7 Seeds

“Alright, the count is 2 balls and 1 strike, aaannnnndddd here’s the pitch.”

**Ball smashes tiger in the face**

“You can, put it on the BOOOOAAARRRDDD!!! Yes!” — Ken Harrelson, baseball announcer


Bear Grylls would be disappointed by the ignorance in this camping expedition, not to mention the lack of urine consumption. Trust me, though, that’s the least of 7Seeds problems. In a post-apocalyptic world, five sets of seven boys/girls (“seeds”) attempt to survive despite being chased by bizarre tigers, massive insects, and f—kn’ dinosaurs. It sort of sounds exciting, but the mismanagement of the plot and character left much to be desired.

Too many ... odd events occurred for 7Seeds to be taken seriously. To start, when meteorites were colliding with the earth, a preponderance of the population seemed ambivalent. They displayed distress about the calamitous situation, but were more than willing to forget their troubles for a live concert. Then, when resources became scarce, large swaths of people (obligingly?) got turned into human slushy’s. One would think that society would be in a frenzy from the fears of imminent disaster.

On that note, 7Seeds is littered with rape, calamity, disease, and death; yet, it feels devoid of impact. At no point in the series did I empathize with the fictional characters. Probably because most of whom I couldn’t relate to, given their superficial qualities.

While most of the characters were stale and wishy-washy, there was one who stood above the rest. Mark — the ventriloquist — decided to dress up as Santa to visit the beach as the world was going to hell. Had sex with an infected women (Acari X virus), because his erection wasn’t going anywhere. Locked people in a freezer because he’s a (n)ice guy. And wore a purple ‘Joker’ suit as he talked to Scarface (Pete) during his last moments. Dude was a legend!

The rest of the characters made no positive impressions, they were vacuous. In fact, it was challenging to differentiate them as the number of cast members proliferated. There was some dude playing music all the time, a ‘grim reaper’ who choked Ms. Hana to propagate sexual asphyxiation (or prevent suffering, whatever), and a girl with the hots for this dude with a girlfriend. The number of cliched character was off the charts!

The Animation was bland, with no discernment of creative brilliance; the fights, in particular, were unremarkable. The whirlpool in episode 12 was a fine example of terrible CGI, and character designs were conventional, recycled, and uninteresting. The OST was tedious and the enjoyment was paltry-to-non-existent. It seems like the production staff attempted to rely on the mysterious backdrop to inspire excitement, but it was all for naught. 7Seeds was a bore to watch and I would vehemently recommend you watch something else.

Oh dear, a Netflix sponsered anime. What in Earth could possible go wrong! By the looks of it; a lot!

Story: 3/10 (Very Bad)

From a post-apocalyptic survivalist shoujo manga written in 2011 with 35 volumes and 177 chapters, we get a (possible two) part 12 episode anime adaptation from Studio Gonzo. This review will focus on the first season. It pretty much boils down that all gouverments worldwide select a bunch of people to put in a cryonic freezer because they know a giant asteroid will collide into Earth, a mass extinction occurs and some humans that were put in the freezer are just seeds ... to contineu humankind. First of all, cryonics is at this moment still impossible. Sure, I have consider the Sci-Fi tag section, but when I look at the new wildlife that is represented in the story I have trash this anime since I'm a paleontologist. Wildlife can't adapt and evolve this fast only if couple hunderd years or so since human structures are somehow slighty intact and since I've seen the documontairies Life after People. That's why I have isseus with the story. Wildlife really can't adapt this fast when a mass extinctiuon occurs. We're currently in a mass extinction right now and countless of species are dying out each day. If you want to see big changes in wildlife just like in this anime, we're talking millions of years! The fossil record doesn't lie! Don't get yourself fooled because some Japanese woman (in this case the original author) thinks huge adaptations in animal and plantlife kingdom happen in just couple hunderds of years!


Art: 5/10 (Average)

Animation wise it's pretty much average 2019 standards I guess. I've seen better animation, but it's not horrible iether. But then again, it's Studio Gonzo. I know they can do much better, but hey that's just me. Yes, the studio that gave us Welcome to the N.H.K. is behind this. Sometimes the animation was at time really bad, but sometimes it was OK. In overall; it's a mixed bag for me.


Sound: 6/10 (Fine)

Voice acting is done well and mainly the reason why I wanted to watch this anime because of several voice actors like Nao Touyama (Karen Kujou in Kiniro Mosaic), Yoko Hikasa (Mio - K-On!) and Shizuka Itou (Sakurako Kujou - Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru) are present in this anime. Still I feel these people should get better roles for better anime projects than this garbage can.


