How do you enjoy something as incoherent and random as this? Stuff just doesn't piece together and it makes no sense. Sure if it was a real fuckfest hentai, atleast they have reasons and explanations for some of the sex. Here? No way in hell. Some of this stuff is so left-field it's like getting hit in the nuts.
I enjoy this so much because a lot of the underlying issues that it brings up are realistic. There are girls that act like Kotonoha and Sekai in dealing with guys like Makoto in real life, and it's terrible, but it's rarely addressed in media. The anime takes it to extremes of course (very few people have as little self-respect as Kotonoha), but still, just b/c Makoto is an asshole doesn't mean he won't get laid if a girl is convinced she wants him.
That being said the random sex with Hikari and the 4-way (when do you ever get to see even an implied 4-way outside of hentai?) brought the stretch pretty much to the breaking point for me, since they were so casual and Makoto doesn't seem the type to be able to draw in girls for casual sex. But Sekai, Kotonoha, Otome, and I suspect Kiyora too, were all harboring genuine feelings for him (at least the person they thought he was) and they we're willing to sleep with him in the hopes of changing him to be what they wanted. And, true to life, it didn't work for any of them, and finally they all realized that they couldn't change him and shouldn't accept him as he was in the hopes that they could. Except for poor Katsura who just doesn't have the ego to be alone. The show is a tragedy and while it could have been made better by leaving things out, the elements that make it good for me are the exposition of the consequences of the ridiculous thing these girls all did for a guy who obviously should have been left alone.
He's not a playboy in the first place. Even the girls at the hallway when Itou passed by after everyone heard about the prenancy issue said that he has a dull face, he doesn't have unique qualities except being kind.. I really don't why "girls" likes him so much..
Ah, that "dull" was a mistranslation. What they meant by "otonashii kao" in this case was a kind or "quiet" face, ones that suit a nice and quiet guy, not a freaking sex maniac.
I havent heard them directly say that Itou is handsome, but there has been an instance when someone (I forget who exactly) said that he is quite popular with girls despite "how he looks". Im not sure what this really means, but it may be that he is quite good looking, but isnt really the cool playboy model type.
Peace.
I miss the time when it was still just Katsura and Sekai. It was actually good. Very rarely is the first episode the best in a series....
I disagree. There are quite a number of series that have episode number 1 as the best. I wouldnt say that there is a lot, but they arent as rare as you think. A few examples off the top of my head are Nodame Cantabile (though thats debatable), Futakoi Alternative, and this one.
Peace.
Conclave Episode 7.avi
Itou still sucks for not being straightforward..same goes for Sekai. -_-
<3 Tessa-chan! <3 Lucifus! ....chotto mate.
Well, something bad has happened in the world of anime.
TV Kanagawa, who airs School Days, did not show episode 12, and four more stations canceled their airing. They showed nature scenery instead. Speculation has gone far and wide, most stem from the story of a girl who killed her father the day before, who was coincidentally a police officer. School Days' final episode was quite probably very violent, and we may not see it at all until the dvd comes out.
Worse still, various sites have begun to speculate that Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Kai may receive the same treatment shortly.
Read more about it here.
The real world incident blamed for this, here.
EDIT: Another news source in Japan has confirmed the ax murder the reason for the cancellations/postponements. One station may still air it fairly uncensored, as they have shown R-15 rated series in the past.
Last edited by Ryllharu; Tue, 09-18-2007 at 11:14 PM.
That's pretty crazy. Whenever I picture Japan, it's pretty peaceful, though even with Yakuza this seems a bit violent. Where did she get the ax anyways? It's not a likely household item.
Noooooooooooooooooo! I need to know what happens! I don't want to read all the game endings until I've seen how this turns out. I almost hope they give that little girl a stiffer sentance for not only murdering someone, but disturbing the peace on such a huge level. Also wtf is wrong with Japanese TV stations?
If some girl kills her dad what does that have to do with airing an anime (even if it is violent)? If the episode is unaired it can't possible have caused the problem, and no matter how bloody and gruesome it is, the real girl killing her real father in the real world, which I'm sure is all over the news, should be considered much worse.
Last edited by Yukimura; Tue, 09-18-2007 at 11:30 PM.
I simply can't picture an overly-violent School Days. What can possibly happen? Katsura "almost" killed Sekai in episode 10. That's it. What more can there be?
Everyone kills Itou?
Actually, that could work. A lot like Night Shift Nurses' ending...
Okay, I just saw a raw show up on tokyotosho so at least one network decided to show it anyway.
Oh yeah... that idiotic girl decided to kill her dad because she watches anime...
Idiotic censorship....
School Days News
Turns out the raw that was posted was fake, and all the broadcast networks dropped it. If the satellite people don't come through it'll be February before we even have a chance to find out how they ended it...
On the bright side, maybe Conclave will have caught up by then.
Well... I hope AT-X decides to air...
That raw you mention Yuki must have been the NICE BOAT!
Oh yeah... Xenoglossia Ep 24 made me LOL at the current irony... (nice boats, girls with axes and lots of blood)
Well... this isn't a double post.
New info... AT-X will air the last episode
Source: ANNThe official Japanese sites for the School Days anime series and the AT-X anime satellite channel have announced that AT-X will run the 12th and last episode on Thursday at 9:30 p.m. JST and repeat next Tuesday morning at 12:30 a.m. Those will be the first public showings of this reportedly violent episode, since all over-the-air broadcasters preempted it after an axe murder was allegedly committed by a schoolgirl in Kyoto, Japan last week. School Days normally runs on those days at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. during the daytime, but AT-X will repeat the 11th episode in those timeslots instead.
Overflow, the game label of the developer Stack and the creator of the original School Days game, has scheduled the two announced preview screenings of the episode in the Akihabara shopping district of Tokyo on Thursday at 10:00 p.m. (a half hour after the AT-X premiere) and 10:45 p.m. The showings will be held in the Tokyo Anime Center's Akiba 3D Theater on the Akihabara UDX building's fourth floor. Overflow has also changed its admission requirements; attendees must bring an identification card as well as either the School Days or Summer Days PC game, but the game no longer has to be unopened as previously announced.
In a separate development, Tokai TV will continue to preempt Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai, another late-night anime television series based on a mature-audience game with schoolgirls, after already preempting the September 20 airing. After the alleged axe murder, other stations had decided to continue airing this series with a shot of a bloody cleaver replaced in the opening animation sequence.
Source: Moon Phase
Update: Replaced "adult" with "mature-audience" in description of the original Higurashi no Naku Koroni game
Kinda reminds me of what happened after the whole Justin and Janet Super Bowl thing here in the states.
"If you don't shut up.... I'll introduce your mouth to my fist." - Zetsubou Sensei
School Days Episode 12 [Final] - m33w
Dunno if this is the real thing or another nice boat thriller.
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