Title: Kamichama Karin Genre: Comedy, Drama, Magical girl, Romance Rating: 8.5/10 Summary: Karin Hanazono is an ordinary girl who isn’t good with her studies or sports. As an orphan who lives with a family relative, losing her only friend and pet cat Shii-chan makes her realize that she is alone. While making her pet’s grave [...]
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I just got through the Kamichama Karin manga's second volume, and I'm glad to say that it doesn't suffer from the same QC issues as the anime version. I think.
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Since the Kamichama Karin anime is in full swing over in Japan, I figured I'd check out the manga version. Because the book is always better than the movie, right? Especially when the production values drop.
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Hmm, unfortunately I still can't make up my mind about this series so I am not putting it on my regular list like Darker than Black for now. I just can't seem to tolerate cute characters like I used to. It doesn't help that my time for blogging seems to be thinning lately. The good thing about the series is that the background images are quite nice so that's an incentive to go back and see it. If I don't end up covering the series regularly, I'd probably still post impression about it in one giant post about series that I've seen within a week. I know a few people have asked about the possibility of covering other series from this season. The thing is, I am not that excited about most of them to be able to do a full summary post. However, I may be able to post short impressions for 3-4 series that I've seen and put them all in one entry. I'll give it a try in the next few days just to see if people like the idea of reading just the impression.
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Opening Sequence: OP: 「Ankoku Tengoku」 by Ali Project
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Kamichama Karin is another one of Koge Donbo's manga that now has an anime. She's also responsible for Pita-Ten and Di Gi Charat. I really liked Pita-Ten a lot, so I was really excited for Kamichama Karin, even though I've never read it.
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After the first wave of the I.D Analysis, I stumbled upon the above two series when I went on the normal “oh whatever, let’s get it and figure out what in the world it is” logic. With that, I jumped into two series that were under my dark horse category, or the section where I [...]
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Ah, finally another mahout shoujo with Kamichama Karin, while Shining Tears x Wind finally comes with another RPG-adaptation, and sola… well… never mind. Kamichama Karin Short Synopsis: Karin is a young girl, with no friends and whose pet just died, when she meets a few strange people, one of them refers to her as “Kami-sama”. Good: Kawai! [...]
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OP Theme: 「暗黒天国」(Ankoku Tengoku) by Ali Project - AVI version (22.8MB) | PSP version (coming soon) I am not sure I should be watching something like this but I can't help but being amazed at the quality of the series. I mean the character design and animation are top-notch here. Plus the story is actually kind of good with a little dose of sadness and a good dose of humour. I am just not sure if I can tolerate all of the cuteness abound. I also don't like the character design for the main male character, who looks a bit like a girl. Apart from that, however, the series does look good. If I have to compare it with another series, I get the impression that this series is trying to emulate Card Captor Sakura and to a degree it does look as good as that series if not more so. The OP theme by ALI PROJECT is also not bad and gives the series a slight dark theme to what is otherwise a cute little series. If you have read the manga and know more about the series, I'd appreciate it if you can let me know if the series stays good throughout.
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Well, it's Friday. As good a day as any to be posting on the internets. That being said the official TV Tokyo website for Kamichama Karin is up and there a trailer online as well. The page looks… well, about how you'd expect a Koge Donbo-based series site to look. Offensively large eyes, offensively frilly [...]
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