Category: Kaze no Shoujo Emily

Yay! Yay! Yay! Finally we get to see Ilse’s background! And boy, does it deliver. This episode was a beautiful tear-jerker, and it more than made up for the lacklustre sixteenth episode. Now all that’s left is Teddy, but I wonder, will there be more? I definitely hope so! Ilse was another one of these persons, just like Perry, who didn’t like to talk about her own problems. That’s why it took so long for this to be addressed, but now that the anniversary of the day where her mother and father met each other had arrived, it had to be more on her mind than usual. Ilse’s mother died because of an accident, and her father was so shocked by this, that he decided to pretend that she never existed, in order to protect Ilse. Ilse, however, interpreted this in a totally different way. Because her father never spoke about her, and would react startled and scary when she was mentioned, she began to think that he hated her. Obviously, as a curious child, you’d want to know the truth about your mother. The result was amazing, and I loved the way in which their misunderstandings were solved, after Ilse gets incredibly angry at him for not telling, and runs away, in the middle of a storm. This episode illustrated perfectly what Kaze no Shoujo is about: the friendship between children and their relationship with adults. In this episode, Emily provides a huge amount of support for Ilse, and we’ve seen Ilse provide the same amount of support for Emily and the others as well. Furthermore, there will always be a gap between adults and children. The adults have experienced things that they don’t want to talk about, while the children can’t understand these things yet. Especially in these days, the adults were afraid of change and rather stubborn, and this can sometimes create conflicts with the playful children. Children, on their turn, often draw the wrong conclusions with their hastened deductions, while adults are way less naive. And that’s what this series is really about, and it does this perfectly.]]>

Ah so she didn’t visit her grandmother, but two of her father’s elder sisters. Emily basically went back to her father’s birthplace. In this episode, she met her father’s childhood friend, with whom he went to college. Obvkously, the two of them would make friends fast. This was one of the lesser episodes of Kaze no Shoujo Emily, though. It may be because the awesome music from the previous episode was gone, but I suspect it was because nothing much happened. I’m glad that Emily went back to Elizabeth at the end of the episode, as I’m eager to see Perry, Ilse and Teddy again.]]>

Oh my god, I loved this episode! Not necessarily because of the story used, as it’s a standard one that’s been used more often by other stories. It’s neither because of Emily, okay, she was as awesome as usual, but she didn’t really add anything new. But seriously, the background music was magnificent. This episode introduced a few new background tunes, and they’re absolutely beautiful! The original soundtrack already was great, but these tunes were still much better than anything I’ve heard on this show up before. About the rest of the episode, Emily visits her grandmother this time. It’s nothing new, it’s nothing special, but Emily’s character alone made this episode yet again so incredibly sweet, so that it was well worth watching, even without the awesomeness of the soundtrack. There was a really creepy atmosphere through the course of the episode, because Emily’s grandmother’s house was supposed to be haunted. Obviously, Emily wouldn’t like that, due to her abundance of imagination. ^^; On a side-note: that eye-catch really scared me! You’ll understand when you see the episode yourself. Anyway, Emily keeps surprising me as one of my favourite series of the spring-season. I can’t wait till the series draws near its end, and even more drama is going to be included. 🙂 Oh, and *note to self: get hands on soundtrack!*]]>

Apologies for the late entry, but for some reason the raws took an unnaturally long time to show up n Share. I don’t like it, but it seems that even in Japan, this show isn’t that much viewed. I can imagine that Emily would be a hard character to swallow in a culture so often polite. In any case, in this episode, Emily gets into a fight with Ilse, and it exactly shows the reason why I like this show so much. In most anime, the serious fights like this one almost always lead to some kind of worst-case scenario, or it at least takes till the final episodes before it gets resolved, but in this show, it just brings the different characters closer together. Another charm of this show is that even though there may be the better and worse episode, for episode I just know that it will give me a warm feeling during watching. Compare that to other series, where it’s always a question whether an episode will feature some amazing plot twists, or just spends its time building up. I suspect that Aria is another one of these kinds of series? (*note to self: watch it someday*) By the way, one thing that surprised me was the fact that Teddy did spend most of the winter with his mother, inside the house. It’s not really put in the spotlights, but his mother does remain overprotective, and the only reason why he was probably allowed to go to the beach this episode was because he never really went out much during the winter. I think that’s the only really bad point of this series: Emily is an excellent character, but I want to see the other characters stand in the spotlights as well.]]>