Character: 4/140 (Bad)

Honestyly, I really don't like all the charathers we're getting on the screen. They really don't stand out and are plain boring. Just your average people. Nothing special. Eh... It really gives you the clear idea humankind is doomed no matter what with the mass extinction we're currently facing. Exactly; I'm talking about overpopulation, human induced climate change, pollution, deforestation, rising sealevels, acidification of the oceans, desertification, ...


Enjoyment: 2/10 (Horrible)

The more I've watched, the more annoyed I became with this anime. The ammount of bullshit this story tries to shove you down your troat. Now if this was a Comedy, then I wouln't mind it, but no, sadly this anime doesn't get a Comedy tag. What I found the most annoying that you get a bunch of new evolved species that really shouldn't be there in the first place. I'm talking about a huge mantis Carboniferous size, a therapod like "dinosaur" creature etc. If only they got a radioactive movie treatment, then I could atleast see this trough my fingers, but since I understand how evolution works since I'm actully working with extinct animals and mass extinctions in my daily life, this really a huge letdown. She really should have done her research before writing this crap.

Should you read the manga instead? Eh, that's up to you, but I don't even want to bother with that iether in my opinion.


Overall: 3/10 (Very Bad)

In overall, I really wouldn't recommend this anime unless you really want to see a brainless survival anime without any logic, because emotion is the rule of thumb here if you want to survive. Everyone is equal! Hmmm. Where did I herd that one before? Following your feelings while being is harsh times is the rule for survival here in this anime! In the real world however it's the opposite; facts really doesn't care about your feelings!

No wonder this anime is sponsered by Netflix...

Netflix adaptations tend to be either good or trash.
"7 Seeds" falls into the dumpster category.

After watching the terrible trailer, I still had my hopes up, as I heard that the Manga was really good and since I had a genuine interest in the concept. But sadly, even less then half-way through the first episode of the Netflix adaptation, I already despised it.

First of all, there are so many stereotypical characters and moments that it feels like I'm watching a shitty attempt at a comedy anime. Every single one of the characters is just so damn irritating and it pisses me off. I don't ... think I have ever hated an anime character more than every single one of "these" main protagonists. I just don't have the slightest interest in any of them, and it just left me hoping that these were are all joke protagonists and that they would all somehow manage to die at the end of the first episode, in order to reveal the "real" protagonists that I would be genuinely interested in (sadly this didn't end up happening).

The animations are also a pile of dog shit, and the Netflix trailer warned us about it. Yet I still decided to keep my hopes up, which ended up being a terrible mistake.

So far, I am not enjoying this anime in the slightest and I have decided to drop it right after the "4 episode rule".

Overall, this anime is getting a solid 2/10 from me. The entire anime is just a joke. Don't waste your time with this shit. <3

You’ve just awoken years after the apocalypse, stranded on an island. This island is infested by giant man-eating insects, dinosaurs, diseases, and deranged survivors, how do you survive? You don't. You cannot survive because you are braindead. You run around screaming in terror because you are a useless, annoying, brainless shoujo protagonist. Sorry, but someone thought it would be funny to put you—a helpless idiot—into horror anime.

Yet again, Netflix’s algorithms have shat out an awful anime. This time, it’s a blend of shoujo and horror with visuals ripped straight of the early 2000s. 7 Seeds is a fitting title because it took me 7 seconds ... to realize it's bad enough to rival Mars of Destruction, at least for the first two episodes. It’s so bad because it tries to be gruesome and scary, but the art is terrible and the dialogue is hilariously stupid. Rather than being shockingly awful, after episode two it just becomes boring. The plot setup is interesting; to avoid extinction during the apocalypse, different countries put groups of people in cryosleep. The premise is good, and nothing else is. Dozens of random people awaken to find themselves on the island, we see the various groups beginning survival strategies, and big bugs eat some of them. In the first episode, everyone is either screaming in fear or at each other, and not even the animators know what the hell is happening. It’s wild, stupid, and it had the potential to be a so-bad-its-good comedy. Detracting from the humor is the infuriatingly annoying main character.

Natsu, the first protagonist, is the epitome of a useless shoujo protagonist. For some reason, she tells us how weak, cowardly, and awkward she is. It’s all said in one big long run-on sentence because the show is paced incredibly poorly. We immediately know how useless Natsu is because of how she acts, her pathetic ‘woe-is-me’ internal monologues are completely unnecessary. Who needs well-written characterization when you can just info-dump the main character’s entire personality in 10 seconds?! When a huge manga is condensed into twelve episodes, it really shows. Scenes jump from one character perspective to the next with no transition whatsoever. The tone shifts wildly at the drop of a hat from cheesy shoujo drama to people dying violently. Then suddenly we’re thrown into some random guy’s backstory lasting half the episode. 7 Seeds may have worked as a manga, but this adaptation borders on incoherent.

