Install Steam
login
|
language
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)
日本語 (Japanese)
한국어 (Korean)
ไทย (Thai)
Български (Bulgarian)
Čeština (Czech)
Dansk (Danish)
Deutsch (German)
Español - España (Spanish - Spain)
Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America)
Ελληνικά (Greek)
Français (French)
Italiano (Italian)
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
Magyar (Hungarian)
Nederlands (Dutch)
Norsk (Norwegian)
Polski (Polish)
Português (Portuguese - Portugal)
Português - Brasil (Portuguese - Brazil)
Română (Romanian)
Русский (Russian)
Suomi (Finnish)
Svenska (Swedish)
Türkçe (Turkish)
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Українська (Ukrainian)
Report a translation problem
Discussions Rules and Guidelines
4 
Report this post
To think the anime version of Grisaia is good, your watched list must consist of some pretty bad anime.
My watched list consists of over 800 entries actually. There's good and then there's not as good as the source. Grisaia was good, but not as good as the source.
Not since the Max Payne movie has an adaptation had less to do with the source material.
That's being very ungenerous. Each girl had their route animated and was part of the story. It's not like they went off on their own and animated crap. They animated what was in the game.
I'm all for saying it's a bad adaptation, but to say it has nothing to do with the source material is just plain ignorant.
the anime is the reason I bought the VN, because it intrigued me, I watched it knowing how most VN's are adapted into anime; you have a short (and i do mean short) recap of every route, and the anime has its own spin on things too, overall I enjoyed it enough to buy the VN and 100% it, so I'd recommend it as a great anime.
@ Kakashi
there's 3 seasons, each season has its own VN though! grisaia no kajitsu is just grisaia no kajitsu
The anime was relatively close to the common route. Somewhat close on Michiru's route. Butchered Yumiko's route so badly to the point that the anime literally had nothing to do with the source material. Sachi's route was also completely changed to the point where it had almost nothing to do with the source material, changing the entire meaning of why Sachi was even at Mihama and how she got through it. Makina's route was actually fairly accurate.... up until the end, when they turn the VN upside-down. Same thing with Amane's route. Route itself was OK, ending had literally nothing to do with the VN.
I understand that somethings needed to be shortened for the anime and somethings probably altered to allow for them to continue with the Meikyuu/Rakuen anime, but wow did they do a terrible job. Now I will go on a spoiler laden rant on the differences that you should ignore if you haven't finished the VN (or just ignore in general).
Yumiko: el oh el, where to begin. Ok so we know that Yumiko's route in the VN, basically, father ignored her and then pretends to love her once he needs her, mother basically says "You should have been a boy" so Yumiko goes crazy and almost kills someone; Mihama now born since Michikai needs an heir. Ok cool, pretty much the same so far. Now the butchering. In the VN, Yuuji basically goes and rescues Yumiko by basically stealing a car and throwing a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ turkey in a planes engine, runs away with Yumiko before eventually confronting Michikai, destroying him, and finally the reformation of Michikai to help fill the hole in Yumiko's heart about her father and family in general. We know from the VN the "bad" (lol, neutral end, who am I kidding?), that Yumiko was completely unsatisfied with basically just running away and wanted to patch things up with her father. Now the anime: Yumiko goes "ALLAHU AKUBAR," "kills herself" and basically throws her father to the side WHO LITERALLY SHOULD NOT GIVE TWO ♥♥♥♥♥ ABOUT YUMIKO NOW THAT SHE IS DEAD. This all while Yumiko is supposed to start a new life under a new name and pretend that her family situation never happened? AND ARE WE SUPPOSED TO IGNORE THE FACT THAT MIHAMA SHOULD NOW NOT EXIST BECAUSE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YUMIKO IS "DEAD"?? Yumiko's route in the anime was so poorly executed that I literally cannot wrap my head around wtf they were thinking.
Sachi: el oh el, again. Ok, VN, build up of Sachi being super maid, Sachi goes to park, Yuuji finds her, finds about her past, helps her get through psychological problems (with blowing up of school), then finally helps get over her nightmares by confronting her comatose mother and opening the work room. Oh. My. God. Did the anime ♥♥♥♥ this up. Counting to 10,000 in the bath is literally the only thing the same here. Sachi meeting Yuuji in "the usual place" is basically entirely ignored, all because somehow Yuuji actually figures out that Sachi is the same childhood friend despite knowing literally nothing about her at this point in the anime. So because we skip that, we literally skip THE ENTIRE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PART OF THE ROUTE WHERE YUUJI IS HELPING SACHI CHANGE. Leading up to the point where Michiru asks Sachi to get rid of the test. At this point in the anime, Sachi should have ZERO problems accepting the task as nothing has occurred to change Sachi from her "robot maid" self by this point. That's even before going into that Yuuji basically was the one that forced Sachi to accept the task in the VN. Now, in the VN, Sachi basically struggles and doesn't find an answer to destroy the school before going back to attempting a fire (which would have failed had Yuuji not stepped in, obviously, causing more psychological trauma). Yet, somehow in the Anime not only does she realize that a fire would not work, BUT SHE KNOWS HOW TO MAKE BOMBS TO BLOW UP THE SCHOOL ON HER OWN!? Sachi didn't even recognize the plastic bombs that Yuuji used, yet I'm to expect that Sachi somehow, within a couple of days, learned how to make bombs and come to that decision on her own? Now, we get into the initial breakthrough in her problems. Blowing up the school is what taught Sachi "failure through success" in that she lost something precious to her, despite being the "good girl." What do we get in the anime? Yuuji steps in and saves the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ day and Sachi loses nothing. What. YOU DID NOTHING YUUJI. Sachi literally never learns the lesson that she is supposed to, because Yuuji saving the day could easily be explained away by Sachi by thinking "Because I was a good girl, Yuuji helped me succeed." Also, Sachi wouldn't have hesitated to hurt her classmates in favor of completing a "request." The physical harm that Sachi has caused Michiru on multiple occasions throughout the VN attests to that (Smashing the pot to knock Michiru out in Makina's route, or threatening using a crowbar to split her head open in the common route, for easy examples). Then the ending. How the hell do you manage to get this backwards, too? Sachi is supposed to confront her mother first which gives her the strength to want to find out her parents true feelings and go to the work room. Here, Yuuji somehow gets the key before Sachi ever confronts her mother which lessened any impact of Sachi facing her mother ever had. It was after this that I dropped the anime in disgust before eventually forcing my self to trudge through the rest.
Makina: I won't go too incredibly long on this as I've done it enough for the last two routes. But, basically, the entire premise of route between the VN and Anime is backwards. In the VN, Yuuji meets Makina's mother and while there, Makina calls and threatens her. This is what leads to the Irisu clan putting out a hit on Makina (which basically gets ignored in the anime). Then the huge difference is Yuuji killing Makina's mom in the Anime. Doing this in the VN leads to the bad end (Yuuji dies right as he meets Makina). Like Yuuji said in both versions, he can't kill anyone, which is why the good end was choosing not to shoot. Yet Yuuji somehow basically overcame his own trauma and just shoots to kill in cold blood with NO ONE on his tail as he did it? I mean, come the ♥♥♥♥ on.
Amane: Everything close enough up until the kidnapping in the anime. I won't even get into it other than, yeah, I'm supposed to believe that the guy that wanted to kill Amane decided to enter a gated school and kidnap the entire student body (How did he even know in the first place?). And now every knows about Yuuji's job, yadda, yadda, I'm avoiding Meikyuu/Rakuen spoilers like the plague, so I guess I can try and pass it off as maybe needed for the sequels? But lets not pretend that it had anything to do with the source material.
and that says alot