for magic shell i can say to you all people who try to watch this anime :
faking slap all of the character in this anime and then kill them all 1 by 1 !
the story is make me want to kick their ass. specially the main character ! i want to kick his dick !
this is the first time i'm watching this anime with mad emotion. i'm so mad dude and curse all the people who like this anime call "SCHOOL DAYS".
the title make me want to watch this with hope like i back to school again, but what i see is not make me want to back to school again but make me want to launch a missiles to their house, watafak~ ;_;) (show less)

pros
+ chara development feels natural (at first you don't even notice when it starts taking you a darker way)
+ not much to complain in the unfolding of the story
+ has a strong meaning/message to it
cons
- extreme story, starts harmless enough but soon simply needs a "horror" tag >.<
- fucked-up charas
- setting is nothing short of strange for this kind of turn-out

conclusion: twisted, extreme, and quite honestly takes the cake as the most fucked-up ever in a slice of life genre. could hate each character with a passion, especially the mc, which never happened to me before. the concept works due to smooth story unfolding (with insane twists btw), believable chara development and emotions, but it could have been done in any setting; in a high school it's just strange. let me spoiler the slightest bit and say they should add psychological thriller/horror to the genres, seeing as the end is nothing but mind-fucked. has a clear message but whoever expects a soft school romance with ecchi and comedy, as the tags promise one... don't watch, just don't. this is good in its own ways (educative, with a storyline you can never quite figure out, and if you want so a connection to reality) but at the same time it's absolutely mindfucked and very very far from the happy fluff you expect.

peace. (show less)

Seriously. This is a series for one wishing to stop watching anime forever. The story is vanilla-ish until the end of episode 4, then you just want to beat the shit out of the main character. Seriously. Forget about any other anime character you think is a lecher and a player. Makoto outdoes them ALL. Episode 10 is where it starts to need that "Horror" tag. The 'dead' eyes, insanity, the constant showing of big knives... Being a hemophobic person, and yes blood scares the shit out of me, the last 10 minutes of episode 12 almost made me want to do the same to myself. Watch it if you can stomach the MASSIVE NTR and mindfuck ending, otherwise steer clear away. Unless you're doing as my review's title and first sentence say to do. (show less)

i've watch the anime before read the manga. since the story is so weird and extreme, i have thought that the manga is the same too. i don't know if i have read the wrong manga of school days, but the manga is really not the horror type. even the killing is not shown. the characters in the manga is not really the slutty types like in the anime too. for this anime, i must say, it's not a pity to not watch this. because during the show, all i was thinking is giving every slutty characters a slap to the face. especially the main character. conclusion: the story in the manga is better, although it still not that good too. (show less)