As a Christmas-episode, it was clear that this episode again would become a success, and I couldn’t help but love this episode. Kaze no Shoujo always manages to give me a warm feeling after every episode, and its characters remain some of the most touching of the entire season. In other words, this series is awesomeness. I liked how, even though this was a Christmas-episode, the episode itself didn’t try to be something more than it was. It focused this time developing Elizabeth’s and Emily’s relationship even more, and made use of the Christmas-party that was held at the New Moon. It seems that Elizabeth has become stricter after the past few episodes, and even though she likes Emily, she stil tries to learn her a few lessons. I’m especially surprised at how much she seems to disapprove of Emily skating. Of course, it is dangerous and all for her, but for her to be this much against it, I wonder whether she speaks from experience… In any case, Emily seems to screw up and breaks a bunch of promises, so as a result, Elizabeth doesn’t let her join the party and she spends the evening in her room, until Jimmy brings her a bit of food. She then even went as far as believing that Elizabeth believes that she doesn’t belong to the family. A woman then discovers her and the tears in her eyes (she had been crying for quite a while now). Usually in similar cases, the adult would cut the child some slack, but Elizabeth really intended to keep Emily away from the party as punishment. The woman really needs to bring Emily downstairs and confront Elizabeth with how she treated the poor girl, and even went as far as offering to take care of her. Elizabeth then really had to show some mercy to Emily, and the results were really touching. Oh, and Emily and Ilse looked awesome in their formal dresses. I love it when anime spend attention to clothing like that, and don’t end up giving the same outfit to a character for every episode (which is another reason I tend to dislike school uniforms. Everyone now looks the same). This definitely is one of my favourite series to have aired in the spring-season!]]>

Seriously, it’s going to be extremely difficult choosing a number one for my upcoming June summary. This episode was once again excellent, and really heart-warming. One thing’s for sure, though: Kaze no Shoujo Emily definitely is the best slice-of-life series of the season and I urge every slice-of-life fan to check this series out as soon as it gets subbed. Seriously, why are shows like these unpopular with the fansubbers? When it comes to feel-good humour, Kaze no Shoujo does a much better job than Lucky Star, in my opinion and on top of that it provides some excellent drama. This episode focuses on Emily’s relationship with Jimmy, and her poetic character causes some misunderstandings again. Jimmy shows her the local newspaper where every week a different poem from a reader gets featured, and he urges Emily to enter as well. Obviously, the poem wouldn’t make it, but Emily spends lots of time, fantasizing about what would happen once her poem appeared in the newspaper. It’s strange. Usually when we see people fantasize it gets annoying. People fantasize about ridiculous things as a means of comic relief, but with Emily, it’s really a part of her character, and therefore very well developed, resulting in me, loving these scenes. Things get even better when Jimmy tries to prevent Emily from finding out that her poem didn’t make it, by buying up all of the newspapers from the local store. Jimmy really was adorable. He seems to really enjoy seeing the energetic Emily happy, and every time he saw her enthusiasm, we saw him with a smile on his face. Another thing I love about this series is how it takes place in Canada. The thing with anime is that most of the series just take place in Japan, while it’s fascinating to see other cultures portrayed. That’s why I usually dismiss anime that have Japanese high-schools as their setting: it’s been done so often, what can possibly be added by the umpth series focusing on it? The Canadian setting of Kaze no Shoujo therefore is really appreciated, and the difference is really noticeable. This episode introduced the winter-clothing of the different characters, and it may be me, but I never saw such outfits in Japan before. That’s probably because the winters in Canada are so much colder than those in Japan.]]>

Fans of Kaze no Shoujo Emily will rejoice with this episode: it’s all about Perry this time. Finally he gets a fair amount of development, and I must say that the result was awesome. This series just continues to surprise me with its characters, as they turn more likable with every episode progressing. It’s an incredible shame that not even ONE episode has been subbed yet. In any case, Perry has troubles with his family as well, just like Emily and Teddy. We already knew that he’s from a poor family, but with this episode, it becomes clear that he lives together with his grandmother, which suggests that his parents both died. The reason he works on the New Moon farm is to get enough money for the both of them to survive. The problem though is that Perry’s grandmother doesn’t approve of him going to school and studying. That, however, changes with this episode, when Perry gets even more motivation to study than he already had. It starts when Emily gives him a book about Abraham Lincoln, who immediately becomes Perry’s hero and source of determination. He wants to be like Lincoln, no matter what. Then it seems that the new teacher decides to host a speech contest: talk about your dreams to a considerable audience. With this, Emily and Ilse immediately think of entering Perry as well. Perry really was amazing in this episode. Even though he only recently learned to read and write and despite his financial situation, he continues to work hard at both his job in the farm and his speech. His determination for his goals was great to watch. All goes well, until his grandmother becomes sick because she went out in a storm when she worried about Perry. Because of this, he spent the Speech contest taking care of her, so Emily won in the end. In the end, though, his grandmother allows him to go to school as well, after which Perry makes an interesting confession about planning to propose to Emily once his dreams have been reached. ^^; I’m more excited about this show than ever, now that it has started to seriously develop its side-characters. I really can’t wait till Ilse and Teddy also get their own episode, and it’ll be great to see Teddy develop. I also wonder if Lola will be getting any serious role in the future. We now know that she comes from an important family, and her little screw-up was quite funny, but I’d love to see her character developed as well.]]>

