Friday, January 22, 2010

Anime Review #16: School Days



So before I begin this review, let me ask a perfectly legitimate question.

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WHAT THE FUCKEN SHIT IS THIS FUCKEN SHIT?

My hands are literally shaking as I'm typing this review. Or rather, I should say rant. Because that's pretty much all I plan to do with this anime.

I can't believe I'm starting off with an opinion first, but...this anime is so fucked up on so many different levels that it's disgusting. Oh my fucking fuck. Stay AWAY from this series at all costs. Even as I'm saying this, some people are going to be curious and watch it. But no. Don't. Stay the FUCK away from this anime. Don't even read the plot on some website. It's not worth it. Keep your life the same it was. Don't ruin it.

Well now that that's out of the way. I'm going to get back into the
CHARACTER ROLL CALL


Itou Makoto - This is the main guy character of the harem. This guy is might not seem like it at first, but he is the biggest dickhead in anime history. I'll explain why later. He goes to academy and meets all sorts of people, mainly girls. Or rather, only girls. Which makes this a harem. He's just some average guy who looks for love.


Katsura Kotonoha - She is a quiet and kind person most of the time. She's also a bookworm, which, I guess makes her a nerd. Just kidding. Well anyways, she takes the same train as Makoto to get to school, and that's how they got to meet. She is often the subject of bullying to some of her classmates, which may explain a slight hint of lack of confidence.


Saionji Sekai - Another girl that Makoto meets. She is actually in Makoto's class and sits directly next to him. They meet that way. Sekai scores points for having a cool name (sekai means "world"). She's an outgoing person that tries to make friends with people and help out others with their problems.


Kiyoura Setsuna - Sekai's best friend. I'm not sure about the origin of their friendship, but they're pretty much best friends and that's that. She's also pretty quiet, but at the same time is pretty aggressive. She's in the same class as Makoto and Sekai and is the class president.


Katou Otome - Probably the least important main character. If that makes any sense. She is in the same class as Kotonoha and usually bullies her along with 3 of her other friends. This is partially because she has had a crush on Makoto for a long time and sees Makoto and Kotonoha hang out together. I couldn't find a better picture...sorry.

Well there are a few other characters, but that's not really important if I'm going to be explaining the storyline. And this time it's not going to be seperate; I'm going to inject my opinions while I'm explaining the story. Cuz I feel like it. And I'm going to tell the whole story. Spoilers and all. Because I assume that you're not dumb enough to do the same thing I did and watch this pile of bull balls.

Makoto is just entering high school. Every day he takes the train to school and eventually he notices that there's a girl that goes to the same school as he does that takes the same train. He develops an interest in her over time. At school, Sekai, who sits right next to him, sees that he has her as his phone's wallpaper (in the anime, there is a legend that if you have the person you like as your phone wallpaper for 3 weeks without noticing, things will go well between both of you). Sekai sees that he does have an interest and does some reconnaissance. She has PE with this girl, and finds out that her name is Katsura Kotonoha. She then proceeds to tell Makoto all about her in order to facilitate his relationship with her.

So it starts up pretty interesting right? When I first saw this, I was like, "Wow, the storyline is pretty interesting." Oh by the way, my opinions are in italics. So this kind of opening should probably lead to a good story progression. Or so I thought. I seriously thought that this anime would be decent, just like Clannad or Kanon or even K-ON (which I'm going to do a review of later). But TOO BAD they had to FUCK it up with the worst ending ever. Even though the opening song is all cheery, and the art is all colorful, and there is some usage of comedic relief, you can tell that this anime has a dark mood. You can just tell.

Sekai pushes Makoto to have a relationship with Kotonoha, but Makoto is hesitant. Finally Sekai arranges lunch on the roof with the 3 of them. Makoto is simultaneously happy and scared shitless. But they seem to hit it off fine and they continue to each lunch on the roof daily. Soon after Makoto confesses his feelings to Kotonoha and she accepts him.

Alright, first of all, what kind of anime just starts off the first episode with a confession. And yes that was the first episode. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's so radically different that I had no idea what to expect for the rest of the anime. I'm not sure if that was a good thing or bad thing, but at this point all you care about is what's going to happen with Makoto and Kotonoha.

