Kashimashi, Vol. 4

Kashimashi #4

by Satoru Akahori, Katsura Yukimaru (Illustrations)

Being a girl is harder than it looks...

For Hazumu, this couldn't be truer, because just the other day, she...was a he. Shunned by the girl of his dreams, Hazumu loses himself in the mountains and is promptly squashed by an oncoming space ship. The alien inside, feeling guilty, rebuilds Hazumu's body...but as the wrong gender! Now Hazumu must learn how to be the girl his parents always wanted while dealing with the trials and tribulations of being caught in a love triangle between two girls--his childhood friend, Tomari, and Yasuna, the girl who rejected him but is now strangely attracted to him/her!

Genres: Manga, Yuri, Romance, LGBT, Comics, Transgender, Comics Manga

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 2006

About the author

Satoru Akahori (あかほり さとる Akahori Satoru, Born 赤堀 悟, March 8, 1965 in Handa, Aichi, Japan) is a Japanese scriptwriter, novelist and manga author. He is best known for the Saber Marionette, Sakura Wars and Sorcerer Hunters series, which comes in anime, novel and manga forms.

Reviews

[James Crawford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hazumu is beginning go train someone to take her place taking care of the garden once she dies. Yasuna plays for the school Christmas Concert. Hazumu plans to buy gifts for her friends. Yasuna has a choice whether to go abroad and study music or stay where she is.

There is also a short story and he normal honorifics guide and translation notes.

[Eve Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

uIs so cute~! Is about learning to live for other's sake and girls kissing girls. Is lovely is cute is Kashimashi

[Mehsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The final two volumes and with it some drama and stress because our MC only has one month to live. What will she do? Who will she choose? How will she spend those last moments? I really loved these two volumes despite the heaviness/darkness that hung over it all. Our MC has a choice to make and while I wasn't a fan she didn't let her friends know (they found out through sensei/the alien), I could also somewhat understand it. She already went through a hecking lot, and to add death to it? I would also flail and just try to go day to day. I am very happy how it all ended and who she choose.
I did have to say that Yasuna has grown on me. I am still not 100% a fan of her, but she was less clingy in these volumes and gave the MC a bit more space.

[Noah Soudrette · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume of Kashimashi is bit of a downer after the revelation at the end of volume 3. This volume is really about how we deal with death, particularly, when you know how much time you have left. That said, there's obviously a lot of drama here and it's not as enjoyable as past volumes, especially, when I can;t help but feeling, no one will be dead by the end of this series. Still, this is good stuff.