School Days

High school student Makoto Itou first notices Kotonoha Katsura at the start of his second semester, freshman year. Immediately, he becomes entranced by her beauty, but his bashfulness doesn't allow him to approach her, even though they ride the same train every day. Instead, he snaps a photo of her in secret and sets it as his cell phone's wallpaper: a charm that, if kept under wraps, would supposedly help you realize your love. However, classmate Sekai Saionji spots the picture, but instead of ratting him out, she offers to help set him up with Kotonoha—going so far as befriending her just for him. Thus, the trio begins a rather impromptu friendship.

School Days follows the lives of these three teenagers as they traverse the joys and hardships that come with being a high schooler. In a story alive and brimming with romance and melancholy, the tale of these three students will linger in memory long after the momentous conclusion.

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Katsura, Kotonoha Main

Okajima, Tae Japanese

Itou, Makoto Main

Hirakawa, Daisuke Japanese

Saionji, Sekai Main

Kawaragi, Shiho Japanese

Kiyoura, Setsuna Supporting

Imoto, Kei Japanese

Katsura, Kokoro Supporting

Ashiro, Megu Japanese

Kato, Otome Supporting

Nagami, Haruka Japanese

Kanroji, Nanami Supporting

Takahashi, Chiaki Japanese

Sawanaga, Taisuke Supporting

Matsumoto, Yoshirou Japanese

Obuchi, Minami Supporting

Kuribayashi, Minami Japanese

Kuroda, Hikari Supporting

Tanaka, Ryouko Japanese

Koike, Katsumi Producer

Itou, Makoto Producer

Nakagawa, Shinobu Producer

Motonaga, Keitarou Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Jan 28, 2025

A44immerStau

Recommended

Wow, I really didn't expect such a crazy plot in an anime rated 5.5. After watching over 200 anime I searched for something refreshing and there it is: School Days. The reason why it picked my interest was because it is popular, has over 50 % positive recommendations and is terrible rated - quite the contradiction. I now assume it's because viewers typically want to root for the mc, but this anime literally has the most asshole protagonist I have ever seen and I love it. The protagonists insensitivity and stupidity as well as the bad ending perfectly satisfied my boringness.

This animation quality is quite ... good and as far as I can remember no CGI was used. The character varity was decent and the plot felt "alive", meaning that they were many elements that felt unfinished and could be continued. This isn't an anime to turn your brain on, but where you have to feel the atmosphere. Also don't take it too seriously - I made fun of the mc so many times and can only recommend to hate him.

I think it's important that you know what you're gonna watch. Don't stick with the characters too closely!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 22, 2025

kronoz13

Mixed Feelings

I won’t say this anime is good, because it truly lacks many things. However, I’d like to start by highlighting the positive aspects. One of its achievements is creating a genuine disaster out of its main character, which I interpret as intentional on the author’s part. By the second episode, it’s clear what kind of person this character is, something I consider a strength despite the character’s negative traits.

Here is where the central theme of the story emerges: nonconformity. The fulfillment of their expectations and the pursuit of pleasure perfectly complement the hedonistic and selfish nature of the protagonist. Additionally, the series offers an interesting ... look at emotional dependence and the whims of the other characters involved, themes explored in a significant way throughout the story.

However, elements like manipulation, the urge to please someone due to emotional dependence or fear of abandonment, the inability to let someone go out of sheer stubbornness, betrayal, emotional detachment, and the pursuit of pleasure as the sole goal are characteristics that, while they work in key moments to keep the audience engaged, ultimately weaken the overall narrative of the series.

One of this work’s biggest issues is that it reveals most of its main arguments by episode 4. From that point onward, it overexplores each character’s flaws and exaggerates situations until the final two episodes, where it presents a "relatively good final twist." However, upon closer analysis, this ending feels somewhat out of place, though convincing within the style the series aims to project. Still, it may not appeal to all viewers.

For those curious enough to watch, I suggest not looking too deeply into it, as it might lead to a sense of disdain. Those who watch out of morbid curiosity might find it enjoyable, but anyone expecting to uncover a masterpiece is likely to be deeply disappointed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Nov 11, 2024

Ba-Cii10

Not Recommended

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For me, this anime is simply the definition of guilty pleasure and I will not recommend it because objectively it is shit.

This anime seemed ultra exaggerated most of the time but at the same time quite realistic in its whole toxicity festival, but in the end it turned out to be just edgy shit, for the sake of being edgy shit xD

Despite everything it was quite interesting from a certain point, mainly because it was simply pleasant to be irritated by the stupidity of the characters who, as I said, are quite realistic, in the sense that it is easy to imagine that teenagers can ... behave in such an irrational way, but despite everything (not even counting the finale) I couldn't take these exaggerated idiocies seriously, it's just that every character in this anime was written to be the worst or most disturbed person in the world and none of them (apart from Katsura up to a certain point) could be rooted for, was it really impossible to make one normal character who would think logically and be a counterbalance to all this irrational shit?

The funniest thing about this anime is the fact that the MC, who is just an "ordinary guy" and is distinguished only by extreme idiocy and thinking with a penis, is some kind of magnet for girls who are obsessively in love with him for no reason at all, it's so stupid and unbelievable, he doesn't even try, he doesn't manipulate or anything, he just is and all the girls fall for him and literally kill for him, which makes it all seem like some loser's fantasy, although looking at the ending, I'm not sure if anyone could fantasize about something like that.

Katsura seemed like the best character and you could even root for her, understand why she wants to be with this idiot but from a certain point she just became a typical boring yandere, did some guy piss me off? oh well, I have to see the MC xD Katsura's whole storyline was ultimately ultra shallow and forced edgy, which made it simply boring and imo it had the potential to be something better.
In general, all the female characters in this anime really only serve as MC's sex doll and they don't really exist outside of the MC so well... people who claim that the characters in this anime are somehow particularly complex (I've seen people like that) are funny xD

Besides, I find it funny that adults don't exist in this anime and such stupid things as a school festival where students have a special room to "fuck" can exist xD

Imo 4/10 because at least it stands out from all the school romances I've watched so far.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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