Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl

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Synonyms: Kashimashi, Kasimasi

Japanese: かしまし～ガール・ミーツ・ガール～

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 5

Chapters: 35

Status: Finished

Published: May 21, 2004 to Apr 21, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Girls Love

Themes: Love Polygon, Magical Sex Shift

Serialization: Dengeki Daioh

Authors: Akahori, Satoru (Story), Katsura, Yukimaru (Art)

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Score: 7.29¹ (scored by 3,762 users)

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Ranked: #5023²

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Ranked #5023Popularity #2324Members 8,692

MangaDengeki DaiohAkahori, Satoru (Story), Katsura, Yukimaru (Art)

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Following an afternoon of alien encounters, death, and resurrection, Hazumu Osaragi wakes up to find that he is now a girl. While this is shocking to Hazumu, her friends couldn't be happier! This is especially true for Yasuna Kamiizumi, who has a chronic condition that causes all males to blend together in her eyes. Hazumu has always been the one exception to this condition, to Yasuna's confusion, so she is elated at Hazumu's transformation. However, Hazumu's childhood friend Tomari Kurusu still harbors the romantic feelings she had for Hazumu ever since they were younger. Hazumu now has to choose between two girls competing over her. She feels flattered, but she'd rather just choose them both!

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Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl was published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment from November 29, 2006 to March 18, 2008 and as omnibus volumes from May 26, 2009 to December 8, 2009.

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Osaragi, Hazumu

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Kurusu, Tomari

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Kamiizumi, Yasuna

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Puu, Jan

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Mari, Ayuki

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Tsuki, Namiko

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Osaragi, Touru

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Soro, Asuta

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Osaragi, Kahoru

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Sora, Hitoshi

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Jul 13, 2021

housemouse

Recommended

its better than the anime at least. still not that great, but the gender bender stuff going on is pretty funny, and i liked the alien characters. art is pretty decent and overall its a short, easy read. a certain characters "disability" (if thats what youd call it) is pretty absurd and stupid, but i cant really get into it without spoilers. p much seems like the author wanted some drama to toss in to make things more "interesting" or give some "depth" to the character, but man its just so silly i could never take it seriously. if you really like yuri series you ...

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Jul 24, 2017

aesaloniichan

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So I was happy to find a gender-bender which quite emphatically says no tricks or whatnot, the change is on, now deal with it.

And the end was actually pretty solid, if a little melodramatic.

So basically I was totally on board with this series until the plot development at the end of volume 3/beginning of volume 4 which drives the rest of the plot (drives it, I might add, off a cliff into overwrought melodrama). It just didn't work for me. I mean, don't get me wrong, I couldn't put it down, but I was kind of rolling my eyes for a lot of it.

Still, the ... art style is solid if not as exquisite as the last few manga I read--here solid for consistently using interesting and diverse clothing. I like when artists dress characters in new outfits regularly.

Speaking of the characters, we are and aren't trapped in cliche-land. Our main character, Hazumu, is actually not a type I'd seen much of before, though I admit this could be my ignorance. The "femme boy" who isn't being farmed for BL purposes or used as the butt of jokes is pretty original, and watching her adjust to and accept her new status as completely biologically female is the part of the story that works best. Beyond that, we have what appears to be a yamato nadeshiko (but it's actually weirder, in a frankly BS way), your friendly local tsundere childhood best friend, an unsubtly named Nagato Yuki expy, and the Dumb Best Guy Friend. None of the side characters are fleshed out with particular depth or finesse, but I do like the moments in the first 2 books when both--really all--parts of the love triangle come to grips with girls liking girls.

So let's talk about trans issues. I like that this is a story with the courage to take gender switching seriously, and shows the adjustment that characters have to make to someone expressing a new gender identity. Obviously it's way too easy, but oh well. We do actually see pronouns shift as characters accept reality, and it's frankly shocking in later volumes to see Hazumu misgendered--although I'm a little surprised why one character continues using "-Kun" for her right up to the end. All that said, while the work winks at the experience of gender expression, it doesn't really get into it too deeply. This is fair in one sense; Hazumu is never stated to actually be transgender; her gender gets switched outside her control in a way she never sought, and she just discovers that it's more comfortable than being a boy ever was. But it would be nice, given that the book is trying to take this seriously, to have a little more acknowledgement somehow? It's like the manga can't make up its mind.

Similarly with the issue of homosexuality. My reviews may suggest that I've been reading a lot of yuri lately. Some books are idealized and some are way more realistic takes, with characters having varying levels of difficulty accepting their sexuality and openmindedness toward dating other girls, and varying levels of acceptance from their peers. After the first volume it simply mostly isn't an issue here. This is, on the one hand, a logical extension of the setup--everybody knows that Hazumu was interested in girls before The Event, and the only potential love interests discussed were already in love with him (or approximating it) beforehand--but it's also a cop-out, which I'd overlook in a book where everybody was just cool with it, but I'm less inclined to do so in a book that tries to seriously address the complications and adjustments of this change. Much like the issue of Hazumu's gender identity, it gets raised and sort of addressed, and then it sort of goes away in favor of silliness with a Crazy Alien. Basically there's a big tone shift between volume 1 and 2, and across volume 2, that gets away from issues of identity and more into fairly conventional love-triangle business. I don't need 600 pages of gayngst, but if you're just going to brush it off why raise the issue at all?

Overall, though, this pretty much gave me what I wanted from it, even if I felt the quality slipped about midway through. I might consider revising downward.

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Dec 21, 2022

SillieHonka

Mixed Feelings

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Looking back on this series from when I first read it in high school, as a "boy" I gave it a then harsh score of five. I can't quite pin exactly what drew my ire. I think it mostly boiled down to feeling as though the "wrong" choice was made, or yet a deep seeded envy over how easily a trans girl was loved by her parents, and a lack of overt admission that even before, Hazuma was always a girl. It's left to subtext, which much like Class S of yore is a product of its time perhaps?? I'm not so sure, though, ...

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