Amagami SS

Two years ago, Junichi Tachibana had a date on Christmas Eve but was stood up instead. Since then, he has had a hard time showing others his true feelings in fear of being rejected again. However, as luck would have it, Junichi may have a second chance at love when he meets several girls whom he becomes romantically interested in: Haruka Morishima, the energetic and popular upperclassman with a love for cute things; Kaoru Tanamachi, his childhood friend who harbors secret feelings for him; Sae Nakata, the timid transfer student who is shy around men; Ai Nanasaki, a girl on the swim team who has a bad first impression of Junichi; Rihoko Sakurai, a childhood friend with a love for sweets; and Tsukasa Ayatsuji, a seemingly perfect class representative who has a hidden dark side. As Christmas Eve approaches, Junichi can only hope that this will be the year he will finally spend the holidays with the one he truly loves.

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Ayatsuji, Tsukasa Main

Nazuka, Kaori Japanese

Morishima, Haruka Main

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Nanasaki, Ai Main

Yukana Japanese

Tanamachi, Kaoru Main

Satou, Rina Japanese

Nakata, Sae Main

Konno, Hiromi Japanese

Sakurai, Rihoko Main

Shintani, Ryouko Japanese

Tachibana, Junichi Main

Maeno, Tomoaki Japanese

Tachibana, Miya Supporting

Asumi, Kana Japanese

Tsukahara, Hibiki Supporting

Asakawa, Yuu Japanese

Kamizaki, Risa Supporting

Kadowaki, Mai Japanese

Nakamura, Shinichi Producer

Ougi, Jiyuu Producer

Tanaka, Gou Producer

Hiraike, Yoshimasa Director, Series Composition

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Mar 4, 2026

AYANO-KUN3

Recommended

I know I'm late on this, but I just want to say this is worth my time. Tbh, this is just so peak and beautiful. This anime is where all the girls are the best girls. I think this anime really exceeds my expectations. Even though this is an old but gold anime, I love all the girls (heroines), especially Tsukasa and Morishima senpai, making me jealous of Junichi, but still, he is a multigigachad. If you want an anime that has all your waifus winning, this is your sign to watch this masterpiece. And the all-op is just so beautiful banger Azusa cooked on ... this anime.

This is my review and this have a lot of flaws but still i really enjoyed this anime. 10/10 i will gonna rewatch this every christmas 🎄❤️

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 12, 2025

Supersonic_Pain

Mixed Feelings

It's your average generic 2010 VN dating sim adaptation, that's pretty much all that needs to be said. Naturally, I wrote a fuck ton more.

Yeah, route splitter nuke, your mileage may vary on that but this does naturally lead to less development per heroine but, for what it's worth, I do think Amagami does a somewhat admirable job of trying to keep the main 6 heroines relevant by putting scenes with them in the background into each other's stories. It doesn't always work the best but they sure do try which I mean it could be worse.

It also has a lot of weirdly perverted stuff. ... Not just "omigah, look at the knockers on that girl", but, like, fish nibbling on girls, girls dressing up in costumes and acting like children, sucking on people's belly buttons, etc. Kinda creepy tbh

In accordance with the structure of the story, I'm going to comment on this arc by arc (I cut down my notes significantly here, extended notes on S1 as well as notes on S2 are in my anime list's notes)

--- HARUKA ---

Wow, what a godawful one to start with. I never really got the sense as to why Haruka liked Junichi other than "he's nice" until the last episode where vine boom: Junichi reminds her of her dog.

I found Haruka to be kind of noisy and self-centered and reckless. I'm sure this goes without saying but your mileage will likely wildly vary depending on your type of girl but I did not like Haruka personally.

The main takeaway of the arc was basically "fuck her consent"? Like, surely they're just remarking on being persistent but like he asks her out, she says no, expands on why she didn't want to date him (although knowing Haruka, who fucking knows, tbqh it seems like she just made that shit up), and after a brief gloomy spell, he decides "well, what if I asked her out... but again?" and it WORKS???

And Haruka's friend's advice for Junichi encroaching on Haruka is just "teehee, either let him go nuts or scold him harshly" and it leads to said erotic roleplaying.

It even basically ends with her crying "waaaah, why didn't you spy on me in the shower even after I told you to? And also keep confessing your love to me!"

Like what the fuck? What the fuck are you trying to say here, Amagami?

--- KAORU ---

Kind of cheating considering she's already friends with Junichi but they do have actual chemistry

If I tell you she's the tomboy-coded childhood friend, I feel like that speaks for most of her character, at least in terms of her appeal. There are quite a few funny moments between her and Junichi.

