What drew me to this anime in the first place was the art style of the anime. It's by the same producers as K-ON, hence I thought it'd be good too. And yes, it was good. I'm not sure why some people don't see the comedy, but for teenagers on a Saturday afternoon I found it quite entertaining. It tackles that awkwardness of teenage puberty and drama giving something to relate to. Well for me and my various friends at least. One thing that I loved is how it presented these issues such as wanting to date the guy your friend likes, masochistic puppy boy love, and clash of internal feelings.
Each of characters have their own back story in which the others end up finding out. It brings up the issue of how much do you really know about your friends and how much will you face for them. Though she wasn't touched on too much I really liked the character Inaba. The character are what you might call cliche and shallow, but as the story unfolds I find myself wanting to know more or feeling emotions such as how are you so stupid and why did you do this. These characters are made naive and young which makes their actions justified yet leaving us shaking our heads.
Plot wise I found it to be quite interesting. Coming from a person who loves physiology and the art of reading people's minds its an interesting take on paranoia. The tasks that Heart Seed puts them through not only tests their relationships, but their own mental health. Though as I reached episode 6 i realized that as heart seed would return how fast would them have to finish it with fillers or more tasks. Luckily I found that they kept it at the same pace choosing not to screw themselves over. I love the thought of Heart Seed having fun watching the group piss themselves, but I couldn't help but notice the inconsistencies as to when he said he wasn't coming back or being nice. But dude decide on something. Stop flip flapping.
Would I recommend this to someone else? Well why yes. Though I do believe it is more for the tween to high school age group. I would not force it on someone unless its like the rec but more of this was a good anime you should watch it type of thing.
-AniVerse REC member
