History Manga / KoiKaze

* AnywhereButTheirLips: In the manga, Nanoka agrees to never meet Koshiro again- if he kisses her. He kisses her on the forehead, instead of the lips.

* MayDecemberRomance: Aside from being her brother, Koshiro is also twelve years older than Nanoka is.

** It's not the high and low angles. It's the near complete lack of greyscale and how she did shading that screams of "I'm a professionally trained draftsperson".

* SeriesContinuityError: At one point in the Anime's episode 6, another student offers to carry some boxes in Nanoka's hands, only he sets off in the opposite direction she was headed. In another scene Nanoka is shown having high set pigtails at first but later low set ones.

* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler: Averted; though the series offers a few hints here and there that it's going to pull this particular cop-out and tell us Koshiro is actually adopted, it ultimately [[RedHerring pulls the rug out]] from under everyone wishing this were the case.]]

* TheChikan: Nanoka runs into one once on her way to school. It's not a major plot point, but it occurs shortly after Nanoka got into an argument with Koshiro because she felt he was being annoyingly overprotective of her, and the experience led her to appreciate that Koshiro meant well.

* ComicBookTime: Averted; Nanoka clearly grows older as time passes.
** [[spoiler: Koshiro's last words in both the anime and manga, said with an emotional expression that contrasts jarringly with his numbness at the series's beginning: "Love you.... I love you."]]

''Koi Kaze'' started out as a manga series which then got adapted into an anime series in 2004 and immediately received a lot of attention for its harrowingly realistic examination of sibling incest. The painful and guilt-ridden romance between Koshiro and Nanoka is credibly full of angst and BelligerentSexualTension as the two struggle against their desires, refreshingly devoid of the blithe disregard for social mores and {{fanservice}} most {{shonen}} series on similar subjects tend to have.

* ArtistsAreNotArchitects: Completely subverted by the manga. The manga could only have been drawn by someone who did know how to do technical drawings because it looks like it was drawn in the exact same way that Architects and Engineers used to do design drawings, ink on linen, before any shortcuts were available. It really seems like the artist wanted to show off as many extreme high and low perspective angles as he possibly could given the number that show up in the manga.

** It's also {{justified}} and something of a {{reconstruction}} too, as it presents a situation where the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_%28psychology%29#Westermarck_effect Westermarck Effect]] doesn't come into play.

* {{Bishounen}}: Somewhat hilariously subverted. It's shown that before meeting her brother for real Nanoka envisioned him idealistically as being kind, helpful, and very much a pretty boy. While the first two eventually are shown to be the case as Koshiro grows closer to her, a pretty boy he is not. Despite Nanoka fostering romantic feelings for him, she even once muses that he doesn't really fit her idea of 'good-looking'.

* {{Bishounen}}: Somewhat hilariously subverted. It's shown that before meeting her brother for real Nanoka envisioned him idealistically as being kind, helpful, and very much a pretty boy. While the first two eventually are shown to be the case as Koshiro grows closer to her, a pretty boy he is not. Despite Nanoka fostering romantic feelings for him, she even once muses that she doesn't really think he's that good looking.

* BoyfriendBluff: Makie is shown to have a polite and persistent, but unwanted, suitor. She doesen't have a good way to get rid of him without being very rude. Cue one of these with her making her son pose as her supposed "boyfriend" during one of his visits. Koshiro is at this point old enough for the ruse to work, but clearly uncomfortable with it.

* {{Bishounen}}: Somewhat hilariously subverted. It's shown that before meeting her brother for real Nanoka envisioned him idealistically as being kind, helpful, and very much a pretty boy. While the first two eventually are shown to be the case as Koshiro grows closer to her, a pretty boy he is not. Nanoka even muses that despite her growing romantic attraction to him, she doesn't really think of him as being that good looking.

* {{Bishounen}}: Somewhat hilariously subverted. It's shown that before meeting her brother for real Nanoka envisioned him idealistically as being kind, helpful, and very much a pretty boy. He's not.

* BoyfriendBluff: Makie is shown to have a polite and persistent, but unwanted, suitor. She doesen't have a good way to get rid of him without being very rude. Cue one of these with Koshiro as the supposed "boyfriend" during one of his visits. He's old enough for the ruse to work, but clearly uncomfortable with it.

* SeriesContinuityError: At one point in the Anime's episode 6, another student offers to carry some boxes in Nanoka's hands, only he sets off in the opposite direction she was headed.

* LuminescentBlush: The art style gives this to almost everyone but damn you really don't expect to see a bulky guy like Koshiro ''blush'' as hard or as often as he does.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Used a few times, as the series is designed to portray the situation realistically but isn't in it at all for {{fanservice}}. Koshiro is in a few scenes heavily implied to be masturbating (one of which he later confirms in a guilt-ridden internal dialogue), and later he and Nanoka give in to having sex with each other, but the audience never gets shown anything graphic.

** PragmaticAdaptation: While the anime took almost all of its major plot points from the source material, they were shuffled around to better fit the anime format - some events from early in the manga happened quite late in the anime, and certain scenes were transposed into happening during different storylines, which leads to those changed events having a different context because of how different the relationship between Koshiro and Nanoka is when they happen.

* ArtistsAreNotArchitects: Completely subverted by the manga. The manga could only have been drawn by someone who did know how to do technical drawings because it looks like it was drawn in the exact same way that Architects and Engineers used to do design drawings, ink on linen, before any shortcuts were available.

* AdaptationDistillation: The anime is, with only a few exceptions, faithful to its source material, but it compresses the two-year period encompassed in the manga (three springs) to one year (two springs). Several of the largely standalone storylines were also cut out to account for the much shorter time frame. Also, oddly, the events of the manga's second chapter were made into an unaired episode 8 of the anime, later restored to the DVD release.
** PragmaticAdaptation: While the anime is almost entirely comprised of events from the manga, they are shuffled around to better fit the anime format - some events from early in the manga happen very late in the anime, and vice-versa, which leads to those events having a different context because of how different the relationship between Koshiro and Nanoka is when they happen.

* AdaptationDistillation: The anime is very faithful to the manga, but it compresses the two-year period encompassed in the manga (three springs) to one year (two springs). Also, oddly, the events of the manga's second chapter were made into an unaired episode 8 of the anime, later restored to the DVD release.
** PragmaticAdaptation: While most of the events from the manga are still in the anime, they are shuffled around to better fit the anime format - some events from early in the manga happen very late in the anime, and vice-versa, which leads to those events having a different context because of how different the relationship between Koshiro and Nanoka is when they happen.
** All of the side characters have reduced roles in the anime, due to time constraints, and some side characters are even cut completely.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Used fairly often, as the series is designed to portray the situation realistically but isn't in it at all for {{fanservice}}. Koshiro is in a few scenes heavily implied to be masturbating (one of which he later confirms in a guilt-ridden internal dialogue), and later he and Nanoka give in to having sex with each other, but the audience never gets shown anything graphic.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Used fairly often, as the series is designed to portray the situation realistically but isn't in it at all for {{fanservice}}. Koshiro is in a few shots heavily implied to be masturbating (one of which he later confirms in a guilt-ridden internal dialogue), and later he and Nanoka give in to having sex with each other, but the audience never gets shown anything graphic.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Used fairly liberally, as the series is designed to portray the situation realistically but isn't in it at all for {{fanservice}}. Koshiro is in a few shots heavily implied to be masturbating (one of which he later confirms in a guilt-ridden internal dialogue), and later he and Nanoka give in to having sex with each other, but the audience never gets shown anything graphic.