“Best friends Mizuho and Miko both like Tohru, who must choose between them and another girl, Ai.”
Kakyuusei: Elf Version
エルフ版 下級生 あなただけを見つめて…
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Synopsis
Best friends Mizuho and Miko both like Tohru, who must choose between them and another girl, Ai.
High school students Mizuho Yuuki and Miko Kamiyama are best friends. Miko likes fellow classmate Tohru Nagase. Mizuho is determined not to get in the way of their budding relationship. But underclassmate Ai Minamizato also likes Tohru. Tohru must decide which girl he likes the most. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
What 3 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.89 · split reception
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 1.33
Running avg · Apr 2019 → Jul 2025
- 9 “Actually this is a very good OVA. On same level as the original series (Kakyuusei 1999) and in some ways maybe even better. I liked this OVA even more than original series. I'll start by saying...”
- 5 “There's only one thing I can say about this. That is, you're better of watching the 1999 adaptation of Kakyuusei, which is 100 times better. The only reason to watch this is, if you've watched the...”
- 5 “Fist off, I would like to take a bit to say, I am not a fan of this franchise, I have never played the games and I have not watched the TV Series, which I have heard is much better than this....”
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- Format 4 × 27′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 48m all episodes
- Aired Nov 1997 – Jun 1998
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-0619 catalog
Produced by
- Pink Pineapple Producer
- KSS Producer