October 10, 2014

Grisaia no Kajitsu -- ep 1

Peter Burd wrote about this show and used the magic word ("panties") so I was curious.

The strangest thing about it is that the video is 2.35:1. And yeah, there are panty shots but by the time they happened I no longer cared. I think this show will end up being categorized as horror.

Our Hero is Yuuji, who seems to be very stoic. He's been assigned to a new school which has a grand total of five other students, all girls, and all strange. In the first episode he meets them all, but it's clear from the ending that nothing in this place is as it seems -- including Yuuji himself.

My guess is that he's an assassin -- and the other girls may be as well. Or... it may be that they're all psychotically homicidal. Two of them carry knives. One is an expert with lock picks and invades his room on a transparent excuse. One is shown in her room constructing bombs.

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This one's the one he found in his room. She's got the biggest rack of the five.

By the way, buy the BDs.

The fan service in this show is completely out of place. Fan service goes better in comedies, and this isn't remotely a comedy. I think it was poor judgment for them to include it, and I suspect this is a case like Divergence Eve where the director had to promise the production company he'd do it in order to get the project approved.

I won't be surprised if every one of the girls makes at least one attempt to kill Yuuji before the show is over. (I also won't be surprised if every one of them gets a nude shot.) The short description of the show makes it sound like a harem, but I seriously doubt that's what's in store.

I am curious about it and may watch another episode, because next ep they're going to reveal a lot about Yuuji himself, and we're probably going to get the first attack on him next time.

I think it unlikely I'll want to watch this entire series, but I have to admit to being intrigued at least by the first episode.

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1 It is a VN adaptation, so there may be some good plundering after the season is over.
I'm going to collect it up and possibly watch it later, but mostly for one reason.  RandomC did a review of the VN a bit back.  I really want to know the context of riding in a Lamborghini, holding a cooked chicken, while racing after a Jet on a Runway
That scene, possibly in the anime itself, could be worth so many Meme's to come.

Posted by: sqa at October 11, 2014 04:48 AM (gNOBl)

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This looks like it's going to be Akuma no Riddle, but with a male lead instead. You've got the school setting with very few students who are clearly assassins of some sort, all out for the male lead who has a mysterious past.

Posted by: wahsatchmo at October 12, 2014 10:35 AM (r4uXE)

3 Looking at RandomC's review of the VN and its Wikipedia entry, it doesn't look like Akuma no Riddle or horror. The story will be about the protagonist helping the heroines overcome the circumstances that got them in the Academy. Little Busters! did a good job of combining tragic backstory with comedy, although there's less fanservice than in the VN.

Posted by: muon at October 15, 2014 04:52 AM (XIprt)

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