Review of 7 Seeds

This series baffles me. It baffles me how an author is able to make a work this incoherent without it being a parody. I'll try to avoid spoiling anything in depth in this review, but I might touch on more general story beats. By far the biggest problem in this series are the characters. Pretty much all of them are one-dimensional. Most of the supporting cast are fucked in the head (psychopath, deranged, rapist, pedophile or a combination of these traits). The rest of the characters is seemingly okay with the behaviour of these people. All of the characters *constantly* make idiotic decisions. If I wereto elaborate on this, I’d basically be recanting the script of the series. For an example, you can look at my forum post for episode 11. To sum it up, these choices include:

-Trusting a group of deranged psychopaths
-Trusting a person who tried to murder them a few hours earlier
-Sacrificing yourself for deranged psychopaths
-Not being able to recognize imminent danger / not having an ounce of self-preservation instinct.
-Generally doing dumb or bizarre things, given the circumstances at hand.

As you can guess, horrible things happen to them. Yet they don’t seem to learn a single thing from the whole ordeal. This makes it pretty hard to care about anything that happens to them, since they don’t really seem to care either.

The only one I didn’t dislike by the end is the first main character. Her personality is that she’s a socially awkward preteen/teen. This means that she doesn’t make many decisions and she doesn’t do anything outrageously stupid (that I can remember at least)

I also didn’t really mind the main guy, although a throwaway line seemed to imply that he doesn’t see anything wrong with strangling kittens. I couldn’t help but laugh at this within the context of this series.

The plot isn’t much better. Most of the story is extremely contrived (My favorite of these is characters randomly stumbling upon each other even though they’re strewn all over Japan) or relies on everyone being absolute idiots. There is also extreme plot armor. This isn’t even talking about the worldbuilding, which is also generally stupid.

The animation quality degrades over the season, but is serviceable. The one good thing about this series is the intro song.

I will say that it was pretty funny to watch due to some of the absurdity. (At one point telepathy is randomly introduced, for seemingly no reason other than steering a group of characters). The characters are so badly written, I often wondered if the author is an misanthropist, or if they just don’t interact with other people.