Grisaia no Kajitsu

Yuuji Kazami is a transfer student who has just been admitted into Mihama Academy. He wants to live an ordinary high school life, but this dream of his may not come true any time soon as Mihama Academy is quite the opposite. Consisting of only the principal and five other students, all of whom are girls, Yuuji becomes acquainted with each of them, discovering more about their personalities as socialization is inevitable. Slowly, he begins to learn about the truth behind the small group of students occupying the academy—they each have their own share of traumatic experiences which are tucked away from the world.

Mihama Academy acts as a home for these girls, they are the "fruit" which fell from their trees and have begun to decay. It is up to Yuuji to become the catalyst to save them from themselves, but how can he save another when he cannot even save himself?

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Kazami, Yuuji Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Matsushima, Michiru Main

Mizuhashi, Kaori Japanese

Sakaki, Yumiko Main

Tanaka, Ryouko Japanese

Suou, Amane Main

Taguchi, Hiroko Japanese

Komine, Sachi Main

Shimizu, Ai Japanese

Irisu, Makina Main

Tamiyasu, Tomoe Japanese

Kazami, Kazuki Supporting

Tomonaga, Akane Japanese

Harudera, Yuria Supporting

Narumi, Erika Japanese

Tachibana, Chizuru Supporting

Yanase, Natsumi Japanese

Oslo, Heath Supporting

Ogura, Mitsutoshi Producer

Yamazaki, Asuka Producer

Kanemitsu, Kazuhiro Producer

Ueki, Tatsuya Producer

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Mar 27, 2022

First-5

Recommended

This is my personal review of Grisaia no Kajitsu
IT MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILER

Story: 8
To know the story you need to watch the 2nd season, anyway this story talks about the life of the protagonist, Kazami Yuuji.
I liked the fact that the sin of Yuuji is to live and he will have the permission to die only when he will saves 5 people.

Art: 7
In essence the art are good, in particular I enjoyed Amane's art but i didn't like Yumiko and Michiru's arts.
I liked also the kind of framing, it's been like watching a film.
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Sound: 8
The sounds makes you feel the emotions the author wanted, in particular the opening is really good.
I also liked some soundtrack like "DEADLOCK".

Character: 9
Well, the main theme of this anime is the characters, and they did a great job.
I love Amane's past, it's so sad and emotional, but also Yuuji's that I think is one of the saddest of all the anime I watched.
I like the fact that some backstorys are linked between them, like that of Sachi and Yuuji or between Amane and Yuuji.
My favourite character like you may have guessed is Amane.

Enjoyment: 9
I think that I've watched all the 1st season in 3 days because I didn't want to end it so quickly, it's very entertaining since the 1st episode.

Overall: 8,2 = 8
Just 2 words: watch it ;)

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 10, 2025

Blitzy97

Mixed Feelings

TLDR: Read the Visual Novels if you want the full experience. Otherwise, this is a passable, if overly condensed, slightly altered, entry point into the series.

I don't envy anyone that has to adapt a lengthy, acclaimed visual novel like Fruit of Grisaia into a single 13 episode anime season while having it turn out as good or as fleshed out as the source material, so for what it is, this adaptation tried it's best with moderate success.

Most of the core story beats from each route are present, albeit in a heavily watered down and somewhat altered form. This unfortunately means, however, that Yumiko's story, ... which relies heavily on the romance plot between her and Yuuji, lost the vast majority of it's story progression and interested viewers will need to read the visual novel to truly experience it.

The other routes falter similarly, as none of them get the screen time to truly explore the events and the traumas that caused these characters to behave as they do or the resulting consequences of their actions in many cases.

Amane's route gets the most screen time, and thus ,fares the best. Much of her story involves being immersed over an extended period of time in the struggles and suffering she experienced during that time. Naturally, such an experience is difficult to truly capture in such a short time and so the VN is, again, essential to truly experience this gut punch of a route, but the anime does a decent job of adapting it.

What this show does well is give viewers a compact, animated summary of the comedy and the incredible story that the visual novel does so well.