Very interesting, a Teddy/Emily episode. Finally a side-character is put alongside Emily on the spotlight again. This mostly is because of a new teacher that arrives on the Blair Water School, who has especially influence on the two of them. He’s a rather middle-aged man who encourages everyone to work on their potential. That’s something that Teddy’s mother opposes with all her power. Here again we see how overprotective she is. Emily, again, shows how overly poetic she is when she doesn’t like the new teacher because he jokingly insults her and her poetry when he first sees her (based on information he got from the previous teacher). It takes her nearly half an episode to forgive him. ^^; I also couldn’t help but notice that Emily and Teddy were quite close in this episode. 🙂 Perry, meanwhile, continues to slowly develop each episode. We only see him for a limited amount of time in each episode, but he’s definitely growing. This time, we see him participate in a class play to illustrate the battle of Waterloo, even though he’s not supposed to be in the class. We also see him envy Emily, Ilse and Teddy for actually having education. The best he has is Jimmy, who is more of a gardening-expert than a teacher. Ilse, meanwhile spent her time in the background. She never really was that important in the episode, but she was really fun to watch, with all her different antics. :)]]>

When the word “ghost” was first mentioned, I didn’t think that this anime would come up with a good and original one. After all, it’s an often-used plot device in children’s anime, and there aren’t many ways you can go. But my worries were for naught. That silhouette of Elizabeth was just pure brilliance. It’s very strange to see Elizabeth all friendly, by the way. She actually smiled, and never even got angry at Emily, something she would have done if it were the past. At the start of the episode, I believed that because of this, Emily’s development would be quite complete now, now that the main conflict between her and Elizabeth is gone. And yet, this episode was again focused on her character, when she, Ilse and Perry go and explore an abandoned summer-house right next to the main house of the New Moon, and Emily’s fear of ghosts gets introduced. Still, we got one piece of new information about Ilse: her father never talks about her mother. He actually seemed like a nice guy, though it seems that Ilse too lost one of her parents. Why would her father not talk about this? There is also this shadow of Teddy, who didn’t come to check out the summer-house. We never actually see this, but he probably got in trouble with his mother again. Kaze no Shoujo just continues to surprise me with some wonderful episodes. Even though this episode wasn’t as emotional as the previous one, it remained really heart-warming. This is one of these series that really has no boring moment, when compared to most other series, which do have their silent moments when they build up. Kaze no Shoujo, however, is just one huge chunk of atmosphere, which is really one of its major strengths.]]>

Whoa, this was such a lovely episode! Stories about the mothers and fathers of characters have always been excellent, and Kaze no Shoujo Emily makes no exception to this. The current episode was mostly about Emily’s mother, and it couldn’t have been better executed. It’s been a really heart-warming episode. 🙂 But first, the episode starts with Teddy, and probably gives us a few small hints of what’s to come in the future episodes. His mother continues to worry about him, and even comes to pick him up when he’s fishing, along with Emily and Ilse. Especially Ilse is getting more and more worried about this. Anyway, I believe that Elizabeth has been really lucky to meet someone who has so many differences, but just as much similarity in morals and views. This episode really shows that, when it introduces Juliet, Emily’s mother. It seems that she has had a weak health since she was born, and was frequently forced to rest for long whiles. Elizabeth was really different back then, and she genuinely worried about her sister. The problem came, though, when she met Emily’s father: Elizabeth didn’t approve of this. I think she didn’t find the guy trustworthy enough, and something tells me that she had been clinging to Juliet for a bit too long, so that she didn’t want to hand her over to someone else. Ever since she left, Elizabeth had closed off her room and didn’t open it for ten years. For these ten years, all went well, and she was able to forget about it a bit. That is, until Emily came to live with her. This forced her to stop running away from her memories with Juliet, as Emily would obviously want to see the room that her mother used to live in. When she finally opened the door, after all these years, I think that both her and Emily both got healed a bit. They really form the perfect team together, and I nearly cried when Emily saw a picture of her mother on the fireplace. The two of them really look alike! Please, Kaze no Shoujo Emily, give us more awesomeness. :)]]>