This visual novel was my childhood and you guys had one job and you managed to fuck it up more than Tokyo Ghoul after season 1. I never had so much hype for an announcement just to get my kneecaps beaten when we jump into the series in one of the most random parts in the visual novel, WHAT WERE Y'ALL SMOKING? I didn't understand why they thought it would be a great idea to start towards the end of Kagari's route. I don't know what the director was going for or who called where to start when it would've started off better staying true to the visual novel. Anyway just a huge disappointment with an anime that had so much potential and it having a unique story with such a unique and odd character like Kagari, as well as the route that between Kotori and Kotarou could've been so great to present in the series. I understand giving all the routes especially when I enjoyed Chihayas route as well as Lucias route but it kills the drive of a story when you have such a good true route, and also if one specific route was just used to drive the story it could've cause people to become fans and check out the visual novel overall instead of giving a sour taste with most people dropping it after the first episode when they don't understand what's going on, so much could've been done to help create a fandom such as Clannad. I understand they made a second season but with how they butchered this season alone I'm not even going to waste my time to view it, it truly saddens me when I had such an excitement and vision of where this could've gone but well what can you do I highly recommend if you came into this series just watching the anime to check out the visual novel where you can see how amazing the story and routes truly are unlike how this anime perceived it. Key is such a unique visual novel company it's sad that this ended up being one of those bad ones but to check how their visual novels can truly be executed correctly in anime fashion I really recommend checking out Clannad as well as Kanon (2006) made by a masterful studio like Kyoto Animation. Overall, thank you to anyone who actually took their time to read my review turn rant about how one of my favorite visual novels got thrown away as an anime, I hope there are many of you who enjoyed the visual novel who can agree with me on how they really threw away a good opportunity on making something big.