2025.7.19
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Was watching The Fruit of Grisaia. It's a very "early 2010s" show; the chibi style (very similar to the ones of Yuzusoft!), the definitely-above-average amount of panty shots, the way the male protagonist is written and the distinct choppiness in storytelling made it very clear that it's an adaptation from an adult visual novel. I'm now currently at ep. 10 and I see no seriously adult things like nudity, although I definitely not saying it's completely safe for work.
I believe there's a very distinct flavour of charm (metaphor massively not intended) that only visual novels (and their adaptations) can provide; I'd imagine it's rooted in their intrinsic storytelling logic. Would look more into this in the future...
ACHTUNG! (2025.7.19): Yeah, I finished the show just now, it's got some edgy (one might even say needlessly edgy) plot and some very edgy plot w/ NSFW scene (some sex, some gore, and some human cannibalism (!)) and it's the kind of edgy plot that's only going to be allowed in adult visual novels. Welp, that was certainly refreshing, even if one may not want that kind of refreshment...
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My understanding is that there likely won't be a Call of The Night Season 3, and in the case it happened, there probably won't be a Season 4. The whole after-hour schoolyard story got squished into a few cuts of flashbacks and lumped together with Mahiru's encounter with Kiku in ep. 2; I have no explanations other than they're planning to tell most of the story (right up to the Kiku arc) within one season, which is very rushed; and despite this, the anime itself is somehow still holding up pretty good. The team behind it is good, I'll admit this.