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Most tales of this nature often fail by lending themselves to comedy. Though the premise is hokey, the execution is flawless and handled exceptionally. The strongest aspect of Ginban is easily story.
#Ginban kaleidoscope series
While it’s not an amazing series for the ages, it should be worth quite a few laughs and tears.įor every anime where a plucky amateur becomes the star of the competition, for every anime where love and peace makes the hero or heroine new friends, and for every anime where dreams come true, there is Ginban Kaleidoscope a bittersweet tale about reaching for your dreams and finding that winning isn't everything. Those of you who like sports drama and comedy should really enjoy Ginban Kaleidoscope. I thought Tazusa's and Pete’s voice actors turned in a solid performance. The music was good, the OP/EN songs as well as the incidental score and the songs played during the skating events. There were a few inconsistencies such as characters talking in profile out of the sides of their mouths. I really liked Tazusa's skating costumes and the sports action was well done. The settings are very nice and the characters are appealing. I wouldn’t call the art amazing but it is very good. I thought this was a bit farfetched as if I had some guy possessing me I think I would probably want to learn something about him. Never does Tazusa even try to find out about his personal life, his family and friends, or even what he looked like.
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He was a pilot, he lived in Japan a lot, and he hates tomatoes. This is mainly because the story really shows no interest in developing him at all as a character. Pete is also a good character but ultimately not as interesting as Tazusa. I thought she was a very interesting character and was the main reason I liked this show so much. Tazusa's doubts about herself and her ability and her fears are very important to the story and make her feel very real. Anyone who has competed in athletics knows that, especially at higher levels of competition, everyone has talent and everyone’s talent is usually pretty close to one another it is the mental toughness that often makes the difference. None of them really feel like villains as the main antagonist in the story is really Tazusa against her own fears. Most of them just come across as background scenery. Little development or screen time is given to any of her classmates, family, or even skating rivals. The entire show is seen pretty much through her perspective. Tazusa and Pete are the only real important characters in the story. It’s a minor annoyance but significant considering how important this was to the plot. Now I know why they did it, to have her not speak to anyone and not have a physical form for Pete for the audience to see might have been a bit odd but the story could have been written better to account for this. Pete sees things that he shouldn’t be able to be seen, and Tazusa will speak at him as if he was standing next to her. In the beginning we are told that he can only see what she sees and can’t manifest his spirit outside of her but this is contradicted many times later. Mainly they revolve around Pete's possession of Tazusa. The comedy all works and I found myself laughing all the way through it. Everything from her changing her clothes and bathing blindfolded so that he couldn’t peep on her to her eating tomatos because he hated them was also amusing and in a way gave some realism to the situation they were in. Some of it is the kind of things only Japan would think about, such as Tazusa holding in going to the bathroom because she didn’t want him to see her doing that. The interaction between Tazusa and Pete is amusing considering to everyone else she is talking to herself. Though it is obviously dramatized for the screen I think the figure skating portion of it is fairly realistic. Having an athletic background I think I can relate too many of the themes presented in this anime. What follows is some hilarious comedy, sports drama, and a little romance. After another disappointment while at an event in Canada in which she suffers a bad fall she suddenly finds herself possessed by the spirit of a Canadian teen who died in a plane crash, Pete Pumps. She is one of the top skaters in Japan but has the unfortunate tendency to fall in big events. Ginban Kaleidoscope revolves around a young Japanese skater, Tazusa Sakurano whose dream is to make it to the 2006 Winter It’s quite good and should appeal to almost anyone, even if you don’t know a double axel from a triple toe loop.
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What little girl from my generation didn’t admire the grace and beauty of Katarina Witt and not want to emulate her? Ice skating anime is pretty rare and to my knowledge this is the only one I know of. Being from a cold weather climate winter sports have always been a part of my life, and that includes figure skating.