School Days

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While anime was more focused on triangle love between Makoto, Sekai and Kotonoha, manga version did add some variety to it. Manga has decided to do something different that would actually please the audience: Give Makoto an actual character development. Unlike an anime version, we can see that he's not only focused on sexual relationship with every girl he encounters but is aware of his weaknesess. That thing said, I beleve it to be better than any other adaptations of the series. The story hasn't changed that much, but the author had to make it cramped a bit. It'll make you glued to those pages.

This manga shines light on the complexities and the darkness of love, especially Young Love. Sekai Saionji (I was all for calling her Best Girl in the series at first) is a crazed and manipulative girl who literally took advantage of her friends budding romance and destroyed it with jealous callousness. It was slightly better than the anime adaptation where Makoto Itou's more of an admirable character yet dense while wrestling with his intimate feelings. Had the anime stuck more true to the manga with good elements from the Visual Novel, it could have been better. I am not opposed to tragedies, yet the ending ... was a bit too eerie and heartbreaking to take. The ending in the anime between Sekai and Kotonoha was more gratifying than the manga. Very satisfying as I do ship Kotonoha and Makoto (please don't hold it against me). This manga started off well and progressed with a usual teenage romantic story that takes a lurid route. Personally, I enjoyed good endings to the visual novel in contrast to the manga but it should be held as a cautionary story on the consequences of not acting truthfully on ones feelings for another and the obsessive desires that drive people to destroy obstacles to gaining their soulmate's love.

Why? That was the question I asked myself when I finished the story. It didn't last long, in fact I fairly quickly forgot that I'd even read the manga. This is a very boring, pitiful book based off of an edgy VN with a "controversial" anime adaptation with an infamous scene. The only reason I even read the manga was down to the fact that I had fallen asleep when I tried watching the anime and resorted to the option that wouldn't be as slow paced and take as long.

Story 5/10 - What? There's nothing to say really, it's just a terrible "romance" type story ... that means nothing and really has no lasting impact - but then again, the "plot" isn't the reason anyone cares about this series anyway right?

Characters 3/10 - They all suck, flat out have no redeeming qualities and are all assholes/trash. But, as I said earlier, this "edgy" series is supposed to be this way. The characters aren't meant to be likeable at all... even so I can't bring myself to say that this means it's okay for them to be be boring.

Ending! 1/10 - Again, the only reason I read the manga was because the anime was too boring for me to consume... therefore I had to settle for the manga's ending (yes, it's different). The ending drives off of a sense of shock value, if you expect it, it sucks. Luckily at the time I was not, in fact, expecting it- so I did have a shock. But, like the rest of the manga, it lasted a short time and was soon forgotten.

Overall! 4/10 - This manga is bad. There's no sugar-coating it, however, "School Days" as a piece of media has never been called "good", it's just well known for it's "boat scene" in the show and the countless endings of the original VN that are... "odd". Should you watch it? You'd assume I'll say no, however I actually don't see why not. IF it's done to save yourself from watching the **entirety** of the anime then yes, read the manga instead. Otherwise, just google the endings and be done with it, there's not reason in hell to waste your time with it, it's far too boring and the small shock of the ending is really not making up for it at all.