Imagine this: you are living a normal day in your life. Maybe you are out with friends, eating your family's home-cooked meal or spending time with your girlfriend. When you next wake up, you are suddenly thrust into a strange, new world, surrounded by five strangers on a rapidly sinking boat in the middle of a storm.
For Natsu Iwashimizu, this is her new reality. Humanity has perished, and all that remains of the Japanese population are five groups of men and women who were chosen to be sent to the future in hopes of continuing mankind's existence. While every other person chosen has a useful talent such as martial arts, knowledge, or architecture, Natsu is a shy high school girl who cannot even raise her voice to shout. The new world is dangerous beyond imagination, and although Natsu seems to lack helpful skills, she must go with the others making their way to the "Seven Fuji" in order to survive.
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el_bagre
This anime had a lot of potential which in some ways it met and in others it squandered. Where it triumphs I believe are in creating a more mature story that misses some of the pitfalls of Shonen storytelling. There are no eccentric characters with pink hair, and no villains of the day popping up every other episode. The story it tells is engaging and offers a more realistic take on post-apocalyptic storytelling. Nobody has special powers, they won't triumph over evil by the power of friendship. It's a tale of survival and inter-group tension. As far as character development, when dealing with a characterlist as large as this one has it's understandable that not much time is spent on it. Even so, the main characters are all given enough time that their personalities are distinct and relatable. I don't think it's necessary to know the minutia of every characters' thought process so in some ways it's a plus that streamlines the story telling to an extent. At the very least, none of the characters is a caricature (the loli, the pervert, the shut-in, the idol, you know the rest...) and this is certainly a breath of fresh air.
The animation, pacing, and sound were mediocre but didn't really take too much away from my enjoyment of the series. A slight spoiler is that the ending is quite abrupt and open-ended. There is no resolution, there is no climax or denouement. It just ends.
Krunchyman
“Alright, the count is 2 balls and 1 strike, aaannnnndddd here’s the pitch.” **Ball smashes tiger in the face** “You can, put it on the BOOOOAAARRRDDD!!! Yes!” — Ken Harrelson, baseball announcer Bear Grylls would be disappointed by the ignorance in this camping expedition, not to mention the lack of urine consumption. Trust me, though, that’s the least of 7Seeds problems. In a post-apocalyptic world, five sets of seven boys/girls (“seeds”) attempt to survive despite being chased by bizarre tigers, massive insects, and f—kn’ dinosaurs. It sort of sounds exciting, but the mismanagement of the plot and character left much to be desired. Too manyodd events occurred for 7Seeds to be taken seriously. To start, when meteorites were colliding with the earth, a preponderance of the population seemed ambivalent. They displayed distress about the calamitous situation, but were more than willing to forget their troubles for a live concert. Then, when resources became scarce, large swaths of people (obligingly?) got turned into human slushy’s. One would think that society would be in a frenzy from the fears of imminent disaster.
On that note, 7Seeds is littered with rape, calamity, disease, and death; yet, it feels devoid of impact. At no point in the series did I empathize with the fictional characters. Probably because most of whom I couldn’t relate to, given their superficial qualities.
While most of the characters were stale and wishy-washy, there was one who stood above the rest. Mark — the ventriloquist — decided to dress up as Santa to visit the beach as the world was going to hell. Had sex with an infected women (Acari X virus), because his erection wasn’t going anywhere. Locked people in a freezer because he’s a (n)ice guy. And wore a purple ‘Joker’ suit as he talked to Scarface (Pete) during his last moments. Dude was a legend!
The rest of the characters made no positive impressions, they were vacuous. In fact, it was challenging to differentiate them as the number of cast members proliferated. There was some dude playing music all the time, a ‘grim reaper’ who choked Ms. Hana to propagate sexual asphyxiation (or prevent suffering, whatever), and a girl with the hots for this dude with a girlfriend. The number of cliched character was off the charts!
The Animation was bland, with no discernment of creative brilliance; the fights, in particular, were unremarkable. The whirlpool in episode 12 was a fine example of terrible CGI, and character designs were conventional, recycled, and uninteresting. The OST was tedious and the enjoyment was paltry-to-non-existent. It seems like the production staff attempted to rely on the mysterious backdrop to inspire excitement, but it was all for naught. 7Seeds was a bore to watch and I would vehemently recommend you watch something else.