Overall, this is a decent entry point into the series if you don't want to read the visual novels, but if readers do have any interest at all in the VNs, I would highly recommend skipping this anime and reading the VNs instead, as the stories and characters are far more fleshed out and will have a much greater impact than can be experienced through the very heavily condensed version shown in the anime.

I'd love it if they could take another crack at this in the future with an extended season or maybe several feature length episodes, but I doubt that'll happen. Also, maybe tone down the panty shots too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 23, 2022

Userman

Not Recommended

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Just because the characters in the anime have a dark past, it doesn't make the anime suddendly good. Just because it shows dark stuff, it isn't some masterpiece of psychological thriller...

First of all, all of the situations must be coherent, without convenience for some characters but this is far from the case.

I am not asking for it to be 'realistic', but at least believable given there doesn't seem to exist 'magic' in the world.

Characters : Same shit as other animes. 4/10, 4 score for a decent MC.

Story: Mediocre, convenience upon convenience upon convenience, 2/10

The 1 is just for the fact that japanese authors seem to ... not be able to produce any dark narrative without inserting animal rape, which is indeed a dark narrative, but has also become convenient and cheap given the abuse of it.

I will write a list of plot holes and too many conveniences, and this isn't referring just to the anime, includes the VN as well:

- School that is supposed to be for students with a 'dark' past, but hosts JUST 5 females. Wow, Japan must have advanced a lot... it shows it is fiction eh...
- 1 teacher teaches all the subjects
- Bipolar Schizo, with one half remembering everything, while the other half forgetting when the other takes control, convenience
- Cat that dies on the side walk but seemed a car hit him????
- Rich Man not having an entire team of CSI inspecting her daughter dead body, or the house, convenience
- Being able to get a realistic dead body that looked exactly like someone, convenience
- Truck speeding exactly near a park for children, killing parents that BOTH ran and stopped in the middle of the road, comically i have to add
- Being able to buy and being able to perfectly time and sync to a sole controller tens of gas tanks, bombs and other explosives with no prior knowledge, the school doesn't question what you buy
- School bus having camp tents and food supplies including plastic bottles
- Literally a genius girl deciding to stay in the same place 13 days, no explanation, even after find a running river with potable water
- No search team being able to find a huge ass bus for 13 days that didn't drown. Where were they going? Antartica? Because else, the searching team should have a lead just by following the ruotes that could be taken from whever they were going to whever they were going ( the school should know this at least, even if they took shotcutes ). Then you crosscheck with any cameras available on street. But nothing like this happened and they seemed to have stranded on an island, convenience for the author to write his cheap ass lord of the flies.
- Cellphones not woking within 10 mt from a huge ass road, convenience.
- Teacher unable to find anything for 3 days, while a child finds the way out with a map (made with convenience), but without having any direction tool available
- Supposed genius girl deciding to show the dumb girl a literal sex scene instead of... you know... getting the fuck out of there.
- Supposed genius girl telling the dumb girl to 'not make a noise even if you see hell'. Didn't think that trough eh, smart kiddo. Unfortunately, a genius in a fictional work can only be, at most, as smart as the author...
- Child that had problem running, suddendly can after leaving her best friend to die, wow, so deep.
- Mad childrens, supposed to be sleeping, that suddendly had the coordination capacity of a organized secret group and decided to hunt exactly the good guys, but not themselves, convenience
- Malnourished child fending off 2 other childrens that weren't as malnourished as they became cannibals, convenience
- Somehow being able to make 11 corspe with 10 bodies , and the comparison was a carrot. Lmao
- Whole story line was so shit, holy cow. I just went on to see how that white haired child could survive and, should have expected, the author made her be the sacrifice for... a stupid ass girl that learned nothing during the 14 days.
- Bomb Terrorist can enter school, with a huge ass giant gun sack and the gate are opened to him, no question asked, convenience
- Literal bull shit line of story writing ending, so much luck and convenience happened for the terrorist to be in the position MC needed, lol, convenience
- and lets add he didn't only 'seek justice' but was a rapist too

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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