Audience reviews
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AnimeIsAMistake7
Am I the only one that watched this and thought 'god is dead and we killed him'? This isn't some brave subversive artistic philosophical anime about the nature of romance, this is an insane delusion. 'Beauty' is just about the farthest word from what I would use to describe it. Anime like these are why we don't deserve good things.
If you've ever watched to catch a predator or any police or journalist interview/interrogation with a pedophile, you will notice how the predators' explanations and justifications sound very similar to the themes and points in this show. In fact, this show was really just a pedophile's depraved justifications made manifest. With every subsequent episode it only got worse. They try to argue why an underage person is 'actually really mature for their age', handw…
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Koi Kaze isn't your average anime. It hits you right in the feels, with a depth of emotion that's hard to find anywhere else. The story itself is intense, but it's the characters that really shine. You get this real sense of their internal struggles, their hopes, their fears.
And the music? Don't even get me started! It perfectly complements the mood, from the soft, melancholic pieces to the ones that swell up during the more dramatic moments. It's like the soundtrack is living and breathing with the characters.
Everything about Koi Kaze just comes together perfectly. It's beautiful, it's heartbreaking, it's unforgettable. Just be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster, because this one will stay with you long after the credits roll.
But hey, that's just my two cents. This anime isn…
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I know that my rating may seem exaggerated but it's really not. The story? Inexistent. Art? Disgusting. Sound? Obnoxious. Character? NANI? There's no character development. Enjoyment? None but I just can't ever drop a short series, I finish em all.
Overall it's trash.
Whoever thinks that this is good, you haven't seen anything good. The moment the girl understands that she's in love, nothing good has happened yet. Her brother has been an asshole to her the whole time until then and on his side, he fell in love with her underage body and that slave-like culture of japanese women, that's all. They haven't had much time together yet and she's just been doing everything at home and he thinks she looks good, that's all.
There's no actual relationship being developed here. It's just 2 badly w…
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Welp...this is going to be a controversial review. Yet, I feel I have to write it. I heard that Koi Kaze was a very beautiful and moving romance, so I put it on my watch list. I just finished "His and Her Circumstances", and I loved that one so much I wanted to start a new romance anime. Koi Kaze isn't exactly what I went in expecting.
Can a talented artist make any foul subject beautiful? That's one of the things Charles Baudelaire experimented with in Flowers of Evil. Within that collection, there is a poem called "Une Charogne" or "The carcass". The poem was called indecent and grotesque upon release because it vividly describes a rotting female corpse and describes the corpse in sexual terms. The speaker isn't at all repulsed because he accepts that death comes for us all. Even the m…
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This anime is one of the worst I've ever seen. It provides us with a story about a dude who is sexually attracted to his clearly underage sister, and it follows their relationship of living together after being apart for so many years. I really don't mind that the story takes on taboo themes, the only problem is that it does a terrible job with them.
The characters start out fine. Koshiro, the older brother, is lonely and still living with his dad and he hasn't accomplished much with his life. Nanoka, the underage little sister, is bright, cheerful, and wants to spend time with her older brother after being reunited with him after so long. The father is old and is completely oblivious to what is going on between them, and so they start to spend time with each other and the lonely older b…
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I approached Koi Kaze with an open mind towards the incestuous relationship between Koshiro and Nanako and found that I just can't understand why people are saying it's a masterpiece. I pretty much forced myself to watch through all thirteen episodes. Of course, it wasn't the incest that really ruined the anime for me, but the, excuse my language, shitty character that Koshiro was.
The anime yells out if not, slams it to our faces on how society frowns upon incestuous relationahips. Koshiro, who in my opinion was a spoiled brat when his childhood was shown and was also very immature for his age throughout the entire show, succumbs to his "feelings" to Nanako. Let's be honest though, if any other young high school girl had gone with him to the amusement park, the story would be about a man…
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Did you guys even watch the anime. What's with everyone calling it "beautiful" , lets ignore the taboo subject for a moment. The art was ugly, Koshiro looked like the pleasure face meme half the time and I couldn't stop laughing. Nanoka looked like your basic moe girl and to that one reviewer who said she was a realisitc portrayal of a 15 year old, I hope you never get close enough to an actual 15 year old to find out they are not like this at all. There was a scene of a bicycle rolling down the street and the wheels weren't moving someone kept moving it forward each frame but it had NO animation done except moving from one part of the screen to another. The person's legs didn't even move. It was so embarrassing.
