Kareshi Kanojyo no Jijyo (aka Kare
Kano) (English His and Her Circumstances)
contributed by Janette
Main Characters are as follows:
Yukino Miyazawa: To her schoolmates, she is elegant,
perfect, the beststudent and everyone wants to be just like this golden
girl. At homehowever, she is sloppy, loud, the complete antithesis
to her school image.She spends so much effort to keep up this facade that
she does not havefriends or a social life.
Soichiro Arima: He also has his secrets. At first he
is Yukino's rival
because he is competition to be the best. He is handsome,
and a goodstudent, etc. He has his own mask, including the fact
that his true parentsabused him and he was taken in by his uncle and aunt,
who he feels he must prove himself too. Yukino and
Arima (for some reason, although her first name is
used, his surname is always used)bond over the fact that
they are so similar and become a couple.
Asaba Hideaki: The playboy. He is very good looking,
and feels becauseArima is good looking that they could get more girls
if they work as ateam. At first he tries to break up Arima and Yukino
but after a while hebecomes good friends with both of them.
Tsukino and Kano Miyazawa: Yukino's sisters. They provide
comedy relief,but are not major characters.
Shibahime Tsubasa: One of the friends Yukino makes when
she becomes more confident. She is kawaii with a
capital K and although she doesn't like the fact
that she looks younger than she is, she is not above using
her looks.
Ikeda Kazuma: Tsubasa's new stepbrother and a member
of a band calledYinYang. He and Tsubasa get off on the wrong footing
when he mistakes her for his cute new baby sister
from elementary school.
There are more characters but they are not as important.
Synopsis:
Basically, Yukino has this image at school that she tries
like hell to
maintain. Then Arima enrolls and she sees her position being
threatened.
Despite that fact, she has a crush on him (who wouldn't?)
One Sunday, he
stops by her house and drops off a Brahms cd (she told him
she liked Brahms to appear more cultured) and he sees her
in her sweats and gets slam kicked by Yukino, who mistakenly
thinks that it was one of her sisters.
He knows who she really is and uses this information to
blackmail her into
doing his homework for him. She finally feels used and tells
him to go
ahead and tell everyone who she really is. He had no intention
of doing it
anyway, he just wanted to spend time with her and lo and
behold, they
become a couple.
There are mostly girls in this anime but there are slashable
possibilties.
Slash possibilities:
Asaba/Arima: In one ep, Arima tells Yukino he "likes"
Arima, but the wordhe uses (I'm sucky at Japanese) isn't quite the equivalent
of passionatelove, but it is the same as when a guy tells a girl he
LIKES her.
Arima/Asaba: Not possible. Asaba is definitely the seme
type, Arima seems to be the type who wants to please.
Heh heh.
Asaba/Ikeda: They don't seem to have any interaction
in the eps I've seenbut I think it could be doable. Ikeda has that bad boy
in a rock bandmentality and I think he'd be open to anything. Asaba
seems to likeanything pretty.
Ikeda/Asaba: Nope. Ikeda is not the seme type.
Ikeda/Arima or Arima/Ikeda: While it would be visually
pleasing I don't seeit happening. They'd both be hemming and hawing over
their true feelingsand they'd never get around to it.
Links:
Unfortunately, I've seen NO slash at all written about this
series, and
it's one of the few series where I can understand because
the love story of
Yukino and Arima is one of the few I can stomach.
Other URLS to get info from:
http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/aznsite/anime/karekano/char.html
http://www.geocities.com/cha_siu_bau_chan/karekano/story.html
http://belldandy.net/karekano/