SuhailiGinban Kaleidoscope anime review
November 23rd 2008 06:25
Ginban Kaleidoscope is an anime adapted from the manga by Rei Kaibara. The manga was serialized in Margaret. The anime consists of 12 episodes altogether.
Genres: comedy, romance, supernatural
Themes: Figure skating, Sports
Synopsis: 16-year old Sakurano Tazusa is a Japanese figure ice-skater who considers herself to be worth $10 billion in beauty. While executing her moves in the Women's Figure Skating Grand Prix, she stumbled and landed badly, hence resulting in her loss in the competition. At the same time, in the same city, a Canadian youth by the name of Pete Pumps was performing an air stunt when his plane crashes and he dies. Tazusa starts to hear a strange voices and realises that the Canadian ghost now resides in her body. After futile attempts to get rid of Pete, Tazusa decides to get accustomed to his presence and in the meantime, improve on her techniques in order to get selected for the Olympics.
Source: Anime News Network
Comment: Though I know nothing about figure skating, this anime is totally fun to watch because all of the figure skating moves are similar to the actual figure skating. I must say that this anime is pretty impressive because it really does focused on the figure skating itself. Some anime don't have a very apparent theme but this anime really focused a lot on the theme. So once you watch this, from not knowing anything about figure skating you've become familiar with the figure skating terms. Even though I've mentioned here that this anime truly focused on figure skating, it also doesn't neglect other stuff like plot, comedy and definitely some romance here and there but as for the romance part, it wasn't really that much. The storyline really flows nicely even though you didn't watch the first few episodes, you still manage to understand the current plot. But still, I highly suggest you to watch from the beginning because the first few episodes have lots of funny moments. As the story is getting deeper, there'll be more figure skating performance so it's not really as funny as the first few episodes. Overall, watch this whether you know figure skating or not because it's still a very light anime regardless of the figure skating terms. Give it a try and I'm sure you'll be having fun watching this ^^
Ginban Kaleidoscope Episode 1
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Ginban Kaleidoscope complete listings
Genres: comedy, romance, supernatural
Themes: Figure skating, Sports
Synopsis: 16-year old Sakurano Tazusa is a Japanese figure ice-skater who considers herself to be worth $10 billion in beauty. While executing her moves in the Women's Figure Skating Grand Prix, she stumbled and landed badly, hence resulting in her loss in the competition. At the same time, in the same city, a Canadian youth by the name of Pete Pumps was performing an air stunt when his plane crashes and he dies. Tazusa starts to hear a strange voices and realises that the Canadian ghost now resides in her body. After futile attempts to get rid of Pete, Tazusa decides to get accustomed to his presence and in the meantime, improve on her techniques in order to get selected for the Olympics.
Source: Anime News Network
Comment: Though I know nothing about figure skating, this anime is totally fun to watch because all of the figure skating moves are similar to the actual figure skating. I must say that this anime is pretty impressive because it really does focused on the figure skating itself. Some anime don't have a very apparent theme but this anime really focused a lot on the theme. So once you watch this, from not knowing anything about figure skating you've become familiar with the figure skating terms. Even though I've mentioned here that this anime truly focused on figure skating, it also doesn't neglect other stuff like plot, comedy and definitely some romance here and there but as for the romance part, it wasn't really that much. The storyline really flows nicely even though you didn't watch the first few episodes, you still manage to understand the current plot. But still, I highly suggest you to watch from the beginning because the first few episodes have lots of funny moments. As the story is getting deeper, there'll be more figure skating performance so it's not really as funny as the first few episodes. Overall, watch this whether you know figure skating or not because it's still a very light anime regardless of the figure skating terms. Give it a try and I'm sure you'll be having fun watching this ^^
Ginban Kaleidoscope Episode 1
Screenshots:
Ginban Kaleidoscope complete listings
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