Sukûru deizu

This anime starts off like a normal high school romance anime, but if that's the only thing your looking for I would stay away. The show itself is very well written, and has very good characters and development. I will try and give no hint at spoilers here, but that's rather difficult. The show involves a love triangle where a high school boy seems to have to make a choose between a new-found friend, or his new girlfriend. The difference between this show, and other high school romance anime is a serious tone. Most bad reviews written about this show are from people who were expecting a different genre. If you are open minded I don't see any reason why you wouldn't enjoy this show.

Not for the faint of heart, this anime misleads you at first with vibrant backdrops, beautiful animation, and positive themes like friendship and love. However, Love very quickly loses it's hold on the story as more and more characters are introduced and the downward spiral begins.

If you're anything like me and get attached to characters instantly you'll find at least one character you're rooting for, but as you descend through the chaos and deepening darkness you should start to feel something for almost every single character.

The way School Days gradually and carefully shifts gears is incredible, as you realize all the dark themes were there since the start, subtly.

And the darker and darker it gets you are constantly reminded by the title name that even though the matters at hand are so small and trivial, in "School Days" love, or what you think is love, can be all that matters, and it make can or break your entire "world."

For a matter of fact this anime is good, the problem is the characters, each one of them seems to have only one motive and all of them just feel really flat and unfinished and, yes I know "read the manga" they say but the way this anime's plot has been planned out just quite litterly feels shallow with only the ending just being a WTF moment for me, all the other events are pretty much unnecessary or are just there to make the runtime longer. If you are a man of culture give this one a watch, but if you are looking for a mind-bending story to get invested in this ain't gonna be your cup of tea. 7/10

Let's just start off with a bit of background; School Days is an infamous anime based off of a Japanese visual novel, now the visual novel has about 12 different endings, the anime's ending basically shows the worst possible outcome.

This anime has some AMAZING PRODUCTION it's super solid and the people who made this anime knew what they were doing with the pacing, the music, the timing, everything was top tier. The pacing at times feels slowed down and personal which adds on to the overall tone, personal. After all, the developments of the story are dark. There's a lot of foreshadowing towards the end about the big twist with Makoto. This show is brilliant, all the characters were flawed individuals but none of them deserved the ending they received, but even so none of the actions taken by the characters were unreasonable. The grand finale was brilliant, it was dark, it was extreme but it was built up to that point perfectly. There aren't words to describe just how great the execution was of the scene was, the music, the framing, the pacing and the dialogue. Everything worked together perfectly.

We can take this anime as a cautionary tale on the consequences of cheating and how that can affect others negatively.

This anime is a unique experience, I recommend going in blind when watching this anime. It's definitely more surprising without the spoilers I was unaware of that and unfortunately made the wrong choice and got spoiled but even so I was still shocked by the events which transpired towards the later half of the series.

Flaws: The middle part of the anime felt long and slow, for me it was a little boring, for others it was regular pace. Some even complain that the last few episodes felt rushed however i myself I enjoyed the pacing at the beginning and towards the last 3 episodes.

Overall I would give this anime a 8/10. This anime could of went in many different directions but it was clear from the start that the anime wanted to use this ending and it was well made, plus I enjoyed it. Honestly I understand the arguments for why this anime was a dumpster fire but I have to give it some props because I enjoyed watching.

After reading the only other comment posted here, I felt compelled to add my two cents.

First of all, MOST men do not, in fact, date tons of women without caring about any of their feelings. Men like that exist, but they are a special class of jerk.

That aside, this is an amazing series, but I do agree that it is not for the faint of heart. It starts off light and funny and progressively grows darker and darker towards an amazing ending that finally brings the downward spiral of intensifying emotions to a crashing halt.

The animation is quite beautiful and the characters and their actions are as flawed and complex as you could hope for in a romantic series. I found myself loving and hating them at different times and that, in my mind, is the mark of good writing. If you have some solid emotional resolve, I think you will enjoy this series from beginning to end. Do heed the warning, however, as this is a ride you honestly may be changed by, if you take it to its conclusion.