

It brings up lots of issues about their connections to one another, love, relationships, and bonds. Just as the friends begin to adjust to the situation, the game changes, and Heartseed begins making them lose control of their innermost desires. That in itself causes a number of issues and problems, but Heartseed doesn’t stop there.

First it begins by causing the five friends to swap bodies with one another, so they are forced to literally experience life in the other person’s shoes. But their friendship is about to be challenged when a mysterious entity calling itself “Heartseed” begins playing around with their lives. The club really just serves as an excuse for the five of them to get together, hang out and talk to each other, since it has no purpose and they really enjoy each other’s company, even though they have disparate personalities. The story deals with a group of five friends, Taichi, Iori, Himeko, Yoshifumi and Yui, all first-year high school students at Yamaboshi High School, who are misfits of some form or another, and therefore, owing to the school’s requirements that all students be members of a club, form their own club together, the Students Cultural Society, or StuCS. The 13-part anime series Kokoro Connect ( ココロコネクト) is taken from the series of light novels written by Anda Sadanatsu and illustrated by Horiguchi Yukiko AKA “Shiromizakana”.