Fortunately for us, the writers forget about Natsu after the third episode. From time to time we’re told how she’s doing as if we care. All Natsu does is silently lust over a generic handsome bishounen. The bishounen is committed to someone else, and Natsu never pursues him out of fear of hurting his feelings. She did nothing for the whole show because she was such a whiny child. For some reason, Natsu and the Bishounen stay with a long-haired dude who smacks her ass in the first episode, he’s a one-dimensional bastard but he sticks around to bully her for some reason. Thankfully, his voice acting in the English dub is fucking hilarious. When he or any character calls out Natsu for being useless, and it sounds genuinely real. You can hear their hatred for Natsu in their voices. For all the verbal beat down she takes, I couldn't care less about her. There is no way to sympathize with someone denser than a two-ton boulder, just stop whining and solve your own problems. The second protagonist, Hana, is thankfully less infuriatingly stupid. I call her the second because she gets introduced in the second half of episode one. Eventually, she gets the full protagonist role. Hana is far more adaptable to her environment and automatically better because she’s not an infuriating coward. Even without any worthwhile characterization and a blank slate personality, was a far better perspective to see the story from than Natsu.

Aside from Hana, there are dozens of other named characters. By the time you learn someone’s name, three more will be introduced. Any ‘development’ no matter how poorly written won’t matter at all if you can’t remember who the character is, and so few of them do anything worth remembering in the story. 7 Seeds attempts to make its cast memorable by over-exaggerating all of their emotions and reactions, which just makes them more obnoxious. Some of them scream every other sentence, and the rest treat every slightly bad thing like it’s the end of the world. Stubbed your toe? Must be the be fatal, scream about it. Swatting someone away? Oops, looks like I fell into a river with 30mph rapids, better scream bloody murder. Either the dialogue is quiet, monotonous, and boring, or it is over-acted to the point it’s funny. There are some hilarious one-liners in the dub because even the actors know how bad this show is. To make the character acting worse, the audio is so lazily edited; no matter how far apart the characters are, they will sound just as loud as if they were right next to each other.

The only character I cared about was the bearded nomad guy with all of the cute wolves, but he became so forgettable I cannot recall his name. Once he shaved his beard, lost his wolves, he became a generic bishounen to fall in love with Hana. Only three of the characters get developed beyond one trait, and the rest don’t even get that much. Some of the side characters exist solely to comment on their surroundings and look helpless when monsters attack. Right as a random girl thinks she will be eaten by big bugs, she suddenly says “I wanted to be a doctor and an astronaut.” Wow so relatable. I am definitely going to cry when she dies violently. Strangely enough, she doesn’t die. After the second episode, very few people die at all; it becomes a boring slice-of-life drama rather than a campy horror. The giant bugs and badass dinosaurs were never seen again. We never learn how the bizarre monster filled future came to be, the writer simply grew tired of them. Instead, the story becomes a generic shoujo about the interpersonal relationships between people we have no reason to care about. There are at least four loosely connected stories being told at every moment in 7 Seeds; each story follows a different group of people in different locations. Trying to keep track of all the locations, characters, and plots is like studying for a test right before class; I couldn’t remember anything because the pacing is so unimaginably awful. That's why episode 10 is the least bad out of all twelve. It is still poorly animated, melodramatic, and disjointed, but it entirely takes place in a flashback. There are almost no sudden jumps between character perspectives and distant locations. Rather than having to follow the giant cast, we follow one main character and four side characters. Episode 10 is the only reprieve we get from the horribly written story and whiplash-inducing editing. Each episode ends mid-scene with no closure, abruptly cutting to the ED. From the beginning to the end, the editing is appalling, this even happens at the end of the last episode. Supposedly this is "Part 1" of the 7 Seeds adaptation; the ending was incomplete for sure, but it did nothing to set up a sequel.

Another effect of the breakneck pacing is a lack of any transition between shots. At one point someone suddenly said, “We’re going to fly together on my glider!” Random, but it sounded cool! Smash cut to them on a glider being slid across the screen on a motion tween, then another smash cut to an unrelated scene. This all happens over the course of FOUR SECONDS. It’s like watching a Michael Bay movie. At any given moment in 7 Seeds is telling multiple stories across multiple locations with little to no connection. It jumps from one story to another flippantly; the editors do not care if you're able to follow the sequence of events. All of the characters look similar too, making the many storylines even harder to follow. The character designs generic and everything else in this show is an eyesore.

