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Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl Collection

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Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl is a docile anime with a sensitive and cordial tone that any fan of romantic yuri will almost surely enjoy. The term simple elegance would not be an erroneous description for what is a very pleasant and pensive series.

For those not familiar with the plot, Kashimashi presents the plight of an effeminate young man who is transformed into a girl by otherworldly means. The 13-episode series (with OVA) then follows the charming, romantic and often saddening misadventures of the (girl) and her struggles to follow her heart in choosing either her dearest childhood friend, or the crush that had previously got away. The anime is very tasteful and although some Westerners might be disturbed or offended by the overly and intentionally creepy dad and his... enthusiastic attitude towards now having a daughter instead of a son, the anime does not even approach sex, has moderate fan service, and most of the more racy scenes (which are limited to begin with) are tasteful, appropriate and/or humorous. There is some slapstick, but it isn't really over the edge and doesn't get in the way of the drama like many other anime, and generally the show is quiet and placid.

Though the series is nothing groundbreaking and fans will be familiar with quite a bit presented here such as hot springs, haunted schools, quirky aliens, mysterious illnesses, karaoke, festivals with fireworks & kimonos and evening scenes highlighted by droves of fireflies, it still does have a thing or two going for it other than the obvious unique twists, and even on occasion pokes a bit of fun at some of these common conventions. The presentation and animation is pretty much top notch and includes bright, colorful, likable characters in flowery scenes sprinkled with delicate, heartfelt melodies played out gently on string instruments and piano with some occasional new age woven in. Picture dulcet, mellifluous classical strings & piano interwoven with The Album Leaf. The opening, ending & menu themes are soothing and pleasant and the music in general is truly beautiful and arguably one of the series' major strengths. It will stay with you long after the credits role. There are also some rather clever metaphors thrown in here and there... some subtle, some not so subtle, and many surprisingly meaningful. Generally, as far as presentation, if you appreciate nature you will appreciate the soft and pleasing settings & landscapes in this anime as most are filled with colorful plants, flowers, trees, and vegetable & fruit gardens with a lot of emphasis on the earth's natural beauty... with some thanks going to our horticulturally knowledgable lead character!

The low point is about 3/4 the way through. It can be somewhat aggravating to watch as the relationships just sort of tread water for a bit and you feel as if you are waiting for something to happen... which something does. I also would have liked to see more time spent exploring the comical challenges faced by our newly-female lead character in her adjustments to the change.

Fans of sparkles, painful cuteness and yuri will likely find this series to be worth their time and money. Kashimashi is overflowing with plenty of mystical glimmer, love & romance, invokes a wide range of emotions, and could charm just about anyone. The show keeps its promises and although the last OVA thrown in seems to go against the grain a bit and is more of an alternate fairytale ending than anything, it is nonetheless a joy to watch and is a rather satisfying conclusion... quite refreshing actually. I can't say the same for a lot of anime out there. Personally I preferred the original ending though, as it had much more of an impact on me. Either way, everything ties up very nicely and all of the small details throughout have meaning and purpose.

One more note about the DVD release... I purchased mine brand new at Best Buy for $14.99 and it is Japanese only with English subtitles. It comes in a box which contains 3 unique and artistic full size high quality DVD cases and comes with the usual textless opening/closing, trailers and interviews with the actors. I recommend (if you have the means available to you, of course) to visit your local Best Buy or perhaps give their site a look. If you like subtitles with original dialogue like me (and I should add voice actors are great and the captions contain only a few minor slip-ups and typos) you will not only find a cheaper release, but also one of higher quality.

Kashimashi ~ Girl Meets Girl ~

I thought this a very good animation.
And I have to read the original comics.
Buy at Amazon collecting comics, reading everything from felt
"The original is much better," is to say.
The animated version is good, better comic.
Kashimashi, Volume 1
Kashimashi, Volume 2
Kashimashi, Volume 3
Kashimashi, Volume 4
Kashimashi, Volume 5 (v. 5)


Animated version of the contents of the volume ends with a comic version of Volume 3.
This is the best story from late last five volumes of the three volumes.
I cried many times reading this comic
If you "Kashimashi ~ Girl Meets Girl ~" If you want to watch the animated version
We recommend that you see before the animation version of the comic version.
Then please read the comic version.