However, they also give her a running theme of trying her best to help people and it not working out the best and she tries to take on more than she personally can carry. It's sweet and gives Junichi an easy spot as to what he can be as a boyfriend. It's a hell of a lot better than what Haruka's arc was doing.

Overall, is it the most life-changing romance anime you'll ever see? No, but especially for four episodes, I was pretty entertained.

--- SAE ---

My main problem with this arc is it feels borderline pedophilic. They basically drew a girl with the temperament of a child and then gave her big tits. The very last scene is her and Junichi's imouto dressed in animal costumes dancing around on his bed while he records them. He also takes her to a Hero show where they actively mistake her for an elementary schooler.

Like, maybe it could be a compelling storyline(?) if they had the whole 2 cours to tell the story but in 4 episodes, it just feels like she was thrown to the wolves.

Sae's like the perfect gap between Haruka and Kaoru because unlike Haruka, there's a very justifiable reason why Sae would go for Junichi, I never questioned why Sae would want to be with him, but unlike Kaoru, I saw 0 romantic chemistry because, as mentioned above, they childcode her so hard that there's just no romantic tension there.

I guess it's not the worst thing ever but basically all the faith I had built up with Kaoru has immediately vanished, especially since the next girl has basically had 0 buildup unlike the previous and future girls (Haruka excluded for obvious reasons since she was the first girl).

--- AI ---

It sure was.

Nothing was really all that offputting like Haruka and Sae but I mentioned Amagami does a great job of featuring the other girls during the other arcs, they don't really do much usually but they're in the background, living their lives, so you get accustomed to their characters.

This is not true for Ai.

The most you really get out of her is she's friends with Sae and Junichi's imouto and she's also part of the swimming club.

So she's pretty much a blank slate when it comes to her arc.

However, that's not necessarily a problem, Haruka obviously didn't get any buildup and for all her faults, you do get to know her as a character, I can't accuse her of being a character I don't feel much about.

They just don't really do this for Ai? I can easily describe to you the basic character type Haruka, Kaoru, Sae, Rihoko, and Tsukasa are. Ai... idk, man, she's just kind of a bland nothing character.

I had this problem with Kaoru of all people too but I don't know why they try to shove 2 arcs into 4 episodes. With Ai, they start with "oh, my little brother is being disobedient and cold to me" and then it turns into "waaaah, I'm hitting a wall in swimming times!"

Either of these arcs are fine but I don't get why they quickly wrap up one just to introduce the other when they have to balance that and the romance AND the short amount of time they had.

I would also like to say, stunning lack of stuff to do with Sae and Imouto-chan. I feel like that friend group in general is underbaked, between Ai doing fuck all in the first 3 arcs and Ai not really interacting all THAT much with Imouto-chan and Sae, kinda disappointed.

But yeah... it's not a BAD arc per se, it's just the most forgettable one so far. It wasn't great, it wasn't terrible, it just was an arc in Amagami SS.

--- RIHOKO ---

Before I actually talk about Rihoko herself, I gotta say, it's actually kind of crazy that we get more moments between Sae/Ai/imouto-chan here than we do in Sae/Ai's routes combined. I feel like this is what we should've been doing all along???

I thought this one was pretty interesting since Rihoko canonically already liked Junichi from the word go, it was just a matter of her getting him to like her.

And... to that extent, I thought the end was pretty unsatisfying? That's really my biggest complaint with this arc.

Rihoko is likeable, probably my favorite so far. She's got a solid arc where they focus on one aspect which allows them to have an actual cast to build off of, shoutout to the Tea Club. I thought they had decent chemistry.

However, this is the only girl for whom S2 seems MANDATORY. Indirect spoilers for S2 but a lot of that shit is just kind of bonus OVA shenanigans in case you really liked one of these girls. For Rihoko, she's basically the only one who you NEED to watch their arc in S2.

I was willing and ready to give this the top spot (Tsukasa not withstanding since as of originally writing this, I haven't seen her arc) but the ending knocks it down to a healthy second.

--- TSUKASA ---

Looking at this from an unbiased perspective (because I personally love class presidents, eat that shit up with a spoon)... the writing kind of sucks?

It's kind of your standard "class president is a bit too strict/perfect and has friction with other people" and "little miss perfect has a Dark Side" story, we're not reinventing the wheel here.

I was a little disappointed because they kind of telegraphed her having Issues with her family/sister and then they just... never really follow up on that.

I mean, not everyone can be Tsubasa Hanekawa but it's like why even bother including it if you're not going to follow up on it?

Unless you happen to love class presidents, it's arguably one of the worst-written arcs in the show since it follows so closely to the typical class president girl playbook.

