Kami-chama Karin Episode 1 Review
Before We Begin
I’m doing this review on my own because Eurkos refuses to touch it, hehe! I wanted to warn you that as compared to other reviews we are doing, the summary for this one is long since there are a lot of things going on. But that’s usually the case in magical-girl-type shows, right?
Episode Summary
Karin is using the light of her ring to walk through a wooded area, and finds the seed of chaos she was looking for. It attacks her, and Kazune jumps out and takes the blow, seemingly unfazed. He and the two other boys in the group transform and attack the seed, but this seed is stronger than the ones they faced before. Karin transforms when the boys’ attack doesn’t work, but hers doesn’t work either. Then she says that the Chronos Clock is acting strange, and she disappears in a flash of light.
Karin finds herself back in the past and doesn’t remember what she was just doing. She turns to see the grave of her dead cat Shii-chan, and cries because he was her best friend and now she’s all alone. Kazune enters, meeting Karin for the first time, and manages to insult both her and Shii-Chan. She punches him in the face and yells at him, and he leaves.
The next day Karin literally bumps into Himeka and the two become fast friends. Later, Himeka introduces Karin to her cousin, who turns out to be Kazune. Karin punches him gain, and Himeka is surprised they know each other and asks Kazune if Karin is the Goddess he was looking for. He says there’s no way it could be a girl like Karin, and she goes to punch him again but he catches her arm when he notices her ring. She grabs her arm back and tells him not to touch her ring, and it starts to glow pink. She accuses him of doing something to the ring, throws her bag at him, and runs off.
At school the next day Karin notes that she feels more confident, and is acing tests, playing the piano properly, and generally doing extremely well in her classes that she was failing at earlier. When gym class comes around, she wishes that a storm would come up so she wouldn’t have to run a marathon race again, and to her confusion, one does come around even though it was gorgeous outside.
Later that day, Himeka returns Karin’s bag and tells her she will be leaving now. Kazune tells her that “He” might be coming after her now that weird things are happening to her, so if she ever needs help to call him right away. That night, while Karin is visiting Shii-chan’s grave, a shadowy figure of a man does indeed approach her, telling her that he has been looking for her for a long time.
Later I will review the series as a whole when it is complete.
