school days sucks so much. i love it for this reason.

major spoilers, if you actually care for some reason

STORY (2/100)
largely echoing my review from mal, one of the only reviews i've ever felt the need to write, this whole series should really only be taken as a bad joke imo. there's no substance here that ISN'T mishandled so inappropriately that it becomes borderline offensive and, to me, that's hilarious! i mean i can't think of a worse show to attach the label "cautionary tale" to. what is this a cautionary tale OF?

not falling in love with a girl you stalked because you saw her everyday on a bus because she might turn out to be insane when you start dating her while ALSO having sex with your childhood friend who claims to be your girlfriend's friend now, oh, and also every single other girl that goes to your highschool, leading to your childhood friend lying about being pregnant just to get your attention because you're a fucking idiot who has no object permanence and whatever being with tits and a vagina is in front of him is the one he's in love with so your childhood friend cuts your head off and then gets her stomach cut open on the roof of your high school (very weird place for that to happen btw) by your original girlfriend who you made go insane to prove that she was never pregnant in the first place? holy run-on sentence, batman! but, you get my point. kinda far-fetched in my opinion. but sure!

i think the ideal way to watch this show would be all in one sitting, shit-faced drunk, with a handful of your closest friends just yelling and laughing at everyone's stupidity and how it all works towards THAT ending (the funniest part ever)

but... barring that. i watched this series in one sitting, all alone, not high OR drunk (unfortunate) but don't get me wrong, i still laughed my ass off.

CHARACTERS (25/100)
at a certain point i felt like i understood kotonoha, as a fellow insane, big-tittied gal. not to be misandrist (but all offense intended, men) i hate that kotonoha still loves whatever-his-name-is by the end and didn't even get to kill the person that caused her the most pain in the world. i mean she got to kill the OTHER person who caused her a lot of pain, but she's still...y'know... kissing her ex's severed head on a boat by the end of the show. doesn't really feel like a win to me! idk!

i really wish that this show didn't revolve around whatever-his-name-is's shittiness and instead revolved around all the girls and their stories and how they get out of the stupid situation he got them all involved in. i think the only outcome i was satisfied with was otome's ... so... 1/10 ain't bad i guess. seriously though, i don't understand how this man got all that pussy? he's plain as fuck, whinier than my pomeranian, and he's kinda of a little bitch. how did those girls all-of-a-sudden want his dick when they've been in school with him forever and didn't care until he got a girlfriend and then a side piece and then they were like "oh... wait. me too. cock please?." it's ridiculous.

i think that any normal person is going to hate this show, simply because they can't handle suffering through awful things... and i don't usually see myself as a normal person or anything but when i feel like something isn't worth my time, i usually stop watching it because like... if i feel like i'm wasting my time, then what's the point? however, school days doesn't feel like something i was tortured into watching. i mean... at TIMES it does, but only bc the characters are SO STUPID...

i enjoyed kotonoha's descent into madness while everyone else was just being strung along bc they were too stupid to value themselves or their friendships over some dick that, considering the kid it was coming from, definintely wasn't worth it. plus i can't believe that little black-haired bitch that lied to her best friend just so she could get dick from that gargoyle-faced, shit-smelling, donkey. your BEST FRIEND, GIRL. the insanity of it all... delicious. like warm soup.

ART & SOUND (48/100)
school days is a short enough show that it doesn't grate (much) on my nerves, and, therefore, i can't call it a waste of time because i barely realized time had passed while i was watching this pile of trash, which means i had fun at the very least!!! that's more than i can say about a lot of the dreck i've sat through.

plus, the anime isn't horrible to look at... the art is like classic 2005-era anime and i thought it was pretty cute. the op and ed are just ok imo. nothing memorable there. and as far as i can remember the voice acting was alright too, barring scenes where the characters scream back and forth at each other, to no avail... then it gets pretty grating ngl.

IN CONCLUSION...
anyways i love-hate this show. it's awful.... no, it is. yes, it's not.

all-in-all... i think people on both sides take this anime too seriously. it's a JOKE... i mean it might've been meant seriously but i'm reappropriating it into a joke we can all enjoy now. it's not a "psychological cautionary tale about what it means to lose value in friendships" or a "piece of shit so awful that it can give you enough brute force to open a pickle jar without even trying" ... i mean. ok. maybe it's ONE OF THOSE... but i think the awfulness is built up in a way that it isn't impossible to enjoy just for the drama and absurdity of it all. it's not a horror anime or a romantic anime or a dramatic anime. it's not even connected to the visual novel, honestly (not that i would know lmao...)

it's a joke. it exists in a vacuum to be laughed at. no real reviews deserve to be wasted on it.

i mean... clearly there's something wrong with me for thinking positively of this show (and, not to brag about being functionally insane but... i kin kotonoha ... you wanna study my brain so bad, don't u...) but i just like to have a good time i think. what could be a better time than trying to watch this seriously, realizing people weren't lying about how awful it is, hate-watching, and then just. laughing. laughing at how terrible it is and revelling in the accidental genius of it... seriously.

just laugh.