Timz0r
Oh dear, a Netflix sponsered anime. What in Earth could possible go wrong! By the looks of it; a lot! Story: 3/10 (Very Bad) From a post-apocalyptic survivalist shoujo manga written in 2011 with 35 volumes and 177 chapters, we get a (possible two) part 12 episode anime adaptation from Studio Gonzo. This review will focus on the first season. It pretty much boils down that all gouverments worldwide select a bunch of people to put in a cryonic freezer because they know a giant asteroid will collide into Earth, a mass extinction occurs and some humans that were put in the freezer are just seedsto contineu humankind. First of all, cryonics is at this moment still impossible. Sure, I have consider the Sci-Fi tag section, but when I look at the new wildlife that is represented in the story I have trash this anime since I'm a paleontologist. Wildlife can't adapt and evolve this fast only if couple hunderd years or so since human structures are somehow slighty intact and since I've seen the documontairies Life after People. That's why I have isseus with the story. Wildlife really can't adapt this fast when a mass extinctiuon occurs. We're currently in a mass extinction right now and countless of species are dying out each day. If you want to see big changes in wildlife just like in this anime, we're talking millions of years! The fossil record doesn't lie! Don't get yourself fooled because some Japanese woman (in this case the original author) thinks huge adaptations in animal and plantlife kingdom happen in just couple hunderds of years!
Art: 5/10 (Average)
Animation wise it's pretty much average 2019 standards I guess. I've seen better animation, but it's not horrible iether. But then again, it's Studio Gonzo. I know they can do much better, but hey that's just me. Yes, the studio that gave us Welcome to the N.H.K. is behind this. Sometimes the animation was at time really bad, but sometimes it was OK. In overall; it's a mixed bag for me.
Sound: 6/10 (Fine)
Voice acting is done well and mainly the reason why I wanted to watch this anime because of several voice actors like Nao Touyama (Karen Kujou in Kiniro Mosaic), Yoko Hikasa (Mio - K-On!) and Shizuka Itou (Sakurako Kujou - Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru) are present in this anime. Still I feel these people should get better roles for better anime projects than this garbage can.
Character: 4/140 (Bad)
Honestyly, I really don't like all the charathers we're getting on the screen. They really don't stand out and are plain boring. Just your average people. Nothing special. Eh... It really gives you the clear idea humankind is doomed no matter what with the mass extinction we're currently facing. Exactly; I'm talking about overpopulation, human induced climate change, pollution, deforestation, rising sealevels, acidification of the oceans, desertification, ...
Enjoyment: 2/10 (Horrible)
The more I've watched, the more annoyed I became with this anime. The ammount of bullshit this story tries to shove you down your troat. Now if this was a Comedy, then I wouln't mind it, but no, sadly this anime doesn't get a Comedy tag. What I found the most annoying that you get a bunch of new evolved species that really shouldn't be there in the first place. I'm talking about a huge mantis Carboniferous size, a therapod like "dinosaur" creature etc. If only they got a radioactive movie treatment, then I could atleast see this trough my fingers, but since I understand how evolution works since I'm actully working with extinct animals and mass extinctions in my daily life, this really a huge letdown. She really should have done her research before writing this crap.
Should you read the manga instead? Eh, that's up to you, but I don't even want to bother with that iether in my opinion.
Overall: 3/10 (Very Bad)
In overall, I really wouldn't recommend this anime unless you really want to see a brainless survival anime without any logic, because emotion is the rule of thumb here if you want to survive. Everyone is equal! Hmmm. Where did I herd that one before? Following your feelings while being is harsh times is the rule for survival here in this anime! In the real world however it's the opposite; facts really doesn't care about your feelings!
No wonder this anime is sponsered by Netflix...
shiroiyume
Seeing how appalled the reviewers are with the series, I was about to pass it. But since it as a Netflix Original Anime, (I enjoyed quite a few series from Netflix) I decided to give it a try. Have not read the manga, but I think the story telling and pacing is fine, as I was kept interested throughout that I binged watch under 6 hrs. I will advise to wait for part2 (fingers crossed) as it did ended in an abrupt cliffhanger. Definitely the production will not wrap up like this. Rather than shoujo, it fits in a more in the mature category.
forster82
Netflix adaptations tend to be either good or trash. "7 Seeds" falls into the dumpster category. After watching the terrible trailer, I still had my hopes up, as I heard that the Manga was really good and since I had a genuine interest in the concept. But sadly, even less then half-way through the first episode of the Netflix adaptation, I already despised it. First of all, there are so many stereotypical characters and moments that it feels like I'm watching a shitty attempt at a comedy anime. Every single one of the characters is just so damn irritating and it pisses me off. I don'tthink I have ever hated an anime character more than every single one of "these" main protagonists. I just don't have the slightest interest in any of them, and it just left me hoping that these were are all joke protagonists and that they would all somehow manage to die at the end of the first episode, in order to reveal the "real" protagonists that I would be genuinely interested in (sadly this didn't end up happening).