I'm going to fast forward this part a bit. Makoto and Kotonoha have dates just by themselves periodically, but in the beginning, Makoto is a little agressive and Kotonoha runs away. He always tells Sekai about what happens on each date, and every time she criticizes him for not taking Kotonoha's feelings into consideration. Eventually, he learns to be a good boyfriend to her, and their relationship goes well.

Nothing much to say here except what I've already said.

After some time passes, Makoto wants more. And by more, I mean, he fucking wants to have sex with Kotonoha. Kotonoha doesn't really like the idea of it, but she really tries to please Makoto the best she can. And as a result, their relationship takes a downfall. Makoto goes to Sekai for advice, and she does something bizzare. She offers to be practice for Makoto.

Ok this is where I utter, WHAT THE FUCK, when I'm watching. I have quite a bit to say about just this little part. WHAT THE FUCK IS MAKOTO THINKING? He should have known by now that Kotonoha didn't like to be treated like that but he kept doing it anyway. Secondly, WHAT THE FUCK IS KOTONOHA THINKING? Don't girls have more self-respect than that? If she doesn't like it, then she doesn't like it. DON'T FUCKEN LISTEN TO THAT FUCKER. Thirdly, WHAT THE FUCK IS SEKAI THINKING? Remember, we're not talking like practice like talking to people and progressing in conversation. We're talking SEXUAL practice. WHAT THE BALLS IS UP WITH THAT. Sekai's not even Makoto's girlfriend and she shouldn't even be bullshitting around with Makoto like that. And back to this self-respect issue, these girls must really be carefree or something, because this would never EVER happen in real life. Not in America at least. Maybe in Japan.

Makoto agrees to this practice, being the perv that he is. And pretty soon, Makoto forgets that this is practice, and all he wants to do is sex it up. Sekai has to keep reminding Makoto that Kotonoha is his girlfriend. Pretty soon, he can't hold it in anymore and ends up cheating on Kotonoha for Sekai.

Now that's fucked up. Now I know I said that this anime is fucked up, but no, this isn't even the worst part. As bad as cheating on your girlfriend is, this still doesn't equal the shitbomb of dicks that slaps you in the face at the end. And you know what the weirdest thing is? Sekai didn't even seem that bothered by it. Occasionally she would remind Makoto that Kotonoha that she was his girlfriend and refuse his requests, but other than that, she was fine. I thought that was really strange until I watched later in the series and saw why.

Kotonoha, if she wasn't into it before, was now into the relationship. However, at this point, Makoto was secretly out. He had lost all interest in Kotonoha and instead directed it all to Sekai. Kotonoha always tries to find time with him, but Makoto avoids her and makes excuses for why he can't go. Sekai then reveals that she really did like Makoto all along. Which would make sense, because you'd see her in the beginning looking at the two and then running away. But now that she revealed her feelings, the relationship just took off. And this really confused everyone at school. Previously, they all knew Kotonoha as Makoto's girlfriend, but now word got out that Sekai is now Makoto's girlfriend. Kotonoha isn't completely oblivious, and she did overhear from some people about this. However, she thinks it is all a mistake and refuses to believe any of it. Until she goes to the roof. She is about to open the door to the roof when she overhears Sekai confess her love to Makoto. She leaves the door and walks away.

Again, Makoto is a dickhead. All he wants is sex. Why do you go after another girl, when you already have one that loves you?? Is he fucking insane in the head? Did he like replace his brains with his balls?

Anyway, Kotonoha eventually finds out for sure that Makoto is cheating on her. She sees him dance with Sekai at the school festival at the bonfire, and she starts to cry.

Some more fast forwarding, Sekai falls a little ill, and finds out that she's pregnant. With Makoto's baby. She talks to him about it, and he starts to go a little crazy. Sekai wanted to keep it a secret, but she couldn't contain herself and yelled at him to take responsibility. And that's how the school knew that Makoto and Sekai were having a baby.

See this would NEVER happen in something like Kanon or Clannad. Well I take that back; in Clannad After Story, Nagisa was pregnant with Tomoyo's child, but that's because they were married at the time. This is fucking high school. And is Makoto like some kind of horse's ass shoved up an elephant's ass submerged in a bunch of diarrhea doo doo ass shit? He expects to have a relationship with Sekai, even after cheating on Kotonoha, but now he wants to drop it because she's having a baby? Did he fucking lose his damn balls up his head?

