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Oct 18, 2015
*A REVIEW I POSTED ON MY WEBSITE*
*CONTAINS HUGE SPOILERS*
Date released: July 3rd, 2007
Breakdown:
High school student Makoto likes a girl who attends his school. As fortune has it, Makoto’s friend has recently become friends with her and offered to hook them up, but after Makoto kisses her on the train their relationship becomes more personal and ends up hurting people in the process.
My opinion on School Days:
School days was one of the very first anime’s I watched very early on, the anime is fairly normal to begin with just filled with typical high school stuff, a guy falls in love with the “hot” girl with big
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boobs, friend sets them up and then people get hurt due to others having feelings for him too, totally normal right? well, sadly I’m quite wrong when I say “normal”. Skipping ahead to episode 4, we find Makoto and Sekai (the friend who set them up) having “practice” sex on the roof of the school, not so normal now! haha. Already the anime has taken a huge step rather quickly, with the start of the anime being rather normal but by episode 4 we see this scene.
Let’s talk about Makoto, the main character, honestly Makoto is one of the biggest pricks I have ever seen in any anime. He is shallow, selfish, uncaring and shows no emotion towards the girls he has sex with, I really wouldn’t call him a protagonist, more of a sex craving, idiotic jackass. Any girl he meets is nothing more than just sex to him which later in the show gets him into quite a bit of trouble, all in Makoto is one of the most selfish, spineless, despicable men I have ever seen in anime with the way he treats women.
In the show even after being in a relationship with Katonoha, Makoto continues to sleep with Sekai, who most of the time forces herself upon him despite knowing he is in a relationship with Katonoha so she isn’t a much better person either. Eventually when Makoto goes back to Katonoha, Sekai obviously being jealous of this then pretends to be pregnant with his child, how lovely!
School daysKatonoha has had a non-existent social life and due to this is very shy and usually gets pushed out by both females and males, she is mild-mannered and polite but with what happens in the story line her personality changes to something very different. She is incredibly dependent and devoted to Makoto in the end this leads to her killing Sekai when she finds out Sekai killed Makoto and discovered his body in his apartment when she kills Sekai this is also how it is discovered she was lying about being pregnant with Makoto’s child.
School days certainly has twisted, evil scenes in it which a lot of fans defend by saying it is more like a real high school than any other anime, but no this is in no way true, for example- there is a scene that during the high school festival there is a room where couples can go to have sex and while they are having sex is is being recorded and then watched by other people and as previously mentioned, the killings. In what real high school does this happen? did my school do something wrong? did everyone else’s “normal” high school do something wrong? what happens in this anime is pretty far from normal.
To be honest, though when I first watched School Days I rather enjoyed it but looking back on it as an adult and after watching much more anime, it is not as good as it seemed. It was more creepy and just lacked anything more than sex, cheating, heartbreak and oh… MORE SEX. If I had to I probably wouldn’t watch it again there are many more animes out there that are so much better.
In total, I would give school days a rating of 4/10
The concept of it being an anime about typical teenagers and typical High School seemed good and the twisted ending I will be honest I did like the idea of a dark ending, but it didn’t live up to expectations.
If your opinion of this differs from mine feel free to tell me!
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 15, 2015
(This is my review on Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) from my website)
This review is on the anime and NOT the manga, the series was the anime’s own adaptation and did not feature in the manga.
I will also be doing a review on Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler): Book of Circus at a later date.
*CONTAINS SPOILERS*
Date released: Japan – October 2008 (America/England – January 2011)
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Breakdown:
Black butler is a show about a young boy called Ciel, who sells his soul to a demon named Sebastian so that he can exact his revenge for his family’s death, also successfully lead their confectionary and toy company called Funtom. The demon that Ciel makes the contract with takes the form of his butler and is in the image of his father, he is very loyal to Ciel and is required to protect, serve and arrive whenever he is summoned by his master Ciel.
