Koi Kaze

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No joke this anime is better than the entire state of Alabama, so you should watch it if you are not too sensible on the topic of incest. Good story, good music, Ok animation, and decent characters (except Koshiro at the beginning is kind of unlikeable for being mean to his sister Nanoka for little to no reason). Nanokas friends don’t really affect the plot at all, except for this one boy that asks her out during the culture fest, in which she declines saying that she is not ready for a relationship. I didn’t really care for the ending, because ... it is a cliffhanger they do not tell their parents about their relationship and we can only believe that they will stay together without telling them. Overall I found myself enjoying most of this anime, I don’t feel as if my time was wasted although there are far better anime out there, just not covering the subject on incest.

7/10
Review written: January 30 1:24AM

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I did not enjoy this. Now let me be specific here. This is not a horrible show or something that I will tell others is bad or god awful or something. No. This show was just not for me. I did not enjoy this. Why?
The taboo. Yeah I know, big shocker. Look at mister original here, not liking something because it tackles a social stigma in a realistic way that makes the viewer as well as the characters feel uncomfortable. Like it did what it intended and I couldn't enjoy it. Mister original ... award goes to.... ME! Oh wait... this is the band wagon award... Damn.

Joke aside. Koushiro meets a high school girl after getting his heart stomped on. He, at first, doesn't care. However, when circumstances lead him to go to the carnival with this high school girl... he opens up and cries and she comforts him. She admits her heart was broken too. They comfort each other and the sparks start to fly.
Issue 1 - He is a 27 year old adult and she is a 15 year old high school girl.
Issue 2 - After a day at the carnival, she meets her father. Who happens to be his father. That's right! They are blood related siblings who haven't seen each other since they were super young. Their parents are divorced.

The premise is that these two must go through the social stigma hell and discover if love truly knows no bounds. AND! That is all I will say. I can not say more with out spoiling it.
Koushiro is a tall beefy looking manly man of a man who tries to bury his feelings behind being an asshole big brother. He can't help but soften up. Nanoka is a young lady who is curious about her older brother and wants to get closer to him. despite him being a butt face. I found moments where I genuinely laughed and moments I genuinely felt things for these two. I hated that this anime made me feel. It should not have. I felt weird watching it and I felt weird when it was over. I wanted to peg this as a show with shock value and nothing else. Like the Domestic Girlfriend anime (The manga was fire and I will die on this hill).

However, this anime has charm and realistic written characters who react in a way that doesn't break immersion and I respect that. I came in wanting to hate this, as it was a recommendation from a friend, but walked away not knowing how to feel.
My personal score is a 6 out of 10. I see many giving it a 10. I can see why, but I stand by my personal score. Watch it if you feel like needing food for thought. You can NOT turn your brain off to watch this. Sorry. It is not a dumpster fire.

This show literally was just one scene away from being great. One scene completely ruins it and changes what could have been a pure and responsible relationship into an unforgivable mistake.
Love can have many forms and meanings for different people, so maybe many will disagree with me. I think even between siblings, it is completely ok to say openly that you love each other, to hug and be physically close. It is not common, but it is not necessarily bad. Physical touch can be comforting and calming. It doesn't need to cross into lust or pleasure. There may even be cases where it's ok if ... it eventually does, though I know I'm getting into muddier waters here, so I'll stop. It is irrelevant to this show anyway, as a clueless 15-yo girl saying she loves her big brother certainly is not such a case. There clearly can not be any lust from her side. Thus any from the brother should have been kept suppressed.
Yet for some reason the show's authors seem to consider saying the word "love", a hug, and sex equal. Once you break one, you got no choice but go for the other too? There is no middle ground? There was not even a hint of a possibility or an attempt to treat them as separate, or to only suppress the worst of them. And I've seen the same in many other shows about incest. Is that a Japanese thing? I don't get it, but it completely ruined the show.