[Kaoru Chujo]

Episode 2 raised my opinion of this show even higher. Excellent anime episode, deft and complex, with strong characters well voiced. The animation is very good, and the direction and storyboarding sharp and pleasing. It was one of those episodes that just zipped by.

Each episode seems to open up more realms of enjoyment for me. Not that I understand everything that's going on, but even the uncertainty is exciting, and the unemphatic way they are handling this is, paradoxically, quite moving. Terrific voice work by Fujiwara Keiji, to go along with the interesting character design/animation of his character.

This exchange of souls thing may be a known trope, but I think it's an important one that connects with how people are today. We are in close contact by voice and text, and share our universe of music and games and video. In a way, we are living in one shared greater consciousness. Just what does it mean to be a separate individual, anyway? Of course, inter-gender transfer has its own fears and fascinations.