4.025 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestWhen Yurie resolves to give Kenji chocolate for Valentine's Day and confess her love, the entire school and everyone in town pitches in to help her. After a brief awkward conversation upon the school's roof, the two are lifted into the sky upon a large piece of paper (upon which, Kenji had written the kanji character for 'love'). As they soar above the town, Kenji tells Yurie that he loves her, because she is strange. The character on the flying paper turns into the kanji for 'strange'.
Yurie is just an ordinary middle school girl in the 1980's - until overnight she finds out that she is a Kami, or God, in the Shinto sense. When Yurie announces this fact to her best friend Mitsue, their classmate Mitsuri takes advantage of Yurie's new divinity to revitalize her family's dying shrine. Yurie is nicknamed Kamichu and now must go on with her godly duties while going to school and winning the heart of her crush, Kenji, while Mitsuri tries to replace her old shrine god Yashima with her.
Writing
Deities as bureaucratic middle-managers in a deadpan cosmic comedy.
Score
Delicate folk arrangements that feel like exhaling after holding your breath.
MAKO
Yurie Hitotsubashi (voice)
Ai Nonaka
Miko Saegusa (voice)
Chiwa Saito
Tama (voice)
Issei Miyazaki
Kenji Ninomiya (voice)
Kanako Hattori
Shika (voice)
Kousuke Okano
Yashima-sama (voice)
Makoto Tsumura
Shoukichi HItotsubashi (voice)
Miki Ito
Akane Hitotsubashi (voice)
Misato Fukuen
Chou (voice)
Mitsuaki Hoshino
Kenkichi Hitotsubashi (voice)
Rika Morinaga
Matsuri Saegusa (voice)
Yûki Maeda
Ino (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series treats Shinto not as exotic spectacle but as lived neighborhood infrastructure—shrines as struggling small businesses, gods as local civil servants.
Studio Bihou's background artists visited actual 1980s locations in Onomichi; the typhoon episode's water animation required hand-painting each frame's ripple patterns.
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