Kajitsu (Fruit of Grisaia) starts strong if you’ve never read another visual novel in your life — five heroines, each with a backstory that sounds like it was pulled from a middle school creative writing contest titled “My Tragic Past.” Yuuji walks around like an anime Hitman cosplayer pretending to be deep because he says “I see” a lot. Every route is “haha funny dorm hijinks” until suddenly: trauma, guns, cannibalism, and then “it’s fine now, we have each other.” /vn/ played this, called it kino, and moved on before the cringe settled in.

Labyrinth (Meikyuu no Grisaia) is where the devs clearly said, “What if we turned the edgy knob past 10?” Half the VN is lore dumps about black ops missions nobody asked for, and the other half is fanservice so strong it’s like they were trying to apologize for making you read the lore dumps. The “Yuuji backstory” stuff tries to be Metal Gear Solid: Sad Edition but ends up reading like a 14-year-old’s Wattpad about PTSD and morality. You can feel the copypasta energy radiating off it.

Eden (Rakuen no Grisaia) tries to wrap everything up with an “epic” finale, but it’s like watching the writers juggle five tone-deaf genres at once — romance, spy thriller, psychological drama, and “we swear this explosion is symbolic.” It’s the kind of ending where you can tell even the devs were tired. Everyone gets closure, the plot forgets half of itself, and /vn/ pretends it was “underrated kino” to cope with the 50 hours they’ll never get back.