--- RISA ---

I struggled on how to cover the last 2 characters since they get 1 episode each but I kinda gotta talk about this one, at least.

Fuck this girl, dude.

This girl, canonically, in her route, makes sure to ruin Junichi's chances with every other girl and doesn't even have the guts to publicly date him afterwards. And all because he drank her milk in elementary school?

And, like, I'm not opposed to a good yandere. But the problem is Risa did not exist for the first 24 episodes. They made this girl up on the spot. You've likely already picked out your favorite and then they write this route where this new girl fucks them all over.

The thing with a yandere is you've gotta see the chemistry with her and the MC or at the very least, give her a strong enough presence to make you want her.

Unless you're just UTTERLY down bad for any sort of toxic yandere-esque character (because she's not even that entertaining as one, she uses the same trick on all 6 heroines), I don't see how you could like Risa.

They also tie her into Junichi's Trauma in a way I presume is supposed to be universal unlike the other parts of the route where it sets up JunichixRisa and, like, dude, go fuck yourself. There was a clear and easy way to help out Junichi (which, for spoilers, I won't say) and you chose to hurt him.

And since she only appears in these last two episodes, there's no real personality to save her other than being a toxic bitch.

I guess it at least provides some more exposition on Junichi's past heartbreak but that's the ONLY good thing about this arc.

Way to spoil a pretty decent back half with an utter clunker of a "final" episode (in actuality, there is one more episode, but if you're reading this for Amagami SS, this specific season, this is the last episode).

--- MIYA ---

I guess this is a good time to talk about Umehara too.

I would've liked to see him get a girlfriend, not a fan of this kind of character where he's a bro but like 75% of his screentime is "hey bro, brought you porn/let's watch porn/do you have the porn mag I lended you?"

Anyway, we finally get to Imouto-chan herself, Miya!

She's kind of your standard, slightly bratty imouto (with a huge fixation on meat buns) but she serves her purpose well (although her dynamic with Sae and Ai is, as mentioned above, unfortunately a little underbaked given that they had 2 arcs on them specifically and could've peppered it in in the other arcs).

But, for the last OVA/DVD bonus episode, we get an episode where Miya is the "heroine".

It's a cute episode.

It's kind of comedic filler more than anything (although we do get a little more detail about Risa and a couple funny gags involving her, not that it makes me like Risa anymore) but I enjoyed it.

You could skip it and miss basically nothing but it's worth watching if you enjoy imouto-chan's shenanigans.

--- CONCLUSION ---

It's not a life-changing anime, at least a couple arcs (cough cough Sae and Tsukasa) you can guess beat for beat what happens in them before you even watch them to some extent, some characters are better than others, it's kind of perverted to be honest, but it's a decent watch

It honestly feels more like a relic or a time capsule now. How often are we getting adaptations of dating sims where the routes are cleanly split and adapted in a few short episodes each nowadays?

I think there's some value in that (although, on the other hand... you could just watch Kanon 2006 which does something similar) and some of the arcs are entertaining, I just don't see it being some generationally defining anime. For better or for worse, Yosuga no Sora came out the same year and also does a similar structure and it's... more memorable, to say the least.

Unless you're a romcom fiend, jonesing for this specific type of nostalgia, or just going to pick out the girl(s) that sound like your type, I don't really think you need to check this out but it's not terrible or anything.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 25, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Not Recommended

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Next on my line of harems to spite comes Amagami SS (Jesus, I’m still on letter A). This anime is somewhat weird to talk about as it is constantly deletes the progress in the story. Before I get to nerdraeg about the show, first I must clear my thoughts on one of the most dreaded recent additions to one of the stalest and lamest anime categories ever.

There is this scenario format where the story resets every few episodes, just so the lead character can choose a different action in some point in his life that will change the later events of the story. It is ... an element introduced by date sims, where there you chose a girl and move towards winning her. Replaying the game by choosing a different girl, meaning following a different path. This in anime terms, means that time resets and you get to see the same things again, only this time the character will go for a different girl. This is the chance to win all the girls, one at a time
… and it sucks.

I am vertically negative towards such a trope in anime form, thus I am writing a biased review from the start (as if hating harems wasn’t enough already). Some may like the option of having the guy winning all the girls and making time reset so to see how things will turn out if you make a different choice somewhere in your life. Although this concept was quite interesting in movies such as Groundhog Day or The Butterfly Effect for showing you how fragile the outcome of the future can be, here it is nothing but a lame excuse to render all character development and the gravity of one’s choice completely useless.

