Audience reviews
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GT3_gamer
My goodness, how do I even start?
First of all, I'm really glad for stacks recommendation and post forum of MyAnimeList. This is how I found out about this anime. Second, I want to show my gratitude for this studio because I always thought anime studios big or small always have at least 3 to 5 anime in their name but this studio only has two. Kudos to all of the animators and staff that work on this anime, you are all amazing.
Now let's start this review with animation. As expected from a retro anime, the animation is not that great but that is the charm of it. Even tho it looks rough, it reminds you that this anime aired in the early twenties. Even the aspect of the show using 3:4, that's when you know it's old. I expected it to be rough and I get it how it is.
Second, the OST. I love t…
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Ginban Kaleidoscope is a bittersweet romantic coming of age story about Tazusa, an arrogant figure skater looking to go be Japan's sole Olympic representative.
This show manages to do things that shows with much better budget, animation, and cast of characters fails to deliver, and that's character development. Pete Pumps, a ghost possessing Tazusa seems to just be some setup for a comedy, especially when you consider that Pete shares all the senses that Tazusa does. You'd think that most of the show would be the comedic moments of the manzai between Tazusa and Pete, as well as the occasional ecchi scenes where Pete--havingTazusa's senses--sees her naked.
Surprisingly, the show manages to develop a bond between Pete and Tazusa. Figure skating is still an important motif, especially pai…
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If you are looking for a decent Winter themed anime to go along with the PyeongChang event, congratulations! You found one.
Ginban Kaleidoscope was a rewatch for me. Once when it was airing and now many years later as a full marathon. The simplest way to describe it is as one of those shows that is definitely good enough to watch, but just wasn't quite good enough to enter the hall of anime fame. Thus as the years go by, Kaleidoscope fades into obscurity. A shame really, because in terms of actual story line this was one of the best shows of its season.
For one, the plot is fairly unique. You didn't really get a competent look at figure skating very much back then. And one coupled with an interesting and bittersweet romance no less. The character development is also very well done, wit…
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(Author's Note: This is an old review that I would have written differently now, but I might as well post it on here just because)
One thing you’ll learn upon leaving high school is that everything that happened during that time is utterly meaningless in the adult world. And unless you’re one of those heathens who married his highschool sweetheart without divorcing her in two years time, your first love is one of those things. Pretty soon, you’ll realize that it was nothing special other than being another small experience in your youth, move on, and then date that college chick that’s as smart as she is fun to be around.
A similar thing happened to me when I got started on my anime hobby. Back when I thought they were all the length of American sitcoms that went on longer than a roadtri…
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Ginban Kaleidoscope is a light-hearted with some serious undertones anime that has a long enough length to make it end on a higher note.
Story - 8
Since the synopsis tells you the story I won't bother typing it all out...However, I will say that what I do like about the story is that there are some twists and turns. There is competition, rightfully so, but it isn't overdramatic. That stuck out as it is superior to most teenage anime in this regard. I will say some of the drama with Pete is pointless...but it can pass ;P
Art - 7
I can't be too tough at the time of this release. The animation-particularly in the eyes, is still pretty and bright. It is colorful, and the animations for the skating competitions is always really fluid. That is impressive in itself.
Sound - 6
Nothing really st…
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After the first few episodes of this anime, I couldn't help but be incredibly annoyed at Tazusa. She was incredibly irritating, and the way she dealt with having a ghost possess her was so ridiculously stupid I couldn't help but think "God, why is she doing such a thing?" Here's what she did that pissed me off.
Constantly talking out loud to Pete while in a public place.
No one would ever do this. One reason being the fear of being treated like a schizophrenic, and two, because it's really, reeaally dumb. At one point she gets him to help her out with a test, and she just keeps talking and talking and talking to him. She also consistently yells at him to shut up, while talking to her friends and coworkers.
Honestly, the fact that a ghost is possessing her isn't even the most unrealisti…
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If you asked me to describe Ginban Kaleidoscope in one word, I'd say, "Fantastic and unique," because one word really isn't enough to describe GK. It sets itself apart with a deep and complex story and setting, and while the unusual relationship between the two main characters lends itself more easily to comedy than romance, it ultimately makes the romance that much more meaningful.
The story focuses on Sakurano Tazusa, a top female ice skater from Japan, and Pete Pumps, the ghost of a Canadian stunt pilot who involuntarily ends up possessing her after crashing his plane during an exhibition. Hilarity ensues as Tazusa unsuccessfully attempts to rid herself of the uninvited guest who shares her body and her five senses and whom only she can hear, trying everything from occult rituals to ph…
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Recently I've been really desperate to watch an anime; because it's been a long time since i watched one. I look here and there just to find the right anime i could really enjoy. These few days I've been watching 'Ginban Kaleidoscope' and i was satisfied. I watched these for 2 day because it only got 12 episodes but honestly i really hoped there was more.
The story was about romance, comedy but more on sports. The reason why i like these anime because it teaches moral lessons; about having a fighting spirit, having our own principle in life, having good sportsmanship, and learning to live life to the fullest. And what inspires me most on the story was when the protagonist realizes that popularity nor award is not that matters but by reaching your goal in life.
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This is one refreshing one...It was the first one i watched based on rink skaters so the idea was quite appealing to me. The sports culture is aptly portrayed in this one most of the time. The story is touching..comical scenes are downright funny especially the sequence at the end of the second episode. The music is average but the show doesnt really need to depend on it.