The animations are also a pile of dog shit, and the Netflix trailer warned us about it. Yet I still decided to keep my hopes up, which ended up being a terrible mistake.
So far, I am not enjoying this anime in the slightest and I have decided to drop it right after the "4 episode rule".
Overall, this anime is getting a solid 2/10 from me. The entire anime is just a joke. Don't waste your time with this shit. <3
RebelPanda
You’ve just awoken years after the apocalypse, stranded on an island. This island is infested by giant man-eating insects, dinosaurs, diseases, and deranged survivors, how do you survive? You don't. You cannot survive because you are braindead. You run around screaming in terror because you are a useless, annoying, brainless shoujo protagonist. Sorry, but someone thought it would be funny to put you—a helpless idiot—into horror anime. Yet again, Netflix’s algorithms have shat out an awful anime. This time, it’s a blend of shoujo and horror with visuals ripped straight of the early 2000s. 7 Seeds is a fitting title because it took me 7 secondsto realize it's bad enough to rival Mars of Destruction, at least for the first two episodes. It’s so bad because it tries to be gruesome and scary, but the art is terrible and the dialogue is hilariously stupid. Rather than being shockingly awful, after episode two it just becomes boring. The plot setup is interesting; to avoid extinction during the apocalypse, different countries put groups of people in cryosleep. The premise is good, and nothing else is. Dozens of random people awaken to find themselves on the island, we see the various groups beginning survival strategies, and big bugs eat some of them. In the first episode, everyone is either screaming in fear or at each other, and not even the animators know what the hell is happening. It’s wild, stupid, and it had the potential to be a so-bad-its-good comedy. Detracting from the humor is the infuriatingly annoying main character.
Natsu, the first protagonist, is the epitome of a useless shoujo protagonist. For some reason, she tells us how weak, cowardly, and awkward she is. It’s all said in one big long run-on sentence because the show is paced incredibly poorly. We immediately know how useless Natsu is because of how she acts, her pathetic ‘woe-is-me’ internal monologues are completely unnecessary. Who needs well-written characterization when you can just info-dump the main character’s entire personality in 10 seconds?! When a huge manga is condensed into twelve episodes, it really shows. Scenes jump from one character perspective to the next with no transition whatsoever. The tone shifts wildly at the drop of a hat from cheesy shoujo drama to people dying violently. Then suddenly we’re thrown into some random guy’s backstory lasting half the episode. 7 Seeds may have worked as a manga, but this adaptation borders on incoherent.
Fortunately for us, the writers forget about Natsu after the third episode. From time to time we’re told how she’s doing as if we care. All Natsu does is silently lust over a generic handsome bishounen. The bishounen is committed to someone else, and Natsu never pursues him out of fear of hurting his feelings. She did nothing for the whole show because she was such a whiny child. For some reason, Natsu and the Bishounen stay with a long-haired dude who smacks her ass in the first episode, he’s a one-dimensional bastard but he sticks around to bully her for some reason. Thankfully, his voice acting in the English dub is fucking hilarious. When he or any character calls out Natsu for being useless, and it sounds genuinely real. You can hear their hatred for Natsu in their voices. For all the verbal beat down she takes, I couldn't care less about her. There is no way to sympathize with someone denser than a two-ton boulder, just stop whining and solve your own problems. The second protagonist, Hana, is thankfully less infuriatingly stupid. I call her the second because she gets introduced in the second half of episode one. Eventually, she gets the full protagonist role. Hana is far more adaptable to her environment and automatically better because she’s not an infuriating coward. Even without any worthwhile characterization and a blank slate personality, was a far better perspective to see the story from than Natsu.
