Amagami SS | Worth Watching?

Awesome! Welcome to a Sunday blog, today’s Anime we’ll talk about Amagami SS. If you haven’t already noticed I’ve been really into Anime from 2010. I don’t know why, but I feel like 2010 was a good year overall.

So keeping that in mind, is Amagami SS worth watching? I’ll let you decide, but before you read my review. I thought I’d send you a quick synopsis of the Anime and let you decide.

Two years ago, Junichi Tachibana had a date on Christmas Eve but was stood up instead. Since then, he has had a hard time showing others his true feelings in fear of being rejected again. However, as luck would have it, Junichi may have a second chance at love when he meets several girls whom he becomes romantically interested in: Haruka Morishima, the energetic and popular upperclassman with a love for cute things; Kaoru Tanamachi, his childhood friend who harbors secret feelings for him; Sae Nakata, the timid transfer student who is shy around men; Ai Nanasaki, a girl on the swim team who has a bad first impression of Junichi; Rihoko Sakurai, a childhood friend with a love for sweets; and Tsukasa Ayatsuji, a seemingly perfect class representative who has a hidden dark side. As Christmas Eve approaches, Junichi can only hope that this will be the year he will finally spend the holidays with the one he truly loves. – MyAnimeList

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Story (7):
The story follows the typical boy-meets-girl and they fall in love type of story. What makes Amagami SS stand out from the typical is the approach of each heroine. Due to their different personalities, each arc presents you with a different type of approach. Each story arc was able to be fleshed out due to the focus on each character and their side characters. It caused less interference with the storyline itself.

Art (7):
Probably one of the less impressive aspects of the series. The art seems fairly generic. You have the girl with long hair, the girl with short hair, the guy with hair swiped to the side. Typical anime features to say the least. Although, what did catch me was the hair colours for each character. There weren’t any crazy, unrealistic colours, so that gets a plus. The environment was alright. You have your school, home, park, beach, restaurant. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Sound (7):
The seiyuus chosen for most of the characters seemed to match the way I interpreted them. However, I did have one problem with one of the heroines, which I will not mention in this review (you’ll probably know who I’m talking about). Background music was pretty good as well. It fit each of the scenes well enough that it didn’t seem forced. Silly was silly, serious was serious.

Character (7):
Most of the characters, mainly the heroines, can be put under each of the archetypes for characters. However, the main character, Junichi, goes through some pretty interesting personality changes between each arc. If you didn’t know the series was in an omnibus format, you’d think he was bipolar or suffered from a personality disorder or something. Side characters can be seen in one arc, and almost completely disappear in the next one. That was somewhat disappointing since I thought there were some side characters that seemed more interesting than the mains.

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