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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Adaptation:	Amagami: Precious Diary
Side story:	Amagami SS OVA, Amagami SS: Tachibana Miya-hen - Imouto
Sequel:	Amagami SS+ Plus
Other:	Seiren

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Characters & Voice Actors

Morishima, Haruka

Main

Itou, Shizuka
Japanese

Ayatsuji, Tsukasa

Main

Nazuka, Kaori
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

Kamizaki, Risa

Supporting

Kadowaki, Mai
Japanese

Tsukahara, Hibiki

Supporting

Asakawa, Yuu
Japanese

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Nakamura, Shinichi

Producer

Ougi, Jiyuu

Producer

Hiraike, Yoshimasa

Director, Series Composition

Iida, Satoki

Sound Director

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Opening Theme

	1: "i Love" by azusa (eps 1-12)
	2: "Kimi no Mama de (君のままで)" by azusa (eps 13-25)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteru (キミの瞳に恋してる)" by Shizuka Itou (eps 1-4)
	2: "Kitto Ashita wa (きっと明日は…)" by Rina Satou (eps 5-8)
	3: "Anata Shika Mienai (あなたしか見えない)" by Hiromi Konno (eps 9-12)
	4: "Koi wa Mizu-iro (恋はみずいろ)" by Yukana (eps 13-16)
	5: "Koi wa Aserazu (恋はあせらず)" by Ryouko Shintani (eps 17-20)
	6: "Nageki no Tenshi (嘆きの天使)" by Kaori Nazuka (eps 21-24)
	7: "Koi no Yukue (恋のゆくえ)" by Mai Kadowaki (eps 25)

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Dec 19, 2010

Archaeon

Recommended

If you don't know where you're from, then you don't know where you are, and you don't know where you're going. It's a fairly trite adage, but like most old sayings there's an element of truth to it. When it comes to visual media though, such sentiments seem to go out of the window, across the fields, and off into the wild blue yonder, especially where adaptations are concerned.

So where does that leave Amagami SS?

A number of people may already be familiar with the fact that the series is yet another adaptation of a dating sim, and given that this is the spiritual successor to ...

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Dec 26, 2010

Master10K

Mixed Feelings

A countless number of visual novel to anime adaptations have seen the light of day and it takes no genius to figure out the trend in story-telling. Divide the show into a series of character arcs, whilst following an over-arching story/plot; or just follow a single character arc and be done with it. This has proven to be quite an effective method for telling these kinds of stories but it's not ideal for pleasing all the character's fans. Now in comes Amagami SS, a series that takes a step in a new direction by telling each of the character's stories, as a 4 episode standalone ... arc.

Amagami SS basically has every arc begin the same, by introducing our protagonist Junichi Tachibana, who's suffering from some form of PTSD, after being stood up on Christmas eve sometime ago (I know, it's pretty pathetic... just roll with it). Stuff happens and then it wraps it up, in pretty much the same way for every single arc. So yeah, there's really not much to say about the story, well stories, since they all follow a distinct pattern that's easy to pick up on. Boy meets girl, boy & girl bond through some arbitrary activity, mutual romantic feelings develop and well you catch my drift. Sure each character arc provides a fairly different story from the last, yet it's difficult shake off the feeling that you've just seen this story but with some differences. So by the end I really couldn't find pleasure when Boy A finally got together with Girl B, when he also hooked up with Girl A,C,D,E & F.

Speaking of the girls, they are just about the best thing about the series and the director & writers did a good job in combating the obvious favouritism we are used to in harems by developing each of the girls equally. My only gripe with this method is that even the characters I didn't care about we're also developed. As for the male protagonist, he's just what you expect from your average high school boy who sneaks off with his friend to enjoy the odd dirty magazine. Although the creator tried adding some subtle quirks for each individual character arc. Some of these quirks work but others don't. Like hiding in the closet (that's just waiting for a joke).

I've heard a lot of praise regarding the art and animation of Amagami SS and sure I must admit that the character designs are great. With character's looking like people you expect to meet in real life, doing away with the annoying multi-coloured hairstyles that plagues this genre. But apart from that the animation is just above average. All one has to do is pay attention to the background. As for the sound design, there's really nothing remarkable about it; the same seiyuus we anime veterans are all used, working well with the roles they are given and completed with some typical light-hearted melodies. Like I said... nothing remarkable.

All in all, Amagami SS is a collection of 6 run-of-the-mill highschool romance stories and with 6 stories/girls to choose from you're bound to like at least 1 of the stories/girls. So I'll give the show credit for allowing me to enjoy multiple romantic short stories. Did I enjoy them all? No, but I enjoyed enough... sort of. The good thing is that the obvious fanservice tropes, like pantyshots & breast jiggles are kept to moderate levels throughout but that's because the very nature of this anime is fanservice. That in itself made the show watchable for me however it doesn't excuse the unfunny humour the show is filled with and fact that it became a repeatable conquest, like with every visual novel on the market. Some may take pleasure in what Amagami SS has to offer, I cannot refute that, but I didn't. So you can accept what I've written about Amagami SS, or take it with a grain of salt, but either way I'm sure you did not click on this review assuming that I wholeheartedly liked the show now did you?

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Feb 25, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Not Recommended

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 ...

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