Visual Novel adaptions always seem very difficult and very rarely do I feel like they actually succeed in the end. The challenges facing them is just far too great. You have a long game in this case 36 hours average according to VNDBhttps://vndb.org/v4028 with a large variety of possible romance options and routes to take. And each route will further the story in unique and interesting ways that are generally always important to the overall plot and story of the game. And in some cases they manage to make it work maybe they focus on just a single character or pick the true ending route to adapt or maybe give each romance option just 2 or 3 episodes so every route gets adapted. But unfortunately whatever they tried to do for this show I dont think worked at all. And honestly I dont know if this is so much the fault of the adaption or a just a very seemingly strange story from the source VN. Sure the anime has many issues the characters are good and enjoyable sure. But the actual character routes are pretty messy and you have characters who have hours worth of development change in the course of minutes or between episodes for real no reason. Outside of them needing to change to fit the next scene from the VN. And the romance that they finally choose to go with has any real development delayed very late into the show and by the time it happens it doesnt really feel like it fits or makes all that much sense. Character motivations and backgrounds also ends up being really rough and cut completely or chopped up to allow it to fit the 12 episode count the show had. But Id say in the end I enjoyed the characters enough and that I dont really have any complaints about the characters. My main complaint or rather confusion maybe is in regards to the actual plot of the show. For the first half of the show say the plot is very simple and easy to understand. Sure it is silly and ridiculous a club is trying to get somebody to become the next Student Council president in order to make sure their club doesnt have their budget cut. And it is filled with all the silly events that you would expect and you never feel like it is missing all that much content that was important. Nothing major was cut is the feeling Im getting at this point. And than it all changes. Spoilers for various events in the show. And the only thing I can think of is this was supposed to be something very different. in some different version of this story this was a completely different setting. With completely different characters and tone. And for whatever reason they changed the storys setting to be a school. In the end I wonder what type of story and character development exists in the VN. I cant imagine that the VN feels so sudden or surprising when various events end up happening. But the only way I could know for sure is to play the VN and see for myself and I cant say Im not tempted simply to see how it goes.
50 /100
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