I can't imagine anyone except the most devoted of fans is satisfied with the result. Instead of that, we get "Grisaia: The Compilation Series". Cover half the content from the visual novel, and if it sells well enough (and it almost assuredly would given the popularity of the franchise), cover the rest of it in a second season. The suits behind the adaptation failed to understand that they could simply lighten down on the pace and leave the rest of the story for later seasons. But when necessary story and characterisation is rushed through so quickly that you canīarely even tell what the hell is going on, there is a major problem. True, there's a lot of crap in the visual novel that could be cut out with little of value being lost. And while that does contain some truth, it does not excuse 50+ hours of story from the visual novel being jammed into a meagre four hours of animation. The natural response would be that the studio did not have enough budget to stretch the production any further. For nearly every minute I spent watching Grisaia, I kept asking myself the same question: "Why the hell is this only 13 episodes long?"
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