Ginban Kaleidoscope
The series won the 2nd Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award Grand Prize. Plot. The story revolves around Tazusa Sakurano, a Japanese Olympic figure skating candidate, and Pete Pumps, a Canadian stunt pilot. During a qualifying round in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Tazusa falls in the middle of a Triple Lutz and loses consciousness. At the same time, Pete dies mid-performance when his stunt plane crashes due to mechanical trouble. Unfortunately for Tazusa, Pete ends up involuntarily inhabiting her body for 100 days. During this time, Tazusa begins to develop romantic feelings for Pete, and falls  in love with him. Media. Light novel. The series was written by Rei Kaihara and illustrated by Hiro Suzuhira. The series was published by Shueisha under the "Super Dash Bunko" imprint. The series won the Grand Prize in the 2nd Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award. A total of 9 volumes were published. Ginban Kaleidoscope Short Program: Road to dream () Ginban Kaleidoscope Free Program: Winner takes all? () Ginban Kaleidoscope Pair Program: So shy too-too princess () Ginban Kaleidoscope Little Program: Big sister but sister () Ginban Kaleidoscope Rookie Program: Candy candy all my rules () Ginban Kaleidoscope Double Program: A  long, wrong time ago () Ginban Kaleidoscope Lyrical Program: Be in love with your miracle () Ginban Kaleidoscope Cosmic Program: Big time again! () Ginban Kaleidoscope Cinderella Program: Say it ain't so () Manga. A manga adaptation by Jun Hasegawa was serialized in Margaret between the 18th issue of 2005 and the 10th issue of 2006. The individual chapters were later collected and published in two "tankōbon" volumes. Anime. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation of "Ginban Kaleidoscope" produced by Actas aired in Japan between October 8, 2005 and December 24, 2005 on TV Tokyo. The series was directed by Shinji Takamatsu  while the series composition done by Akatsuki Yamatoya. The 12 episodes were later released into 6 separate DVD volumes with each volume containing 2 episodes. All the DVD volumes have both limited and normal editions. The covers for all the limited editions were drawn by series illustrator Hiro Suzuhira. The anime's opening theme is "Dual" by Yellow Generation while the ending theme is "Energy" by Marina Inoue. Reception. Melissa D. Johnson of T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews gave the series 5 out of 5 stars, saying that "Ginban Kaleidoscope is a beautiful coming of age story. It manages to pull off  a complete story in only twelve episodes, yet somehow manages to create memorable characters where other titles twice or thrice as long keep serving up the cookie cut-outs."