So Arisa is one of my favorite anime. At first is seems like it would be overly cutesy Shojo but quickly turns into a mystery story. The main plot of this anime is that Tsubasa and Arisa are twins that had been separated when they were little due to their parents divorce. After years of separation they decide to meet in secret - while this is happened Arisa commits suicide in front of Tsubasa (going into a comma) leaving only the clue of a note that she had gotten at school. Tsubasa decides to go into Arisa school to try and figure out why her sister would due something like this. The rest of the story is dedicated to figureing out the mystery and secrets behind Arisa school life and how things are not as happy as they appear.


Story: 9
The story is interesting and has many twists. The story at first started out slowly and in my opinion is pretty well paced. You are introduced to alot of different elements and have to pay attention to details that might play an important part of the story later.
Although to be honest I wish the story went over what happened to some of the other side charters

Art: 7
The art for this anime is okay- the art style is along the lines of "cutesy". There are some good scenes and the drawing style is an interesting mix.

Charters: 9
Each charter that is introduced is very well rounded and interesting (in my opinion). You get to understanding there motives behind there actions and backstory.
Although there is arguably no charter growth for many of the main charters you do come to understand what drives them. There are a number of differnt charters although the main charter Tsubasa is interesting:
She is a 'delinquent" girl who is very honest, headstrong, loyal, and brave (although arguably not very bright). She adores her younger sister Arisa and is devastated about what happened along with determined to find out the truth.
There are a number of side charters that are all interesting in there own right. I enjoyed theses colorful characters.

Enjoyment: 8
Like I said before this is my of my favorites! Although It is well paced I do feel like it left some story elements unanswered about the fate of some of the charters. (in my opinion which really ruined the ending for me). Although the story did answer alot of the questions it left many more questions unanswered. Especially about the relationships between charters...

There are plenty of twist in this story as stated before and I enjoyed it alot (It is along the stories like "Rabbit Doubt"-although maybe not as bloody). The story overall has really little romance at all (which suprised me of a story that is suppose to be in the "shojo romance" genre). I would love is there was an afterstory- because I am honestly curious about the class afterwards (yes I know its tells us but I would like to see the class instead of them just telling us) and is Tsubasa ended up with Manabi (as Manabi seems to have romantic interests in Tsubasa but we do not know exactly how Tsubasa might feel for him)