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235. Seven Senses of the ReUnion
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36316/Shichisei_no_Subaru
Summer 2018 (12 episodes)
My Score: 2/10, MAL Score: 6.10/10
Best Character: Kuga Asahi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4hzC7rG19s

Premise: Amou Haruto returns to a virtual reality RPG and discovers that his childhood friend Kuga Asahi, who died six years ago in the real world, is alive within the game. Now they must try to figure out the mystery while reuniting their fractured friend group.

The Good: Seven Senses of the ReUnion is Anohana set in the world of Sword Art Online. I dont merely mean that it has a similar premise, this is Anohana down to the exact character archetypes and relationships. I enjoyed Anohana, so, while plagiarism offends me, I cant help but have some good feelings for parts of this. Im a sucker for stories about old friends coming back together. Also, whatever you think of SAO, at least the VR RPG setting was neat, so copying that is a plus too.

The Bad: Unfortunately, Seven Senses focuses on all the wrong things from the show it copied. Rather than being a touching story about loss and friendship, this focused on the melodrama. The amount of attention the overlapping unrequited love triangles got made it impossible to spend time on anything else. There were hints of neat things behind the scenes, like a shady corporation controlling the game and a potential connection to Asahi. Those were never explored because so much time was wasted on the characters being morons and fighting each other.

Overall: Instead of watching Seven Senses of the ReUnion, just watch Anohana. Im not even joking about this. The two stories are so alike that its insulting. Its too bad they couldnt copy quality while copying literally everything else.