Another thing I want to mention is that unlike in the above movies where the lead remembers each reset, here he does not. Every time is like we watch a different alternative reality, making even the notion of maturing and learning from your past (or possible future) mistakes equally useless.

And finally, I want to make clear that Amagami IS A HAREM despite some refusing to accept it as one because the lead goes for one girl at a time and there are no cat fights. Well excuse me but one guy surrounded by pretty chicks, and he needs to pick one, counts as a harem, even when the choice is clear from the start. The oldest and most famous harems are Love Hina and Ah My Goddess and there the chosen girl was also clear from the start. Thus Amagami IS A HAREM like it or not.

So starting from the worst part, the story, I say it is bollocks. Using the reset button after the lead wins a girl means we practically watch 7 short romantic comedies of roughly 4 episodes each. The same characters are present in all of them but their interactions are different each time, so you might as well consider this a collection of similar short romantic school life stories, with the same actors in each one (sometimes called an Omnibus). Thus we practically have a typical slice of life school romance that begins and ends in 4 episodes maximum before throwing to the bin all that happened and going back to square 1, where we see the same formula, but with a different girl being the main target. Some may like this gimmick for making them feel like they are watching a date sim in anime form
… but I find it stupid as heck. Here I am watching a story unfold and then is deleted like it doesn’t mean anything.

It’s not like I reject the notion of the reset. It is ok in date sims and it was great when they implemented it in Tatami Galaxy. Using it here, in a typical story about typical people, feels disappoint. What is the point? Some will say it is a great way to please all shippers, which are guys who prefer one specific girl to end up with the lead and even argue with others who prefer a different girl. All these dudes can just choose the arc where the lead wins their favorite girl and reject all others, so everybody is happy.

Again, I am against that. Making an important choice in your life means to reject all other possible options. Winning something means at the same time losing everything else. The little pebble you chose out of a huge rubble of other pebbles will be more important to you that all the rest you sacrificed just to get this one. So what is this crap; doing anything I want and forgetting everything just to do something different? It sounds like cowardice in the least. Where is the importance of choosing? What is the point in having free will without the notion that you can’t undo what you chose to do?

Enough with that babble; it’s practically off-topic and random rant visualized by a biased mindset that loves to space out and overanalyze shitz. Let’s talk about the cast a bit; shall we? What we basically have here is seven girls and a main lead, teasing each other in a game of who gets to win whom. The lead is not the usual spineless dork of harems, as he is quite open with his feelings. Well, it’s not like he had the time not to be; he is roughly given enough time to waste in indecisiveness in a show of short arcs. He practically fools around a bit and confesses his love rather fast, the girl also agrees rather fast, the arc ends in a weird or funny moment and abracadabra we are transported in a different alternative reality where he now pulls the same with a different girl. Takes away all sense of progress or meaningfulness.
… Woops, again with that off topic fuss.

The girls themselves are practically seven basic archetypes, found in many date sims, each accompanied by some clothing fetish to act as a vague character trait, just so we can set them apart easier.
Yeah, we get to remember them as an archetype and a fetish; how romantic and noble for the female genre.
But it is true that although they are stereotypical caricatures, they get colorized very well throughout the series. The nice visuals, the good voice acting, the romantic foreplay, all that work fine at bringing out all that it’s available on each archetypical trait.

So they may all be omelets but you will not get to confuse one omelet with another, thanks to the cooks’ ability to bring out a special and unique flavor on each one of them. After that, it all has to do with your own personal perverted fetish … errr, I mean taste. If girl A is better than girl B will be up to you and not because some are not as well done … errr, well presented as others.

Other than that, they are not special or memorable for any given reason.

Animation and sound do their work in a fine way, helping you to get in the light and fuzzy feeling of the show. The backgrounds and the character figures are nicely drawn and colored, there is attention given to various lightings effects and camera angles. Voice acting is good, if you don’t find the rather high pitched voices that weird. Music themes are good and fitting for such a type of show.

But again, after all is done I found nothing memorable in all this fuss. It was just an average school setting with average people doing average things. Average is a hard thing to remember you know; it is so much easier to remember very happy or very bad moments. But this comes to no surprise for a show made by studio AIC, which is infamous for its anime soups. The director is also some nobody who never managed to produce a good anime. It has a very good pacing and atmosphere for its kind, while visuals and sound are quite nice. Other than that, there is nothing overall WOW in it; just a typical omelet that was cooked nicely. Plus that reset thing GOD I HATE IT.

If we had a story about a guy gradually mating and separating with girls until he finds the proper one in the end, as corny as it would be it would still be more solid and memorable than THIS mess.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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