, 09:01 pm
Kashimashi - Girl meets Girl
Nobuaki Nakanishi
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/5366/mainnu1.jpg
Links:
Home Site (japanese) (http://www.kasimasi.com/)
ANN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5835)
AniDB (www.anidb.info/a2843)
AnimeNFO (http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3135,vijqxa,kashimashi__gir.html)
License: None
Preview:
[Youtube][lofi] Opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7zKT4BBGZI)
Groups:
Kaze no Koe & Doremi
frozen-Layer Fansub & AnimeUnderground
SaiyaMan
Xabin
Anime Status: 12/12 [Complete]
Relations: None
Synapse:
Based on a manga by Yukimaru Katsura and Satoru Akahori, serialized in Monthly Dengeki Daioh.
Hazumu confessed his love to Yasuna, but she turned him down. To ease his heartbreak, he went to Mt. Kashimayama where he’d met her first. He lost his way in the mountain, and it got dark. He saw a big shooting star, and when he began to wish, he found something was wrong. It wasn’t a shooting star, but it was a falling space ship. He was involved in the crash. He managed to survive by the help of the alien. However, he became a girl due to the accident during the reconstruction of his body.
[Source: Animenfo]
Make note: this is a Shoujo Ai story. It is centered around the love between girls.
Well, I came at this one with a surprise. It was just by chance that I heard Paradox mention the name Kashimashi in the General Chatter thread and I decided to take a look at it. Let's start with the animation.
I found the animation to be very clean, but the faces are a little too round to be proportional to the bodies they are attached to. Perhaps it is because this anime has a slight chibi influence without going into chibi mode. Backdrops are a little disappointing, but you don't watch an anime for gorgeous backgrounds. you do it for the story line.
The opening (link found above) is oddly catchy; I found myself whistling it the just the other day. The background music is quite nice and fits the scenes quite well, though the main theme is well overplayed throughout the animation. Regardless the anime has some rather nice songs on the OST. If you like that classical sound, the ost is right up your ally.
Character development both does and does not occur in this animation. The reason because of this is revealed in the last few episodes. You can watch things progress and grow more awkward with time, yet it doesn't seem to be going in any real direction. The protagonists history really isn't touched all that much. Not until they quickly wrap it up in the last two episodes.
Story. I will start it off and say it gets a little heart-wrenching near the end; the love factor gets an A+. The storywritiers did a rather odd thing with this anime. They made a gender change on the protagonist early on. This leads to a lot of awkward situations I can assure. There already was a love triangle before the gender change occurred, so this leads to some confusion at the beginning. I did find the cross-gender humor quite funny.
Okay the good is now gone. Major flaws galore! First off, useless characters. Why the hell where there aliens incorporated into this show? They don't offer even the slightest contribution to the plot-line. So what if something occurred in the first episode where their presence was necessary? This doesn't mean they have to present themselves throughout the anime. The same goes for the teacher and the "I'm not going to present myself on-stage" character who's name I have already forgotten (or was it just not used?). Second, is the ending. They really didn't provide a real plausible reason, nor did they wrap it up properly. Lots of questions were left unanswered and it was done rather sloppy.
Did I like the anime, yes. Would I suggest it to someone else? Not unless they asked specifically for a romance anime.
Nobuaki Nakanishi
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/5366/mainnu1.jpg
Links:
Home Site (japanese) (http://www.kasimasi.com/)
ANN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5835)
AniDB (www.anidb.info/a2843)
AnimeNFO (http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3135,vijqxa,kashimashi__gir.html)
License: None
Preview:
[Youtube][lofi] Opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7zKT4BBGZI)
Groups:
Kaze no Koe & Doremi
frozen-Layer Fansub & AnimeUnderground
SaiyaMan
Xabin
Anime Status: 12/12 [Complete]
Relations: None
Synapse:
Based on a manga by Yukimaru Katsura and Satoru Akahori, serialized in Monthly Dengeki Daioh.
Hazumu confessed his love to Yasuna, but she turned him down. To ease his heartbreak, he went to Mt. Kashimayama where he’d met her first. He lost his way in the mountain, and it got dark. He saw a big shooting star, and when he began to wish, he found something was wrong. It wasn’t a shooting star, but it was a falling space ship. He was involved in the crash. He managed to survive by the help of the alien. However, he became a girl due to the accident during the reconstruction of his body.
[Source: Animenfo]
Make note: this is a Shoujo Ai story. It is centered around the love between girls.
Well, I came at this one with a surprise. It was just by chance that I heard Paradox mention the name Kashimashi in the General Chatter thread and I decided to take a look at it. Let's start with the animation.
I found the animation to be very clean, but the faces are a little too round to be proportional to the bodies they are attached to. Perhaps it is because this anime has a slight chibi influence without going into chibi mode. Backdrops are a little disappointing, but you don't watch an anime for gorgeous backgrounds. you do it for the story line.
The opening (link found above) is oddly catchy; I found myself whistling it the just the other day. The background music is quite nice and fits the scenes quite well, though the main theme is well overplayed throughout the animation. Regardless the anime has some rather nice songs on the OST. If you like that classical sound, the ost is right up your ally.
Character development both does and does not occur in this animation. The reason because of this is revealed in the last few episodes. You can watch things progress and grow more awkward with time, yet it doesn't seem to be going in any real direction. The protagonists history really isn't touched all that much. Not until they quickly wrap it up in the last two episodes.
Story. I will start it off and say it gets a little heart-wrenching near the end; the love factor gets an A+. The storywritiers did a rather odd thing with this anime. They made a gender change on the protagonist early on. This leads to a lot of awkward situations I can assure. There already was a love triangle before the gender change occurred, so this leads to some confusion at the beginning. I did find the cross-gender humor quite funny.
Okay the good is now gone. Major flaws galore! First off, useless characters. Why the hell where there aliens incorporated into this show? They don't offer even the slightest contribution to the plot-line. So what if something occurred in the first episode where their presence was necessary? This doesn't mean they have to present themselves throughout the anime. The same goes for the teacher and the "I'm not going to present myself on-stage" character who's name I have already forgotten (or was it just not used?). Second, is the ending. They really didn't provide a real plausible reason, nor did they wrap it up properly. Lots of questions were left unanswered and it was done rather sloppy.
Did I like the anime, yes. Would I suggest it to someone else? Not unless they asked specifically for a romance anime.