Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl

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|director=Nobuaki Nakanishi
|studio=Media Works
|network=TV Tokyo (Japan)
|first_aired=January 12 2006
|last_aired=March 29 [[2006]
|num_episodes=12

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Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl
File:Kashimashi.jpg Cast of Kasimasi, from left to right, Tomari Hazumu and Yasuna
Genre	Comedy, Shōjo ai
Created by	Satoru Akahori
Manga
Written by	Satoru Akahori
Illustrated by	Yukimaru Katsura
Published by	Media Works

Kasimasi ~Girl Meets Girl~ (かしまし ～ガール・ミーツ・ガール～) is a romance manga written by Satoru Akahori and illustrated by Yukimaru Katsura. The manga is currently still being published in Japan in the seinen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh. An anime series based on it started airing 12 January 2006 in Japan, with the tagline 「女の子になっても、僕は彼女が好きです」 ("Even though I became a girl, I love her still").

Plot

Template:Spoiler Hazumu, then-male and a highschool student, declares his love to Yasuna, a classmate, but is rejected. In shame, he climbs Mt. Kashimayama to find peace among his beloved plants. Little does he know that his excursion up the trail will lead to a number of changes, not the least of which being his physical sex, which takes place after his accidental and somewhat tragic first contact with a UFO. The plot often revolves around the way Hazumu's new female body changes or doesn't change his relationships with his friends and loved ones.

Throughout the manga and anime, a love triangle emerges between Yasuna (right), Tomari (left) and Hazumu (center), the male-turned-female. The drama between the three is often quite melodramatic.

Episodes

Kasimasi is currently airing on TV Tokyo in Japan.

Title	Original Air Date	Episode
The Day The Boy Transformed	01-11-2006	01
The Girl Realises She's A Girl	01-18-2006	02
Hazumu's Heart, Yasuna's Heart	01-25-2006	03
Girl Triangle	02-01-2006	04
The Things Reflected in Yasuna's Eyes	02-08-2006	05
The Bride and The Groom	02-15-2006	06
Together To The Sea	02-22-2006	07
Just Watching...	03-01-2006	08
Will These Wishes Come True?	03-08-2006	09
A Small Storm	03-15-2006	10
The Things That Disappear From Those Eyes	03-22-2006	11
Love Begins At Last	03-29-2006	12

Characters

Hazumu Osaragi

The main character Hazumu was a boy, and always seemed to have a crush on his friend Yasuna. Aliens inadvertently change his physical sex at the end of the first episode. He has a personality that is very effusive, expressive and very sensitive. Because of this, he seems to fit well as a Japanese girl.

Yasuna Kamiizumi

Yasuna is a quiet and often lonely girl. Because her parents are rarely around, she seems to depend on Hazumu lot for love and support. She met him on Mt. Kashimayama, where she found that they shared an interest in gardening. However, Yasuna rejected Hazumu's first confession of love for her (as a boy). Yasuna displays symptoms of androphobia: She apparently sees most men as covered in a grey blur. This may be why she finds it easier to love Hazumu when he is a girl.

Tomari Kurusu

Hazumu's childhood friend. Her most obvious quality is that she is a tomboy: Her friends of both genders consider her very masculine. She shows a lot of interest in Hazumu and is horrified at first when he is transformed into a girl. Tomari has always put a lot of effort into supporting Hazumu and defending him whenever he is in despair. Though Hazumu has always been grateful for Tomari's support, at times Tomari seems jealous of Hazumu's sex change and new relationship with Yasuna.

Asuta Soro

Hazumu's best male buddy before the UFO crash. Asuta is a good deal more "manly" than Hazumu ever was, and was trying to find Hazumu to give him some hentai manga on the night of the Mt. Kashimayama incident. Asuta has found himself more and more attracted to Hazumu now that she's a girl, about which fact Hazumu is completely oblivious.

Sora Hitoshi

Sora Hitoshi is an cultural anthropologist and a space alien. His research brought him to visit Earth, and he is currently in disguise as the biology teacher at Hazumu's high school. His unfamiliarity with human ways provides the series with an outside perspective on love, the focus of Sora's research. Additionally, his views on other subjects (such as friendly competition or war) provide a somewhat existentialist point of view.

Tsuki Namiko

The homeroom teacher of Hazumu's class. She has an excessively cute style and is extremely clumsy. This gives rise to her being the butt of many jokes. She feels a strong love for Sora Hitoshi.

Jan Puu

An artificial intelligence employed by Sora Hitoshi, previously as the automatic pilot of his ship. Though Jan Puu is very enthusiastic about new people, she seems to have few social skills and often acts like a human child. Her human body is modeled after Hazumu's female body.

Seiyū

• Kana Ueda - Hazumu Osaragi
• Yui Horie - Yasuna Kamiizumi
• Yukari Tamura - Tomari Kurusu

External links

• Satoru Akahori's homepage (in Japanese)
• Official Site (in Japanese)
• AnimeSuki.com Fansub BitTorrent Downloads