Shichisei no Subaru

To be simple, it is a combination of anohana and SAO(MMORPG) concept, where asahi who supposed to be dead 6 years ago, return inside the game and found by haruto. She does not remember anything about the whole years although for everyone of the party has to gone through the sad and sorrow of her death (Spoiler: fake death-not shown in the anime - read the light novel). The story of this season is taken from light novel volume 1 to 5/6, which makes it very cramped and you may feel like it getting faster and faster during the end, the plot itself mostly about ... fighting who loves who since there are 6 of them in a party where asahi is loved by haruto and takenori where haruto is loved by satsuki and takenory is loved by nozomi. From first episode till the end there are 3 topics that mostly covered which are handling haruto guilt( try to make him return normal), fighting over the mc mostly about asahi, haruto, satsuki, and the last one is to make subaru(the party name) reunite again. Everything is achieve through the whole season where haruto able to overcome his ptsd, the romance is quite known who with who and who gives up, and at the end they are together again. The plot actually is quite good, but there are too many mysteries that is quite unsolved yet particularly is asahi alive or not(Spoiler: she is), who is elicia, and how will they know where asahi is kept and rescue them. At the end of the episode, it is shown that the future, they able to take down the organization and assuming that in that situation it is also the time where the subaru party already awaken their senses(power in this story) and rescue asahi.

The reason that this has low score is not that it has bad story but it just do not have enough
explanation yet especially about asahi current situation, this season only focus on reuniting the whole group and powering up, probably if there is a second exist in the future, there will be more explanation about that aspect and the score will become better because there just too much missing information and the too much romance problem in this season, hence the target of this anime probably only for teenager who still like to fight for love(may sound cliche) but if you only interested in the fighting probably just skip this anime, it is not that good on that aspect. For me I like a mystery kind of story and i try to solve it by some information given from each episode and try to guess what is the real situation happening and guess does asahi still alive or not? which she is alive. So if you want to try to guess the actual plotline and how it will end, this may be your kind of anime. But if you do not like any cringe romance, unspectacular fight scene, probably just skip it because the fight is not that great since they are quite op(They are the strongest party in the whole game-in the past).

Shichisei no Subaru feels like a show that is trying to copy Anohana, but in a mmo setting.

The main characters at the beginning of the show were six friends playing together in harmony until one of the six members dies, then they broke apart. Eventually the emergence of the dead member in the game starts the adventure of the story of the main character, Haruto, who to tries gather up the gang back together. Some of the members of the six friends felt a poor version of the characters in Anohana.

The setting for the show is generic, it does not differentiate from other ... anime game’s setting. They should have added some unique gimmicks to the setting in order stand out from alternate
anime’s environments.

The music and animation is bland, but not terrible.

Overall, a very lame ripoff of Anohana in a generic rpg setting.

This is one of those disasters that has incredible potential, sensational idea, but horribly executed. The characters are extremely bad, being weird + bad story behind each one, they didn't get it right once. This idea of ​​an SAO-type novel doesn't work, it's certainly the biggest IMBECIL thing to put in a script, especially when you don't know how to make one. The plot was humiliating, I don't know how I had the courage to keep watching, if you see someone giving a score higher than 3/4, you can be sure they are a fan of SAO and don't have a critical sense. If you ... don't have a basic criteria to choose what to watch, maybe it's better to waste your time watching it than doing nothing, but it's at your risk, the work is terrible, I think your time doesn't equal something so bad.