Feb 16 2008
KimiKiss: The Laundry Machine of Love - 19
You 
know at this point I’m just going…why? I mean I can see the writers now wanna pair up Koiichi with Mao. Ok fine. I hate you but fine. So now that poor Kai got rejected, why is he getting setup for ANOTHER rejection? Why can’t they just show Mao as a miserable fallen woman for once? Or in the least -if Kai is always there for her, why the FUCK won’t her feelings change? Does she have a thing for other people’s men? (What is this, Zettai Kareshi?)
What exactly is wrong with pairing up people with their respected partners? Kazuki’s harem aside, what’s wrong with the Kai/Mao and Koiichi/Yumi thing? Why couldn’t they leave it like that for once? Why do people always gotta jump on someone else’s man. I mean this is why I loved Slayers. Lina had Gourry and Amelia had Zel and everyone was happy! So that way they could concentrate on fighting monsters and saving the world (and kissing 
but that’s beside the point.)
Also 
Kazuki not giving up on Eriko is pathetic. How many times does he have to get shot down before he gets it through his thick skull? They seem to be stretching this whole thing out and recycling love triangles non stop. Kazuki keeps bouncing in a circle from Eriko to Asuka and now Koiichi’s bouncing from Yumi to Mao. I mean, if they’re gonna do that, they shoulda just made it a 13 episode series, why keep showing the same stuff again? It makes it look like these characters have some kind of bipolar disorder. 
Tags: boobs, fangirl rage, moe, shipping, wtf, you bitch!
37 Responses to “KimiKiss: The Laundry Machine of Love - 19”
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Kona on 
So, who’s the worst bitch? Mika or Mao?
I don’t actually watch this show, but I am always entertained by Aroduc and your posts on it. I can keep up and make fun of the show in 5 easy minutes! I think this show probably would have been better at 13 episodes, but in order to stretch it to double that length they have to make up a bunch of silly drama that doesn’t need to be there. Instead of everyone in love triangles they should make this more realistic and make one of them get pregnant. I’d watch that drama.
Yumi: “Hey Mao I’m pregnant with Kouichii’s child.”
Mao: “Chigauuuuuuu!”
Yumi: “Yeah, so please fuck off, peace.”
GURU GURU MAWARU~
Calawain> You don’t? LOL maybe that’s a good thing.
Taiyaki> Mao wins that one
Well I’ll be, the Kazuki Imouto is more ripped that all three male leads.
Is it so wrong for a girl to be more fit than the male leads?
Crusader> I dunno Koiichi looked pretty buff at the end of the episode
It’s like they’re searching for new lows…
I know it’s a romance but seeing as it’s being stretched so shamelessly why not have a non-romance oriented episode or have a posh girl-director guy story (ah wouldn’t that rock). But seriously what are they going to do for 5 episodes?
According to Jen’s blog (Scrumptious) they’re gonna have Kazuki chase after Futanari’s ass for 3 of the episodes!
The problem is that I see many hints that Futami is rejecting Kazuki because she thinks it is best for Kazuki to be with Asuka. If this is so, the show should have given us more insight into whatever inner turmoil Futami has right now. And I thought that sister on the bed scene really was disturbing as well.
Observations.
“if Kai is always there for her, why the FUCK won’t her feelings change?”
Because does not work that way?
If she started to get with him just because he was around and that is hardly fair for the person that is there for a rebound.
That is not love, its simply using someone … we cannot control who do we love and yes, we can build a relationship with someone but there is a breaking point if we do not really love that person.
“I mean this is why I loved Slayers.”
But this is not Slayers, it was pretty clear what this was from the start … its also not a Shoujo romance.
“I mean, if they’re gonna do that, they shoulda just made it a 13 episode series”
Yes, they should … but this seems to be commissioned work so it was 26 episodes that suffered from poor planning.
By the way, I think they really did model Kai in one of old shoujo romance manga’s absolute boyfriend model, and I mean from the manga much older than the ‘zettai kareshi’ manga. Those time wins tons of fangirls but seldom gains the hand of main girl.
I can’t believe you called True Tears True Poo and instead watch the continued character derailment of Mao. The thing that pisses me off so much about the whole Mao thing is that it’s like a damn switch flipped one day and her character totally changed. She went from no hint of liking Koiichi and actively helping him get together with Yumi, to “I’m going to wreck both my relationship, and his, because I just love him SOOOO much!” basically instantaneously. That Koiichi is struggling between someone like Mao and someone like Yumi who obviously has a lot of trust in him to not even show any concern about his recent preocupation with Mao just makes me want to strangle him. Harem anime is beginning to frustrate me. I think this is my punishment for getting away from places like Gantz, where if I don’t like someone they typically blow up 5 chapters later.
If this was the real world, Kai would have about half his school chasing after him. He’s a tall, aloof, handsome musician… for the high school chick, what else is there? I guess Japan really is a different place….
>>>If this was the real world, Kai would have about half his school chasing after him. He’s a tall, aloof, handsome musician… for the high school chick, what else is there?
This is true of most manga worlds as well.
there seems to be recently these romance switches flying around(i.e tomoyo in clannad) and mao and have to say they’re quite scary, almost like a robot!
also im sick to death with the childhood friend older girl/younger or vice versa as they need to call the older friend nee/nii or onii/onee - suffix then realise all these years that one of them liked the other! it was moe when the cyberpunk era was about not now!
kai was boring but still rocked and he had some build and he had a sax!
kazuki needs to grow some balls and just say”why do you think i wanted to get close to you oddball. I wanted to screw the experiments long time ago ” and take her like a man as that 180 IQ is thinking it over!!
I just couldn’t stand the characters in True Tears. I wanted to slap the main lead more than I wanna slap Koiichi or Kazuki xD;; Also the first girl (short hair whatever her name is) her char design is fugly to me. I dunno I just couldn’t get into it. I continued watching this cause I’m so into it just wanna know what happens. Wish it wasn’t 26 eps but 13 or something oh well.
maybe kazuki has some fetish of going for harder to get things??
or maybe he is just too much of a bloated head to see anything else thats under he’s nose 
and basically i’v given up on the triple triangle match.. mao X koichi X yumi i dun care anymore it’s like watching smthing thats been repeating in most romance anime for the past like WAD? 10 years??…soo now i’m only intrested in kazuki side now now…
> dick Jones
aaaannnd….. that is how the cookie crumbles in the world of anime.
Argh. Sorry for the double post.
My previous comment was actually for Mr. JohnG. Sorry Jones!
>>The thing that pisses me off so much about the whole Mao thing is that it’s like a damn switch flipped one day and her character totally changed. She went from no hint of liking Koiichi and actively helping him get together with Yumi, to “I’m going to wreck both my relationship, and his, because I just love him SOOOO much!” basically instantaneously.<<<
He looked for her contact lens! tru luv!
I don’t know what happened to her. She was awesome to start with and I actually was naive enough to think she really was just going to help Kouichi with his relationship and then get it on with the sexy sax boy. It’s funny to look back at Mao being all annoyed with Kouichi for not working up the courage to tell Yumi what he felt and basically being a coward…. since I can’t even recognize that character in the Mao now.
The thing that annoys me more is Yumi is leaving and will give Kouichi up basically and Mao is going to be free to be a giant ho and have no real consequences for her actions.
I’m not sure about Kazuki’s triangle, but I do like Eriko even if I’m not sure she goes with Kazuki.
I have to ask … why did you think that?
This is not shoujo … in shoujo that type of situations is common but shounen have diferent styles and so rules and conventions that usually rule out that type of situations.
At being 26 episodes it was clear something would happen, expecting pairing up at the 8 episode would leave nothing to work with as a shounen romance.
Wasn’t the fact that Kimikiss seemed different from most harems the reason why so many people liked it in the first place? When we first saw Mao, she was first girl seen + childhood friend so at that time I was like “yeah this is the one that’s going to win, right?” But then there turned out to be 3 male leads which right away brought up a “wtf?” factor with the show. And Mao seemed to have no interest in male lead #1. So what I guess I was set up for in the first half or so is that one crazy love triangle, one awkward relationship that develops slowly, and a love at first sight story.
Now, usually, doesn’t the conflict come from the fight to win the boy’s heart BEFORE he chooses, rather than after? Why? Because if the guy chooses one girl and then shifts his interests later, he looks like a big jerk! Meanwhile, the ‘other woman’ in the triangle looks like a man stealing whore, especially considering that there was no interest in the boy until after the boy started dating the girl. Which is exactly what happened here, isn’t it?
John> Yep exactly as you said!
>What exactly is wrong with pairing up people with their respected partners?
Heh, but isn’t this life? Most ordinary folks, their loves are usually looking at another. A friend of mine once mentioned she felt like the bottom of a love chain (think food chain).
I agree with you that Kazuki’s part was lame. I have always been watching the series for the Mao/Yumi/Kouichi conundrum. I thought the kissing scene was pretty well done actually.
That imouto bit…. the animators are just playing with imouto boom… they got me! XD I think she’s the hottest girl for Kazuki now!
*runs away from siscon lynch mobs*
Heh, I used to like Mao. She started out well but then went downspiral when Yumi x Kouichi started being happy. Poor Kai. Maybe I wouldn’t have been bothered by Mao going for Kouichi IF he didn’t have a girlfriend. Maybe she should’ve just gone back to France and stayed out of the way.
I’d like to see Kazuki x Asuka in the end, but seeing that Kazuki is so into Eriko and oblivious to other girls, I’m not really sure where it’s going. Maybe he and Mao will hook up. Haha. I don’t know anymore.
Whenever I think I know the pairing, the writers prove me wrong. KimiKiss is making my head spin. @_@
The Sojourner > *sniff* you’re cruel!
in general the show has been entertaining and any show that can generate this much hatred for characters and get people talking deserves praise regardless of the romance format!
and i’ll spite anyone who hates true tears and the cockroach song! though hiromi is on ice queen’s level!
[...] still a great deal of Mao hate out there. A lot of it stemmed from her supposed callous treatment of Kai and her coming between [...]
[...] still a great deal of Mao hate out there. A lot of it stemmed from her supposed callous treatment of Kai and her coming between [...]
John G.
“Now, usually, doesn’t the conflict come from the fight to win the boy’s heart BEFORE he chooses, rather than after? Why? Because if the guy chooses one girl and then shifts his interests later, he looks like a big jerk! Meanwhile, the ‘other woman’ in the triangle looks like a man stealing whore, especially considering that there was no interest in the boy until after the boy started dating the girl. Which is exactly what happened here, isn’t it?”
Shit like this causes travesties like school days.
Now that I’ve watched this in a language where I understand 100% of the words, I can only shake my head at the utter stupidity of Koiichi, and killing Yumi at the pinacle of her happiness was just too painful to watch.
Anyways, as for Kazuki, at least I can understand his thinking and his actions are not completely at odds with the person he was ep 1-10 or whatever. Futanari’s actions prior to the break up are completely at odds with the words coming out of her mouth, plus Kakuzi has been in a love daze for about 6 months anime time now so at least it makes sense to me why he doesn’t want to give up. It’s not something I would like someone to do, but it’s something I can relate to soemone doing… at least he didn’t dump his girlfriend who he was completely in love with because someone he previously showed no romantic interest in started acting weird.
I know Hinano doesn’t watch True Tears, but all you Kazuki haters, do you think Shin should have given up on Hiromi prior to ep 6? Isn’t “I like this other guy” a much clearer signal than “I don’t understand love and so I’m breaking up with you?”
@ JohnG
You totally missed the point of the show then from the hints early on. Kai isn’t a male lead. There are 3 leads and one of them is female.
It was totally predictable that they’d have Mao push Kouichi one way, only to get jealous later on, since the original pairings were
Kazuki-> his 2 girls
YuumiKouichiMaoKai
Also, to anyone who thought Kai would somehow end up with Mao, you’re watching the wrong show.
“Shounen romance” not shoujo. In a shoujo, Kai would be one of the important males; I just don’t see how he could be in a shounen romance.
Has anyone here stepped back a second to just think about the point of the series?
True Tears - the point of course centers on the tears as much as the relationships which will inevitably cause them
Kimikiss - childhood friend comes back to Japan to live with a guy she used to hang out with (which begs the huge AND THEN??)
The entire point of Kimikiss is to be about Mao, Kouichi, and Kazuki and their relationships with each other and others. The fact of the matter is that Kazuki has nothing romantic for Mao, whereas Mao’s always had some hidden feelings for Kouichi (as evidenced by the book she always kept).
Thats where the series starts.
I didn’t miss the point, in fact I started out thinking that Mao X Koiichi was the obvious pairing from the get go, and that we were heading into color-by-numbers harem series. It was the fact that Kimikiss was NOT going through the predicted genre tropes that made it so appealing. Mao was not “pushing Koiichi away” - at no point until Koiichi started dating Yumi was there any hint of attraction between Mao and Koiichi. The book would be a good counterpoint except it wasn’t introduced until well after Mao’s character completely changed into the opposite of what it was at the beginning of Kimikiss. The only “hint” of a romantic relationship was that she was a long lost childhood friend who had moved in with a male lead. If you were watching this show without having prior knowledge of what a shounen romance was, you would never even think that Mao x Koiichi was anywhere on the horizon after ep 1.
So what was the point of Kimikiss? Originally I thought it was a story about falling in love from the viewpoints of three childhood friends, with three different kinds of love situations (love-at-first-sight, gradually falling in love, and weirdo love situation). Now it looks like the point is to turn Yumi into a Yandere.
[...] the merit of the guy instead of the girl. Also, his commenters spawned some of my thoughts. - Hinano went on a rant against pretty much all of the characters, and again, her commenters had some [...]
No kidding, that last screencap was like WTF?
Quite unnecessary.
Well, the relationships are quite messed up in this series, but at least the dynamics keep things interesting.
while i dislike cockeyed mao i think that putting a man stealing harpy disguised as the childhood friend into the mix has done wonders for the show! if it had gone the 3 main characters and their own love adventures it would have sucked or at best average! koucihi x yumi without any inference(nice but boring) mao x kai(like kai but eqaully boring) futami/asuka x kazuki(boring anyway with conflict) so we need conflict to make things good!
Will say the hatred is getting silly now cos there are new characters(hiba girl is prettiest without trying) and kazukis rejection, the ichigo 100% movie confession scene and they pale into insigificance comparing to the hate!
[...] One reason why I generally avoided discussing the characters as people is because more practiced hands are doing it well already. [...]
First of all Mao isn’t a wrectched person. Anyone who thinks so is missing the picture. She did something most people are too scared to do.
What’s worse, to be in a relationship and faking it the entire time and then years down the road finally getting the guts to call it quit and crushing someone? Or is it better to be honest with yourself and the other person before things get even more serious?
Mao was honest, something people rarely are in relationships because they don’t want to hurt someone else.
Also, what is wrong with Kazuki chasing Eriko? Are you someone who gives up at the first sign of resistance? Kazuki knew his feelings and pursued them.
Slayers is a poor comparison and completely unrelated to Kimikiss. Not even the same Genre. Kimikiss is more a “slice of life”. It shows what people do all the time but at least it shows that lying to yourself and others does nothing but hurt others.