Ginban Kaleidoscope

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Ginban Kaleidoscope ( Japanese. 銀盤 カ レ イ ド ス コ ー プ ) is a nine-part light novel series by Rei Kaibara , which was implemented as manga and anime . The work can be classified into the genres of romance and comedy .

action

The 16-year-old professional figure skater Tazusa Sakurano ( 桜 野 タ ズ サ ) lives with her trainer and his daughter in their own house. During a qualifying tournament in Montreal, she crashes on a triple Lutz , while at the same time, Canadian Pete Pumps' plane explodes in a similar looking sightseeing maneuver. Back in Japan, they both discover that Tazusa is obsessed with Pete's ghost. Tazusa tries to drive out Pete in panic, but as he later learns from God, he has to stay in Tazusa's body for 100 days and perceives everything that she perceives, but he cannot read her mind or control her.

While Tazusa strictly rejects him at first and eats as much tomatoes as possible, which Pete hates, to torture him, over time a friendship and even a love develops between the two. Together they learn for school (whereby Tazusa uses Pete's technical and foreign language skills) and train Tazusa's figure skating, which Pete can also help her with thanks to his experience as an aerobatic pilot. But that's not all, because Tazusa could qualify for the Olympic Games and, in addition to a tough competitor in Japan, also has some strong international opponents. In addition, her spontaneous outbursts of anger and harsh behavior towards the press make her not popular. In addition, talking loudly with Pete, whom nobody else sees, often puts her in embarrassing situations. During her performances, she often makes mistakes when jumping complex jumps and she lacks the charisma that a figure skater needs to cast a spell over people. In the course of the series, however, these skills develop and she manages with Pete's help through extraordinary demonstrations and a higher degree of dedication to the Olympic Games, where she only achieved fourth place despite the great enthusiasm of the audience. On the same day Pete has to leave, whose greatest wish to inspire people with a grandiose demonstration has also been fulfilled.

publication

The light novel was published from June 2003 to November 2006 under the imprint Super Dash Bunko by Shūeisha in Japan.

Adaptations

Manga

From August to December 2005, a manga adaptation of the light novel was published in Margaret magazine by Shūeisha. The series was designed by Jun Hasegawa . The individual chapters also appeared in two tankōbon . Ching Win Publishing publishes the manga in Taiwan.

Anime

Television broadcast
Original title 銀盤 カ レ イ ド ス コ ー プ
Ginban Kaleidoscope
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 2005
length 25 minutes
Episodes 12
genre Romance, comedy
idea Rei Kaibara
music Koichiro Kameyama
First broadcast October 8, 2005 - December 24, 2005 on TV Tokyo
synchronization

The twelve-part anime series based on the light novel was produced by Karaku in 2005 and directed by Shinji Takamatsu . The character design is by Momoko Makiuchi and the artistic director was Kazusuke Yoshihara. The series aired from October 8 to December 24, 2005 by TV Tokyo in Japan.

An English version of the anime was broadcast by Animax- Asia. Animax also aired the series in South Korea.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Tazusa Sakurano Ayako Kawasumi
Pete Pumps Hiroyuki Yoshino
Yohko Sakurano Khiva Saitō
Yukie Mishiro Hiroko Suzuki

music

Koichiro Kameyama composed the music for the series. The opening credits are Dual by YeLLOW Generation, the credits are using the song energy by Marina Inoue .

Further

To Ginban Kaleidoscope were at Radio Osaka and NACK5 broadcast radio plays. Taito also developed a mobile game.

reception

According to the specialist magazine MangasZene , the concept of two souls in one body is not new and the animation of the series is only average. Nevertheless, the anime is entertaining, the characters well worked out and appealingly designed. The plot offers humor and a realistic insight into the world of figure skating.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MangasZene No. 31, p. 25

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