Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Sentimental Journey (Rating: 6/10)

 


Based on a series of dating simulators named Sentimental Graffiti, this anime series is another unusual jab at the genre (the other one is Seraphim Call), this time by Sunrise.
It also focuses on individual stories, this time that play out like an epilogue to the scenario on the games. 12 girls, 12 episodes. You don’t need to watch them in order. Unlike Seraphim Call, this one is not as experimental, though it does share the trait of having several director and writers. The stories are, for the most part, slice of life romance.

If you’re wondering why the girls in this show seem familiar to you, even though you never watched, or even heard of the anime, or why the name makes you think “I’ve heard this before”, then you might have been first introduced to this series through a little game called Sentimental Shooting. The game was a bullet-hell shooter where you shot clothes off the girls from Sentimental Journey, while dogging lasers and shooting down spacecrafts. Game was hard as balls on normal. And then I found out that if you beat the 2 stages without dying or using your energy, you fight a secret boss. FUCK! THAT!. On hard difficulty you die instantly.

A/V from R2 DVD, subs from R1 release.

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