Aside from Hana, there are dozens of other named characters. By the time you learn someone’s name, three more will be introduced. Any ‘development’ no matter how poorly written won’t matter at all if you can’t remember who the character is, and so few of them do anything worth remembering in the story. 7 Seeds attempts to make its cast memorable by over-exaggerating all of their emotions and reactions, which just makes them more obnoxious. Some of them scream every other sentence, and the rest treat every slightly bad thing like it’s the end of the world. Stubbed your toe? Must be the be fatal, scream about it. Swatting someone away? Oops, looks like I fell into a river with 30mph rapids, better scream bloody murder. Either the dialogue is quiet, monotonous, and boring, or it is over-acted to the point it’s funny. There are some hilarious one-liners in the dub because even the actors know how bad this show is. To make the character acting worse, the audio is so lazily edited; no matter how far apart the characters are, they will sound just as loud as if they were right next to each other.
The only character I cared about was the bearded nomad guy with all of the cute wolves, but he became so forgettable I cannot recall his name. Once he shaved his beard, lost his wolves, he became a generic bishounen to fall in love with Hana. Only three of the characters get developed beyond one trait, and the rest don’t even get that much. Some of the side characters exist solely to comment on their surroundings and look helpless when monsters attack. Right as a random girl thinks she will be eaten by big bugs, she suddenly says “I wanted to be a doctor and an astronaut.” Wow so relatable. I am definitely going to cry when she dies violently. Strangely enough, she doesn’t die. After the second episode, very few people die at all; it becomes a boring slice-of-life drama rather than a campy horror. The giant bugs and badass dinosaurs were never seen again. We never learn how the bizarre monster filled future came to be, the writer simply grew tired of them. Instead, the story becomes a generic shoujo about the interpersonal relationships between people we have no reason to care about. There are at least four loosely connected stories being told at every moment in 7 Seeds; each story follows a different group of people in different locations. Trying to keep track of all the locations, characters, and plots is like studying for a test right before class; I couldn’t remember anything because the pacing is so unimaginably awful. That's why episode 10 is the least bad out of all twelve. It is still poorly animated, melodramatic, and disjointed, but it entirely takes place in a flashback. There are almost no sudden jumps between character perspectives and distant locations. Rather than having to follow the giant cast, we follow one main character and four side characters. Episode 10 is the only reprieve we get from the horribly written story and whiplash-inducing editing. Each episode ends mid-scene with no closure, abruptly cutting to the ED. From the beginning to the end, the editing is appalling, this even happens at the end of the last episode. Supposedly this is "Part 1" of the 7 Seeds adaptation; the ending was incomplete for sure, but it did nothing to set up a sequel.
Another effect of the breakneck pacing is a lack of any transition between shots. At one point someone suddenly said, “We’re going to fly together on my glider!” Random, but it sounded cool! Smash cut to them on a glider being slid across the screen on a motion tween, then another smash cut to an unrelated scene. This all happens over the course of FOUR SECONDS. It’s like watching a Michael Bay movie. At any given moment in 7 Seeds is telling multiple stories across multiple locations with little to no connection. It jumps from one story to another flippantly; the editors do not care if you're able to follow the sequence of events. All of the characters look similar too, making the many storylines even harder to follow. The character designs generic and everything else in this show is an eyesore.
Who would have thought the end of the world would look so ugly? The action scenes, character animation, background art, effects, everything. Monsters slide across the screen on motion tweens, the monsters are just repeated assets sized differently from one another. Close-ups of the characters' faces look fine. But when they move, or if they’re a bit too far from the camera, they look hideous. The background art is mostly repeated assets and blotchy green colors. Whenever it's raining (it happens a lot) the effect is haphazardly slapped onto the screen over a normal shot. It is not integrated into the art in any way. Gonzo has adapted plenty of great stories surpassing their mediocre art. This is not one of them. I can only praise Gonzo for attempting to use 2D art for everything, but the little CGI they used looks bizarre. The CGI ocean is such an eye-sore; if someone is swimming, waves just clip through them. Boats don’t affect the water at all. It’s like someone stuck poorly drawn anime stickers onto an over-edited photo of the ocean. Awful visuals like this are enjoyable ironically, but the inane directing of the action scenes is where the true hilarity comes from. A tiger is about to attack three, newly introduced people. One of them randomly pulls out a baseball, then another grabs a stick and says to through it at him, and somehow it hits the tiger square in the face. The whole scene looked like shit, but it was fucking hilarious. My suspension of disbelief did a 360, rolled down a ditch into a dumpster, then it exploded.
7 Seeds straddles the line between being ironically funny and taking itself far too seriously. Horror, romance, drama, shoujo, action, mystery; it wants to be the jack of all trades, but in the end, it is the master of none. The result is a tonally maligned shitfest that isn’t funny, scary, relatable, sympathetic, or entertaining. As for the romance? There is nothing aside from crushes only mentioned in internal monologues and sexual assault. Great. I would recommend this anime to people who want a free lobotomy, those who like bleaching their eyeballs, and basically anyone else who finds pleasure in torturing themselves. Shoujo and horror are two genres that should not be combined, and this dumpster fire demonstrates why.
