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I'll say right off the bat I was caught off guard with this anime. If I had to compare my experience with Amagami SS with something the best example I can think of is your first time eating fast food. Going in you have your preconceptions for what your getting yourself into. You may not be a connoisseur but you've been around the block a time or two. So, when you out of the corner of your eye you see this little beauty your fancy is a little trickled. You go in, take a few names and set yourself up with the belief that ... this burger will be just like all the others. But then it occurs to you. What you just ate was no burger. You just had yourself a McRib. You don't remember ordering a McRib but nonetheless you enjoyed it. I"m going to let you stew on that as I begin the review.

Story-10
Junichi Tachibana is a junior in high school who has been through some trials in the past and sadly didn't escape unscathed. Two years prior to where the story sets off on Christmas Eve, Junichi was stood up by a girl and hasn't exactly come to terms with it.
Make no mistake this is a Harem but it goes in a Ground Hog Day style of telling its story by showing us each girls Arc in a certain amount of episodes and when that girl's Arc as ended the story resets as we start again with a different girl. I will say that much like apples not every Arc is created equal story wise. For the majority of the Arcs they are given the same amount of episodes to tell their story. Well some use this time magnificently, others sadly aren't up to par but this is just my own observation.

Art-8
I'm no expert when it comes to art and the like so I will make this quick.
The animation was great and was from what I observed mostly drawn with minimal CGI. The character designs were good but at times I confused some characters because they looked so similar to each other but this rarely was the case.

Sound-7
The soundtrack was well done and the music was appropriate for the scenes where they played. However the tracks did repeat here and their but not enough to where I could hum it to myself. The sound effects were good and helped with the taste of immersion.

Character-9
The characters in Amagami SS come in all shapes and sizes. I enjoyed some and were less than happy with others. I'll focus mainly on the protagonist and his muses but I will say a bit about the supporting characters.
I felt that the supporting characters were in word underdeveloped. I won't say where or when but their was a time where I had greater interest in the supporting characters then the girl in the Arc. If anything they reminded me a lot of the supporting characters in South Park. They help progress the plot but don't really do anything otherwise.
On the man of the hour himself Junichi. To put it lightly Junichi is a man who (depending on the Arc) has seen and done somethings that some may deem unnatural. He is hard to describe as with each girl's Arc is different so is Junichi. Deep down hes the same guy but at times through the series I was uncertain how he would react to certain situations. Anymore would be going into spoiler territory and I don't want that.
The heroines of Amagami SS were for lack of a better word unique. I loved the Arcs for many (Tsuksa, Morishima, Nanasuki) and disliked others (Sae, Rihoko, Kaoru). Still each girl is the star of her own Arc and they made the series a blast.

Enjoyment-9
In my eyes this show ranks how above many of the Harems I have seen in my day. I found myself laughing out loud at times which with me being a fan of dark comedy says a lot. I can't leave until I say something about the ending. This series has one of those endings that had me feeling a cocktail of volatile emotions of which I rarely show(thank god I was alone in my apartment at the time). The ending in short will make you feel things.

Overall-9
The series was fantastic and good enough that I might have to revisit it someday.