Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen

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Japanese: 神様はじめました～過去編～

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 4

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Aug 20, 2015 to Aug 19, 2016

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Themes: Mythology, Time Travel

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 30 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.40¹ (scored by 82,745 users)

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Ranked: #179²

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Popularity: #1402

Members: 167,745

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While playing in the snow one day at her shrine, the land god Nanami Momozono witnesses her familiar—the fox youkai Tomoe—collapse, with dark markings appearing on his body. Tomoe's former master, Lord Mikage, appears after his long absence and places Tomoe into a magical pocket mirror in order to stave off his ailment.

Mikage explains that long ago, before he and Tomoe had met, the fox youkai was in love with a human woman. Seeking to live as a human with his beloved, he made a deal with a fallen god, but he only ended up cursed and dying. When Mikage discovered Tomoe, the god made the youkai forget his human love as a quick solution. However, something has changed recently to reactivate the curse; Tomoe has fallen in love with his new human master, Nanami. Since there is no way to stop the curse, Nanami wants to stop Tomoe from getting cursed in the first place by traveling back through time, even if it means they may never meet. As Nanami travels back hundreds of years to save her precious familiar, she discovers that she is far more closely bonded to Tomoe than she previously thought.

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Adaptation:	Kamisama Hajimemashita
Prequel:	Kamisama Hajimemashita◎
Sequel:	Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kamisama, Shiawase ni Naru

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Characters & Voice Actors

Tomoe

Main

Tachibana, Shinnosuke
Japanese

Momozono, Nanami

Main

Mimori, Suzuko
Japanese

Mizuki

Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Kurama, Shinjirou

Supporting

Kishio, Daisuke
Japanese

Akuraou

Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

Mikage

Supporting

Ishida, Akira
Japanese

Numa no Himemiko

Supporting

Horie, Yui
Japanese

Kotetsu

Supporting

Ookubo, Chika
Japanese

Sukuna

Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Onikiri

Supporting

Matsui, Naoko
Japanese

Staff

Daichi, Akitarou

Director

Hanae

Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Lyrics

Suzuki, Julietta

Original Creator

Yamanaka, Junko

Chief Animation Director, Character Design

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"Sakura Mikotoba (桜ミコトバ)" by Hanae (eps 3, 4)

Reviews

May 3, 2021

makotoplz

Recommended

[Spoilers ahead, don't read unless you've finished this completely]

These 4 episodes of OVAs undoubtedly, for me, carry this whole show. Ignoring the fact that S2 introduced the character of Kirihito (aka Akuraou) and never continued on that story, these 4 episodes were peak for me.

Don't get me wrong, I liked Season 2 and Nanami's development as a God, but we FINALLY got to see Yukiji properly. Well, not really Yukiji, but you know what I mean. The romance in this was so so good, I wish it had been a whole season instead. I feel like they could've made another season with 12 ... episodes to properly address everything, but I wasn't mad with how it ended.

Only one problem. Kamisama Kiss is built off of a time paradox, and I'm the kind of person that can't overlook these little plot holes. Right off the bat it's clear that something doesn't add up, when we see Tomoe fall in love with Nanami as Yukiji. Time. Paradox. She shouldn't have been there, it doesn't make sense. If Kamisama Kiss had properly made it so there was no plot hole (and it's a pretty big one that affects the entire story), then I'd have to properly commend the writers and creators, but that's not the case.

Time-travel is always a sticky thing to dive into. I feel like an anime has to be extra confident they can tackle and address it properly, because if you're like me, it will change the tone of the entire anime. Although Kamisama Kiss isn't centred around time-travel, it is most certainly built of the whole premise of this time paradox. If it made sense, then everything would change.

Though I can appreciate that the way the story is, is really sweet, so I can overlook it (though it will forever stay in my mind). Other than that tiny (but huge) problem, I loved the OVAs. Nanami as Yukiji looked gorgeous and there is no doubt that Yukiji was known for her beauty, they captured that so well.

The OVAs felt like strictly Tomoe and Nanami time, and I loved it. I probably enjoyed these 4 episodes more than the whole 1st season (and maybe even arguably 2nd). This was the romance I wanted in both seasons, and this is where I got it. I'm not complaining much though, because it left a really good taste in my mouth for Kamisama Kiss.

Overall, these 2 hours of Tomoe and Nanami deserve a solid 8/10. I can't stress enough how good the romance is in this.

**Edited**

After some thorough research, I realised that the one fatal flaw I named wasn't a flaw, and is ACTUALLY a proper theory that is NOT full of holes (despite what one would thing). Time paradox's are a thing, and the one Kamisama is built off of is called pre-destination (I think). That being said, time travel hurts my brain and I'm not fond of the theory of pre-destination in time travel, therefore my overall score will not change. (But definitely worth noting that I don't actually have any complaints about how they tackled time travel, I just have 3 brain cells)

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Dec 2, 2020

nc5681

Recommended

I'm going to assume you've watched season 1 and 2 before reading this.

This OVA hands-down made the whole series for me. The series is beautiful overall, but this OVA made cheer for Tomoe and Nanami so hard.

Story 8/10

You finally see the back story of Tomoe and Nanami. I love the concept of time travel here and how everything seriously tied together so neatly!

Art 10/10

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Aug 11, 2021

Odd-yssey

Not Recommended

TW: S*xual assault.

I have other issues with these OVAs but my main one is that everyone talks about this anime, and no one ever mentions that in Kako-hen they make the romantic interest an abuser???? He literally 100% was going to r*pe the protagonist and that is never acknowledged by the characters afterwards????????

Only writing this because I wish I had been told before I decided to watch it.

I am just so tired and done with content, specifically content whose main audience is young girls, making light of -and even romanticizing- s*xual abuse.

Gross and unnecessary.

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Below is the rest of my review because they won’t let me post it if it has less than 500 characters. Awesome.

The rest of the series (what came before) is very enjoyable and fun, the premise of the OVAs was interesting too, and the beginning of it was promising. I find, however, that as this story unravels there is quite a lot of back and forth; that things that didn’t need to be carried out got too long, and other things that could be explained further, never were. Hopefully, the manga handles this better.

There are some other points which made the series not as good as the previous seasons, in my opinion, such as how they handled the protagonists’ relationship. So far in the series, Nanami had made it a goal of hers to make Tomoe trust humans again and fall in love with her for who she is, and the story choices made in these OVAs feel at odds with that. Also, the characters we’ve known and love so far are left behind in order to introduce new ones that are never fully developed or given proper closure. Kamisama Hajimemashita had side characters that had such a good dynamic and were very likeable, so it is kind of sad leaving that aside this season.

The time traveling is well handled at least, there are no inconsistencies as far as I can remember, I can give it that. I also appreciate how the new female character was nice and badass and not vilified, the way shoujo sometimes does. Also, the animation is consistent with older seasons, so there are no complaints from me there, however, other than that, I honestly don’t think Kako-hen has a lot more going on for itself.

All in all, this instalment of the series, while managing to tie some loose ends, doesn’t fully deliver. It changes the tone and underdelivers in the comedy aspect, which was one of its strongest suits before. The pace and character development are… a little all over the place. Most importantly, in my opinion, they ruined the love interest by making him assault the protagonist and never apologize or have them talk about it. Unfortunately, this whole arc is a step-down for what Kamisama Hajimemashita was so far in almost every aspect, which is only made worse by the fact that this is the climax of the story and the beginning of the end.

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