Ever wondered how much can studios butcher an anime adaptation so badly, so did I. For the past years I have not seen an anime adaptation worse that than Grisai trilogy, journey through me Cyranical as I relive and retell all the pain and anguish I felt while watching the second anime adaptation of the Grisai trilogy which is The Cocoon Of Caprice 0.
The Cocoon Of Caprice 0 is the continuation of 8bit's disaster of an adaptation for Grisai no Kaijitsu, it also serves as a bridge for fruits and eden. It tells the tragic past of Yuuji's childhood, he was abused by his dad, sexually and mentally abused by his own sister, and had an inferiority complex towards his sister Kazuki, he also saw his mom get beaten and raped by her dad multiple times, he tried to stop him countless times, but he would get beaten by his old man instead for prying into his bussiness. Yuuji's childhood was harsh and unbearable for the average kid, but he somehow kept on pushing, after he mortally wounds his dad trying to protect his own mother, she begs him to flee and when he returns he finds out his dad is dead and his mom commited suicide. He is then taken by the terrorist Health Oslo and turned into his tool, until during a Ichigaya mission he was retrieved by none other than his soon to be master Kusakabe Asako.
The Cocoon of Caprice 0 is a bad adaptation of the first parts of the Labyrinth Of Grisai's main course that being the Cocoon Of Caprice in it's entirety. Now I don't know if this is a movie or a OVA but whatever it is, it possesses the same problems that it's predecessor has, these types of stories are not meant to be speedrun, there are a lot of aspects such as character development and pacing that need to be taken into account when adapting stories like this, but the anime ignored all of that and butchered the execution. For example Yuuji's childhood a majority of scenes that I consider important and necessary to the story have been skipped here, he went through a lot as a child and went through a lot more after meeting Asako, like I said before these types of stories should be adapted and paced properly, if you just go through stories like this all willy nilly then it won't work out, furthermore you're going to dissapoint a lot of people tuning in from the original source material like me.
Now Grisai is not one of my favorite VN's or anime hell it's far from it, but it certaintly s a lot better than your average Harem anime, even tho yes it has a harem ending, and thank god it is adapted into the anime. I would have enjoyed this adaptation a lot more if they actually just straight up adapted the entirety of Cocoon Of Caprice, and just added new things to patch out Rakuen, but I'll talk about this more in the Eden review. [ Rakuen is japanese for Eden btw and I love using it ]
Pros:
-OP and ED is decent
-Did pretty well considering what it had to work with
Cons:
-Rushed the story and cut out a lot of important scenes and details
-Skipped some interesting parts
-Maybe they coudn't expand on the abuse that Yuuji went through and just tried to fix it with a flashback narration which I didn't like, but aye anime can only show so much, then again it came from a VN so it is what it is
-Shit pacing
Overall The Cocoon Of Caprice O is a adaptation that was wasted potential since it didn't adapt Yuuji's backstory fully, and instead just rushed through the first parts of Caprice which is a feat of itself since those parts are already short AF, hell they were like 3 hrs of playtime for me.
Personally I would have liked this adaptation more if they just adapted Yuuji's backstory fully, allowing Eden to be a better anime since it would have changes and more breathing room. Unfortunately if you're watching the anime then you need to go over this since it serves as your connection to Eden, so sadly for you you're going to have to endure this for 47 minutes and be left scratching your head after it since the story went by too fast. I also would have just liked for Eden to have this on it, plus it be a little longer, if they were going for the route of adapting the rest of Caprice and rushing the Seed Of Blank Isle anyway. I give Cocoon Of Caprice 0 a 4/10 for my overall anime rating, plus I'm sorry for the anime only watchers that had to endure sitting through this.