Who would have thought the end of the world would look so ugly? The action scenes, character animation, background art, effects, everything. Monsters slide across the screen on motion tweens, the monsters are just repeated assets sized differently from one another. Close-ups of the characters' faces look fine. But when they move, or if they’re a bit too far from the camera, they look hideous. The background art is mostly repeated assets and blotchy green colors. Whenever it's raining (it happens a lot) the effect is haphazardly slapped onto the screen over a normal shot. It is not integrated into the art in any way. Gonzo has adapted plenty of great stories surpassing their mediocre art. This is not one of them. I can only praise Gonzo for attempting to use 2D art for everything, but the little CGI they used looks bizarre. The CGI ocean is such an eye-sore; if someone is swimming, waves just clip through them. Boats don’t affect the water at all. It’s like someone stuck poorly drawn anime stickers onto an over-edited photo of the ocean. Awful visuals like this are enjoyable ironically, but the inane directing of the action scenes is where the true hilarity comes from. A tiger is about to attack three, newly introduced people. One of them randomly pulls out a baseball, then another grabs a stick and says to through it at him, and somehow it hits the tiger square in the face. The whole scene looked like shit, but it was fucking hilarious. My suspension of disbelief did a 360, rolled down a ditch into a dumpster, then it exploded.

7 Seeds straddles the line between being ironically funny and taking itself far too seriously. Horror, romance, drama, shoujo, action, mystery; it wants to be the jack of all trades, but in the end, it is the master of none. The result is a tonally maligned shitfest that isn’t funny, scary, relatable, sympathetic, or entertaining. As for the romance? There is nothing aside from crushes only mentioned in internal monologues and sexual assault. Great. I would recommend this anime to people who want a free lobotomy, those who like bleaching their eyeballs, and basically anyone else who finds pleasure in torturing themselves. Shoujo and horror are two genres that should not be combined, and this dumpster fire demonstrates why.

Dear Netflix, please stop making shovelware garbage like 7 Seeds.

Look at the scores I gave this show. It is the most ridiculous review I've ever written and show that I have witnessed. There is a TLDR at the bottom.

As usual Netflix has a talent for flushing out incomplete garbage. But this show was different. The art was honestly pretty amazing, I love the artstyle. I really did! Sound was definitely on point, from music to ambient sounds. Sure there wasn't a lot, but what was present was of good quality.

The characters were very interesting and had great developments as well, at least in the main team. Each character had their own unique role and ... their own pros and cons. This is extremely fitting with the story.

The story is about having people wake up after a cryo sleep that lasted god knows how long. They are the only humans and woke up when earth became habitable again. Since a meteor shower had quite a negative impact on it. Spread over teams each team is placed at a certain location near a vault where they can find supplies to start villages, communities etc in order to populate earth again and in order to survive. To establish a good basic for future generations etc.

Honestly it is really a great story since it gives so much room for the character development. And then we have flashbacks highlighting some of the characters certain talents and trauma's.

Now I will start with the bad things... and also the reason why I don't recommend this show. You will get tossed around as a viewer. First you watch the story of a certain team, then before it is even finished you will be shown the story of another team. Before it is finished then back to the earlier team. The stories had no significant connection and there were plenty of stories, not just 2. That left me with a foul feeling. So in the hope that it will at least be finished or that you get to see what you had been hoping for you keep watching...

Sure the characters get more interesting, but they make blatantly stupid choices suddenly all for the sake of plot twists. Which are extremely obvious. There is no actual reasoning for certain events. Just to throw the viewer (you and me) off. I really hate those kind of things since it is an extremely low quality effort of achieving something. Just like jump scares in horror movies.

So while you start to realize the road that this dumpster fire has taken under guidance of Netflix the end is nearing (aka episode 12). One side of the story shows that it will be very promising and that it will be great! And then it is halted, we switch to another team. Then they get to an important point in the story and then we get a cliffhanger as season finisher. At an extremely important point as well. This isn't your ordinary cliffhanger, this is one that will make you hate that you wasted hours by watching 12 episodes just for this.

This is an anime about survival and surviving essentially without technology. They don't leave much room for a second season but more like an episode 13 to finish up episode 12. The way they went around with not finishing all the team stories is more like they simply left holes in the overall show. With a second season you can't fill those holes since a second season would be like 11 episodes of flash backs and other perspectives (to complete season 1) and then the last episode would probably finish episode 12... but fact is, all this isn't present.

TLDR;
We are left with an incomplete show that can't even finish the stories it tells and shows. It gives you an incomplete open ending. Hell it isn't even an ending. Netflix probably forgot to add an episode... that kind of ending. Do not watch this. You will be wasting your time. It is quite a miracle for how this show ended up being ruined given the quality elements it contained... but then again it is pretty much Netflix's standard for their exclusive anime.

Wow, holy sht.
It's been a while since I saw something as bad as this thing. I guess I have been avoiding crappy shows nowadays, but the basic idea of the show catched my attention.

