Seiren

Seiren anime info and recommendations. Shoichi Kamita is an ordinary high school boy, who…

Seiren (Japanese:, from the kanji “honesty”) is a Japanese romantic comedy anime television series created by Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ and directed by Tomoki Kobayashi. Between January 5, 2017 and March 23, 2017, it aired on TBS.

I don’t think there has been much like Scum’s Wish in recent memory. The flirtatious side of Amagami or Seiren are why I watch them. It’s not a very common thing for a show to specifically focus on flirtatious romance. Most anime characters are too awkward for that. I can think of characters who are exceptions, but typically it’s one aspect of a very different show.

I don’t think there has been much like Scum’s Wish in recent memory. The flirtatious side of Amagami or Seiren are why I watch them. It’s not a very common thing for a show to specifically focus on flirtatious romance. Most anime characters are too awkward for that. I can think of characters who are exceptions, but typically it’s one aspect of a very different show.

I agree about the flirting in general. I like Seiren because of its characters awkward flirting and quirkiness, and I LOVE that Tsuneki is a genuinely realistic girl. She’s not one of those annoyingly innocent/pure moe characters that have no sexual desires and are perfect in every way. She’s human. You can tell she’s lonely, and that she wants attention, and she acts and dresses like most teenage girls like that that I ever knew in real life. That was a bit refreshing. Like you, and most people have mentioned in regards to this show, the problem is 100% the resolution. I hated ep4. Loved the rest of the show, but that was just really not what I was looking for with Seiren. Amagami didn’t have an arc with that poor of a resolution in its entire run, so I am a bit let down by this. I’ll watch this one in chunks for the other arcs. I like these types of shows, shows that focus on weird teenage sexual interests and treat their characters like humans, rather than archetypal moe goddesses or blank slate dudes who you will never remember the name of, and I want more to be made. Anime historically has a pretty big problem with romantic conclusions, in my experience, so I’m not surprised by how poorly the first arc wrapped up, but since I’ve already seen Amagami, I know it can be done. Seiren has two more chances to get it right.

I remember the pacing being a little wonky in some of the Amagami arcs, but don’t remember anything outright bad or super cheesy like ep4 of Seiren. I’m not saying Amagami should be held up as a standard bearer, more just that the majority of the arcs had fairly satisfying conclusions, which is rare in anime. It helped that there was a second season that was almost entirely devoted to expanding on the conclusion for each arc too. It’s possible I’m remembering it more fondly than it deserves though.

My reason for loving Amagami and Seiren so much, is because we get to see the protagonist end up with each heroine. Only anime I know that does that.

Hopefully I’ll try and follow with Seiren. But Scum’s Wish hell yeah! What I think is impressive about the show however, is how it adapts the manga structure to anime format but exceed it in terms of execution and aesthetic. I love the manga and its one of my all time favorites, but anime takes what the author gives in the manga but execute it in such a way that leaves you breathless. Thats just my bias opinion however, blinded by a fan’s unadulterated love for the show. You said you read the manga as well, just curious what are your thoughts on scum’s wish as an adaptation?

I didn’t know it was a sequel to Amagami, which is also a series I love, but I’m loving Seiren very much. I just wish each chapter were a little longer, so we could see more development between the protagonist and the female lead for that arc.

If Seiren is meant to be Amagami’s successor, then it’s failing miserably. Seiren had better buck up for the next arc.

Where this arc of Seiren went wrong, in my view, is how it executed the final beats. The reasoning for Hikari refusal, the lack of reasoning for the epilogue, and seeming to forget the themes that the relationship built around. Plus the whole thing with her false-friend (which is really about forgetting the theme of the relationship.)