I’d seen this series on store shelves before but I’d never been tempted to buy it up. But recently, I picked up the manga and found the record unusually haunting.
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Both the manga and the anime flattened me because both versions are simply immense storytelling in a diagram that ample storytelling can recall the reader/viewer out of their comfort zone and beget the reader/viewer face the events of the account on the story’s terms, not their enjoy.
And so it is with Koi Kaze. Another person wrote that it is a disturbing masterpiece and to me, that’s a comely true description.
At the originate of the first episode, Koshiro Saeki is 27. He’s miserable, unkempt, and unfeeling. If this were an American drama, he’d be diagnosed as clinically miserable.
He works as a marriage counselor in the sense that he helps with arranged marriages. He’s objective been dumped by his heavenly girlfriend, not because she doesn’t care for him, but because she wonders if Koshiro has ever truly liked anyone and he wonders if she might be upright.
When the series opens, Nanoka Kohinata is 15 and about to open her first year of high school. Because her high school is two hours away from where she lives, she goes to live with her father… and the brother she has not met since their parents divorce when she was about 2-3 years obsolete.
Koshiro and Nanoka “meet” before they actually meet. By some strange circumstance, they raze up on a pseudo-date and they go to an amusement park. Koshiro loosens up to the point that he breaks down in front of the girl and tells her that no matter what she does, she shouldn’t give up on savor if she finds it. She comforts him by the simple act of caressing his head and something, for honest a moment in time, begins to loosen up in the tightly afflict Koshiro.
It isn’t until later that Koshiro and Nanoka learn that they are brother and sister.
There are many details and moods in this narrative that manufacture it compelling that it is difficult to quantify or recount why it is as well-behaved as it is or why as marvelous as it is, it can be miserable.
I affirm that a lot of it rests in piece on the pivotal character of Koshiro. Koshiro is not a dashing, fair figure. He can be listless, aloof emotionally, growly when he is showing emotion, and downright scary when he doesn’t know what to do with his emotions. Yet, he is not a terrible person. He never lets himself (or the audience) fill that his interest is healthy. Yet, he does try to do the accurate thing and combat his feelings. Interestingly, it is when he is fighting those feelings that he exhibits his darkest and creepiest moments.
Nanoka is slower to figure out for the character and for the audience. At fifteen, she is in that bridge age of being neither child nor woman. As she grows over the story’s timeline, she is, at first, oblivious to what is causing her brother to be so mean and yet instinctively she knows that he can be different and that he has a tenderness inside him. So instead of drawing away from him, she wants to be closer to him.
There are moments when the viewer can wonder about the “If only’s” that would sustain Koshiro and Nanoka from going down the path they are on. If only Koshiro had taken the opportunity to find attend with his ex if only for that one night. If only Nanoka had decided to hold a chance on a boy from school. If only the parents had allowed them to seek each other more in the intervening years instead of keeping them apart.
Again, that is powerful storytelling to be able to wonder about those “if onlys” while the anecdote is being told.
One thing that I can enjoy from Koi Kaze is that the center of its fable is a serious taboo and yet, it is not presented with a sense of indulging in the immoral or to titillate or for shock value. The mettlesome in Koi Kaze is that it attempts to expose, as simply and straightforward as it can, of a possibility of “What if this happened to two ordinary people? ” and also makes one wonder, “Is it better to earn one’s feelings? Or boom them? ”
It is this dauntless directness that uncomfortably disarms the viewer because in this memoir (neither in the manga or the anime) is the punch pulled befriend. Situations are not miraculously resolved from the age gap between Koshiro and Nanoka to the incest affirm to the childhood scars (in the manga, it is more heavily inferred that Koshiro was adversely affected by his parents divorce, but the anime hints at it as well) . No “bullet” is dodged and the creators execute no attempt to invent things more savory. They merely show what is happening and leave it to the viewer to regain what happens whether they agree with it or not.
And whether one agrees or not, it is a narrative that lingers in a hauntingly glum intention legal up to the last scene because there is a rightful sense of unease at what their future might believe for them. Is this the beginning? And if it is, what does it start?
The animation is very simple as it is obvious that the sage is the proper key. The musical acquire is kept honest as simple with a single piano marking the seasonal time and emotions.
I haven’t listened to the recent Japanese track but I can say that the English cast does a stunning job especially Patrick Seitz who voices Koshiro. Seitz captured Koshiro’s opening ambivalence, his later confusion, lingering self-loathing, and finally, his happiness. A truly improbable performance.
