The Grisaia anime series is an adaptation of an erotic harem visual novel.
When you first watch this anime, it may seem like Grisaia is nothing more than an ordinary harem anime, but there are many key elements that make it stand out.
Similar like Koyomi Araragi from Monogatari, protagonist of Grisaia is very smart, has a great sense of humor, and is a bit of a pervert.
The girls do follow the typical dere personality type but it’s fun to watch when they interact with the protagonist.
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1. The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
| Title | Grisaia no Kajitsu |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Aired | Fall 2014 |
The anime revolves around Mihama Academy, a prison-like school built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree.
It is home to five female students who each have their reasons for enrolling in the academy and live their life idly within the walls of Mihama.
One day, Kazami Yuuji the institute’s first male student arrives and throws the orderly rhythm of Mihama off balance.
Is Yuuji what the girls need to hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome? Or is his past even heavier than any of the others?
2. The Labyrinth of Grisaia (2015)
| Title | Grisaia no Meikyuu |
| Episodes | 1 |
| Aired | Spring 2015 |
The Grisaia no Meikyuu visual novel is a collection of sequels for all of the game’s heroines, and also includes a prequel story for the hero and dozens of short stories. The first episode will be a 60 minute special that will air at the end of march.
Having attended Mihama Academy for about a year, Yuuji Kazami has seemingly found his place within the school, but he suddenly decides to pursue a promotion in CIRS.
After consulting JB about his intentions, they both thoroughly examine Yuuji’s documents and dissect the events of his upbringing to determine if the job is fit for him.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the two, the girls of Mihama uncover some torn documents in Yuuji’s room.
After restoring the papers, they discover the story that has formed—or perhaps broken—Yuuji into the man he is today.
However, what was thought to be history has haunted him to the present, and the chains of the past begin to drag him back into the darkness…
3. The Eden of Grisaia (2015)
| Title | Grisaia no Rakuen |
| Episodes | 10 |
| Aired | Spring 2015 |
The Eden of Grisaia visual novel continues the previous visual novel’s main route and concludes the trilogy. It also includes a prologue following the five heroines as they arrive at Mihama Academy.
4. Grisaia: Phantom Trigger THE ANIMATION (2019)
| Title | Grisaia: Phantom Trigger THE ANIMATION |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Aired | Winter 2019 |
Following the Heath Oslo incident, the existence of the US-Japanese anti-terror organization CIRS has become a matter of public knowledge.
CIRS has been rebuilt from the ground up, and its most covert functions spun off to a new agency: SORD (Social Ops, Research & Development).
The goal of SORD is to train a new generation of operatives to defend the country against future threats. To that end, the organization has established a series of schools up and down the country.
Mihama Academy, more-or-less left to rot after its abrupt closure, has been given new purpose as one such ‘specialist training school’.
This new incarnation of Mihama Academy is home to a diverse group of students, who every day work to polish their unusual skills – sometimes on the job. Mihama now entrusts the misfit girls who attend it with guns and live ammunition.
Paying their own safety no heed, these students are again and again plunged into dangerous extrajudicial missions – all for the good of the realm.
5. Grisaia: Phantom Trigger THE ANIMATION – Stargazer (2020)
| Title | Grisaia: Phantom Trigger THE ANIMATION – Stargazer |
| Episodes | 1 |
| Aired | Fall 2020 |
While Rena and Maki recover from their injuries, the other SORD members jet off overseas for a school trip.
Within moments of their arrival, though, the Mihama gang are pulled into a manhunt for a SORD deserter, assisted by student Sylvia and Velvet of St. Aile’s International School.
Tohka’s the star of the show this time round, but she’s wrestling with her own issues – old memories of her parents, and a promise to a friend that she wasn’t able to keep…
