Koi Kaze
| Koi Kaze | |
First tankōbon volume, released by Kodansha released in Japan on March 22, 2002
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| 恋風 | |
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| Genre | Romance, Drama |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Motoi Yoshida |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Evening |
| Original run | September 2001 – October 2004 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takahiro Omori |
| Music by | Makoto Yoshimori |
| Studio | A.C.G.T |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Asahi, Kids Station |
| Original run | April 1, 2004 – June 17, 2004 |
| Episodes | 13 |
Koi Kaze (Japanese: 恋風?, lit. "Love Wind") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Motoi Yoshida. It premiered in the September 2001 issue of Evening and ran for 29 chapters until its conclusion in the October 2004 issue. The individual chapters were collected and published in five tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The series tells of the love affair that develops between 27-year-old Koshiro, and his 15-year-old sister, Nanoka.
The chapters were adapted as a 13-episode anime television series by A.C.G.T. Directed by Takahiro Omori, the episodes premiered on TV Asahi on April 1, 2004 and ran until June 17, 2004. Only twelve episodes of the series aired, with the remaining episode streamed online and later included in both DVD releases and when the series aired in reruns as the eighth episode. The anime series is licensed for release in North American by Geneon Entertainment, which released it across three DVD volumes in 2005.
Twenty-seven-year-old Koshiro Saeki, who lives with his father, is dumped by his girlfriend of two years, who claims he was too cold and she'd found someone else. While on a train the morning after, he sees high school student Nanoka Kohinata looking at a button and crying. As she's later getting off the train, she drops her wallet and Koshiro follows to return it. Koshiro finds himself watching her sudden smile as she notices the cherry blossoms are in bloom. Later, Koshiro is leaving his job at a marriage-arranging company with a coworker when he encounters the girl again. Having two free tickets to a nearby amusement park, he gives them to her. To his surprise she asks him to go with her. While on the Ferris wheel, the girl explains that she was crying on the train because she'd been rejected by a boy she'd loved for several years. Koshiro ends up telling her about his own break up, and cries while she comforts him.
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