Like others who have reviewed this series have illustrious, this is NOT a series for everyone so I recommend it with caution.
Yet, for those who are willing to give it a chance, it is a rare gem. There are questions and answers but a lot of things that are left unsaid becuase like many mammoth stories before it, the series ends with a conclusion but no sure vision of the future.
Let me originate this review by saying Koi Kaze is the most depressing anecdote I’ve ever seen. A worship that cannot blossom does unbiased that gradually throughout the series, with the viewers sense of fear building along with the fable. This isn’t for kids.
There will be MINOR spoilers when I’m describing the story/characters since I’m feeling a petite chatty. 
Plot: 9.7
The area of Koi Koze is very simple: A brother and a sister who haven’t seen each other since they were very itsy-bitsy launch living together (along with their father) when 15 year stale Nanoka (who had been living with the siblings mother) needs to go closer to her fresh school. The brother, Koshiro, is 27, meaning there’s a 12 year age gap between the siblings. The two instantly have a connection and feelings for each other that go above simple friendship/family feelings.
Before the pair learn they are brother and sister, they bump into each other on a hiss after Nanoka drops her ID card. They later randomly bump into each again, ending up going together to an amusement park since Koshiro had fair been given 2 tickets. They slay up having a heart to heart, telling each other about their fancy problems, Koshiro ending up crying. They regain out they are siblings when their dad meets them together as they’re exiting the amusement park.
Koshiro’s initial reaction to the sister revelation is to be infamous to her, hiding the conflict going on inside himself. He doesn’t want to face up to his feelings for her, choosing instead to simply act like a poor brother. Nanako, being young and naive, initially has no concept about Koshiro’s feelings and doesn’t understand her fill, leading her to be confused about Koshiro’s transformation from nice guy to terrible brother. She does manage to recognize he does care for her due to his actions - concerned when she has period cramps, haunted when she’s out in the rain, jealous when she’s talking to boys, etc.
As you might have worked out after reading the above, Koi Kaze deals with a taboo subject without really holding assist. That doesn’t mean incest is glorified here (if anything it’s the opposite since the account is tragic) ; what the memoir does is prove a suitable admire that can never be in this world. Both parties don’t want to feel how they do, they impartial do and cannot change it.
The series progresses at a plain wander as their relationship develops. At first it bothered me that nothing seemed to be happening, but once it gripped me the episodes seemed to be going distinguished faster. Give it chance before dropping it.
Characters: 9.7/10
With the focus being on the treasure between two siblings, the two collect a lot of attention.
Koshiro is constantly in conflict with himself throughout the series. His brain knows what he’s thinking and doing is bad, yet his heart tells him otherwise. He tries to veil his inner conflict from Nanako by simply being a abominable brother at first, attempting to push her away. His guilt over how he feels eventually drops down and allows him to be VERY obedient with her, but he level-headed knows it’s outrageous to reflect and feel how he does about his kid sister.
Nanako, on the other hand, doesn’t have the same conflict Koshiro has going on lawful from the launch. Being naive, she takes his aggressive attitude as nothing more than him being a awful brother, not able to understand what reason he could possibly have to act the device he does. She does eventually commence to understand that her enjoy feelings are above and beyond sisterly treasure, leading to the feelings of both coming out in the launch.
Both characters have a lot of depth, as you’d ask. The rest of the cast don’t really find fleshed out very remarkable, but that doesn’t matter an poor lot when the 2 most primary characters do derive fully fleshed out, hence the high rating.
Art / Animation: 8.5/10
It looks and moves agreeable enough for a exhibit without any action sequences. The art, while not of the highest level, looks superior enough to accomplish Nanako observe like the most cute thing I’ve ever seen.
There are no problems, the series is in wide-screen and it looks more than righteous enough for a series that doesn’t have action driving it onwards.
Sound: 8.5/10
I didn’t like the soundtrack very great at first due to there not being many tracks that stand out. However, on reflection, I understand that the music stale was blooming worthy perfect for this type of expose - it’s irrelevant how many tracks there are that I’d listen to away from the series; the only thing that matters is that the music fits the series and sets the true mood for whatever scene it’s playing during, which the Koi Kaze soundtrack does.
Total: 9.1/10
Overall, Koi Kaze is one the best series I’ve ever watched…along with I being the most depressing and one of the most unsettling. If you can handle a tragic anecdote, this series is unmissable.
