Grisaia no Kajitsu

Yuuji Kazami is a transfer student who has just been admitted into Mihama Academy. He wants to live an ordinary high school life, but this dream of his may not come true any time soon as Mihama Academy is quite the opposite. Consisting of only the principal and five other students, all of whom are girls, Yuuji becomes acquainted with each of them, discovering more about their personalities as socialization is inevitable. Slowly, he begins to learn about the truth behind the small group of students occupying the academy—they each have their own share of traumatic experiences which are tucked away from the world.

Mihama Academy acts as a home for these girls, they are the "fruit" which fell from their trees and have begun to decay. It is up to Yuuji to become the catalyst to save them from themselves, but how can he save another when he cannot even save himself?

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Kazami, Yuuji Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Matsushima, Michiru Main

Mizuhashi, Kaori Japanese

Sakaki, Yumiko Main

Tanaka, Ryouko Japanese

Suou, Amane Main

Taguchi, Hiroko Japanese

Komine, Sachi Main

Shimizu, Ai Japanese

Irisu, Makina Main

Tamiyasu, Tomoe Japanese

Kazami, Kazuki Supporting

Tomonaga, Akane Japanese

Harudera, Yuria Supporting

Narumi, Erika Japanese

Tachibana, Chizuru Supporting

Yanase, Natsumi Japanese

Oslo, Heath Supporting

Ogura, Mitsutoshi Producer

Yamazaki, Asuka Producer

Kosuge, Hidenori Producer

Ueki, Tatsuya Producer

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Mar 27, 2022

First-5

Recommended

This is my personal review of Grisaia no Kajitsu
IT MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILER

Story: 8
To know the story you need to watch the 2nd season, anyway this story talks about the life of the protagonist, Kazami Yuuji.
I liked the fact that the sin of Yuuji is to live and he will have the permission to die only when he will saves 5 people.

Art: 7
In essence the art are good, in particular I enjoyed Amane's art but i didn't like Yumiko and Michiru's arts.
I liked also the kind of framing, it's been like watching a film.
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Sound: 8
The sounds makes you feel the emotions the author wanted, in particular the opening is really good.
I also liked some soundtrack like "DEADLOCK".

Character: 9
Well, the main theme of this anime is the characters, and they did a great job.
I love Amane's past, it's so sad and emotional, but also Yuuji's that I think is one of the saddest of all the anime I watched.
I like the fact that some backstorys are linked between them, like that of Sachi and Yuuji or between Amane and Yuuji.
My favourite character like you may have guessed is Amane.

Enjoyment: 9
I think that I've watched all the 1st season in 3 days because I didn't want to end it so quickly, it's very entertaining since the 1st episode.

Overall: 8,2 = 8
Just 2 words: watch it ;)

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 13, 2024

Szandor

Mixed Feelings

When looking for light hearted harem animes to watch I came across this one. The review I read said it was a harem with some serious issues being discussed and the idea of a more serious harem with possible interesting character development enticed me enough to have a watch. So how does it stack up to other harem animes and how dark and serious does it really get? Well...

- Story & Theme
The premise is simple. The protagonist is transferred to a school. It's obvious from the start that he has some baggage and that the school, a huge one with only a few girls as ... the students, isn't an ordinary one. As no surprise, then, it is clear that the girls aren't exactly ordinary girls either. The story is less about the protagonist and his background and more about the girls and how the protagonist helps them with their respective baggage. It's fine for a short anime as this one and I'm glad they didn't stretch it out longer or add more girls.

- Characters & Writing
I wouldn't say that the girls are the most unique I've seen, but they do stay away from the obvious tropes. Even the obvious tsundere girl openly admits to being tsundere because that's an archetype she's trying to fill, making it a bit of a parody on other harem stories. But I can't help but feel that the writing and characters are lacking and that more could have been done with them. Especially the protagonist seems like a full on emotionless Gary Stu and not much else. The writing is uninspired and cliché, but not terrible. Some characters give fanservice, but it actually feels pretty natural most of the time and is handled well.

- Graphics & Style
Perhaps it's because it's set in a large school with only a few people in it, but much of the style is empty and boring. It helps a bit with setting a lonely mood that fit with the rest of the show, but it also comes off as lazy. Don't expect anything mindblowing here, the style and animations do what they need to do but not one iota more.

