Kamichu!

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Kamichu!
Kamichu DVD1.jpg
Cover of the first Japanese DVD, showing from left to right Mitsue, Yurie, and Matsuri
かみちゅ!
Genre Fantasy, slice of life [1]
Created by

Kamichu! was adapted as a manga serialized by MediaWorks in Dengeki Daioh , a shōnen manga magazine, and collected in two tankōbon volumes.

There are fourteen episodes plus one short episode in the manga series. Four long episodes consist of two parts (02+03, 04+05, 09+10, 12+13).

#TitleRelated Anime episodes
01Transliteration: "Seishun no Ijiwaru" (Japanese: 青春のいじわる)ep01
Similar story to Anime's. In the first scene, Kenji draws a mustache on Yurie's face in her dream because she is a god.
02Transliteration: "Kami-sama Onegai ~ first part" (Japanese: 神様お願い〜前編)ep02 (ep01)
Similar story to Anime's. Miko is introduced and they hold a ceremony in this episode.
03Transliteration: "Kami-sama Onegai ~ sequel" (Japanese: 神様お願い〜後編)ep02
Similar story to Anime's.
04Transliteration: "Sonna Tsumori ja Nakatta no ni ~ first part" (Japanese: そんなつもりじゃなかったのに〜前編)ep03
Similar story to Anime's.
05Transliteration: "Sonna Tsumori ja Nakatta no ni ~ sequel" (Japanese: そんなつもりじゃなかったのに〜後編)ep03
Similar story to Anime's.
06Transliteration: "Koi no Kakuritsu 51%" (Japanese: 恋の確率51%)N/A
Yurie and Kenji takes a makeup exam after the final exam. Kenji tells Yurie that he would like to see the long haired girl he saw in the typhoon.
07Transliteration: "Hoshi no Hana-taba" (Japanese: 星の花束)ep04
"Team ShiYAwase" is sent from the God Association. They try to make a wish of a lady they met at Yashima Shrine come true.
08Transliteration: "Hitori ja Irare nai" (Japanese: ひとりじゃいられない)ep07
Yurie, Mitsue and Matsuri enjoy shopping. Yurie loses her way and meets a god of old fashioned toy who is almost forgotten by people. Yurie plays with the toy, and the god arises in people's mind for a while. That reminds Yurie herself the appreciation for her own friends.
N–ATransliteration: "Zen-ryaku, Michi no Ue yori" (Japanese: 前略、道の上より)N/A
A short side story. Daily life of the people from Oshou's perspective.
09Transliteration: "Kami-sama Help! ~ first part" (Japanese: 神様ヘルプ!〜前編)ep10
Yurie is appointed as Mayor for a Day. When she is complimented by Mayor, she is carried away and tries to make everyone's demands come true.
10Transliteration: "Kami-sama Help! ~ sequel" (Japanese: 神様ヘルプ!〜後編)ep10
When she wakes up after a long sleep, Yurie finds she made troubles all over the town. But people already know they are the one who should make the town better by themselves.
11Transliteration: "Ie-nai Hito-koto" (Japanese: 言えないひとこと)ep11
When Miko breaks the bow she obtained from her dead mother, she can't tell anyone. Shokichi notices her trouble and tries to help her out.
12Transliteration: "Tomodachi no Kankei ~ first part" (Japanese: トモダチの関係〜前編)ep12
Similar story to Anime's. Mitsue complains about Matsuri's disregard of Yurie's burden. Their friendship gets worse while Yurie is absent.
13Transliteration: "Tomodachi no Kankei ~ sequel" (Japanese: トモダチの関係〜後編)ep12 (ep11)
Similar story to Anime's. Yurie's classmates offer to give their stitchworks to Yurie at her last class in her temporal school. Finally Yurie gets to be friends with everyone in her class.
14Transliteration: "Gakuen Tengoku" (Japanese: 学園天国)N/A
Yurie's class holds a haunted house at the school festival. When Yurie gets a long hair wig to play a ghost, she tries to figure out why Kenji wished to see the long haired girl.
15Transliteration: "Jun-ai Countdown" (Japanese: 純愛カウントダウン)ep12
On New Year's Eve, Yurie helps the Yashima Shrine. Kenji gives a practice of a big-scaled calligraphy to Yurie. Yurie is worried about that she can't confess her love to Kenji. At the moment the god Benzaiten drops in to see Yurie and encourages her.
16Transliteration: "Kami-sama no Timing" (Japanese: 神様のタイミング)ep06 (ep15)
When Kiyomi wants to give a chocolate to Kenji for Valentine's Day, Yurie helps her. Kiyomi notices that Kenji is in love with Yurie unconsciously. So she decides to back away from Kenji and gives him her chocolate just as an appreciation. But Yurie misunderstands the situation because she sees Kenji receives it so readily.
17Transliteration: "Kumori, Nochi Hare" (Japanese: 曇り、のち晴れ)N/A
While Yurie is stuck in her room, the town economy gets down again. Yurie tries to bounce herself back and figure out the reason. She happened to know Kiyomi's feelings on her way and finds out the reason of the bad economy, too. But she is still nervous to confess her love to Kenji. At the moment, many incidents related to proverbs happen throughout the town.
18Transliteration: "Hora ne, Haru ga Kita" (Japanese: ほらね、春が来た)N/A
Troubles are made by Kenji's calligraphies and a spiritual paper weight he happened to pick up. They tear all the calligraphy but the last one "snowy season" (冬将軍) is blown away. So Kenji and Yurie writes big "first spring storm" (春一番) on the snow in union. When Yurie shouts "Kamichu", spring suddenly comes and Kenji sees the long haired girl standing beside him holding their hands.

Music

Three Kamichu! CDs were released:

  1. アイスキャンディー Maxi - 2005-08-24 [5]
  2. 晴れのちハレ! Maxi - 2005-08-24 [6]
  3. Kamichu OST - 2005-10-26 [7]

Reception

The anime received an Excellence Prize at the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival. [8]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Santos, Carlo (May 31, 2006). "Kamichu! DVD 1 - Review". Anime News Network . Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ Episode 14 contains a scene in which Yurie is reading a newspaper with date printed as January 1, 1984.
  3. ↑ "FUNimation Entertainment and Geneon Entertainment Sign Exclusive Distribution Agreement for North America" (Press release). Anime News Network. July 3, 2008. Retrieved July 22, 2008.
  4. ↑ "Funimation Confirms Some Geneon Licenses Have Expired". Anime News Network. August 17, 2011. Retrieved August 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ アイスキャンディー (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp . Retrieved October 19, 2007.
  6. ↑ 晴れのちハレ! (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp . Retrieved October 19, 2007.
  7. ↑ かみちゅ! オリジナル・サウンドトラック (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp . Retrieved October 19, 2007.
  8. ↑ "Award-winning Works". Japan Media Arts Plaza. 2005. Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2007.
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