This anime made me so frustrated some times, but it has its funny, heartwarming, or well done moments, so I'm still giving it a score as high as a 6.
My least favorite part of the series by far was the first three episodes of the special, because nothing good happens, Inori is just feeling depressed and really mean and isnt telling anyone why (and it turns out to be a really stupid reason), but at least we get the ending that we deserve after sitting through this crap. You get to see a bunch of people shouting at each other and being depressed for 23 minutes straight! Doesn't that sound like a fun escape from reality? Yay! I'm someone who can appreciate drama if it's done right (violet evergarden is one of two 10/10 anime out of the around one hundred I've seen) but I just hate it when the drama makes it so the characters can't interact or so that they hate each other. However, imagine you only have time for one episode of anime after a long day of work, and you are in the middle of kokoro connect. Everyone kept being stupid and mean, and no one liked anyone else for like half the series! I can see why people liked this show, because the parts that are done well are really good and the parts where no one hates each other are actually pretty fun and interesting getting to see the characters react to stuff. Like, what THE HECK was up with Iori in the last 4 episodes? It was a big pity party where Iori was being self centered and stupid, and I ended up hating her character. However, you will only really like this show if you like people being sad, depressed, angry, and stupid. The ending is also the best thing that could have happened too, and I liked it (I'll just say one thing: inaba is best girl). The characters feel really deep and real, and the way they interact is mostly believable and fun. The music was actually one of the better parts of this show, the ost is really good even if the op and ed are just ok. The art in this show is good, nothing amazing, but definitely slightly above average. First of all: inaba is definitely best girl, without a doubt. I am writing this review for both the main show and the 4 extra episodes that actually conclude this show at the end. These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles Over all I'd say this thirteen part series is well worth watching if you are an anime fan especially as it can be legally watched on Crunchyroll at the time I'm writing this. The character designs may be fairly generic but the animation was pretty good and the voices seemed to suit the characters although not speaking Japanese I can only judge them on the way they sounded. The characters were fun without being silly there may have been some funny moments but it didn't descend in to wackiness. The story managed to balance the humour and drama of the situation nicely and just as one idea had been used enough it was over and they had to deal with another strange situation.
then another female student walked in and offered to help! Thankfully it isn't that sort of series at all it was just done to show one of the awkward dilemmas of their swapping bodies. Taichi's first act on finding himself in a female body was to feel its breasts. when he does it looks as if one of the five will die they know which body but he leaves it up to them to determine which personality is in it when it dies! This isn't the only strange thing to happen to the group later he makes it so that they can't not act on an impulse which leads to a lot of unfortunate truths being told and later still they find themselves suddenly reverting to children or even babies! When the body swapping started I feared this might become yet another fanservice series. He explains that this is all his doing and if they try to avoid the consequences of the swapping he will interfere to make things more interesting. except that it isn't the teacher at all it is an entity calling himself Heartseed who has taken control of the teacher. After dealing with this for a little while they approached by one of their teachers.
It soon becomes apparent that it was no dream soon all five club members are randomly changing bodies with some rather awkward consequences. One night Taichi and Iori each have a strange dream they both wake thinking they have swapped bodies. The group consists of two boys Taichi and Yoshifumi and three girls Inaba, Iori and Yui. They don't actually do any cultural research they just formed the club because for one reason or another they didn't want to join any of the other clubs. This anime series follows five high school students, all members of the Cultural Research Club.