Dear Netflix, please stop making shovelware garbage like 7 Seeds.
Folipurba
as a fan of the manga, i can only say: READ THE MANGA!!!!!!!! so TL;DR : the anime doesnt do the Manga justice. AT. ALL. As it was mentioned before, too many chapters of the original got stuffed into 12 episodes of half-heartedly done animations. This means the main strength of the original story - character development, depth, details and relationships/interactions within a group in a dangerous environment- got thrown out the window. Many events that would further explain the characters and their motivations, have been left out or haphazardly summarized so all the development and understanding of said characters gets lost to theaudience.
The whole life of team summer A has been crammed into one short summary! to the anime viewers they have to come across as totally bonkers. Also the cliffhanger makes no sense, only if there was a season2 or even 3 planned, as it is relatively early in the story. The environment and creatures get oversimplified too, Hanas disease even turns into a bubbly mess? The pacing is really out of whack, when the respective parties have already been traveling for quite some time.
Also some of the lines certain characters are spouting are really off. every minute of watching it really heightens the discrepancy between original and adaptation. Its too bad the quality of the original gets warped so badly that it gets classified as shojo. it truly isnt just that.
Sure it doesnt have those shonen typical fight scenes, there are no superpowers or villains. its more of a depiction of different young people being thrown together in a tough situation left to deal with on their own. And all this is completely neglected by the anime.
its such a shame really! the manga is so great and detailed, be it plotwise or character depth or-interactions. It hurts my heart to see this great potential the Manga has being thrown away.
i guess at this point its not much more use saying anything more about the anime, for those wanting to know more about the MANGA, read about it on the Mangas page.
animenyahowo
I have not read the manga so this is based purely off the anime itself, Not its origin story. I watched this whole anime in a day it was attention capturing. I HATE the way it ends. It's too unfulfilling and leaving questions that may not be answered. The art was very nice as Netflix usually delivers. its start is a tad chaotic but seemed to be the point to scramble the watchers as much as the characters. It does cover some rather heavy topics. They do so really well, sometimes the topics seem to be rushed. The series follows two lovers heartbroken towake up and not have each other. "By luck" They are together in this new hostile world. I do suggest this anime if you like dark anime. It's dark like the anime "another". probably worse covering purposeful murder, abuse, rape, and mass death.
overall very clever but needs more fleshing out. <3
ploopploop
Look at the scores I gave this show. It is the most ridiculous review I've ever written and show that I have witnessed. There is a TLDR at the bottom. As usual Netflix has a talent for flushing out incomplete garbage. But this show was different. The art was honestly pretty amazing, I love the artstyle. I really did! Sound was definitely on point, from music to ambient sounds. Sure there wasn't a lot, but what was present was of good quality. The characters were very interesting and had great developments as well, at least in the main team. Each character had their own unique role andtheir own pros and cons. This is extremely fitting with the story.
The story is about having people wake up after a cryo sleep that lasted god knows how long. They are the only humans and woke up when earth became habitable again. Since a meteor shower had quite a negative impact on it. Spread over teams each team is placed at a certain location near a vault where they can find supplies to start villages, communities etc in order to populate earth again and in order to survive. To establish a good basic for future generations etc.
Honestly it is really a great story since it gives so much room for the character development. And then we have flashbacks highlighting some of the characters certain talents and trauma's.
Now I will start with the bad things... and also the reason why I don't recommend this show. You will get tossed around as a viewer. First you watch the story of a certain team, then before it is even finished you will be shown the story of another team. Before it is finished then back to the earlier team. The stories had no significant connection and there were plenty of stories, not just 2. That left me with a foul feeling. So in the hope that it will at least be finished or that you get to see what you had been hoping for you keep watching...
Sure the characters get more interesting, but they make blatantly stupid choices suddenly all for the sake of plot twists. Which are extremely obvious. There is no actual reasoning for certain events. Just to throw the viewer (you and me) off. I really hate those kind of things since it is an extremely low quality effort of achieving something. Just like jump scares in horror movies.
