| Kodomo no Omocha, called Kodocha for short, and translated into Child's Toy, or Children's Toys in English, is about Sana Kurata, an 11-year-old actress who has a large part on the show "Zenjiro's Kodomo No Omocha", and about how she interacts with the people around her, the situations that she comes across, and the growing up of all the characters. The main point is the relationship between herself and Hayama, a classmate of hers who was once her enemy, but became a mostly civilized (I said "mostly" and lets not look to deeply into that) person and good friend of hers. For the most part, Kodocha is a comedy of slapstick humor, and that is the part you'll see and think about the most, but there are several deeper concepts in it. Like Hayama's bad home life at the beginning, Sana's adoption and the knowledge being spread through a book written by her adoptive mother, bankruptcy, loss of a loved one, and several love triangles, mostly around Sana and Hayama. The main love triangle is found between Sana, Hayama, and Naozumi, a pretty boy actor that finds himself working with Sana very often. But for a long time there is also one between Sana, Hayama, and Fuuka, a girl very much like Sana, that neither I, nor Savage Amazon can standl This last has been in love with Sana for the past six or seven years and is not about to let her go. Hayama has been in love with her since she helped him resolve his family troubles and since then he's been very protective of her. Sana and Hayama have the capacity to help each other in ways that nobody else is able to in the show. In general, this has been called "Marmelade Boy on acid", and that's true to some extent, but Kodocha is represented in a much more childish, and funny way, so therefore it satisfies the immature side like very few other things can. |
