Review of The Fruit of Grisaia
If you have read the visual novel then you will understand that a lot either has been cut out or changed. This is understandable though, as I am guessing there was a small budget and story needed to be done so that the main character helps all the girls instead of following the route of one. If they did do each route seperately, they could have easily have got 4 or5x the amount of episodes they had. While I understand why, the problem is because a lot is cut out, the anime lacks the same level of detail and development as the VN, the charactersare not as developed and the past trauma that these characters have doesn't seem as dark.
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Story - The story is about a young man called Kazami yuji who comes to Mihama Academy, a school of 5 others besides himself. The anime is split in arcs in which Yuj helps each of the girls to come to terms with thier dark pasts.
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Art & Sound - The art is good, but it does have a few problems like the odd bit of hair going behind a characters eye (because apparently that happens). The sound is ok, but not really great.
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Characters:
Kazami Yuji - A very capable young man who works for a Japanese government agency, He, like the main female characters, has a dark past. All he wants is a normal school life. He usually cautious and displays unorthadox military methods.
Yumiko Sakaki - One of the 6 students at Mihama Academy. Due to her past, she is reluctant to make friends and tends to keep to herself, she is also the most reluctant to accept Yuji, going as far as to flash a box cutter at him and to use an online site to find any info on him, all without success. She eventually accepts Yuji.
Amane Sou - Amane acts like a big sister type of character and tries to seduce Yuji using her well developed body. She also acts like a motherly figure to fellow student Makina. She is good at cooking, has an interest in cars and drives a motorcycle. She was involved in an accident involving her school bus when she was younger.
Makina Irisu - Makina is more of an immature but carefree child. At first she avoided Yuji, but warmed up to him after he helped her catch a crawfish. She is easily infuenced by the others behaviour and speaks in childish way. Her family is extremely powerful and wealthy and so Makina is able to speak several foreign languages due to travelling abroard as a young girl, and has an insanely large amount of money in a bank account.
Sachi Komine - Sachi almost always wears a maid uniform due to being told by some people that she should wear one. Sachi is probably the one who is most haunted by her past. She takes everything asked of her seriously, even if it was meant as a joke which causes trouble. IMO, She is probably the most affected by her past.
Michiru Matsushima - Michiru is a noisy, silly and energetic girl who tries to be a tsundere, because of her silliness she tends to annoy the others. Michiru can be summed up by thinking that vitamin C will help make her smarter, she is actually confusing vitamin C for DHA.
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Enjoyment - If haven't read the VN then you'll definitely like this, I also recommend the VN which you can get on Steam or Denpasoft. If you have read the VN, then you will be disappointed by the large amount cut as well as the less detailed pasts of the characters and the different methods used by Yuji to solve the girls problems.