Fruit of Grisaia is an oddball of a Visual Novel adaptation. It’s unclear who the proper heroine of the show is supposed to be, probably because if anything I’ve been lead to believe is true, it’s actually a hybrid adaptation, incorporating every major route into one Frankenstein’s Monster of a route that lets us see the personal stories of all the girls involved. What is clear, though, is that it really likes making its characters suffer, so strap yourselves in.
The story starts with the arrival of a boy called Yuji Kazami at, by his request, his new school. Sounds basic? Well, there are a few issues. For one, Yuji’s school has a student body of six including himself. The other five are all girls, which makes things a little more awkward. And, lastly, there’s the fact that while all the students of the school have special circumstances in one way or another, Yuji circumstance is that he’s a former black-ops agent, having spent most of his youth as an assassin for a shadowy government agency. He sincerely wants a normal life at this point, being bored and tired with his former paramilitary hitman existence, but of course if he got that we wouldn’t have a story, so we find ourselves here.
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