School Days

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English: School Days

Japanese: スクールデイズ

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 4, 2007 to Sep 27, 2007

Premiered: Summer 2007

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 02:15 (JST)

Producers: Avex Entertainment, Marvelous, Lantis, Pony Canyon

Licensors: Discotek Media

Studios: TNK

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Harem, Drama, Romance, School

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

Statistics

Score: 5.63¹ (scored by 326,937 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #9621²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #243

Members: 553,421

Favorites: 2,689

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Ranked #9621Popularity #243Members 553,421

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Synopsis

High school student Makoto Itou first notices Kotonoha Katsura at the start of his second semester, freshman year. Immediately, he becomes entranced by her beauty, but his bashfulness doesn't allow him to approach her, even though they ride the same train every day. Instead, he snaps a photo of her in secret and sets it as his cell phone's wallpaper: a charm that, if kept under wraps, would supposedly help you realize your love. However, classmate Sekai Saionji spots the picture, but instead of ratting him out, she offers to help set him up with Kotonoha—going so far as befriending her just for him. Thus, the trio begins a rather impromptu friendship.

School Days follows the lives of these three teenagers as they traverse the joys and hardships that come with being a high schooler. In a story alive and brimming with romance and melancholy, the tale of these three students will linger in memory long after the momentous conclusion.

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Background

School Days is based on the visual novel of the same name.

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	School Days
Alternative version:	School Days ONA
Spin-off:	School Days: Magical Heart Kokoro-chan
Side story:	School Days: Valentine Days

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Characters & Voice Actors

Katsura, Kotonoha

Main

Okajima, Tae
Japanese

Itou, Makoto

Main

Hirakawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Saionji, Sekai

Main

Kawaragi, Shiho
Japanese

Kiyoura, Setsuna

Supporting

Imoto, Kei
Japanese

Katsura, Kokoro

Supporting

Ashiro, Megu
Japanese

Kanroji, Nanami

Supporting

Takahashi, Chiaki
Japanese

Sawanaga, Taisuke

Supporting

Matsumoto, Yoshirou
Japanese

Kato, Otome

Supporting

Nagami, Haruka
Japanese

Obuchi, Minami

Supporting

Kuribayashi, Minami
Japanese

Kuroda, Hikari

Supporting

Tanaka, Ryouko
Japanese

More staff

Staff

Motonaga, Keitarou

Director

Ebina, Yasunori

Sound Director

Uezu, Makoto

Script, Series Composition

Nada, Yutaka

Script

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Opening Theme

"Innocent Blue (イノセント・ブルー)" by DeviceHigh

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Ending Theme

#1: "Usotsuki (ウソツキ)" by CooRie (eps 1, 8)
#2: "Ai no kakera (愛のカケラ)" by Miyuki Hashimoto (ep 2)
#3: "Waltz (ワルツ)" by Kanako Itou (eps 3, 11)
#4: "Kioku no Umi (記憶の海])" by yozuca* (eps 4, 7)
#5: "Look at Me" by YURIA (ep 5)
#6: "Namida no Riyuu (涙の理由)" by Minami Kuribayashi (eps 6, 10)
#7: "Anata ga... Inai (あなたが...いない) -Remix Ver.-" by Minami Kuribayashi (ep 9)
#8: "Still I Love You ~Mitsumeru Yori wa Shiawase~ (～みつめるよりは幸せ～)" by Kiriko – (ep 12)

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Nov 21, 2007

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Yandere (All reviews)

3618 people found this review helpful

School Days is a psychological anime, number one, so do not think it is about cute children playing in school and having happy days. School Days is an anime about how cheating on someone can really end up messing with their head and lives and how the human heart and mind are very fragile and how friendship is very precious and when destroyed in the worst way, it can have the worst consequences.

The main character is your seemingly typical anime guy in high school that listens to music and has a bunch of perverted thoughts about girls all the time, but who turns out to be quite different than your usual main character guy and he has a crush on this girl that he sees on the train all the time and he ends up taking a picture of her and putting it in his phone. In class, another girl who he happens to sit next to, named Sekai, sees the picture in his phone and tells him her name and then, from there goes about getting him and the girl on the train to know each other so that they can try and start a relationship, all the while falling for him herself.

This anime is very much a psychological anime and deals with relationships and what happens when someone cheats on someone, but not only one person, many people. The main character is one of the most despicable characters I have ever seen, if not my MOST HATED character and cares nothing for the people around him, it seems, but to be able to hate him that much and to have so much passion for his pain and wishing something bad would happen to him was an exciting feeling because I really felt he would have to get what was coming to him. He hurts basically every single person he meets and cares nothing about how they feel when he is done with them, only to use them again in the future. He walks all over every girl in the anime, save one or two, and they all basically sit around begging for more mainly because they want to know what it's like and why the others are doing it, so they do it, too.

