Kashimashi Episode 1

Even though they’re already a ton of Kashimashi summaries floating out there, I’ll do this anyway, but I’ll keep the summarising short and the comments long. So, why my insistence on blogging Kashimashi (especially with my uh… not so consistent posting this month)? Because this anime is right on track towards making my must-watch anime list. I tend to gravitate towards shoujo-ai, and given the lack of them in recent times, Kashimashi definitely sticks. And based on previews and this episode, I’d say Kashimashi seems to be a little more explicit on the yuri in comparison with recent shoujo-ai like Maria-sama ga Miteru and Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito.

In Kashimashi Episode 1, we see a girlish-looking guy, Hazumu, who falls in love with a schoolmate - Kamiizumi Yasuna - when he helped her gather some plants previously. His friends notice this development, and some of them - Asuta and Tomari - suggest that he confess to her. Of course, Hazumu was warned by another friend - Ayuki - that if his confession should fail, even the original friendship between himself and Yasuna could very well disappear.

But Hazumu confesses anyway and gets rejected. As to be expected, he feels terribly dejected and starts climbing the mountain where he and Yasuna first met. But as time passes, his friends get worried and start searching for him. In the background, we have an alien spaceship crashing towards the Earth, and guess what? We have the spaceship crashing into our lovely Hazumu, only to return an even lovelier female Hazumu back to us. The technologically advanced aliens managed to resurrect Hazumu, but got the gender wrong in the process.

And that’s where the episode ends. I know this isn’t too detailed, so for a detailed summary, visit Random Curiosity - where you’ll find a really detailed and chronologically correct one.

Well, I found the spaceship crashing and failed resurrection thingy pretty wierd (i.e. unrealistic like mad), but other than that, the story looks solid enough. You don’t see male-to-female transformations so often anyway. Some parts of the episode I found pretty funny too, with chibi-parents somehow pulling my funny strings. Hopefully, the animators can maintain a strong comedy-love-drama plot.

But there’s one thing I really hate, and that is the starting scene that depicts some part of the future - where Yasuna kisses the female Hazumu after school, with Tomari catching them in the act. The reason for the hate comes from my wierd scaredness over really twisted storylines where the animators give you a final scene to expect - only to make a really sick twist in the end. But when that happens, I love it. Lol, contradicting personality isn’t it?

Another gripe I have is with the relatively slow subbing, even though there are five subbers on Kashimashi at the moment. I know it’s not my place to criticize, so I really thought of delving into the raws or manga… Must wait… Must…

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