Girl Meets Girl
かしまし ～ガール・ミーツ・ガール～ 少女は少女に恋をした (Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl - Shoujo wa Shoujo ni Koi wo Shita)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Girls Love
- Love Polygon
- Magical Sex Shift
- School
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 26 min
- Aired
- Oct 27, 2006
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
In the OVA titled *Girl Meets Girl*, released on October 27, 2006, the story picks up as Hazumu grapples with the pain of unrequited love after confessing to Yasuna, only to be rejected. Seeking solace, he ventures to Mt. Kashimayama, the site of their first encounter. However, his journey takes an unexpected turn when he becomes lost in the woods as night falls. As he gazes at what he believes to be a shooting star, Hazumu soon discovers the celestial body is actually a crashing spaceship.
After surviving the crash with the aid of an alien being, Hazumu undergoes a profound transformation—his body is reconstructed, resulting in a new female form. This unexpected change sets the stage for an exploration of identity, love, and the complexities of relationships within a school environment, as Hazumu navigates life from a fresh perspective while dealing with the repercussions of his extraordinary experience.
Otaku Consensus
Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl holds its niche reputation on the strength of its romantic triangle, with reviewers repeatedly praising the Yasuna-Tomari-Hazumu dynamic, the emotionally direct character writing, and Studio Hibari’s pretty if modest presentation. Its sci-fi sex-shift device works best as a pressure test for school, family, and friendship reactions rather than as a gag engine, but the recurring criticism is that the animation is not technically impressive and the melodrama can become prolonged and tear-heavy.
Why You Should Watch
Kashimashi is for viewers who want yuri romance built around conversations, jealousy, and shifting loyalties rather than action, fan-service escalation, or ironic detachment. If Strawberry Panic! gives you the school-romance intensity but you want a more intimate three-person emotional knot, or if Ranma ½’s transformation hook made you wish the consequences were treated more seriously, this scratches that itch. The appeal is watching how Yasuna, Tomari, and Hazumu force each other to define affection instead of hiding behind friendship language. Its comedy is soft, its drama is openly sentimental, and the sci-fi material matters because it changes the social pressure around the romance. Go in for a compact, early-2000s yuri landmark with visible rough edges.
Key Characters
- YYasuna Kamiizumi(VA: Yui Horie)
Yasuna is the triangle’s quiet emotional pressure point, a character fans tend to remember for how her reserved behavior complicates the show’s otherwise direct romantic stakes.
- TTomari Kurusu(VA: Yukari Tamura)
Tomari brings the tomboy energy highlighted in the show’s tag profile, giving the romance a sharper, more reactive counterweight to Yasuna’s restraint.
- HHazumu Osaragi(VA: Kana Ueda)
Hazumu is treated less as a transformation punchline than as a sensitive emotional lens, which is why the gender-shift premise lands closer to drama than parody.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The love polygon is the show’s defining structure rather than a side complication; one review even singled it out as one of the strongest love-triangle dynamics in anime fandom discourse.
- 2
Studio Hibari’s visual approach was described by reviewers as artistically pretty and effective while not especially advanced on a technical level, a balance that fits the series’ character-first priorities.
- 3
Hitoshi Fujima handles the music, while eufonius performs the opening theme, giving the production a distinct mid-2000s melodic identity tied to its romantic-drama tone.
- 4
AniList’s highest tags are LGBTQ+ Themes and Tomboy, both at 79%, which shows how strongly the database audience associates the work with yuri identity and Tomari’s character type rather than with its alien element.
- 5
The Otaku Den entry covers the single-episode OVA released on October 27, 2006, making it a compact companion entry rather than a long-form seasonal commitment.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The original character design credit goes to Yukimaru Katsura, whose designs underpin the soft, rounded character look that reviewers often describe as pretty rather than flashy.
- Fun fact 2
- The main trio is voiced by Kana Ueda, Yui Horie, and Yukari Tamura, three names strongly associated with 2000s anime character acting and romance-comedy casts.
- Fun fact 3
- Across database reception, the title sits in niche territory: MAL lists a 6.75 score from 9,073 votes, while AniList records a 62/100 score and 21 favourites.
- Fun fact 4
- The AniList tag spread puts Aliens at only 20%, far below LGBTQ+ Themes and Tomboy, reflecting how viewers classify the work more by relationship drama than by science-fiction content.
- Fun fact 5
- One viewer recommendation in the collected opinions specifically points readers toward the manga because it goes further into the story, while also noting that the anime can feel somewhat ecchi.
Studios
- Studio Hibari
