Alternative TitlesJapanese: かなめも
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 5, 2009 to Sep 27, 2009
Duration:
24 min. per episode Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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SynopsisNakamachi Kana is a junior high school girl. Her grandmother passed away and she was left all alone. She finds a newspaper carrier station and starts working as a live-in carrier. Her room has a hole on the wall. Other female workers living next door comes in through the hole and start a wild merrymaking. |
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CherryHawk
36 of 47 people found this review helpful
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13 of 13 episodes seen
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
7 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
Here we have a yuri, ecchi, slice of life comedy with a little bit of a warm and fuzzy feel to it. If you like those genres then you should definitely check this one out. Allow me to break it down for you...
STORY 7/10- Other than the story behind the main character's arrival we don't have much of a plot, which is fine given the anime's episodic nature which I personally find fitting for a comedy. There are numerous strong ecchi scenes which an outspoken population of anime viewers find distasteful, but I generally look at it as another form of comedy since my typical reaction is to laugh when I see vulgar acts groping and molestation. It all depends on your taste.
ART 7/10- Everything was drawn well, characters were cute in my opinion. Nothing particularly amazing, but it was all in good taste.
SOUND 8/10- Voice acting was great, a lot of big hitters in the cast: Toyosaki Aki (Shugo Chara, K-ON!), Horie Yui (Higurashi,Umineko), Kugimiya Rie (Gintama, Saki), and though not as popular but one of my personal favorites Hirohashi Ryou (Kaleido Star, Bamboo Blade). I must say though, pretty much all these roles are in the shadow of the work that you may find in these fine actors' resumes. Great nonetheless though. I also greatly enjoyed the song for the ED credits... Yahoooo! : )
CHARACTERS 8/10- Our main character is someone you feel very sorry for, which is where this show draws some of it's comedy. Some people might think that that's a horrible thing, but it's not as cruel as it may have been suggested and I personally saw the humor in it. The supporting cast are all very like-able, distinctive characters including a chief who for some unexplained reason is a small child that has the maturity of a 30 year old, a perverted drunk, a lesbian couple and someone who collects money (or something like that. She wasn't in the spotlight much) all female and all moe-tastic!
ENJOYMENT 8/10- I was always excited about this one. It's funny, charming and sentimental (and slightly explicit). I'm really glad I picked this one up.
So if you're looking for a light-hearted ecchi daytime comedy (I like to watch scary stuff and tear-jerkers at night XD) definitely check this one out! read more
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reb3llist
7 of 15 people found this review helpful
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13 of 13 episodes seen
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
6 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
9 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
Stressed out from the most dragging of dragging unfunny and unimportant/fanservice-filled filler episodes ever? Trying to find a totally relaxed slice-of-life anime? Not terribly offended by yuri? (PROTIP: Yuri doesn't have an everlasting effect, there is little to mild yuri hinted here, may be disturbing but most of the time it is quite used in a comical sense)
Then Kanamemo is easily one of the newer ones I would recommend to you. Remember though, that this is a very hit-or-miss thing. What you would benefit from, is to not think of it hugely as a comedy series but instead as a simple slice of life series that is, very easily, a simple slice of life series.
It has got the light-hearted atmosphere that some animes aim for but fail miserably at like it was nothing and it virtually looked like the crew didn't even try making it light-hearted, it was as if it was naturally light-hearted. Compared to some animes that force themselves to look so.
Never put a huge expectation up for this anime for most of the time you will be disappointed.
Of course I had an overall expectation of 8/10 and I did not walk away saying,"I am disappoint.", I instead just closed my video player and told myself how great I am by finishing an anime and did a backflip (lacking faith in some people's sarcasm radar, I will point out I was being sarcastic, seriously).
With a very simple starter story of a run-away girl (grandmother passes away, title character runs away, finds new home in this newspaper center, starts life anew with her newer and more ecstatic friends, leaving behind her old life, although not completely) and an aftermath that doesn't even look much like a plot, there is as much worth to rating this plot as there is to rating Lucky Star's or even telling a refrigerator to make instant curry out of thin air.
The soundtrack, is as of now, an unknown quantity to me. I haven't had a chance to properly listen to it. Most of the times, I don't get to listen to it properly (as I had done with Toradora!, which had a fantastic OST I still listen to today) unless it's in some way very attractive or the BGM was made much louder than the talking seiyuu (e.g Honey & Clover and CLANNAD's soundtrack caught my attention in not 10 minutes) so I don't deem myself too worthy to check on it yet.
Its humour, although not sporadic throughout the whole series and not roll-around-die-laughing humourous, is quite enjoyable. It is very easy to see that some people will complain that its humour is totally non-existent and there are others who'd laugh at it without stop, either way, stuff like this are usually pretty hit-or-miss, but more hit than miss. To be honest, if you wanted a guarantee, it's not as hit-or-miss to most as Lucky Star or Bakemonogatari, that's for sure.