Still I would say there is a tiny fraction of the series somewhat worth watching. There are multiple groups, the first one we are introduced to is called 'Summer B'. These 4 characters we are introduced at the beginning of the 1st episode are okay, they are nothing new, but compared to every single other character they are bearable. Still I can see why people could find them annoying too: Natsu Iwashimizu ... is this typical quiet, low profile girl, Arashi Aota is the usual knight in shining armor, Semimaru Asai is this annoying rebellious teen, and the female officer with them is ok too. After ep3 the former 3 depart on their own journey, which is from then is the only part of the series that might be worth watching, they are exploring this post-apocalyptic world, without said characters being mind-blowingly retarded. I would say ep 1-4 are okayish, then in ep 5-9 the group of said 3 characters only get a few minutes per episode, then the second half of ep11. This would be a love story of sorts, and these 3 characters are getting a tiny bit of character development as well.

If you value your time and sanity I would recommend skipping EVERYTHING else. Every further introduced group achieves a new high on the retard-o-meter. It is like watching the storywriter gradually losing it. The rest of the characters are either annoying as hell or indescribably retarded. Anything happens makes zero sense, after a while I couldn't do else, but laugh at how horribly written everything was. And when these horribly written characters are not doing some retarded sht, we can watch 1,5 episodes of flashbacks of these imbeciles we couldn't care less about.

So it would be a straight 1, but as I said the "subplot" of the 3 characters is somewhat watchable, it is funny seeing Natsu tripping over anything and everyting. So IDK, 3/10.

What sucks about this anime is that the manga is really good. It's a shoujo take on a post-apocalyptic plot, something that's usually covered in more male-oriented content. The female protagonists Hana and Natsu play around usual shoujo manga protagonist tropes and subvert them: with Hana supposedly being that overly plucky character that needs to find a sense of balance and learn how to pick her battles, and Natsu being that bullied girl that really needs to get out of her head and learn the basics of human interaction.

BUT NOPE. The anime. Oh boy. The anime. It's really obvious that it got animated because ... teenagers surviving in a world without adults is a popular genre right now and the studios are trying to cash in on that trend.

No care was given to adapting the story at all. What we get is broad strokes of the events, and shoddy character introductions that reduced every character into the basic tropes that the manga worked so hard to subvert.

The anime series is so infuriating, as a fan of the manga, that I actually ended up making an account on MAL to do the angry keyboard nerd thing.

tl;dr: Manga was an award-winning masterpiece but you wouldn't know that if you just watched the anime.

Such a poor adaptation of a very good shoujo manga. The biggest problem is that they try to condense a manga with 170+ chapters into what looks to be a 2 part series. The first part that was released has 12 episodes and moves so fast half the time it is hard to keep up with the story or characters. (Whose bright idea was it to introduce 20 or so characters in the first episode?!) Because of the speed there's really no time to do any real character development. They cut out all of the interesting characteristics of the characters and instead leave us with ... a collection of shoujo stereotypes. Thus none of the characters are likeable and you don't really care what happens to any of them.

Another huge disappointment is the artwork. Like did Netflix not have a budget for this? The quality is absolutely horrendous.

My recommendation is to skip this adaptation and just read the manga.

It’s been a long time since an anime has really pissed me off. I think the last one to do it was back in 2016, so yeah it’s been a while. The ones that are especially guilty of this are those that I feel have potential to give me something different. 7 Seeds almost was one of those types but it quickly descended into disappointment.

Before I tackle the major problem I’m going to get some things out of the way. The art and animation for 7 Seeds started out good if you ask me which is a surprise because Gonzo was the studio in ... charge and they are not exactly known for quality anime. However they did not betray my expectations and quickly the animation deteriorated as the series went on. Pity, it was one of the few things I liked. The music was alright, nothing memorable, but I am happy they used the standard length for the openings and the endings. I’ve noticed that when it comes to Netflix’s original anime they have begun to trim the length of the OPs and EDs and sometimes opting to cut them out entirely, so I appreciate that they made it feel like an actual anime series that aired on television.

The characters for the series were the beginning of my frustration. At first the main cast was centered around 7-8 characters. With a twelve episode run I was confident that everyone would get adequate development. However as the episodes went on we were introduced to more characters and more and more and more to the point where I could no longer care about any of them. I also found a lot of them to be pretty annoying and overall useless. For a post apocalyptic survival story you want characters that are level headed with the tools and traits necessary to survive. Also the world they inhabit is treacherous yet they feel the need to split up every chance they get. This is a post apocalyptic story of survival by means of cooperation, not a random episode of Scooby Doo.

With that out of the way it’s on to the major problem when it comes to 7 Seeds, the story. Starting off I found it to be incredibly appealing to someone with my tastes. I’m the kind of person who is interested in survival and post apocalyptic themes. 7 Seeds appeared to be centered around those themes making the decision to continue watching ever easier. As time went on though I began to notice something was off. The story had a habit of skipping around a lot. Characters would cover thousands of miles of ground in half a episode. Said characters would then break off and split up covering more ground in an unrealistic amount of time. The characters can say that weeks, months, or even years have passed from the first episode until the last but I’m not buying it. Episodes that feel like they should cover an entire arc or series worth are done and solved in a matter of minutes. Now, I’m no manga reader, so I’m going into this blind, but it feels like they are skipping a ton of material.