The majority of the anime the main character is, in my opinion, a sociopath, as well as a sex-addict, but there are moments here and there where you see that his actions actually do bother him and these are very important in this particular anime because if they did not have them, he would truly seem to be a monster. It is sometimes scary that the most evil people are not demons or supernatural at all.

The ending is something that is perfect, though, in my opinion and it is something I ABSOLUTELY saw coming, but the way that it was done was really something creepy and gave me chills - I really enjoyed it! It was an awesome turn, but something I saw coming the entire time and something I kept repeating throughout the entire thing, over and over again and when it finally happened, I was extremely happy and satisfied. It has a very twisted ending, as well, so do not be fooled by the innocence of the title because this anime is anything but innocent, but make sure you watch until the end because there is more than just one awesome, sick twist at the end that will leave you satisfied with the feeling you get watching the rest of the anime.

Everyone basically gets what they deserve because this anime shows that the human mind and heart is an extremely fragile thing and that you can't just push someone aside like they are trash the second you are done with them because they may not be done with you or ready to let you leave.

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Sep 30, 2007

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Xyik (All reviews)

2021 people found this review helpful

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

This anime is great, great for one thing which I truly believe is its sole purpose of existence - opening pickle jars. This anime will help you with the opening of jars and various other tasks requiring brute strength. You'll feel like the Hulk after you've watched half the series. And the very reason for all of this is this anime's amazing ability to piss the viewer off like no other series I have ever seen. If you want to be angered, please, please watch this series.

Story:
Jokes aside, this anime might be considered a decent series to other people, but I seriously hated it. It started off fine, a few laughs, a somewhat interesting love triangle between Makoto, Katsura and Saionji, resulting in the typical 'idiot girl helps guy she loves to get another girl' thing. ... and hey, although the whole love triangle story wasn't very unique or anything, it entertained... It was fun at first to see this clueless pervert fail at getting a girl. The problem was when it became more of a love hexagon - And things went downhill from there. The story became predictable and difficult to watch due to the idiotic and retarded main character who must have been the luckiest sped to walk the earth. The only good thing I can say about this series was the theme it presented to its viewers: to cherish what you have. 1/10

Characters: The characters in this anime are seriously some of the dumbest people I have ever seen. Makoto especially - after watching about 5 episodes I wanted to smash his face in. His idiotic expressions, his whiny sped voice, everything about him. I hated it all. I hated the way he looked, the way he talked, and everything he did. My hatred for this character is unparalleled to any other characters I might have ever hated in my life. The only props I can give to the people who dream t up this character was that we got to see him go from a selfish idiot to a selfish asshole by the end of the series.

That rant out of the way, I don't have much to say bout the other characters which was mainly composed of idiotic girls that for some reason or another couldn't get enough of this whiny faced idiot. The characters in general, didn't have much of a background. We didn't learn much about them or their past, and they just kind of came and went. Again, my only props here is the character development. 1/10

Sound: The opening sounded great, but it didn't really suit the series considering how dark and idiotic it became. The opening was way too happy in contrast to the story. Otherwise, bgm was decent, even good at times. No big comments here: 8/10

Animation/Character Design: I thought the animation and character design was pretty good, one of the series stronger points. All of the character designs although not unique, were nice, and the colors brought out the mood fairly well. The only character design I grew to hate was Makoto's. His round clueless face pissed me off to no end. 8/10

Overall:
Why this is even an anime series? I have no idea. Just turn this damn thing into a hentai or something. Honestly. The main character in this series has sex with pretty much every girl you'll see in this series, for no apparent reason. The girls are just lining up to be with him by the end. The characters are the most idiotic people I have ever seen, and the main character couldn't possibly be fathomed by a normal human being. 4/10

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Aug 13, 2008

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

YoungVagabond (All reviews)

1567 people found this review helpful

*THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS*

School Days Creator (SDC)- Hey man, I have a terrific idea for an anime series, based on this dirty animated game I've played!
Japanese Executive (JE)-Okay, I love hentai! Let's hear it.

SDC- Well, it's going to be about a guy who is a complete failure at life, an idiot loser who is intensely selfish. He gets uncontrollably nervous talking to girls, and does nothing with his life. However, the twist is that every girl who meets him falls madly in love. And he has sex with all of them.
JE-What's his driving motivation?

SDC-To fuck as many girls as possible, read more

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Feb 14, 2015

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

lawlmartz (All reviews)

351 people found this review helpful

"I have touched the flower that everyone wants. The feelings for that flower, I have put into words. To hurt this world was not my intention. If there was no one there to question you, would that mean you could do anything?"

Preface:
Well, today is Valentine's Day, so what better series to review than one of the most controversial love stories ever to be put in animated form? That's right, I'm talking School Days, one of the biggest cases of subverted expectations I've seen in recent days.

Overview:

Our story begins with two star crossed lovers, Makoto and Kotonoha (Katsura). Young love is so fragile, and so read more

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