But the ending is the worst. I swear to asses and dicks that this was the most horrifying ending I have ever seen in an anime to date. To be honest, I was even shaking a little. Oh by the way, did I mention that besides Sekai, he goes around having sex with other girls? While he's in a relationship with Sekai? Now it's pretty bad to cheat on your girlfriend for another girl, but when you cheat on THAT girl for like 3 other girls, you're at the bottom of the septic tank. You don't even qualify as shit. And sorry for not putting this in italics cuz it is an opinion. Okay on to the story.

Makoto's obviously freaking out that Sekai is going to have a baby. One by one the girls that he had relationships with start to move away from him, telling him that they don't like how he's acting. Except for Sekai and Kotonoha. Sekai wants Makoto to properly father the soon to be born child. And Kotonoha has gone delirious. She went fucking insane. And that's no exaggeration. After Makoto chose to go with Sekai and he told Kotonoha that he didn't like her anymore, she just lost it. Even when her number was blocked on his phone, she would call and just pretend to talk to him. However, because Makoto has lost all of his girl buddies, and Sekai is pregnant, his only option is to turn to Kotonoha. (There's something wrong here. He dumped her, but now since he can't get anyone else, he went back. What a pile of dog dicks.) Kotonoha's insanity disappeared and their relationship resumed as if nothing had happened. Sekai later gets a text message from Makoto telling her to get an abortion.

Here comes the most fucked up part of the anime. Just remembering this gives me shivers. The next night, Makoto is at his apartment with Sekai to try to tie up loose ends. Sekai goes into the kitchen to get tea, and then Makoto's phone rings with a text message in his room. He goes to get it while Sekai gets the biggest knife she could find in the kitchen. While in his room, Makoto sees that the text is from Sekai. Confused, he looks at it and it says, "I'm sorry." The text message scrolls down for about 50 lines, and he scrolls all the way down, and it says, "Goodbye." He turns around and Sekai is right in front of his face with the knife. Sekai proceeds to stab Makoto over and over again until he's a bloody mess on the floor. Sekai realizes what she has done and runs away to her house. Kotonoha later finds Makoto dead in his room. Sekai is huddled up in a corner in her room when she receives a text from Makoto's phone saying to meet him at the school roof. Sekai brings a knife and goes to the roof. Instead of Makoto, she finds Kotonoha. Of course she's going to be confused because Makoto isn't there. But Kotonoha puts that thought down and says that he is here and points to a gym bag on a bench. She tells Sekai to look inside and inside is the decapitated head of Makoto. Kotonoha then pulls out a bloody butcher knife and stabs Sekai in the chest, spraying the air with blood. She cuts down the body and concludes that Sekai was lying, because she couldn't find the baby in her. Later, Kotonoha is seen on her family boat drifting off into the sea with Makoto's head in her arms.

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WHAT IN THE FUCKING SHIT IS THAT FUCKED UP MOTHER FUCKING MONSTROSITY PIECE OF GARBITCH SHITBAG BALLSACK OF FUCKED UP DIARRHEA DONKEY DICKS SPOUTING OUT JIZZ THAT TURNS INTO A BARRAGE OF BALLS. This officially gets the stamp of fuck from me. And that's from the bottom of my heart. What the hell kind of ending is this? I sincerely thought from the beginning that this would be a decent series. And so might you, if you ever dared watch this. But the ending...nobody can be prepared for it. You have to be REALLY fucked up to cut off the head of your boyfriend, then slice up the girl he got pregnant, and then sail off into the ocean with his head in your arms. Did they really have to go that far? I mean I'm just freaking out at the ending. It's a pile of SHIT. It's...I mean. WHAT THE HELL. And to my knowledge, the visual novel that this anime was based off of did not have an ending where all characters live. That's fucking right. At least 1 character dies in each ending. And in one ending, 2 characters die. Now, if you make an anime adaptation out of that, you might as well be fucked up the ass with a porcupine. WHY in the mother of crack would you ever make an anime series out of a visual novel like that. Why does this series need to exist? So stay the hell away from this anime. All the stuff I talked about above should satisfy your curiosity so there's no excuse to go and watch it on your own. Overall, this series...oh my fuck. I mean, it's just like taking something good like Clannad, but then smothering it with the violence of Elfen Lied. Speaking of which...guess what anime review is coming soon ;D

Storyline: 2/10
Characters: 7/10
Art/Animation: 8/10
Uniqueness: 8/10
Overall: 4/10

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