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Read the fucking Visual Novel.

I watched this solely because the source material is my favourite visual novel. And good lord does this disappoint. It completely ruins the story beats that the vn has, makes the fight scenes look ridiculous through CGI (apart from the last one thankfully) and ruins the art-style of the vn.

For the first point, the story beats being ruined:
The show takes story beats from different routes but really fails to mesh them together well, even introducing some that weren't there and literally contradict the ones present in the visual novel. Furthermore the ones that are there that still make ... sense are often so quickly disregarded and pushed aside its aggravating. The pacing too, is insane, the show needed another 12 episodes to fit the current content into a much better pace (I understand adapting a 30 hour vn route into anime can be difficult but still).

For the second point, the fight scenes:
The fight scenes or rather FC scenes most of the time look ridiculous due to the CGI being incredibly apparent and most of the time coming off as stiff and looking inhuman. When in contrast to the visual novel, these FC scenes sure are composed of stills but you can really feel the motion and force behind the movement of each the characters, how an animated piece of media conveys movement worse than a vn is beyond me.

For the last point of the art:
The visual novel has one of the most gorgeous art-styles I can think of, and what does the anime get? At best shoddily traced CGs from the vn and at worst some awful proportions on characters, awkward looking faces where character's eyes are too far apart and even unnecessary reusing of frames (due to what I can only guess was budget).

To see my favourite visual novel being handled like this is sad to say the least. But at least I can go out of my way here to say, don't watch this, read the visual novel instead. It is available on Nekonyan's website and Steam (where it often goes on sale) for PC and also on Nintendo Switch (and PS4 but a censored version).