(WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS AND A LOVE STORY ABOUT INCEST, TOPIC THAT COULD BE DISTURBING OR DISGUSTING FOR SOME PEOPLE, IF DON'T LIKE IT, SIMPLY IGNORE IT WITHOUT OFFENDING ME, THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING)
"Koi Kaze" is a seinen anime of 13 episodes based on the manga written by Yoshida Motoi, a manga of 35 chapters.
The story begins during Spring with the protagonist, Saeki Koushirou, a 27 years old employed man, who recently has been dumped by his girlfriend who said she was in love with another man. He then takes the train to go to his workplace, and he will then encounter the most beautiful cherry blossom he had ever seen, Nanoka Kohinata, a 15 years old girl who was returning from school. He will then notice she was crying, and that she has forgotten her train pass. He will eventually return it to her, and they will both feel a strong connection between them, despite being strangers with a big age difference.
Soon later, they will encounter each other again near an amusement park, and they will decide to have a sort of "date" together and talk a bit with each other. While riding a Ferris Wheel, they will both open up their heart about being recenlty rejected by their crush, surprised about how much coincidences they both shared.
Koushirou will then break down and cry to his surprise, and he will then be comforted by Nanoka. He then realizes he is very attracted to her, without knowing that Nanoka feels the same. Right after the date, Koushirou will meet his father, and he will discover that Nanokai is in fact her younger sister, but that he couldn't meet her because of their parents' divorce.
They will be both very surprised, and they will try their best to forget their romantic feelings, especially Koushirou, both because she was his sister and because she was underage, however when they will have to live under the same roof, their feelings will grow more and more.
This isn't a story for everyone, but I still think it shoud be seen by more people, to make us understand how love isn't a choice and that should be respected and understood.
One time I was searching about incest, and I found an article about a daughter and a mother who loved each other and that because of that, they both had been arrested for years and years. Despite being very open minded, I still thought it was a bit strange, however I thought to myself: They just love each other, they aren't doing any bad things to the world or other people, it is really necessary and a right thing to do to arrest them just because they were both in love with each other? Even with the same penality duration of rapists and killers?
I honestly thought it was really ridiculous, and I began to think that incest is way more normal than what we think, especially because we all come from incestuous relationships. That's why we are all here, but I understand that it is better if incestuous couples do not have kids, for the Children's health.
I really hope that one day all of us will see incestuous love like we now see homosexual love, because it really is nothing more than just LOVE.
Incestuous relationships will simply be like them, unfortunate couples who can't have kids, but that still deserves to be respected and to have their own happiness, even if it is a really peculiar one.
They don't do any bad to society, that's why we should let them be.
Fortunately, some countries like Japan have legalized incest, however many countries (My country included) still do not accept it.
I really hope we will become even more open minded than we are one day, and that incestuous people will not have to live in shame or hiding in the shadows, because they are people just like us who are in love.
Please try to respect it.
Thanks again for reading my review and have fun on mal as always! <3
