School Days

[FrighT MasteR]

Been hearing a lot of positive stuff on this anime for a while now. Mostly about how it's surprisingly violent in the final episode. I've been hesitant about watching it since I've grown tired of animes dealing with high school, but I decided to give it a shot anyway.

Didn't really get into it until around the third ep when the story starts to get thicker and I was pretty much hooked from then-on. It's hard sitting through some of it, because the chicks in it can be really annoying at times, but I toughed it out since the story remained interesting. It's funny how the lead guy went from a nice person to a womanizer in no time.

Finished the final episode earlier and overall I liked the series. It reminded me of another romance-drama series I really liked called Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien (Rumbling Hearts in the US), which was a plus for me. When the "violence" finally occured at the end, it proved to be an interesting twist to the story, but it's far from as violent or bloody as many have lead me to believe.

Coincidentally both anime series are based on Hentai games, where you're able to date a number of females with a series of outcomes. I like Rumbling Hearts better since you feel more towards the characters, plus the lead guy in this anime is just a straight up jerk for sleeping with all these dumb chicks, so you can't really root for anyone. Still not a bad anime.

Overall series: 7/10

I've read that there are two spinoff OVA's for this anime -- are they worth checking?

[UzumakiW]

Pretty decent series. As you've said, there were times where it was hard to watch because of the sheer stupidity of some of the girls. Though, I did like watching Katsura through the anime....

HIGHLIGHT DUE TO POSSIBLE SPOILER:
...as she slowly began losing her mind

The end definitely made up for it, however, sadly, I was mislead in thinking it was going to be a gruesome and brutal ending, but it wasn't that brutal, but it did have a violent ending, which was good.

Over all a decent watch. Thankfully, it was only 12 episodes because you had to go through enough high school drama crap just to get to the good part. Some parts were a bit funny, but all in all, pretty much all of the characters in here annoyed me because of how stupid they were. I'd pretty much agree with your rating of a 7/10.

I almost want to play the game, though, since you basically chose how the game will end, and a few endings will end in violent ways.

Fun fact about this anime, though. They actually delayed the finale of this anime from airing (as well as Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai) on the planned date because the day before they were supposed to air, a 16 year old girl killed her father with a hatchet, so, they wanted to avoid association with the murder.

[FrighT MasteR]

I saw some footage of the game or visual novel or something on youtube and it's almost like watching the anime, pretty interesting, but I can't get into that Hentai stuff myself :shrugs:

[UzumakiW]

That's why I say I almost want to play the game. It's the hentai part that's keeping me away. Never understood that stuff.

[FrighT MasteR]

:sure: