Initial Impressions: Kokoro Connect

12, July 2012
Posted by DarrenW

Dear Readers,

IT'S FINALLY TIME, for the summer 2012 animes!

Premiering just last Sunday, here is our first impressions for "Kokoro Connect"!

Ever wondered what would happen if you switched bodies with your friend for a while? No? Well that's what this anime is all about! For the very first time, we now have an anime where the main characters switch bodies!

Of course, our story begins when we are first introduced to the five main characters. All five have different personalities, backgrounds, gender (2 male, 3 female) and all of whom belong to the Cultural Research Club (CRC), for various reasons.
And they are:

Taichi Yaegashi

Taichi Yaegashi, our protagonist. He has a mostly serious personality, but is a huge fan of pro-wrestling. Joined the CRC because he had no interest in the other clubs which were available. Your average male protagonist, I guess.

Iori Nagase

Iori Nagase, your cheerful, energetic and clumsy character, who is also the club president (for whatever wacky reason). She applied for the CRC because she couldn't decide which of the many clubs she could join, and hence she let her homeroom teacher decide.

Himeko Hinaba

Himeko Inaba is your serious, scary, violent and bespectacled girl, who knows a lot about what is going on and often uses the computer. She joined the CRC because she left the computer club following an argument.

Yoshifumi Aoki

Yoshifumi Aoki, Taichi's best friend, and has no delicacy whatsoever about his unrequited love for Yui. He and Tacihi also share... *ahem* adult videos... (Like I said, average high-school students).

Yui Kiriyama

Yui Kiriyama is your last main character, who fancies cute things, and regards Aoki as a 'pervert'. She wanted to join a club that had fancy things, but that wasn't possible so she joined CRC.


And so, the plot thickens when Aoki and Yui confess...no, not about their relationship, but that THEY'VE SWITCHED BODIES... for about 10 seconds. It then becomes clear that something is amiss, but they don't realize it yet.

OH, REALLY

first switch

Then the same thing happens between Iori and Taichi in the middle of a meeting. Taichi suddenly realizes he has boobs and freaks out, then realizes that one of Iori's classmates has a lesbi... and one thing leads to another. This time, it lasts about an hour.

A-Are these...

a woman's...

And that's it. It certainly seems that the plot is developing. The main questions are, in which direction is it going to develop in, and whose bodies will switch next time? Is somebody behind all of this, or is is just because they are in the CRC? Watch to find out!

Personally, once I read the synopsis, I immediately placed this anime in my to-watch list. It is rare that you get an anime with this sort of unusual plot, and it certainly looks promising from my point of view.

The nice OP is sung by eufonius, of which is one of my favourite bands as they sung the OP for CLANNAD.

Scary...

Produced by Silver Link, Kokoro Connect will have ?? episodes and is currently being fansubbed by Commie, Oyatsu, rori, and Doki (they hasn't released anything yet, though). Has a pre-air episode as well which I don't recommend because everything in it is the same as the first half of episode 1. I honestly will confirm the numbers and update this post.




I hope there's not so much ECCHI. Please SPARE this anime!!


DarrenW
Edited by aaronsine