List of Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl characters

The series takes place in the fictional Kashima ward in Tokyo, Japan,[1] and the storyline follows the lives of a group of friends and the relationships they share through life-altering changes.

The characters that Akahori developed were praised for creating a full bodied impression of the people,[2] and being honest about their feelings,[3] however were described at the same time as "seemingly stereotyped" that gain depth through thoughtful scenes.

[1] As a child, Hazumu grew up with his close friend Tomari Kurusu who would often protect him from bullies that would tease him and make him cry.

[7] One day early in his second year of high school, Hazumu is pressured by his friends Tomari and Asuta to confess to Yasuna, which he goes along with.

In order to rectify this mishap, and in accordance with his own laws, the alien resurrects Hazumu, but in the process unexpectedly changes his sex to be completely female,[1] right down to the DNA level.

[8] Shortly after Hazumu's transformation, she is unsure on how to live life as a girl and is initially very clueless about typical female matters.

In the manga, this is shown to a much lesser extent and Hazumu is able to adjust to living like a girl much quicker and with less direct interference from others than in the anime.

[6][8][9] Hazumu's personality in the manga is more direct than her anime counterpart, such as when expressing outward annoyance towards her parents' eccentric behaviors, and Hitoshi's awkwardly straightforward interferences in her love life.

[14] Due to this, she was never able to get along well with others; on top of not being able to see the boys in her class at school, the girls who would normally interact with them were different compared to Yasuna, which built up a divide between her and everyone else.

However, even when Hazumu confessed his love to her in their second year of high school, she rejected him since he was still a boy, and she was afraid that he too would one day disappear from her vision.

[1][19][28][29] Keeping with her stance on watching from afar, Ayuki continuously observes the ongoing development of the love triangle between Hazumu, Yasuna, and Tomari.

During Hitoshi Sora's first biology lesson at school, Ayuki commented that he leads a most intriguing class, referring to the genetically modified sunflowers he engineered which also turned out to be rather harmful.

[26] When Hitoshi tells Hazumu friends that she only has one month left to live, Ayuki reveals that she knew he was the space alien this entire time, due to his vast knowledge of science.

Hitoshi corrects her that his species is not omnipotent and while his people may be more advanced technologically, they are still inferior as a race compared to humans of Earth.

[31] After Ayuki learns that Hitoshi will remain on Earth for the next 100 years, she expresses interest in becoming a human collaborator in his observations of love.

On one occasion, Hitoshi asks Namiko to brave Hotakadake in order to retrieve a pennant from the mountain peak, which she accomplishes.

[36] Namiko's attraction towards Hitoshi borders on obsession as she hangs large pictures of him on her walls at her home, and constantly is thinking or dreaming about him.

[12] She continuously shouts loud expressions of her desire to have Hitoshi as her boyfriend and future husband, and even fantasizes about this coming true on multiple occasions.

[16] While the students in her class are initially concerned about her many falls,[6][13] they become jaded by how often it occurs and pay no attention to her potentially getting injured later on in the series.

He arrived to Earth via his spaceship run by an artificial intelligence named Jan Pu, but crash lands on the surface where Hazumu is, killing him instantly.

[14] However, even after becoming a calm, logical race where emotional clashes such as violence and war disappeared completely, his people also started to lose their sexual urges in order to propagate his species further.

[26]Hitoshi has an utter lack of human customs and way of life, and due to this unfamiliarity, his comments often provide the series with an outside perspective on love.

Her first appearance has her in disembodied form as the navigator of Hitoshi's ship and she is responsible for the crash landing on Earth and for killing Hazumu.

[6] Other than technically being an artificial being, she generally acts like a human child due to being enthusiastic about meeting new people and possessing little to no social skills for a girl who looks to be the age of seventeen.

[14] She addresses Hazumu as onee-nii-sama (お姉兄さま, literally "older sister-brother"), and often says the nonsensical word "pū" during exclamations of emotion.

[39] Since his mother had always wanted a daughter instead of son,[8] she often dressed Hazumu up in young girl's clothes, saying that gender discrimination is not a good thing.

"[42] Anime News Network (ANN) reviewed Katsura's art, writing that "[s]he knows how to draw characters that are distinctive and appealing in whatever outfits [s]he put[s] them in.

"[43] While the female cast "provides a great contrast of looks" according to ANN, "the male characters, though easily distinguishable, stand out less.

"[2] ANN wrote that the "characters are honest about their feelings",[3] although are at the same time "seemingly stereotyped" that gain depth through thoughtful scenes.

[4] Hazumu is described as "breez[ing] into his new role as a member of the female gender, some minor issues notwithstanding.