Introduction
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.
"We've been provided with a place in the world. That alone isn't enough - there wouldn't be any meaning in living, if that was all we had... It's not enough just to be made use of by others. I live by my own strength, and I fight to survive. That's the only way those of us who actually make it through can find forgiveness..."
No matter how much life grinds them down, what future awaits these girls, who've themselves chosen the path of the gun?
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Audience reviews
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Szandor
This is really a movie in two episodes. I thought that I might as well watch it since I'd already watched the earlier stuff and it's only two episodes. So, how did this measure up to this decidedly 'meh' series? Well...
- Story & Theme
After the 'Eden' series events the clandestine government organization that Yuuji worked for was exposed and restructured. As a part of this the school in the first series became a school for new agents. Basically, the idea seems to be that since everyone now knows that the country has a taskforce of assassins they might as well train them in public. Only young girls though, for no given reason. Oh, except one guy who I guess you're supposed to identify with. The actual story is a short and simple one that feels like a filler story.
- Characters & Writing…
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Despite being a spin-off with a different cast and storyline, this movie was very well-written and engaging. It would've been an excellent anime on its own but since it's a sequel to Grisaia, the expectations become extremely high and that's the primary reason why the score on MAL isn't so great.
It was inferior to the Kajitsu/Rakuen series when it came to darker and more tragic stories covering psychology and deeper meanings but it also had its own merits with a lot of unique characters and action going on. One thing I missed was the ecchi moments the prequels had and not enough Kazuki was definitely a downside for me.
I recommend this if you're fine with experiencing a new storyline with a different cast. But if you're watching this expecting a continuation of the Eden of Grisaia with…
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(Spoiler Review)
Even though I give this one a 6 like the rest, I think that this series was a bit better than last season.
Story 6/10- Phantom Trigger takes places after the events of Yuuji and other girls in their academy where is used for more students who are enrolled in becoming assassins which I think is a bit weird but I guess it was fine since it basically trying to carry the previous students who were also in the academy but weren't actually assassins more like students who had terrible lives before which is similar to the ones who now go to this school as they are people who had harsh lives so they go to this school now. So the two seasons before had a lot of backstories for each student whilst this tells us that these guys had terrible lives so I guess we didn't really need a…
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Typically, if a franchise changes out the old cast and swaps them with a group of strangers, it isn't that good. In, "Phantom Trigger" — however, they restored the roster of characters with style: great designs, more acclaimed voice actresses than the ones that starred in the original series, a high artistic design budget, and a narrative that could have been written for an American action flick. I think "Phantom Trigger" is good at being its own thing, but is still recognizable as a "Grisaia" title!
⚠️ This review will be spoiler-free ⚠️
The first series of Grisaia was more focused on interpersonal issues, self-actualization, and absurd, militaristic scenarios. While the "rule of cool" thumbprint is still noticeable on this series, it's less about the psychological aspects of the story,…
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Ok is hard to start a new story and this show makes a great job at this matter. I've read a ton of comments, but I want Yuuiji to come back, and the waifus were better on the Fruit of Grisaia and BabyRage, that story is ended, it has a good ending, good closure and nothing wrong on that matter so, if you are going to be damn crybaby just grow up. I understand the feeling but it's not bad to switch things a bit after something is ended, better than just continue with random plots which makes no sense.
It's hard to connect with the charactters in one hour and half, but this show makes a great job on presenting the different characters that are going to be for the next season, hope it's seasons actually, which is comming soon, and making a bit of cameo with Kazuki (Thanatos) which is the nex…
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I don't recommend watching these 'movies', but I don't recommend against it either...
The first one was very boring in my opinion.
The few actions-like scenes weren't really interesting and exciting and unfortunatly, there was to much unnecessary scenes.
The whole story of the first movie, could have been packed in a single Anime episode, and could have been told a much better way.
The second one was a bit better, and the story was a bit more interesting, with a better battle scene and a little bit deeper insight in at least two characters, but that was it.
Except the two characters in the 2nd movie, the characters weren't very deep, they could have been replaced by someone entire else and it wouldn't really matter.
The art and the music weren't any better.
At the end, I wasn't really…
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
A newly incarnated Mihama Academy and a new cast...
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation feels by all means it took took the success and badassery of Rakuen and gave it a facelift, for the better or worse...
By all means, LA was actually perfectly happy with the original cast not being in Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation, as it's a new generation of characters at the helm of what the original cast once did and seeing the Grisaia world being expanded upon after the original cast left is a good thing, cos like come on, Yuuji and the rest of the battle harem went through hell and back, let them rest and have their happy ending.
As for the new cast, well LA latched onto Rena Fukami voiced by Maaya Uchida as the "rabid dog" of the cast, a glutton for food but has a crush on her "mast…
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This anime is disliked and dropped off by many Grisaia series fans and some of the reasons are that it isn't a continuation of the Grisaia series or doesn't contain characters from the Grisaia series like "omg where is Yuuji?, ok rate 0/10 done." which I find quite unreasonable since it is indeed quite an acceptable and can be enjoyable to watch.
Ok, from what i understand, at Mihama Private academy a school for assassins has new 4 students, a class president, a homeroom teacher and a principle where they are assigned a proper mission to assassinate or capture a target which is different from the other Grisaias as they kill people to solve a problem or to save someone. However both of the shows also contains some similarities such as the epic fighting scenes and how there is still a snipe…
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Grisaia, a story known for two things, a main character who has sex with EVERYONE including his biological mother, adoptive mother, sister.... You get it... and assassins. Now guess what Phantom trigger doubles down on... Assassins.
Okay, to summarize this plot, there is an entire school of wannabe assassins, our somewhat main character is a new teacher at this school who's class are the problem children that are made up of cute girls and a trap. The actual show is watching them fight with a backstory tossed in somewhere every once in a while.
This would be great if the show had the animation budget for it but it doesn't. It is not all bad but you get more than your fair share of close ups and other gimmicks to save cost. They allocate everything else to the quick fights but since they a…
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In this movie, we do not find the same characters as in Grisaia no rakuen. Consequently characters who made the grisaia’s show like yuuji are really missing.
This show is just 40 minutes of uninteresting and predictable story. One more time all the characters are girls (except Aoi) and story is then filled of fan service and unnecessary scene that made the show a bit boring.
This movie is clearly bad compared to its predecessors.
The only positives aspect are: the animation that is well done and the music that I find interesting.
Dissociate from grisaia no rakuen, it makes a good original story, but in the grisaia’s universe this wasn’t necessary.
In the first movie, the story take place several years after grisaia no rakuen event. We follow the story of many students of the Mihama acad…
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