Part of an anime’s job when it comes to telling a story of the very purpose of the story is to carefully set up the world. The problem with 7 Seeds is that they show us a world that I for one would like to know more about but they then choose to move on without giving the audience a chance to take it all in. This is a recurring theme for 7 Seeds and it’s even more disappointing because what they are rushing to isn’t even worth it.

To start off the review I mentioned that it had been a while since an anime really pissed me off. Generally for an anime to really piss me off it either has to be a complete butchering of a manga that I treasure dearly or an ending that is one big middle finger to the viewer. Considering I never read the manga you can probably guess which of those 7 Seeds is guilty of. Honestly, before the ending came about 7 Seeds was not a bad anime. Sure it was rushed to hell and the characters were annoying and they skipped around a lot but I still found it interesting. That was until I saw the ending or lack there of. Bad endings can jeopardize any series, but endings that don’t even end are worse. I’m not talking about the wishy washy use your imagination kind of open ending, I mean the kind where the episode ends and you think there is going to be another episode after it, but there isn’t. Yep, the good old “f*ck you! Go read the manga!”. Well guess what 7 Seeds anime, f*ck you! Go make a better ending!

Honestly the premise is enough that if the show was even moderately well-executed it could have been binge-able, and if it was masterfully done it would have been an incredibly unique/memorable entry in the Netflix Anime Pantheon. Unfortunately what we get is a bunch of garbage stitched together by limp motives and cardboard cutout characters, which at times reads both completely unbelievable and completely pedestrian.

The characters motivations could stand to be fleshed out with some subtlety, rather than painting them into a box as "this character is like this, and they were literally selected for this group because of that flaw." You don't need ... to explicitly state this kind of shit.

One of the worst problems about it all is just how unimaginable some of the forced drama is. Like really, there are 30 people left on the planet and two of them happen to be people who were deeply in love and separated before the apocalyptic event. Them not knowing the other made it but for some reason holding out hope that they did (retarded hope by the way) is highlighted as like the focal under-arching drama element. Thousands of years have passed and they only picked 4 groups of seven of you to survive after it. It's fucking INSANE to just "hold out hope" that your stupid girlfriend is among them.

The biggest issue though is that the scenes that are supposed to resonate emotionally feel like such contrived garbage. They don't feel earned or genuine at all. At one point, the closest thing to a self-insert character in a typical anime RUNS OFF CRYING in a tantrum in the woods, and it just reads like "Character runs off crying, exit stage left. Other character follows and gives lukewarm peptalk which resonates, end scene."

There isn't a single character that I was rooting for in this steaming pile of garbage. None of them are believable even down to their individual actions, let alone as a cohesive PERSONALITY/IDENTITY. The action is insanely stupid and forced to feel out their shitty backstories (there is a couple that literally hunts animals by pitching and hitting rocks with a stick because they were HS baseball stars before the apocalyptic meteor. I shit you not, this happens and is the focus of an episode.

Watch it to see how garbage it is, if you have a brain or any anime experience I can guarantee you will hate it. Complete waste of a very promising premise, could have been jam-packed with tension and genuine character growth instead of this manufactured, color-by-numbers tripe.

It was so terrible I couldn't finish the first episode. The story had so much potential but the characters are absolutely dreadful. We've got the main protagonist, the stereotypical overly shy girl who lets everyone walk all over her and does absolutely nothing. She's the most useless protagonist ever so she has to have one of those "i have to show everyone I'm strong and useful!" monologues then doesn't actually get strong or useful. For other main characters we've got the stereotypical male love interest that shows half a centimeter of kindness and you can already tell he's going to be the love interest, ... a badass woman who is the only truly useful person of this cast, and a sex offender who sexually harasses the main protagonist. Once again, Netflix pumping out hot garbage and still managing to pump out seconds. I would rather fight a mountain lion in a McDonald's handicap bathroom stall with my hands tied behind my back and my only weapon being a 5 pound dumbbell duck taped to my forehead than sit through another minute of this. Art is subjective, but if this was artwork it would be a moldy banana taped to a wall.

I will be very honest about this show. I have NEVER been depressed watching a show, but this one was one of them. It lacks good character development and none of the main or supporting characters were likable. It was like, I wanted to skip many of the scenes that were either too boring or I just wanted to get the show over with, to be honest. Overall, I would not recommend watching this show. There was a lack of excitement watching and the storyline was confusing. I did not see the story getting anywhere. I heard that the manga is way better than the ... anime, but I am judging based on the show alone.