With jokes that aren't at all original, Kanamemo still manages to deliver funny lines every now and then. Sometimes it gets me laughing or it gets me in the cold.
Of course besides the joke itself, intonation is a pretty big factor and in anime, intonation is pretty much the characters. Speaking of the characters, it holds a pretty big all-girls cast with what I could say a great seiyuu line-up (brushing off a certain Tsundere Queen aside, since some people seem to have gotten sick of her).
The cast (pretty much ALL cliched) are comprised of a timid little girl, also title character Kana, 'cheapskate' type-girl (although this isn't hugely shown by her daily attitude but is shown in scene) Hinata, strict-elementary-schooler-boss-but-never-blushing-tsundere Saki, the hyperactive Yume, her quiet companion + requited female love-interest, Yuuki and some yuri-craving/loving drunkard Haruka along with a later-introduced character, a pink-haired tsundere, Mika. Personally though I like Hinata the most as the rest are rather much more bland than her in general. And I never grew to LOVELOVELOVELOVE Kugimiya Rie Tsunderes™ either, aside from.. Toradora's? No never mind.
Might not seem so loveable to you does it?
Of course this again represents my plain saying of how hit-or-miss this show has been. I for one, like it. Simply because it's pretty easy to read, to understand, to pretty much just do anything. If I had to use a metaphor, it's as easy to understand as it is to see something.
Views may vary, that's very obvious and here and there there will definitely be critics but really, I never did expect too much, and got what I wanted, if not marginally surpassed.
So Kanamemo is definitely a title I would recommend to you (depending on who you are) if you said yes to either of my first questions. read more
Recommendations
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If you like the slice of life comedy + yuri combination, you will like both of them.
The setting is different though (Yuru Yuri has a tipical school setting, while Kanamemo is more focused on the life outside school - precisely at work), but the feel is definitely the same with a bunch of cute girls (mostly lesbians, of course) living their normal lifes filled with comedy, jokes and... well, yuri.
Yuru Yuri focuses more on the character relationships than the humor while the reverse is true for Kanamemo, but the latter has a rather distinguishable ensemble whereas the former has a sense of similarity between them. Yuru Yuri provides more, non-canon Girls' Love fodder overall, but Kanamemo has an official lesbian couple with light implications peppered elsewhere in the series. Overall, the content is similar but the presentation is quite different.
slice of life, cute girls, shoujo-ai & similar humour in both of them
Cute girls, lots of questionable moments, and the lack yet presence or yuri.
Yuru Yuri and Kanamemo are both moe comedy series with a Yuri twist included.
The shows have a very similar feel overall, despite many differences between the two in terms of setting, cast and content. Both feature primarily female casts, but while the cast of Yuru Yuri are all junior highschoolers, Kanamemo's cast vary between young children to fully grown adults, all working together distributing a local newspaper.
Both casts are plagued with stereotypical characters, however Kanamemo does have a few original character ideas (such as an adult lesbian couple) while Yuru Yuri does not. However, Kanamemo relies heavily on its weak characters for humour and backfires, while Yuru Yuri focuses instead on the situations the characters find themselves in, as well as non-sequiters, such as breaking the fourth wall.
As far as content goes, both shows could be classified as 'ecchi' although both handle it differently. Kanamemo is far less restrained and more explicit than Yuru Yuri, and includes much more bodily contact between the characters. Yuru Yuri on the other hands seems quieter, if a little more sinister about it.
In terms of entertainment, Yuru Yuri is definitely the funnier of the two, at times managing to be genuinely amusing, while Kanamemo struggles through thirteen laborious episodes with bad jokes from start to finish.
Ultimately neither of these shows are exceptional, or even all that good- but if you enjoy one, you'll almost certainly enjoy the other.
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The story first seen like not intresting ad all, but as u adventure into the story, does it get intresting.
Slice of life comedy with an all girls cast.
Kanamemo is also a comedy with all-girl cast. The humour might be a bit different, but while watching Kanamemo I couldn't help but think about Azumanga Daioh characters! Hinata is a lot like Kagura, Kana's imagination immediately brings Osaka to one's mind, and Yuuki & Yume are a lot like Sakaki & Kaorin might be if they ever got together. Even superdeformed scenes in Kanamemo are closely mimicking Azumanga in style.
both series have child geniuses and despite being the youngest are more mature (chiyo and saki) plus have cat lovers (sakaki and yume) plus mika's love for her dog reminds me of chiyo's love for her own dog. plus have manzai-like characters.hinata and yomi are the tsukkomi while haruka and tomo are the boke
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Opening Theme"Kimi he to Tsunagu KOKORO (君へとつなぐココロ)" by Aki Toyasaki, Kaoru Mizuhara, and Rie Kugimiya
Ending Theme"Yahho!!" by Horie Yui
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