Audience reviews
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CatoCensoria
I did take my time to write the review because i wanted to think about why exactly i disliked this anime. Concerning Art and Sound the series is in my opinion and experience rather OKAY. There were better made anime in that time but there were much much worse ones.
The storytelling and the idea of the anime are pretty okay too. But what really ticks me off about this series is the obvious forceful behaviour to push and pull a non-heteronormative person into their predefinied position in society. Because of external influence a boy becomes a girl. That is a rather modern concept of breaking the habits and the rules our society embodies concerning the sexes. But the entire show focuses on ridiculing the "unnormal" behavior of a boy who is in the body of a girl and of the surroundings that t…
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As transgender woman myself, I thought I should give my two cents on this series.
Going into it, I was only aware of the bizarre occurrences that set the story going, and that people were very mixed on the series. Now that I've seen it, I can confidently say Kashimashi is a beautiful romance that unfortunately gets bogged down by the author trying to be funny.
I was very thankful to see that the series was void of any transphobic themes or jokes and was generally pretty respectful. Only thing I find strange is that throughout the course of the story, people constantly refer to Hazumu with male pronouns. There are some outliers sprinkled around here and there, but Hazumu doesn't ever object to being referred to one way or the other, so I'm going to assume she's cool with it. Gender is a f…
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I'm sure all of you have seen a bunch of shows that had a good premise and an interesting setup, in one word, potential, that unfortunately fell flat on its face after a few episodes and never really recovered. For me, Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl is one of those shows.
The premise of this show was great: we have a guy who is in love with a girl, gets rejected, turns into a girl by some bizarre accident and then maybe has a second chance in winning this girl's affection, this time in a yuri way. Once that accident happened at the end of episode 1 I was as hyped as I've could have been, and if someone would ask me to rate this show right then and there I would have given it a 9. But, unfortunately, it was not meant to be.
The two biggest problems with this show were the story and the charac…
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There's a lot working beneath the carefree surface of Kashimashi if you stop to think about it. I'm going to try to dig into nuances that might be easy to miss if you're just a casual watcher/reader, and try to keep spoilers to a minimum (but there will be some; you should watch the series for yourself first if you mind spoilers, and if you don't the ones here shouldn't affect your enjoyment). Also, it's gonna get pretty long.
Let's start by saying Kashimashi is one of my favourite yuri works. The manga is slightly preferable but only slightly; overall, both it and the anime are great stuff, sweet and earnest and with some true drama that never feels like they simply slammed the Drama Button. I won't go into a lot of detail up front about the basic plot, since I think the synopsis at the…
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Kashimashi started as a yuri manga by Akahori Satoru, the same writer behind the generic Bakuretsu Hunters. He was also one of the writers for Kyatto Ninden Teyandee, which was pretty decent. In 2006, the manga got adapted into a twelve episode anime, and a follow up one episode OVA, by Studio Hibari, the same studio behind the mediocre Venus Versus Virus. So, given the people behind it can we anticipate something that's mediocre or just all right or will it surprise us in a positive or negative way? Let's look at Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl and find find out. Keep in mind, I will be covering both the series and OVA.
Story:
We open with young Hazumu wandering around some hills to get over his broken heart after he was turned down by Yasuna, the girl he likes. The melancholy scene is int…
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This was a huge let down for me. I knew it wouldn't be as good as Maria Watches Over Us but I hoped for something at least interesting. Poor characters don't help the boring story. Bad run on jokes, a poor thought out romance, and overly dramatic plot twists with the most pointless central idea of a boy turned into a girl make it even worse. Yasuna's weird illness just becomes stupid the instant its mentioned. Hazamu is unlikable as either a boy or girl. I can't say enough bad things about this show.
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Kashimashi, what a strange series it was. And oddly enough, it turned out as something of perfection.
Although at first it may sound either like some junky fanservice anime, or something just plain weird, I'll tell you right now that the "core" of the series isn't about Hazumu's gender change, it was something more of an initial gimmick. But for a gimmick, it worked well and evrn tied itself into the larger, real story in an oddly natural way.