My opinion on Black Butler:
Let me start by saying, Black Butler is one of my all-time favourite animes! I really think it is such a well-written series.
The theme of the anime is that a young boy called Ciel makes a deal with a demon called Sebastian. After Ciel’s parents died he was taken to be sold as a child slave and one day in captivity as he was being tortured, he cried out of desperation that he had given up on god and this is when he met Sebastian whom he now has a deal with to avenge his parents death.
Driven by sheer anger, revenge, hatred and hurt Ciel agreed to make a contract with Sebastian but the stipulation of this contract is that Sebastian gets to devour Ciel’s soul once it has been fulfilled. The theme of revenge and redemption are well put together and the story lines are very well crafted though it isn’t filled with non-stop action.
Black Butler certainly has it’s share of dark and supernatural battle scenes as well as witty, funny battle scenes, there is also quite a bit of dark humour out through the series, but it is really balanced out by its traditional anime comedy along with this it also has mystery, drama and romance which is carried out very well.
Every character is complex and the variety in personality is something I really enjoy, getting to know each character is a nice experience of watching this anime.
One big thing I loved about this anime is that there are certain points that make you want to laugh, cry and get angry at Sebastian and Ciel for the things they do but one part of the anime that always stays the same are the characters.
The characters Finny, Mey-Rin, Bard and Lizzy which are Ciel’s servants, always keep the comedic side to it and they have their own stories to tell.
Throughout the story we see many parts of Ciel, his many roles include, being Queen Victoria’s watchdog, running Britains underworld, avenging his parents death and with his “One hell of a butler” at hand, they both battle everything from drug runners and serial killers to demon hounds, angels, ghosts and other demons.
The only thing I can point out that is somewhat off-putting is the fake British accents, but I understand that not everyone can put on a good accent and after the first few episodes or so I found it funnier rather than an annoyance.
Scene from Episode 16
Scene from Episode 16
In the end, it doesn’t quite turn out as expected and I did like the ending, I have seen a lot of fans complain about how it ended but me personally I didn’t think it was so bad, I rather enjoyed that Ciel didn’t die and Sebastian ended up being his butler for the rest of eternity because he made a promise to Ciel that he would be his butler until the end. I won’t say how but Ciel ended up sharing his body with someone else who made a deal and the deal was that Ciel will turn into a demon when he gets his own body back.
Sebastian tried to kill Ciel so that he could have his soul but by the time he tries to do this, he is too late and Ciel is already a demon so now, for the rest of eternity Sebastian is Ciel’s butler.
It truly ends by Ciel and Sebastian leaving the house to the servants, they head to a field and it is then explained what happened and why Ciel is still alive and why Sebastian is still with him.
Rating – 8 / 10
Conclusion
Overall I personally found Black butler to be a fantastic anime, I really enjoyed it and it will always be up there with my favourites. The balance between dark and supernatural with traditional anime comedy really caught my attention and the storylines had me hooked! I would recommend this anime 100%.
I know that Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler): Book of Circus is a the new season of the anime, going back to the storyline that is in the manga so it is not considered a continuation of the previous seasons as it goes back to Noah’s arc Circus, but I would personally like to see another season which is a continuation of demon Ciel continuing with seeking revenge and possibly achieving this goal he has set out for himself as it would be interesting to see how Ciel’s personality has changed, what strengths he has now and just how differently he would carry out his tasks.
I guess that they want to stick to the manga storyline now so I do have high hopes for anything else they decide to release after Book of Circus! I’m excited to see what they have in store for Black Butler.
* I DID NOT watch the extra’s that have been released for Black Butler I just watched the main series so I’m unsure if they have done some spin off episodes where they have continued with demon Ciel’s story, as I prefer to wait until a series is completely finished before I watch the extras. I will definitely check them out and if there is a continuation, I will edit this post and put my thoughts on it *
If your opinion of this differs from mine, or you would just like to add anything then please feel free to let me know.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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