So while you start to realize the road that this dumpster fire has taken under guidance of Netflix the end is nearing (aka episode 12). One side of the story shows that it will be very promising and that it will be great! And then it is halted, we switch to another team. Then they get to an important point in the story and then we get a cliffhanger as season finisher. At an extremely important point as well. This isn't your ordinary cliffhanger, this is one that will make you hate that you wasted hours by watching 12 episodes just for this.
This is an anime about survival and surviving essentially without technology. They don't leave much room for a second season but more like an episode 13 to finish up episode 12. The way they went around with not finishing all the team stories is more like they simply left holes in the overall show. With a second season you can't fill those holes since a second season would be like 11 episodes of flash backs and other perspectives (to complete season 1) and then the last episode would probably finish episode 12... but fact is, all this isn't present.
TLDR;
We are left with an incomplete show that can't even finish the stories it tells and shows. It gives you an incomplete open ending. Hell it isn't even an ending. Netflix probably forgot to add an episode... that kind of ending. Do not watch this. You will be wasting your time. It is quite a miracle for how this show ended up being ruined given the quality elements it contained... but then again it is pretty much Netflix's standard for their exclusive anime.
imSOunique
Wow, holy sht. It's been a while since I saw something as bad as this thing. I guess I have been avoiding crappy shows nowadays, but the basic idea of the show catched my attention. Still I would say there is a tiny fraction of the series somewhat worth watching. There are multiple groups, the first one we are introduced to is called 'Summer B'. These 4 characters we are introduced at the beginning of the 1st episode are okay, they are nothing new, but compared to every single other character they are bearable. Still I can see why people could find them annoying too: Natsu Iwashimizuis this typical quiet, low profile girl, Arashi Aota is the usual knight in shining armor, Semimaru Asai is this annoying rebellious teen, and the female officer with them is ok too. After ep3 the former 3 depart on their own journey, which is from then is the only part of the series that might be worth watching, they are exploring this post-apocalyptic world, without said characters being mind-blowingly retarded. I would say ep 1-4 are okayish, then in ep 5-9 the group of said 3 characters only get a few minutes per episode, then the second half of ep11. This would be a love story of sorts, and these 3 characters are getting a tiny bit of character development as well.
If you value your time and sanity I would recommend skipping EVERYTHING else. Every further introduced group achieves a new high on the retard-o-meter. It is like watching the storywriter gradually losing it. The rest of the characters are either annoying as hell or indescribably retarded. Anything happens makes zero sense, after a while I couldn't do else, but laugh at how horribly written everything was. And when these horribly written characters are not doing some retarded sht, we can watch 1,5 episodes of flashbacks of these imbeciles we couldn't care less about.
So it would be a straight 1, but as I said the "subplot" of the 3 characters is somewhat watchable, it is funny seeing Natsu tripping over anything and everyting. So IDK, 3/10.
woodybell42096
so i couldn't help but compare the anime to the manga because it's one of my favorites. they squeezed in the first 84 chapters into this anime. i was already disappointed in the artwork when i saw the trailer and it continued throughout the anime. while reading the manga you get a scary eery feeling and vibe the whole time. wondering when another animal or bug would pop out and attack and if they will ever catch a break and survive but the anime WAS SO FREAKING BRIGHT AND LIVLEY it took out all the feelings. i never thought animation and artwork would be sucha big deal but it is. it was all just bleh. please read the manga instead T.T
CeruleanKing
Having not read the manga, I came into this anime not knowing anything about it. I found myself marathoning it over two days and could say it was an enjoyable watch for myself. While there wasnt some deep message it had a story that was different with some good characters imo. While half of the cast gets no screen time and the lack of actual survival techniques are covered. Aside from that there isnt alot of downsides to this show, if your looking for something to watch that has something different than your typical seasonal anime. I personally enjoyed the story alot and hopeit gets a second season, to figure out all the stuff and to see the continuation of the story.
KaoriNite
Such a poor adaptation of a very good shoujo manga. The biggest problem is that they try to condense a manga with 170+ chapters into what looks to be a 2 part series. The first part that was released has 12 episodes and moves so fast half the time it is hard to keep up with the story or characters. (Whose bright idea was it to introduce 20 or so characters in the first episode?!) Because of the speed there's really no time to do any real character development. They cut out all of the interesting characteristics of the characters and instead leave us witha collection of shoujo stereotypes. Thus none of the characters are likeable and you don't really care what happens to any of them.
Another huge disappointment is the artwork. Like did Netflix not have a budget for this? The quality is absolutely horrendous.
