Review The fruit of Grisaia

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Yuuji Kazami was a young man with a mysterious past and one wish, to be an ordinary student at and ordinary school. His wish was halfway granted, he was allowed to study in a special school with five other students, all of them girls with tragic and shady pasts. The question is just what will happen to Yuuji and his classmates in this new environment?

So many clothing options

The Fruit of Grisaia is an adaptation of a visual novel of the same name. Although it does have it's dating sim elements the show is much, much darker than your average show of the genre. While the show isn't horror it is quite grim in many of it's episodes. The show also has a strong action element to it as Yuuji is some sort of highly trained secret agent, and one that get's to make use of his skills more than you would expect in a visual novel adaptation.

Secret technique #22 Loli headbutt

While the show does have it's appeal in being original to some extent it also has quite a bit of flaws. Most notably the pacing of the show is rather jarring as it tries to cram in five story arcs into thirteen episodes taking a hacksaw to four of them. Also this show has a fair amount of fan service and what I saw was a bit more shocking than in many anime shows.

Overall I found the Fruit of Grisaia to be a very weird diversion of a show that is mostly worth watching for spectacle and novelty.

Rating the Sosuke (Full Metal Panic) for being a show most interesting because of it's deadly but socially awkward protagonist.