Comic version is a really good story.
I read comics more than 30 times

Platonic love, the story is.

Translation, Google is using it translated into English may have been funny.
Please try to forgive me.

AS some reviewers have said the series is a nice romantic and for the most part light-hearted show about three young people with feelings of love for between them and while the three people in the anime are female there isn't anything r-rated really for anyone to worry about except at times some frontal nudity which isn't to much to complain about. The series has one young man Hazumu who has feelings fro a young girl by the name of Yasuna who he admits his feelings to, but sadly she doesn't reciprocate them and he runs away heartbroken, but after walking in the woods he unexpectedly is struck by a spaceship and since the aliens wish to revive Hazumu reconstruct his body but make a mistake in gender and he now is a she. After this unusual accident and gender change Hazumu's best friend and tomboy Tomari helps her now female friend adjust to life as a girl but along the way begins to feel the same feelings of love she had for him as a boy, and she now has an unexpected rival as Yasuna also has feelings of affection for our now gender changed Hazumu. If you've seen the series Strawberry Panic or Simoun than this series is another good pick as while there is some drama in the series on who Hazumu will end up with it's not to dramatic like the previous two series as mentioned before and don;t worry about any hentai scenes as this keeps the series pretty light for anything to hardcore. The series like reviewers have said does only come in Japanese subbed with subtitles but it wont detract the enjoyment of the series for watchers, the one thing that bugs me is that some reviewers have bad-mouthed the show because it doesn't carry any sex scenes which is pretty lame if you want to watch stuff like that just get an adult movie or anime because of an anime series is truly enjoyable it doesn't need that kind of crap in it to be entertaining. The set has the series plus the OVA to finally show us who Hazumu ends up with Yasuna or Tomari, so if you like light-hearted romantic anime series with a touch of comedy and nonsense with a nice cute ending for all here's one set worth a try...

Regarding the drawing it's quite nice to see. As for the story, it first looked quite surprising to me, but it turned out to be very funny! I particularly enjoyed ep.2, seeing this ex-boy trying to adapt to his (her) new condition, or rather his family and friends trying to adapt to him/her! At the beginning he kept acting like a boy, leading to some funny situations as you can expect ^^. But, with the help of his "girlfriends", he/she learns quickly how to behave properly (indeed he/she was rather effeminate before and this new situation doesn't seem to bother him/her that much). And this leads to the second comical aspect, where he/she behaves like a girl even more than his/her friends themselves (to their despair! looks like they have a new serious competitor! ^^). So this gender UFO ends up causing some trouble to both side, and I had lots of fun seeing them entangled in awkward situations. But then the end of the series is a little repetitive and kitsch. Still, I had a good time, I recommend it !

This is a really interesting wonderful love story, of these three girls struggles to share they feeling with one another after Hazumu, who once was a boy, got turn into a girl by alien by mistake. From there they story begin. I really loved it, it was funny and emotional and fun in it own unique way.

Possibly one of the cutest Anime I have seen in a long time.
Story doesn't get much better. Then again anything is better than Dragon Ball.
but really I enjoyed this Anime Quite a lot, as it has it's funny, and sad moments.
and a beautiful happy ending.

Okay I gotta be honest I'm a sucker for cute girls, and yuri appeals to me greatly. and no I am not some sick minded teenage boy. The overall anime is very good it pulls at your heart strings like every good anime should. It was highly worth my time :3

Note: There are some (mostly minor) spoilers included. Just a warning in case you plan on watching the series without knowing anything.

Kashimashi: 6.5/10

In the end, I got pretty much what I expected - a silly, simplistic series, complete with lesbians in school girl uniforms. It didn't amaze me, yet I didn't hate it.

Kashimashi is about a boy, Hazumu, who gets transformed into a girl in a very realistic manner. Once he's a girl(!?), he/she/it finds himself in a yuri love triangle with his tomboy childhood friend, Tomari, and the pretty girl, Yasuna, he was chasing after back when he only had two sexual openings (excluding his ears and nose, of course).