The voice actors completely ruined this show. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL!!!!

It's like they gave the voice actors the lines at random without any context as to how it was gonna be used. Less then 25% of the conversations have matching tones. They could be talking about a horrific death and the next line they sound like they won a free ice cream sundae.

The story is really good, but you honestly are better watching it in a language you dont understand even remotely and using subtitles. This series could have been 9 or a 10 but it was completely butchered by dialog. If it were me ... producing the show I would force the voice actors to watch it from start to finish and then drag their asses back into the recording studio and redo the whole thing after they see the embarrassment they did the show.

I have seen worst though but its 2019, this kinda voice acting shouldnt even possible.

I do recommend watching it but it's pretty fricken sad when your best episode is narrated by a dead ventriloquist. Seriously I'd recommend it for this episode alone then afterwards you could drop the show entirely if you wanted. It's all downhill from there.

I really didn't want to do anything around this anime much less a review but here I am, doing one mostly because P2 dropped on Netflix and my OCD's demanded that I watch it even though I disliked this part.

First of all I rated this title a 3 overall, which I felt honestly was a better score than it deserved. I'm going to refrain from remitting the summary of the title as everyone can read that in the synopsis section here.

If your thinking about watching this and seeing the heinous score its receiving from most of the other viewers its because its somewhat warranted. To ... expand on that I thought I'd pitch a couple pennies into the jar as well.

Firstly the story is not very cohesive, the concept is good and the ideas behind it are solid but the execution of it is terrible. The title doesn't seem to know what category it wants to reside in so its all over the board trying to hit all the check boxes for all categories.

This leads to a very jarring viewing experience and you'll either love it or hate it.

I personally couldn't tell if it was a romance, drama, survival, horror, or what it was. It started out as a survival type apocalypse story, then shifted to a romance, back to drama, then into a horror, threw in some psychological, mixed it all up, added a olive a viola, a martini shaken, not stirred.

Next there are way too many characters and the story is trying to tell the entirety of it through all the character's experiences as they deal with the situation(s) they find themselves in. If done correctly it can lead to a cinematic experience that will leave you feeling very satisfied, here however it just adds to the chaos the story has already produced with its erratic story line.

The characters themselves are very shallow and plain, really nothing to them that makes them stand out as any type of person we as the viewer can relate too regardless of the circumstances. I felt that they were flat and had just the basic personality painted onto them to make them somewhat "life-like". Plus the dialogue is dry and lacking any depth itself. Pretty much as run of the mill you can get without making it like your choking down straw.

The rest of it was about mediocre at best and really didn't cause me to like or dislike it based on the art or sound.

Overall, this is a great time killer or something to keep on while your grinding through whatever game your playing, but to pay attention to it or become invested into the story, characters, world and narrative, yeah sorry it'll probably let you down.

*No Spoilers*

Summary:
This review is for Part 1 of 7 Seeds, which was produced by a different studio than the second season (part 2). I will eventually review Part 2 as well, which is far superior to this part or "season!"

7 Seeds (part 1) is an anime adapted from Yumi Tamura’s manga of the same name. The story takes place in the future after meteorites destroy Earth as it is today, and the characters wake up thousands or some unspecified number of years later to a brand new climate, environment, geography, etc. Unfortunately, the adaptation from the manga is very poor and this anime falls flat ... with sporadically developed (and annoying) characters and a disjointed plot. The sci-fi aspect is unrealistic due to the nature of the storytelling and certain living creatures that should be extinct (no spoilers). You may like this anime if you are interested in a compelling story (manga) that poorly adapted its source for seemingly no reason. Also, Part 2 is far better than this season, but you need to watch this first to understand the story.

Story: 2/10
The source material (manga) is interesting with solid pacing and character development coinciding with the plot. The challenge with this anime is that it was adapted terribly. The scenes randomly cut to characters who are on other islands without even explaining who those characters are or where they are. The whole story is jarring while simultaneously being rammed together and cutting out important pieces of character development from the manga. If the anime had stayed true to the manga (which I only read parts of) then it would be a solid 7/10. Instead, it feels like someone took a complex and interesting sci-fi novel and scattered pieces around by randomizing the page numbers and cutting out half the scenes with characters.

Art: 4/10
The art is slightly below average in Part 1. The backgrounds are generally pretty, including the water scenes; however, the characters’ appearances vary. They sometimes are detailed and other times appear completely 2-d like a Family Guy character.

Sound: 5/10
The soundtrack, openings, and endings are average. Some scenes have fitting background music, and the voice acting is one of the show’s best attributes.

