Story Koi Kaze, is an anime that is about a 27 year old guy who falls in love with a 15 year girl not knowing she is his sister. I don’t really care about incest so I wasn’t really bothered by the theme of this anime. I have to admit this anime was one amazing romance anime. This anime deals with age gaps and incest pretty smartly. It made me care about characters so much. I felt their pain and happiness the whole time. The pace was a bit slow but it didn’t make the anime boring, just realistic. One thing I really liked was that it showed boys have feelings too. And not a lot of anime show this side of boys. This anime is really heavy and deep and I don’t know why it’s barely viewed by people. The drama was great I think a few of us can relate to the characters. Not in the incest aspect but all the drama and problems they go through. This kind of romance with no Ecchi involved was a good change of pace. One of the things I liked about this anime was the flashback episodes. It showed young Koushirou and what started happening when his sister was born. As a person who has a younger brother I completely felt all the stuff he felt. They even showed what divorce does to kids. I really liked this anime and I really want more people to watch this. This anime is an example of a serious and interesting look into a possible scenario for a incestuous theme anime that is more believable. The divorce and things the main character went through made the psychological aspect of this anime pretty good. It made the story way more amusing.
Characters I can’t find any flaws with the way characters were written. Before talking about the two main characters I’m gonna talk about the rest of the characters. All the characters in this anime were realistic. Not only with their designs, but their personalities as well. How they reacted to Koushirou loving his young sister or how they behaved were all realistic unlike other anime that go all supportive and happy in this anime we saw that no character accepted this love. I really liked how realistic this anime was. Now I’ll talk about our two main characters.
Nanoka Kohinata Nanoka is the little sister I kept talking about. I found her appearance beautiful. But her personality was confusing. You can say Her personality was flawless but that was weird. She was the perfect little sister and since she and her brother were apart for so long it made this side of her personality weird. She tried really hard to make Koushirou like her, not in a romantic way but sibling way, and she kept failing. She kept trying and trying and I really liked this part of her personality. Koushirou Saeki Unlike Nanoka, Koushirou couldn’t accepted a little sister living in the same house as him after all this time. Panties, bras and a sister who kept being like “Onii-chan” everywhere. He just couldn’t take it. By that I don’t mean not liking the sister he has, I mean not seeing her as a sister. This made his personality and behavior realistic. He was heartbroken and alone so Ofc this beautiful girl being around made him fall for her. This may sound weird, but I liked how he reacted after finding out his own desires. He left the house and stopped any contact with his sister. He believed this desires and love he has for her are all wrong and he should stop. I really liked this. The Characters in this anime are really amazing.
Art & Animation Lets be honest, the art wasn’t good at all. some point the characters looked weird and the other they looked flawless. The old style this anime has makes it hard for people that like modern anime to watch it, but even with the old style I still enjoyed it pretty much. Background and sceneries were detailed and pretty good. The only thing that bothered me were the humans animated. They looked some how weird specially with their designs. The character designs were average and looked realistic. Unlike modern anime this anime didn’t have that colorful aura. Since that fact made the anime more realistic I didn’t dislike it at all. Overall I really liked the animation even though I would have changed some things personally. I wish they would’ve remade this anime with better quality and animation or even make another season but they left it at that.
Soundtracks The opening was stunning. Not only the video but the lyrics and music sounded amazing. Every episode I watched the opening enjoying the music but after the first episode I skipped the ending. The endings music was ok but the video wasn’t anything special and both, opening and ending, lyrics were amazing. The voice acting wasn’t that good especially for Nanako. I think it got on my nerve the first 3 episodes but later on I got used it so... yeah the voice acting could be better. The ost, original sound track, was amazing. Especially in the drama scenes they were used smartly. The ost matched the mood and it makes the viewer feel all the emotions. They did a great job on the ost and music but the voice acting could be better. To be honest I thought this anime is for 19s because of the voice acting and animation but I was wrong. Wish they would remake this masterpiece.
Overall This anime is really captivating. It opened my eyes to a lot of sensitive topics. It was real and there wasn’t any weird drama involved. The ost, original soundtrack, wasn’t bad and I enjoyed it. I never thought I would enjoy Koi Kaze this much but I did! If you like romance and psychology then this anime is for you! One thing that made me fall in love with this anime is that it deals with sensitive topics perfectly. Koi Kaze is one of the most underrated anime I’ve ever seen :( I wish more people knew about it.
