Aug 18, 2016
Let's consider our position as critics of artistic creation for a moment. It is often thought that that which constitutes a "world" requires some sort of "worldview", which is then immediately linked to the most readily available source of perspective - thought. Alas, René Descartes himself realized that if there was something that could be objectively real, that is the existence of thought that allows for skepticism to take place in the first place. However this worldview may easily be mended into something more appropriate for our tastes as a critic - that is, why limit our ideals of a world to that which stems
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from the thoughts of a human being? Indeed, taking the concept of the world as a platform we are able to create a formidable model to put in order that which we call analysis. It is so that the idea of a world is born, and packed with glory it is adapted to the work of art. The work of art ceases to be a part of the world of the conscious, and instead becomes its own world, that which is touched by those who, through our analysis, possess "consciousness".
School Days is one of those rare but precious works that make us realize the power we hold to separate the creation of worlds from logical processes - that is, the ability of fiction to separate from the orthodox that is formed inside the preconceptional ideal of "high school, slice-of-life romance / drama anime" of each and every one of the watchers, into something that may surprise or make us laugh. But nevertheless it is precious, for it is its nature as a violently assertive work of fiction that allows others to realize that appreciation is the mere modeling of the work of fiction as a world (not the work of fiction as a component of the world of the conscious, as most - if not all - critics seem to treat it).
This is the kind of work that makes the critic reconsider its ideal of "quality" to adapt that which cannot be evaluated through the general means that will assign a numerical score to any other. Unfortunately, even the presence of works like this does not enable the average (or any that is not Umberto Eco) critic to realize that the ideal of quality is, again, not projected into the world but a projection of the world itself.
And so I wholeheartedly recommend School Days for those who are looking to shake their sense of aesthetics and revolutionize their lives in their eternal search for 幸福の光.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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