Character: 3/10
A major flaw in the adaptation of this manga into an anime is the way the plot is scattered which ultimately detracts from the character development. Half the time, a character is about to make a change and then suddenly the viewer is thrown to some other island and introduced to another character without any explanation. This doesn’t occur in the manga but happens frequently in the anime. In addition, the character arcs in part 1 of the anime are absurd. There are scenes that last less than two minutes and characters just change their mind and magically are all better. The characters in the manga are unique and developed, but the anime completely destroys them, especially in part 1.

Enjoyment: 3/10
Part 1 of this anime is particularly unenjoyable because of the bizarre pacing and lack of direction. With all the absurdity aside, it is an interesting concept but adapted terribly. It is all essential to watch this before moving on, and Part 2 was much more enjoyable!

Overall: 3.4/10
(Part 2 is much better)

I watched this in two days, it felt far longer. This was a terrible anime, It had potential as it has a story that is very interesting to me, and could be successful but any character development or crucial moments to plot were so pathetic it was almost funny. The most interesting character has a backstory and drive based off of life being related to fucking baseball. It was so lame. The girl who was about to be slaughtered by mutated bugs decided she should tell the world of her dreams of becoming an astronaut.

The story initially came off boring, but after another episode ... the mutated land inspired me to continue watching in case it redeemed itself, but it definitely didn't, it had terrible pacing and after some episodes the mutated island of dangerous bugs, plants and other dangers disappeared without a trace, I have no idea why that happened. It just generally had crappy animation, character development and pacing, I wouldn't watch this.

This anime really upset me. I've read Basara, the author's previous work, and it was brilliant. I haven't read 7Seeds yet, but know it to be the matured next step for Yumi Tamura and given how much I loved Basara, I had high hopes -- Basara's anime was released in the 90s and discontinued/nearly impossible to find from my understanding. So this felt like the closest I could get to seeing Yumi Tamura's work as an anime. Knowing how this author crafts her stories and characters, I could see from episode one how much they must've butchered it.

For example, Tamura's characters make empathetic decisions ... because of the rich interpersonal relationships developed and the humanness shown to every character no matter how problematic. Her stories live in the grey areas of morality in a way that is authentic to real life. In the first episode, one of the characters is so forgiving and kind to a character who is depicted purely as a horrible unredeemable asshole. To the point that when the 'kind' character tries to help the 'asshole' character, I was like "why would you do that? Let him die he's awful"

The premise is so cool and the characters seem like they are so cool in the manga, but the only reason I know this is because I know the author and her writing style. So for those who don't know Yumi Tamura's works, please give the manga a try and disregard this anime!

This anime is dryer than my thanksgiving chicken. It had so much potential yet it still lacks in almost everything! First and for most the story could have been WAY more exciting and scary. I felt as though the plot was moving at a snail's pace and I think that if your gonna write a story about survival your gonna need to make it spicy like an adrenaline rush adventure with interesting characters but, that's the next problem.

The characters are so hateable and unrelatable and I just can't see myself acting like any of them in such dangerous situations. I felt as though every ... character was lacking the right emotions at the right time and none of them are interesting. The character designs were pretty good though.

The art was actually good but the animation should've had WAY MORE action.

The sounds were quite bland. Good sounds would make you feel a certain way at certain times, for example, disturbing music when a giant bug comes on screen or maybe some sad music when something bad happens. For me personally, I didn't think the sounds gave off much effect.

I didn't enjoy the story at all. I often found myself either getting bored or getting pissed off by one of the characters. I had to drop the anime after about 10 episodes because I just couldn't watch it anymore.

One of the worst adaptations to anime I've seen. This masterpiece doesn't deserve to be watched in this condition. If you are wondering if you should watch this, DON'T, give the manga a chance.

STORY
This anime is just a summary that leaves behind any kind of character development and it even changes the story progression. It adapts around 90 long manga chapters to 12 episodes. This can only be done by removing and changing very important explanations, scenes and the setting.

Even as a squeezed summary it could have been done way better. This anime doesn't conserve any of the points that makes the manga unique, ... like the contrast of cheerful and dark parts or the storytelling.

ART
They changed the old and serious style from the manga to a very generic plain modern style. Some people may think it's better but it takes away a lot of the dark ambient from the manga, making it not suitable for a horror anime. It also makes some characters feel like a joke (speciallly Semimaru).

It pains me to see people on the rewiews bashing in this anime for points the manga actually does very skillfully.

I'm not the type to write reviews but with this one I just can't leave it be.

Overall the story is set in an apocalyptic time where a group of people need to deal with monsters and figure out why they are there.

My big problem with this show is that it does have an idea of a story but the execution of it is just so poorly done that it leaves you with a *really* unsatisfied feeling. It feels really rushed and you don't really get to adapt to the anime in any situation.

I remember when I was done watching it, I was just ... in such an unexplainably bad mood... it's just so unpleasing to watch it and I really don't recommend watching ...