I finally finished watching Kamichu! DVDs 1-4, courtesy of Netflix (which I love 
). There were quite a few things I liked about the series and some things that I didn’t, but overall I got what I wanted – something soothing and sweet. Think Spirited Away meets Aria in a small Japanese riverside town.
The first thing that struck me was the plot set-up – the series opens with Yurie announcing that she has become a goddess, and that was that. Everyone around her more or less accepted it as a slightly unusual but overall believable event. In all other aspects Yurie was very much your average slightly clumsy, shy yet totally adorable middle school girl despite being a goddess, and I really enjoyed how matter of factly the story takes this idea and runs with it.