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Aug 28, 2014
As I assume most of you know School Days is a physiological anime that focuses mainly on the effects cheating and bullying can have on not only an individual but also a group or school aswell. The story started of well and kept me hooked on to the point that I watched the first 4-5 episodes back to back, however, as the protagonist and other leadin characters changed/developed the story became personally unbearable, it got to a stage where I was just shouting at the screen. Now I'm sure a lot of people watching this anime have seen very familiar harem styled anime and I for one am constantly shouting at the protagonist in other anime's to man up and take advantage of the selection of girls throwing themselves at him. However, after watching this anime and seeing what it would truly be like if the protagonists in other anime acted this recklessly then I don't think i could possibly enjoy it.

That being said the art work was actually rather good, my personal preference sees your typical main characters all having some form of unique hair colour whereas this anime had a very plain, normal, probably more realistic art style to the anime.

There was very little actually wrong the sound in this anime, Itou's voice became rather irritating toward the end of the anime but I put that down to my hatred for the actual character, not necessarily the actual voice of the actor.

As far as the individual characters are concerned I always like to cheer on the shy, quiet, 'I hate perverts!' Kind of character who slowly admits she has feeling for the protagonist as te show develops but in this case the protagonist decisions where not to my preference, I'd be surprised if they were to anyone's preference to be perfectly honest. Regardless, I thought the anime did a good job of introducing the main characters in this anime but the poor development really let the anime down. I mean sure, give them brownie points for making it unexpected but I really feel like this anime could have achieved a lot more.

Overall I couldn't bring myself to finish this anime when I first started to watch it, I got maybe 7-8 episodes in before I got personally annoyed by the actions of the main characters and knowing that nothing I say or do could/would influence them to change the already guaranteed outcome I decided to stop watching this anime, I was brought here by recommendations on the anime 'Shuffle!' But I have to say, personally I thought this show was nothing like 'Shuffle!'. School days starts of all happy with sunshines, rainbows and a little drama but soon turns to thunder and lightning as the story gradually reduces into something unwatchable. The ending to this show was too graphic for my liking, personally unaware how anyone could sit through the ending of the show with praise for the overall story. It is for these reasons that I give this anime an overall of 3/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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