Review of The Labyrinth of Grisaia: The Cocoon of Caprice 0

This is the worst anime I have ever watched. Not because it's technically bad; art and animation are fine, voice talent and music are fine, no that's not the problem. The problem is that the story is purely manipulative dreck. HERE BE MASSIVE SPOILERS. I found this story offensive. I have nothing against harems per se, and I am ok with Grisaia giving its harem girls somewhat difficult pasts for the feels. But this one, Yuuji's route, is just ham-fisted schlock. Whoever wrote this piece of tripe must have had the directive of "invent a really tragic past for Yuuji" and decided thatthrowing the kitchen sink of possible trauma was the right way to go. I am sorry, but manipulated feels are worthless. They are worse than worthless, they are trivializing actual trauma. As somebody who actually had an abusive childhood, I resent this crap with a passion.

Yuuji is physically and emotionally abused by his father, molested and emotionally twisted by his genius sister (whom I had previously rather liked, but now despise), abandoned by his mother (after she was raped by his father, who became the first person Yuuji killed), whom he then found dangling from the rafters, taken in by a pedophile who crossdressed him while sexually assaulting him, nearly raped by a pal of this paragon (whom he also killed, while in his underwear -- good for Yuuji, trained as a terrorist where the last bit of human feeling was beaten out of him with the final help of some girl who treats him nicely ... until she is supposed to kill him (or he her) as a graduation exercise. I have the feeling more is coming after the CIA finds him.

No, seriously, pure, unadulterated schlock. I don't believe for a second that Yuuji could come out of that as the laconic, yet caring protagonist of Grisaia. I am now gonna go bleach my brain.