Now lets move onto sound, you can sum of Koshiro's character with "grunts a…
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*Might contain very minor spoilers*
I just watched this show in a marathon and felt I had to write something about it. Most reviews have said what I feel, but I want to add a couple of things.
My large Point is; This story is for adults (or at least kids 15 or older).
It takes a mature mind to understand the complexity of the feelings conveyed in this anime (and manga).
I think it's perfectly fine for someone younger than that to watch it, but I really don't think they will understand the depth and agony.
And agony there is. I was in something close to physical pain, watching most of the series. A big lump in my throat, throbbing of the heart, tears burning and sometimes spilling over.
Any person with empathy would feel the same, watching Koshiro being tormented by the feelings he do…
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.... how do I start ... ok this a non-spoiler anime, so I am going to review it from that point of view. forgive my bad grammar its 2:30am and I feel I need to write this before I take a nap ...
Now this may surprise you but, this is one of the most enjoyable anime's I have ever seen, this compared to over the top action, acrobatics ninjas, boob flying, comedy, ecchi ridden anime's, why you ask ... very simple ... because of the characters !!!!! DAMN they where voiced (I suggest watching this subbed), written and completely orchestrated so well it completely kept me on the edge of my seat through out .. and NOT a lot of anime will do that ...
firstly the characters: we got our typical older brother Koshiro, 27 years old, seems lost in his job and In his love life just recently been dum…
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I for one am a person that likes to judge a situation based on my own personal experiences, but how far can I judge a scenario based on MY OWN experiences? The more I look into many tropes, the more I begin to realize that my own incentives on a situation can be appallingly naive and to truly understand certain scenario's, you truly need to see the bigger picture. Koi Kaze is one show where none of my personal incentives and experiences could have prepared me for its outcome.
Perhaps it is Koi Kaze's brutal honesty on the subject matter that it explores that makes this a truly distinguishable feature from any other show that has dealt with incest in the past. Not limited to the general fetish-pandering occupation of incest related series in anime and manga. It is also hard to find any mov…
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Amongst all the adrenaline-pumping action, zany comedy, melodrama, and over-the-top lunacy of anime, there are a rare few series that go out of their to seriously deal with sensitive issues. Koi Kaze is one such series. It is a gentle, honest, and ultimately heart-breaking story that deals with an issue most other shows would avoid (or in the case off anime, play of as a joke). Needless to say the exploration of taboo is not something everyone enjoys. However, Koi Kaze explores its issue with a maturity and truthfulness that makes it a true gem.
The issue in question is incest (with a large age difference on top of that), as the story follows the relationship between Koshiro Saeki and his younger sister, Nanoka. Now, incest is not exactly an issue anime shies away from, but it is rarely e…
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Koi Kaze’s premise is not a conventional romance title. The series is an exploration on incest, one of the biggest societal taboos of humanity and it is sure to make many people uncomfortable upon first seeing it. I went through that feeling when I first heard of the series in 2005. And in an e-mail reply I got back from Koshiro’s English dub actor Patrick Seitz in that same year, it was surprising to him that the title was even licensed and distributed in America. Here’s a passage from said e-mail that I’ve kept for a while now:
“When Liam, the director, told me about the show's subject matter, I was pretty taken aback--not by the prospect of playing such a character, which I relished as the challenge it was, but at the fact that Geneon had slated it for a release in the first place. Lik…
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I did not dislike Koi Kaze. I want to phrase it this way to emphasize that this is a hard show to like and difficult to recommend. Unless you have an open mind and a strong tolerance for possibly offensive material this is a pass. Most people have no interest in a story about incestuous and possibly pedophilic relationships. Myself, I just happened to be curious as to how responsibly (or irresponsibly) the show handled this subject matter. Those caveats out of the way, to its credit, I thought Koi Kaze handled the dramatic elements very well. It dragged on a little at parts, but the tone, atmosphere, and emotions were all respectable. It even had some interesting, if questionable, bits of humor. However, as my intro may have alluded, there were some flaws I felt that prevented Koi Kaze fro…
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Koi Kaze (13 Episodes)
There's only one way to put this series and that's simply amazing. The series Koi Kaze is one of those rare gems that truly stimulate the human mind and lets it's audience in on the real nature of life and how something like incest that might be grotesque to some can actually be something so beautiful. I'll admit I was a bit skeptical at first but Koi Kaze demonstrated how a masterpiece should convey it's characters feelings, emotions, and problems.
