# Amagami SS (2010)

> A second-year high school boy gets one last Christmas chance to ask out a graduating senior or one of several classmates in this omnibus romance anime.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/46641

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 38
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy, romance
- Network: TBS
- Cast: Tomoaki Maeno, Shizuka Itoh, Yukana, Hiromi Konno, Ryoko Shintani, Rina Sato, Kaori Nazuka, Mai Kadowaki
- TMDB rating: 6.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1685397/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: wistful, gentle, comforting, sincere, breezy

## What critics say

Audiences rate the anime as mixed, with its romance and heroine-focused routes appealing to fans while its formula and uneven episodes divide opinion.

## Synopsis

Amagami SS (2010-2012) is a Japanese animated high school romance anime series created as an anime adaptation of a visual novel and aired on TBS. Across two seasons and thirty-eight episodes, a second-year high school boy named Junichi Tachibana (voiced by Tomoaki Maeno) is shaken by a painful memory from the past and gets one final Christmas chance to ask out graduating senior Haruka Morishima (voiced by Shizuka Itoh). The engine of the show is his nervous attempt to confess, complicated by a cast of classmates who each have their own story, including Ai Nanasaki (voiced by Yukana) and Sae Nakata (voiced by Hiromi Konno). Each heroine receives an omnibus version of the story, so the series plays like a set of intimate, self-contained romances rather than one continuing plot. The tone is warm, wistful and gently comic, with quiet moments of sincerity around awkward confessions and holiday seasons. Its structure and emotional register will appeal to fans of Clannad and Love Live! School Idol Project, and anyone who enjoys school romance comedies with multiple love interests and a sense of second chances.

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