I consider one of the most important points in a series its 'heart'. Kashimashi fully succeeded in having heart to it. The characters, from the dynamic characters of Hazumu, Tomari and Yasuna, to even more static characters like Jan-puu and Ayuki, were likable and easy to understand. When the series took its turn for the emotional, we got to see dee…
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Gender Benders are my personal favorite, By the exception of "Kashimashi: Girl meets Girl" Oh god that anime still makes my blood boil, The message of the creator and the labeling of the tittle and genre totally contradict each
I'm not an expert in romance but i'm quite the observer and use common sense, when creating "Yuri" based on GENDER BENDING, Timing is crucial, The 2 female characters in love, Had history with "Hazumu" the gender bending victim
A) Was a childhood friend
B) Was a classmate and love interest
If it was to be a "Yuri" romance, Hazumu the character in question. had to have no ties whatsoever to the heroines , Thus creating a chance in which the heroines fall for the after known female "Hazumu" Thus making it "yuri genre", If it's done before their history and timing…
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Um, wow. This is um… something a little different then what I have ever seen before. I give the show props for an idea, but an extremely lousy way of making that idea bare fruit. The story feels shallow, the execution is bland, the English voices are a mess, the animation is just standard fan fair. I would of loved if they got into the physiological aspects of a man turning into a women a bit, but they don’t. They just pussyfoot around like it’s a teenage drama. I know it is one but with a concept this interesting, I wish it could have been better done.
Hazumu really freaken sounds and acts like a girl! It doesn’t seem like there is any freaken difference to him being male or female. I do think its somewhat Ironic that when he first sees the ‘star’ coming straight at him, he wishes to be…
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I just needed to post this
i was introduced to anime when i was young and Ive watched countless series but this was the first anime that i actually cried about its just so sad,i was told it was silly because the anime was about a guy that got turned into a girl but its not about that really its just a way to get the story rolling but i really cried on the later episodes when there all so confused about the relationship between the three girls and there all so hurt by the fact that it takes so long for Hazumu Osaragi to make her decision that it tears them all apart and when Yasuna Kamiizumi looses her sight to the ill treated love between the three i really had to stop watching it then i had to calm down and continue.
i know its weird for a guy to cry over something so simple but it remi…
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Kashimashi is a perfect example for a truly magnificent anime. It stands out in a crowd of anime that anyone could watch. It is a trip of wonderment that viewers will never forget. But what makes it that great? Well, let's have a look see.
Story: I don't have to tell anyone that this is a unique story line. It's story really is fascinating. It's like the Yin-Yang of anime. It is completely normal at times, and at other times, seem fucked up. But both of these aspects are balanced well, compliment each other and are executed perfectly. Another thing, it is paced excellently. The episodes run with each other to create a story. It doesn't move too fast or too slow. It really know how to use your emotions as well. It actually feels like you're watching someone's life rather than an anime.
Ch…
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I really wanted to like Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~, really really wanted. But I just... can't.
I am a male-to female transsexual and a lesbian, and Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ was one of the first anime/manga I discovered having to do with those subjects at the same time. So when my nerdy male pal recommended it, I had to stop everything I was doing to watch it immediately. Headdesking ensued.
This was not because Kashimashi is shallow and trivial work and I had schoolwork piling up the entire time watching it consumed. It was because of the annoying and and outright insulting nature of it.
While it is not uncommon for any media, but anime/manga especially, to not have fully grasped the idea of transsexuality and hence the portraying of such characters and their trials and tribulati…
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kashimashi is one of those anime that make no sense but people really love..and i can see y this anime is amazing..... it starts of with a boy called hazumu who by some quite odd scences is now a girl..Then the girl that had rejected him early that day, Yasuna, and his friend, Tomari, both fall in love with Hazumu. even though the anime i very one minded with loads of characters i only focuses on a few..
Story..
the story is nothing sort of amazing.. a quite wierd start but in the end everything came together great even if it meant watching the ova.. all in all i give the storyline a 10.
Art..
the art is nothing more than what you expect from a well made anime with some parts that stick out. And other bits that are quite dissapointing it gets no more than a 10.
