Cross Days

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Japanese: クロスデイズ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 2

Chapters: 13

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 26, 2010 to May 26, 2011

Genre: Romance

Themes: Crossdressing, Harem, School

Serialization: Comp Ace

Authors: Sakazuki, Homare (Story & Art), 0verflow (Story)

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Ranked: #18187²

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Popularity: #6316

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Ranked #18187Popularity #6316Members 3,101

MangaComp AceSakazuki, Homare (Story & Art), 0verflow (Story)

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Yuuki Ashikaga is a high school freshman in his second semester at Sakakino Academy, who from his regular visits to the school library, grows enamored by Kotonoha Katsura, a fellow classman who comes by to read. Despite already having a boyfriend, she genuinely reciprocates his interest. However things get complicated when, following a brief encounter, his sister, Chie Ashikaga, introduces him to Roka Kitsuregawa, an acquaintance who also becomes infatuated with him. Out of jealous spite for her rival, Roka attempts to dissuade Yuuki by claiming to like Makoto Itou, another schoolmate. Her lie dramatically backfires, as Yuuki, aware that Makoto is Kotonoha's boyfriend, goes to ask her about the affair.

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School Days

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Katsura, Kotonoha

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Kitsuregawa, Roka

Main

Ashikaga, Yuuki

Main

Itou, Makoto

Supporting

Saionji, Sekai

Supporting

Kiyoura, Setsuna

Supporting

Sawanaga, Taisuke

Supporting

Kuroda, Hikari

Supporting

Ashikaga, Chie

Supporting

Katsura, Manami

Supporting

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Jun 12, 2012

Akaelda

Recommended

Cross Days was a fairly interesting side story surrounding the events and leading up to the conclusion of School Days, but also one that made me think twice about Makoto as a character. While Cross Days focused on fellow classmate Yuuki Ashikaga and his series of unfortunate (and sometimes comical) misunderstandings, in a subtle way it also gave the reader a different perspective on School Days main character Makoto Itou that radically changed the way I felt about him.

The true purpose of Cross Days, I felt, was to not simply tell a related side story to School Days, but give us a different perspective or ...

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Aug 21, 2012

EpicNatsu

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (1/13 eps)

"Oh Bullucks" was the first thing that popped up in my mind when I looked at this .When I first saw the picture of Cross Days, I immediately noticed something familiar. It was the girl. Kotonoha. The psychopath in the series School Days. I began to gain the bad memories from her picture and needed an hour to cool myself off. On the first page, I also noticed the picture of the three main characters from School Days and almost punched my monitor. After giving the first chapter a go, I realized that this was just like the happy start of School Days (Until ...

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Jun 6, 2013

Polyphemus

Not Recommended

Let's get this out of the way: I love school days. The anime is on my favorites. Trust me, as much as you want to avoid this manga anyway, it's twice as shitty if you're actually a school days fan.

The first thing that you have to understand is that this is NOT an "addition" to the franchise. It doesn't add extra detail to the original plot or anything like that. It takes place on an alternate timeline where the school days harem ending occurred, effectively killing any drama there and creating a stupid anticlimax. This series is actually pretty big on anticlimaxes. There's at ... least 3.

There was actually a happy ending. Yeah. A happy ending. In a part of the school days franchise. The worst part is that it looked like the ending would be tragic and slightly redeeming, although the tragedy seemed kind of forced in the first place, but tragedy was somehow (it was literally physically impossible) averted and it was shit.

School Days is known for not following conventions of the industry, but this manga did just that. The two MCs were inexplicably shipped by the MC's sister for the sake of the plot. The MC dressed up like a girl after an extremely convoluted line of reasoning convinced him it would somehow help his situation. Why? For the sake of the plot. School Days was a clever deconstruction. This is a cliché shounen romance slash gender bender.

The characters were empty and dull. The main character was a pathetic loser with no redeeming qualities and the heroine was a very typical tsundere. The characters from School Days were simplified or just changed completely. Makoto became a generic villain, Taisuke became a cliché and possibly homosexual bromantic foil, which is the very archetype he originally deconstructed, Sekai became nothing but a slut, and Kotonoha was as boring as always except she never really went yandere. Setsuna was my favorite character in the anime, but here she is reduced to an unimportant plot-device. None of the characters were good, realistic, or redeemable in any way, form, or shape.

The ending of School Days is the best part for most people. Well, in this manga Makoto is an even bigger douche, and a rapist to boot, but he ends up fine. One funny thing about the original series was Makoto's flawless skill with the ladies despite being a bland loser. It was satirical and entertaining. Him losing this aspect of his character, and not being able to seduce the female lead really made him less entertaining.

I would have honestly preferred it if Makoto ended up NTRing the main character and subsequently adding the trap version of him to his harem, or just making him kill himself. The best part of this manga was the protagonist's reactions to Makoto's sexual escapades and the one of the best parts of the original series was the tragedy. This series ultimately failed to capitalize on either of these things and just ended up with wasted potential.

Really, the whole thing was nothing but wasted potential, which completely kills the enjoyment factor. The art was quite lackluster. The characters were dreadful. Overall it was a bad experience that, despite its length, I wouldn't recommend to anybody, least of all an actual fan of the franchise.

Story: 1/10
Art: 3/10
Characters: 1/10
Enjoyment: 3/10
Bonus: 2/10
Overall: 10/50 or 20%

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