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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 13, 2021 to Dec 29, 2021

Premiered: Fall 2021

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 01:00 (JST)

Producers: Visual Arts, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation

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Studios: LIDENFILMS Kyoto Studio

Source: Original

Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life

Duration: 4 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Ranked: #3790²

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Popularity: #4087

Members: 29,589

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People from various worlds and across different universes attend Kaginado Academy, a school of which its creation can only be attributed to a miracle. While everyone is trying to lead a normal school life, the clash of bustling personalities causes many of the students to beg questions about their world and the complexes they brought with them.

Ryou Fujibayashi feels like her life is dictated by how she is judged by others, expressing her jealousy toward other girls. Yukito Kunisaki constantly finds himself out of place and neglected, continuing to wander around unemployed and penniless. Meanwhile, Ayu Tsukimiya keeps running into the most untimely of situations—all while crashing into her surroundings along the way. Such is life at Kaginado Academy, and all the fourth wall breaking and comedic antics that come with it!

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Character:	Air, Kanon, Kanon (2006), Clannad, Angel Beats!, Little Busters!, Rewrite, Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume, Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito
Sequel:	Kaginado Season 2

Hirohashi, Ryou
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Sakamoto, Kazuya

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Maeda, Akane

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Aoshima, Takashi

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Okano, Touya

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Dec 28, 2021

SSSTenshi

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Kaginado. The series that covers many stories, the story of those who can fly in the sky, the stories of fake worlds, even the story of forgotten memories.

A series that brings all of Key's works together and does it fabulously. These 12 weeks of Kaginado airing had been brilliant. A quick reminder though, you will need to have watched/played the following visual novels Key has created, Kanon, Air, Clannad, Planetarian, Little Busters!, Rewrite and Angel Beats.

STORY: Kaginado doesn't have a true set story or anything like that. It's simply a hilarious comedy show based in a high school setting that brings many of Key's works ...

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Dec 28, 2021

Ragio

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"My child, please listen carefully..."

There´s a forgotten girl.
A girl in the sky.
A girl with a strange disease.
A shy girl playing baseball.
A girl in the moon.
And a girl who wants to see the stars.
These 6 make me who i am today. Without KEY, we may have not have had the impact on drama/romance visual novels or anime we have today. The fantastic character designs and personality; the comedy genious laying around in every episode making me laugh my ass off and the climax scenes turning every man into a crybaby; all of this adds up for unforgetable experiences within our hearts.

Yet one question remains. What ... if they ALL got togheter? Strap yourself in because you've just gotten into something special.
‌Before you do that you must have READ or WATCHED: Kanon/Kanon 2002,Kanon 2006; AIR/AIR TV,AIR:The Motion Picture,AIR: In Summer;CLANNAD/CLANNAD, CLANNAD:After Story; Little Busters!/Little Busters!,Little Busters!:Refrain, Little Busters!: EX; Kud Wafter Rewrite,Rewrite:Harvest Festa!/Rewrite,Rewrite Second Season; Planetarian/Planetarian(anime)/ Tomoyo After(this one you must play as there is no anime.)
Don't let the chibi style or 4 minute episode runtime fool you; it's a masterpiece! The classic jokes such as "Toilet Seat Cover" or Kyousuke being a lolicon are very much present with the addition of lots of references to specific scenes or character traits but with a few wholesome moments that bring water to our eyes. Sadly(and this might be a huge drawback to you)character attention might vary a lot. Because it's a limited cast, some characters might show up in 4 episodes while others show up with 3 lines of dialogue with 10 seconds. Personally, i didn't feel loss with that because they really can make every episode feel unique with the same set of characters specially when you can feel that they've enjoyed working on this project; i really loved the voice acting. One major example of this is Misuzu's voice actress. Her past VA is no longer with us so she had big shoes to fill in the girl in the sky. Let me tell you, she was perfect; it was just barely a 1:1 to the original.
Finally, KEY also brought the audience their favourite tunes back; i'm talking about the BGM playing in each one of the games(not all of course) and one special singer returned to melt our hearts once again: Lia.

After watching Kaginado, all i could feel was that this anime was a "Thank you for being there." A Thank you to all of us fans who have witnessed these wonderful and powerful stories that will forever have marked history and our lives.
So from me and all of the fans; Thank you for inspiring millions of people to pursue their dreams and to give us more meanings of important words such as family or friendship.

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NowItsAngeTime

Mixed Feelings

NOTE: If you want to watch this series make sure you've either watched the anime and/or read the original visual novel for Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters, and Rewrite. Or at the very least, make sure you're OK with spoilers from any of them. The first episode alone specifically has the most spoilery scenes from each of those 5 series.

Kaginado at its core is a parody comedy series. It takes characters from 6 different series: Kanon, Air, Planetarian, Clannad, Little Busters, and Rewrite, and puts them in the same school while making lots of jokes and callouts to the character personalities and development.

I quite like ... the overall presentation of the show. It uses a chibi style that works well with the characters' designs and the overall goofy parody nature of the show. Every major characters from the above mentioned series get at least 1 speaking part, and most of them get their original Japanese VA back (minus a few who had VAs pass away since their anime or VN).

The idea of getting characters from different series interacting with each other was a nice treat. Whether it was the Marine Life Alliance of Fuuko, Ayu, and Shizuru, the main protagonists having a secret meeting with bags over their heads, a Kotori vs Yukito duel, or many heroines interacting at a school swimming pool. I quite enjoyed seeing the interactions of characters who would otherwise never interact.

Unfortunately Kaginado has 3 major flaws for me:

1) The overall length of the series. Each episode is only 3-ish minutes each. With this many characters to cover, many only get maybe 1-3 lines at most. And with this season only being 12 episodes, it seems like a gigantic waste and unfairly balanced. A few characters appear in almost every episode like Sunohara or Shizuru while characters like Komari get 3 speaking lines in only 1 late episode despite being one of the more popular and important heroines of Little Busters.

2) This one is up for debate but I thought the parody comedy was... hit or miss. If you watched Carnival Phantasm, a parody of Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night, I'd say the comedy style is similar to that. Some jokes were funny and clever, but others... I just thought were very cringe. Basically a lot of the humor was exaggerating parts of characters' personality or story to use for comedic purposes. That can be good in theory, but many times in this show, it was maybe... too exaggerated? It had that anime parody style of characters YELLING THEIR JOKES. I don't know how else to explain it.

3) Modern KEY series past Rewrite are not referenced at all. Kaginado is supposed to be a celebration of KEY's main works, with its parody jokes and whatnot. However, only the main series mentioned above get any speaking lines. If you were hoping for major appearances from Angel Beats, Charlotte, Harmonia, Summer Pockets, or The Day I Became God, you're SoL. It's possible we may get a season 2 with these series, but I thought the fact these series weren't even directly referenced at all was a big waste.

In conclusion, Kaginado is a tough one to recommend. You have to be a pre-existing KEY fan of all their earlier works, you have to be OK with a parody comedy style that exaggerates character personalities, and you have to be OK with a series that essentially adds up to just a little under 40 minutes total. If these criteria are fine with you, definitely at least give it a try. If not, I'd check out something else.

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