Japanese: 銀盤カレイドスコープ
Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 4 +
Status: Completed
Published: Aug 20, 2005 to 2006
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Shoujo, Sports, Supernatural
Authors: Hasegawa Jun (Art), Kaibara Rei (Story)
Serialization: Margaret
Synopsis: With $10 billion worth of beauty (or so she says), Sakurano Tazusa is a contestant for the selection of the Japanese representative at the winter Olympics' figure skating competition. However, her ability is questionable in the eyes of the media and public, as she constantly falls during critical moments in her competitions. During a particular fall, at the same time, a Canadian teen by the name of Pete Pumps perishes as an accident occurs during an air stunt. Before being allowed to pass on into the afterlife, Pete possess' Tazusa supposedly for a hundred days, living on in her body. Despite the discontent and anger Tazusa faced having her body and privacy invaded by this Canadian ghost, she moves her focus onto improving herself in hopes to be selected for the Olympics.(MAL)
Baka updates: Giban Kaleidoscope is the story of Sakurano Tazusa, a beautiful skater girl who is on her way to becoming the best skater in the world. Unfortunately, one day, she screws up at a competition, and that sets her career downhill. Her school life is also getting harder than she expected as she has to deal with Pete the ghost, a dead skater who was recently killed and who has begun to haunt her. Despite her initial reluctancy, she gradually starts to be more open with him, and her mind is now full of questions about Pete and his reasons for haunting her.
Related Manga
Alternative version: Ginban Kaleidoscope
Adaptation: Ginban Kaleidoscope
Groups Scanlating
Dreamy Paradise (inactive)
Which Scanlations (inactive)
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates, Bato.to
Main characters
Tazusa Sakurano (桜野 タズサ)
A 16-year old Japanese figure skater is known for her sharp tongue. She is on bad terms with the media and the public because of her attitude due to her string of bad luck in competitions.
Her goal is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Torino (Turin, Italy). At the beginning of the series is possessed by the ghost of Pete Pumps and while she initially hated him, she gradually grew to accept his constant presence in her life.
While possessed, she picked up the habit of eating tomatoes, because her possessor Pete hates tomatoes and using masochism, since Pete can share Tazusa's pain to keep him in line. She has an unlucky tendency to sleep. In the anime, she describes herself as a "$10 Billion Dollar Beauty." Eventually at the end of the anime she grows to love Pete.
Throughout the story she changes from a selfish and independent girl to a slightly more relying girl or in other words she matured a little.
Pete Pumps (ピート・パンプス)
Age: 16
A Canadian stunt pilot who died when his stunt plane developed mechanical trouble and crashed in a fireball. As a ghost he needs to wait 100 days before he can go to Heaven (his date of ascension is February 23rd) and inadvertently ends up possessing Tazusa.
Pete likes Tazusa and tries to help her improve her public image and succeed in being selected for the Olympics. Though Tazusa at first doesn't agree with him and ignores him, he eventually wins her over and she starts to get to know him better, and it was him who gave her the "waitress on ice" performance. Pete kisses her in his ghost form and seems to love her in return.
Youko Sakurano (桜野 ヨーコ)
She is Tazusa's level-headed younger sister. She is often seen waking Tazusa up for breakfast and in her competition to cheer her as well.
Anime opening theme (sub ESP)
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