My recommendation is to skip this adaptation and just read the manga.
mononoke357
In my opinion, this is one of the most underrated shows on MAL. Unlike many other shows with higher scores, 7 Seeds features characters who are neither heroes nor villains. They all have their strengths and weaknesses and it's interesting to see how they interact with and influence each other. An example of this is Semimaru. In the beginning of the show, he comes off as a bully who is immature, incompetent and stupid (not even "just because", but rather because of his difficult childhood). However, as the show progresses, he grows more attached to the other members in his group and supports the girl heinitially bullied.
What makes 7 Seeds so interesting as a survival show is that you get to see how the characters deal with the world they have been put in. It doesn't rely on superpowers, mindless action, gore, jump-scares, bleak landscapes or melodrama to be interesting, but rather on the mindsets, motivations and struggles of the people in it.
Friendforest
Encompassing the first and second part- I was not optimistic initially but I found it very interesting as time went on, I think this is a good one for anime standards. Key reasons I think I liked it: - Relate-able, and realistic enough to care what happens to the characters. (this has become a scarcity?) - Decent female characters, I really enjoyed them especially certain dynamics.- Serious topics, harshness, gruesomeness I felt like was done in an interesting way
- Satisfied my desire for a survival anime
Overall well balanced spotlight- there's not really a main character. I personally wish that some of the characters in the second part were killed off instead. :P
And perhaps at moments I felt the male characters didn't have as much depth. But I'm nit picking here.
CBMiura
7 Seeds it's ok. The story itself have a lot of potential but the anime lacks a lot of things. First things first, the characters development it's sloppy, the environment was not well made, the animation it's bellow average. I've questioned the parameters to choose among all human beings, specimens so useless. I understand that humanity needed healthy and young people, but are those really the best they've got? In the end it is what it is, a story with a lot of wasted potential and underdeveloped characters (weren't just a few). Usually I wouldn't recommend this, but you know, there are worst anime than this.At least, 7 Seeds have potential.
ZB_Blades
It’s been a long time since an anime has really pissed me off. I think the last one to do it was back in 2016, so yeah it’s been a while. The ones that are especially guilty of this are those that I feel have potential to give me something different. 7 Seeds almost was one of those types but it quickly descended into disappointment. Before I tackle the major problem I’m going to get some things out of the way. The art and animation for 7 Seeds started out good if you ask me which is a surprise because Gonzo was the studio incharge and they are not exactly known for quality anime. However they did not betray my expectations and quickly the animation deteriorated as the series went on. Pity, it was one of the few things I liked. The music was alright, nothing memorable, but I am happy they used the standard length for the openings and the endings. I’ve noticed that when it comes to Netflix’s original anime they have begun to trim the length of the OPs and EDs and sometimes opting to cut them out entirely, so I appreciate that they made it feel like an actual anime series that aired on television.
The characters for the series were the beginning of my frustration. At first the main cast was centered around 7-8 characters. With a twelve episode run I was confident that everyone would get adequate development. However as the episodes went on we were introduced to more characters and more and more and more to the point where I could no longer care about any of them. I also found a lot of them to be pretty annoying and overall useless. For a post apocalyptic survival story you want characters that are level headed with the tools and traits necessary to survive. Also the world they inhabit is treacherous yet they feel the need to split up every chance they get. This is a post apocalyptic story of survival by means of cooperation, not a random episode of Scooby Doo.
With that out of the way it’s on to the major problem when it comes to 7 Seeds, the story. Starting off I found it to be incredibly appealing to someone with my tastes. I’m the kind of person who is interested in survival and post apocalyptic themes. 7 Seeds appeared to be centered around those themes making the decision to continue watching ever easier. As time went on though I began to notice something was off. The story had a habit of skipping around a lot. Characters would cover thousands of miles of ground in half a episode. Said characters would then break off and split up covering more ground in an unrealistic amount of time. The characters can say that weeks, months, or even years have passed from the first episode until the last but I’m not buying it. Episodes that feel like they should cover an entire arc or series worth are done and solved in a matter of minutes. Now, I’m no manga reader, so I’m going into this blind, but it feels like they are skipping a ton of material.
Part of an anime’s job when it comes to telling a story of the very purpose of the story is to carefully set up the world. The problem with 7 Seeds is that they show us a world that I for one would like to know more about but they then choose to move on without giving the audience a chance to take it all in. This is a recurring theme for 7 Seeds and it’s even more disappointing because what they are rushing to isn’t even worth it.
