![]() ![]() Putting romance ahead of fanservice, Kashimashi is a delightful surprise of a series that, while a little cliched, never settles for being a cookie-cutter romantic drama. It is a series that started with a ridculous premise and strived to overcome it's Achilles' heel to becomet he best romance it could be. Kashimashi is a series that, for me, becomes finer with every viewing and the subtleties to the characters shine more as well. The OP is fair as well, but the ED deserves some special credit, being the melancholic gem of the music. The gentle melodies of the BGM are nice, but not particularly memorable. The animation is pretty standard for today's anime, clean-looking and a relatively bright color pallette. Supporting characters are abound, mostly for comic relief, but they don't interfere with the main characters so they aren't too much of a distraction. You know right off the bat Hazumu will end up with one of these girls (this IS labeled shoujo-ai after all), but they make the love triangle much more richly complex than it had to be with their own personal feelings. The real shining stars in this drama though are Yasuna and Tomari. Hazumu is a surprising character, not necessarily apathetic to his/her new gender, but not overdramatic about it either. ![]() With a more thoughtful narrative comes more thoughtful characterization as well. ![]() Fortunately, the series dives back into the drama for the final round of episodes, demonstrating some serious characterization and relationship changes that make Kashimashi more than a throw-away love story. 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 mostly useless supporting characters. Now that we're past the bogus premise, we can focus on the series as what it really is a touching, thoughtful romance.Īfter 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. 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. ![]()
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