Sound...
hhhmmmm.... soun…
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Throughout the whole series I felt very mad since...the plot wasn't going the way normal plots would. The expectation of most love story is: guy loves girl guy tells girl guy and girl go out. For love triangles the guy chooses the one he knows the most. But for this series they screw around with your mind till you had enough. In the end I found it all mad sense and it all was worth the time.
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Kashimashi starts out when Hazumu is struck by a UFO and is brought back to life as a girl instead of a guy. Then the girl that had rejected him early that day, Yasuna, and his childhood friend, Tomari, both fall in love with Hazumu. As the story progresesses it can get a little sappy at points, but the story is otherwise enjoyable, Although I wish they did more with Hazumu's friend Asuta's feeling of Hazumu after he is transformed into a girl. The art is absolutly fantastic and the characters were well developed. I highly recommend this anime to everybody
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Kashimashi is the story about a boy hit and killed by a spaceship, then aliens bring him back to life and reconstruct his body as that of a girl's because that's what they thought he was. Now that we're past the bogus premise, we can focus on the series as what it really is; a touching, thoughtful romance.
After the smoke clears on the ridiculous catalyst, the series quickly turns into a love triangle between the newly-female Hazumu, the girl Yasuna whom Hazumu has always had a crush on, and Tomari who is Hazumu's childhood friend since he was a boy. The various reactions and plot progression revolving around Hazumu's gender-bender are taken with extreme and realistic care, but just as the series picks up some serious steam, it is all exchanged for some needless episodes revolving around…
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this one was really lol really different.. i thought at first it was going to be really cheezy which it was at first but after it got into it and the plot unfolded and you understood and saw what was happening it was actually amazing. this is my summary of it this story is about a guy that liked a girl and the girl at first site didn't like him but only as a friend the guy takes a walk to walk off the frustration. so some how a alien ship hits him in some how they turn in unto a girl but he has all the memory of being a boy . well some how it turns in to a love triangle . and the it ends up with two people trying to be good Samaritan and trying not to love the same girl but we know all that doesn't work and it didn't.. but that's all i can say because i don't wanna be a spoiler. but this a…
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First off this is a really hard anime to review on... In all honesty I want to call it a masterpiece, problem being I don't know why! I mean seriously... boy runs into forest, gets run over by alien space ship... aliens turn boy in to girl, girl falls in love with girl breaking other girls heart, blah blah blah... Can the plot get any more retarded. But... the way the story is told is captivating. The characters are amazingly simple but effective. It must have taken pure genius to make a boy that turned into a girl be a very believable character and to top it off... he/she is a crybaby and a damn good one!?! The killer about this story especially for guys who watch it. The entire time your watching it your thinking: Wow... why am I watching this. I should think this is the worst anime ever…
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Kashimasi ~Girl Meets Girl~ is a Sci-fi, Gender bender, Yuri, Romance anime about a feminine boy that was talking a walk along the mountain, after being rejected by a girl when he was involved in an accident with an alien spaceship. The aliens managed to regenerate him however they made him into a girl and that’s the beginning of this messed up gender bender.
From the summary of the show it may be difficult to take this anime series seriously, however the way the first episode is done, actually allows you to do just that. It introduces the strange concept of a boy turning into a girl fairly well, for an anime that is an adaptation of a visual novel. After that it is just Hazumu getting used to his new life and the affect it has had on those around him. The romance aspect of this ani…
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Title: Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~
Manga, Game, Anime: The first incarnation of “Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~” was a manga series, with story by Satoru Akahori, and art by Yukimaru Katsura. It started its run on May 21, 2004 in Dengeki Comic Daioh, with a new chapter released every month; currently, there are four volumes out. The manga has been licensed Stateside by Seven Seas Entertainment, and the first volume was released on December 25th, 2006.
A game based on the series, entitled “Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~: Hajimete No Natsu Monogatari”, was released on March 30, 2006, for the PlayStation 2, published by Marvelous Interactive and developed by VRIDGE. The game itself is a visual novel, and is rated 12+ by the Japanese rating system.
And the anime itself…
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