Review of 7 Seeds
Look at the scores I gave this show. It is the most ridiculous review I've ever written and show that I have witnessed. There is a TLDR at the bottom. As usual Netflix has a talent for flushing out incomplete garbage. But this show was different. The art was honestly pretty amazing, I love the artstyle. I really did! Sound was definitely on point, from music to ambient sounds. Sure there wasn't a lot, but what was present was of good quality. The characters were very interesting and had great developments as well, at least in the main team. Each character had their own unique role andtheir own pros and cons. This is extremely fitting with the story.
The story is about having people wake up after a cryo sleep that lasted god knows how long. They are the only humans and woke up when earth became habitable again. Since a meteor shower had quite a negative impact on it. Spread over teams each team is placed at a certain location near a vault where they can find supplies to start villages, communities etc in order to populate earth again and in order to survive. To establish a good basic for future generations etc.
Honestly it is really a great story since it gives so much room for the character development. And then we have flashbacks highlighting some of the characters certain talents and trauma's.
Now I will start with the bad things... and also the reason why I don't recommend this show. You will get tossed around as a viewer. First you watch the story of a certain team, then before it is even finished you will be shown the story of another team. Before it is finished then back to the earlier team. The stories had no significant connection and there were plenty of stories, not just 2. That left me with a foul feeling. So in the hope that it will at least be finished or that you get to see what you had been hoping for you keep watching...
Sure the characters get more interesting, but they make blatantly stupid choices suddenly all for the sake of plot twists. Which are extremely obvious. There is no actual reasoning for certain events. Just to throw the viewer (you and me) off. I really hate those kind of things since it is an extremely low quality effort of achieving something. Just like jump scares in horror movies.
So while you start to realize the road that this dumpster fire has taken under guidance of Netflix the end is nearing (aka episode 12). One side of the story shows that it will be very promising and that it will be great! And then it is halted, we switch to another team. Then they get to an important point in the story and then we get a cliffhanger as season finisher. At an extremely important point as well. This isn't your ordinary cliffhanger, this is one that will make you hate that you wasted hours by watching 12 episodes just for this.
This is an anime about survival and surviving essentially without technology. They don't leave much room for a second season but more like an episode 13 to finish up episode 12. The way they went around with not finishing all the team stories is more like they simply left holes in the overall show. With a second season you can't fill those holes since a second season would be like 11 episodes of flash backs and other perspectives (to complete season 1) and then the last episode would probably finish episode 12... but fact is, all this isn't present.
TLDR;
We are left with an incomplete show that can't even finish the stories it tells and shows. It gives you an incomplete open ending. Hell it isn't even an ending. Netflix probably forgot to add an episode... that kind of ending. Do not watch this. You will be wasting your time. It is quite a miracle for how this show ended up being ruined given the quality elements it contained... but then again it is pretty much Netflix's standard for their exclusive anime.