- Bits & Bobs
There are times when the protagonist comes off as an asshole. Sometimes that's just a way of subverting expectations, but sometimes it's because the show is trying to play him off as cool, smart or even caring and the result is a sour taste left behind. After glancing at some of the other reviews it seems like this show was based on a visual novel and that makes it even worse. It's not all the time and it's not by any means as bad, but I get the same sort of vibes here as I did from Redo of Healer, and that's not a good look at all. It can be ignored for the most part though.

- Conclusion
This show is not really a harem and while the story and characters could have been great there is a lot of missed potential here. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants some interesting stories or likes OP main characters doing heroic things. Over all it is a show catering to the male fantasy (so I guess that's the harem aspect they really got right) but only for guys who are misguided about what being a man is about or should be.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 23, 2022

Userman

Not Recommended

Funny

Just because the characters in the anime have a dark past, it doesn't make the anime suddendly good. Just because it shows dark stuff, it isn't some masterpiece of psychological thriller...

First of all, all of the situations must be coherent, without convenience for some characters but this is far from the case.

I am not asking for it to be 'realistic', but at least believable given there doesn't seem to exist 'magic' in the world.

Characters : Same shit as other animes. 4/10, 4 score for a decent MC.

Story: Mediocre, convenience upon convenience upon convenience, 2/10

The 1 is just for the fact that japanese authors seem to ... not be able to produce any dark narrative without inserting animal rape, which is indeed a dark narrative, but has also become convenient and cheap given the abuse of it.

I will write a list of plot holes and too many conveniences, and this isn't referring just to the anime, includes the VN as well:

- School that is supposed to be for students with a 'dark' past, but hosts JUST 5 females. Wow, Japan must have advanced a lot... it shows it is fiction eh...
- 1 teacher teaches all the subjects
- Bipolar Schizo, with one half remembering everything, while the other half forgetting when the other takes control, convenience
- Cat that dies on the side walk but seemed a car hit him????
- Rich Man not having an entire team of CSI inspecting her daughter dead body, or the house, convenience
- Being able to get a realistic dead body that looked exactly like someone, convenience
- Truck speeding exactly near a park for children, killing parents that BOTH ran and stopped in the middle of the road, comically i have to add
- Being able to buy and being able to perfectly time and sync to a sole controller tens of gas tanks, bombs and other explosives with no prior knowledge, the school doesn't question what you buy
- School bus having camp tents and food supplies including plastic bottles
- Literally a genius girl deciding to stay in the same place 13 days, no explanation, even after find a running river with potable water
- No search team being able to find a huge ass bus for 13 days that didn't drown. Where were they going? Antartica? Because else, the searching team should have a lead just by following the ruotes that could be taken from whever they were going to whever they were going ( the school should know this at least, even if they took shotcutes ). Then you crosscheck with any cameras available on street. But nothing like this happened and they seemed to have stranded on an island, convenience for the author to write his cheap ass lord of the flies.
- Cellphones not woking within 10 mt from a huge ass road, convenience.
- Teacher unable to find anything for 3 days, while a child finds the way out with a map (made with convenience), but without having any direction tool available
- Supposed genius girl deciding to show the dumb girl a literal sex scene instead of... you know... getting the fuck out of there.
- Supposed genius girl telling the dumb girl to 'not make a noise even if you see hell'. Didn't think that trough eh, smart kiddo. Unfortunately, a genius in a fictional work can only be, at most, as smart as the author...
- Child that had problem running, suddendly can after leaving her best friend to die, wow, so deep.
- Mad childrens, supposed to be sleeping, that suddendly had the coordination capacity of a organized secret group and decided to hunt exactly the good guys, but not themselves, convenience
- Malnourished child fending off 2 other childrens that weren't as malnourished as they became cannibals, convenience
- Somehow being able to make 11 corspe with 10 bodies , and the comparison was a carrot. Lmao
- Whole story line was so shit, holy cow. I just went on to see how that white haired child could survive and, should have expected, the author made her be the sacrifice for... a stupid ass girl that learned nothing during the 14 days.
- Bomb Terrorist can enter school, with a huge ass giant gun sack and the gate are opened to him, no question asked, convenience
- Literal bull shit line of story writing ending, so much luck and convenience happened for the terrorist to be in the position MC needed, lol, convenience
- and lets add he didn't only 'seek justice' but was a rapist too

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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