To start off the review I mentioned that it had been a while since an anime really pissed me off. Generally for an anime to really piss me off it either has to be a complete butchering of a manga that I treasure dearly or an ending that is one big middle finger to the viewer. Considering I never read the manga you can probably guess which of those 7 Seeds is guilty of. Honestly, before the ending came about 7 Seeds was not a bad anime. Sure it was rushed to hell and the characters were annoying and they skipped around a lot but I still found it interesting. That was until I saw the ending or lack there of. Bad endings can jeopardize any series, but endings that don’t even end are worse. I’m not talking about the wishy washy use your imagination kind of open ending, I mean the kind where the episode ends and you think there is going to be another episode after it, but there isn’t. Yep, the good old “f*ck you! Go read the manga!”. Well guess what 7 Seeds anime, f*ck you! Go make a better ending!
jimfaindel
Amateur is the word of the day. This show could have been great, had it only come out a decade ago, when its concept was fresh and original. But in this day and age, with so many shows holding similar storylines and executing much better, 7 Seeds simply looks amateur. A masterpiece can build suspense and drama by feeding misinformation to the audience and even the characters, an amateur production on the other half, stumbles to do so properly, making twists look like retcons and story-beats seem meaningless, random, and at worse poorly thought through. Yet somehow, I was not able to stop watching this show tothe bitter end, when I caught myself shouting in exhasperation as its first (and likely only) season ended not with a bang, nor a whisper; not even a cliffhanger, but instead a dead cut in the middle of a scene. No build-up, no send-off, no tease of anything else to come. Just a sudden and abrupt sense of meaningless finality. But it didn't have to be that way.
It is clear there is both passion and talent behind this show. Its platform is big, and its source material is not half-bad. It was just that the talent on board was not capable of pulling through with their vision. It was painfully clear at several times that a more experienced director could have done wonders with the effort the art team put into painting and animating, but with the shoddy editing and framing of an amateur, all that effort went to waste. The same could be said for the work of the voice-actors, not only in japanese, but also in english and spanish, which really brought life to the characters, or at least as much as the rigid script and tactless direction allowed them to.
If Carole & Tuesday from the same season was a passion project helmed by a beloved and trustworthy star, making the best of the talent and resources at his disposal, then 7 Seeds is the first shot at a serious production from an amateur director who didn't know what to do despite the backing of his staff and producer. My only hope is that this amateur can come back for a second round after listening to the (likely too harsh) criticism of his work, so that he can prove himself and make things right for the source material he now represents.
proxplox
Honestly the premise is enough that if the show was even moderately well-executed it could have been binge-able, and if it was masterfully done it would have been an incredibly unique/memorable entry in the Netflix Anime Pantheon. Unfortunately what we get is a bunch of garbage stitched together by limp motives and cardboard cutout characters, which at times reads both completely unbelievable and completely pedestrian. The characters motivations could stand to be fleshed out with some subtlety, rather than painting them into a box as "this character is like this, and they were literally selected for this group because of that flaw." You don't needto explicitly state this kind of shit.
One of the worst problems about it all is just how unimaginable some of the forced drama is. Like really, there are 30 people left on the planet and two of them happen to be people who were deeply in love and separated before the apocalyptic event. Them not knowing the other made it but for some reason holding out hope that they did (retarded hope by the way) is highlighted as like the focal under-arching drama element. Thousands of years have passed and they only picked 4 groups of seven of you to survive after it. It's fucking INSANE to just "hold out hope" that your stupid girlfriend is among them.
The biggest issue though is that the scenes that are supposed to resonate emotionally feel like such contrived garbage. They don't feel earned or genuine at all. At one point, the closest thing to a self-insert character in a typical anime RUNS OFF CRYING in a tantrum in the woods, and it just reads like "Character runs off crying, exit stage left. Other character follows and gives lukewarm peptalk which resonates, end scene."
There isn't a single character that I was rooting for in this steaming pile of garbage. None of them are believable even down to their individual actions, let alone as a cohesive PERSONALITY/IDENTITY. The action is insanely stupid and forced to feel out their shitty backstories (there is a couple that literally hunts animals by pitching and hitting rocks with a stick because they were HS baseball stars before the apocalyptic meteor. I shit you not, this happens and is the focus of an episode.
Watch it to see how garbage it is, if you have a brain or any anime experience I can guarantee you will hate it. Complete waste of a very promising premise, could have been jam-packed with tension and genuine character growth instead of this manufactured, color-by-numbers tripe.