This is a cute one...do watch it..warms you up really.
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Being from a cold weather climate winter sports have always been a part of my life, and that includes figure skating. What little girl from my generation didn’t admire the grace and beauty of Katarina Witt and not want to emulate her? Ice skating anime is pretty rare and to my knowledge this is the only one I know of. It’s quite good and should appeal to almost anyone, even if you don’t know a double axel from a triple toe loop.
Ginban Kaleidoscope revolves around a young Japanese skater, Tazusa Sakurano whose dream is to make it to the 2006 Winter Games in Torino. She is one of the top skaters in Japan but has the unfortunate tendency to fall in big events. After another disappointment while at an event in Canada in which she suffers a bad fall she suddenly finds herself possessed by the…
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*Goddamn it. It has been a year since I watched this anime for the first time, and I still can't get over it... So I had to watch it all over again to re-live such a beautiful story that didn't let me sleep the night I finished it, and even now, I still I can't get over it...!! This is one of those animes that make you wish you were a multi-millionaire so you could sponsor animes you really love! I wish a could sponsor this one for a second season... :(
*Put shortly: watch the first episode, and you will instantly fall in-love with this anime. I guarantee it! Just be warned: it doesn't matter who you are, what gender you are, this anime will make you cry a lot and you will have a hard time falling asleep that night, and you will wish you were a multi-millionaire so you could sponsor it fo…
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For every anime where a plucky amateur becomes the star of the competition, for every anime where love and peace makes the hero or heroine new friends, and for every anime where dreams come true, there is Ginban Kaleidoscope; a bittersweet tale about reaching for your dreams and finding that winning isn't everything.
The strongest aspect of Ginban is easily story. Though the premise is hokey, the execution is flawless and handled exceptionally. Most tales of this nature often fail by lending themselves to comedy. Ironically, Ginban does that, but the jokes are just pointed enough that they sell. Not every joke, such as the running gag of Mika thinking Tazusa is yelling at her when she's yelling at Pete, hits the mark, but the dialogue between Tazusa and Pete is full of zingers and visual…
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This anime scores good points all round from my perspective. The story is good and the characters are pretty well connected with each other.
The chosen sport of skating is very well done by the animation studio and they have got the correct "feel" for the sport, it feels elegant and smooth as if the viewer was actually on ice him/her self which gave the series a slight edge to other sports anime.
The characters support each other well in this series and brings out the struggle the main characters feel to achieve the best they can on the rink with the added pressure of being a media scape-goat and the burden of being an Olympic representative.
It is really the sound that gave this series a 9 out of 10, the music fitted perfectly with the series, especially the jazz parts, and gave it an ele…
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i thought, for a sports anime, that it was pretty good. the ending was kind of loose and it could have been better (but i haven't relly seen an ending i like yet). personally, i LOVE ice skating so that's probably what attracted me to this anime, plus the front cover looked cute.
i like how the guy relates ice skating to the flying plane thing (can't remember what it's called) and i would have cried at the end, if i wasn't at my friend's house =]
overall, it's a pretty good anime, and i do recommend it to people who want to watch a shorter anime and comedy type thing
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Ginban Kaleidoscope is a sports anime series about Tazusa Sakurano, a sixteen year old Japanese figure skater with an attitude problem and Pete Pumps, a Canadian stunt pilot of the same age. Since they're both from other sides of the earth, how are these two related? They share the same body, that's how. Well, not exactly. Concidentally, at the beginning Tazusa and Pete have a competition in the same place, at the same time, and, at the same time they both mess up. While Tazusa's mistake was minor, Pete's cost him his life. However, due to unknown circumstances, Pete is unable to go to heaven and falls back to earth landing in Tazusa's body, trapt there for one hundred days...
Story
I'm not really one for sports anime, but the fact that Ginban Kaleidoscope is a romance, or something of a…
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The Story isn't really much interesting, because I didn't even know that she should win the Turino Cup olympics, It kinda revolve around the 100 Days till later in the story, I give it 8/10
The Art is pretty much, well it's very good, but then...In some episodes, Tazusa's Arms are longer than it should be before! So I'll give it 7/10
The Sound, is actually, OUTSTANDING! The opening and the ending theme song is really what gave Ginban Kaleidoscope, its name. The opening song is Focused on the Ginban (literally meaning: Figure Skating) part, we see in the opening theme: 'Dual', Tazusa and Pete Skating, while in the ending theme: 'Energy' we just see a Kaleidoscope well, make Ginban Kaledioscope Complete, xD so 10/10
The Characters was alright, though some of the character wasn't really fo…
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For a sports anime, it wasn’t that bad. I’m not really a fan of sports-themed anime, but Ginban Kaleidoscope had another aspect to it that I liked. Comedy.
Comedy is probably Ginban Kaleidoscope strongest asset. Every episode had something you can laugh about. Some gags were repetitive, such as Tazusa’s inability to restrain herself from talking to Pete in public. It’s either people think she’s crazy (cause she looks like she’s talking to herself) or when she says something mean to Pete, people around her think that they’re talking to them and in turn they get hurt (Specially Tazusa’s coach and her friend Mika). Tazusa’s tomato binges are also something to laugh about.
The characters were OK. Pete was likable, but I’m not sure…
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