Do you ever in your school life passed through a similar situation ? You're dating a girl and suddenly you cheat her with another girl, and you just cannot choose one of the two, because it is too dawn good this whole situation ? or you are just "confused" about which one to pick but in fact you want to date both girls and let this situation continue as much as possible ?!
School days take us to another level of enjoyment, because it is not some shitty anime about school life like some "visual novel" based one, but it is an awesome anime about school life without any kind of filler episodes or people coming back from afterlife, not to mention some other awful situations those bad animes forces us to watch...
That is why school days rocks so much, unlike some other protagonist of some shitty "visual novel" based anime, the main protagonist of this series is not a pussy, in fact, he becomes the natural evolution of every shy and innocent youth (READ IT ASSHOLE), and managed to "be" with all the girls he wants to, in fact, like in other harem series where all the girls have a crush on the main protagonist, but with the difference that the main protagonist of school days develops from a pussy to an asshole, and this would be the BEST CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT i've seen in the entire anime history of all time !
I guess the main subject of this series that the producers want us to take a time and reflect upon it, is about CHEATING.
I've stated so many times that CHEATING is not a bad thing at all, if you do love someone from the bottom of your heart you'll never cheat that very person, but if not, you can cheat at will, and it is up to this other person to be caring and understand why you did cheated her in the first place.
School days managed to show us both sides of this very coil, the one from the protagonist perspective, and the other from the cheated girls, some girls really don't care if you are dating one or more other girls, they just want to be with you and that is why they accept your cheating, but in the other hand, there are girls that just don't accept this whole situation but will stick with you because they're masochist... this is very common in real life and was something i could relate a lot in this anime.
From the protagonist perspective...well...Itou-kun was a caring and shy guy... until he got "confused" by his own emotions ( what he really wanted, his own selfishness and ambition ), and did what every male protagonist of a harem plot should do when all the girls are throwing themselves on him... This is another common situation i've seen in real life but this time could not relate to, because although i admit "harem" exist in real life, what happened to Itou-kun would never happen in real life because girls are not so "brainless" as shown in this series, and some would have more self-respect or self-love to be involved with an asshole that baddly...Other thing is the pacing, when an asshole acts, he takes some time after going for the next victim, things happened just to fast for Itou-kun in this series.
The ending was just MORE THAN PERFECT, i will not spoil anything but it was just how i wanted every school life anime series to end. (no one coming from afterlife like in some shitty "visual novel" based anime around there).
Finishing it, School days is the best school life anime i've ever seen in the entire anime history, because it is exactly what a scholl life anime should be like: No shitty, lame and pussy protagonist in a harem plot and an ending worthy of keeping it in your heart forever and ever again...
