As the anime started, I remembered parts of the visual novel but essentially it skips a lot which I expected because the visual novel is so long and focusing on one route would be 12 episodes on its own I guess (or maybe a bit less). So in the anime a lot of things are skipped and you immediately reach the stages of "Oh here is the other female members" and "we quickly get to a key part of that characters background". Since I've gone through part of the visual novel I already have some idea of what would have happened previously to get up to that stage but if you watch the anime without any prior knowledge, it's just a mess. Things occur in the anime where you are just thinking "What? what happened? how did this happen? nothing really explains what is going on."
I only enjoyed parts of the anime just to see the characters in motion and as well as their personalities; Lucia's tongue rolling sound when she is angry and rolls her rrrrrrr's or Kotori's little humorous personality to make little random jokes and Shizuru's often puzzled expressions.
At the moment, I haven't bothered to move on to the other half (sequel) and decided to recheck out the visual novel as that is more in-depth and provides to smaller scenes of character interactions where you can grow a liken to the characters.
Rewrite in itself the visual novel was quite the hard thing to get around to but the anime is just trying to cram so much in in so little time it doesn't make sense to the regular viewer and because of that it ends up being Key's worst anime adaptation and I'm having to cleanse my mind by going back to the visual novel just to not spoil the story.
What I really wished to see in the anime is the fun little interactions between the characters that helped show off more of their personalities.