Koi Kaze is about an ordinary man named Koshiro who works as a wedding planner.He lives at home with his father and goes about his daily commute as per usual. One day however a fateful encounter changed his life forever. Koshiro met a beautiful young girl named Nanoka on a train, As she was leaving she had dropped her p…
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I thought this anime was EXQUISITE. Yes, the topic of incest makes me a little uncomfortable but i really wanted to open up to the story so I put aside my preconceptions and just watched the anime through.
I must say that if watched with an open mind, it is very very touching, mind opening and heart wrenching. The characters know damn well what they're doing and the risks and taboos associated with their relationship and this moves the anime into being a tear jerking testament of the character's inner struggles with accepting their feelings... and having the courage to follow them.
Story
As I've said, the story is fabulous. The portrayal of emotion in this series is so intense and so thorough that you grow to feel the characters' pain and understand a great deal of the extent of their s…
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This anime may not be suitable for everyone, it takes a taboo subject as main theme: incest. The story is well narrated with a lot of still shots, reflecting the conflict of the main character who falls in love with his younger sister. The music is very good and the art is nice. If you like character driven stories with strong conflicts then you may like it.
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Koi Kaze is an incest anime, so if that already turns you off well then don't watch this anime. I personally don't like incest anime but this was very good.
The story in Koi Kaze is absolutly heart wrenching. A man who hasn't seen his sister in a long time runs into her and doesnt even realize who it is. When he finds out however that it is his sister he still can't shake his feelings towards her. So he goes into a sort of depression because he feels like a very sick person for loving his sister in a way that you shouldn't. Most of the anime continues on like this with him feeling like an idiot and falling more in love with his sister until the end when he finally makes up his mind......
The art was really well done. At first when I started watching I thought it was a little rough but th…
Read at the sourceLilleFluff
I have never seen any other anime that has had such a great impact on me, and I don't expect to find any either. Koi Kaze is simply outstanding in the way it handles this story, which is very much taboo in our society.
First of all, Koi Kaze lacks all those annoying anime clichés that usually put me a bit off when watching a series. There are no girls who are supposed to be 15 but act like they are 10 and speak with the voice of a toy rabbit. Instead, we get a realistic portrayal of a teenage girl who actually acts naturally. Nanoka's voice actress does a brilliant job, she sounds natural, like she is acting with her own voice instead of making up a voice for the character. The character designs are also more realistic, with the characters looking a whole lot more like real people…
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I just had to write a review for Koi Kaze as its been replaying in my mind for the whole day. Koi Kaze is probably one of the most intense anime that I have seen... ever. But this is based completely upon the subject matter of the series. The growing sense of "do they or don't they" that is created with each passing episode is possibly the only thing that actually kept me watching - despite the short 13 episode span.
Ok, so first off - let's start at the beginning. The protagonist of the story, Koshiro, is a twenty-something man who works as a wedding planner. Due to his parents divorce several years earlier, his own love life seems to be rather tragic. At the time of the divorce, it was decided that Nanoka (his younger sister) would live with their mother, while Koshiro stayed with their…
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Koi Kaze is an heartfelt drama that touches on the taboo subject of incest (love between siblings). What would otherwise be discarded as a revolting subject, is brought to life with soft artwork and supreme storytelling.
The artwork consists of soft lines with a pastel coloring system to provide a relaxing atmosphere for the viewer. It provides a pleasant change to the traditionally anime appearance. The backgrounds are well painted, yet still allow the characters to blend in nicely. The character animations themselves are pleasant and soft, yet still do nicely to express any and all emotions that they go through.
The sounds and music are easy on the ears and flow well with the series to set the tone for scenes of drama or anxiety. The opening theme is lively yet peaceful as to settle t…
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