It could've been better if the reasoning behind certain aspects of the plot weren't quite so retarded. For example:

#1: Instead of having a spaceship crash into a boy and change his gender...somehow, why not throw in some extra originality and have him fall into some gender changing water? It still would've been daft but nowhere near as 'out there' as having a spaceship crash into a random person and remove his penis...somehow. It seemed to have been done just so some weird alien girl could exist and add "-puu" to the end of every sentence. Don't you just hate those characters whose only quirk is to add a meaningless suffix to the end of everything? It almost makes me believe it was a desperate attempt by the creator of the story to be original; creating a never used before suffix.

#2: Instead of avoiding doing something as terrible as adding depth by making Yasuna's fear of males realistic and giving her a sexual abuse back-story, why did they give her a stupid eye problem where she simply couldn't see males? 'Just go to bloody Specsavers!' came to the front of my mind. They even made the cure for her problem love - like waking sleeping beauty from her sleep with a kiss, which hasn't been repeated many times in various forms. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

There were a lot of things like the above that could've been changed for the better. Whoever came up with/copied the gender swapping story got a lot of the simple things wrong in what was an overly simple story. I should be asked to proof read all manga/anime stories in order to avoid blatant stupidity...

In terms of the love triangle, my biggest issue lies with which way Hazumu went when he decided which girl he wanted. Why, oh why, did he pick a plain pretty girl type instead of his childhood 'prince'? It made no sense whatsoever. *name removed* had always been there for him, where as *named removed 2* had turned Hazumu down before. Now, if I was picking my other half and they both looked hot, I'd go with the one who'd never betray me - that's just logical. But, of course, Hazumu thought differently. The only upside to Hazumu's 'final' choice was that the girl he turned down and himself spent most of the last episode hanging out, saying goodbye to each other in their own way.

Sadly, the love triangle mess only worsened after the finale of the TV series. In the OVA, the girl Hazumu picked decided she'd had enough of him/her after four months of him helping her, informing him she could stand on her own two feet and wanted to be alone. Basically, she made the entire TV series and Hazumu trying to pick between the two pointless - great stuff. The OVA ended with Hazumu going back to the girl he turned down since his first option was no longer available. It was awful and needless.

Like I said at the start, I did get some level of enjoyment out of it. It looked nice, it wasn't overly perverse - not including an 'Oh, I have an extra hole now! I'd best put three fingers in!!!' scene you'd (or, at least, I expected!) expect to see in a gender swapping story - and there were a few decent episodes. But it's far from a classic, and I advise only those with an interest in A) lesbians and/or B) school girls (all straight males, in short) to watch it. Anyone not interest in one of those two would probably hate Kashimashi.

This is an anime that is basically a three pronged romance. A very girly guy ends up being turned into a woman by some aliens that are observing earthlings for their own purposes. The girls that had a crush on him have feelings that are not changed by his sudden gender switch. He was fairly femme-like to begin with anyway. So this turns into an ugly romance love triangle between the three girls - his childhood friend and the girl he was about to confess his feelings to. And that's what the entire series focuses on.

It has the usual festival, karaoke singing, haunted (school) house, beach and hot tub episodes. The animation is bright and the character designs are nice enough to look at, although they have a much younger look than even their age suggests.

There are some awkward moments, most notably with Huzumu's father, who is overly delighted to have his son become a girl. His attempts at getting her in the tub with him, taking naughty pictures and other unparental-like behavior is just disgusting. It was almost enough to turn me off of the show completely.

The OVA included here kind of turns the last episode on its head so you actually get to see how everything would conclude if it went either way. It's kind of a chickening out of what was established in the series closure.

For this release, you do get all three of the original discs in a flimsy little case. It's not a bad price, but the show is not particularly anything revolutionary. It's entertaining for a romance with a bit of a twist, and its fun seeing how this guy quickly adapts to becoming a girl, but not enough of the story is based around that, and the series quickly becomes a run-of-the-mill school romance.

I originally read all the manga volumes of Kashimashi first and enjoyed it very much. When I saw the complete DVD collection I decided to buy it. As I expected, the general plot was the same as the maga, but the story line of the anime was just as great. That is until the last episode. The ending in the manga was very dramatic yet heart warming. The anime ending was rather hackneyed and disappointing. If your interested in this title, I recommend the manga more than this anime.