Girl has crazy past, Yuuji comes in to save the day and help them overcome their trauma - again and again. By the time you're done watching the first or second heroine arc, it becomes very clear how the rest of them are going to play out. It's a ceaseless wave of story bombshells, 'shocking' revelations that in fact do not feel shocking whatsoever because of the needless fatigue it puts on the viewer.
Yuuji is only wooing the girls because they offer themselves to him so easily.īecause the story is whiplashing from one heroine arc to another so quickly and without break - often with only a single episode to separate them - it is easy to get a headache from the overwhelming onslaught of drama. Whereas in the visual novel it is obvious that Yuuji has genuine feelings for and a desire to protect her, in the anime's case it's just "hey, whatever, man". And that still doesn't change much by the end of her arc. It does very little to make their relationship feel natural, and until it becomes clear what the girl's reason for hitting on Yuuji all the damn time are, it just feels like the two are incredibly desperate and don't actually care about each other. It's all well and nice when an anime actually has the guts to show two characters kissing, but in Grisaia's case, the two are so unfamiliar with each other that they may as well be still be strangers. Within the first five minutes of her arc, Yuuji and said heroine become a couple after an impromptu make-out scene. Most egregious is the 'romance' between the protagonist, Yuuji, and one of the heroines. A few minutes later and again without reason, she changes back into Stupid Lovable Sachi, and at that point it becomes a mystery who or what her character is even supposed to be. Sachi's episode is just laughable as it immediately transforms the naive, innocent maid into some dangerous psycho without any reasons as to WHY. The characters frequently engage in acts of nonsense because the anime doesn't have any time to explain their actions. It's difficult to judge the Grisaia anime for what it is rather than for what it should be, considering nearly every issue is in some way related to the pacing. I can't imagine anyone except the most devoted of fans is satisfied with the result. Instead of that, we get "Grisaia: The Compilation Series". Cover half the content from the visual novel, and if it sells well enough (and it almost assuredly would given the popularity of the franchise), cover the rest of it in a second season.
The suits behind the adaptation failed to understand that they could simply lighten down on the pace and leave the rest of the story for later seasons.
But when necessary story and characterisation is rushed through so quickly that you canīarely even tell what the hell is going on, there is a major problem. True, there's a lot of crap in the visual novel that could be cut out with little of value being lost. And while that does contain some truth, it does not excuse 50+ hours of story from the visual novel being jammed into a meagre four hours of animation. The natural response would be that the studio did not have enough budget to stretch the production any further. For nearly every minute I spent watching Grisaia, I kept asking myself the same question: "Why the hell is this only 13 episodes long?"
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