Ginban kaleidoscope3/16/2023 ![]() 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. 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.
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